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Bernies Are Back A panel this past weekend affirmed ERIC BAUMAN’s election as head of the California Democratic Party. But the brannigan doesn’t appear to be over quite yet. Bay Area Dem organizer KIMBERLY ELLIS, who lost by 57 votes, vowed to challenge the decision in court. Drama over party leadership has permeated every level of the organization, including in Santa Clara County’s Democratic Central Committee (DCC), which supported a recount for transparency’s sake. But South Bay Dems say they won’t let the infighting between Berniecrats and establishment wings of the party distract them from advancing their platform both nationally and here at home. “I’m not going to call it a distraction,” DCC campaign services director JEFFREY CARDENAS tells Fly. “But I would like to see the people who are worked up about allegations of voter fraud end up being the same people who show up to phone bank for these congressional districts we’re trying to win They back. We can walk and Did chew gum at the same What? time.” A newly chartered SEND TIPS TO club aims to do exactly FLY@ that by channeling METRONEWS. the frustrations and COM energies of progressives lured to the Democratic Party by Vermont Sen. BERNIE SANDERS’ presidential campaign. With just a couple of meetings under its belt, the Bayshore Progressive Democrats—one of two new clubs chartered by the DCC earlier this month—counts upward of 100 members.

KACEY CARPENTER, a Bernie booster who co-founded the club with veteran activist MARGARET OKUZUMI, says he shares Ellis’ concerns about the party’s statewide elections. “It’s not so much the outcome,” he says. “I think trust in democracy is the most important thing. You need to have faith in the process.” Saying that, Carpenter doesn’t want the infighting to take away from the broader mission. “Our club hasn’t been waiting,” he says. “We’ve already been organizing. We’re leading it from the bottom up, not the top down, which we learned from Bernie.”

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Podcast Playbook AIDER & ABETTOR Public defenders Sajid Khan and Avi Singh set out to change the narrative on criminal justice in Santa Clara County with their podcast.

Public defenders’ podcast starts new convo on criminal justice

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ENRY SIRES PARKED his green Oldsmobile in the East Foothills to smoke weed with friends on the morning of March 25, 2015.

Little did he know, tensions were running high for local law enforcement. A day earlier, in San Jose, a suicidal man had ambushed and killed police officer Michael Johnson. But when a cop approached Sires’ car, he panicked, bumping a police cruiser as he tried to flee the scene. The officer shot at the car six times, injuring Sires’ left hand. When the charges came down, Sires was accused of felony assault on an officer with a deadly weapon.

San Jose public defender Avi Singh took his case, and twice the jury came back hung, leading the District Attorney’s Office to drop the charges. Singh rejoiced with Sires and his family, who the defense attorney had gotten to know well.

“I’m going to keep believing that people are more than their police reports,” Singh says. “They could fall down again—be addicted to drugs, make bad choices—but it’s still worth believing in their cases and fighting for them.”

Singh has worked in Santa Clara County’s Public Defender’s Office since 2009. It wasn’t until this January that he and his friend and colleague, Sajid Khan, started the Aider and Abettor podcast to shed light on their profession.

They’ve released eight episodes of the podcast so far, each about an hour long, and though they keep details of their own cases confidential, the attorneys offer a

rare insiders’ take on high-profile crimes. Singh edits the recordings and adds splices of music—Khan listens to DMX and Tupac to fire himself up before trial—and tries to ensure that it’s a fun listen regardless of the audience, whether public defenders, Law and Order addicts or tech engineers on their Caltrain commutes.

The goal is to counter default tough-on-crime positions. The attorneys want to “shift the narrative in terms of how our clients are perceived and how humanity looks at each other,” Khan says.

“The absence of public defenders talking about the truth of what happens in the court process has created a vacuum,” says Raj Jayadev, founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a media and advocacy organization active on law enforcement issues.

“As a result of that vacuum, what’s happened is the tough-on-crime, knee-jerk mentality, and prosecutors have been able to dictate how the public consumes these issues.”

A side effect of the podcast, Singh says, has been building a new public

defender office. Singh, 33, is on the team at the main public defender’s office. Both have trim salt-and-pepper beards, though they don’t look alike otherwise. Judges still mix them up anyway, congratulating them on cases the other attorney won.

Taking such a public stance is rare in the world of public defenders, who aren’t known for hosting flashy press conferences like prosecutors. This is partly because they don’t want to risk sharing information that would compromise their clients.

In their most recent podcast, the attorneys explain why Lauren KirkCoehlo, who was convicted of a hate crime for vandalizing a mosque in Davis, shouldn’t serve time. In Brock Turner’s high-profile sexual assault case at Stanford, the pair argued that Brock Turner’s short sentence was sufficient. Neither stance was taken because Khan, who is Muslim, condones hate crimes or sexual assault. Khan sees a direct connection between his clients and the public outcry against Judge Aaron Persky in the Brock Turner case. He worries that because of the vitriol aimed at Persky, judges will be afraid to appear soft on crime, even subconsciously, and his clients will receive harsher sentences as a result.

“Our clients are below the headlines, in the nondescript quiet courtrooms across our state,” Khan says. “No one’s covering their cases, and that’s where the injustices or the perpetuation of mass incarceration occur the most. But they often are intangibly influenced by the highprofile media cases.”

Singh’s focus is practical when considering what kind of sentence someone is likely to receive. “Does this person get some shot at rehabilitation?” he says. “Does the public become safer?”

They take pride in their roles, especially in the face of antiimmigrant sentiment that has swept across the nation over the last several years.

“It’s cool that two IndianAmerican sons of immigrants are fighting these battles,” Khan says. “We’re talking about these constitutional principles, trying to breathe life into them, trying to make America beautiful.”

Read a longer version of this story on SanJoseInside.com. The Aider & Abettor podcast can be found on iTunes.

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narrative. “We have a very unique jury pool” in Santa Clara County, he says, which includes an influx of immigrants and tech workers.

“Sometimes it’s essential to be able to bridge the gaps in the jury pool with our client population,” Singh adds, noting that the podcast can help with that.

For example, in one episode, Singh and Khan explained how engineers on a jury might assume that a “San Jo 408” tattoo indicates gang membership, rather than simple San Jose pride. Capital cases can take six weeks, meaning juries often consist of retirees and salaried workers, rather than blue-collar potential jurists who can’t miss work but who might be more sympathetic to Singh and Khan’s clients.

Michele Diederichs, an assistant public defender who has supervised both Khan and Singh, calls the podcast a “valuable addition” to the criminal justice conversation.

“The thing we fear most as public defenders, and defense attorneys in general, is that a jury sees our clients as monsters,” she says. “These two have a gift for relaying the humanity of our clients, the struggles they go through, the adversity they face, and the pain they experience.”

The podcast idea bubbled up on New Year’s Day, when Khan texted Singh with a resolution to make their lunchtime conversations into a public podcast. Singh, a podcast geek, had gotten Khan hooked on Serial, the hit nonfiction podcast about a Muslim teen wrongly convicted of murder. The more the pair recorded, the more the podcast felt like an important forum to talk about issues, such as the right to counsel, presumption of innocence and individual dignity.

Those are big issues, but empathy is a big part of Singh and Khan’s work. “Now that I’m a dad, I see my younger clients as my boys,” Khan says. “These clients could be my sons, or vice versa.”

Both Khan and Singh have two children under the age of 5. They’re also both first-generation kids of Indian immigrants, lovers of Warriors basketball and grew up playing high school football—Singh in the East Bay and Khan in Milpitas.

Khan, 34, has been a public defender since 2008 and works capital cases in the county’s alternate

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Netflix documentary connects the dots regarding attacks on a free press— and they lead back to the valley

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T’S NOT EASY to watch Hulk Hogan’s mighty heart break. Last summer, there he sat in a Florida courtroom, wearing a black bandanna of mourning, chewing on his biker mustache as he tried to rehabilitate his reputation in court.

The trouble began in 2012, when the celebrity gossip website Gawker published a cuck-video of Hogan having sex with his BFF’s wife, Ms. Heather Clem. The BFF—Todd Clem, a.k.a. shock-radio personality Bubba The Love Sponge—covertly ran the camera, and Hogan claimed in court that he knew nothing about the filming; Todd Clem took

the Fifth. The story gained extra piquancy because Hogan was the best man at Mr. The Love Sponge’s wedding. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his wife for his friends.

When Gawker—accused of invasion of privacy and personality infringement, among other claims—refused to take down a

post of the sex video, even after receiving a cease-and-desist letter, Bollea v. Gawker opened up in the Pinellas County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. When the smoke cleared, Gawker and its subsidiaries were left to face the bad end of a remarkably generous judgment of $140.1 million aggregate. The website and its subsidiaries went bankrupt almost immediately, and Univision scooped up the remaining assets for $135 million.

It seems strangely coincidental that the downfall of everyone’s favorite (and, at times, most hated) online tabloid coincided with the rise of a

different tangerine-colored figment of 1980s wrestling, Donald Trump.

Beyond journalists, few seemed to realize Gawker’s death was a harbinger of a greater war against the media, financed by wealthy individuals. As “fake news” became a rallying cry at his speeches, Trump gained ground on Hillary Clinton.

While this blustering strongman rose to political power, who really had the attention span to keep tabs on an old-time grappler’s sex tape lawsuit in a Florida courtroom?

Unfortunately, Bollea v. Gawker was not just the usual random titillation. It was later discovered

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Brian Knappenberger, director of Nobody Speak, said he encountered trouble conveying the importance of what happened in the Florida courtroom. He’s met people who thought it couldn’t have happened to a nicer website, and that Gawker had it coming.

“Yeah, all the time,” Knappenberger said by phone. “I get it a lot, and it’s kind of bizarre.

Or I hear that idea that Gawker actually courted the lawsuit. I don’t think they understand that this kind of lawsuit can be used against any outlet, even in a country that prides itself on freedom of expression.

“We’re living in a time when the rich are so much richer than they’ve ever been, and because of the vanishing of classified ad revenue, journalism is more vulnerable than ever.”

To some, Hogan’s victory and the sinking of Gawker was a warning. As Nicholas Lemann, professor emeritus of the Columbia Journalism school, put it in The New Yorker, “Journalists and their lawyers ought to be arming themselves for a protracted war.”

Hogan’s point during the Florida trial was that the leaked tape hurt him as a man. Hulk Hogan was simply a character, created by one

Terry Gene Bollea. His lawyers argued that when Hulk later went on Howard Stern to joke about the tape—to boast of both his marital and his martial prowess—that he was doing so in character. The real Bollea was not actually rocking a 10-inch schwanzstucker, as he had told Stern on the air. Instead, he was a quiet and humble guy.

Bollea, not “the larger than life, AllAmerican professional wrestler” as Hogan testified, who ached for very expensive closure.

When Hogan’s lawyers, in a

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that Hulk Hogan had a secret partner funding his lawsuit. The money paid for the sordid case was, in fact, payback against Gawker. The secret donor to Hulk Hogan was Peter Thiel, the prominent Silicon Valley tech financier.

The trial is the focus of a new Netflix documentary, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press. The New York Times dismissed the documentary— “Almost nothing in Nobody Speak breaks new ground,” critic Ben Kenigsberg wrote—but it’s bizarre how little talk went on in the valley about a titan of tech’s actions in putting a media outlet to death.

Photos courtesy of Shutterstock (Donald Trump, Hulk Holgan) and Dan Taylor via Wikimedia Commons (Peter Thiel)

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calculated move, dropped the “infliction of emotional distress” claim, Gawker Media’s insurer, Nautilus, was no longer on the hook for damages. The protracted legal battle between Hogan and Gawker lasted several years, but it was only in May 2016 that first Forbes, and then the New York Times revealed Thiel had been paying for the wrestler’s expensive litigators.

‘I don’t think they understand that this kind of lawsuit can be used against any outlet, even in a country that prides itself on freedom of expression.’

Thiel, an early investor in Facebook and a founder of PayPal, is by no means the richest entrepreneur in the valley, but he’s done pretty well.

Forbes estimates his net worth at $2.7 billion, making him No. 825 on the magazine’s real-time list of “The World's Billionaires” as of July.

In a Valleywag editorial, Owen Thomas, the then-editor of Gawker’s tech blog, outed Thiel as gay. Thomas, gay himself, concluded the exposure with, “More power to him.” It’s this century’s way of saying, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

One could argue that this outing was a way of embarrassing Thiel. One could also point out that in a culture where the bro-ethos rules supreme, identifying Theil as gay was a way of reminding the lords of the valley that gay people are everywhere. One could compare and contrast the way the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO, Tim Cook of Apple, handled a similar situation: After being accidentally outed by CNBC, Cook publicly

discussed his sexual orientation in an editorial in 2014.

Gawker had a self-declared mandate to publish stories other outlets were scared to touch— for reasons of what’s left of good taste in our society, of lack of the usual vetting, or of just plain ridiculousness. “The stories journalists exchange among themselves,” is how co-founder Nick Denton explained Gawker’s mission in Nobody Speak.

Frivolity was essential. The site’s genuine scoops, such as video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford sucking on a crack pipe, dueled with the epochal “No-Talent Hack Cat Fired for Sucking,” a story about a pussycat understudy dropped from the Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

The site did, however, do useful and funny work: Caity Weaver documenting the Paula Deen damage-control cruise, Tom Scocca’s essay bringing light to rape allegations against Bill Cosby, a series of stories on leaked Sony documents that revealed in-house racism at the studio, and Sam Biddle pinging the valley’s upper crust on Valleywag.

And on and on.

The payback to Gawker followed years of stories about Thiel and his cohorts. Gawker reported on Thiel’s Facebook partner, Sean Parker, throwing a redwood-trampling wedding that ended with a $2.5 million penalty Parker paid to the state of California. They also ran articles on the big fiscal losses earlier this decade at Thiel’s Clarium Capital.

A developer of PayPal and one of the initial financiers of Facebook, Thiel has always been ahead of his time. He’s contradicted himself over the years, as a great mind will. He’s donated to the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation, which has since denounced Thiel’s big-payback donation to Hogan’s lawyers. The foundation’s spokesman, Trevor Timm wrote, “Do you think that because Gawker’s demise is something you agree with that the same thing won’t happen to newspapers you like in the future?”

Theil has a motto: “There is no middle ground. Either don’t throw punches or strike quickly and end it

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BULLY GETS THE HORNS Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker after being outed as gay in 2007.

quickly.” Knappenberger had tried to get an on-camera interview with the financier “to see what his perspective was.” Alas, like many attempts by the press to get Thiel on the record (including this outlet), it went nowhere.

“We tried a couple of times and got a call back from one of this people,” Knappenberger said.

“He hasn’t been opaque about his participation in the Hogan suit.”

Indeed, Thiel wrote a New York Times op-ed and said that what he did was “less about revenge and more about a specific type of deterrence.” Last year, at a Halloween appearance at the National Press Club, he described Gawker as a “singularly sociopathic bully.” He added, “These were not journalists.”

Many a journalist has tried and

failed to get Thiel to expound on these thoughts. “I would have liked to hear from him, and the fact that he doesn’t want to join in in a public discussion doesn’t reflect well on him,” Knappenberger said.

Personally, the director said he wouldn’t have run the column outing Thiel if he’d been Gawker’s editor.

“That doesn’t mean anything, though,” he said. “The legal boundaries aren’t crossed when that happens.”

Gawker’s Denton, who is also gay, maintained that Thiel’s sexual orientation was an open secret in the valley but hidden from the public to preserve financial opportunities.

Nearly a decade later, Thiel stood at the Republican convention in Cleveland and announced he was “proud to be gay” to reassure the world that Trump

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Thiel serves as an adviser to the president, who continues to call the media an enemy of the state. Trump sicced his crowds on the press as “the world’s most dishonest people” and slyly urged his followers to attack, in such winking language that he could deny it later. “We’re gonna have people sue you like you’ve never been sued before,” Trump bellowed from the podium. And his daily tweets against “fake news” continue. Threats calling for attacks and harassment against reporters continue. In the past few months a

Guardian reporter was body-slammed by a congressional candidate, while a reporter was arrested for simply trying to interview Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price. It may not be long before shooting the messenger is more than just an expression.

Knappenberger was editing Nobody Speak for Sundance when Trump won the election. He doesn’t have much to say about that victory, a conversation killer if ever there was one.

The director of We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists and The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz has carved out his own particular end of the documentary field. He said these documentaries are rooted in his once-upon-a-time

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ROUGH CUT ‘Nobody Speak’ director Brian Knappenberger says he’s lost faith in ‘techno-utopia.’ optimism about what the internet could do. “Fifteen years ago, I was the kind of person who believed in techno-utopia. Five to six years later, I saw the downside of that.

I’m fascinated at how our lives are shifting, and how much information is stored in insecure areas. It’s shaking tried and true notions of civil liberty, and I find that tension really interesting.”

It sometimes seems that it is a double standard—that the people in charge of this valley want to know everything possible, and yet they want to stay hidden behind one-way glass. They see everything, but their privacy is paramount.

“I’m worried about the average person,” Knappenberger said. “It’s a bizarre position. There’s so much we put online, with the mass NSA surveillance. They have access to so much of what we do. It’s a massive, massive lack of transparency, a huge

imbalance because they know what people are doing, and yet we don’t know what’s going on.”

According to the director, numerous examples of what’s chronicled in Nobody Speak have occurred since his film debuted at Sundance. Knappenberger also gives a multi-sided account of the Sheldon Adelson defamation case in his movie, which ended with the casino billionaire taking over the Las Vegas Review Journal.

“John Oliver and Time Warner get sued by John Murray, a coal billionaire,” Knappenberger said.

“Then there’s Sarah Palin’s New York Times suit, alleging that she’d been defamed by connection to the Gabby Giffords shooting. And Idaho billionaire Frank VanderSloot tried to put Mother Jones magazine out of business.”

VanderSloot once bankrolled an ad saying that gay marriage might lead

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to animal-human marriages, and—in a reversal of Thiel’s big payback— VanderSloot was even alleged to have outed a gay reporter of Mother Jones.

The left-wing, nonprofit investigative magazine summed up the legal battle, which it won after millions were spent on lawyers: “Legally, what we fought over was what, precisely, the terms ‘bashing’ and ‘outing’ meant. … But make no mistake: This was not a dispute over a few words. It was a push, by a super-rich businessman and donor, to wipe out news coverage that he disapproved of. Had he been successful, it would have been a chilling indicator that the 0.01 percent can control not only the financing of political campaigns, but also the media coverage of those campaigns.”

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barons of yesterday. Ambrose Bierce had a regular target, Leland Stanford, sometimes described as “$tealin £andford” by Bierce in his San Francisco Examiner articles. A Stanford associate, railroad tycoon Collis Huntington, who had gotten unpaidfor land from the government, asked Bierce to name his price to lay off.

Bierce replied “My price is $130 million. If, when you are ready to pay, I happen to be out of town, you may hand it over to my friend, the treasurer of the United States.”

It’s hard to find that kind of brio today in the media, and we’re entering uncharted territory about how the wealthy can snuff dissent.

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It’s been a good strategy for political billionaires to tie up periodicals in court and bleed them with the cost of lawyers, in hopes that their secrets will stay that way.

“The uber-wealthy don’t have to do much to have an oversize impact,” Knappenberger said.

So what should journalists be doing?

“They should be rethinking libel insurance and they should be looking into ways of protecting themselves,” Knappenberger said.

“Lowell Bergman, the CBS journalist who was the subject of the film The Insider, teaches journalism grad school at Berkeley. One of his exercises is getting all the students in his class to sue each other for libel, making a mock play out of how it happens. In the meantime, they might want to end the practice of writing softball stories with the powerful in exchange for access. A rethinking of that kind of approach could help, and it proves it’s a good idea for journalists to ignore useless press conferences.”

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THE DEPARTED Robert Grodt, 28, died on the front lines while fighting ISIS with a U.S.-backed rebel group in Syria.

South Bay Man Killed Fighting ISIS in Syria

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH In an interview nine days before his death on the front lines fighting ISIS, Robert Grodt discussed how most Americans know nothing about the Kurdish struggle for autonomy.

“You don’t see Kurdistan on the globe anywhere,” the 28-year-old Mountain View native tells the videographer. “It doesn’t show up.”

The only reason Grodt’s family knows about it, he continued, is because he enlisted in the YPG—a Kurdish initialism for the People’s Protection Units, a U.S.-backed force battling the Islamic State in Syria.

On July 5, Grodt lost his life in a firefight on the outskirts of Raqqa.

Within a week, stories about his death called attention to the cause that drew him halfway across the world.

“If he wanted to teach us about all this stuff, I wish he could have gone about it another way,” one of his sisters, Stephanie Eason, tells

Metro. “But I know my brother did good in the world.”

Grodt, who was born in Mountain View but spent most of his childhood with his five siblings in Simi Valley, came of age as an activist in the Bay Area. “Even back in 2009, he was talking about the YPG,” says Alysa Cisneros, who lived with Grodt in San Jose and worked with him on social justice campaigns in Santa Cruz at the time. “He was an idealist ... He always looked to that north star.”

That conviction led Grodt in 2011 to hitchhike across the country to join the first Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park as a volunteer medic. That’s where he met his partner, fellow protester Kaylee Dedrick. When cops peppersprayed her in the face, Grodt rushed to help her. Video of the incident went viral, turning her into a symbol of the movement.

The pair fell in love. The next year, they gave birth to Tegan, who became a symbol in her own right.

Tabloids dubbed her the “First Occubaby.” Dedrick says, “He loved his daughter.”

But when Grodt told her about going to Rojava, one of two Kurdish front lines in the war against ISIS, she says, there was no reasoning with him.

Serving the Kurds, for Grodt, didn’t just mean picking up a rifle, Eason adds. He went to build, weld, teach and develop bonds with people. To honor Grodt’s legacy, his family says they will continue to share his story and advocate for the causes he died fighting for in Syria.

“Even in his death, he’s teaching us about the struggle he believed in,” Eason says.

A memorial service has been set for Aug. 5 in Simi Valley.

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Seven people died from domestic violence last year in Santa Clara County, according to a new report from the district attorney’s office. Five of them were victims and two were perpetrators shot by police.

All took place in San Jose. The number represents a decrease from the year prior, when 13 people died in domestic violence-related incidents. It also falls below the 22-year average of about a dozen a year for this county. Last year, local agencies referred 5,101 domestic violence cases to the DA—an uptick of 815 from the year prior. Of those, 55 percent resulted in criminal charges—a decrease from 63 percent the year prior.

In 2017, the county is on pace to surpass the number of deaths last year. Local law enforcement has reported four domestic violence deaths in the past month alone. friends “It is a destructive crime that strikes within all our communities regardless of age, money, ethnicity, gender,” asstistant DA Cindy Hendrickson says. “It’s vital that we identify it before the coroner gets called.

Delay can be deadly.”

San Jose Sharks Reporter Stabbed Police are still searching for a woman suspected of stabbing a Mercury News reporter at his Willow Glen home.

The victim, identified by colleagues as San Jose Sharks beat reporter Paul Gackle, was stabbed multiple times.

The Merc, which did not name Gackle, reported that he was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. San Jose police responded at 2:20am Friday to the 800 block of Redbird Drive—near Almaden Expressway and Curtner Avenue— on reports of a stabbing. According to ABC7 News, the victim rents a standalone unit behind a home.

Neighbors said they heard a loud noise before the victim emerged from his home to find help. A neighbor dialed 9-1-1. Gackle has not returned a call for comment. —Jennifer Wadsworth

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The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football biennial Gold Cup soccer tournament is wrapping up with the championship match between the United States and Jamaica.

It should be a close match, as the U.S. has shown an ability to advance far into the Gold Cup bracket in recent years—last winning in 2013—while the Jamaican national team, a.k.a. The Reggae Boyz, are entering their second straight CONCACAF final.

Though they ultimately lost to Mexico in 2015, it’s worth noting they knocked out the U.S. that year during the semi-finals. (NV)

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Thu, 9pm, $20 BackBar SoFa, San Jose

Thu, 8pm, $25 The Improv, San Jose

Bay Area O.G. Andre Nickatina returns to San Jose with more tales from the Fillmore. The guy has been doing it for longer than your favorite SoundCloud rapper has been alive, but don’t think his age has rusted his wit or his tongue. Even the passing of time won’t stop him from heating up the venue with his decadent baritone and knack for infectious hooks. Nickatina’s output has been relatively minimal this year, but considering he’s got 17 albums and countless other projects worth of material to pull from, the BackBar has nothing to worry about. (YK)

David Letterman complimented Norm Macdonald recently, calling the SNL alumnus one of the “funniest of the funny” on Macdonald’s webcast talk show. The Canadian standup veteran has been firing off wry observations since 1987—delivering his often-offbeat punchlines with a knowing smirk that can sometimes feel exclusionary. Perhaps that’s part of the reason he was booted from the Weekend Update desk and ultimately SNL in 1998 (though he claims he was canned for calling O.J. Simpson a “murderer” on air).

Macdonald got the last laugh, returning to host SNL in 1999 after his starring role in the cult comedy Dirty Work. (NV)

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Fri, 7pm, Free Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co.

The jazz is coming back to Palo Alto as the Stanford Shopping Center hosts the 31st annual Summer Jazz Concert Series, produced by SFJAZZ. This Thursday, the Oakland-based horn ensemble Brass Magic takes the stage. Informed by a wide range of musical styles, including world jazz, pop, hip-hop and electronic, Brass Magic was formed by a core of musicians who first met while studying at The New School in New York. They are known for their lively originals and innovative covers—like their honking, syncopated rendition of Animal Collective’s spazzy “Peacebone.” (YK)

Ren Geisick has been singing since she was a child, but it wasn’t until adulthood that she fell in love with jazz. Geisick earned a degree in jazz vocal performance from Cal State-Long Beach, where she fine-tuned her talent and sound. The past couple years she has performed with Dulce Musica throughout the South Bay. Geisick was presented the DownBeat Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Jazz Vocalist, and soon after won the 2015 Jazz Search West competition. Geisick shares her new single, “Love Song #1,” this Friday, as she prepares her debut solo album, Don’t Know Why, produced by Grammy winner Jesse Harris. (PR)

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Jul 30 at SAP Center

GOAPELE

VIOLENT FEMMES

Jul 30 at The Mountain Winery

VANS WARPED TOUR

Aug 4 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA

Aug 4 at The Mountain Winery

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Aug 6 at The Mountain Winery

SANGO

Aug 10 at The Ritz

B-52’S

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KENDRICK LAMAR

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WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY

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GILROY GARLIC FESTIVAL Fri, 10am, $10+ Christmas Hill Park, Gilroy It’s been 39 years since the world got its first taste of the Gilroy Garlic Festival, and the three-day celebration of the city’s most beloved aromatic bulb lives on. This year, the Gourmet Alley chefs are cooking up a mouthwatering addition to the menu: delicious deep-fried garlic shrimp.

Famous festival favorites include garlic-laced calamari, fries and stuffed mushrooms. Munch on garlicky goodness while listening to local bands like Mike Malinao & The Red Barn Rockerz and Vintage Noise. The whole family will enjoy this celebration of great food, live entertainment and special events, like the iron chef-style Garlic Showdown. The festival runs through July 30. (CM)

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Lounge on a complimentary inflatable pillow while enjoying a summer night of music. San Jose’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services extends its summer events with an open mic at St. James Park. Hosted by emcee “Mighty” Mike McGee, guests can enjoy live music, access to food trucks and game tournaments for no charge. This kid-friendly event will also provide chances to support local artists who will display their works, with some pieces available for purchase.

Signups for entertainers start at 5:30pm and the show begins at 6pm. Stay tuned or join the upcoming open mics in August and September. (PR)

Goapele was raised in a California community of South African exiles. Raised by politically active parents who instilled in the artist a revolutionary spirit from a young age, her name means “to move forward” in the Setswana language. These words are reflected in her progressive lyricism and in the neo-soul and trip-hop sounds that define her music. Self-love and social consciousness are at the core of her latest EP, Dreamseeker, wherein the singer-songwriter returns to her roots with soulful tracks like “Power”—a sensual single about reclaiming an individuality “as bright as the sun.” (CM)

In 2010, the classically trained pianist Olya Fomina left Russia to fulfill her rock & roll dreams in New York. Her career kickstarted as a hired keyboard player for D Generation on their 2014 tour.

Later she met Brian Viglione, former drummer for Dresden Dolls. The two fell in love, married and formed Scarlet Sails. Joined by guitarist Mark Kohut and Jesse Krakow, the group has released two full-lengths and one EP. Their newest record, Future From the Past, is psychedelic with heavy keyboard. (PR)

ONE MORE TIME

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MELVINS

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A New Web YOUNG SPIDER Jason Reynolds, author of the new YA novel ‘Miles Morales: Spider-Man,’ will speak at Kepler’s.

Jason Reynolds talks creating an African-American Spider-Man

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LEASE NOTE THE inside joke from Spider-Man: Homecoming, making up somewhat for the rotten Easter-egg Captain America tossed at us at the end of the film.

What a big nerd-chuckle in the theater it was when Donald Glover showed up. He played Aaron Davis, a minor criminal Spider-Man did his worst to interrogate. Davis gives up the info Spider-Man was pathetically trying to scare him out of. He, Aaron, wants The Vulture

and his space-weapons off the streets.

After all, Aaron’s nephew lives in the neighborhood.

Chuckle, said the fanboys. They knew the nephew was a sly reference to artist Sara Pichelli and writer Brian Michael Bendis’ comic series Spider-Men, which finds Peter Parker and Miles Morales uniting as a multi-culti web-slinging duo. More chuckle fodder: Glover had even done the voice of Morales on a Disneyanimated show.

After Peter Parker turned up dead—dead for a while, anyway—a radioactive spider chomped Morales, a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy of AfroHispanic descent. The new heir to the cowl and webshooters is now

the subject of a young-adult novel.

Miles Morales: Spider-Man is by the distinguished Brooklyn writer Jason Reynolds, the National Book Award finalist behind Ghost and When I Was the Greatest, among other titles. Miles will be published Aug. 1, and Morales is coming to Kepler’s Books the following day for a discussion.

Reynolds is recognized for penning books for young adults that address the hard subjects of race, prejudice and injustice in America—drawing upon his background as a person of color to inform his tales.

Growing up black in a poor Washington D.C. neighborhood—in the midst of the crack and AIDS epidemics—Reynolds wasn’t a big reader. When he was young, there weren’t many African American heroes in literature for him to find, and it was rarer still to find young adult fiction with protagonists that looked like him.

In a recent interview with the School Library Journal, Reynolds said he felt it was important that this rebooted Spidey has darker skin under his spandex—and not only because it will give legions of young comic book fans of color someone to relate to. It also gives the Spider-Man series the chance to deal with themes that wouldn’t necessarily have made sense when Peter Parker was the man behind the mask.

In Reynolds’ telling, issues of survivor’s guilt, the cycle of poverty and the allure of the streets are all explored. “This is the part of Miles’s story that matters most to me, what makes him real, because this is the story of so many of the potential teenage superheroes in our neighborhoods and schools,” Reynolds told School Library Journal.

Morales is now the official Spider-Man in the Marvel Comics universe—Spider-Man without an asterisk, as Bendis put it. By keeping Morales urban, Marvel is doubling down on the best idea in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is to pose SpiderMan as a municipal hero instead of an international Avenger.

Morales will also be Spider-Man again in an as-yet untitled full-length animated movie due in December 2018, with Mahershala Ali of Moonlight voicing Aaron Davis and Shameik Moore performing the voice of Spider-Man. The original idea of a Spider-Man of color came because of Marvel’s belief that Obama was leading us into a post-racial America. Morales outlasted Obama, defying the nowfading moans of the kind of fans who lose a little bit of their childhood— nay, their souls—when a black Batman is hypothesized, or when Doctor Who turns into a girl.

Such fans ought to be reminded that Spider-Man has been Japanese and Turkish already: check YouTube to see the awesome awesomeness of Japanese and Turkish Spidey. Would a sensible person care what race Our Hero was, as long as he stays half-spider?

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Dancing into the Future SOME BALLET COMPANIES keep their summer protégés grinding behind closed doors, but The New Ballet School is giving its students a taste of the limelight—putting them up on stage at the Hammer Theatre Center.

The showcase will be a culmination of the Summer Intensive program at New Ballet. In its second year, the competitive program has gathered 90 students between the ages 11 and 22—a quarter of whom are from out of state. The students train five days a week from 10am to 4pm for three weeks, at the end of program, every dancer will have a chance to show off their talent.

“This performance is about the students,” says Dalia Rawson, founder of New Ballet. “It’s about their training and their experience on stage. So everybody dances, from the youngest student to the New Ballet Summer oldest student, and everyone’s pushing themselves.”

Intensive Showcase Students will perform an abridged version of Paquita—a romantic ballet about a Spanish Jul 29, 3pm, $13.50 gypsy girl who falls for a French nobleman—in Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose addition to shorter, new works like Electric Sheep, choreographed by Rawson with the the fitting Silicon Valley theme of artificial intelligence in mind.

World-famous ballet dancer José Manuel Carreño coached the dancers for Paquita, which Rawson described as “the technical highlight” of the show. The hour-long retelling of the original ballet will include a well known wedding scene in its historical 19th century choreography, during which the program’s highest level dancers will take center stage.

Complementing this classical favorite is a series of contemporary pieces choreographed by the school for its summer pupils. One of them, a sevenminute piece titled Electric Sheep, is an abstract ballet inspired by an electronic score that Rawson’s brother, musician and Cola frontman Cliff Rawson, composed. “There’s a little melody in it that makes me think of reaching beyond,” Rawson says, making it the perfect score to kick off the showcase.

All month, the dancers have reached beyond their comfort zones and the upcoming show marks the climax of this rigorous effort. Rawson emphasizes that while the showcase may not be as fully developed as past New Ballet productions like The Nutcracker or Swan Lake, it’s a chance for the community to appreciate the achievements of these young dancers.

“This is a chance to see the students being students,” Rawson says. “No sets, no costumes—this is purely about dancing.” —Camille Miller

A San Jose Downtown Association Production. Supported in part by the St. James Park and Urban Activation Grant from the City of San José.

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Black Widow DAMNED SPOT The impressive Florence Pugh plays a calculating killer in ‘Lady Macbeth.’

Excellent ‘Lady Macbeth’ delivers cold beauty, moody melodrama

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE FILM IS called Lady Macbeth, but it’s less like Shakespeare than The Postman Always Rings Twice. It’s based on Nikolai Leskov’s The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, first published in 1865 in a magazine edited

by Dostoyevsky. The story of tyranny and murder was the source for Dmitri Shostakovich’s last opera.

Transferred from the Russian hinterlands to a backward northeast corner of England, Lady Macbeth asks a familiar question from decades of

melodrama: are murderesses made or born? Debuting feature director William Oldroyd leaves that question open. The much abused, then much abusing, protagonist, Katherine (Florence Pugh, impressive), is transformed from a piece of living property to a chortling killer.

Wearing a cobwebby veil on her head, she’s married, and her maid Anna (Naomi Ackie) fixes her up for the wedding night. A small gathering of tyrants attend the wedding. One is Katherine’s vile, rotten-toothed fatherin-law Boris (Christopher Fairbanks), a recently ennobled coal baron. The groom is Boris’ equally nasty son Alexander (Paul Hilton), who has the spoiling-for-a-fight look of a jaded old rock star. Alexander’s idea of seduction is ordering his bride to strip and face the wall. She stands exposed

while we hear the wet, flappingfish sound of him masturbating off camera. When an emergency takes the father and son out on business, the new bride is forbidden to go out and explore the woods. Margaret has been alone for some time when she encounters the new horse-groom Sebastian (the musician Cosmo Jarvis); the unwashed brute later breaks into Margaret’s room.

Oldroyd’s sleek and speedy melodrama has a lot of beauty in it, and not in just the area’s wildness and waterfalls. In deliberately banal yet wanton performances, Pugh turns down the candlepower of her prettiness.

It’s still visible. She’s impassive as she’s cruelly lashed into corsets, and when she’s seen sitting, bored, in a dark blue satin hoopskirt. Her elaborate braids match the oak carvings in a fireplace, and it’s as if she’s evolving into a piece of furniture. When the pig Alexander calls Katherine a pig for gratifying her appetites, we realize we’ve seen glimpses of a porcine satiation in her face after one of her nights with Sebastian.

After Alexander the husband

damns Katherine as a whore, she fetches Sebastian out of hiding, hikes up her nightshirt and mounts him right in front of the impotent bully she married. Trysting out in the wet leaves, the adulteress wrings a promise out of Sebastian to stay with her “to the cross, to the prison, to the grave, to the sky.” The tooelaborate vows say it all: what’s here is not romance, it’s clean pure lust.

When that lust is satisfied, what’s left is the matter of who will dominate whom…easy to figure, given that Katherine is the lady of the manor, and Sebastian is a stable-man who sleeps on the ground.

We see Anna gathering mushrooms, as in The Beguiled; Lady Macbeth has the musk and tanginess that Coppola’s film didn’t deliver.

And when we see Anna scrubbing her mistresses’ back as if it were a greasy floor, we’re in a darker melo than we were in My Cousin Rachel.

Oldroyd deserves praise for some ingenious sailing with the prevailing winds. The British describe Jane Austen-mania as “Bonnet tradition films.” At a quick glance Lady Macbeth looks like such a film, but it’s colder, trickier and bloodier.

Many of the cast are of African descent, a sentence I wouldn’t write except that, yeah, I noticed, and I doubt if anything should be read into it. It’s a similar case to Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights with its black Healthcliff. The sons and daughters of slaves were present in the British life of the time. Colorblind casting fits a tale of plausible viciousness, matching the ruthless rich with the scheming poor. No matter what their color, oppressed people jockey for position, using everything from violence to gossip.

A little kid who turns up in the third act could be accused of trying to use his cuteness for his personal advantage. Even the cat of the house looks manipulative and comfortless, sitting on the chair across from Katherine, staring up at her murderous keeper, a look of scorn on its face.

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(1925/1927) Found 99 years ago by an American soldier named Lee Duncan in an abandoned German military kennel, the puppy Rin Tin Tin—named after a doll that French children sometimes gave our soldiers—was brought to Hollywood as a stunt dog. His popularity took off drastically. Talk was that he saved Warner Bros. by selling so many tickets; this four-legged superstar in even had a radio show. “Rinty” plays Lobo, a hybrid wolf/dog in the Sierra Nevadas driven into a desert borax-mining town by a wildfire; it’s an Androcles and the Lion story about a miner (Charles Farrell of 7th Heaven) who aids Lobo’s injured paw, with payoff later on. Not available on any streaming service. Dennis James is at the Stanford’s Wurlitzer. BILLED WITH The Jazz Singer. A cantor’s son (Al Jolson) longs to perform popular music, but his father considers it a scandal before the goyim; in blackface, on his knees, Jolson performs “Mammy,” an iconic and grotesque sight. It wasn’t the first sound film—numerous other productions and shorts had used some form of sound technology. And there were only about 100 theaters in the U.S. that could play the sound portions of this film. Yet here was the melodrama that put the stake into the heart of the silent cinema— Jolson’s six songs and scattering of dialogue electrified the audience and changed technology. (Plays Jul 29-31 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

FOOTLIGHT PARADE/ PICTURE SNATCHER

(both 1933) San Jose-born Lloyd Bacon directed Footlight Parade, a fine introduction to the ridiculously entertaining, tantalizingly bizarre world of the Warner Bros. musical.

James Cagney plays Chester Kent, a besieged creator of live musical prologues staged as curtain-raisers at movie theaters. If you've ever wondered what it must have been like to be choreographer Busby Berkeley, churning out about a dozen enormous production numbers a year during the Depression, Footlight Parade gives a clue. We see the pressure put on Kent, who is cheated by his partners, blackmailed by his ex-wife and pressed up against impossible deadlines while trying to create larger and larger extravaganzas. It's the production numbers we don't see that sound the most hallucinatory; some of his touring companies are doing musical numbers on the themes of the Russian Revolution, ghosts, bullfighters and the Swiss Navy. Meanwhile, Kent is gnawed by lesser problems: a defeatist dance instructor (whiny

Frank McHugh) and an idiotic censor (Hugh Herbert), foreshadowing the wrath of the Production Code to come in the next few years. Meanwhile, Cagney shows off his considerable talents as a song-and-dance man, and Joan Blondell is attractive and tough as a loyal partner who loves him. As for the numbers: "By a Waterfall" is staged in a 20,000-gallon tank and capped with a 70-foot-high wedding cake of fountains and chorus girls; "Sittin' on a Backyard Fence" is irresistible kitsch (kind of how you'd hope the musical Cats would be, with the backup singers having the verse “Meow! Meow!”) and, as always, the enthusiastic if labored tap dancing of Ruby Keeler.

Keeler is tricked up in Chinese makeup, in the finale, "Shanghai Lil." It's one melancholy song, but Berkeley diffuses the number into a folk-art salute to FDR and the New Deal. The unauthorized sequel: Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World (2003).

BILLED WITH Picture Snatcher Another Bacon film, shot in 15 days. Let Cagney describe it, in a quote from Cagney on Cagney: “Interesting title, which designated my role in the film. I played a former crook who ‘straightens out’ and takes up work as a picture snatcher. This was a man hired by the newspapers to steal photographs of people who are trying to keep those photographs out of the paper.” The fast direction meant that the actor’s fights weren’t rehearsed sufficiently; Cagney broke a tooth when Ralph Bellamy hit him, and co-star Alice White got a serious wallop over what was supposed to be Cagney’s pulled punch.

(Plays Jul 27-28 in Palo Alto.) (RvB)

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

(1982) 35th anniversary screening of Amy Heckerling’s comedy, still the best and the brightest of the '80s teen movies, though it spawned a still-toxic layer of brat-pack movies. Based on Cameron Crowe's undercover report for Rolling Stone, it follows the social and sexual anxieties of a crowd at a suburban Los Angeles high school. Denizens include: then-USC Trojans football player Forest Whitaker (debuting), Jennifer Jason Leigh, and a neverbetter Sean Penn as the surfer Jeff Spicolli, brandishing the most perfect Southern California drawl in cinema. Ray Walston is the teacher driven to exasperation by his pranks. Phoebe Cates is memorably sweet in a diving board-set fantasy scene, set to a tune by The Cars.

The part where the seductive power of Led Zeppelin is explained is as pungent now as it was then. (Plays Jul 30 and Aug 2 in various valley theaters. FathomEvents.com (RvB)

HIGH FOR THIS We’re freaking out, man! ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ might make sense after several tokes... Maybe.

Stoney Baloney TO PARAPHRASE THE immortal Lou Reed, some hash would have helped that Valerian. In Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, writer and director Luc (The Fifth Element) Besson adapts an early 1970s French comic book series. He seems particularly faithful to the grotty sexual politics of the time: Major Valerian (Dane DeHaan, a jaded, grimmer Mark Hamill, with Keanu’s voice) always hits on his sergeant Laureline (model turned actress Cara Delevigne). He proposes marriage during the middle of the action and complains about her navigating the spaceship (women drivers, amiright?).

Midway through, a new female character emerges, a shape-shifter named Bubble who morphs into every tart in history in a low-down cabaret, from Halle Berry’s Catwoman to Liza Minnelli’s Sally Bowles.

Your kids may not have expected a pole dance in this movie. Bubble intervenes to save Laureline during a fight: “You can’t fight a lady!” No one apprised Besson of the existence of Amazons.

It commences on the paradise planet of Mül, peopled with androgynous, elongated hippies who live in a nacreous Club Med of giant shells, hugging and pirouetting. These space Teletubbies worship a sacred lizardpossum that exudes pearls; each shiny orb is packed with awesome force. It’s like the rocket fuel that Nibbler used to poop out on Futurama.

As if bidden by a viewer’s inner nasty

little boy uncomfortable with perfect happiness, the skies blow up. And then we’re in the cockpit where Valerian receives a “Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi” message from the planet: “Your cerebral activity is a little more intense than usual” diagnoses Alex, the ship’s Siri. Under orders from the Planetary Interpol, or whatever Valerian and the they’re called, he and City of a Thousand Laureline steal back Planets the pet pearl-pooper from a mall-world, and PG-13, 137 Min. haul it to the “city of a Valleywide thousand planets” where space’s different races live in blurry harmony. The city, Alpha, has a mysterious cancer in its midst, and Valerian must find out what the connection is while Laureline waits on deck; it’s clear the brasshatted military (represented by good guy Jason Flemyng and bad guy Clive Owen) are in on it.

Adventures in the Clown Nebula continue, with critters ranging from a Huey, Louie and Dewey trio of greedy elephant-ducks, to a telepathic jellyfish that gives you messages when you stick your head up its ass, to a creature that’s a living stack of vanilla frosted doughnuts— there to stimulate the munchies the properly medicated viewer will experience.

Watching this, your cerebral activity may not be as intense as usual.

—Richard von Busack

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Hang Ten SURF’S UP Slacktone headlines the second annual International Surf Classic at The Ritz this weekend.

Instrumental surf rockers Slacktone shoot the curl at The Ritz

BY BILL KOPP

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AVE WRONSKI spends a lot of time thinking about how to put the “surf” in the instrumental surf rock music he makes with his band, Slacktone—comparing what he does to what Ennio Morricone did with his iconic soundtrack to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

“Guys like him wanted to create imagery with music and sounds,” Wronski says. With Slacktone, Wronski takes that same framework and applies it to the world of surfing.

“The sound of Fender reverb, that really big and romantic guitar sound, kind of a mournful tone” is central to the vibe he is going for.

Distinguished by its cranked vibrato, lightning-fast tremolo picking, exotic scales and, of course, waves of reverb, instrumental surf rock was originally pioneered by the likes of Dick Dale and his Del-Tones in the early ‘60s.

Though the musical style’s heyday was short-lived, it remains an influential and inspiring movement in rock & roll history and continues to inform pop music to this day.

Wronski, who leads the forwardlooking yet tradition-honoring Slacktone, recalls how he first fell in love with surf music in the 1960s.

“The dad of the kid across the street had a Ventures record,” he says.

“I really liked the sound of it. I had

always listened to a lot of different kinds of music, and my dad and uncle were big music enthusiasts, too.”

Wronski’s father had a big record collection and, even as a first-grader, young Dave would make his own mixtapes on a reel-to-reel deck.

“Then, when the British Invasion hit, I got the idea of bands in my head,” Wronski says. He learned to play guitar and has been playing ever since. “I made my living that way for a long time,” he says.

By the early 1980s, Wronski had joined Jon and the Nightriders, a popular “second wave” instrumental surf band. There he first played with drummer Dusty Watson, who today is in Slacktone with Wronski and bassist Sam Bolle. After playing on some studio recordings, Jon and the Nightriders got a gig opening for Malibu’s notorious Surf Punks at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

Wronski knew how mercilessly Surf Punks fans treated opening acts—often spitting on them—but he was prepared.

“I said to the other guys, ‘We’re gonna

have to take care of that.’” By that time he and Dusty were seasoned players with experience in punk bands as well.

So they decided to alter their approach from the band’s traditional style. “We decided we would play real fast and hard,” Wronski says with a chuckle, “and just shove it down their throats.”

The gig was a success, and soon the band took off on a tour. “We were the first instrumental surf band to go to Europe,” Wronski says. The band eventually cut some tracks—covers of surf standards—at famed Gold Star Studios with producer Shel Talmy, the man who first recorded the Who, the Kinks and David Bowie. But since Wronski wasn’t the leader of the band, he had little say in the material chosen to be recorded.

Eventually Wronski decided, “Okay, screw it. No covers. And I want to do this the way it should be done, as a three-piece.” He and Watson formed Slacktone, and from that point forward played original music. Slacktone would turn out highly-charged songs true to the surf aesthetic—lots of twang and reverb, a solid, steady backbeat—but with a harder, modern sensibility.

Wronski and Slacktone aim to take things a step beyond the original surf groups. “Those guys wanted to create imagery to match the sport of surfing,” he says. Slacktone’s music is designed to do that as well, but also to evoke the spirit of extreme sports like snowboarding, off-road motorcycling, competitive skateboarding and mountain biking. These days, the band often gets booked to play at extreme sporting events.

For Slacktone, it’s not about long, showy jams; the songs are concise and built around razor-sharp hooks.

“I listen to some pop songs,” Wronski says with a laugh, “and I think to myself, ‘get to the good part!’” His goal is to make sure that nobody who hears a Slacktone song ever says that.

Slacktone shares the stage with Kilaueas, the Tomorrowmen, Fascinating Creatures of the Deep and Aloha Screwdriver at KFJC’s second annual International Surf Classic this Sunday.

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ART BOUTIKI

AGAVE

Fri, Jul 28, 7:30pm: Wachtel, GabeWayofLife. San Jose.

Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

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

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, Jul 29, 8:30pm: George Silva and The King & Us Band.

Redwood City.

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

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

San Jose.

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Fri, Jul 28, 5:30pm: Fossil. Sat, Jul 29, 5:30pm: RPM. Los Gatos.

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

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam. Every Thu: Blind Pilot. Los Gatos.

ORCHARD CITY GREEN Thu, Jul 27, 6pm: The Johnny Neri Band. Campbell.

THE QUARTER NOTE

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Every Wed: DJ Hank. Every Thu: DJ Maniakal. Thu, Jul 27, Bobby Love and Sugar Sweet. Fri, Jul 28, Stompbox. Sat, Jul 29, Superbad. San Jose.

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

THE CARAVAN Every Mon: Tooth and Nail DJ Night. Every first Tue of the month 9:30 pm: Not So Trivial Tuesday Rock DJ Set. Thu, Jul 27, High Life Band, Aris, Rees Finley. Fri, Jul 28, Gloomsday, Failure Machine, El Camino Sutra, Joan and the Rivers.

Sat, Jul 29, El Guapo, Kindly Swears, Six String Pharmacy.

San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson. Thu, Jul 27, 7:30pm: “Strictly Sinatra” with JetBlacq. Fri, Jul 28, 8:30pm: Pete & Juan Escovedo. Tue, Aug 3, 7:30pm: Mendieta Gazave. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Every Sun: Live Jazz Show. San Jose.

Every Mon: Live Music Jam with Dana’s Band. Every Tue: Karaoke / Open Mic Every Wed: Live Music Jam Funk with Michael “B” Band. Every Thu: Live Music Jam Funk with Vicious Groove.

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

BLUE NOTE LOUNGE

THE RITZ

CAFFE FRASCATI

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Every Tue, 8:30pm: Live Blues Jam. Every Fri, 8:30pm: Oldies.

Every 3rd Sat: Old School Night with DJ G. Milpitas.

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

Wed, Jul 26, 8pm: Sinewave Syndicate. Thu, Jul 27, 8pm: United Ghosts, Silent Pictures.

Sat, Jul 29, 8pm: The Trims, Darwin. Sun, Jul 30, 8pm: Slacktone, The Kilaueas, The Tomorrowmen, Fascinating Creatures of the Deep, Aloha Screwdriver. Mon, Jul 31, 7pm: Scarlet Sails. San Jose.

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

First Sat of the month, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. First Fri of the month, 8pm: Art Walk and Caffe Frascati Opera Night.

San Jose.

SAP CENTER

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

Sat, Jul 29, 7:30pm: Gillian Harwin. San Jose.

Sun, Jul 30, 7:15pm: Neil Diamond. San Jose.

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

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

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

CHARLEY'S LG

Fri, Jul 28, 6:30pm: Avenged Sevenfold. Sat, Jul 29, 7pm: John Mayer. Mountain View.

Every Sun: Joe Ferrara (jazz).

Los Gatos.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

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

Every Fri & Sat: Live Music & DJs. Thu, Jul 27, McKenna Faith.

Los Gatos.

MOUNTAIN WINERY Sat, Jul 29, 7:30pm: Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Sun, Jul

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE

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

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HUKILAU Fri-Sat, Jul 28-29, 8pm: Hawaiian music. San Jose.

JJ’S BLUES Every Tue: MikeB Interactive Jam. Wed-Sun: Live Music. Every Fri: Latin Rock Nights. San Jose.

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ EveryThu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blue Jams. Campbell.

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

MISSION PIZZA Every Thu, 7-9pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Every first Fri of month, 7-10pm: Cimarron Rose Band. Every Second Fri, 7-10pm: Stampede. Every last Fri, 7-10pm: Stragglyrs. Every second Sat 7-10pm: Canyon Johnson. Every last Sat, 7-10pm: Beargrass Creek.

Fremont

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE

MOUNTAIN WINERY Fri, Jul 28, 7:30pm: Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang. Saratoga.

MURPHY’S LAW Every Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

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Every Mon, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE Every Tue: Open mic. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Every third Sat, 8pm: Comedians at Red Rock. Mountain View.

PIONEER SALOON

Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Thu-Sun, Jul 27-30, 8pm: Fahim Anwar. Sunnyvale.

Every Sun, 4pm: Music Jam with Terry Hiatt and Brett Brown.

Every Wed: Kevy Nova and Friends. Every Thu: Whiskey Hill Billies. Woodside.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS

Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Sun-Thu, 9pm: Karaoke. Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

SAM'S BBQ Every first Tue of the month, 6pm: Bean Creek. Every second Tue of the month, 6pm: Carolina Special.

Every second Wed of the month, 6pm: Dark Hollow. Every third Tue of the month, 6pm: Cabin Fever.

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

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

AGAVE Every Sun, 4pm: Spanish Karaoke.

San Jose.

ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

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Fri, Jul 28, 7pm: One Country.

San Jose.

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POOR HOUSE BISTRO

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

Every Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún.

San Jose.

DISTRICT

Thu-Sat, Jul 27-29, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 9:15pm, 9:45pm: Norm Macdonald. San Jose.

Every Thu: Acoustic Music Nights.

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

MOROCCO’S Every Tue, 4pm: Live Acoustic Music. Every Wed and Fri, 7pm and Sat, 8:30pm: Belly dancing.

Every Sun, Special Dinner Shows.

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Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/Sid Morris & Ron Thompson. Every Tue, 6pm: PHB Open Mic Night. San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE Every Mon, 7pm: Open Mic Night.

Mountain View.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

Sat, Jul 29, 7:30pm: Tim Mcgraw, Faith Hill. San Jose.

Open Mic/ Comedy BACK BAR Every Wed, 9pm: Open mic. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI

Sat, Jul 29, 7pm: Tortilla Soup.

Sun, Jul 30, 2pm: Jeremy Norris.

San Jose.

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

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DAN ZAE MAN ‘Dirtbag’ Dan says battle rap is alive and well in San Jose.

Bring the Battle Back JUST LAST MONTH, Joshua “Mad Illz” Carrasco— founder of the Grind Time rap battle league—decided to sell his once-dominant platform. This report came coupled with the news that Carrasco didn’t have much confidence in the art form and the industry it spawned.

“Battle rap is dying,” he said.

Showpieces aside, the lineup is stacked with matchups made specifically to pit styles against one another. One headliner match will feature Los Angeles veteran The Saurus going up against fresh Hollister rapper Reverse Live. Martinez says pitting two emcees from opposite ends of the status spectrum is what will make the battle worth watching.

“Dirtbag” Dan Martinez begs to differ.

“Reverse Live is a rookie and The Saurus is the vet, so this is a shot for someone who hasn't had the opportunity yet, but has shown over and over that he’s ready for it,” Martinez Battle of the Zae explains. BOTZ 8 will also feature two international rappers—LondonJul 28-29, 2pm, $25 based Micky Worthless and Vocab BackBar SoFa, Bahamas who’s from, you guessed it, San Jose the Bahamas.

The veteran battle rapper, hip-hop artist and standup comedian is the founder of his own off-top tournament, Battle of the Zae, which returns for its eighth installment this weekend to prove how wrong Carrasco is. Martinez speaks passionately about BOTZ and the way he aims to move the format forward—by borrowing from professional wrestling.

“No other league does an organized royal rumble, where you’ve got six people going against each other,” Martinez says, referring to the circular six-man bout—the “Caddy Royale”—which will serve as the centerpiece of this BOTZ. Martinez goes on to explain how the structure will shake things up and throw the contest wide open: “This way they can decide if they want to spend all their time going off on one person or if they want to try and take five people all at once,” he says.

One rapper who will take part in the rumble is Detroit legend Marv Won, who once got to light Eminem up on the set of 8 Mile back in the day.

This BOTZ also holds the distinction of being held in honor of Cadalack Ron, another wellknown battler, who died last year.

The one who comes out on top here will walk away with a cool $2,500. Though according to Martinez, most aren’t here for the money.

“A lot of these guys are used to getting like five thousand to do one battle,” Martinez says. “They’re here for other reasons.” Many are coming through just to show love for the event, to the other veterans that will be in attendance or just to support the local scene.

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A guy friend of 20 years and I once fooled around years ago. Though he has a girlfriend, he keeps throwing sexual remarks into our conversations, sending inappropriate texts, and asking me to send naked photos. I wouldn’t be interested even if he were single, and I’ve been giving subtle hints, like “ha-ha… gotta go,” right after he says something provocative, but it isn’t working. How do I politely get him to stop without ruining a very long friendship?—Upset As a means of communication, hinting to a man is like having a heartfelt conversation with your salad.

This isn’t to say men are dumb. They just aren’t emotional cryptographers.

Social psychologist Judith A. Hall finds that women are generally far better at spotting and interpreting nonverbal messages (from, say, facial expressions and body language, including that female specialty, the pout).

Women tend to use their own ability for decoding unspoken stuff as the standard for what they expect from men. So, for example, the longer a man takes to notice that his girlfriend is pouting (perhaps about what was initially some minor todo) the darker things get—with hate glares and maybe some cabinet-slamming… and then, the grand finale: “Hey, heartless!

Time for a monthlong reunion with your first sex partner, a.k.a. your right hand!”

There’s also a major sex difference in how males and females speak. A body of research finds that from childhood on, males tend to be direct: “Gimme my truck, butthead!” Females tend to be indirect, couching what they want in hints and polite and even apologetic language: “Um, sorry, but I think that’s my Barbie.”

Psychologist Joyce Benenson points out that these conversational sex differences line right up with evolved sex differences in our, uh, job descriptions.

Men evolved to be the warrior-protectors of the species.

Women’s mealy-mouthing, on the other hand, dovetails with a need to avoid physical confrontation, which could leave them unable to have children or to care for the ones they’ve already had. However, in women’s self-protectively not quite saying what they mean, they trade off being understood—especially by men.

Making matters worse, research by evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss on the “sexual overperception bias” in men suggests that the male mind evolved to be a bit dense to a woman’s signals that she isn’t interested. Basically, men seem evolutionarily predisposed to make errors in judgment in whether to pursue or keep pursuing a woman— erring in whichever way would be least costly to their mating interests.

In other words, in giving this guy “subtle hints,” you aren’t being polite; you’re being wildly ineffective. Yank off the marshmallow fluff and tell him: “I need you to kill all the sex talk.

Immediately. And yes, this includes requests for naked selfies.” (Be prepared to need to repeat yourself.) If he really is a friend, he’ll continue being one. He might even become a better one—the sort you can call anytime, day or night, from the coldest place on the globe, and he’ll say, “I’ll be there with the sled dogs pronto,” not, “Text me a shot of your boobs before you die of hypothermia!”

I love how my boyfriend smells, but I hate his new cologne. The smell literally makes me queasy. Is it even my place to ask him to stop wearing it? How do I tell him I don’t like it without it being mean?—Plagued Try to focus on the positive: You find him extremely jumpable whenever he isn’t wearing a $185 bottle of what it would smell like if sewage and verbena had a baby.

Unfortunately, it seems that his cologne and your immune system are poorly matched. Biologist August Hammerli and his colleagues find that a person’s fragrance preferences correlate with their particular set of infectious intruder-tracking genes. So, in not

liking your boyfriend’s cologne, it isn’t that you think he’s an idiot with bad taste; it’s that your … I dunno, greatgreat-grandma got it on with some hot peasant with the “verbena smells like dead, rotting chickens” gene.

The science is your way in: “Sadly, your cologne does not play well with my genes...” Cushion the blow with something sweet, like, “I know you love it, and I wish I loved it, too.”

(c)2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS Cisco Systems, Inc. is accepting resumes for the following positions in San Jose/ Milpitas/Santa Clara, CA: Business Systems Analysis Manager/Business Analysis Manager (Ref.# 813): Analyze business requirement to configure rule management and define systems solution. Business Architect (Ref.# SJ360): Coordinate Invoice-To-Cash related programs with focus on revenue related initiatives based on Oracle Platform.

Supply Chain Manager (Global) (Ref.# SJ254): Work with stakeholders within the function, cross functionally and cross organizationally to align strategic goals and transformation programs with the architectural changes required to deliver the business strategy. HR Consultant (Ref.# SJ676): Consult with the senior business leaders (VP+) on people planning, talent and organization design issues. Business Analyst (Ref.# SJ31): Use Case/Business case development skills by interfacing with subject matter experts in business operations, business process, Org Adoption and IT team members. Business Systems Analyst (Ref.# SJ985): Responsible for evaluating and documenting business needs, recommending business process and Information Technology solution alternatives and coordinating delivery of technical solutions to clients. Business Systems Analyst (Ref.# SJ598): Optimize operational efficiency and develop systemic process solutions. Please mail resumes with reference number to Cisco Systems, Inc., Attn: G51G, 170 W. Tasman Drive, Mail Stop: SJC 5/1/4, San Jose, CA 95134. No phone calls please.

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(Santa Clara, CA) Conduct research on tools & technologies & propose designs of modules. Design, dvlp & own complex scalable product sftwr & create bootstrap products. Define & run multi-container Docker & perform unit, intgratn & automated testing. Config & mnge secret/credentials data. Dvlp sftwr in agile/scrum envrnmnt. REQS: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Comp Sci, Math, Engg (any) or rel + 5 yrs progr exp in job &/or rel occup. Must have exp w/ Dsgning, dvlpng & owning scalable prdct sftwr using Java, J2EE, JPA, Spring 3.0, Apache CFX, Python, Groovy, UNIX, NodeJs, Go & shell scripts; JUnit, TestNG, BATS and SonarQube; GitHub & Bit bucket APIs & intgrtns; Jenkins plugins & pipeline scripts; Docker, Docker compose & secured Docker containers; Kubernetes, Docker ucp, cloud foundry and GCR; Mongo DB, Postgres, MySQL & Elasticsearch; Consul, Vault & Stack storm API intgrtns; Architecting sftwr using microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, Restful APIs & architectural/design patterns; UML usecase, Sequence & Class diagrams.

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ENGINEERING/ TECHNOLOGY A10 Networks, Inc., leader in Application Networking, has multiple openings in San Jose, CA for: Software QA Engineer (SWQA11): Execute automation TCL and Python scripts to qualify different releases; Senior Product Manager (PE01): Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle from strategic planning to operational activities to driving revenue; Senior Software QA Engineer (SWQA12): Develop and execute software test plans in order to identify software problems and their causes; Senior Software Engineer (SWE33): Participate in the design and development of network system software and architecture.

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Engineer - Software Development at GoDaddy.com, LLC in Sunnyvale, CA will research, dsgn, dvlp & test software that meets operational specifications, as determined by conducting reqmts analysis. Reqs a Master’s deg in Comp Sci, Comp Engg, or a related field plus 3 yrs of software dvlpmt exp. Employer will also accept a Bach’s deg in Comp Sci, Comp Engg, or a related field plus 5 yrs of progressive software dvlpmt exp. 3 yrs of exp must incl 3 yrs of exp in each of the following: writing & maintaining JavaScript code for Node.js, React & Flux/Redux; working with front end technologies including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Less, Sass, React, Ember, Backbone & JQuery; Relational DB including MS SQL Server & NoSQL technologies including Cassandra; Git/Github; Unit & UI testing using Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Enzyme, Selenium. Employer will accept any suitable combo of edu, training, or exp. Send resume to nbetayeb@godaddy. com. Ref 0101 in subject line.

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Cisco Systems, Inc. is accepting resumes for the following positions in San Jose/ Milpitas/Santa Clara, CA: Customer Support Engineer (Ref.# SJ3): Responsible for providing technical support regarding the company’s proprietary systems and software. IT Engineer (Ref.# SJ7): Responsible for development, support and implementation of major system functionality of company’s proprietary networking products. Member of Technical Staff (Ref.# SJ150): Design, implement, and test software for a web application used by our customers for IT management. Solutions Architect/ Solutions Integration Architect (Ref.# SJ27): Responsible for IT advisory and technical consulting services development and delivery. Solutions Architect/ Solutions Integration Architect (Ref.# SJ611): Develop business solution strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios. Information Security Engineer (Ref.# SJ540): Review and approve IT architectures, designs and hardening standards for securing web applications and services. User Experience Designer/User Experience Engineer/User Centered Design Engineer (Ref.# SJ70): Identify user interaction requirements and develop user experience interface specifications and guidelines. Customer Operations Analyst (Ref. #SJ99): Provide leadership in definition of the requirements gathering process.

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Telecommuting permitted. Quality Engineer (Ref.# SJ586): Manage and lead change efforts for the company’s Quality Management Systems (QMS) transformational and Supply Chain Quality Engineering (SCQE) Project Management Office projects. Please mail resumes with reference number to Cisco Systems, Inc., Attn: G51G, 170 W. Tasman Drive, Mail Stop: SJC 5/1/4, San Jose, CA 95134. No phone calls please.

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Data Scientist sought by VenueNext for its Santa Clara office. Apply statistical theories & methods to collect, organize, interpret, & summarize numerical data to provide usable info. Req: BS (or foreign equivalent) in Comp Sci, Math, Stats or rltd + 2 yrs of exp as a SW Engr or rltd.

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ShieldX Networks Inc is hiring all levels of SR QA Engineers: Conduct quality control tests & analyses. Send resumes to 2025 Gateway Plce # 400 San Jose CA 95110

ENGINEERING ELECTR ENGRS Western Digital Technologies, Inc. has opptys in Milpitas, CA for Firmware Engrs. Mail resume to Attn: HR, 951 SanDisk Dr, MS:HRGM, Milpitas, CA 95035, Ref #MILTPA. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE

TECHNOLOGY Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. HPE is accepting resumes for the position of Senior SharePoint Developer in San Jose, CA (Ref. #HPECSJNISD1). Gather user requirements and design supporting systems using SharePoint to solve customer business problems. Mail resume to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, c/o Andrea Benavides, 14231 Tandem Boulevard, Austin, TX 78728. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE

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State of California, County of Santa Clara, at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95112, and mail or deliver a copy to David Capella, successor trustee of the Capella Family Revocable Living Trust dated July 30, 1997, of which the Decedent was the settlor, at the Sowards Law Firm, 2542 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite 200, Campbell, CA 95008, within the later of four (4) months after November 2, 2016 (the date of the first FICTITIOUS BUSINESS publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally NAME STATEMENT #631119 delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this notice is mailed orThe personally CLAIMS: If you file4713 your followingdelivered person(s)toisyou.LATE (are) doing business as: do EPnot Limo, claim within

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This business conducted by an TO FILE A CLAIM: Failure to file a claim with the court andthe to serve individual.

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This statement was11/02, filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/19/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622524 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Advanced NAME STATEMENT #631419

Industrial Delivery LLC, 247 N. Capitol Unitas: 104, Jose,Fortune The following person(s) is (are) doing Ave., business GFSan Grand CA, 95127. This business is being byJose, a limited liability Restaurant, 4100 Monterey Hwy,conducted STE 108, San CA, 95111, TBIA company.

Registrant has not begun transacting business Inc., 3151 Alum Rock Ave., Sanyet Jose, CA, 95127.

This business is being under the fictitious business Registrant name or names herein.business Above conducted by a Corporation. beganlisted transacting entity the statename of California.

JuanonGarcia underwas the formed fictitiousinbusiness or names/s/Gilbert listed herein Managing statement filed with 06/16/2017.Member#201627010166This Above entity was formed in the state of was California. /s/ the County Clerk of CEO. Santa#C4018077.

Clara County 10/17/2016.

Hien Tam Nguyen.

Thison statement was(pub filedMetro with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/28/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016) 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUSBUSINESS BUSINESS NAME NAMESTATEMENT STATEMENT#622430 #631352

The person(s)isis(are) (are) doing business as: Union Thefollowing following person(s) doing business as: Jack in the Box #407, Avenue Liquors, 3649 Union Ave., Golden San Jose, CA,Jacks, 95124, 1075 Willow St., San Jose, CA, 95125, State Inc.,Kim 290Dao S. Corporation, Leominster San This Jose,business CA, 95139.

This conducted business Boulder Hwy.,36Henderson, NV,Ct., 89015. is being isbybeing conducted by a corporation.

Registrant has not yetthe a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under begun transacting business under theherein fictitious business name fictitious business name or names listed on 06/12/2017.

Above orentity names herein. was formed in President. the state of waslisted formed in theAbove state ofentity Nevada. /s/Ali Navaie.

California.

Johnwas Perazzo President #C39443143 This #C4033306./s/Michael This statement filed with the County Clerk of Santa statement was with the County of Santa Clara County Clara County onfiled 06/26/2017. (pub MetroClerk 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017) on 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631611 NAME STATEMENT #622360 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: P. Kasper

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa, & Associates, LLC, 17358 Creekside Court, Monte Sereno, CA, 1692 TullyThis Road, Suite 12,isSan Jose,conducted CA, 95122, by DaiaNguyen, Island 95030. business being Limited650 Liability Place, Redwood City, CA, 94065.

This business is conducted by an Company. Registrant began transacting business under the individual.

Registrantname has not begun transacting under fictitious business oryet names listed hereinbusiness on 12/17/2012. the fictitious businessfile name or names herein. /s/Dai Nguyen Refile of previous #567377 withlisted changes.

Above entity was This statement filed the County Clerk ofKasper.

Santa Clara County formed in thewas state of with California. /s/Patricia President. #2012356610078.

This statement with the County on 10/12/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09,was 11/16,filed 11/23/2016) Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/06/2017. (pub Metro 7/19, 7/26, 8/02, 8/09/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622523

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KT Dental

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631353

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jack in the Box #423, 911 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Golden State Jacks, Inc., 290 S. Boulder Hwy., Henderson, NV, 89015. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/12/2017.

Above entity was formed in the state of Nevada. /s/Ali Navaie. President. #C4033306. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631300 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Beauty And The Browz, 143 Deer Ridge Circle, San Jose, CA, 95123, Dulce Meza. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/01/2016. /s/Dulce Meza. This statement was filed with the on 01/28/2014 under number 587505.

This business was 7/05, County Clerk of Santafile Clara County on 06/23/2017. (pub Metro conducted by: An individual /s/Minh T. Hoang Date filed with the 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017) clerks office: 10/12/2016 (pub dates 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER NAME STATEMENT #631354 ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jack inCASE the Box #3411, 1740 S. Main St., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Golden State Jacks, Inc., 290 S. NO. 16PR178443 Boulder Hwy., Henderson, NV, 89015. This business is being conducted NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the PASCOE CASE NO. all heirs beneficiaries fictitiousKELLY. business name or16PR178443To names listed herein on 06/12/2017.

Above creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise entity was formed in the state of Nevada. /s/Ali Navaie. President. be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARK PASCOE KELLY. #C4033306. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa AClara Petition for Probate has been by:7/05, James Ramoni, Public County on 06/26/2017. (pubfiled Metro 7/12,J.7/19, 7/26/2017) Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.The Petition for Probate requests that James J. Ramoni,BUSINESS Public Administrator of the County of Santa FICTITIOUS Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer NAME STATEMENT #631355 the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer theperson(s) estate under thedoing Independent of The following is (are) businessAdministration as: Jack in the Box Estates authority will allow personal #3430,Act. 697 (This Curtner Ave., San Jose, CA, the 95125, Goldenrepresentative State Jacks, toInc., take290 many actionsHwy., without obtaining approval.

Beforeis S. Boulder Henderson, NV,court 89015.

This business taking verybyimportant actions, however, the personal beingcertain conducted a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting representative will be required to give notice to interested business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein persons unlessAbove they have noticeinorthe consented to the /s/ on 06/12/2017. entitywaived was formed state of Nevada. proposed action.)

The #C4033306. independentThis administration authority will Ali Navaie.

President. statement was filed with the be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017) authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: November 28, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 191 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing NAME STATEMENT #631356 and state your objections or file written objections with the court The following person(s) (are) doing business as:person Jack in the Box 4408, before the hearing.

Yourisappearance may be in or by your 1490 Monterey Rd., San Jose, CA, 95110, Golden State Jacks, Inc.,of290 attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor theS. Boulder Hwy., Henderson, NV,claim 89015.with Thisthe business is being decedent, you must file your court and mailconducted a copy a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business tobythe personal representative appointed by the court under withinthe the fictitious business name or names herein later of either (1) four months fromlisted the date ofon first06/12/2017. issuanceAbove of entity was formed in the state of Nevada. /s/Ali Navaie.

President. letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section #C4033306.

This statement wasCode, filed with Clerkthe of Santa 58(b) of the California Probate or (2)the60County days from date County on 06/26/2017. (pubtoMetro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017) ofClara mailing or personal delivery 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 FICTITIOUS want to consult withBUSINESS an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept#631357 by the court. If you are a person NAME STATEMENT interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request The following person(s) is (are) doing as: inventory Jack in the and Box for Special Notice (form DE-154) of thebusiness filing of an #455, 2280 El Camino Real, Alto, CA, 94306, GoldenasState Jacks, appraisal of estate assets or Palo of any petition or account provided 290 S.Code Boulder Hwy.,1250.

Henderson, NV,for 89015.

ThisNotice business is inInc., Probate section A Request Special form being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MARK business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE on 06/12/2017.

Above373 entity was formed in the state300, of Nevada.

COUNTY COUNSEL, West Julian Street, Suite San Jose,/s/CA, Ali Navaie.

President. #C4033306.(Pub ThisCC, statement was filed with the 95110, Telephone: 408-758-4200 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622566 The followingSTATEMENT person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, NAME #631482

979 Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca,doing 95122,business Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc TheStory following person(s) is (are) as: The Pixelmakers, Anh 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, 95111.

This business LLC,Nguyen, 1746 Oswald Place, Santa Clara, CA,CA, 95051.

This business is isbeing conducted by anby married couple.Registrant hasRegistrant not yet begun conducted a Limited Liability Company. has not transacting business under the fictitious business name or names yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name listed herein.

Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu or names listed herein.

Above entity was formed in the state of Thuan Lam /s/Man This statement was filed the County Clerk of Santa California.

Chuen Tang.

Vice with President. #201717010001.

This Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622752 NAME STATEMENT #631231 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380

S.The 1st following Street, Sanperson(s) Jose, CA,is95113, R. Hill,as: 8093 E. Zayante (are) Michael doing business Itegra Properties, Rd., Felton, CA, 95018.

This business is conducted an individual.

220806 Poplar Grove Square, Cupertino, CA, 95014,byItegra Properties, Registrant has not yet begun transacting under the LLC. This business is being conducted by abusiness Limited Liability Company. fictitious business or names listed business herein. /s/Michael R. Registrant has notname yet begun transacting under the fictitious Hill This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state California. (pub /s/Yasuko Manager.

County onof10/24/2016.

MetroKrischer.

11/02, 11/09, 11/16,#201716010423.

11/23/2016) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/22/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621712

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Countrywide Carrier, 2947 Capewood Ln., San Jose, CA, 95132, Rajwinder Singh. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631525

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vijoat Solutions, 1348 Stockbridge Dr., San Jose, CA, 95130, Juniwati Yong Sanoyca. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Juni Sanoyca. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/03/2017. (pub Metro 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 8/02/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Equus Associates, 2005 De La Cruz Blvd., STE 180, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Jose Inson Gorme Jr., 100 N. Whisman Rd., #3311, Mountain View, CA, 94043 This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/28/2017. /s/Jose Inson Gorme Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/30/2017. (pub Metro 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 8/02/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Against Arthritis, 2.

Plantar Tech, 111 Mosher Way, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, Arthrology Designs, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Derek Amanatullah. Managing Member. #201701010054. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/22/2017. (pub Metro 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 8/02/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631220

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631330

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631510

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Woodcrest Hotel, 5415 Stevens Creek Blvd. Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Yang’s Brother Int’l Corp. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #567955 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Lien Yang. Secretary. #C1846522. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/30/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF COTTON LUNDE CASE NO. 1-17-PR-181440

To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Cotton Lunde. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The 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 the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: September 8, 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 (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. 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 408-758-4217 (Pub CC 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631340 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dumpling City, 3487 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Dumpling City, LLC, 2071 Wawona St., San Francisco, CA, 94116. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/26/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kenny Qiu. CFO. #201714410332. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631527 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Komala Vilas, 1020 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Sai Komalas, LLC, 211 Peppermint Tree Terrace Unit 3, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/03/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ravichandran Ramanujam. Manager. #201520211035.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/30/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Kuhn Insurance Services, 2. IBP Insurance Services, 6920 Santa Teresa Blvd., #108, San Jose, CA, 95119, Acrisure of California, LLC, 5664 Prairie Creek Dr., Calendonia, MI, 49316. 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 Michigan. /s/Adam C. Reed. Secretary. #201430810008. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/22/2017. (pub Metro 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 8/02/2017)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RICHARD LANCE SHEARER, ALSO KNOWN AS RICHARD L. SHEARER, RICHARD SHEARER AND LANCE SHEARER CASE NO. 117PR181414

To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Richard Lance Shearer, also known as Richard L. Shearer, Richard Shearer and Lance Shearer. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Judith Ann Shearer in the Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: Judith Ann Shearer be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The Petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicil are available for examination in the file kept by the court.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 the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: September 6, 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 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 Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Gina L. Lera, Lera Tiberini PC, 455 Capitol Mall, Suite 350, Sacramento, CA, 95814 (916) 403-5180 (Pub CC 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NUMBER:17CV312588 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Francis Ming Yao for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Francis Ming Yao. Proposed name: Francis Ming Yang.

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: Oct 3, 2017 at 8:45 am, room Probate filed on: July 3, 2017 (pub dates: 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 8/02/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631227

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cherry Day Spa, 3076 Driftwood Dr., San Jose, CA, 95128, Huyen Nguyen, 1392 N. Hillview Dr., Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Huyen Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/26/2017. (pub Metro 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 8/02/2017)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #630810 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Notorious Subz N Juicez, 398 E. Santa Clara St., Suite B, San Jose, CA, 95113, Cloudz Enterprises LLC, 1350 El Camino Real, Millbrae, CA, 94030. Filed in Santa Clara County on 04/05/2017 under file no. 628484. This business was conducted by: a Limited Liability Company. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on 06/09/2017. /s/Yazan Alkhudari, Manager. (pub dates 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #630813 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Muncherz Subz N Juicez, 398 East Santa Clara St., Suite B, San Jose, CA, 95113, Incredible Eatz, 1350 El Camino Real, Millbrae, CA, 94030. 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/Yazan Alhudari.

President. #C4016689. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/09/2017. (pub Metro 7/05, 7/12, 7/19, 7/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631161 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GCDApparel, 2273 Luz Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Milionette Cabudol. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on June 07, 2017. /s/ Milionette Cabudol. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/20/2017. (pub Metro 7/19, 7/26, 8/02, 8/09/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631494 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bar Music Entertainment Publishing, 7469 Alexander Street, #B, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Bernardo Aguirre. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Bernardo Aguirre. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/29/2017. (pub Metro 7/19, 7/26, 8/02, 8/09/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631531 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Clandestine Brewing, 980 S. First St., San Jose, CA, 95110, ARC Brewing 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 06/15/2012.

Refile of previous file #566132 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Robert Conticello. Managing Member. #201204610109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/30/2017. (pub Metro 7/19, 7/26, 8/02, 8/09/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631891

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Abby’s Soap, 1390 Gingerwood Dr., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Abegail P. Villanueva.

This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Abegail P. Villanueva. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/12/2017. (pub Metro 7/19, 7/26, 8/02, 8/09/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631564

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HB Engineering, 4503 Carlye Ct., #2208, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Hanbin Kim. This business is

conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/03/2016. /s/ Hanbin Kim. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/03/2017. (pub Metro 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 8/02/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631522

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Teriyaki Express, 1085 E Brokaw Road, #30, San Jose, CA, 95131, 3L Poki, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/29/2017. Refile of previous file #631490 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jianzhao Li. President. #4037265. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/12/2017. (pub Metro 7/19, 7/26, 8/02, 8/09/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632021 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MH Transit, 14763 Excalibur 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 01/10/2017. 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 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631947 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tender Greens, 180 El Camino Real #1050, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, TYP Restaurant Group, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/31/2016. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Lina O’Connor. CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/13/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632033 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ensure Protect, 1604 Dell Ct., San Jose, CA, 95118, Warranty Concepts, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Frank McMillan. CEO. #C3978445. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #632073 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Cash Finance, 4783 Pine Forest Pl., San Jose, CA, 95118, Tammy Corona Blevins. Filed in Santa Clara County on 04/05/2016 under file no. 615917. This business was conducted by: an Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on 07/18/2017. /s/Yazan Alkhudari, Manager. (pub dates 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631952 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Sum Solar, 2. Balance Sculpting, 1664 Mariani Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, The Living Content Group. 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/ Wayne Gray. CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/13/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632114 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Coast Footwear, 17693 Lancia Dr., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Kiet M Le, 397 Waterton Ct., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Sean Perry. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2017. /s/ Kiet Le. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/18/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632158 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tasty Veggie Vegetarian House, LLC, 5592 Santa Teresa Blvd., #B, San Jose, CA, 95123, Tasty Veggie Vegetarian House, LLC, 1087 Walnut Woods, San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/12/2017.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Hien Thai Huynh. Manager. #201719810011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/20/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You still have a wound

that never formed a proper scar. (We're speaking metaphorically here.) It's chronically irritated. Never quite right. Always stealing bits of your attention.

Would you like to do something to reduce the distracting power of that annoying affliction? The next 25 days will be a favorable time to seek such a miracle. All the forces of nature and spirit will conspire in your behalf if you formulate a clear intention to get the healing you need and deserve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem "The

Initiate," Charles Simic speaks of "someone who solved life's riddles in a voice of an ancient Sumerian queen." I hope you're not focused on seeking help and revelations from noble and grandiose sources like that, Gemini. If you are, you may miss the useful cues and clues that come your way via more modest informants. So please be alert for the blessings of the ordinary. As you work on solving your quandaries, give special attention to serendipitous interventions and accidental luck.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For many years, the Tobe Zoological Park in China housed a "praying panther" named Ato. The large black feline periodically rose up on her hind legs and put her paws together as if petitioning a higher power for blessings. I suggest we make her your spirit ally in the coming weeks. I hope she'll inspire you to get your restless mind out of the way as you seek to quench your primal needs. With the praying panther as your muse, you should be able to summon previously untapped reserves of your animal intelligence and cultivate an instinctual knack for knowing where to find raw, pristine satisfaction.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you really have to be

the flashy king or charismatic queen of all you survey? Must all your subjects put on kneepads and prostrate themselves as they bask in your glory?

Isn't it enough for you to simply be the master of your own emotions, and the boss of your own time, and the lord of your own destiny? I'm not trying to stifle your ambition or cramp your enthusiasm; I just want to make sure you don't dilute your willpower by trying to wield command over too wide a swath.

The most important task, after all, is to manage your own life with panache and ingenuity. But I will concede this: The coming weeks will be a time when you can also probably get away with being extra worshiped and adored.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dear Hard Worker: Our

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If extraterrestrial beings

land their space ship on my street and say they want to meet the creatures who best represent our planet, I will volunteer you Libras. Right now, at least, you're nobler than the rest of us, and more sparkly, too.

You're dealing smartly with your personal share of the world's suffering, and your day-to-day decisions are based more on love than fear. You're not taking things too personally or too seriously, and you seem better equipped than everyone else to laugh at the craziness that surrounds us. And even if aliens don't appear, I bet you will serve as an inspiring influence for more

human beings than you realize. Does being a role model sound boring? I hope not. if you regard it as an interesting gift, it will empower you to wield more clout than you're used to.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the four

years he worked on painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo never took a bath. Was he too preoccupied with his masterpiece? Modern artist Pae White has a different relationship with obsession. To create her fabric art pieces, she has spent years collecting more than 3,500 scarves designed by her favorite scarf-maker. Then there's filmmaker James Cameron, who hired an expert in linguistics to create an entire new language from scratch for the aliens in his movie Avatar. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I approve of you summoning this level of devotion— as long as it's not in service to a transitory desire, but rather to a labor of love that has the potential to change your life for the better for a long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers," wrote author James Baldwin. Even if you're not an artist, I encourage you to make that your purpose in the coming weeks. Definitive answers will at best be irrelevant and at worst useless.

Vigorous doubt and inquiry, on the other hand, will be exciting and invigorating. They will mobilize you to rebel against any status quos that have been tempting you to settle for mediocrity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You're in a phase of your cycle when the most useful prophecies are more lyrical than logical. So here you go: three enigmatic predictions to help stir up the creative ingenuity you'll need to excel on your upcoming tests. 1. A darling but stale old hope must shrivel and wane so that a spiky, electric new hope can be born. 2. An openness to the potential value of a metaphorical death will be one of your sweetest assets. 3. The best way to cross a border is not to sneak across bearing secrets but to stride across in full glory with nothing to hide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian novelist James Joyce had a pessimistic view about intimate connection. Here's what he said: "Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul." My challenge to you, Aquarius—in accordance with the astrological omens—is to prove Joyce wrong.

Figure out how to make your soul virgin again so it can cast itself out into the ocean of another's soul.

The next eight weeks will be prime time to achieve that glorious feat.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Years after he had

begun his work as a poet, Rainer Maria Rilke confessed that he was still finding out what it took to do his job. "I am learning to see," he wrote. "I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to." Given the current astrological omens, you have a similar opportunity, Pisces: to learn more about how to see. It won't happen like magic. You can't just sit back passively and wait for the universe to accomplish it for you. But if you decide you really would like to be more perceptive—if you resolve to receive and register more of the raw life data that's flowing towards you—you will expand and deepen your ability to see.

Homework: Make a prediction about where you'll be and what you'll be doing on January 1, 2020. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you feeling as daring about romance as I suspect? If so, I've composed a provocative note for you to give to anyone you have good reason to believe will be glad to receive it. Feel free to copy it word-for-word or edit it to suit your needs. Here it is: "I want to be your open-hearted explorer. Want to be mine? We can be in foolishly cool drooling devotion to each other's mighty love power. We can be in elegant solid-gold allegiance to each other's genius.

Wouldn't it be fun to see how much liberation we can whip up together? We can play off our mutual respect as we banish the fearful shticks in our bags of tricks. We can inspire each other to reach unexpected heights of brazen intelligence."

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Back to Montreal CLOSING TIME Leonard Cohen is buried at an unmarked grave in the Jewish section of Mont-Royal Cemetery.

A visit to Leonard Cohen’s grave in Canada stirs up old memories

BY GARY SINGH

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HE CANADIAN POET and songwriter Leonard Cohen, the romantic sharp-dressed articulator of darkness, is buried in an unmarked grave in his hometown of Montreal, Quebec.

After a career spanning more than half a century, in which his songs, poetry and travels took him to Greece, Cuba, Nashville and a Zen monastery, Leonard finally passed away last November at the age of 82.

He had just released his final album, You Want It Darker, in which he appears to have known he was dying.

Leonard and his home turf of Quebec, la belle province, have a long history in my writings for this newspaper, so I had to visit his grave when returning to Montreal last week. The resulting sequence of events was mind-blowing.

Leonard is buried alongside his family in the Jewish section at the bottom of Mont-Royal Cemetery, on the hill that gave Montreal its name.

The cemetery, on its northwestern side, borders the Outremont neighborhood, a Francophone locale where stately gated mansions along Chemin de la Foret line the bottom

of the hill. Regal trees arch over the streets and wide grassy parking strips.

It’s quite comfy.

As I skulked into the cemetery, a few maintenance workers were standing there, just inside the gate.

Before I said a word, they looked at me and said, “Cohen? He’s right over there.” They pointed a few gravestones over. They knew exactly who I was looking for, without me even asking. In other words, I didn’t have to knock, the gate was open, and the gatekeepers showed me the way.

Talk about symbolism.

After arriving at the gravesite, I made a pact with Leonard Cohen.

I stood there, between the rocks and the flowers, and spoke to him: “Leonard, I will keep writing, you just show me how to pay the bills. Give me a sign. Anything.”

Just after I left the cemetery, a warm rain started to fall, as if

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Mother Nature had deliberately waited until my visit was over. With no umbrella, I then high-tailed it down Boulevard du Mont-Royal and caught a bus on Avenue du Parc back to my hotel.

The entire sequence of events brought back memories of previous stories, as this was not the only instance of cosmic serendipity unfurling itself in Quebec. In 2003, I was in Quebec City, drinking in a bar called Jules et Jim, named after the film, and we wound up conversing with all sorts of colorful characters.

The scene was basically the Leonard Cohen song “Closing Time,” so I later recalled this crazy night in a 2009 Silicon Alleys column, right as Leonard was going back on tour and performing at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. Ever since he emerged from the Zen monastery, people hoped he’d someday tour again, and there he was, hitting the road at 75.

At the time of the 2009 Oakland show, no one knew Leonard would eventually come to the HP Pavilion in San Jose—now the SAP Center— for what was initially supposed to be the last show of the tour. For that gig, I wrote a cover story for Metro, part of which was me walking around various Montreal locales related to Leonard or his songs.

Fans from all over the world came to that gig, since no one knew the tour would get extended and everyone thought that, given Leonard’s age, they would never get to see him again. Israel, Finland, Japan, Russia, Australia, Brazil, Canada and countless other countries were represented in that audience, and many of those people were walking around the arena with a copy of Metro in their hands. At the show, I didn’t tell a soul that I was the one who wrote the story, but the person who ran Leonard’s fan club later emailed me and said he handed a copy to Leonard backstage.

That was the closest I ever got to meeting the dude. Nevertheless, I can’t be anything but grateful for the mind-blowing, cyclical passages of interconnectedness that San Jose and Quebec have given me over the years.

In that sense, the show must go on. Leonard may no longer be with us in physical form, but his flame still burns. He will give me a sign and I will find a way to pay the bills.

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BREWTOPIA Silicon Valley Beer Week festivities continue through Sunday.

Beer Week Ain’t Done Yet

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ILICON VALLEY BEER Week doesn’t live up to its name—it exceeds it. The 10-day beer bonanza continues through this weekend, and participating breweries, bars and restaurants will host everything from tap takeovers and beer pong tournaments to beer walks and bingo. Events roll through Sunday, and below are just a few options worth considering. For more information go to svbeerweek.com.—Payje Redmond SCULPIN WALK Downtown Campbell; Wednesday, 5pm Buy a souvenir glass for $2 and walk through Sushi Confidential Campbell, Khartoum, Spread Deli & Bottles, Tessora’s Barra di Vino and Campbell Brewing Co. for half-off pours. The locations will be offering six different IPA flavors from Ballast Point Brewing.

BINGO & BEER Faultline Brewing Co.; Thu, 6pm Faultline Brewing Co. will give customers a chance to win their beer and food through bingo ($20). FBC will give winners an appetizer choice of sloppy joe fries, dirty chips or buffalo-roasted cauliflower. If bingo is not your “pint of beer” try the Beer Lovers Challenge for a chance to win a Faultline pint glass, an FBC T-shirt, or 32-ounce mini-growler filled with your favorite beer. If that doesn’t quench your thirst, Roadhouse will be serving barbecued meats and sides at 5pm.

SOUR FEST 9.0 Original Gravity Public House; Sat, 12pm Embrace the pucker and join Original Gravity Public House at Sour Fest. Whether you enjoy tart, fruity or just plane ol’ sour, OG will have more than 20 flavors of sour beer to choose from. There will also be special bottle releases to select from.

BEER PONG TOURNEY ON THE PATIO Nom Burger; Sat, 3pm For beer pong lovers, join Nom Burger’s tournament ($10 entry) from 3 to 6pm. Teams will be competing to be crowned South Bay’s best. The top three will take home prizes. Players will also qualify for happy-hour pricing and halfoff shareable plates and sides—including the infamous, fully loaded tater tots.

KRAFTBREW SUMMERFEST Mexican Heritage Plaza; Sun, 1pm, $10-$20 Sunday afternoon will wrap up the 10-day Beer Week festivities with even more delectable brews. Held at Mexican Heritage Plaza, KraftBrew will highlight local culture and arts as well as more than 25 craft beers from across the globe. Tickets are good for tastings and three beverages. Universal Grammar will host several DJ performances.

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San Jose Museum of Art celebrated the cultural tapestry of Silicon Valley at ArtRage: Liquid Assets.

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These kids love Blues Traveler.

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Taylor Jones

Three amigas at Music in the Park.

Greg Ramar

Good times at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Silicon Valley Beer Week makes us happy.

These three ladies brewed up some smiles at Jack Rose Libation House during Silicon Valley Beer Week.

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Greg Ramar

Taylor Jones

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BeerWEek JULY 21-30, 2017

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