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County Crush KEN YEAGER terms out next year from the county Board of Supervisors, but the South Bay’s first openly gay elected official isn’t ready to call it a career quite yet. In an interview last week, Yeager told Fly he’s “seriously considering” a run for JIM BEALL’s open state Senate seat in 2020.

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COM That race got more than a little contentious, as Cortese’s campaign put out a late mailer that many felt was a dog whistle designed to stoke homophobia.

In a book he would later pen, Yeager described a touching meeting between the two men and how they were able to mend fences after Cortese apologized. Since that time they’ve become allies on the county board, but Yeager’s impending departure has created a fascinating dynamic that could shift the balance of power in the county. The two supes often side with Supervisor CINDY CHAVEZ to form a solid majority on the five-member board, but a newcomer could allow supervisors JOE SIMITIAN and MIKE WASSERMAN to assert more control over policy. (Well, really just Simitian because Wasserman, a Republican, has always been more of a “happy to be here” kind of guy.) No less than five candidates are running for Yeager’s District 4 seat—covering Santa Clara, Campbell and west San Jose—and midsummer campaign disclosure reports depict a full-on arms race. Santa Clara Councilman DOMINIC CASERTA has the lead with $289K raised, after reeling in a quarter-

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GOTTA HAVE FAITH Andy Biersack, from Italy, studies software engineering at San Jose State. Despite antiimmigration rhetoric coming from the White House, he believes he will stick in Silicon Valley after graduation.

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N HIS FIRST trip back to Madrid after November’s election, Miguel Lepoutre’s family itched for details. He recalls one incessant question, in particular: What is it like now that Trump is president?

“Everyone in Europe is just freaking out,” Lepoutre says. “They can’t believe it’s real.”

Lepoutre is an international student at San Jose State University (SJSU), where he is majoring in environmental studies. His grandfather, who grew up during the Franco dictatorship in Spain, worries that his grandson’s new home will undergo the same fate as his country, noting parallels between the new administration and fascist regimes.

“He was asking me if I felt a change in people and society in general,” Lepoutre says. “And I told him, ‘Yeah, I really did.

People are really angry.’”

His family isn’t the first to identify similarities between the rise of Donald Trump and the regimes of Hitler, Stalin and Franco, and they aren’t the only ones worried about relatives studying abroad in the United States. News of the travel ban, rising hate crimes and last week’s rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive order have damaged the country’s reputation as an academic haven. As the Trump administration calls for the deportation of nearly 800,000 DACA recipients who have studied and worked here most of their lives, it’s no surprise that international students—who only recently arrived in the U.S.—are questioning their own future in this country.

When Trump’s election victory was secured, Steven Lianto was nearing the

end of his first semester at SJSU, where he studies electrical engineering. Like hundreds of international students in science, technology engineering and math (STEM), he left his home in Indonesia to complete a degree in Silicon Valley. “The day that Trump got elected, my mother texted me like, ‘Will your visa get rejected or has any problem happened to you?’” he recalls.

Aside from the initial shock of November’s results, Lianto says, he doesn’t feel personally affected by the new administration. But other students, like Shati Dayatar, expressed deeper concern regarding rising antiimmigration sentiment in the U.S. Amid reports of airport detainment and deportation, Dayatar has refrained from visiting his home in India for fear he won’t be allowed back into the U.S. “I feel really scared to go back home,” he says. “What if I go back and I’m not allowed to come back to my college?”

Susan Popko, associate provost for international programs at Santa Clara University, says that issues of travel, both within the U.S. and abroad, are a common concern among international students. “We are trying to make sure we’re informing people accurately

have faith that good grades and competitive resumes will ultimately land them a dream job.

While students continue to put their faith in the tech industry, a recent report from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proves that political tensions have taken a toll on the valley. For the first time since 2014, the number of H-1B applications fell below 200,000 this year. Employers submitted 199,000 applications for 2018, compared to 236,000 last year.

“That uncertainty, not knowing what their options might be, we feel that could impact enrollment down the road because if they don’t feel the opportunity here in the U.S., they might be looking elsewhere if that’s their goal,” says Rob Mieso, associate vice president of student services at De Anza College.

Trump’s election also has students questioning whether American universities are the safest option. In November, SJSU President Mary Papazian sent out a campus-wide email regarding multiple hate crimes, including one incident in which a Muslim woman was grabbed by her hijab and choked. Three months later, two Indian nationals, both engineers, were shot in a bar in Kansas. Pat Harris, director of media relations at SJSU, says that while it’s not unusual for the school to send recruitment teams overseas, the issue of personal safety was even more pronounced when recruiters met with prospective students following the suspected hate crime.

Data compiled by the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) found that more than 1 million international students at U.S. colleges added $32.8 billion to the national economy during the 2015-2016 academic year. Even a slight decline in enrollment from nonresident students, who pay two to three times as much as residents, could heavily impact universities already facing budget cuts. While some colleges have reported a decline in applications from international students, particularly from the Middle East, interest among international students is steady overall, according to a 2017 IIE survey.

Students who applied for this school year aspired to study at a U.S. college long before Trump’s election. Many of them, like Biersack, will continue on this path despite the recent turn of events.

“I won’t say I’m not scared,” he says. “I am scared, but at the same time I can’t quit school and go back. Of course I’m gonna get my degree and give it a shot.”

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of what the impacts are,” Popko says.

“Obviously, what was so difficult about the executive orders is that they didn't have any warning, they just happened.”

Between SCU, SJSU and Stanford University, the South Bay hosts more than 7,500 international students a year. Most want to stay and work here after they graduate, but a crackdown on temporary work visas has opened a rift in career options. After getting accepted into college, international students are approved for a nonimmigrant visa called F1, which allows them to live in the U.S. as long as they are enrolled full time at an academic institution. Upon completing their academic program, students have 60 days to return to their home country. Those who want to stay in the U.S. can either transfer to a new school, work up to two years under Optional Practical Training (OPT) or apply for an H-1B visa.

Trump’s administration has increased scrutiny on the H-1B visa program, which tech companies rely on to fill out their ranks. Computer programmers and software engineers make up the largest bracket of applicants in this hypercompetitive program, and critics fear Trump’s call for a more “extreme vetting” process would further perpetuate the nation’s tech talent shortage.

For international students like Andy Biersack, who dreams of working in Silicon Valley after graduating, the future remains unclear. Biersack moved here from Italy this summer and just started his first semester at SJSU as a software engineering major. After graduating, he hopes to score an internship and work at a local tech company. Maybe Facebook, he says. It sounds about right—an aspiring engineer coming to the tech capital of the world—but many of his friends weren’t on board with his choice to study in the States.

“Most of my friends were like, ‘No, don’t do it. It’s not the right time, just wait,’” Biersack says. But by the time the 2016 election results aired on his living room TV in Milan, Biersack had already been accepted to SJSU, his top choice, and he was on the brink of securing a student visa. “If I quit all this and start back home, I’d have to start from scratch and I don’t want to do that,” he says. “So even though it’s crazy, even though I might not have a shot, I don’t really have a choice because I already completed 75 percent of it before this all happened.”

Despite Trump's promise to put American workers first, Biersack and other international students

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PEAKING Mount Umunhum measures 3,486 feet at its summit, where some of the most breathtaking views in the valley will now be available to the public.

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HORTLY AFTER FINISHING the first mile of my hike up Mount Umunhum, I look up at the large, mysterious rectangular structure at the top for the 20th time. It feels just as far away as it did at the beginning of the trail, effectively deflating any sense of progress I’d made.

If you’ve spent as much time hiking trails in the backcountry as I have, you’ve experienced a “false peak,” meaning you spot what you think is the top of the mountain, only to learn after much exhaustive hiking that the spot you had your gaze locked in on was only partway up. Mount Umunhum is the exact opposite: there’s never any doubt

about where the summit is. It’s constantly reminding you—taunting you, one might say.

I won’t spend too much time complaining about how out-of-shape I am, or how hard this measly 3.7mile hike is turning out to be. I have gone on multiple backpacking trips that exceeded the 100-mile mark, and I’ve survived to wolf down the

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Our writer attempts to be the first to hike the new public trail to Mount Umunhum, the South Bay’s highest peak BY AARON CARNES mandatory victory burger. But I haven’t hiked in a while, and the opportunity to do this hike came up rather suddenly.

I don’t care. For the past year and a half since I heard this trail was opening, I’ve wanted desperately to be the first civilian to climb Mount Umunhum, reach the 3,486-foot summit, and touch that Cold War

radar tower on top with my own two hands. So I keep my head down, and put one foot in front of the other, following my guide, Brian Malone.

That’s what you do when your mind wants to make it to the top of a hill, but your body wants Scooby-Doo and a bowl of Captain Crunch.

Obviously, I’m not the first person to ever hike this trail. The guy

walking right next to me, a 51-year-old employee of Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (the public agency that owns this land) has done it several times—Malone even remarks at one point that he “hasn’t hiked the whole thing in a while.”

But it hasn’t been open to the public in decades, and hikers have been waiting to bag this peak since

Midpen acquired the land in 1986.

When it finally opens to the public Sept. 18, they can add it to a short list of accessible peaks that can be hiked in the Bay Area (Mount Tam, Mount Diablo and Mount Hamilton). It’ll be open to hikers, bicyclists and equestrians.

Malone has worked for the open

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MILES TO GO A ‘false peak’ can be a disappointing moment, but it’s nearly impossible when hiking Mount Umunhum.

space district for 27 years and knew this long-awaited opening would take a while. “I’ve been telling people that have been asking, ‘probably in about 20 years,’” he says. “There was some point in there where I was correct.”

Malone is chipper; he tells me that I got him out of some meetings today, and now he gets to spend the morning hiking and telling me about the trail. The department he manages (Land and Facilities) worked with Midpen’s planning, engineering and natural resource staff on the design and construction of the trail, and he’s proud of the result. It’s a good trail: well-graded, frequently shaded, nice views. I’m thinking right now that I would enjoy it a lot more if I were in better shape, but what can you do?

10:15am The day starts when I meet Malone at the parking lot on Hicks and Umunhum roads a little after 10am.

The drive from San Jose proper was short and pleasant; the road goes past the Guadalupe Reservoir on the left, and weaves past bicyclists that spend more money on a stylish bike outfit than I make in a month.

I get out of my car and shake Malone’s hand. He’s been waiting for about 15 minutes but doesn’t seem annoyed. He’s a friendly man with a gruff voice that reminds me of Dauber, the loveable sidekick on the ’90s sitcom Coach.

We caravan up Umunhum Road until we stop at another parking lot.

Until recently, this was the farthest

13 tower to the Santa Clara County Heritage Resource Inventory.

11am It’s a beautiful day to hike. The sun is out. Birds are flying overhead.

The fragrance of trees and bushes permeate the air, and the views of San Jose are spectacular. The even grade—it never exceeds 10 percent, Malone tells me—is a nice change of pace after the chaos of so many lessmaintained backcountry hikes. The gentle smattering of fallen leaves on the trail is a nice touch. It makes you feel like it’s fall already. However, the heat of the sun begs to differ.

The frequency of shade helps the hike, but I’m still sweating.

Thankfully, Midpen labored to route the trail under as many trees as possible. We see madrones, bays, nutmegs and other trees I don’t know the names of leaning overhead, occasionally resembling a Sherwood-Forest-esque tunnel.

There’s an intersection near the beginning of the trail that goes all the way to Lexington Reservoir.

That means a person could hike the entire Los Gatos Creek Trail, walk to Lexington Reservoir, zip over here for an additional 10 miles, and then hike up to the top of Mount Umunhum. I file that info in the back of my mind for future reference.

Downhill to the right, just around the bend, I see a wrecked, rusty Volkswagen that was probably brand new when it was left here.

I’m always surprised when I see old vehicles abandoned near trails. “A lot of times, it’s old roads where you wouldn’t expect them,” Malone says.

Though in this case, he guesses, it was probably driven off the road. We both stare at it for a few minutes, not saying anything, then proceed.

A majority of the 27 years Malone has worked for the open space district, he did so as a park ranger. “I spent 25 years telling people that they were trespassing up here,” he says. “It’s going to be great to actually invite people.” He strikes me as having a highly scientific mind, knowledgeable about details I can barely fathom. It turns out he majored in biology and

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one could drive up the road. Part of the three-year construction project to open Mount Umunhum also involved the creation of a safe road to get to the summit for those not intent on hiking up the hill. That’s fine and all, but Malone and I are going to “earn our peak.”

There’s a side trail at the far end of the parking lot, Bald Mountain Trail (0.07 miles one way), that leads to a vista overlooking San Jose and Coyote Valley. We head the other direction to the beginning of the trail. I stare at the building on top of Mount Umunhum. It looks so magical, so surreal. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would be absolutely convinced that there were alien corpses stored inside, or that “no one knew the origin of this building.” (i.e. Aliens built it, just like they did the pyramids) In fact, it’s the last remnant of the Almaden Air Force Station, a general surveillance radar station built to detect a possible Soviet attack.

The base opened in 1957 and went operational in 1958. It was part of a network of similar structures along the coast with the same purpose.

The Almaden Air Force Station closed in 1980. The Soviet attack, thankfully, never came.

At one point, there were 86 structures up there: housing, a pool, a bowling alley, a movie theater, stores. The commute was too cumbersome for base employees to get to San Jose, so they had their own community of sorts. Clearing out most of the buildings and removing hazardous waste was one of the major hurdles Midpen faced in opening the mountain to the public. It was a long process, which they finished in 2014 with federal funding. The one remaining building is the radar tower, a five-story structure that housed the antennae.

Today it’s empty—and closed to the public (a fact that will likely stir up alien conspiracy theorists, although not here)—but guests can walk right up to it. There was much debate over whether Midpen should remove the building. The agency’s board ultimately decided to keep it based on feedback from the public and a May 2016 decision by county supervisors, who added the radar

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environmental studies, graduating from UC Santa Cruz in 1989. At the time, there weren’t jobs at Midpen like the one he currently holds; his title now is the land and facilities services manager. Maintenance and park ranger work was his way in, and it was a role he enjoyed. “I tend to think of myself more as a git-’er-done guy than a planner or a scientist,” he says. At the same time, he’s thrilled at how he’s been able to apply his knowledge over the course of his career.

When I was told I’d have a guide on the trail, I figured it would be a person making sure I didn’t go off trail and damage the natural habitat. But Malone was a guide in

the truest sense of the word, and he educated me about everything we saw. He stops a little up the trail and points to a fallen tree on the left: “Oh look, a whiptail lizard,” he says. It takes me a second to see it.

The little guy is squirming around, almost snakelike.

“It’s not a rare lizard, but it’s definitely one that shows up more here because of the special environment,” he says.

We gawk at the slithering creature a moment. It reminds me of the vast array of lizards I grew up with as a kid. My land surveyor dad used

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to bring home reptiles he found while working in the hills of Santa Clara County. We had an aquarium full of them. My favorite was an alligator lizard that I used to hold.

He would wrap his tail around my arm. Nobody told me how hostile alligator lizards typically were—I was lucky he was such an anomaly.

Malone points to a tree that looks like a Douglas fir, but he tells me it’s a nutmeg, not related to the spice of the same name. You can tell it’s nutmeg and not a Douglas fir because of how spikey the needles are, he tells me. He holds a branch

out for me to touch. The razor-thin sharpness of the needles surprises me a little bit, and I stumble back.

“That smell,” I say, “is that the nutmeg?”

The scent has grown intense, but it’s a pleasant part of the outdoor experience. I feel like I can taste it.

It turns out to be nothing more than bay leaves. One reason the smells are so strong right now is that crews are still out clearing the trail, so there are fresh-cut branches and brush everywhere. Hiking is all about engaging the senses. Looking at the variety of colors of vegetation

12:00 pm Just before the mile-and-a-half marker, we see the best view yet.

It’s much of San Jose, including the tiny spot of slightly larger buildings comprising the downtown skyline.

This spot on the trail is called the Guadalupe Overlook. It surveys the Guadalupe Creek watershed.

The crew even built a special offtrail viewing area. Someone in the crew apparently stumbled in this direction when they were working on the trail and found the hidden spot. They decided to add a side trail with a deck and rails.

“If you’re planning on getting to the summit and you make it here and someone in the family’s not feeling it, you can go out and see the view there, and head back,” Malone tells me.

We stop and gaze. Why are smoggy cities so beautiful from far away? I imagine what this view would look like back when the valley was just a valley, and the air was clear—even before it was filled with orchards in the pre-Silicon Valley days. The Amah Mutsun tribe, a group within the Ohlone people, are descendants of Native Americans who lived in this general area. Umunhum, as the highest peak in the area, held a spiritual significance for the Ohlone people, who believed it to be the the site of creation in indigenous lore. (“Umunhum” means “resting place of the hummingbirds” in Ohlone.)

Midpen wanted to ensure that they paid it proper respect, and worked with the Amah Mutsun tribe to do so. They designed and built a ceremonial circle at the summit, and agreed to allow ceremonies there.

Besides the really well-graded trail, a newly designed road to get to the summit, and a nice overlook, Midpen also constructed three bridges to cross three creeks along the trail, which aren’t running at the moment but will be when it starts raining again. When we get to the first creekbed, Malone lights

up, excited to tell me about the installation of the bridges. Most of the construction happened underground and required lots of concrete. But the bridges themselves were flown in, since there weren’t nearby roads. Helicopters hovered above the creek beds, slowly lowering them into place. “I came out ceremoniously on the last day, it was an incredible amount of work just for that one day,” Malone says.

The closer we get to the top, the less we talk. After a while you get into a Zen state of hiking that transcends any pain to be felt, at least for a while. I’m starting to see the building on the top of the summit as we climb the side of the final hill. Malone feels great pride in the fact that they were able to build this trail with as little impact as possible on the ecosystem.

“When it gets to not imposing a structure on the environment, and making it blend in as much as possible, it’s still a heck of a lot of work if you do it right,” he says. “The public doesn’t really notice it.”

As we get closer to the top, we slow down. I’m nearly out of water and doing my best to keep my composure. It turns out we aren’t allowed to hike that final half mile, because crews are out working the land. Instead of getting to walk right up to the building and touch it with my own hands, we take the side trail that goes to the parking lot at the top. It’s a little anticlimactic, but I decide to check Mount Umunhum off of my list as a completed trail.

Malone and I snap a few photos, and I bask in the accomplishment for a few minutes.

“Am I the first person not associated with Open Space to hike this trail?” I ask.

He considers it, and then starts listing off people. “Consulting.

Tractors. Regulators,” he says.

“Yeah, but someone completely unaffiliated with this project?”

“We had a group of bicyclists that was outside that made a promotional video.”

“But what about a hiker?

Someone not on a bike?”

Malone thinks about it for a long pause. “I can’t say for sure,” he says.

“But maybe.”

Good enough.

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PUNTING? Gavilan College administrators have been accused of shifting blame onto players for recruiting violations.

Jr. College Football Program Accused of Racial Bias

BY CHEETO BARRERA Gavilan College faces charges of racial bias and violating Community College Athletic Association guidelines, after 17 out-of-state football players—all but one of them African American—were removed from the team last week.

The athletes received improper transportation, housing and food to violate eligibility rules, according to officials at the Gilroy junior college. But the treatment of the student-athletes has raised concerns that the dismissals may have been racially motivated.

All of the players lived in a threebedroom house in Hollister, rent free in August, on the condition that they would buy school and housing supplies and start paying rent in September. Two assistant coaches—Austin Reville and Carlos Woods, according to sources— were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, and one of them resigned. The students claim the college removed them out of racial

bias, treating them like “thugs” and “criminals,” when seven cruisers from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office and Gilroy Police Department were called to the school to inform them of their removal from the team.

Players said they were forced to hand over their phones to the administration, as well as provide access to text messages and emails. Meanwhile, they were apparently not informed of their right to an attorney. Many of the players were given plane tickets home, although administrators said they were offered a chance to stay in school, just not on the team. The players denied this claim.

“We didn’t do anything, so why are we getting kicked out of school?” said Meek Jones, one of athletes kicked off the team. Terrance Cherry, from Baltimore, said the athletes put up with overpacked living conditions because of how badly they wanted to play.

“We were willing to stay in a house

with 17 teammates, and I was willing to go broke, too, and do whatever we have to do to play football,” he said.

Gavilan officials said they hired an outside investigator after receiving information about players receiving free housing and food. Gavilan President Kathleen Rose defended staff, saying there was never a concerted effort to remove players from the team. “They were not evicted or chased out or run out on a rail, of the college,” she said.

“They could still attend Gavilan College, but they were deemed ineligible to play football.” One player, Hayden Gore, was sent home to Houston as the city deals with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Gore said he received the equivalent of a plane ticket in gas money, as no flights were available.

“Most of us were from Florida. I’m from Texas. I came across the country for this,” Gore said. “My mom gave me every last dime she had.”

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$4.7MIL San Jose’s police helicopter holds the dubious distinction of being the oldest of its kind in the nation.

The 16-year-old Air2 EC-120B, which San Jose Inside accompanied officers in during a high-speed chase last summer, is a decade past its useful lifespan, according to police Chief Eddie Garcia, who’s looking to buy a $4.7 million replacement.

The San Jose Police Department already has $3.13 million set aside— most of it from asset forfeiture, that is, property seized during criminal investigations. Garcia’s proposal, which the City Council approved on Tuesday, asks the Budget Office to figure out how to come up with the remaining $1.59 million.

In other local law enforcement news, the council on Tuesday also announced the appointment of former federal civil rights attorney Aaron Zisser as San Jose’s new independent police auditor.

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million by the end of 2016. He’s a possible labor endorsee due to his incessant power slurping. However, San Jose Councilman DON ROCHA ($138K raised) could also secure labor’s support after taking staunchly progressive positions on the San Jose City Council. The real threat to labor’s control of the county, however, comes from PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO, who despite appearing a little LEBOWSKI since terming out from the San Jose council, raised an impressive quarter-million in the first half of 2017. Oliverio’s libertarian streak would make him a disruptive force alongside Simitian. San Jose Unified school board trustee SUSAN ELLENBERG ($94K raised) could also shake things up if she nabs some institutional support, while former Campbell Mayor JASON BAKER is bringing up the rear with a little more than $50K.

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Some will remember The Seeds as the one-hit AM radio wonders responsible for “Pushin’ Too Hard,” a 1966 pop song about a girl who needs to back off. The tune is thick with the political anxieties of the time. One way to describe The Seeds is as a quartet that sounds like a quintet. Like the legendary Ray Manzarek, keyboardist Daryl Hooper held down the bass end of the bassguitar-free band on his distorted electric Wurlitzer. Recently the subject of their own documentary, this cult favorite psych garage outfit comes to San Jose with LSD and the Search for God. (RvB)

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Before Peter could fly and James Hook lost his hand to a clock-gobbling croc, there was a nameless 13-year-old orphan and a pirate with a propensity for malaprops. In Peter and the Starcatcher, we learn how Peter became an ageless wonder, how Black Stache became Captain Hook and about the age-old war between the forces of good and evil. Take a seat and prepare for high jinks on the high seas in this Tony Award-winning musical by Rick Elice. This Tabard Theatre Company production runs through Oct. 8. (PR)

A riff on one of Chekhov’s most critically acclaimed plays, Stupid Fucking Bird keeps things unconventional. In this send-up of The Seagull, the fourth wall is shattered, love triangles are tested and every character discovers just how much of a drag growing up can be. The LA Weekly called it “the best Chekhov adaptation in two decades.” Director Kirsten Brandt, who has directed in theaters throughout the South Bay, will carry the show, which kicks off with a “pay what you can night” on Thursday and a preview on Friday night. (PR)

In between teaching kids to draw and running an art supply store that transforms into a gallery once a month, Roan Victor continues to create meaningful works of art.

Working mostly with oil paints, the co-owner of The Arsenal creates works that straddle the worlds of public and private, the seen and the hidden. He shows these works in his new show titled “The Last Day of August.” Through lace linens and obscured faces, Victor homes in on that quiet and mysterious universe that exists in us all. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat, 12-5pm. The show runs through the end of September. (YK)

The Naglee Park Neighborhood Association invites dog owners to bring their four-legged friends to William Street Park to for the annual Bark in the Park event.

Whether you’re the leader of an entire pack or are simply a dog lover, all are welcome to participate. There will be a dog lookalike contest and demonstration of how border collies herd sheep. New to this year’s festival is a kids zone, puppy makeovers and a dogtheme bounce house. All of this, plus low-cost vaccines and $5 microchipping, plenty of food and drink, and more than 75 vendors selling pet products. (PR)

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Sep 25 at The Mountain Winery

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San Jose’s music scene may be resurgent across all genres, but ask any metal fan and they’ll tell you it never went anywhere. The Epicenter Heavy Music Festival aims to demonstrate the strength of local metal acts, as well as the support the genre has among South Bay denizens. Organized by Oskar Blues Brewery and Heavy San Jose, the totally packed bill will be headlined by High On Fire—the Oakland-based stoner trio led by Sleep frontman Matt Pike. Direct support comes in the form of Big Business from Seattle and Mos Generator from Port Orchard, Washington. Plus San Jose’s very own Kook. (NV)

TroyBoi is a master of tone. In a genre that all too often prioritizes cursory beauty, maximalist explosions and the instant gratification of the massive drop, the London-based producer prefers to give his listeners a single feeling to explore. Consider “O.G.” from his debut album, Left is Right—a trap affair, packed with the requisite trilling high hats, a syncopated kick-snare bounce and a gangster slow-mo refrain. Using this limited palette, he methodically adds and subtracts elements, growing and shrinking the beat, allowing it to alternate between deep and shallow breaths until it reaches its natural conclusion. (YK)

It’s a family affair for new age Norteño band SuenaTron and always will be. These sleek primos were born and bred in San Jose, and their multicultural melting pot of sounds reflects the diversity of Silicon Valley. Catch SuenaTron live in celebration of Mexican Independence Day— aka, Festival de Independencia.

SuenaTron’s experiential blend features Latin-flavored hip-hop, rich cumbia rhythms and a subtle touch of rock & roll attitude. If you’re looking for passionate play from passionate musicians, look no further. SuenaTron are joined by Larry Hernandez, Ulices Chaidez y Sus Plebes and several other Latin groups. (AJ)

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LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM & CHRISTINE MCVIE

SJ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Sun, 3pm, Free St. Joseph’s Cathedral, San Jose Whether you are devout, reborn or spiritually unavailable, take an hour on Sunday to hear the San Jose Chamber Orchestra perform an inspirational program. Donations will benefit the Cathedral Basilica St. Joseph Office of Social Ministry as well as Jewish Family Services Silicon Valley. Their goal is to alleviate homelessness and food scarcity in the community. The San Jose Chamber Orchestra also provides young artists with opportunities to work with established musicians with their Youth Orchestra program.

Playing inside the cathedral are Donna Stoering on piano, tenor Stephen Guggenheim, soprano Ronit Widmann-Levy and Erin Nolan on viola. (AJ)

Oct 14 at City National Civic

THE NEEDLE DROP: ANTHONY FANTANO Oct 25 at The Ritz

ZAC BROWN BAND

Oct 27 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

THRICE & CIRCA SURVIVE

Nov 2 at City National Civic

KATY PERRY

Nov 14 at SAP Center

THIRD EYE BLIND

Nov 14 at City National Civic

GIRAFFAGE

Nov 25 at The Ritz

THE PIXIES

Dec 10 at City National Civic

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Crazy, Stupid, Love BYE BOY Amanda Kingston as Fiordiligi and David Blalock as Ferrando in Opera San Jose’s production of ‘Così Fan Tutte.’

Opera San Jose offers a zany take on Mozart’s ‘Così Fan Tutte’

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OSÌ FAN TUTTE, one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s more tawdry operas, is making its premiere at Opera San Jose.

The production deals with the consequences of testing the limits of love and has become one of the most frequently performed operas in the world.

Considered an Opera Buffa, Così Fan Tutte departs from the normal operatic affair of gods and heroes, instead delving into the comedy found in everyday life, particularly in the arena of love.

Reminiscent of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Cymbeline—and with nods to Ovid’s Metamorphoses—the opera uses the theme of “love-swapping”

or “fiancée-swapping” as its main conceit. As such, the opera has gained a reputation for its risqué portrayals of sex.

The story opens on a fencing class.

Between duels, military officers Guglielmo and Ferrando declare the love of their women to be eternal and everlasting. A bystander and friend of the officers—the wise and cynical Don Alfonso—suggests that the men are naive in thinking that their fiancées’ love is so pure. Guglielmo and Ferrando take offense, challenging Don Alfonso to a duel.

Don Alfonso counters, wagering that he can prove all women are fickle— even the officers’ beloved Dorabella and Fiordiligi. The men accept, and soon they are pretending to be called off to war, then disguising themselves in Eastern European garb and false mustaches, as they attempt to seduce each other’s lover.

At first, Dorabella and Fiordiligi

are perplexed at their new “Albanian” guests, and are just as quick to deny their advances. But with a little finagling, lying, and with the added support of Don Alfonso (along with the ever-changing personas of chambermaid Despina), Ferrando and Guglielmo soon get in over their heads, risking their lovers for the sake of a misogynist gamble.

Set in the Baroque period, the costumes and backdrops for Così Fan Tutte are as ornate as they are minimal.

High-vaulted ballrooms make up much of the show’s scenery, with ensemble members moving in different pieces, depending on the scene. This gives the show a vignette type quality without getting lost in a variety of ambiances.

Così Fan Tutte is absurd, in the literary sense. However, Opera San Jose’s fantastic cast of performers help immensely with the suspension of disbelief. It’s the actors that define these scenes, and the small but tight cast sees the show through to a funny, heartwarming end.

Malcolm MacKenzie strikes a delicate balance with Don Alfonso— painting the man as both conniving

and disarmingly charismatic.

MacKenzie's voice is deep, yet warm and textured, cresting on high notes before expanding into mellifluous refrains. The men and women players here share an undeniable chemistry.

Ferrando and Guglielmo pair well with Dorabella and Fiordiligi— mirroring each other in reactions and affectations, which ultimately roots the comedy of the show in the intimacy of interpersonal relationships.

David Blalock as Ferrando is loose and goofy, with a voice that is carefully tempered, only lashing out gallantly in opportune moments.

Ferrando is the messier of the pair, which gives the character more believability and provides more room for physical comedy.

Colin Ramsey as Guglielmo is less animated but makes up for it with a killer voice, so deep and poised it almost betrays his delicate features.

Cassandra Zoé Velasco as Dorabella is both astute and suggestive, with a strong voice that is as striking as it is thoughtful—almost wise in its delivery.

Amanda Kingston as Fiordiligi is equally gullible and prone to emotion, which she transmits through a delicate voice that seems to rise up from silence, wavering until it explodes in exuberant, animated crescendos.

Maria Valdes as Despina is crafty, shrewd and motivated to bring some color to her banal position in life. Her voice is sad but strong, almost sly, which is emblematic of her character. She steals many scenes with her libidinous antics.

Together, the cast weaves a funny, cartoonish tale. The music is light and breezy to match, consisting of many lush harmonies and refrains, with even the most uproarious vocal performances retaining a quiet sublimity.

Speaking of quiet sublimity, the costumes consist of fine trims, gilded textures and coiffed hairstyles, giving the show a certain understated elegance.

And that’s what ultimately makes Opera San Jose’s Così Fan Tutte—the details.

With this production, Opera San Jose succeeds in centering the poignant beauty of the intimate moment over loud, flashy operatics.

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IN THE AIR Robert Burden’s ‘Flight,’ oil on canvas, will be on display at the Palo Alto Art Center’s new exhibit.

The Art of ‘Play!’

KIDS HAVE KNOWN it for ages and scientists are finally catching up. Inspired by new studies that show playtime is crucial to our psychological well-being, the Palo Alto Art Center presents “Play!”—an art exhibition that’s all about embracing the inner child.

“This program came out of the idea that we all need more play in our lives,” says Karen Kienzle, director of the art center. Whereas some associate fun and games with immature and even wasteful behavior, perceptions of play have undergone a much-needed shift in our favor.

“We used to think play was ‘not working,’ but research shows that it’s critical to the social and intellectual development of children,” Kienzle says. “Play is also really vital for adults, as a form of stress relief but also to promote innovative thinking.”

In homage to this precious pastime, the art center is showcasing a body of work that speaks to the power of unencumbered imagination. Featuring both local and international artists, it’s a show for all ages—whether you’re two feet tall or well beyond growing pains.

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Original music by James Sugg, directed by Kirsten Brandt

Sep 15, 7pm, Free Palo Art Center, Palo Alto cityofpaloalto.org

Each of the 22 pieces on display evoke the spirit of play in some way. The free-floating metallic balloons of Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds installation immerses visitors in a make-believe realm of outer space. In another room, 72 Hoberman spheres hang from the ceiling as part of Berlin-based artist Nils Volker’s installation—Bits and Pieces. Prompted by micro-controllers, the iconic toys expand and contract in mid-air, creating breath-like waves of movement through space.

“We want to showcase to people that play is something we all need in our lives,” Kienzle says. “It promotes innovation, it keeps us happy and healthy. We’re hoping to give people an opportunity to be playful, at least during the time they're in the gallery.”

The exhibit runs through Dec. 29. Over the course of the show, the art center will hold a series of public programs and hands-on activities for its first ever “Season of Play.” The free kick-off event will feature mini golf, art activities, ice cream and a cash bar, among other things.

Kids, bring your adults and show them how to have fun at the opening celebration of “Play!” on Sep. 15. —Camille Miller

A LT E R N AT I V E P R E S S E X P O SEPTEMBER 23-24 SAN JOSE CONVENTION CENTER SOUTH HALL Guest Artists

JHONEN VASQUEZ Johnny the Homicidal Maniac Invader Zim (SATURDAY ONLY) JOHN “DERF” BACKDERF My Friend Dahmer Trashed www.alternativepressexpo.com

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Si Se Puede NO MAS UVAS A new documentary on UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta comes to Camera 3. She is scheduled to appear.

‘Dolores’ chronicles the incredible life of the UFW’s co-founder

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ETER BRATT’S documentary Dolores will make an audience feel braver about the current political situation— it’ll put some steel in their spines. Bratt gives deserved attention to Dolores Huerta, the co-founder of the United Farm Worker’s union. She fought side by side with the more famous Caesar Chavez (and fought against him sometimes, too).

It’s an amazing story. A two-time divorcee from Stockton with 11 children battled the machismo of

the UFW, as well as the growers who ran their fiefdoms with a squalor equaled only in the American South.

The historical footage shows it all: filthy shacks, harvesters dipping water out of a barrel still stenciled with a pesticide label, and farmworkers in fields so freshly sprayed with poison that some San Joaquin Valley farm towns became host for birth defects and cancer clusters.

Huerta was a shrewd, handsome woman and a commanding speaker.

She brought in followers, many of them female: hard to resist the appeal of an activist job that offers $5 a week and all you can eat. San Jose’s Luis Valdez, on camera here, joined the workers to create some street theater.

The UFW’s fight culminated in a long march to Sacramento, under the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

As the organization’s fame spread, 1968 Democratic presidential frontrunner Robert F. Kennedy arrives in Kern County with a UFW badge on his lapel, to talk tough to the local sheriff who’d been making Minority Report-style arrests of the protestors he thought were likely to commit a crime.

Huerta was at the Ambassador Hotel on RFK’s last night alive.

Interviewee Gloria Steinem sums up the tragedy: “You’re used to the experience of the death of the past.

It’s a different thing to experience the death of the future.” What was to come were political reactionaries on parade. Then-Gov. Ronald Reagan called the UFW’s grape boycott “illegal and immoral”—brilliant thoughts from a former union president. And we see Richard Nixon gobbling up some grapes for the cameras. The U.S. government bought the boycotted grapes and shipped them to the troops in Vietnam, doing its part to interfere in a strike.

Given the size of the giants she was fighting, it’s surprising Huerta could keep her focus. The expansion of the farmworkers protest into the larger 1960s movement helped get the message across, as grape and lettuce boycotts led to picket lines around major supermarkets. The way the story is usually told, the movement splits up into factions and peters out.

In this version, the women’s struggle actually helped the cause out, getting Huerta access to influential friends. The UFW piggybacked on environmental protests to ask serious questions about the DDT that agribusiness was using.

As for her many children, Huerta farmed them to friends and relations as she travelled. The toll on these sons and daughters was extreme, as we learn from them. Gossip about Huerta’s personal life was used against her. When Chavez died, and was laid out in a plain pine box with rope handles, it seemed that Huerta would have been a natural to head the union she co-founded. It didn’t work out that way.

Huerta became an all purpose social justice warrior, seen wherever the action was: marching for abortion rights, or on the picket line at Standing Rock. In 1988, when she was at an AIDS protest, an SFPD riot cop’s baton broke three of her ribs and ruptured her spleen; at age 58 she was hospitalized and left bedridden for months.

Bratt illuminates this injury with a montage of the past events we’ve seen—“her life flashing before her eyes” seems to be what we’re supposed to think. It’s a dubious idea, because Huerta remains mysterious—we hear about her love of music and dance, but there’s no key to her bravery, her unwillingness to succumb to rage or grief.

The secret must be hers—a commitment you only see in one in a million people. At press time, the 87-year-old Huerta is slated for a visit to the Camera 3 on Sept. 18, on behalf of the South Bay Jewish Voice for Peace, and the non-profit foundation that bears her name.

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This exceptionally well-made Stephen King adaptation opens with a redo of the money scene remembered from those who saw the 1990 mini-series: during a downpour, we see the ill-fated cruise of the SS Georgie down the gutter and into the maw of Hell, and the bad clown emerging from the water, like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now. One misses Tim Curry’s malignant heartiness, that barking Yankee accent: “Ah’m Pennywise! The Dancing Clown!”

As a prankish, unnamable and multi-formed evil, Bill Skarsgard is less Bad Bozo than something like cartoonist Chester Brown’s Ed the Happy Clown, only with teeth like an angler fish. CG and some good prosthetics allow his golden, snake-like eyes to wheel in their sockets, and to bring a sense of dust and fracture to his chalk-white, bulbous forehead.

The sprawl of King’s tome-length novel took a three-screenwriter trim, which means a couple more characters are here than you can really keep track of. But director Andres Muschietti (of the highly frightening Guillermo del Toro collaboration Mama) focuses the visceral impact of kids bullied by the agents of a supernatural horror—former children who spent a lot of their youths getting chased may get PTSD from remembering. The appeal in this movie is the banding together of the persecuted, which (because of the size of the source novel) falls into some kind of generic categories of The Fellowship of the Tormented: the Wheezer, the Jewish Kid, the Black Kid, the Fatty, the Stutterer. And then there’s the Slut-Shamed Girl, Beverly, whose father has an unnatural interest in her. Here is the actor who holds the movie together, Sophia Lillas—a slim redheaded 15 year old with a wink that can be measured in milliseconds, able to pose as a devastating flirt (she’s excellent at manipulating the potato-faced, turnip-brained adults of Derry, Maine). Lillas’ self-assurance and bravery is a tribute to her craft, and thus the toning down of the more scandalous page-turning stuff from the novel was kind of a blessing: you don’t want to see her hurt that badly. If Lilllas doesn’t become a huge star it’ll be a bigger surprise than anything that happens here. Popups of lovable old Pennywise through a

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projectionist’s screen or a pool of slime cause plenty of spinal glissandos, and occasional yelps— that clown is fast! When it finishes in a kind of generic haunted house, expect some disappointment, but then be relieved by the way this movie sources Poltergeist and Beetlejuice. Monsters galore; once you see this, you’ll never be comfortable with a Modigliani again…and the POV shot from the Misbehaving Painting’s ‘eye’, as it were, as it is being straightened on the wall, was ingenious. It could have gone further down the rabbit hole in design and the depths of the uncanny, but then it would have resembled the series that came later, that may well have borrowed its ideas of small towns, unsolvable murders, incest and protean evil: Twin Peaks.

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Revivals KEY LARGO/WHITE HEAT

(1949/1946) Holed up in a stormbattered hotel in the middle of nowhere in Florida, an ex-Army major (Bogart) who "fights nobody's battles but his own" comes to the rescue of a crippled old man (Lionel Barrymore) and his daughter (Lauren Bacall). The pair are cornered by a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) and his four bodyguards (including Thomas Gomez, from Force of Evil). Talky and studio-bound, but uncannily atmospheric, thanks to Karl Freund's photography; the fascist gangster Johnny Rocco is a later version of Robinson's character in Public Enemy, gorged on blood and rich living, and looking, as one critic described him, as “a crustacean without his shell.”

BILLED WITH White Heat. The snarling psycho Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) has one good point: he sure loves his mama (Margaret Wycherly, who still lets her big bad baby sit on her lap).

Cagney returned to the gangster roles he’d done in the 1930s with a postwar bleakness silhouetting him: “the old knock-down-drag‘em-out again,” he complained in his autobiography. Thus, thinking of the real life case of gangster Ma Barker and her brood, Cagney said he had the idea to make Jarrett “psychologically tied to his mother’s apron strings.” One of the most electrifying film noirs, with an incandescent ending worthy of the title. Directed by Raoul Walsh. (Sep 14-15 at the Stanford Theater.) (RvB)

WASTED Michael Keaton’s talents are squandered in ‘American Assassin.’

Shooting Blanks IN SKYFALL, DANIEL Craig’s aging James Bond missed the center of the paper target he was shooting at. Frustrated, he strode toward it, still shooting. This showed our hero’s spirit as his body failed him—the sword outwearing the sheath, in Byron’s phrase. In American Assassin, when Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) leaps into the nogo zone in a live shooting range to keep blasting at the paper target he’s already shredded, it’s not indomitability, it’s idiocy.

The assassin trainer Stan Hurley (a squandered Michael Keaton, pursing his lips until you think they’re going to burst) explains the plot for those who came in late: “Some bad people are planning some bad things, and it’s your job to stop them.”

In this telling, Rapp becomes a martial artist and freelance hunter of terrorists after Islamomaniacs shot his fiancée: they’d only been engaged for three minutes! This prep-school dropout and Brown University grad student learned perfect Arabic and Koranic trivia as well as mixed martial arts and was just about to ice a terrorist cell leader in Tunisia when The Company picked him up. Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) is a maternal deputy director who can’t get over Rapp’s test scores.

“He’s off the charts…he’s through the roof !” she exclaims. (And, as if we need new ways to convey this: “He’s a thousand times smarter than God!”)

Hurley is not so impressed with Rapp’s impulsiveness, and tries to electroshock the vengeful punk out of him.

Some plutonium turns up missing and, ready or not, Rapp and his foreign counterpart Annika (Shiva Negar) must go from Istanbul to Rome to track down the men responsible. In charge is a mysterious mercenary called “Ghost” American (Taylor Kitsch) whose Assassin secret back story will also be familiar to those who R; 115 Mins. watched Skyfall.

Valleywide The roster of once2.5 stars proud scriptwriters on the out of 10 credits shows the talent that went into updating and finessing Vince (24) Flynn’s ultra-rightwing supermarket-novel hero Rapp into a movie character. Director Michael Cuesta goes through the motions, with Enrique Chediak’s photography bringing out the dirty haze in the cities, as if the threatened nuclear disaster had already occurred.

From the initial wanton terror attack, to the torturing of the blubbery Iranian physicist, to the big finale (“Starring the Sixth Fleet as Itself ”) there’s not a particle of style. O’Brien is athletic, dogged and uninteresting; American Assassin is of a piece with other 2017 action flicks that are turning our multiplexes into mausoleums.

—Richard von Busack

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Strange Days SELF TAUGHT San Jose veteran pop punk trio The Odd Numbers look back on a life of music on new full-length, ‘The Oddyssey.’

The Odd Numbers celebrate, ‘The Oddyssey,’ first LP in 16 years

BY NICK VERONIN

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AVE BAISA DOESN’T mince his words.

Perhaps he gets that from his job: tending bar often requires a highly direct manner of speaking. Or maybe it’s all the practice he’s gotten drawing boundaries and explaining the world to his kids. Then again, it’s probably both—plus the fact that as the frontman for The Odd Numbers, Baisa has been distilling his thoughts into punchy skatepunk songs for 30 years.

“We did a lot in the early years,” Baisa says, looking back at the time he spent touring Europe and the U.S. with The Odd Numbers back in the early ’90s. “We had a chance to make it a little bigger. But things went kinda sour for us and we missed a bunch of opportunities.”

For those unfamiliar with the veteran San Jose band’s history, Baisa is referring to the grisly motorcycle wreck that sidelined The Odd Numbers for months. It was the summer of 1995 and the band wrapped a gig in England when the band’s drummer, John Cummings, hopped on the back of a bike after far too many drinks.

“He basically lopped his leg off,” Baisa says. “They saved it, but he was in a hospital for months.”

After that, things were never really the same—especially for Cummings.

“It freaked us out,” Baisa says. The band eventually picked up another drummer and kept going, but the momentum they lost on that tour was hard to make up for.

The Odd Numbers released two more records after the accident, but by the time the aughts rolled around, they were all in their early 30s, starting families and looking at dialing back the rock & roll lifestyle.

“You just can’t keep on getting into the van after a while,” he says.

For many, these details would merely serve as fodder for Uncle Rico-esque lamentations of what might have been. But in the hands of Baisa and his bandmates, Dave Miller (bass and vocals) and Dave Conrad (drums and vocals), these experiences and many more form the foundation of The Odd Numbers fifth album, The Oddyssey—the trio’s first LP in 16 years.

True to form, Baisa doesn’t waste any time getting to the point. “So through a series of events I found myself still alive,” he sings on album opener “Teach Myself,” a poppy, propulsive punk song that clocks in at just under two minutes and thirty seconds, and features a chorus that celebrates the hard lessons that only failure can teach: “I don’t mind falling down; I like to, I know that,” Baisa sings. “The only way I’ll ever learn is if I teach myself.”

Writing the new record, Baisa says, he and his bandmates realize that they’ve managed to teach themselves quite a bit over the course of 30 years. “This band truly has been on an odyssey,” he says.

“We’ve been playing together basically all of our mature lives.”

‘Playing in front of people still totally inspires me’ Even over the last decade and a half, while the band hasn’t released anything new, they’ve continued to play one off shows, and Baisa says they still get inquiries from fans and interested promoters. Now that his kids—and the children of his bandmates have grown older—he says The Odd Numbers are looking at hitting the road again, albeit in a more restrained manner than when they were in their early 20s.

After they celebrate the release of The Oddyssey with a show at The Ritz this Friday, Baisa says The Odd Numbers plan to go on a series of short tours around the U.S. and aim to return to Europe; they’ve always had a following in Sweden, he notes.

“I’m super excited about it,” Baisa says of the prospect of hitting the road and getting on stage again. “Playing in front of people still totally inspires me,” he says. “That’s what it’s all about—learning to live through rock.”

Disclosure: Dave Miller also works for Metro Silicon Valley.

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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop ART BOUTIKI Fri, Sep 15, 7:30pm: Ned and the Dirt, JWB, Mt Meru, Curtiss & King. San Jose.

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.

Jazz/Blues/ World JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

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

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

THE CARAVAN Every Mon: Tooth and Nail DJ Night. Every first Tue of the month 9:30 pm: Not So Trivial Tuesday Rock DJ Set. Thu, Sep 14, Rob Jurassic. Fri, Sep 15, The Captain’s Son, Uncommon Evolution. Sat, Sep 16, Acid Teeth, The Sea Wolves, Some Kind of Nightmare. San Jose.

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrarra. Fri, Sep 15, The Rockafellas. Sat, Sep 17, Math Class. 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.

CHARLEY'S LG Every Fri & Sat: Live Music & DJs. Los Gatos.

CITY NATIONAL CIVIC Sat, Sep 16, 8pm: TroyBoi. San Jose.

AGAVE

Fri, Sep 15, 5:30pm: Brick House.

Sat, Sep 16, 5:30pm: Chain of Fools. Mon, Sep 18: Bourbon Cocktail Class by Bulliet. Los Gatos.

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.

MOUNTAIN WINERY

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Fri, Sep 15, 7:30pm: Donald Fagen and the Nightflyers. Sat, Sep 16, 7:30pm: Pepper, Tribal Seeds. Tue, Sep 19, 7:30pm: Michael Franti. Saratoga.

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

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

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

Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson.

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

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.

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

Thu, Sep 14, 8:30pm: Jacques Lesure Quartet. Fri, Sep 15, 9pm: Kev Choice Ensemble. Sat, Sep 16, 8:30pm: SJZ Presents Pablo Caminero Trio. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI THE RITZ Wed, Sep 13, 8pm: The Vibrators, The Trouble With Monkeys, The Defenders. Thu, Sep 14, 8pm: The Seeds. Fri, Sep 15, 8pm: The Odd Numbers. Sat, Sep 16, 5pm: High on Fire, Big Business, Mos Generator, Holy Grove, Future Usses, Brume, Kook, Mesmer.

San Jose.

SAP CENTER Sun, Sep 17, 7pm: Hall & Oates, Tears for Fears. San Jose.

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

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Fri, Sep 15, 7pm: Muse, 30 Seconds To Mars. Mountain View.

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

Every Tue, 7pm: Open Mic Night.

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

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

Fri, Sep 15, 7:30pm: Rebecca DuMaine and the Dave Miller Trio. Sat, Sep 16, 7:30pm: Amy Dabalos Quartet. Saratoga.

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

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrara (jazz).

Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Every Fri: Salsa Spot. Wed, Sep 13, 6:30pm: Junior Watson.

Fri, Sep 15, 8pm: N’Rumba.

Redwood City.

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CONVERSATIONAL KEYS Acclaimed pianist Kenny Barron says playing jazz is like speaking a language.

Piano Barron When he was 19 years old, pianist Kenny Barron got a call from Dizzy Gillespie.

Based on myriad recommendations, the legendary band leader wanted Barron to join his ensemble, even though he’d never heard him play a note. On the taxicab ride over, Gillespie’s bass player gave a snap rehearsal, demonstrating the chords and rhythms that Barron half-knew anyway. He possessed a precocious calm as he had been performing by that time for five years.

“When we finally got to the gig, it all fell into place,” Barron recalls. “It's one of the great things about jazz: you take people who have never played together before and you can make great music because there's a shared language that we all know. So just like in English, we can have interesting conversations.”

This sort of no-matter-what dependability has characterized the career of the now 74-year-old, widely regarded within jazz circles as among the greatest, most influential living pianists. Barron has appeared on hundreds of recordings—both as a bandleader and an accompanist to such names as Ella Fitzgerald and Stan Getz. He has also contributed to the scores of Spike Lee films, including Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing.

Kenny Barron Trio Sep 14, 8pm, $53+ Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto paloaltojcc.org

Renowned for his finesse on the keys, Barron credits his chief influences: Tommy Flanagan and Hank Jones—the former tinkled away as Marilyn Monroe sang her famously steamy birthday song to John F. Kennedy. While playing, Barron never seems rushed, moving his fingers at the whimsy of his emotions and instincts while executing with technical perfection.

“It's not my desire to be bombastic and play as fast as I can and be like, ‘Watch me,’” he says. “No, that's not what I'm into. Hopefully, I want to play a ballad to make you cry.”

This week, Barron will play with his eponymous trio—featuring bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Justin Faulkner—both of whom are a handful of decades shy of their 70s. But Barron, like Gillespie before him, values what youth can bring to a group.

“They definitely keep me on my toes,” he says. “I tend to want to play with younger people. You play with older people, it's different. The sound may be smoother, but when you play with younger guys, they kind of kick you in the butt, which is a good thing. It's an adventure every time we sit down to play.” —John Flynn

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Sun, Sep 17, 7:30pm: Il Divo.

Saratoga.

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

JJ’S BLUES

MISSION PIZZA

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

Campbell.

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

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ

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.

MOUNTAIN WINERY

Comedy Show with host Mr. Walker. San Jose.

IMPROV Fri-Sun, Sep 15-17, 7pm: Felipe Esparza. 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 Thu: Acoustic Music Nights.

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

Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Fri-Sun, Sep 15-17: Jackie Kashian. Sunnyvale.

PIONEER SALOON

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE

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

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

Karaoke

Sun, Sep 17, Jim Gaffigan.

Mountain View.

Thu, Sep 14, 7:30pm: Cafe Tacvba.

Saratoga.

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

Every Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed night: J.C. Smith Jam. Los Gatos.

O’FLAHERTY’S Every Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún.

San Jose.

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

RED ROCK COFFEE

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

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

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SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE

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

Sat, Sep 16: Florida Georgia Line, Nelly and Chris Lane. Mountain View.

SAP CENTER

Open Mic/ Comedy

Sat, Sep 16, 8pm: Marc Antonio Solis. San Jose.

BACK BAR

Every Mon, 7pm: Open Mic Night.

Mountain View.

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I’ve been with my boyfriend for nine months. We are both in our late 20s and go out drinking a lot with our friends. I’ve noticed that when he’s drunk, he’ll be super affectionate and say really gushy things about me, our getting married, etc. Are his true feelings coming out, or is he just talking lovey-dovey because of the booze?—Bridal Hopes You’ve got to be wondering what it would take for you two to live happily ever after…cirrhosis?

Many people insist that their personality changes dramatically when they’re all likkered up. Remind them of some outrageous thing they did the other night at the bar and they’ll go all protesty—“But that wasn’t the real me!” The reality is, research on drinking’s effects on personality by clinical psychologist Rachel Winograd finds that beyond one area of personality—extroversion, which increases slightly in drunken people—we’re all pretty much the same jerks (or whatever) that we are when we’re sober.

This consistency that Winograd and her colleagues observe makes sense vis-a-vis how psychologists find that personality has a strong genetic component and involves habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior. (There are five major personality dimensions: conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, openness to experience, and extroversion.) And though the Winograd team did find a small increase in extroversion, a body of research finds that personality traits are largely consistent across time and situations.

However, the skeptic in you might ask: If personality doesn’t change after, say, three Sriracha margaritas, how come we’ve all seen people behaving differently when they’re sauced? Well, according to research by social psychologists Claude M. Steele and Robert A. Josephs, the behavioral changes of drunken excess appear to be caused not by alcohol itself but by alcohol-driven changes in perception that they call “alcohol myopia.”

Alcohol appears to restrict attention, giving a person a sort of tunnel vision for whatever’s right in front of them.

To explain this more simply, alcohol basically turns a person into the chimp version of themselves, focusing on whatever’s right in their face and experiencing simple basic emotions in response, like fear, lust, anger or blubbering affection. Meanwhile, alcohol diminishes their ability for mental processing of any complexity—most notably the sort of

thinking that normally leads a person to say, “Well, on the other hand…”

Interestingly, the research on alcohol myopia debunks a widely believed myth—the assumption that getting drunk will necessarily lead a person to be much less inhibited. It may, but it may also lead the other way—to increased inhibition and less risk taking. Recall that whatever’s right in front of the sloshed person’s face tends to drive how restrained or unrestrained their behavior is.

A fascinating example of this comes from field research by psychologist Tara MacDonald and her colleagues. Patrons entering a bar got their hands stamped— seemingly just to allow them to re-enter without standing in line again. Some had their hands stamped with the ominous warning “AIDS KILLS.” Others got a circle containing the nebulous statement “SAFE SEX” or—in the control group—a smiley face. The 372 hand-stamped participants were later divided into two groups based on blood alcohol level. (Those with a blood alcohol level that was 0.08 percent or above were the “intoxicated group.”)

The researchers found that the “intoxicated” people with the smiley or “SAFE SEX” stamp were more likely than sober participants to have sex without a condom. However, intoxicated people with the fear-inducing “AIDS KILLS” message expressed less willingness to have unprotected sex than even sober people the researchers surveyed. This is right in line with how alcohol leads to “tunnel vision” that makes whatever’s right in front of a person especially prominent.

Getting back to your boyfriend’s drunken mushygushies, consider how the tunnel vision of alcohol myopia likely plays out for him as he looks at you in the moment at the bar: “She’s so sparkly and nice…” What’s missing, however, is all the adult complexity—all that “on the other hand…” thinking that he’d likely do in more sober moments: whether you two can make it as lifelong partners, whether he’s up for creating little people who’d call him Daddy, etc. In other words, there’s probably some stuff he still needs to figure out. But give it some time.

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

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This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/03/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Joseph Camacho. Managing Member. #2017706110319. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/03/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Prana Nutrition & Wellness, 982 Kiser Drive, San Jose, CA, 95120, Debra Dixon Glusker. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/24/2017. /s/Debra Dixon Glusker. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/17/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633099 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: All Blue Global Shipping Co., 1728 Quimby Rd., San Jose, CA, 95122, Calvin V. Gong. 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/Calvin V. Gong. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/18/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632992 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Rock Church, UPC, 929 Weddell Court, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, United Pentecostal Church Of Mt View, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/25/2009. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kathleen Reyes. Secretary/Treasurer. #C0421630. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633085

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Malone Hair Salon, 1109 Malone Rd., San Jose, CA, 95125, Anthony Kien Tran, 738 Hellyer Ave., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/24/2017. /s/Anthony Tran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633309

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mosaics By Sharice, 2949 Faircliff Court, San Jose, CA, 95125, Sharice Rolando. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/31/2017. /s/Sharice Rolando. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/31/2017. (pub Metro 9/06, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: California Landscaping Services, 4661 Tango Way, San Jose, CA, 95111, Norma Yesenia Topete, 4500 Old Mill Ct., Salida, CA, 95368. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/22/2017. /s/Norma Y. Topete. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/28/2017. (pub Metro 9/06, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632575 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Taco Annex, 387 South First Street, Suite 109, San Jose, CA, 95113, Konjoe Izakaya LLC, 1389 Marcello Drive, San Jose, CA, 95131. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/03/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Joseph Camacho. Managing Member. #201414110013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/03/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Incolor Express, 824 W. Ahwanee Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, Ad International., LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Amir Ajanee. Manager. #201718010424. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/18/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632245

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Graphics One, 824 W. Ahwanee Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, Ad International., LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/12/2017.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Amir Ajanee. Manager. #201718010424. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/18/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Seeing Things Gallery, 751 West San Carlos St., San Jose, CA, 95126, Jai Tanju, 551 South 6th St., APT A. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/07/2017.

Refile of previous file #571665 with changes /s/Jai Tanju. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/07/2017. (pub Metro 8/23, 8/30, 9/06, 9/13/2017)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #9633373 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: San Jose Orthopedic Center, 1604 Blossom Hill Road, Suite A, San Jose, CA, 95124, James Petros MD Inc., 1610 Blossom Hill Road. STE 12, San Jose, CA, 95124.

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/Kenia Ortiz. Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/28/2017. (pub Metro 9/06, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CEO 1 Spa, 1941 Tully Rd., #15, San Jose, CA, 95122, Nyceo, 916 Sone Glen Ct., San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Giao Nguyen. 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)

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STE 12, San Jose, CA, 95124. 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/Kenia Ortiz. Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/28/2017. (pub Metro 9/06, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/2017)

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

Matterlight IP, 2. Stephen M. De Klerk Attorney at Law, 2033 Gateway Place, 5th Floor, San Jose, CA, 95110, Stephen M. DeKlerk, 5557 Copeland Pl., San Jose, CA, 95124. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/30/2017. /s/Stephen M. De Klerk. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/30/2017. (pub Metro 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, 10/04/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gotcha Tea House, 1694 Berryessa Road, San Jose, CA, 95133, Toan B Ngo, 503 Rainwell Dr., San Jose, CA, 95133. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/23/2017. /s/Toan B. Ngo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/24/2017. (pub Metro 9/06, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/2017)

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Above entity was formed in the state of Delware. /s/ Aaron Goodnow. Managing Member. #201709710545.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/18/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Michael J. Shane aka Michael James Shane. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: James J Ramoni, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: November 3, 2017, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110 408-7584200 (Pub CC 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two animals are pictured prominently on Australia’s coat of arms: the kangaroo and the large flightless bird known as the emu. One of the reasons they were chosen is that both creatures rarely walk backward.

They move forward or not at all. Australia’s founders wanted this to symbolize the nation’s pledge to never look back, to remain focused on advancing toward the future. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make a similar commitment, Aries. Is there a new symbol you might adopt to inspire your intention?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Simpsons is an animated sitcom that will soon begin its 29th consecutive year on TV. During its run, it has told over 600 stories. The creators of another animated sitcom, South Park, once did an episode entitled “Simpsons Already Did It,” which referenced their feelings that it was hard to come up with new tales because their rival had already used so many good ones. I bring this up, Taurus, because I suspect your life story will soon be spinning out novel plots that have never before been seen, not even on The Simpsons or South Park. You could and should be the Best Storyteller of the Month.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Love won’t exactly be

free in the coming weeks, but there should be some good deals. And I’m not referring to risky blackmarket stuff obtained in back alleys, either. I mean straightforward liaisons and intriguing intimacy at a reasonable cost. So if you’re comfortably mated, I suggest you invest in a campaign to bring more comedy and adventure into your collaborative efforts. If you’re single, wipe that love-starved look off your face and do some exuberant windowshopping. If you’re neither comfortably mated nor single, money may temporarily be able to buy you a bit more happiness.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The current state of your fate reminds me of the sweet confusion alluded to in Octavio Paz’s poem “Between Going and Staying”: “All is visible and elusive, all is near and can’t be touched.” For another clue to the raw truth of your life right now, I’ll quote the poet William Wordsworth. He spoke of “fleeting moods of shadowy exultation.” Is the aura described by Paz and Wordsworth a problem that you should try to fix? Is it detrimental to your heroic quest? I don’t think do. Just the opposite, really: I hope you can hang out for a while in this pregnant mystery— between the yes and the no, between the dark and the light, between the dream and the reality. It will help you learn what you’ve been too restless to tune in to in the past.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The imminent future will be a favorable time for refurbished models and revived originals. They are likely to be more fun and interesting the second time around. I suspect that this will also be an auspicious phase for substitutes and alternatives. They may even turn out to be better than the so-called real things they replace.

So be artful in formulating Plan B and Plan C, Leo. Switching over to backups may ultimately bring out more of the best in you and whisk you toward your ultimate goal in unexpected ways.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming weeks, you might want to read the last few pages of a book before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing. I also suggest you take what I just said as a useful metaphor to apply in other areas.

In general, it might be wise to surmise the probable outcomes of games, adventures, and experiments before you get totally involved. Try this fun exercise: Imagine you are a psychic prophet as you evaluate the long-range prospects of any influences that are vying to play a role in your future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dear Dr. Astrology: I’m feeling lost, but am also feeling very close to finding my new direction. It hurts! It would be so helpful if I could just catch a glimpse of that new direction. I’d be able to better endure the pain and confusion if I could get a tangible sense of the future happiness that my pain and confusion are preparing me for. Can you offer me any free advice? -Lost Libra.” Dear Libra: The pain and confusion come from the dying of the old ways. They need to die a bit more before the new

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direction will reveal itself clearly. I predict that will happen soon—no later than October 1.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Welcome to “Compose

Your Own Oracle,” a special edition of Free Will Astrology. Departing from tradition, I’m temporarily stepping aside so you can have the freedom to write the exact horoscope you want. Normally, you might be in danger of falling victim to presumptuous arrogance if you imagined you could wield complete control over how your destiny unfolds. But in the days ahead, that rule won’t be as unyielding, because cosmic forces will be giving you more slack than usual. Fate and karma, which frequently impel you to act according to patterns that were set in place long ago, are giving you at least a partial respite. To get the maximum benefit out of “Compose Your Own Oracle,” identify three plot developments you’d like to weave into a self-fulfilling prophecy for your immediate future.

Then start weaving.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Almost twothirds of us confess that if we are alone, we might sip milk directly from the carton rather than first pouring it into a glass. Fourteen percent of us have used milk as part of our sexual activities. One out of every five of us admit that we have “borrowed” someone else’s milk from the fridge at work. Most shockingly, four percent of us brag that we have blown milk out our noses on purpose. I expect that in the next two weeks, you Sagittarians will exceed all these norms. Not just because you’ll be in the mood to engage in mischievous experiments and playful adventures with milk, but because you’re likely to have a loosey-goosey relationship with almost everything.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming weeks

will an excellent time for you to raise funds in support of political prisoners, or to volunteer at a soup kitchen, or to donate blood at a blood bank. In fact, any charitable service you perform for people you don’t know will be excellent for your physical and mental health. You can also generate vivid blessings for yourself by being extra thoughtful, kind, and generous toward people you care for. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when unselfish acts will yield maximum selfish benefits.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his novel The

Jungle, muckraker Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) exposed the abominable hygiene and working conditions of the meat-packing industry. The uproar that followed led to corrective legislation by the U.S. Congress.

Sinclair remained devoted to serving the public good throughout his career. He liked to say that the term “social justice” was inscribed on his heart. Drawing from his inspiration, Aquarius, I suggest you decide what your soul’s main motto is—and imagine that it is written on your heart. Now is the perfect moment to clarify your life’s purpose and intensify your commitment to it; to devote even more practical, tender zeal to fulfilling the reason you were born.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You know that “patch of bothersome weeds” growing right in the middle of your life? Is it really a patch of bothersome weeds?

Or is it perhaps a plot of cultivated blooms that once pleased you but has now turned into a puzzling irrelevancy? Or how about this possibility: Is it a chunk of languishing beauty that might flourish and please you again if it were cared for better? Those are excellent questions for you to pose in the coming days, Pisces. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to decide on the future of this quizzical presence.

Homework: Are you ready for an orgy of gratitude? Identify 10 of your best blessings.

Tell me all about it at Freewillastrology.com.

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

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Street Explorers BIKE TO THE FUTURE Viva CalleSJ has become an annual tradition to celebrate pockets of San Jose.

San Jose’s annual pavement activation returns with Viva CalleSJ

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ITH ITS THIRD incarnation this year, Viva CalleSJ, an adventurous open streets initiative, will add more length of road and a wider smorgasbord of activities along the route. For 2017, the gig is titled, Downtown and Eastbound: El Corazon, and it will close off streets from Japantown to the East Side, and on to Lake Cunningham.

Inspired by similar open streets initiatives throughout North America and the world, Viva CalleSJ is a temporary autonomous zone created by closing several miles of San Jose

streets and shutting them off to cars for a day. People from anywhere can walk, bike, skate, play and explore the city in ways they don’t normally get to do. It’s not a race.

With the road closed to automobiles, everyone takes to the streets however they want, in either direction. There is no end and no beginning. Businesses along the streets often get nervous until they understand just how many more potential customers will come their way thanks to the streets being filled with tons of people, everyone as free as the wind.

Each year the route is different.

This time the party begins at Seventh and Jackson streets in Japantown, heads west to Third Street, and then south to Santa Clara Street. From there, it goes all the way east down Santa Clara to Alum Rock Village before heading south on White Road

to Lake Cunningham Park. The total distance is just over six miles.

At each end and along the way, key activity hubs will feature vendors, activities, artists, dancers and all sorts of unexpected environments. For example, people are constructing a beach on Alum Rock Road in front of the Mexican Heritage Plaza.

Alum Rock Village will feature live performances, yoga classes and mural painting. In Japantown you’ll see the San Jose Jazz Boom Box Stage, San Jose Taiko, chalk art, a farmers market and youth activities. At the opposite end, Lake Cunningham Park will feature all sorts of family-friendly and fitness activities. Perhaps the craziest additions this year are the site-specific Pokemon games spawning along the entire route.

By now, most people understand that trying to explore San Jose by car is just laughable. At the base level, Viva CalleSJ connects previously disparate communities of San Jose that wouldn’t normally get to interact with one another. Participants get a chance to prowl around and discover neighborhoods, businesses,

buildings, vacant lots, gardens, strip malls and various other pieces of ignored landscape. The city comes closer together, both in a geographic and mental sense. The physical and temporal components of the city, and how they intertwine, become more apparent. People begin to appreciate their hometown a bit more, or at least their curiosity increases. And that’s always a good thing.

Look at it this way: Viva CalleSJ proves that in pure Zen fashion even the mundane becomes glorious. Just walking or cycling down the whole length of East Santa Clara Street illuminates a beautifully incongruous hodgepodge of the urban fabric.

Humble Vietnamese establishments juxtapose with Mexican strip malls.

Swaths of peeling, cracked retail exude what Paul Theroux would call “an air of ramshackle permanency.”

There are also a few branch libraries, a Catholic cemetery, defunct railroad tracks, Portuguese clubs and all sorts of ethnic focal points. And of course, don’t miss the famous house where Beat Generation speed freak Neal Cassady lived for a short time with his wife, Carolyn. It’s the same house where Jack Kerouac showed up in the early 1950s.

But aside from all that, I’m already thinking ahead. The future of Viva CalleSJ looks bright, with City Council members already huffing and puffing about when the event will come to their districts. I guess a good thing about vast sprawling swaths of suburbia is that Viva CalleSJ has a huge landscape of potential routes. With so much of San Jose going unexplored, the possibilities are endless. I can imagine all sorts of zonked-out titles for future events: Five Different Almaden Roads to Percolation Pond Happiness; or Kaiser San Jose to Good Sam: The 27 Unleashed. I could go on and on.

In the end, with enough of the right kind of funding and support— clean-air philanthropists, alternative energy companies or even new Google mapping applications— there’s no reason Viva CalleSJ shouldn’t aim to become a monthly event. Long live the streets!

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AMED FOR THE legendary battalion of Irish immigrants, European expats, former slaves and U.S. Army defectors who fought alongside Mexico in the Mexican-American war of 1846, Irish pub San Patricios juxtaposes its multi-layered cultural influences while keeping things simple.

It’s not the oldest bar on San Fernando Street—in fact, doors only opened a little more than a month ago. But what the ownership group in charge of flanking restaurants/bars Chacho’s and Deluxe have managed to put together in that short time is welcoming. The clean white bar top accommodates those standing or on stools, while an overstuffed couch allows guests to sink in if that’s the way the night is going.

Thus far the growing cocktail list is focused on a combination of Mexican and Irish classics, with the majority of specialties revolving around whiskey, such as the Irish Sour ($8). Amid the obvious flavors taking center stage, along with the Jameson there’s a hint of agave and lime. Unsurprisingly, the combination works. The agave, in particular, serves as a reminder that this isn’t a standard Irish pub.

Another house specialty is the Moscow Mule ($10). Garnished with ginger candy, the mule is is a straightforward drink that couldn’t be more necessary in the prolonged heat wave we’ve been experiencing. That said, the sweet drink is an example of a classic well done. San Patricios also has a pretty mean Paloma ($10) if that’s more your style.

Even their Michelada ($8) impressed. Their authentic take on the drink captured the perfect balance of savory and spicy. What really drove everything home, though, was the Tabasco, which some bars mistakenly shy away from when making their Micheladas. To the uninitiated, hot sauce might sound like a puzzling addition, but it gives the drink a spiciness that brings the rest of the full-bodied flavors to the forefront.

For those looking for a straight brew, San Patricios has got people covered there, too, as their bar has a total of 30 beers on tap.

Aside from beverages, San Patricios itself doesn’t have any dining options. However, it does have the advantage of sitting between Chacho’s and Deluxe, and staff encourages customers to pop over to either of the neighboring spots to bring back food to enjoy. —Yousif Kassab SAN PATRICIOS 81 E San Fernando St, San Jose. 408.800.8118

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Kali: Minimal Maxed Out

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ALI GREEK KITCHEN is not the average gyro stand.

That much is clear just upon setting foot in the cleverly designed space, which opened doors this past June on Palo Alto’s California Avenue.

Boasting a minimalistic, Instagram-worthy aesthetic with a bright blueand-white color palette reminiscent of Santorini, Greece, Kali—created

by Calgar Vural, the owner of nearby French restaurant Cafe Brioche— offers a fresh, nuanced take on classic Mediterranean fare.

With an emphasis on sustainable, hormone-free meats, locally-grown produce and simplicity when it comes to their dishes, the restaurant offers three main items: pitas, salads and plates. Patrons can then choose between four proteins—Mary’s free range chicken, Niman Ranch beef, Superior Farms lamb or vegetarian-friendly zucchini fritters—to fill out their preferred dish.

The accessible price point made trying a little bit of everything fairly simple.

I started with their vegetarian pita sandwich ($10), which came loaded with zucchini fritters instead of the usual falafel balls. Topped with a tangy lemon and garlic sauce and stuffed with mint, radish, Mizithra cheese and greens, I was surprised to find myself enjoying the light yet filling alternative. Shredded zucchini was formed into balls with other vegetables and spices, and then fried to perfection. The fritters paired nicely with the tangy garlic sauce, which was all wrapped up in a generous round of Kali’s freshly baked pita bread.

I was also curious to try their chicken pita sandwich ($11) for its unique, sweet and savory flavor combination. Balancing bites of juicy, spit-fired chicken with cubes of roasted yellow beets, fresh orange slices and yogurt-dill sauce, Kali’s chicken gyro was different but far tastier than others I’ve eaten. The pita was further complimented by a topping of Kali’s house hot sauce, where a little goes a long way. For those looking for a low-carb alternative, try the vegetarian salad ($11), which is decorated with more zucchini fritters, fresh mint, radish slices and shreds of cheese, all on top of a bed of freshly chopped romaine. Drizzled with a tart lemon-oregano vinaigrette and served in a giant blue mixing bowl, Kali’s salad was an almost-exact replica of its pita wrap, sans the carbs.

Kali’s menu went over the top for me after trying the lamb plate ($15), which was served with a side of Greek salad, a heaping spoonful of orzo and basmati rice, and a generous portion of juicy lamb with tzatziki sauce.

If possible, save room for dessert. Kali Greek Kitchen features Palo Alto-based Fraiche’s famous frozen Greek yogurt ($5.50) with a variety of Mediterranean-inspired toppings like olive oil and sea salt, Amarena cherries, and honey and candied walnuts ($0.75 each). —Avi Salem KALI GREEK KITCHEN 451 California Ave, Palo Alto. 408.272.6950

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