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Clock Ticking Milpitas is expected to fire embattled City Manager TOM WILLIAMS, according to sources, and the decision will likely come down at the Aug. 15 City Council meeting. Williams, the veteran bureaucrat who has been on paid leave since May, has seen his record tarnished in recent years due to costly legal battles with subordinates and allegations that he misused taxpayer money. The council spent a portion of this week’s closed session evaluating Williams’ performance. He managed to escape the ax, but that doesn’t necessarily equal job security. A source close to the situation says the city manager is not expected to continue on the job beyond the Aug. 15 meeting. Police Chief STEVE PANGELINAN, who has been serving as interim city manager in his absence, will likely continue in that role until the council selects a permanent replacement. Williams, whose attorney didn’t respond to a request for comment, stepped into the city manager role in 2006 They as an “at will” employee. Did But in 2012, his elected What? bosses bolstered his contract to require a SEND TIPS TO cause for termination. FLY@ METRONEWS. Unfortunately for him, COM his actions in recent months might have given the council grounds to sack him. Earlier this year, the city manager dipped into public coffers to sue freshman Mayor RICH TRAN for alleged harassment and age discrimination. Though he paid back the city the $37,000 spent on Ad Astra Law Group, Milpitas’ legal counsel, CHRIS DIAZ, told Williams that the action broke the law. In a review of records, Fly learned that Williams charged another questionable legal expense two years earlier. The mayor declined Tuesday to comment on the situation. Since returning from Guam on deployment for the National Guard in May, Tran has recused himself from meetings about Williams’ pending litigation. “I don’t know what the rest of the council is discussing behind those doors,” he said, “but I do know that myself and the residents are waiting to find out.”

Back in the Game TEAMWORK George Lahlouh and Dan Phan, along with partner Johnny Wang (not pictured), intend to create a bar and old-school arcade in the old Toons lounge.

Long-shuttered downtown San Jose venue gets lifeline with ‘barcade’ BY PAYJE REDMOND

NCE ONE OF the busiest and loudest street corners in San Jose, two neighboring properties at the intersection of Second and Santa Clara streets, for more than six years, have sat empty, dark and silent. Previously home to nightlife venues Voodoo Lounge and Toons, the combined 12,000 square feet of space provided a crash course in sound throughout the aughts. Voodoo hosted punk and rock shows as well as notable touring acts

in hip-hop and R&B, while the latter blended genres as a piano bar and Top 40 dance club. Since 2011, however, when both businesses shuttered, the corner has been an entertainment abyss. That should change soon. Renovations are underway to transform the old Toons lounge, a 5,528 square-foot property at 52 E. Santa Clara St., into a bar and arcade come spring 2018. Last month, business partners George Lahlouh, Dan Phan and Johnny Wang officially closed on a lease of the property with Lift Partners. The proprietors of the high-end yet unstuffy cocktail lounge Paper Plane on South First Street— Phan and Wang own the neighboring gourmet hot dog and craft beer shop, Original Gravity Public House— nabbed the venue to capitalize on an

industry trend they’ve seen in other major markets, such as Barcade in New York City, Ground Kontrol in Portland, Brewcade in San Francisco and Button Mash in Los Angeles. “We are creating a cocktail-beer bar that will encompass the best of both worlds,” Lahlouh says. “The best that Paper Plane and Original Gravity have to offer.” Gensler, the international architecture, design and planning firm, which has a San Jose office just down the street on West Santa Clara, will help oversee the design of the yet-to-be named “barcade,” which will have two bars, a separate kitchen, and arcade and pinball games in nearly every direction. “It’ll all be coin operated, kind of like when you were a kid at Golfland,” Phan says. Many of the machines were purchased at Captain’s Auction Warehouse, which is based in Anaheim. The barcade’s ownership group is clearly stoked about the selection of titles they’re acquiring, which include pristine condition games such

$250,000 and it intends to divvy up the money to help offset the costs of city fees, permits and taxes, as well as exterior improvements of up to $5,000 for existing small businesses. Freise says that Lift Partners, which have a go-getter reputation for retail projects after coming out of Seattle and working with Amazon, knew the space needed to add something vibrant to the well-trafficked downtown corridor. “We are looking for authentic retail,” he says. “You know it when you see it. … 7-Eleven came knocking on our door— we did not accept. It doesn’t add to the overall story of downtown.” Freise, now a resident of the area, has an idea of what community members are craving.“We want to see these places activated,” he says. Echeverria notes that people have told the city they want to see a mix business in the old Voodoo space, perhaps even a collection of restaurants that offers an open space and food options throughout the day. The barcade team intends to bring on executive chef Winson Duong to craft a diverse food menu with lunch hours available for all ages. In the late afternoon, the venue will go to 21 and over. “There’s no reason why Silicon Valley won’t embrace it,” Lahlouh says. “The timing is right, the folks that grew up with these games are in their late 20s and 30s.” Every member of the team hails from San Jose, and that hometown connection seems to have also resonated with local crowds. The intersection of Second and Santa Clara streets can be a haven for the homeless and corner boys in the evenings, Phan and Lahlouh acknowledge, but the same could have been said about the block of South First Street they helped reinvigorate with Original Gravity and Paper Plane. Bars such as 55 South and Nomikai also assisted in the SoFA District’s renaissance as one heads further down to the downtown arts district. “Right now, if everything goes smooth—which rarely happens— we’re looking at February, March of next year,” Phan says. Once that happens, a once-cracking venue will be reintroduced to the community through an equally familiar concept. “We’re kind of reintroducing an old idea that’s been forgotten,” Lahlou says, “which is that arcades are social.” Josh Koehn contributed to this report.

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Terminator 2 and NBA Jam. “We have no emulators,” Phan says. “The original cabinet is really important.” The pinball selection, however, could be the crown jewel of the barcade’s offerings. They’ll feature titles such as Medieval Madness and Monster Bash, which can retail online for as much as $17,000. “We like to think we have the six best pinball games ever made,” Phan says. For now, the space previously home to Voodoo Lounge, located at 14 S. Second St., remains vacant. The music venue was a popular attraction in downtown San Jose’s nightlife scene for 11 years, before closing in February 2011. In its last month, Grammy Award-winning artist Miguel appeared at a surprise show, and a month before that rapper Talib Kweli performed. Voodoo Lounge was pivotal in San Jose’s small live-music clique along with the Cactus Club and Blank Club, bringing live music downtown. Performers may not have been big enough to fill SAP Center, but they gave locals an opportunity to witness up-and-comers and the occasional prime-time act. Both the Voodoo and upcoming barcade properties are under the ownership of San Franciscobased Lift Partners, which purchased the adjoining venues from Saratoga Capital in August 2016 as part of a $33.5 million package, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Many have wondered why the properties languished for so long, and it appears the new owners had a vision that didn’t entail waiting for a residential project to fill the space. “Previously it was a challenging retail market, but there is a lot of good news in the last three years,” says Chris Freise says, manager and co-founder of Lift Partners. Nate Echeverria, director of policy and operations for the San Jose Downtown Association, suggests the long wait might have had something do with the interior. “The spaces that tend to stay vacant longer are a raw shell,” he says. “Whoever goes in there will have to install a new [heating and air conditioning system] and come up to all the green building standards.” For small businesses, that’s a costly upfront challenge. The city has been working with small businesses to give them a head start in this process, through the San Jose Storefronts Initiative, which offsets some city permit fees and taxes. This initiative was funded with

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Ambitions an effort to Rebuild the San Jose Light Tower could give the city the identifiable, brandable icon it badly lacks BY DAN PULCRANO

Y THE TIME the San Jose Light Tower collapsed on a windy December morning 101 years ago, the bent pipe structure had outlived its original mission by three decades. In its early days, six carbon arc lamps burned brightly to illuminate the cityâ€™s center from on high. The tower could be seen from San Francisco and was a source of great pride to San Jose, a municipality of just 12,567 residents and the first electrified city west of the Rockies. 12

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and Steve Borkenhagen have formed a nonprofit and hope to raise funds to rebuild an iconic historical structure, with a new twist.

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“It is a great achievement for a town to light itself,” a gushing Vanity Fair wrote, calling it “a wonderful tower” that emitted “beautiful noonday, moon-like rays.” San Jose has endured a long, difficult century since a brutal gust of wind deprived the community of its proudest civic icon. Without a tall skyline, distinctive mountain backdrop or water feature, and with no recognizable structure like St. Louis’ arch or Seattle’s Space Needle, San Jose has been a city without a marketable visual identity. It has been reduced to bragging about the number of days of sunshine or population rank, its disputed status as Silicon Valley’s capital or its proximity to sexier Northern California amenities. Many people think the city’s located somewhere in Southern California. Now, three men aim to try to change that. They want to create a brandable structure that draws on the region’s history and looks to the future. They want to rebuild the light tower. As envisioned, it will be in Plaza de Cesar Chavez, two-and-a-half blocks south of the original location and . And this time it will be brighter, more colorful and properly structurally engineered. With computer controlled LED lighting effects and possibly an observation deck at the top, it would be a stunning symbol. In 2017, the city is once again ascendant, with a strong economy, a building boom and a creative urban culture coming into its own. San Jose’s transportation infrastructure and reserves of developable land have drawn the attention of technology giants like Apple and Google, as well as many startups. The technological innovation and economic activity we see today are reminiscent of the decades that followed the California’s Gold Rush and statehood, which paralleled a global explosion of innovation as electrification took hold during the Second Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century. One of electric power’s first deployments was to light public spaces. Arc technology, which relied on glowing carbon rods like the ones that spark a welder’s gun, proved a more economical way to illuminate

streets than gas lamps. A year before the tower’s celebrated debut in 1881, however, Thomas Edison established the first incandescent lamp factory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Inexpensive filament bulbs could be pole-mounted alongside roads and walkways, pretty much ending central lighting initiatives. Nonetheless, the light tower stood proudly at the intersection of Market and Santa Clara streets for 34 years, surviving the 1906 earthquake that reduced many commercial buildings to rubble. It would have remained longer had not harsh weather and rusting supports conspired to take it down. Decorated at holiday times and featured on postcards, the light tower was a tall, swinging stick on electrical engineering’s frontier, the region’s tallest structure and, some believe, the tallest free-standing iron structure in the world at the time it was built. San Jose, the valley’s commercial and intellectual hub, was Silicon Valley’s forerunner, home to three higher education institutions back when Stanford was stables and trotting tracks. The early 1880s, in particular, were years of tremendous breakthroughs in harnessing electricity’s potential. In 1880, Alexander Graham Bell made the first wireless telephone call—solar powered, no less— using a beam of light. In 1881, Werner von Siemens rolled out the first electric streetcar and the International Electrotechnical Commission established the volt measurement. The same year, Nicolai Tesla signed on as chief electrician at the Budapest Telephone Exchange, which led to the development of alternating current. George Westinghouse began commercializing Tesla’s patents in 1888 to establish the AC system that’s still in use today. In San Jose, civic booster and newspaper publisher J.J. Owens began editorializing about the need to erect a light structure in May 1881, and he managed to squeeze the city’s commercial leaders for $5, $10 and $20 donations, as well as a big check from the newly established California Electric Light Co., to fund the 237-foot structure, roughly the same height as the blue 23-story

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Wohlmut superimposed a scaled image of the Eiffel Tower on the San Jose Light Tower and was struck by how the profiles aligned. “The Eiffel Tower was, of course, 1,000 feet. Ours was 237. But, if you were to imagine standing on Market Street and you dropped the Eiffel Tower maybe a mile away, you’d see it line up. The angle and the proportions are nearly identical. Eight years later, Paris So my theory is, completed the Eiffel Tower, [Koechlin] would have more than four times as known about it,” the tall. It held the title of filmmaker says. world’s highest structure “I know that Eiffel from 1889 to 1930. Gustave wrote about reading Eiffel’s team, experienced WINNING DESIGN A stuff in La Nature, at building bridges, student competition at which also published understood the impact of a leading engineering articles about the wind on iron structures and school in Switzerland tower of ours. So I curved the vertical supports. reimagined the tower know that they were Like San Jose’s light tower, with a new profile. looking at these things. four arches connected the Engineers typically base, and engineer Maurice look at what has been Koechlin’s first Eiffel Tower done before and they figure out concept sketch shows horizontal ways to improve.” braces that tied the uprights together Wohlmut also identified in a manner like the rings that documents in the archives of Pedro strengthened the light tower. de Saisset, a prominent FrenchVideo producer Thomas Wohlmut, born businessman and landowner who’s lived Copenhagen, Paris and who lived where The Tech Museum Rome as well as Los Angeles, where of Innovation stands today. The he worked at CBS on the Mary Tyler writings connect some of the Moore and Sonny & Cher shows, saw circumstantial dots, making the similarities between the structure, case that members of the French design and proportions of the two intelligentsia and architectural towers, such as the 3:1 ratio of the community were at minimum width of base to tower height. He aware of San Jose’s accomplishment. set out to see if the local version He discovered a note from de influenced its famous European Saisset’s brother, a consultant to the contemporary, as has long been Rothschild banking family, saying, argued without definitive proof, “Thank you for sending me the including an infamous stunt lawsuit Christmas edition of the Mercury in 1990, which the French failed to News,” an issue that featured find humorous. extensive write-ups on the In two recent trips to archives light tower. on the continent, the multilingual, During one of his visits to ETH, Australian-born downtown San Jose the Swiss technology institute resident says he found “no smoking where Eiffel designer Koechlin’s gun.” But he remains convinced papers are archived, Wohlmet that the Eiffel’s designers were, at captured the imagination of minimum, aware of the San Jose professors there, who organized a example. He produces copies of student competition to design a French language newspaper clippings new light tower for Silicon Valley. from back in the day supporting his The winning concept featured theory that the California design a spiral shape, suggesting that a had garnered attention in European engineering circles. 16

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residential building that today stands at the southwest corner of the Santa Clara and South Market intersection. The light tower was built and switched on just seven months later, a feat that still amazes anyone who has ever pulled a building permit at City Hall.

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construction of a public playground that brought his employer zero profit and was ridiculously small for a firm that manages the post-9/11 renovation of the Pentagon, the world’s largest office building. The Rotary Playgarden, a $6 million park on Coleman Avenue

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that’s fully accessible to youngsters with physical limitations, opened in 2015. Part of the Guadalupe River Park, the Playgarden features custom-designed play equipment and art pieces. The initiative was seeded with private donations from members of the Rotary Club of San Jose and augmented with support from foundations, public agencies and corporations. It’s a one-of-akind public amenity that’s in a class by itself. The Rotary Playgarden, Ball says, “is as rewarding a project personally as anything I've ever done, and I’ve done much larger and more sophisticated projects. None really gave me more satisfaction.” Ball says he came up with the idea of rebuilding the light tower as he was leaving Hensel Phelps and completing the Rotary project. “Nobody approached me. It was an internal thought that I had. Looking at the smaller-scale version [of the light tower] at History Park, hearing my wife comment over the years that San Jose has no real definable architectural structures or features that would tell me this is San Jose,” he says, adding that the city has “somewhat of a nondescript skyline.” “Then our Rotary Club donated money to pay for that little 30-foot light tower that was in Christmas in the Park last year. And I thought, ‘why don't we just rebuild some version of the old light tower and create a source of pride for gatherings and light it up like a tremendous light show. It's part of the vision, with LED lights that turn teal when the Sharks do something cool and win. Red, white and blue on the Fourth of July. The possibilities are endless.” Solar panels and wind turbines could be placed on the tower, Ball adds, and lasers could be aimed at it from other parts of the park. Ball met Wohlmut through the Rotary Club of San Jose. (This writer is also one of the club’s 464 members.) The builder and the historian recruited another Rotarian, well connected restaurateur Steve Borkenhagen, who’s been part of downtown’s many fits and starts over the past 40 years as the operator of Eulipia restaurant, Cafe Stritch and the San Pedro Square Market during

its startup. The three established the San Jose Light Tower Corporation in March as a 501c3 charitable entity. On Tuesday, Aug. 8, the corporation will hold its first fundraiser at Cafe Stritch to raise money for Wohlmut’s film, “The Light Between Two Towers,’’ which documents the connections between the San Jose and Paris structures. Borkenhagen calls the tower rebuilding a “legacy initiative” that will be a gift to future generations. Wohlmut hopes the project will break new ground, and possibly include robotic movement. “Imagine a tower that changed shape every 10 minutes. That’s why it’s important to open this up to a worldwide competition, which we know we want to do,” he says. Ball adds that the new tower would be capped at “250 to 260” feet, about the height of the Fairmont Hotel and the Adobe headquarters, unless San Jose can convince airport regulators to raise the height limits for structures in the flight path, an effort currently underway. “We’d love to have an observation platform” and possibly a restaurant at the top, Ball says, though he admits it would “triple or quadruple the cost of the project” to add an elevator and staircase. He won’t quote any figures until a design is developed, but he acknowledges it will likely be in the low tens of millions. Money could be recouped through admission fees to the observation deck. Ball says the team has met with city officials and business association leaders who are cautiously enthusiastic. “We’re still in the mode that we’re trying to get everyone as excited about this as we are,” he admits. Nonetheless, as someone who oversaw the construction, renovation and demolition of terminals at San Jose International Airport, a $675 million project that included a consolidated car rental facility, flyover bridges and a parking deck clad with the “Hands” public art project, Ball is confident that a tower will rise. He projects 2020 as its target completion date. “We can get this thing done,” he says.

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DRAWN OUT A viral video shows a Campbell police officer drew his gun on a man for 10 minutes, and some commenters believe he obscured his body camera.

Campbell PD Defends Cop Who Drew Gun on Motorist BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Video of a Campbell cop holding a driver and passenger at gunpoint for nearly 10 minutes last week has gone viral, generating nearly a million views and more than 10,000 comments on Facebook. The clip, recorded by the female driver, shows the officer aiming his weapon at a male passenger, who keeps his hands in view of the camera. But the footage doesn’t show what preceded the traffic stop on Highway 101 or how it ended, Campbell Police Department spokesman Capt. Gary Berg told San Jose Inside. “There is more to the story,” he said. In a statement posted online Monday, Berg detailed the agency’s version of events based on a review of the officer’s body camera. On July 28, a Campbell motorcycle cop driving north through Hollister reportedly saw a car zip by in the far-right lane at 85 mph. The officer stopped the vehicle “out of safety concerns,” Berg said.

In the five minutes before the start of the Facebook video, Berg said, there was “a cordial conversation” between the cop and the two people in the car. According to the statement, the officer explained why he stopped them and asked to see some documentation. Both the driver and passenger spent several minutes rifling through the car for the requested paperwork, Berg wrote in his narrative. The officer then told them to wait in the vehicle as he wrote up a citation. That’s when the passenger allegedly reached under his seat. “Unfortunately, the passenger’s unexpected movement towards the bottom of the seat caused the officer to perceive a threat and draw his handgun,” Berg stated. The video picks it up from there. Ultimately, the driver was cited for speeding and the passenger for wearing his seatbelt improperly. The video drew mixed reactions,

prompting comparisons to other traffic stops caught on camera that— unlike this one—ended with police killing unarmed civilians. Berg told San Jose Inside that this is the first time Campbell’s police department has had to deal with a viral video involving one of its officers. Top brass is considering whether to release the body camera footage, which Berg said captured the entire incident—despite the officer’s gun and hands appearing to obscure the camera. But Campbell police won’t release the name or other identifying information about the officer, other than that he’s a veteran on the force, because the video prompted death threats. Nothing in the body camera footage or Facebook video indicates that the officer violated policy, Berg said. The encounter is, however, being investigated. The driver and passenger have yet to respond to requests for comment.

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San Jose is taking heat over its crackdown on illegal fireworks. According to a handful of Blossom Hill residents, the city slapped them with $500 citations with no proof that they did anything wrong. The fines stem from the city’s online reporting system, which allows anyone to complain and apparently requires little in the way of evidence. By mid-July, the system, run by the San Jose Fire Department, had generated 1,076 complaints that resulted in 161 warning letters and 45 citations. City officials declined to state how many were based on hearsay, but residents who want to contest their citation will have to pay up before they can appeal. “There is a due process issue here,” City attorney Rick Doyle admitted. The City Council will revisit its fireworks enforcement policy when it meets next week.

Water District Sticks with CEO The Santa Clara Valley Water District’s national search for a new chief netted an empty catch, so the agency in charge of South Bay flood control and drinking water stuck with a familiar face. Norma Camacho, the interim CEO since March 2016, will assume the role on a permanent basis after a split vote last week by the district’s board of directors. The decision, still to be finalized, was made after the board conducted two rounds of interviews with final candidates. In a statement, John Varela, board chair, lauded Camacho’s “ability to lead this complex organization through major challenges in reducing flood risks, providing a reliable water supply and protecting our watersheds.” The news release made no mention of the February flood in San Jose that caused more than $100 million in property damage, displaced hundreds of residents and might have been preventable had the district looked at installing low-tech pumps at Anderson Dam. —Josh Koehn

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THE CADILLAC THREE Wed, 7pm, $15 Club Rodeo, San Jose

The Cadillac Three are a Southern rock coalescence of three childhood friends with a knack for sentimentality while also keeping their country cool. Singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston, drummer Neil Mason and lapsteel player Kelby Ray released their first full-length album for Big Machine Records in 2016 and the long-haired trio have more in store come August, when they release their newest project, titled Legacy. It’s an appropriate name considering the band’s rise from Nashville garage band to headlining shows in the U.K. They’re currently in the midst of a U.S. tour. (CM)

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UNSANE

Thu, 7pm, $35+ Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

Thu, 8pm, $10+ The Ritz, San Jose

Veteran comedian and car enthusiast Jay Leno spent 17 years at the helm of America’s flagship late-night television talk show. After passing the mic to successor Jimmy Fallon in 2013, Leno has been active as a touring standup comedian, appearing in about 200 live performances a year across the U.S. and Canada. The former Tonight Show host, who will be serving up laughs to a local crowd this Thursday, is bringing his prominent jaw line to the intimate Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre. (CM)

A behemoth on New York’s noisemetal scene, Unsane have been producing stark, aggressive music for 20 years. Guitarist-frontman Chris Spencer, whose distorted yelps remain a trademark of Unsane’s sound, moved to the Lower East Side with his bandmates in the late ’80s. The group’s self-titled debut album shocked fans and critics alike in 1991 with its gruesome cover—a decapitated man in a New York City subway. Since then, bloody cover art and sonic chaos have remained a constant, earning Unsane a cult following around the globe. (CM)

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Things are still up in the air when it comes to The Echo Mountain Boys, a young bluegrass trio that released their first album in May. All we know for certain is that a banjoist, guitarist and demonologist bassist have vowed to dismiss worldly concerns and play music instead. The result is Demos—a three-song set of fast-paced fiddling and quick country vocals that attest to their old-time talent. This acoustic spasm of American roots music is coming live, with guest artist Nomad on the solo guitar. (CM)

The longest-running touring music festival in North America, the Vans Warped Tour, is returning to Shoreline with its annual dose of punk, metal, hardcore, screamo and a sprinkling of electronic and hip-hop. American Authors, a four piece New York band best known for their hit singles "Believer" and "Best Day of My Life" will be there, along with post-hardcore band Silverstein and Christian metal band blessthefall. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Veteran acts, including Sick of it All, Strung Out, Adolescents and Hatebreed are also on the bill. (CM)

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SANGO

Aug 10 at The Ritz

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Aug 11 at Montalvo Arts Center

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KENDRICK LAMAR

Aug 12 at SAP Center

WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY

Aug 15 at The Mountain Winery

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Aug 16 at City National Civic

INCUBUS

Aug 16 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

ONE MORE TIME

Aug 17 at The Ritz

CHICK COREA ELEKTRIC BAND Aug 19 at The Mountain Winery

MELVINS

Aug 20 at The Ritz

DIERKS BENTLEY

Aug 20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

KINGS OF LEON

Aug 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

TOXIC SUMMER Fri, 7pm, $47+ City National Civic, San Jose It’s time to get filthy again with a cadre of artists enlisted by Wobbleland to shake you to your very core. Los Angeles dubstep head 12th Planet will be headlining the first night, where he will most likely play tracks from his most recent release, last December’s Gully Squad. Rounding out the second night is British producer Funtcase, who returns to the Toxic Summer stage after headlining back in the event’s first year. The two are joined by an onslaught of dubstep and drum & bass artists ready to fill two nights with sleek production and some roomshaking wubs and wobs. (YK)

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RODRIGO Y GABRIELA

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Fri, 7:30pm, $49.50 The Mountain Winery, Saratoga

Sat, 7pm, Free St. James Park, San Jose

Famed guitarists and songwriting duo Rodrigo y Gabriela have been doing this for awhile. Across their 17-year career the rock and new flamenco players have released five studio albums, performed at countless festivals and even played a set for Barack Obama during his presidency. Their selftitled sophomore LP was just rereleased with a pair of unreleased tracks. So the two will likely draw from that for much of the show. The album includes well-known renditions of “Orion” and “Stairway to Heaven,” by Metallica and Led Zeppelin respectively. They will be joined by singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur. (YK)

Generations before the fantastical cast of characters from the Harry Potter series captured the imagination of America, the British were worming their way into our collective consciousness through rock & roll. From The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Kinks on to Oasis, Blur and Pulp, our allies across the pond have been exporting amazing tunes for more than half a century. Few appreciate these blokes more than Silicon Valley songwriter David Brookings, who will perform a set of Britpop covers before an outdoor screening of Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone on Saturday night. (NV)

EL DUSTY Sun, 7pm, $5 The Ritz, San Jose

Latin Grammy-nominated DJ Dusty’s trap inventions are a tribute to life on the Southern Texas border where Latin music history and the infinity of MPC sampling collide. The producer's bass-heavy dance music is a tropical soup of Tejano classics, Chicano soul music, classic rock, and hip-hop that beckons to his roots in the coastal city of Corpus Christi, Texas. A pioneer of the cumbia electronica genre, Dusty is all about mixing up samples and people, often collaborating with Latin artists across the globe. In 2015, he was hailed as one of Rolling Stone’s “10 New Artists You Need To Know.” (CM)

KAMASI WASHINGTON

Aug 25 at Mountain Winery

ZZ TOP & THE DOOBIE BROTHERS Aug 29 at Mountain Winery

COM TRUISE & NOSAJ THING Aug 31 at The Ritz

THE GROWLERS Sep 6 at The Ritz

THE LOVEMAKERS Sep 9 at The Ritz

THE GIPSY KINGS

Sep 10 at Mountain Winery

TROYBOI

Sep 16 at City National Civic

DEPECHE MODE

Oct 8 at SAP Center

THRICE & CIRCA SURVIVE

Sep 16 at City National Civic

KATY PERRY

Nov 14 at SAP Center

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Aug 6 at The Mountain Winery

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Stage Fight BACK FOR ‘CHRISTMAS’ After many setbacks, the flood-damaged Northside Theatre says it will be back for its annual staging of ‘A Christmas Carol.’

After floods, the Northside Theatre sees light at end of wet tunnel BY TAD MALONE

f you think you’ve had a bad year, San Jose’s Northside Theatre Company has you beat.

When the Anderson Reservoir spilled over this past winter, many San Jose neighborhoods found themselves at the mercy of the elements. After two weeks of heavy rain in late February, waters in Coyote Creek reached a critical level, and entire San Jose neighborhoods were flooded. All told, more than 14,000 residents were forced to evacuate their homes in a disaster that cost nearly $100 million in damage. One of the victims was the Olinder Community Center, home to the Northside Theatre Company since

1980. Like most theater companies, Northside started its year planning a season’s worth of performances, capped by its annual holiday production of “A Christmas Carol”— something it has put on annually since opening. But with flood damage to the community center, Northside Theatre Company had to move some shows, and cancel the rest of its season. Its only hope was to get back into business in time for “A Christmas Carol.” San Jose’s Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services was in charge of cleanup and recovery. On April 17, Northside was told the theater could reopen on June 30, which would have even given it time for a fall season opener. “The first estimation was several weeks. But as [Parks and Rec] looked into it further, it looked like it was going to take longer and longer periods

of time”, says the theater’s artistic director, Meredith King. Although the theater passed an abatement test in late May, the damage from the flood was greater than previously expected— calling into question the date set by Parks & Rec in April. Another obstacle was the involvement of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which has criteria for local governments to comply with in order to recoup monetary losses in event of disaster and subsequent cleanup. “The first I heard that FEMA was involved was at a meeting that happened on June 13,” says King about the next delay. King was informed that the original date was a mistake, and realistically it would take 18-24 weeks for full repairs, meaning Northside wouldn’t be back in time to stage its longest-running show. “We were told June 30. We made plans based on those dates, and then that turned out not to be true”, King says, chuckling ruefully. “It was, as you can imagine, startling to find that out.” Two weeks later, when all hope seemed to be lost, the city changed its

tune again, telling King that, in fact, the theatre company would be able to open on Sept. 30. That would leave enough time to put on “A Christmas Carol.” In order to make sure that deadline was met, the city’s Public Works Department joined Parks and Rec in the effort. It should also be noted during that period, fans of the company took to social media to voice their complaints. Either way, this was the most confident King felt during the whole process. So, for now, “A Christmas Carol”—and thus, Northside’s key source of revenue—is back on the calendar. As a private business, the Northside Theatre Company has been entangled in red tape. Coordinating between private, local and federal agencies can be a topsy-turvy mess, especially during recovery from the largest flood for San Jose in more than a century. Moreover, the process for responding to a disaster of this magnitude requires complex maneuvers from the city that often take time. “To rebuild the Northside Theatre, we have to make sure we follow the proper process in order to be reimbursed by the federal government,” says Matt Cano, assistant director of parks, neighborhood and recreational services. The flood marked the first time the city has worked with FEMA on a such a massive scale. And It wasn’t until last weekend that the city got final advice on how to move forward. “The Northside Theatre has been at the top of our list for some time,” Cano continues, adding, “There is just a lot of work to recover from the flood. Dealing with a lot of projects, as well as FEMA, takes time, and it’s complicated.” Call it a bit of good timing, but it looks like the latest announcement will be final. The Northside Theatre Company will re-open Sept. 30. “I’m cautiously optimistic,” says King about the newest and firmest date. “I think it’s going to work out. I really won’t be relaxed until I walk into the building again. But at least I know the city is working on it.”

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Raymónd McCarthy as Jack, and Johannes de Quant as Roger in ‘Lord of the Flies.’

The Beasts Within TEN YOUNG MEN—angry, lost and scared—shed their polished upbringing and descend into tribalist violence in the Pear Theatre’s production of Lord of the Flies. Based on the novel by Nobel Prizewinning author William Golding and adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams, the play faithfully translates the tale about the tenuous line separating civilization from chaos. Featuring a cast of aspiring young actors from a variety of Bay Area junior high and high schools, the play is presented by the Palo Alto-based youth theater company, A Theatre Near U, in Lord of the Flies cooperation with the Pear in Mountain View. Just as in the novel, the play follows the plight of a small group of schoolboys marooned on an unpopulated island somewhere in the Pacific. Though the group attempts to work together at first, factions soon form and the children fight among themselves as they struggle to survive and find rescue.

Thru Aug 5, $20+ Pear Theatre, Mountain View

An allegorical tale first published in the U.K. in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding’s response to the rise of Hitler, and feels particularly relevant in today’s fractious political climate. “It is easier than we think to fall into meanness,” says Tanna Herr, co-founder of A Theatre Near U. As the group cleaves in two, opposing leaders emerge. Ralph—played by Jackson Wylder, an incoming Columbia University freshman from Palo Alto—is the first to take charge and attempts to organize the boys around a few focused objectives: surviving, keeping a signal fire lit and having fun. Jack, the play’s antagonist, is played by Saratoga native Raymónd McCarthy, a rising freshman at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. The set is minimal yet efficient. Platforms constructed from wood beams stand in for the island’s craggy peak, while the gray-chalked floorboards and ever-changing backdrop set the tones for a beach atmosphere. This was aided by the cast’s ability to believably gaze into the ocean or crawl through mountainous vegetation. The boys carried the show without missing a beat. The dialogue exchange flowed naturally even though there were often 10 boys on stage at once. —Payje Redmond & Nick Veronin

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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Rise Against NIGHT SHIFT John Boyega plays Melvin Dismukes, a real-life former security guard who played a role in the Algiers Motel incident during the Detroit riots.

Kathryn Bigelow explores language of the unheard with ‘Detroit’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

OTH COMMEMORATIVE and zeitgeist-filled, Detroit is the angriest movie Kathryn Bigelow has ever made. Although she deserves the praise she got for The Hurt Locker, in Detroit, she reverses Zero Dark Thirty’s coziness with “enhanced interrogation.” An animated sequence describes the black diaspora to the north that made Detroit what it was by 1967—a company town with strictly delineated African-American ghettos, patrolled by a 90 percent white police force. By the opening, before the rebellion begins, we’re completely on the side

of the rebels. The cops raid an illegal after-hours club, but they can’t get in through the chained-up back door, and have to roust the suspects out on the street. There are a lot more celebrants inside than they expected, and the cops lose control. The tempo increases, in incidents caught by camerawork meant to recall Arriflex camera work: we see a face in the crowd, smoking a cigarette and sizing the cops up fearlessly, a joker yelling at a friend he sees being hauled out in handcuffs: “Hey, you alcoholic…” And then the Molotov cocktails start to fly. After this carnival, we meet a main character, Melvin Dismukes (John Boyega) who is about to start his 17th hour of work, moonlighting as a security guard. Boyega is big, intensely restrained, and looks like a peacemaker—we can follow his

presence through the chaos to come. Bigelow’s trick on us is that no matter what Dismukes looks like, he’s unable to stop the trouble he witnesses. Meanwhile Larry (Algee Smith) and Fred (Jacob Lattimore) of the real-life band The Dramatics meet backstage for a big show at the Fox Theater— The Supremes (or a lookalike group) are opening for them, or would be if the show weren’t canceled. Avoiding the patrols, Larry and Fred duck into a nearby hot-sheet motel. The sight of the neon Algiers Motel sign makes the long-memoried viewer’s stomach turn over. The Algiers Motel incident—the New Yorker’s John Hersey did a book on it—is still officially unsolved. As presented here, what happens is like a long home invasion. Will Poulter plays Krauss, the inept patrolman in charge, a fictional composite. Poulter has the serpentine eyebrows of Jack Nicholson—he could play the young Michael Keaton, too—and he brings a surprise to every scene. Playing a dedicated ethnic-hater, actors usually go big.

The fear on this callow fool’s face is barely concealed. Detroit gets caught up in its ordeal of beating, mock executions and ultimate murder—at half the length, it would have had twice the power. Bigelow proceeds the overnight ordeal with an unusually fun sequence. Two visiting Ohio girls (Hannah Murray and Kaitlyn Deaver) tease the musicians over to the motel’s annex. Here, as in the beginning, we see the headiness of life during a civil insurrection, seen from what seems like a safe place, a swimming pool with beerdrinkers enjoying themselves. Then, at an after party, some more drinking, some yakking about John Coltrane. The fun ends when Carl (Jason Mitchell), who gets tired of the strangers in his room, plays a stupid practical joke. He’s trying to make a point about how white people don’t understand the ambient fear black people live in: “I’m just acting,” he smirks at the end. Yes, and you’ve been caught acting by the audience, even before you admitted it. Liberal wishy-washiness is evident in this otherwise startlingly intense film. Bigelow insists there were good apples on the DPD. One rescues a bloodied escapee from the Algiers Motel. And there is a police detective, Tanchuck (Darren Goldstein), who has the spine to call Krauss “a racist fuck.” How likely is that, given the time and the place? Bigelow is no political sophisticate. Her emphasis on conflict over everything is what made Aliens the most gung-ho movie about the Marines since Raoul Walsh died. But this is one of her best films, and an ornament to this year’s cinema, as exciting a year as we’ve had in ages. Detroit matches in intent Get Out, the Ferguson, Missouri, documentary Whose Streets? and Justin Chon’s drama Gook about the 1992 L.A. riots. She balances her startling force with sensitivity and sensuality. It’s said you can never make an anti-war movie, that some of the thrill of battle will leak into even the most pacifistic film. Give Bigelow credit—this certainly isn’t an anti-rebellion movie.

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(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 Aug 2 in various valley theaters. FathomEvents.com (RvB)

THREE ON A MATCH/ FIVE STAR FINAL

(1932/1931) Three girls who were fellow students at P.S. 62 go their separate ways: Mary (Joan Blondell) ends up in reform school; Bette Davis becomes a secretary, and Vivian (Ann Dvorak), the ritziest of the three, marries well but sickens of the rich life. She ditches her silkhatted husband (Warren William, not usually this boring) in favor of strong drink and weak men. It's Dvorak's picture. Her throaty voice, her awkward but forceful acting has something juicy that smoother actors lack. Humphrey Bogart has a small part as the kind of stolid, staring gunman he'd later be mocking, right before punching them out. Did Bogart learn the toast "Here's looking at you" from this movie? BILLED WITH Five Star Final. Edward G. Robinson as a tabloid newspaper editor who destroys lives as he tries to open up a cold murder case. (Plays Aug 8-9 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

TRUE WEST

(1984) The hard to find videotaped version of the late Sam Shepard’s menacing comedy, sliced into tenths and semi-legal—if that. This is a play that defends itself against the most unready actors, but here’s the definitive cast: Gary Sinise (who directed it on stage) and John Malkovich, proving himself the most interesting actor since Brando in this early key

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role. Austin (Sinise) is a nervous, dweeby aspiring scriptwriter; his wayward brother Lee (Malkovich) is a burglar and a hustler, teasing and outwitting Austin, forcing his way into partnership on the script Austin is trying to write. Sinise has since become a mighty character actor. Here, he’s the straight man to the mesmerizing Malkovich, with his flirty, finicky diction. The cracked, folksy voice is like a maximum security prison version of Gabby Hayes: “What kind of people kill each other the most? Family people.” Perhaps it has its resonance because it’s about the division between the way working class artists are raised and the way they end up. Shepard expressed that strife perfectly in creating these two brothers who are basically one person: the snakecollecting criminal kid fiendishly taunting the phony, smug Ivy League high-and-mighty writer. (YouTube) (RvB)

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY/A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

(1942/1935) So much better than it sounds from the title. Let its star sum the film up: “one song and dance man saluting another.” It’s about show-business in the old style. In dull rural retirement, patriotic songsmith George M. Cohan (James Cagney) is lured out to rouse the nation he once stirred up with his tunes. In flashback we see his climb to the top, and the era in which he had almost a dozen shows playing on Broadway at the same time. Cagney, who described YDD as his favorite picture, thought that the staging of title tune was under-rehearsed. One could just as easily call it fresh and unpolished, seeing the stiff-legged Irish dance and the almost-recited lyrics to make sure the vaudeville crowd doesn’t miss a word. Maybe it’s a simple-minded song, but it’s like hearing it for the first time. BILLED WITH A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Warner Bros.’ dash for class meant hiring Max Reinhardt, whose stage spectacles made him one of the biggest names in the German theater. The production is quaint, hit and miss, but there are always worthy moments: the studio’s best clowns (Hugh Herbert and Joe E. Ross) as the theatrical bumpkins; the ever-peppy Dick Powell as Lysander, and the prettiest Hermia you’d ever see, a not-yet 20-year-old Olivia de Havilland. James Cagney is a brash, endearing Bottom, whose brio compliments everyone’s favorite Shakespeare play. (Plays Aug 5-7 in Palo Alto.) (RvB)

BOND GIRL Charlize Theron plays a super spy in ‘Atomic Blonde.’ Viewers v will have to decide if the film deserves its Bond comparisons.

‘Blonde’ Ambition WATCH EVERYONE CELEBRATE Atomic Blonde’s Lorraine Broughton (star and co-producer Charlize Theron) as the new Bond, and despair at how little attention people really pay to the Bond films. It’s not just all about assassinations and the beatdowns, yes? This vicious, contorted spy film is without the smoother qualities of a Bond flick, movies made for an audience that accepts the old movie euphemisms for sex and violence. Stuntman turned director David Leith (John Wick) begins on a realistic note. Lorraine is one big hematoma, soaking in a tub full of ice cubes like a football player. It’s as much of a display of Theron’s bruised nude body, as the establishment of a motif of crystal, ice and clear booze coursing into rock glasses, over the kind of fist-sized ice cubes generally not seen in Europe, 1989. Smokers are shot to look like steam is coming out of their mouths. Except for a few fire-engine red scenes signifying a greater passion than Theron cares to match, everything looks like it was filmed in a walk-in refrigerator and scored with endless needle drops of ‘80s pop. The frame is a debriefing at MI-6, where Lorraine’s narration starts to get unreliable, Usual Suspects style. Her auditors

are CIA beardo John Goodman and Toby Jones—the face of British unwellness—as her immediate superior. She’s survived a mess in East Berlin, where she went to investigate the assassination of a colleague. Her contact is an out-of-bounds station head (James McAvoy in an ugly tank top, saying things like, “Berlin is Atomic Blonde a cruel mistress.”). At the bottom of it all is R; 115 Mins. a roster of agents that Valleywide both Western Europeans and the commies would, and do, kill to get. The love interest is Sofia Boutella as a lamblike French spy; she and Lorraine mix it up in a highly speculative way of how two ladies would get it on. The much-noted staircase fight, seemingly shot in one long take, is a genuine technical feat. Eddie Marsan gives the film some humanity as a Stasi defector. And there’s yet another fight scene at a renowned brutalist movie theater in East Berlin, the Kino International—it’s playing everyone’s favorite avant-garde jawbreaker, Tarkovsky’s Stalker. The theater is one of the few European locations we’re actually permitted to look at. —Richard von Busack

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The AV Club VICE SQUAD Bay Area genre-benders Le VICE are getting ambitious with their forthcoming visual EP.

SF-based Le VICE detail ambitious new visual EP, ‘Boys and Girls’ BY YOUSIF KASSAB

ISUAL ALBUMS CAN be unforgiving. They generally take an exponential amount of time and effort to create compared with their audioonly counterparts. And with the exception of Prince’s Purple Rain and Beyonce’s Lemonade, few such efforts have succeeded in pulling in viewers beyond an artist’s core fanbase.

Even Endless, Frank Ocean’s masterful visual album that materialized from a series of

mysterious streams last summer, had fans downloading illegal rips of the album to separate it from the video component. San Francisco hip-hop and pop outfit Le VICE aren’t concerned with all that. According to producer and bassist Sean Stillinger, their upcoming five-track project Boys and Girls began taking shape as a visual album early on. “There was a little songwriting stint we had where we wrote about 25 songs and there were these five that we thought were strongest and worked best together,” Stillinger says over the phone. Currently in the mixing and colorcorrection stage, the album is almost done. Boys and Girls should be out by the end of 2017, according to Le VICE. The project itself is made up of live

performance footage in combination with an original narrative. Founding member and front woman Alex Lee says it’s been a long time coming. “We’ve been working on the visual aspect for almost a year,” she says. “It’s partially a real-live performance we filmed, and then we made a story around that moment.” All of the video production for Boys and Girls is being handled by Berkeley-based The Clock Factory. The visuals aren’t the only thing that set this EP apart from the group’s last album, 2013’s The Payoff. Stillinger says this time he and Lee put together every part of the music in tandem. ”The process is always evolving, but with The Payoff it was me doing the production with the band and Alex writing the melodies and lyrics,” Stillinger says. “But for the stuff we have now, me and Alex wrote the songs together on the guitar first. Words, melody and everything were created together.”

This synergistic creative process is apparent when watching the trailer for Boys and Girls’ title track; all the pieces blend and work together seamlessly. A synthesized organ melody sets the stage before Lee’s vocals come in. The melodic thread of synths starts to fray and fan out before snapping back into their original form with Lee in the middle of it all. Although she’s singing here, Lee’s vocals usually split the difference between rapping and singing, and she’s pretty good at both. “Find You,” the second track from their last album, has Lee rapping over a backdrop of tightly picked guitar riffs, then shifting into double time before slowing everything down to sing the chorus. The bridge comes in about halfway through and sees Lee easing into a spoken-word delivery before the song ramps up to its climax. Asked about what influenced them most when writing this new album, Lee answered Yeezus by Kanye West and Stillinger came back with Rumours from Fleetwood Mac. It makes sense that the two answers would be so disparate considering all of the genrebending going on in Le VICE’s music. Though they are now based in San Francisco, the two founding members actually got their start back in Monterey when Stillinger was playing with bands in the area and Lee was putting out her first solo project. Lee says Le VICE have always been influenced by the Bay Area’s diverse music scene. Their first EP, Neverland, even had a feature from the hyphy movement’s own Mistah F.A.B. “This is our home,” Lee says of the Bay Area. “I live in S.F. and Sean lives in Oakland. And even back then this was always the closest metropolitan area, this is where we got a lot of our inspiration.” San Jose fans will likely get the chance to hear the upcoming project in full when the group comes to Art Boutiki this Saturday. The bill will be rounded out by veteran South Bay alt rockers Picture Atlantic and Oakland singer-songwriter Emily Brown.

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ART BOUTIKI Sat, Aug 5, 7:30pm: Picture Atlantic, le VICE, Emily Brown. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sun, Aug 6, 6:30pm: Katie Kilcullen, Jenney Zhang. 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.

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JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Sat, Aug 4, 5:30pm: Phil ‘n the Blanks. Sat, Aug 5, 5:30pm: The Emphatics. Sat, Aug 11, 5:30pm: The Shanks. Sat, Aug 12, 5:30pm: Chain of Fools. Mon, Aug 21, 7pm: Cocktail Classes Vodka. 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.

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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.

REDWOOD CITY COURTHOUSE SQUARE

Every Mon: Tooth and Nail DJ Night. Every first Tue of the month 9:30 pm: Not So Trivial Tuesday Rock DJ Set. San Jose.

Fri, Aug 4, 6pm: Moustache Harbor. Redwood City.

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Wed, Aug 2, Johnny Neri. Sat, Aug 4, Fishhook. Los Gatos.

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

Thu, Aug 3, 8pm: Unsane, Fashion Week. Fri, Aug 4, 8pm: Dead Man’s Party. Sat, Aug 5, 8pm: Strangelove, Beatbox At Dawn, MC Radioactive. San Jose.

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Sun, Aug 5, 2pm: PS3. San Jose.

Every Fri & Sat: Live Music & DJs. Los Gatos.

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MOUNTAIN WINERY Wed, Aug 2, 7:30pm: Diana Krall. Thu, Aug 3, 7:30pm: Morris Day and the Time. Tue, Aug 8, 7:30pm: Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald. Saratoga.

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

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Fri, Aug 4, 11am: Vans Warped Tour: CKY, Sick Of It All, Municipal Waste, the Adolescents, Strung Out,T.S.O.L, Anti-FLAG, Hatebreed and more. Mountain View.

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

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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.

6 ABBA the Concert 8 Boz Scaggs / Michael McDonald 9 Jake Owen with

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22 St. Paul & The Broken Bones / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave 23 Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo / TOTO 25 Kamasi Washington 26 Lake Street Dive Bhi Bhiman

27 Dwight Yoakam

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28 YES 13 Jill Scott Jon Anderson, Trevor 16 Gregory Alan Isokov / Rabin & Rick Wakeman Blind Pilot

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Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson. Thu, Aug 3, 7:30pm: D. Marie & The House Cats. Fri, Aug 4, 8:30pm: Tribal Blues Band. Sat, Aug 5, 8:30pm: Henry James. Redwood City.

SEPTEMBER 2 Lost 80’s Live Tony Hadley, Cutting Crew, Wang Chung, Berlin, The Flirts, Naked Eyes, Missing Persons, The Motels, Pretty Poison 3 I Love the 90’s Tour Salt n Pepa / Color Me Badd / O-Town / Young MC 5 Steve Winwood featuring

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

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BLUE NOTE LOUNGE Every Tue, 8:30pm: Live Blues Jam. Every Fri, 8:30pm: Oldies. Every 3rd Sat: Old School Night with DJ G. Milpitas.

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18 The Fab Four The Ultimate Tribute 19 The Chick Corea Elektric Band / Bela Fleck and The Flecktones

Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. Thu-Sun, Aug 3-6: The Fifth Annual Rahsaanathon. San Jose.

CAFE PINK HOUSE Every Sat, 2pm-3:30pm: Saturday Live Music Hangout. Saratoga.

7 George Benson / Kenny G Breezin & Breathless Tour

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8 Indigo Girls 9 Ron White 20 Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home “Love 10 The Gipsy Kings and Comedy” Show Nicolas Reyes

CAFFE FRASCATI Every Tue, 7pm: Open Mic Night. Every Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. First Saturday of the Month, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. First Friday of the month, 8pm: Art Walk and Caffe Frascati Opera Night. San Jose.

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SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Fri, Aug 4, 7pm: Tebo’s Howlin’ Wolf Revue. Sat, Aug 5, 7pm: Jackie Turner. San Jose.

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrara (jazz). Thu, Aug 3, Hipshake. Sat, Aug 5, Lencat. Los Gatos.

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

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

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

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

MOROCCO’S Every Tue, 4pm: Live Acoustic Music. Every Wed and Fri, 7pm and Sat, 8:30pm: Belly dancing. Every Sunday: Special Dinner Shows. Mountain View.

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SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Aug 4: Johnny Rawls. Sat, Aug 5: Sumac’s Soul Heaven Band. Fremont.

ST. STEPHENS GREEN Every Thu, Fri, Sat, 10pm: DJ Dance Nights. Mountain View.

C&W/Folk ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, Oct 7, 8pm: County Line Trio. Redwood City.

MISSION PIZZA Every Thu from 7-9pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Every First Fri, 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.

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IMPROV Thu, Aug 3, 8pm: Gene Pompa. Fri-Sun, Aug 4-6, 7pm, 7:30pm: Paul Rodriguez. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO 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.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Thu, Aug 3-6, 8pm: Michelle Wolf. Sunnyvale.

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Every Mon, 7pm: Open Mic Night. Fri, Aug 4, 8pm: The Echo Mountain Boys, Nomad. Sat, Aug 5, 8pm: Craig Marker, Brad Sanzenbacher. Mountain View.

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

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

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.

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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. Open Mic/Comedy

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

Fri, 8pm, Sat, 7pm and 9:15pm: Comedy Sportz. San Jose.

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Every Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale. Every Wed night: J.C. Smith Jam. Los Gatos.

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Every Wed, 9pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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

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

BLUE MAX Fri: Karaoke Fridays. Sunnyvale.

BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 8pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.

BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Every Wed, 10pm: Karaoke w/DJ

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I’m in recovery, and my best friend and I have sleepovers every few months. She’s come over drunk and/or high on pot the past few times. It’s not that it’s triggering for me; she’s just annoying and not herself when she’s loaded. How do I ask her to not come over trashed?—Sober Though you know what you need to tell her—don’t come over trashed—you’re probably being tripped up by something I wrote about recently: how women evolved to be the confrontation-avoiders of our species, probably to protect their ability to have and care for children. In 1990, developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby reviewed the research on sex differences in communication and found what researchers continue to see today: A major goal of girls’ (and women’s) speech is “to be ‘nice’ and sustain social relationships,” while for males, “the agenda is more often the single one of self-assertion.” Though being direct may not be

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ENGINEERING Lumileds LLC has the following job opportunity available in San Jose, CA: Circuit Design Technical Program Lead (YQ-CA) – Provide technical leadership for electronics development activities within the Lumileds Matrix Platform. Travel required (domestic and international) up to 25% of time. Travel expenses covered by employer. Submit resume by mail to: Lumileds LLC, 370 West Trimble Road, San Jose, CA 95131, Attn: HR Manager. Must reference job title and job code (YQ-CA).

SOFTWARE DVLPRS Western Digital Fremont, LLC. has opptys in Fremont, CA for Sr. Staff Engrs, Data Mgmt. Resp to work w/ Data Govern Dir to drive data quality prgrm into the bus. Mail resume to Attn: HR, 951 SanDisk Dr, MS:HRGM, Milpitas, CA 95035, Ref #FREPMA. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE

Electr Engrs Western Digital Fremont, LLC. has opptys in Fremont, CA for Staff Engrs. Knwldg of Machine Learning reqd. Mail resume to Attn: HR, 951 SanDisk Dr, MS:HRGM, Milpitas, CA 95035, Ref #FREPQU. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE

Engineering. Various levels of experience. Logitech, Inc. has multiple openings in Newark, CA: Senior Design Technologist (SDT-JM), Develop software for prototypes &production code. Work with design team to build user interface for software applications. Technical Lead, Web Development (TLWD-DS), Lead front-end development efforts on the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform. Mail resume to Logitech, Inc., AH/Human Resources, 7700 Gateway Blvd., Newark, CA 94560. Must reference job code

Bidgely, Inc. seeks IT Customer Success Project Managers (Job Code: SPM) in Mountain View, CA. Mnge multi Agile basd projcts simultaneously; Trak projctschdule, milestnes & delvrabls closely to ensure succes; Communicte w/custmers & external stakeholdrs to asses current/future biz needs &priorities; Collaborat w/ var teams internally to communicte custmerreqmnts, issues & projct timelines; Trak prodct bugs & enhancmnts;Gather & present data driven prjct success metrics; Identfy projctrisks & risk mitigatn strateges; & Engage Projct Mngmnt best practicesto mnge & excute WBS of var projcts. Resumes w/ Job Code – HR, 110Pioneer Way, STE G, Mountain View, CA 94041. Details: www.bidgely.com.

SOFTWARE DVLPRS HGST, Inc. has opptys in San Jose, CA for S/W Quality Engrs - Principal. Resp to participate in debugging of S/W & sys issues. Mail resume to Attn: HR, 951 SanDisk Dr, MS:HRGM, Milpitas, CA 95035, Ref #SJSMO. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE

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ENGINEERING/ TECHNOLOGY LSI Corporation, an Avago Technologies Company, developer of analog, digital, and mixed signal components and subsystems, has openings in San Jose, CA for R&D Engineer IC Design (DE20): Provide physical layout of chip-level IO rings, power grids, and pad/bump patterns for networking IC designs; R&D Engineer IC Design (DE21): Work with LSI’s internal engineering design groups and external customers through all steps of chip design. Ref job code and mail resume to LSI, Attn: MS AD-303 HR G.S., 1320 Ridder Park Dr., San Jose, CA 95131.

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Software Engineer at GoDaddy.com, LLC in Sunnyvale, CA will participate in building next generation products to help small businesses get online. Reqs Master’s deg in Comp Sci & Engg or a related field plus 6 mos of software dvlpmt exp. Will also accept a Bach’s deg in Comp Sci & Engg or a related field plus 3 yrs of progressive software dvlpmt exp. 6 mos of exp must incl 6 mos of exp in each of the following: at least one modern language (Javascript, Ruby, Python, Java, or C#); Dvlpmt Frameworks (Node.JS, Spring, Struts, Express.JS, backbone, Ember, or AngularJS); Unit & Automated Testing Frameworks (Junit or Mocha); Databases & Data Modeling (both Relational & NoSQL); Object Oriented dvlpmt; Foundational Comp Sci concepts (algorithms, data structures, & networking); & Agile methodology. Will accept any suitable combo of edu, training, or exp. Send resume to nbetayeb@godaddy.com. Ref 1047 in subject line.

Electr Engrs Western Digital Technologies, Inc. has an oppty in Milpitas, CA for a Staff Engr. Resp to interface w/dsgn, process, test & reliability engrng to solve problems. Mail resume to Attn: HR, 951 SanDisk Dr, MS:HRGM, Milpitas, CA 95035, Ref #MILYKR. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE

Mtrls Sci WD Media, LLC has opptys in San Jose, CA for Staff Engrs. Exp w/Novel Magnetic Mrtls reqd. Mail resume to Attn: HR, 951 SanDisk Dr, MS:HRGM, Milpitas, CA 95035, Ref #SJHHO. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE

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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 Software Engineer QA in Santa Clara, CA (Ref. #HPECCLAANAA1). Set and maintain quality standards for company products through the use of systematic processes. Develop, modify, and execute software test strategies, plans and suites. Mail resume to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 5400 Legacy Drive, MS H1-2F-25, Plano, TX 75024. 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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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631525 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631611 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: P. Kasper & Associates, LLC, 17358 Creekside Court, Monte Sereno, CA, 95030. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/17/2012. Refile of previous file #567377 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Patricia Kasper. President. #2012356610078. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/06/2017. (pub Metro 7/19, 7/26, 8/02, 8/09/2017)

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)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631549 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)

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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 #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)

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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)

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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)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Corde Terra Village, 2600 Corde Terra Circle, San Jose, CA, 95111, Pinmore HCD Inc., 505 W. Julian St., San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is being conducted by a Limited Partnership. 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/ Robert Emami. President- Co-GP. #200301800007. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)

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)

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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)

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Design & develop features for the STATEMENT #631947 Nutanix that The followingmanageability person(s) is (are) doing platform business as: Tender Greens, 180 El Caminowith Real #1050, Palo Alto, CA, 94304,Services. TYP Restaurant interacts Nutanix Core Group, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Mail resume to Nutanix, Inc,the1740 Registrant began transacting business under fictitious business name or names listed herein on San 8/31/2016. Above entity Technology Dr, Suite 150, Jose, CA was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Lina O’Connor. CFO. This 95110. Attn: HR Job#1027-1. 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)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Deluxe Eatery & Drinkery. looking for a STATEMENT #632033 weekend host or hostess and a daytime The following person(s) is (are) doingabusiness Ensure server. Server is 3-4 days weekas:with Protect, 1604 Dell Ct., San Jose, CA, 95118, Warranty Concepts, Inc. more shifts available the Holidays. This business is being conductedover by a Corporation. Registrant If began transacting business theresume fictitious business interested come inunder with andname ask or names listed herein on 07/01/2017. Above entity was formed in to talk to David or Chad between 2-4. the state of California. /s/Frank McMillan. CEO. #C3978445. This 71 E. San St. SJClerk of Santa Clara County statement wasFernando filed with the County on 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)

ENGINEERING STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE

Broadcom Corporation has a Senior OF FICTITIOUS #632073 Manager, R&D BUSINESS opening inNAME San Jose, The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned CA to provide technical &managerial the use of the fictitious business name(s): Cash Finance, 4783 Pine Forest Pl.,to Sanprojects Jose, CA, 95118, Blevins. Filed direction in Tammy ASICCorona development. in Santa Clara County on 04/05/2016 under file no. 615917. This Often directs &may in thewas business was conducted by: an participate Individual. This statement development multidimensional designs filed with the Countyof Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on 07/18/2017. /s/Yazan (pub dates 7/26, 8/02, involving theAlkhudari, layout Manager. of complex integrated 8/09, 8/16/2017) circuits. Mail resume to Attn: HR (GS), 1320 Ridder Park Drive,NAME San Jose, CA 95131 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS . Must reference job code SJYAV

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

2. Balance Sculpting, 1664 Mariani Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, CONTRACTOR/ The Living Content Group. This business is being conducted by a HANDYMAN Corporation. Registrant has SERVICES not yet begun transacting business

under the fictitious businessDOORS, name or names listed herein. Above PLUMB, ELECT, entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Wayne Gray. CEO. WINDOWS,FULL SERVICE 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) REMODELING, KITCHENS,BATH. 40+ YRS EXP. NO JOB TOO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 408-888-9290 NAME SMALLCSLB#747111.

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)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632227 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Skin Tech, 2. Skin Technology, 3. New Age Skin Care, 4. Better Skin Care, 5. Scientific Skin Care, 6. Microdermabrasion Technology, 8010 Wayland Lane Suite D-2, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Debra A. Rosas, 10021 Pacheco Pass Hwy, Hollister, CA, 95023. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business World under the fictitious business name or names listed Thug Records explosive label herein on 03/02/2017. /s/Debra A. Rosas. This statement was based out of San Jose CA with major filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/21/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/09, 8/16/2017) features lil 8/02, Wayne E-40 Ghetto

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Politician Punish. Free downloads mp3s FICTITIOUSOver BUSINESS Ringtones. 22 albums online. Call orSTATEMENT log on thugworldrecords.com NAME #631832 408-561-5458 askis (are) for doing gp business as: PPC The following person(s)

Investments, LLC, San Jose, CA, 95126, PPC Investments, LLC, 777 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94304. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/21/2017. Refile of previous file #624976 dueTO to publication requirement not NO.: met on previous NOTICE CREDITORS, CASE filing. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ 16PR179712 Phil Malouf. (Asst) Secretary. This statement was filed with the In re theClerk MatterofofSanta the CAPELLA FAMILYonREVOCABLE County Clara County 07/10/2017. LIVING (pub Metro TRUST DATED JULY 30, 1997, by Manuel J. Capella, DecedentNotice is 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017) hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of Decedent Manuel J. Capella that all persons having claims against the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara, at 191 N. First Street, San NAME STATEMENT #632240 Jose, CA 95112, and mail or deliver a copy to David Capella, successor The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Caribbees trustee of the Capella Family Revocable Living Trust dated July 30, Cleaners & Alteration, 2865 Rd.,atSan CA,Law 95111, 1997, of which the Decedent wasSenter the settlor, the Jose, Sowards Firm, ManhS. Trinh, Thuy NgocSuite Le, 200, 2934Campbell, Camelford Jose,the 2542 Bascom Avenue, CAWay, 95008,San within CA, 95127. business conducted2, by married couple. later of fourThis (4) months afterisNovember 2016a (the date of the first Registrantof began theorfictitious publication noticetransacting to creditors) business or, if noticeunder is mailed personally businesstoname or names listed onthis 07/22/2017. /s/ delivered you, sixty (60) days afterherein the date notice is mailed Manh Trinh.delivered This statement wasCLAIMS: filed with thedo County or personally to you.LATE If you not fileClerk your of Santa Clara on 07/24/2017. 8/02, 8/09, claim within the County time required by law, you(pub mustMetro petition to file a 8/16, 8/23/2017) late claim as provided in California Probate Code §19103.FAILURE TO FILE A CLAIM: Failure to file a claim with the court and to serve a copy of the claim on the trustee will in most instances invalidate FICTITIOUS BUSINESS your claim.(Pub dates: 10/26, 11/02, 11/09/2016)

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NAME STATEMENT #632298 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: West Valley Group, 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave., Suite 306, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, NAME STATEMENT #622524 Paula Jacobsen, Susan Greenberg-Englander, Robert Levit,

The following is (are)isdoing business as: unincorporated Advanced Susan M. Fair.person(s) This business conducted by an Industrial Delivery LLC, 247 N. Capitol Ave., Unit 104,began San Jose, association other than a partnership. Registrant CA, 95127. This businessunder is being by a limited liability transacting business theconducted fictitious business name or company. Registrant yet begun transacting business names listed hereinhas on not 11/21/2005. Refile of previous file under fictitious business nameGreenberg-Englander. or names listed herein.This Above #56811the with changes. /s/Susan entity was formed in the state California. statement was filed with theofCounty Clerk/s/Gilbert of SantaJuan ClaraGarcia Managing statement was8/23/2017) filed with County onMember#201627010166This 07/25/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632243 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RUTH ERIKA ZIEGELMANN AKA RUTH ERIKA STAIGIS CASE NO. 1-17-PR-181541 on 01/28/2014 under file number 587505. This business To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors,was and conducted by:may An individual T. Hoang Date filed with the persons who otherwise/s/Minh be interested in the will or estate, clerks 10/12/2016 (pub dates 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016 or bothoffice: of: Ruth Erika Ziegelmann aka Ruth Erika Staigis. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the Santa Clara County in the Superior Court NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that:OF James J Ramoni, Public Administrator Santa Clara ESTATE MARK PASCOE KELLY.ofCASE County be appointed as personal representative to administer NO. 16PR178443 the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to NOTICE OF the PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK of administer estate under the Independent Administration PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO. 16PR178443To heirs beneficiaries Estates Act. (This authority will allow theall personal representative creditors, contingent and persons may otherwise to take many actionscreditors, without obtaining courtwho approval. Before be interested theimportant will or estate, or both of: MARK taking certaininvery actions, however, the PASCOE personalKELLY. Arepresentative Petition for Probate been filed by:notice JamestoJ. interested Ramoni, Public will behas required to give persons Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed California, of Santaadministration Clara.The Petition for Probate action.) TheCounty independent authority will berequests granted that James J. Ramoni,person Public Administrator of the County of Santa unless an interested files an objection to the petition and Clara appointed as personal to administer showsbegood cause why the courtrepresentative should not grant the authority. the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: administer estateatunder Independent Septemberthe 29, 2017, 9 a.m.the in Dept. 12 locatedAdministration at 191 NORTHof Estates Act. (ThisSAN authority will95113. allowIFthe personal FIRST STREET, JOSE, CA, YOU OBJECTrepresentative to the granting to many actions without obtaining approval. Before of take the petition, you should appear at thecourt hearing and state your taking certain very important actions, however, the personal objections or file written objections with the court before the representative will be required to give noticeortoby interested hearing. Your appearance may be in person your attorney. persons theyor have waived notice or consented to the If you areunless a creditor a contingent creditor of the decedent, proposed action.) independent administration authority you must file yourThe claim with the court and mail a copy to thewill be granted unless an interested person files an objection the personal representative appointed by the court within thetolater petition shows goodfrom causethe why theofcourt should not of eitherand (1) four months date first issuance of grant letters authority. A hearing the petition will held ininthis court58(b) as to a general personalonrepresentative, asbe defined section follows: November 28, 2016, ator 9 a.m. indays Dept.from 10 located at 191 of the California Probate Code, (2) 60 the date of NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section to 9052 the granting of the petition, youOther should appear at the hearing of the California Probate Code. California statutes and legal and state your file written objections withwant the court authority may objections affect youror rights as a creditor. You may to before hearing. Your appearance mayinbeCalifornia in personlaw. or by your consultthe with an attorney knowledgeable You may attorney. a contingent creditor of thein examineIF theYOU file ARE kept AbyCREDITOR the court. Iforyou are a person interested decedent, file with your the claim witha the courtfor andSpecial mail aNotice copy the estate,you youmust may file court Request to the personal representative appointed by the court withinassets the (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate later either (1) four monthsas from the date first issuance of or of of any petition or account provided in of Probate Code section letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the 58(b) of theAttorney CaliforniaofProbate Code, or (2) 60 days from theDeputy date court clerk. petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead of mailing or personal delivery you of a notice under373 section County Counsel, OFFICE OF THEtoCOUNTY COUNSEL, West 9052 the California Code. statutes JulianofStreet, Suite 300,Probate San Jose, CA,Other 95110California 408-758-4200 (Pub CC and authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may 8/2, legal 8/9, 8/16/2017) want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person FICTITIOUS BUSINESS interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and NAME STATEMENT #632348 appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided The following is (are) doing business as: Zachary Ian in Probate Codeperson(s) section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form Boger DDS,from 2074the Forest Avenue Suite 3, San CA, 95128, is available court clerk. Attorney for Jose, petitioner: MARK Zachary Ian Boger. business is conducted by an Individual. A. GONZALEZ, LeadThis Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE RegistrantCOUNSEL, has not yet business under COUNTY 373begun Westtransacting Julian Street, Suite 300, Santhe Jose, CA, fictitious business 408-758-4200 name or names listed /s/Zachary Ian 95110, Telephone: (Pub CC,herein. 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) Boger. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)

NAME #622430 HandymanSTATEMENT Service, 1463 Sunland Court, San Jose, CA, 95130,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622566 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, NAME STATEMENT #632143 979 Story Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc

NAME STATEMENT #632237 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tracking And Sensory Networks, Inc., 2275 Bayshore Rd., Suite 130, NAME STATEMENT #622360 Palo Alto, CA, 94303. This business is being conducted by a

NAME STATEMENT #622752 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380 S. 1st Street,STATEMENT San Jose, CA, 95113, #632411 Michael R. Hill, 8093 E. Zayante NAME

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Glenn Ferris Sander, Sanis Jose, 95130. This business The following person(s) (are)CA, doing business as: Unionis conducted by an3649 Individual. Registrant began transacting Avenue Liquors, Union Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Kim Dao business under the fictitious business name or names listed Corporation, 36 Leominster Ct., San Jose, CA, 95139. This business herein 01/01/2017. F. Sander. This statement is beingon conducted by /s/Glenn a corporation. Registrant has not yetwas filed with the County Clerk under of Santa County on 07/24/2017. begun transacting business theClara fictitious business name (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, Above 8/16, 8/23/2017) or names listed herein. entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Michael John Perazzo President #C39443143 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County FICTITIOUS BUSINESS on 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa, Corporation. Registrant has not begun transacting business 1692 Tully Suite business 12, San Jose, CA, 95122, Dai Nguyen, 650 Island under theRoad, fictitious name or names listed herein. Place, City,formed CA, 94065. Thisstate business is conducted by an AboveRedwood entity was in the of California. /s/Ian individual. Registrant has notThis yet begun transacting business Bennett. CEO. #C3345231. statement was filed withunder the the fictitious business name or names herein. /s/Dai Nguyen County Clerk of Santa Clara Countylisted on 06/22/2017. (pub Metro This was8/23/2017) filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County 8/02,statement 8/09, 8/16, on 10/12/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622523 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KT Dental

The following person(s) (are) 1 Sap, Anh Nguyen, 608 GiraudoisDr., Sandoing Jose,business CA, 95111.as: ThisCEO business 1941 Tully Rd.,by#15, San Jose,couple.Registrant CA, 95122, Nyceo, 916not Sone Glen Ct., is conducted an married has yet begun San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is being conducted by Limited transacting business under the fictitious business name oranames Liability Company. begunwith transacting listed herein. Refile Registrant of previoushas file not #620681 changes.business /s/Nhu under the business name names listed herein. Thuan Lamfictitious This statement was filedor with the County Clerk ofAbove Santa entityCounty was formed in the state California. Nguyen. Clara on 10/18/2016. (pubofMetro 10/26,/s/Giao 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) President. #201719210185. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

Rd., CA,person(s) 95018. This business is business conductedas:byOxenwood an individual. The Felton, following is (are) doing Registrant has229 notGabilan yet begun transacting under the International, Avenue, Hoangbusiness Tran, Kevin Cabiling. fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael R. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant Hill This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious Clara County onname 10/24/2016. (publisted Metro 11/02,/s/Hoang 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016) business or names herein. Tran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/28/2017. (pub Metro , 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)

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

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope you're making wise use of the surging fertility that has been coursing through you. Maybe you've been reinventing a long-term relationship that needed creative tinkering. Perhaps you have been hammering together an innovative business deal or generating new material for your artistic practice. It's possible you have discovered how to express feelings and ideas that have been half-mute or inaccessible for a long time. If for some weird reason you are not yet having experiences like these, get to work! There's still time to tap into the fecundity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Uruguayan writer

Eduardo Galeano defines "idiot memory" as the kind of remembrances that keep us attached to our old self-images, and trapped by them. "Lively memory," on the other hand, is a feisty approach to our old stories. It impels us to graduate from who we used to be. "We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are," writes Galeano. "Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case." Here's another clue to your current assignment, Taurus, from psychotherapist Dick Olney: "The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the dream that they are their self-image."

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loving you is a sacred honor for me—equivalent to getting a poem on my birthday from the Dalai Lama. On other occasions, loving you is more like trying to lap up a delicious milkshake that has spilled on the sidewalk, or slow-dancing with a giant robot teddy bear that accidentally knocks me down when it suffers a glitch. I don't take it personally when I encounter the more challenging sides of you, since you are always an interesting place to visit. But could you maybe show more mercy to the people in your life who are not just visitors? Remind your dear allies of the obvious secret—that you're composed of several different selves, each of whom craves different thrills.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Liz, my girlfriend when I was young, went to extreme lengths to cultivate her physical attractiveness. "Beauty must suffer," her mother had told her while growing up, and Liz heeded that advice. To make her long blonde hair as wavy as possible, for example, she wrapped strands of it around six empty metal cans before bed, applied a noxious spray, and then slept all night with a stinky, clanking mass of metal affixed to her head. While you may not do anything so literal, Cancerian, you do sometimes act as if suffering helps keep you strong and attractive—as if feeling hurt is a viable way to energize your quest for what you want. But if you'd like to transform that approach, the coming weeks will be a good time. Step One: Have a long, compassionate talk with your inner saboteur. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us comes to know the truth in our own way, says astrologer Antero Alli. "For some it is wild and unfettered," he writes. "For others it is like a cozy domesticated cat, while others find truth through their senses alone." Whatever your usual style of knowing the truth might be, Leo, I suspect you'll benefit from trying out a different method in the next two weeks. Here are some possibilities: trusting your most positive feelings; tuning in to the clues and cues your body provides; performing ceremonies in which you request the help of ancestral spirits; slipping into an altered state by laughing nonstop for five minutes.

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said that you'll soon be blessed with supernatural assistance? Would you smirk and roll your eyes if I advised you to find clues to your next big move by analyzing your irrational fantasies? Would you tell me to stop spouting nonsense if I hinted that a guardian angel is conspiring to blast a tunnel through the mountain you created out of a molehill? It's OK if you ignore my predictions, Virgo. They'll come true even if you're a staunch realist who doesn't believe in woo-woo, juju, or mojo.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is the Season of Enlightenment for you. That doesn't necessarily mean you will achieve an ultimate state of divine grace. It's not a guarantee that you'll be freestyling in satori, samadhi, or nirvana. But one thing is certain: Life will conspire to bring you the excited joy that comes with

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deep insight into the nature of reality. If you decide to take advantage of the opportunity, please keep in mind these thoughts from designer Elissa Giles: "Enlightenment is not an asexual, dispassionate, head-in-the-clouds, nails-in-the-palms disappearance from the game of life. It's a volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment to love in action, coupled with hard-headed practical grist."

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some zoos sell the

urine of lions and tigers to gardeners who sprinkle it in their gardens. Apparently the stuff scares off wandering house cats that might be tempted to relieve themselves in vegetable patches. I nominate this scenario to be a provocative metaphor for you in the coming weeks. Might you tap into the power of your inner wild animal so as to protect your inner crops? Could you build up your warrior energy so as to prevent run-ins with pesky irritants? Can you call on helpful spirits to ensure that what's growing in your life will continue to thrive?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The fates have conspired to make it right and proper for you to be influenced by Sagittarian author Mark Twain. There are five specific bits of his wisdom that will serve as benevolent tweaks to your attitude. I hope you will also aspire to express some of his expansive snappiness. Now here's Twain: 1. "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." 2. "Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned." 3. "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." 4. "When in doubt, tell the truth." 5. "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "My grandfather used to tell me that if you stir muddy water it will only get darker," wrote I. G. Edmonds in his book Trickster Tales. "But if you let the muddy water stand still, the mud will settle and the water will become clearer," he concluded. I hope this message reaches you in time, Capricorn. I hope you will then resist any temptation you might have to agitate, churn, spill wine into, wash your face in, drink, or splash around in the muddy water. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1985, Maurizio Cattelan quit his gig at a mortuary in Padua, Italy and resolved to make a living as an artist. He started creating furniture, and ultimately evolved into a sculptor who specialized in satirical work. In 1999 he produced a piece depicting the Pope being struck by a meteorite, which sold for $886,000 in 2001. If there were ever going to be a time when you could launch your personal version of his story, Aquarius, it would be in the next ten months. That doesn't necessarily mean you should go barreling ahead with such a radical act of faith, however. Following your bliss rarely leads to instant success. It may take years. (16 in Cattelan's case.) Are you willing to accept that? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Tally up your physical aches, psychic bruises, and chronic worries. Take inventory of your troubling memories, half-repressed disappointments, and existential nausea. Do it, Pisces! Be strong. If you bravely examine and deeply feel the difficult feelings, then the cures for those feelings will magically begin streaming in your direction. You'll see what you need to do to escape at least some of your suffering. So name your griefs and losses, my dear. Remember your near-misses and total fiascos. As your reward, you'll be soothed and relieved and forgiven. A Great Healing will come. Homework: When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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Let It Be Bright GUEST OF HONOR Rahsaan Roland Kirk's widow, Dorthaan, is always a special guest at Cafe Stritch’s annual Rahsaanathon event.

Cafe Stritch’s annual Rahsaanathon vibrates with positivity in fifth year BY GARY SINGH

VERY YEAR THAT Cafe Stritch pays tribute to its patron saint, Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935-1977), bright moments appear on multiple levels. Spacetime continuum-shattering vibes have already surfaced in this, the fifth year of Rahsaanathon, via the presence of Todd Barkan, proprietor of the legendary jazz club Keystone Korner in San Francisco. Barkan toured with Kirk multiple times and showed up a month ago at Stritch, ratcheting up the anticipation for this year's festivities.

Kirk's influence is multidimensional. He lost his sight at an early age, but he still played three saxophones at once, including a straight alto that gave Cafe Stritch its name. His music and positive, uplifting attitude left a long-term impact on thousands of musicians and fans. Each August at Stritch, Kirk’s old bandmate and friend Steve Turre shows up with a ferocious entourage of master musicians for a three-day set of Rahsaan’s best tunes. On Sunday, Stritch will screen Adam Kahan’s documentary on Rahsaan, The Case of the Three Sided Dream. So, as much as I can disseminate the history in linear language, allow me to spiral back to Keystone Korner, San Francisco’s North Beach jazz refuge of iniquity that Barkan orchestrated from 1972 to 1983. It was the kind of place where diamonds emerged from the roughness of life. “It was the real deal as far as an

urban, gritty, smoke-filled, sweaty, hot jazz club,” said Steve Borkenhagen, who first opened his own jazz cafe, Eulipia, in 1977. The name came from one of Kirk’s most famous tunes. Decades later, in 2013, Borkenhagen’s sons, Mike and Maxwell, would spawn Cafe Stritch in the same building. But the current venue is more musically, spiritually and theatrically inspired by Kirk’s legacy and life, deepening the connections. Borkenhagen the elder said that in 1977 he wasn't trying to copy or emulate Keystone Korner per se, but bright moments were definitely in the air. “The grittiness and the small aspect of Keystone probably did have an effect on us in the sense of realizing that you didn't have to be a giant jazz club or in New York to have great players,” Borkenhagen said. At Keystone Korner, Kirk was inseparable from the spirit of the place, performing and recording a now legendary live album, Bright Moments. The title track referred to those special convergences of pure bliss, when your favorite meal comes

to the table, or your main squeeze rolls in and it’s just the two of you, or any other scenario in which light dispels darkness. Barkan even wrote the lyrics for the title track, “Bright Moments,” and the concept continues to play a role in his life—it’s in his outgoing voice message and on his business card. Kirk’s outlook, to this day, remains a massive inspiration. “Even though he could be very, very realistic in his portrayals of the struggles of everyday life, Rahsaan had an incredibly positive and positivist viewpoint and practice through his whole life,” Barkan said. “His music was his torch and his fire and his light in the tunnel of life. He carried that light with him to the end of his days. ... Himself, and his pride, and his dignity of being all reflects itself in the song ‘Bright Moments.’” Such are the vibes during the first weekend of August, when Kirk’s musical spirit is channeled at Cafe Stritch. This year it started early. A month ago, Barkan hit the Bay Area to celebrate the 45th anniversary of when he began operating Keystone Korner. In yet another instance of previous dimensions of time spiraling back to the forefront, Barkan jumped in with the band at Cafe Stritch and sang the lyrics for "Bright Moments." There he was, with Kathy Sloane’s photo of KIrk on the brick wall behind him, in a club directly inspired by the spirit of his old friend Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Barkan said the experience at Stritch was wonderfully eerie, an uncanny but positive throwback. “I felt the spirituality and the energy of late '60s, early '70s San Francisco Keystone Korner—ionizers on the ceiling taking the pot smoke out of the air kind of vibration. ... It had that type of wonderfully constructive air. “Being able to sing the lyrics of ‘Bright Moments’ in that club dedicated to Rahsaan was one of the joys of my life. I’ll never forget it and I’ll always treasure it for the rest of my days.”

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UMPLINGS TAKE MANY forms in the culinary world. From the Italian ravioli and Eastern European knish to the Middle Eastern samosa; just about every culture on earth has a variant. Even an ancient Roman cookbook includes a dumpling recipe. While no one culture can claim its invention, food historians believe the earliest dumplings date to early Chinese culture 1,800 years ago, during the Han dynasty. This brings us to Dumpling Depot, one of the newest entrants to enter the dim sum dimension. The Sunnyvale eatery promises to deliver authentic Chinese dumplings, with more than 20 different house-made dumplings that range from pork, chicken, lamb and seafood to a nice selection of vegetarian options. The Depot also has the standard soups, noodle dishes and stir-fries one would expect at a Chinese restaurant. We ordered a selection of dumplings based on our waiter’s recommendation, including their Shanghai Soup Dumplings (aka XLBs, $5.95 for 6), Pork Dumplings with Chives ($8.95/12) and Pot Stickers ($6.95/6). I also couldn’t resist ordering my two “go-to” Chinese dishes: Green Onion Pancakes ($5.95) and the Mongolian Beef ($9.95). My dining partner, who had never had an XLB, made the rookie mistake of grabbing one and plopping it in his mouth. This is unwise, unless firstdegree tongue burns are your thing. The trick is to place the XLB on a soup spoon, bite a small hole, slurp the soup and then gobble it up. With that said, Dumpling Depot’s XLBs are on the small side, so I can easily understand the urge to down one. While all the dumplings were good, the clear winner was the Pork Dumplings with Chives. They were seasoned so well that it allowed a blend of pork, chive and gooey soft dumpling wrapper to melt in my mouth. I also couldn't resist dipping them into a combo of their soy sauce and black vinegar. A nuclear orange hot sauce is also available and delightful—but it is not for the faint of heart. My test dishes were also terrific. The Mongolian beef was tender and the green onion pancakes had a nice touch of oil to them, crisp on the outside and tender in the middle. How modern-day and ancient dumplings compare to one another is anybody’s guess. But if all history lessons are this delicious, sign me up for another few courses. —John Dyke DUMPLING DEPOT 562 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale 408.685.2979

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CRAFTY Chromatic’s free-trade coffee and comfort comes to downtown San Jose.

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ITTING ON A sleek wood finish, a specialty coffee in hand, I perused the nature-inspired artwork on the wall and remembered what it’s like to truly appreciate a morning cup of joe, when taste is king to our neurotic consumption to satisfy a caffeine fix. Chromatic Coffee, located downtown San Jose on Second Street near Santa Clara Street, creates a tranquil ambiance that reinforces the company's philosophy: “Craftsmanship over ease and quality over convenience.” The team of baristas and coffee entrepreneurs utilized their years of experience in cafes, roasteries and international trade to create their brand in 2012. Two months ago, they opened their second location in downtown. While aiming to stay true to Silicon Valley’s agricultural roots as the “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” Chromatic offers an innovative twist of chemistry and water science. Chromatic makes sure to hit each of the four keys to great coffee: acidity, aroma, body and flavor. I opted for a cup of The Holy Mountain ($2.99) seasonal blend, which features beans from Ethiopia, Colombia and El Salvador. The drink was tangy, with a clean aroma, and it left a crisp aftertaste. Chromatic partners maintain a direct relationship with their coffee farmers, in addition to partnering with fair-trade organizations. “Our main demographic is all those that appreciate craft and specialty coffee, and that can be anyone,” says Aaron Coleman, Chromatic barista and art curator. Chromatic’s coffee requires an investment of love and care, she adds. The pastries receive the same care and attention as the coffee. The gluten-free polenta cake ($4.99) offered a cross between cornbread and lemon cake filled with blackberry-lavender jam and topped with roasted almonds. The breaded treat was sweet and fruity. I also grabbed a healthconscious option, the vegan coconut almond chia pudding ($5.99). The taste, texture and aroma live up to the enticing name. For coffee enthusiasts, prices will vary depending on the delivery system, such as devices like the Chemex and Immersion Drippers. Chromatic has clearly developed a fanbase—their multiple social media channels boast strong followings despite operating only in Santa Clara up until May—which would explain why the shop’s walls are also lined with wooden shelves offering a suite of Chromatic swag and gear needed to brew at home. Whether one seeks a quiet cup or a discussion on the science of coffee, Chromatic has created a welcome new space 7am-2pm on weekdays. —Payje Redmond CHROMATIC COFFEE CO. 17 N Second St, San Jose. 669.292.5099

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