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Voters in Alum Rock Union Elementary School District have passed $444 million in construction bonds since 2008. But the district’s inability to manage its bondfunded projects has led to a damning state audit, an investigation by the county District Attorney’s Office and a financial takeover by the Santa Clara County Office of Education. RAY MUELLER, a parent who has chaired Alum Rock’s Citizens’ Oversight Committee for two of the past three bond measures, says he unearthed yet another symptom of dysfunction.

The committee’s bylaws were apparently penned in a way that undermines its state-mandated authority to keep the district’s bond spending in check. It’s basically a watchdog with no teeth.

At least, so says ANTON JUNGHERR, a member of the California League of Bond Oversight Committees (CalBOC), who spoke at Mueller’s committee meeting Monday night in his individual capacity as a lifelong school administrator. “The committee cannot meet when they want to meet, the They committee members Did can be removed for any What? reason by the school board, they can’t have SEND TIPS TO subcommittees and they FLY@ METRONEWS. can’t talk to vendors, COM staff or contractors,” Jungherr tells Fly. “So I don’t see how they could be independent, which is required by law.” The alarming assessment puts the volunteer oversight body in something of an existential crisis, says Mueller, who called for a special meeting in October to start rewriting the bylaws. But Alum Rock’s newly appointed board president and longtime trustee, ESAU RUIZ HERRERA, seems considerably less concerned. “I think Anton spent a lot of time noting that he’s not an attorney, and then proceeded to offer a legal analysis,” he says of Jungherr’s comments.

“I don’t see any compliance issues at all.”

Fly reached out to Alum Rock’s outsourced attorney, LUIS SAENZ, who reportedly authored the bylaws in question, but he declined to comment. “He’s very evasive,” trustee ANDRÉS QUINTERO says of Saenz.

“That’s why I called for the termination of his contract.”

Chop the Vote FOREVER GREEN? Real estate developers Carl Berg and Chop Keenan are backing a ballot measure that would change city zoning laws in San Jose to create a senior housing project depicted here.

San Jose mayor, city officials cry foul over senior housing initiative

BY JOSH KOEHN

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HE MOST EXCITING measure on next year’s primary ballot in San Jose will not involve another push to legalize marijuana, or raise the minimum wage, or a countywide effort to eradicate homelessness. No, the most hotly contested item expected to go before voters next June revolves around—of all things—a billionairebacked old-folks home in the Evergreen foothills.

On Sept. 8, the city of San Jose

received a notice of intent to gather signatures and place a measure on the ballot that would change zoning restrictions for senior housing in one of the East Side’s more opulent neighborhoods. The Evergreen Senior Homes Initiative, which would build 910 units across 200 acres of land currently designated for industrial use, is expected to receive a title and summary from the city attorney no later than Monday. Those documents will then be used to gather the autographs of 22,277 city residents. If successful, a measure will be placed on next summer’s ballot.

The initiative—billed as a way to create more affordable housing for seniors and veterans in one of the country’s most expensive areas—is being pushed by real estate billionaire Carl Berg and deep-pocketed

developer Chop Keenan. It has the endorsed support of some once-heavy hitters in South Bay politics: Judy Chirco, who served as vice mayor of San Jose; Pat Sausedo, once the vice president of the organization formerly known as the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce; and Eddie Garcia, a Comcast executive who went on to serve as chief of staff to George Shirakawa Jr., the ex-county supervisor who landed in jail for stealing money from taxpayers and campaign donors.

Those last three names might be recognizable to some voters, but it’s the real estate magnates, Berg and Keenan, who are driving the effort to bypass planning commissioners and the City Council in favor of the electorate, leaving elected officials such as Mayor Sam Liccardo to cry foul.

“This proposal purports to be about affordable housing and senior housing,” he says, “but really it’s a proposal for billionaire developers to build housing for millionaires.”

The proposal would add language

voters and meets approval—would put the city on the hook to build out infrastructure for traffic, water and electricity in areas currently considered too remote to service cost effectively. Liccardo, who admits to unsuccessfully attempting to convince Berg to sell some of the land, also suggests that the plan has a poison pill in the “small print.” When it comes to a traffic mitigation plan, the initiative notes that all funding will have to come from “new development beyond existing development capacity (excluding projects pursuant to the Senior Housing Overlay).”

Essentially, the city suspects, the new development would be off the hook for roads while adding thousands of new drivers to the region’s roads.

Liccardo thinks the city “shouldn’t have a different set of rules for billionaires than everyone else,” adding that the initiative bypasses the planning department and council’s normal public processes.

“To not even give us an opportunity to evaluate the proposal, this tells me they believe they’re above the rules,” Liccardo says, adding that 910 new units with an average cost of roughly $1 million dollars allows for some pretty “straightforward math” on the scope of the project.

When asked to confirm the project’s value, Marissa Currie, a spokeswoman for the Evergreen initiative, declined to confirm a ballpark figure of $910 million. “I’m not comfortable speculating on that at this time, and I don't know if the mayor should be either,” she says.

Currie, who works for the celebrated San Francisco PR firm Singer Associates, went on to say that the focus is combating the affordable housing crisis while taking advantage of land that has sat “fallow.”

“We’re implementing a comprehensive traffic plan,” she adds. “Generally, a senior housing development will feature a lot less traffic than a traditional housing development or a commercial retail development.”

Another dispute regarding the project is how veterans will play into the election campaign, as city officials believe the initiative will use senior veterans as a pawn in drawing public sympathy at the polls.

“There is no legal requirement [to house veterans],” Currie acknowledges, “but there is a public commitment to do so.”

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to the city’s Envision San José 2040 general plan and create a “senior housing overlay” that amends the Evergreen-East Hills Development Policy, which affects an area of land that has been in Berg’s cross hairs for decades, as well as other underutilized industrial parcels in San Jose, such as Coyote Valley, which Keenan and others have pushed to develop for quite some time, over the objections of environmentalists and balanced growth advocates.

Together, the two men have a reputation for bringing cities to their knees. Keenan once won a $36.8 million judgment against Half Moon Bay that threatened to drive the sleepy beach town into insolvency.

Meanwhile, Berg once sued San Jose over a development in Evergreen that included the site now in question, leading a jury to award him $6 million.

“Carl has been around a long time,” says real estate attorney Chuck Reed, San Jose’s former mayor, who like his successor opposes the proposed development. “He’s one of the big land developers of Silicon Valley, and he’s made a boatload of money being a developer. He’s creative, innovative, persistent, stubborn—I think all of those things apply to him. You don’t succeed without a lot of effort, and he’s done that.”

Efforts to reach Berg and Keenan were unsuccessful.

But the plan’s scope and tactics represents a disingenuous pledge, Reed says. The city has consistently opposed changing land use from industrial to residential, as San Jose deals with an ongoing jobs-to-housing imbalance.

“I think all of this is a smokescreen for an expansive, expensive development for seniors,” Reed says. “I’m a senior. I’m a veteran.

Hopefully, they’re going to sell me a $2 million home for $100,000, but I doubt it. They’re going to have to build affordable housing anywhere they build. That’s not exactly a change from standing policies.”

Liccardo notes that San Jose already has 7,000 new apartments in the pipeline for development, and a general plan that allows for 50,000 new units without any amendment, as well as “another 70,000 within the general framework.” If fully built, the city would grow by more than a third.

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John ‘Derf’ Backderf, a childhood friend of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, has spent his life turning the grotesque into beloved cartoons

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TRASHY Born and raised in small town Ohio, alternative cartoonist John ‘Derf’ Backderf worked as a garbageman before becoming an illustrator.

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NE OF THE nation’s most infamous serial killers, Jeffrey Dahmer was just one more kid that nobody noticed.

A bullied misfit in a small, rural Ohio town in the mid1970s, he dissected roadkill in secret, skinning it to get to the bones. He drank heavily, showing up stinking of booze at school, trying to drown his unspeakable urges. In his own numb, dead-faced way, Dahmer was always willing to participate in pranks. He got a kick out of pretending to be a spastic—lapsing into fits, cawing, bleating and brandishing a twisted-up arm, pranking the squares at the local mall or livening up the school cafeteria.

A fellow student who helped put him up to the tricks was one John

Backderf. A relatively contented small-town kid, Backderf was a band geek who liked to draw comics and didn’t like to drink or smoke weed.

He helped form “the Jeffrey Dahmer Fan Club” in honor of the odd kid’s fearlessness in shock.

John “Derf ” Backderf ’s worldwide success, the graphic novel My Friend Dahmer, has been called a dark work; it could just as easily be called illuminating. As critic Chuck Klosterman put it, the book is about “being friends with someone you don’t like.” Next month, the film version debuts, starring Anne Heche, Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser and Ross Lynch as the eerily calm high school kid with a killer inside him.

Fritz Lang’s M0, an early and brilliant film about a serial killer, considers both the tragedy of a child killer and the humanity of a murderer.

The 1931 movie finishes with only this as a moral: “One has to keep closer watch on the children—all of you!”

Backderf has both pity for the student he knew, and scorn for the

man who killed so many to satisfy his own urges.

Via phone from Cleveland, Backderf says he’s seen the film My Friend Dahmer and is pleased with it. “It worked out very well,” he says. “It’s quite faithful to the book. It’s very creepy, and leaves you with a lot to think about.”

During the book’s 19-year gestation, Backderf—who will speak at this weekend’s Alternative Press Expo in San Jose—always knew he wasn’t going to record Dahmer’s murders.

“Dahmer’s crimes didn’t interest me,” Backderf says. “What was interesting was the story before that story, right before he was arrested in 1991. There’s not much to like about Jeff after a certain point. But he was a tragic figure, spiraling into madness while the adults did nothing.

That’s the question: Where were the goddamn adults? It was a shocking oversight on the part of his parents, who were admittedly involved in their own toxic marriage and divorce. Jeff was pretty crafty. He fooled people—

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more so after he left home. He struggled mightily, almost valiantly, until he just snapped. People like Dahmer pop up again and again, every few years. These people are lessons that we as a society are unwilling to learn.”

Before he became a student cartoonist for the Ohio State Lantern, Backderf was another addict of Mad magazine and the National Lampoon— two periodicals that taught scads of underground cartoonists the pleasures of grotesquery. He was a vet of the strangely fertile punk rock scene in Akron and nearby Cleveland, with DEVO, The Cramps, The Pretenders and Pere Ubu: “It was very underground, and very small—I’ve been tapping into that buzz ever since. “ Throughout the 1990s, “Derf ” was a fixture in alternative newspapers through the U.S., with his syndicated panel cartoon “The City” peopled by elongated, sweaty figures caught in instances of bad behavior. He was one of the funniest in the trade.

Backderf did more than a hundred covers for The Cleveland Scene.

One unforgettable example from 1999 saluted the comeback of the Cleveland Browns, with a caricature of a dog-masked woofing football yahoo, jowls quaking, vast belly hanging like a gray apron in front of his pinched crotch.

“The Browns came back, and everyone was slobbering all over

them,” Backderf recalls. “I predicted, ‘This is not going to end well, guys.’ Indeed, it has not. The worst expansion franchise in NFL history, just a money pit, good god. I feel a little bit bad about that cover. The Browns fan it was based on was kind of a famous guy on TV, and you shouldn’t punch down. Anyway, I was proven right about the Browns.”

Backderf looks back on The City with mixed feelings. “It ran longer than it should have,” he says. “I should have killed it. People wanted it political, and I was doing really good political stuff for a while, but I couldn’t maintain that edge. When I ended it, the cartoon was still in 40 or 50 papers and it was hard to walk away from that income. I struggle with my older work—this includes my political cartoons from the 1980s.

To me, it looks like the work of three or four different cartoonists completely. I try to remember how much fun I had, but the work itself kind of makes me recoil. I can barely stand to look at it.”

A bout with cancer impeded Backderf ’s career in his 40s, but he’s now a 50-something success with new books on the way, and with another potential movie adaptation to come. San Jose’s Slave Labor Graphics was essential to him starting into books, and to Backderf ’s first Eisner Awards nomination. “By the time I felt well

13 be. Remember, I was a garbageman a long time ago, and it hasn’t gotten better. End of story—garbage, it’s going somewhere, and it never stops coming.

We’re Americans, filling our world with shit. That’s the way it is.”

Asked for comment on these times, Derf demurred a little. “You’re looking to me for wisdom? Big mistake.” Since he’s enormously popular in Europe, he travels to conventions there, and France gets ever harder to come back from: “When I’m in Europe it’s kind of struggle to get on the plane going home. Maybe I’ll apply for refugee status, or get in a raft in Lake Erie and start paddling.”

But the work he’s seeing cheers him: “Good God, it’s a golden era of comics right now—under 30s, under 40s, they’re all showing up. I go to these conventions and see the work, and I’m astounded. Women creators are entering the field in numbers I’ve never seen before. I got to Europe and see even more!

Mind blowing! It’s a great time to be a comics fan for sheer excellence.

Of course, if you’re reading the super-dude stuff, you’re shitouttaluck.

Meanwhile. I’ll be doing book after book. ‘Work till you die,’ that’s my motto.

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He draws on his memories of the disturbed young man in ‘My Friend Dahmer.’

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enough again, the comics business had changed,” he says. “If it wasn’t for SLG, I couldn’t have done Dahmer.”

SLG were the initial printers of Trashed!, Backderf ’s uproarious yet learned fictionalized work about a year spent as a garbageman. It ought to be adapted into a movie—it sounds like foolproof slapstick. It’s an instructive job clinging to the back of a garbage truck, in heatwaves and snowstorms alike: “It’s looking up the butthole of America,” Backderf says.

The names were changed, the tale was embellished, but Backderf insists “everything that happened on the truck was true.” That would include the hurling of dead possums, the walloping of mailboxes, and the carefully anatomized garbage truck’s treacherous capability for blowback.

Derf ’s point is that there is a result of all the baby and puppy cuddling that goes on around here: Matterhornsized plastic bags of dog-doo and disposable diapers. And what’s buried in the landfill is ever more likely to leach into the water tables.

“We’re doomed,” he says, noting that there have been no significant improvements in preventing toxic landfill since he was working in waste disposal. “I’m very pragmatic about it. You have to

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NVADER ZIM, now that was a show. Burning bright and fast, the series took over Nickelodeon for two seasons before being cut off for reasons that have never been entirely clear to fans.

DARK VISION Jhonen Vasquez’s influential comics and Nickelodeon cartoon helped pave the way for shows like ‘Rick and Morty.’

Crazed Comix San Jose-born creator of ‘Johnny the Homicidal Maniac’ invades this year’s APE BY YOUSIF KASSAB

ARTIST PANELS DRINK & DRAW

Fri, 7pm, Free | Art Boutiki Prepare for the Alternative Press Expo over drinks and doodles at Art Boutiki’s monthly Drink & Draw event.

STEVE LAFLER

Sat, 1pm | MACLA Cartoonist Steve Lafler talks about his life as an illustrator, his time in Mexico and his new Alternative Comics series, Death in Oaxaca. He will be joined in conversation by Marc Arsenault.

CREATIVE TABLING

Sat, 1pm | Anno Domini Last year’s winners of the Alternative

Like The Ren and Stimpy Show before it, Invader Zim stands in a line of cartoons that seemed bent on subverting tropes and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable to show kids in the middle of the day.

The Ren & Stimpy Show satirized the cat & dog genre pioneered by cute mascots like Tweety or Tom & Jerry with outright ugly characters, dookie jokes and some gruesome psychological moments.

In the same vein, Invader Zim stood as a darker take on the hapless Earth invader a la Marvin the Martian. The show combined the titular character’s desire for world conquest with a bleak portrayal of our world—which often seemed unworthy of salvation.

Looking back, it’s hard to imagine shows like Rick and Morty and its contemporaries getting the green light without works like Ren & Stimpy and Zim. Invader Zim was created by the San Jose-born Jhonen Vasquez, who grew up loving the gritty and

unpolished aesthetic of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series from the 1980s.

Vasquez got his start penning comic strips for the school paper at Mt. Pleasant High School. His first character, Johnny C. would go on to earn Vasquez a following through the seven issue series Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. That following gave Vasquez the platform he needed to take his work to the big leagues with Invader Zim. Avid followers of Vasquez’s work might also remember the proposed Disney show Very Important House, which Vasquez began work on with the help of Rick and Morty production designer Jenny Goldberg back in 2013. Unfortunately, by 2016 word got out that Disney was not planning to run the show after all—although in a totally corporate move, they did retain the rights, effectively trapping the promising show in a purgatorial state from which it may never return.

Despite the fate of this aborted TV series and far-too-short life span of Invader Zim, not all hope is lost.

Earlier this year Nickelodeon teased a new TV special starring Zim, which the original creator has reportedly been hard at work on.

Fans will get a chance to see the man himself and grab an autograph as Vasquez comes at this year’s Alternative Press Expo on Saturday.

Art Boutiki: 44 Race St, San Jose | MACLA: 510 S First St, San Jose | Anno Domini: 366 S First St., San Jose Press Expo’s most-creative booth prize will demonstrate how they create a space that attracts customers without breaking the bank or relying too heavily on gimmicks.

DERF BACKDERF

Sat, 2pm | MACLA

Join the man behind My Friend Dahmer as he discusses the process of turning his graphic works into films.

JIMMIE ROBINSON Sat, 3pm | MACLA

Depression is often a part of the creative process. Join Oakland-based comics creator Jimmie Robinson in a discussion with Dan

Vado of Slave Labor Graphics and the Art Boutiki.

THE INS AND OUTS OF INDIES

Wahab Algarmi and Thien Pham to discuss the state of Bay Area comics.

SOFA STREET FAIR

Sat, 3pm | Anno Domini

Sun, 2pm | SoFA District

Cartoonists Betsy Streeter, Alex Schumacher and Shaenon K. Garrity talk about the lives of independent artists. Learn about the tools they use to reach audiences in this interactive session.

The music and culture festival will be running all afternoon in the SoFA District.

More info on page 28.

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Sat, 4pm, | MACLA

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The Dan Behind the Curtain

BY NICK VERONIN

D

AN VADO HAS made mistakes in his life.

He’ll be the first to admit that. One regret he has never been able to shake off was his decision to turn down My Friend Dahmer, a graphic novel memoir by Cleveland-based cartoonist John ‘Derf’ Backderf.

Backderf originally approached Vado—owner of the Art Boutiki comic book shop and music venue, and founder of the San Jose-based Slave Labor Graphics publishing house—asking if he would publish the book, which centers around the adolescence of Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the 20th century’s most infamous serial killers.

At the time Backderf pitched the book, Vado says, it just felt “too soon” to be printing a somewhat sympathetic portrait of a man who had made national headlines for a series of heinous murders and acts of necrophilia and cannibalism.

Still, there’s plenty Vado has to be proud of. Slave Labor did publish Backderf ’s first graphic novel, Punk Rock & Trailer Parks, as well as his third, Trashed! Derf credits Slave Labor Graphics with helping to launch the second act of his career.

After a bout with cancer, Derf decided to walk away from his longrunning syndicated comic, “The City”—which ran in alternative weeklies across the country. “By the time I felt well enough again, the comics business had changed,” he says in an interview with Metro’s Richard von Busack (page 10). “If it wasn’t for SLG, I couldn’t have done Dahmer.”

Vado is quite pleased that Backderf is attending this year’s Alternative Press Expo, which will be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center’s South Hall from Sept. 23-24. The 2017 celebration of alternative comics and

ALT COMIC Dan Vado, founder of Slave Labor Graphics. graphic novels marks the third year since APE’s return to San Jose.

Founded by Vado in 1994, the Alternative Press Expo was quickly snapped up in 1995 by Comic Con International. The San Diego-based convention producers ran APE until 2014—moving it to San Francisco in 2000. When Vado took APE back in 2015, he moved the expo back to its city of origin.

Since then, things haven’t gone as smoothly as he would have hoped— as some fans and potential exhibitors have turned their noses up at the change of location.

That’s why, Vado says, it feels so good to have a name like Derf on this year’s bill.

“To have John Backderf coming out, that’s a huge thing for me.”

Another big name on this year’s APE lineup is Jhonen Vasquez—the San Jose-born creator of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac and Invader Zim. SLG also played a role in bringing Vasquez’s work to the masses, publishing his original run of Johnny stories.

“It’s always nice to have him back,” Vado says. “It showcases a local, homegrown talent who went on to truly impact the pop culture scene.”

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK A lot of my colleagues, and I’m not talking about the leadership, just runof-the-mill members of Congress who have been over (to the White House) have described someone who is unable to follow the conversation, who seems disoriented. Is he sleep deprived, is he bored or has he had some strokes?

I don’t know the answer.

— Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), who joined this week’s Metro SV411 Podcast, talks about a resolution she penned to have Donald Trump receive a mental and physical evaluation.

The interview will be published Friday, Sept. 22 on San Jose Inside.

THE WILL TO LEAVE Tom Williams, right, resigned from his post as

Milpitas city manager after more than a decade on the job.

Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams Resigns under Fire

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams resigned after more than a decade on the job and four months on paid leave, city officials confirmed Monday. The City Council planned to fire the 53-year-old, but he avoided arbitration by stepping down at the end of last week.

City attorney Chris Diaz announced the news after a special meeting Monday night, adding that the council authorized staff to start recruiting a successor. Interim Police Chief Steve Pangelinan will continue serving as acting city manager until a permanent replacement is found.

Williams had been on paid leave since mid-May for allegedly spending tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money on personal legal fees to sue Mayor Rich Tran.

In a letter to Tran drafted this past spring by Ad Astra Law Group, Williams accused the 32-year-old

mayor of age discrimination and harassment and demanded $1 million in damages from the city.

When reporters tried to obtain a copy of the missive by way of a public records request, Williams had his attorney sue Metro Silicon Valley and the Milpitas Post.

The city manager’s conduct prompted the council to launch an investigation, which wrapped up earlier this month. San Jose Inside asked to see the findings from the probe, but the city denied the request. Though Williams never actually sued Tran, his court order to block the release of personnel records to journalists still stands.

During Tran’s campaign last year up through his first few months in office, he would often criticize Williams for getting the city entangled in costly lawsuits and seven-figure settlements.

As San Jose Inside initially reported in

2015, Williams’ bellicose temperament has led to rapid turnover of highranking staffers.

Ever since Williams threatened Tran with legal action, the mayor has abstained from all closed session discussions about the city manager.

But the first-term elected official made a point in Monday’s open session to reaffirm his commitment to constituents. In a text to Metro the following day, Tran echoed that optimism.

“As long as the Milpitas Family keeps having my back, I’m going to keep pushin’ whatever the case may be,” the mayor wrote.

Other city officials reached Tuesday declined to comment on Williams’ resignation until they get the OK from Diaz. But Councilman Anthony Phan took to Twitter to apparently wish the embattled city manager a not-so-fond farewell: “Bye Felicia.”

San Jose Sues Trump over DACA San Jose last week became the first city to sue President Donald Trump over his decision to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The lawsuit claims the administration’s actions constitute a breach of contract and a violation of the Fifth Amendment.

Under DACA, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children are protected from deportation.

But Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this month that he’d put an end to the Obama-era program, which puts the onus on Congress to come up with a legislative solution.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and University of California President Janet Napolitano each filed a similar suit, but those only cover state and UC employees. In San Jose, the 10th largest city in the U.S., 40 percent of residents were born abroad. —Jennifer Wadsworth

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Wed, 3pm, $10 Back Bar SoFA, San Jose

Thu, 5pm, $15+ Courthouse Square, Redwood City

Akrobatik and Mr. Lif are back. The Boston-bred hip-hop duo, better known as The Perceptionists, come to San Jose this week behind their first album in more than a decade, Resolution. Fans of the group might remember the pair from their 2005 album Black Dialogue. The project featured one of their most explosive singles—the bounding, raucous “Let’s Move,” which doubled as one of the tightest songs on the soundtrack for the auto-racing video game Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Resolution finds The Perceptionists kicking raps about things that have changed since the-mid aughts. (YK)

It’s rumored that Redwood City earned its slogan, “Climate Best

by Government Test,” after a joint survey conducted by the U.S. and German governments. Whatever the case, this mid-Peninsula city is sure to be an epicenter of great beer this weekend. The first day of fall is this Friday, and Redwood City is marking the changing of the season with its own take on the traditional German celebration of schnitzel and suds: Oktoberfest. For four days—this Thursday through Sunday— Courthouse Square will be the place to gather for authentic German fare, music, cultural demonstrations and plenty of brew. (NV)

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Thu, 5:30pm, Free Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose

Fri, 7pm, $5+ MACLA, San Jose

Dust off those flared disco pants, sequined shirts and platform shoes and join dance instructor Eddie Valdez as he demonstrates some groovy moves. CityDance is a weekly public party held in the heart of downtown and is aimed at helping locals cut loose.

Each week features a different kind of dance. This Thursday, Sacramento-based Disco Revolution holds down the tunes with songs from artists like Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, KC and the Sunshine Band and Prince.

Arrive at 5:30pm to secure a spot.

Dancing starts at 6pm. (SS)

One might say that Gustavo Arellano, editor of the OC Weekly, is a Mexican’s Mexican. Through his satirical column, “¡Ask a Mexican!,” Arellano addresses cultural and social issues unique to the Mexican-American experience—often using humor as a wedge to work his way into more serious topics. This Friday, playwright Anthony Garcia will bring Arellano’s ideas and words to the stage with a series of brutally honest readings. Example: “Wow, you're a special kind of pendejo.”

Composer Daniel Valdez, known for his work on the films Zoot Suit and La Bamba, will provide musical accompaniment. (AJ)

THE BEACH BOYS Fri, 7:30pm, $50+ Mountain Winery, Saratoga The “Little Deuce Coupe” just won’t quit. The Beach Boys have been cruising into the sunset for for more than half a century— riding an armada of timeless pop hits that channel the wanderlust of 1960s surf culture and an evolving lineup anchored by 76-year-old founding member Mike Love. You won’t find Brian Wilson, the mastermind behind the band’s paradigm-shifting Pet Sounds album, but the current configuration is sure to revive singalong-ready classics like “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and “Good Vibrations.” (MC)

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THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Sep 20 at The Ritz

THE BEACH BOYS

Sep 22 at The Mountain Winery

TOM JONES

Sep 25 at The Mountain Winery

SUBLIME WITH ROME

Sep 27 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

ADAM ANT

Sep 28 at The Mountain Winery

IMAGINE DRAGONS

Oct 3 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

MARC ANTHONY

Oct 4 at SAP Center

LAUREN HILL & NAS

Oct 7 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DEPECHE MODE

Oct 8 at SAP Center

BRIAN WILSON: PET SOUNDS Oct 13 at The Mountain Winery

MEWITHOUTYOU

Oct 13 at The Ritz

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM & CHRISTINE MCVIE

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Sat, 8pm, $18+ The Ritz, San Jose

Sat, 10am, $18+ Casa de Fruta, Hollister

Pairing West Coast hardcore with classic SoCal surf rock, Agent Orange raced to the head of L.A.’s burgeoning punk rock scene in 1980 like a bat out of hell. Their debut 7-inch became a soundtrack for skate punks with the urgently infectious anthem “Bloodstains,” featuring the tweaker-friendly refrain: “blood stains, speed kills, fast cars, cheap thrills.” With

’Tis the season to strap on a corset and head to ye olde faire.

For the next month, Casa de Fruta is an old-world paradise for fantasy cosplay lovers. Over 200 fine artisans will hawk their wares in the marketplace—selling everything from costumes and accessories to sweets and meaty turkey legs. Merrymaking abounds in mead halls overflowing with ciders, wines and draft beers. All this, plus brave knights engage in jousting matches for the Queen’s honor. For the first time, tickets can be purchased online at a discounted price. Kids 12 and under are always free. Weekends thru Oct 15.

the help of KROQ’s Rodney Bingenheimer—a DJ famous

for being ahead of the curve on punk and new wave artists— and the reputation they earned shredding Orange County house parties, the band climbed through L.A. punk clubs and onto a touring schedule that has spanned more than 30 years. (MC)

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JOHN COLTRANE TRIBUTE

DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID

Sun, 4pm, $20+ Café Stitch, San Jose

Tue, 7:30pm, $48+ Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose

There are few names more synonymous with jazz than John Coltrane. The great saxophonist was a seminal figure in the development of bebop and one of the pioneers of free jazz. This Sunday, several artists will pay tribute to Coltrane. Veteran jazz saxophonist Steve Heckman will be joined by bassist Marcus Shelby, pianist Matt Clark and local drummer Akira Tana to play renditions of some of Coltrane’s best known and most important works. Also on the bill: several passionate poetry readings by Poetess Kalamu Chaché and jazz vocalist George V. Johnson Jr. (AJ)

Everything’s better, down where it’s wetter. That’s according to Sebastian, the beloved crooning crustacean from Disney’s animated musical The Little Mermaid. This stage adaptation of the classic 1989 film tells the tale of Ariel, a young mermaid determined to live in the human world. After making a Faustian bargain with an evil sea witch, she must convince the handsome prince, Eric, to marry her—without the help of her beautiful voice. Presented by Broadway San Jose, this touring show will feature all the best numbers from the film, including “Under the Sea,” “Kiss the Girl” and “Part of Your World.” (NV)

Oct 14 at City National Civic

THE NEEDLE DROP: ANTHONY FANTANO Oct 25 at The Ritz

ZAC BROWN BAND

Oct 27 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

UGWA: DEVIL’S NIGHT 13 Oct 29 at The Ritz

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

SHAKIRA

Feb 7 at SAP Center

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Curious Creative THE MOUNTAIN Nina Katchadourian’s ‘Pink Volcano,’ one of many works now on display at the Cantor Arts Center.

Nina Katchadourian exhibit highlights the artist’s active imagination

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

I

N THE SCHEMATIC imagination of Nina Katchadourian, the Brawny Man and the bald-pated Mr. Clean are a couple with recognizable but hard-to-place children—Little Miss Sunbeam and the Gerber Baby. A droll humorist, Katchadourian (born in 1968 at Stanford) unites them, along with many others, against a red gallery wall in The Genealogy of the Supermarket.

All of these fictional figureheads are associated with consumer products, from paper towels to polish to baked goods and baby food. Each

“person”, like Aunt Jemima or Uncle Ben, gets their own picture frame and is then connected by the lines of a zany family tree.

“Curiouser” at Cantor Arts Center gathers together several different series like this one from the artist’s extant oeuvre. Katchadourian’s dry wit is engaging. The overall impact of the exhibit erases the formal distance between the framed, mounted art and the viewing public. This is especially true when she is the subject of her own work. For example, the photographs in Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style draw the viewer in closer because you want in on the joke.

Katchadourian writes that the genesis of these self-portraits began for her on long airplane flights. She would retreat into the lavatory and shape the paper products there into clothing accessories as seen in 16th and 17th century Flemish

paintings. There are spectacularly bibbed collars and architecturally arranged hats like Sister Bertrille’s from the Sally Field TV series The Flying Nun. It’s easy to compare these with Cindy Sherman’s composed selfies.

But Katchadourian doesn’t reveal herself through a character the way that Sherman does. Regardless of her profile or attitude, she maintains an ironic charm. Her charisma is that of a performance artist’s, not of an actress disappearing into a role.

The Flemish photographs also don’t provide the same narrative ambition.

Backgrounds are nonexistent and almost completely cut to the frame’s edges. And yet given these caveats, each photograph displays her appealing, limitless imagination.

Of course, she pushes the idea further in the associated Lavatory Videos. For this series, Katchadourian films herself lip-syncing to different songs. Each video comes with a pair of headphones.

In the case of the triptych In a Room Full of Strangers, she appears in three separate frames, in three different Flemish outfits, mouthing the lyrics

and background vocal harmonies while the Bee Gees sing. Katchadourian holds her steady, classical pose even though her lips are expressing a disco beat.

She’s applying a retroactive karaoke to the 17th century—and we get to sing along and join in the fun of temporal displacement.

Katchadourian also features herself in two other video installations. Accent Elimination focuses on her mixed Armenian and Finnish heritage. To explain the piece she writes, “My foreignborn parents both have distinctive but hard-to-place accents that I have never been able to imitate correctly.” Before we consider the next step she takes, this sentence alone informs us as much about the artist’s practice as it does her own sense of humor. You can picture a young Katchadourian practicing her parents’ accents and sounding like a “cartoonish Russian spy.” As an adult, she hires a professional accent coach for her and her family, filming the carefully scripted process of speaking in one another’s tongues. You move around several TV screens to watch them parse together what it means to be a multicultural family in America.

On the way past a popcorn machine that creates Morse code and some photographs of mended spider webs, The Recarcassing Ceremony plays on a large video screen at the back of the exhibit. As children, Katchadourian and her brother Kai “played an elaborate game” at the beach with Playmobil figures. While a speeded-up version of the ABBA song “SOS” whines on the soundtrack, a toy boat is swept under the waves. In this reenactment from her youth, we learn that two of the small figures aboard got lost in the water. Her father tells us, sounding concerned, that she took this particular game very seriously.

“Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser” is filled with dozens of elaborate games that the artist takes just as seriously. What’s compelling about her work is that even as a mature adult, with a meticulous sense of organization, Katchadourian still retains her sense of play.

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the new works on display at the Pace Gallery in Palo Alto.

The Body Distilled BEFORE LOIE HOLLOWELL opted for the brush and canvas, her body was the medium. Standing naked on a pedestal at her college campus, smearing pomegranate juice all over herself while moaning—this was the beginning of her artist’s journey.

Several years and a cross-continental move later, her work still centers on the human body. Through a deliberate use of color, light and sacred iconography, the New York-based painter creates images that evoke the most intimate and sexually explicit moments of our lives. “When I started realizing I wanted to paint, it just felt natural to make paintings about my own physical bodily experiences—my personal narrative, which is something I've always felt I have complete control over,” Hollowell says.

Point of Entry While rooted in autobiography, her paintings kindle Thru Nov 2, Free a sense of universality. Anatomical elements are the Pace Gallery, nucleus of each canvas, embodied in simple shapes that Palo Alto recur through art history like the lingam—a phallic pacegallery.com symbol of generative energy, or the ogee—an S-like curve akin to a woman’s breasts. “The more the figure is pared down into geometrical, formal spaces, the more the viewer can really experience the sensations of the colors and the textures and the sense of light, rather than having to think about some feminist statement,” she says.

By reimagining her subject through a reductionist lens, Hollowell zooms into the taboo realms of the body—particularly the woman’s body, rendering large-scale images of organs and orgasms that simultaneously function as abstract landscapes. Ridding her work of excess, her language of abstraction is an attempt to convey sensations in their purest form.

“I'm trying to get to that original feeling,” Hollowell explains. “So if I'm painting about penetration or loneliness or birth, that first feeling of that in my body is what I'm trying to get at in the painting.”

“Point of Entry” is Hollowell’s first solo show in the Bay Area. Presented

by Pace Gallery, the exhibit features eight new paintings, two triptychs and nine works on paper. As the California native ponders her visit, she rejoices in having come full circle with her craft. “It feels like I'm coming home, visually,” Hollowell says. “My sense of light, my sense of feminism and my sense of self were definitely grounded in more of a West Coast mentality, and I'm glad that I'm getting an opportunity to have it show where it comes from.” —Camille Miller

PHONIES Nicholas Hoult plays J.D. Salinger in the new biopic ‘Rebel in the Rye.’

Great American YA Novel THERE ARE TWO ways to look at J.D. Salinger. The insufferably titled biopic Rebel in the Rye looks at only one of them. One is to consider Salinger as a veteran who triumphed over his PTSD to write the beloved Catcher in the Rye—whose desire to renounce all distraction, all “phoniness” made him turn his back on the world and forbid a film version of Catcher.

And it’s not that Salinger hated cinema—there are affectionate passages in Catcher about Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948) and Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1935). The other way to look at Salinger is as a snob-prince whose magnum opus created the scourge known as young adult literature: at its worst, so easy to read, so cravenly flattering to the adolescent perspective.

Danny Strong’s film has its highs and lows. The war scenes are intelligently sparse, and there’s some crafty editing to explain the effect of a photographer’s flashbulb on a shellshocked soldier. Nicholas Hoult’s almostextraterrestrial handsomeness makes him the go-to for cult heroes this year (he’s starring as both Tesla and Tolkien in upcoming films). Hoult is as good as anyone Rebel in the Rye could be in the part of a man staring at his typewriter.

He’s a romantic figure, and he slow-dances well.

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Given the way Salinger’s father tried so many times to Camera Cinemas crush his son’s talent and get him interested in delicatessens, Victor Garber is multidimensional in the role—the softer, moister kind of paternal tyrant. Sarah Paulson is quite sharp as the literary agent who knows how to finesse Salinger’s touchiness. The costumes are surprisingly good, the set-decorating less so: bookshelves here have copies of the Grolier’s Great Books of the Western World, some years before it became a fixture in every culture-vulture’s house.

And then there’s the down side: terminally influenced by too many boarding-school movies, Kevin Spacey plays writing teacher and founder of Story magazine Whit Burnett. His teaching is, more or less, bollocks; the use of Faulkner in one class doesn’t show the restraint of a writer soft-pedaling his voice. Instead it shows the universal appeal of sex and violence.

Strong makes Salinger’s triumph Hollywood-simplistic; the way out of a crippling block is Eastern religion—from the ministrations of a Yoda-like counselor in orange pajamas. Tai chi helps, too; Strong stages this in the same way as the scene in the movie where the MMA fighter prepares for the final battle. —Richard von Busack

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The Locust ALLEGORY ALERT Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star in the heavy-handed horror film, ‘Mother!’

Darren Aronofsky’s buzzed-about ‘Mother!’ is a little overbearing

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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H, MOTHER! Can this really be the end? To be stuck in J-Law’s earhole with the Messiah blues again? Scene after scene, in tight closeup on Jennifer Lawrence’s face, we peer into her eyeballs as if we were ophthalmologists.

Watching Mother! you’d suspect that Lawrence was wearing a mechanical camera rig to follow her as closely as possible, some sort of selfie-stick cum halo-cast.

She’s been accused of overacting, but with the camera this close, it’s Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) who

imprisons her. Every bad thing that happens—rather, every thing that’s probably going to turn out bad— follows with a cut to Lawrence so she can react to it. We know exactly how she feels at every moment.

Some ambiguity would have spiced up this Kaf ka fable that does a backflip into religious allegory.

It’s a Repulsion-style study of the walls closing in; Mother (Lawrence) is rebuilding a rambling farm house somewhere in the country.

Her husband, twice her age, is called “Him” ( Javier Bardem); he’s a poet walled in by serious writer’s block.

One evening, a guest calls, unknown to Mother but slightly known

by Him. The man (Ed Harris) is a boorish orthopedic surgeon, a smirking bastard who smokes in the house, even after he’s been asked to stop. Him can’t get enough of

the pushy man of medicine and goes off hiking and talking with him. Later, the doctor’s unnamed wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) arrives. She makes herself completely at home— Lawrence, a pillar of strength in most roles, looks as helplessly miffed as a ’60s sitcom actress finding out that her husband’s boss is coming for dinner.

Some Feud-style amusement can be had in watching the reigning female star of 1980s cinema emotionally roughing up the reigning female star of today’s film.

The former Catwoman strops her claws on Lawrence, matronizing her, as it were, pawing through her laundry and lingerie.

Then the surgeons’ horrible children arrive—two adults, fighting like Cain and Abel. Lawrence increases her look of bewilderment, begging her husband to scoot them all out. “They have no place to go,” Him insists.

And thus the first two-thirds of Mother! are spent watching Mother’s anxiety climb. As she

wards off hallucinations with glasses of pretty yellow fizzing medicine, crowds arrive to tear Mother’s home to pieces.

Mother!’s tactic of stripping the characters of the names isn’t necessarily pretentious. This often occurred in silent film. Looking back over his career of shock and religious awe, one has second thoughts about perhaps not having taken Aronofsky all that seriously.

A visionary is owed a little respect.

But Black Swan, for its jabbing, mutilating imagery, was one step away from a Gotham City story, and The Fountain was a weird smoothie of New Age beliefs. Considering the epic size of Noah, it leaves little wake: no matter how rockmonstered up, it’s a story made for the religious—it’s not the kind of biblical tale that gives unbelievers anything but a sense of contempt.

You hear complaints that Mother!haters fail to wrestle with the religious allegory. Do it, and it’s a spoiler. It can be said that Mother! sets a land-speed record in its crossing the terrain of the Gospels.

And if we’re going to dwell on the idea of Christ being killed by the Bitch-Goddess Success, we might as well go back to Jesus Christ Superstar.

Emulating the midnight-movie look of his first movie, Pi, Aronofsky films in grainy Super 16mm blown up to full size. Some elements of the bizarre stick to the viewer— hallucinations of protoplasm, rot and blood, the sensual treatment of gobs of plaster in Mother’s trowel, studied until they look like chocolate mousse on a dessert trolley. The furnace in Mother’s basement, baring its red-hot grillwork, is clearly ready for human fuel. The movie’s best idea is the summing up of Him’s fantastically popular poem in a silent tableau of love and conflagration.

We never hear it read aloud or understand its gist. But the tight, ever tighter camera overexposes Lawrence’s face. You’re reduced to spending an hour or so counting the moles on her neck.

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Sounds Of Silence MONOLITHIC Texas post-rock duo This Will Destroy You combine pummeling sonic slabs with moody, minimalist melodies.

This Will Destroy You pays attention to the spaces in between notes

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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HEN I LISTEN to This Will Destroy You I almost always get the same series of images in my head. An empty highway at night.

Votive candles flickering in their colored glass cases.

Distant lights on the horizon.

Previous journalists have drawn parallels between TWDY and Explosions in the Sky, though the band has bristled at this comparison.

Like Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You have a long name, are from Texas, and make emotive

instrumental music full of dramatic peaks and valleys. But all of that is on the surface, and This Will Destroy You’s music seems primarily to lurk below. A more apt comparison might be Godspeed! You Black Emperor, who are also instrumental but veer heavier, eerier. Whereas Explosions in the Sky wrote the music for Friday Night Lights, G!YBE had a song feature prominently in 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle’s tense and desperate post-apocalyptic zombie film. Here we get closer to the sound and feel of This Will Destroy You. At almost every moment on TWDY’s most recent album, 2014’s Another Language, Badalamenti synths hover just beneath the surface.

Guitar lines are echoed by ghostly vibraphones, shimmering like lights

on the edge of oblivion. When the band really starts to dig in on third track “Serpent Mound,” the result is crushingly loud and doomy, sounding like an instrumental Deafheaven.

The song’s emotional space is massive, without a single linguistic waypoint beyond the mysterious prehistoric effigy site of its title.

All of the songs and song titles on Another Language evoke similarly occult images. Spaces just on the edge of visibility. “Mother Opiate” is a Bohren und der Club of Goreesque tone piece that could almost be described as “jazzy” in some netherworld. The swirling keys and delayed feedback of “The Puritan” sound like they were plucked from a cutscene in one of the original Silent Hill games, finding a hidden point of connection between fog, despair and religious imagery. Album closer “God’s Teeth” reuses many of these effects while repeating a sort of reversed siren sound that brings to

mind ghostly flashes in the dark. Willo’-the-wisps. Haunted memories.

At first blush the album’s title seems to suggest a departure from the band’s instrumental past. To learn another language is to become steeped in words, gestures, and communicative rhythms. Learning another language is necessarily an act of exchange—words exchanged for new words; the exchange of thoughts between two speakers. Another Language suggests talking, speaking, and the prospect of lengthy and informative conversation.

This Will Destroy You’s music is made up of humming silences, multiple shades of darkness vibrating in a void. So what does it mean for this album—a soundscape-heavy set that could be described as “post-rock,” “doom,” or “dark ambient,” to be titled Another Language?

More than anything else, this was the question I wanted to ask the band as I was prepping for my interview. If this album was the result of, or was itself, another language, what was it saying? But after two emails to the band’s press contact there was nothing in the way of response. Days passed without a word.

If silence speaks (as is sometimes claimed in political debates) it only communicates one thing: itself.

Silence is monolithic in this sense.

It can be passed around within language in the form of pauses, beats, bated breath. Or it can exist on the outskirts of language: the always looming threat of conversation’s end.

The end of things to say. In all cases, silence is the experience of language’s other: an Other language.

Over the coming days I continued to listen to Another Language, but the reality of the situation began to sink in. There would be no interview. Just as there are no words exchanged on the record, there would be no exchange of words about the record.

I had called out into the void. The void’s only answer was silence.

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San Jose.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS Sat, Sep 23, 4pm: Life Size Models. San Jose.

THE X-BAR

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN 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 Thu, Sep 21, Fright, Rekt, Hit Em Up. Fri, Sep 22, Augurs, Two Snakes, The Rotten. Sat, Sep 23, Carneficina. Tue, Sep 26, “Nothing” with Caitlin and Izzy.

San Jose.

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrarra. Wed, Sep 20, Marcus Miller. Thu, Sep 21, Pro Rock Jam. Fri, Sep 22, Lyin’ I’s. Los Gatos.

MOUNTAIN WINERY Every Third Thursday: Thursdays On the Mountain. Fri, Sep 22, 7:30pm: The Beach Boys.

Mon, Sep 25, 7pm: Tom Jones.

Saratoga.

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Fri, Sep 22, 5:30pm: Vinyl Replay.

Sat, Sep 23, 4pm: Oktoberfest!

Live Music with Alpine Sound.

Los Gatos.

THE RITZ Wed, Sep 20, 7pm: This Will Destroy You. Fri, Sep 22, 8pm: Plan 9, Sad Boy Sinister. Sat, Sep 23, 8pm: Agent Orange, Flatfoot 56, Get Dead. Sun, Sep 24, 3pm: Fang, The Backstabbers, Pacifist, Law Abiding Citizen.

San Jose.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Sep 21, 6pm: Sonic Blue Trio. Sun, Sep 24, 1pm: PS3 Trio.

Fri, Sep 22: Seeker, Aethere, Ardra, Enfold Darkness, Wolf King. Cupertino.

Jazz/Blues/ World ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson.

Thu, Sep 21, 7:30pm: Cheri Anderson. Redwood City.

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

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Wed, Sep 20, 7pm: George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

Saratoga.

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

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

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.

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. Wed, Sep 20, 8pm: Go! Go! Gone Show with Mighty Mike McGee. Thu, Sep 21, 8:30pm: Ottonowa Project. Fri, Sep 22, 8:30pm: Darrell Green Quartet. Sat, Sep 23, 8:30pm: Mike Zilber. Sun, Sep 24, 4pm: Tribute to John and Alice Coltrane. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Every Tue, 7pm: Open Mic Night.

Every Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. First Saturday of the Month, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. First Friday of the month, 8pm: Art Walk and Caffe Frascati Opera Night. Fri, Sep 22, 8pm: Mike Perez. Sat, Sep 23, 8pm: Miguel Lepoutre Rinon. San Jose.

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

Thu, Sep 21, 7:30pm: Homenaje.

Fri, Sep 22, 7:30pm: Shanna Carlson. Sat, Sep 23, 7:30pm: Kiyoe Wakabayashi. Saratoga.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Every Fri: Salsa Spot. Wed, Sep 20, 6:30pm: Ron Hacker. Redwood City.

HEDLEY CLUB

SMOKING PIG BBQ Thu, Sep 21, 8pm: Wine & BBQ Pairing with Sommelier. Fri, Sep 22, 9pm: Paula Harris & The Beasts of Blues. Sat, Sep 23, 9pm: Terrie Odabi. Fremont

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

C&W/Folk MISSION PIZZA Every Thu from 7-9pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Every First Fri, 7-10pm: Cimarron Rose Band. Every Second Fri, 7-10pm: Stampede. Every Last Fri, 7-10pm: Stragglyrs.

Every Second Sat 7-10pm: Canyon Johnson. Every Last Sat, 7-10pm: Beargrass Creek.

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

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

RODEO CLUB Wed, Sep 20, 7pm: Walker Hayes. San Jose.

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

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

Campbell.

SAM'S BBQ Every first Tue of the month,

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TURBO MODE Roman Zepeda, aka Turbo Sonidero, is one of many artists performing at this weekend’s SoFA Street Fair.

SoFA Fair Four SAY HELLO TO warmer colors, warmer clothes and a whole lot of great local music as the SoFA Street Fair Fall Edition marks the shortening of our days this Sunday. This weekend’s party will feature 16 stages and 105 bands spread across three blocks. From one end of the SoFA District to the other, there will be wrestling, rock & roll, art, food and plenty of beer. With so many bands playing, it will be impossible to check out every show. Here are four of the performances we are looking forward to seeing. Come join us. It’s free!

JONNY MANAK AND THE DEPRESSIVES 6pm, Haze Dispensary Stage

Anyone who knows anything about the San Jose music scene knows Jonny. He’s been in more bands than we can count—playing every instrument from guitar to bass to drums. His longtime recording project, The Depressives, dropped a rip-roaring full-length set of poppy skate punk tunes back in 2015: Cold Pizza & Warm Beer.

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TURBO SONIDERO

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“I wanna make people dance,” says Roman Zepeda—who goes by the moniker Turbo Sonidero when he’s behind the ones and twos. Zepeda recently linked with Angel Luna, aka Mextape, for the Latin-influenced rap project Turbomex. Their mixtape Vatos is excellent.

LIFE SIZE MODELS 8:30pm, Forager

DISTRICT RECORDING IS THE PREMIER RECORDING FACILITY IN THE SOUTH BAY, LOCATED IN THE MIDTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD OF SAN JOSE, CA. THE STUDIO FEATURES A STOCKPILE OF LEGENDARY EQUIPMENT COUPLED WITH THE LARGEST RECORDING SPACE SOUTH OF SAN FRANCISCO. NOW OFFERING HOURLY REHEARSAL IN OUR HUGE LIVE ROOM. $25 AN HOUR INCLUDES PA, DRUMS, AND AMPS.

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This San Jose-based indie quartet’s latest EP, Home Made, is a polished five-song set with shades of The Strokes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and strains of some of the best local indie acts, like Cola and Picture Atlantic.

LOVE DISTRICT

8:15pm, Haze Dispensary Stage

During the late ’70s, the embers of punk took a turn for the eerie. Pioneers infused their raw songs with a chilly melancholy, wallowing in insecurity and heartbreak, and tapping into the longing angst of the young folks. The style faded and the emotions bifurcated into more grungy or electric sounds. Love District seeks to resurrect and modernize this influential period, crafting a “forgotten sound for a new generation.” Their single, “Manchester at the Hacienda,” layers atmospheric licks above skittering drums. —Nick Veronin

metroactive MUSIC C&J’S SPORTS BAR

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.

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

Comedy

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

DASILVA’S BRONCOS Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

DIVE BAR Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke with Jade.

San Jose.

Tue-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Sun, 4pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

Every Tues, Thu, Fri, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Milpitas.

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

Thu, Sep 21, 8pm: WellRED Comedy Tour. Fri-Sun, Sep 22-24, 7pm: Guy Torry. Sat, Sep 23, 2pm: Bill Phillips. San Jose.

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

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Sunnyvale.

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

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

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

Los Gatos.

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

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN Every Wed: Karaoke w/Neebor.

San Jose.

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

SHERWOOD INN Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Every Thu, 7:30pm-9:30pm: Karaoke Night at Treatbot. San Jose.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE Tue-Thu & Sat: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Dance Clubs

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THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Willow Glen.

KATIE BLOOM’S Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

KING OF CLUBS

AURA LOUNGE Wed-Sun: DJs and Dancing. San Jose.

AVERY LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 10pm: DJs and Dancing.

San Jose.

CARDIFF LOUNGE

Sun, Mon, Thu, 8:30pm: KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.

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

Campbell.

LILLY MAC’S

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Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke with DJ Izzy. Sunnyvale.

MARIANI’S Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 10pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

OASIS Wed-Sun 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

OFF THE HOOK

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

LIQUID Fri: Crave Friday Nights with DJ Ruben R. San Jose.

Thu-Sun, 7:30pm: Live Dancing.

San Jose.

Fri: Foundation Fridays. Los Gatos.

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LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

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Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. Woodside.

Adult World

Thu-Sat, 10:30pm: Rotating Guest DJs. San Jose.

LOS GATOS BAR AND GRILL

PIONEER SALOON

Meet singles in person at our 63-channel arcade

DIVE BAR

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

Tue, 9pm: Karaoke with TJ The DJ. Sunnyvale.

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SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Every Tue: DJ Benofficial. Every Thur: DJ Shaffy. Every Fri: Live Video Mixing with VJ One. San Jose.

RED STAG LOUNGE WILLOW DEN Every Thu: Trauma Thursdays Every Fri-Sun: DJs. Sun: Service Industry Night (Half off w/ industry card). Willow Glen.

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Every Tue: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Nightly Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

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By AMY ALKON

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This annoying guy at my gym keeps asking me out. I’m always polite, saying, “Would love to, but sorry, I’m really busy.” And then I move to another part of the gym. I’d go at a different time, but unfortunately, he’s always there in the hours I can work out. What should I say so he gets the hint and leaves me alone?—Go Away Already!

There are people—some of them men—who won’t take no for an answer.

But you haven’t tried no—or any of the variations: “Nuh-uh,” “Are you crazy?” or “The only way you’re ever getting into my pants is if you’re trying on ladies clothing at Goodwill.”

Women have a tendency to be hinty and otherwise indirect in telling a guy they aren’t interested. As personal security expert Gavin de Becker puts it in “The Gift of Fear”: “Rejecting women often say less than they mean,” and “men often hear less than what is said.” Men’s poor, um, hearing actually seems to be an evolutionary design feature. Research by evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss suggests that men evolved to be poor guessers about women’s sexual interest in them—erring on the side of assuming a woman’s interested when they have no definitive sign that she isn’t (as in adult variations on “off my case, toilet face!”).

As Buss explains the likely benefit from this “sexual overperception bias,” it leads men “to believe that a woman is

sexually interested in them in response to ambiguous cues such as a smile or going to a bar alone,” and thus functions to keep men from “missing sexual opportunities.”

(Or—in somewhat less scientific terms— it gives a man a chance at passing his genetic material on to the next generation instead of into an old tube sock.)

You don’t have to be cruel, but something a little more hope-crushing than “I’d love to” would be a start. Saying you’re “busy” doesn’t cut it, as it suggests that all that’s keeping the guy from getting into your ladybusiness are scheduling conflicts. The most effective rejection is a direct one -- like this one I suggested in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck”: “Thanks so much.

I’m really flattered, but I’m sorry to say that I’m just not interested.” Though “I’m flattered” might seem condescending, it softens the blow—without being misleading. It suggests that you believe the person you’re rejecting has some merits, as opposed to what may actually be the truth: “I would rather be pecked to death by angry hens than have sex with you.”

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Research by evolutionary social psychologist Gert Stulp suggests that women, in general, find it “unacceptable” to be taller than the man they’re with and prefer to be substantially shorter (ideally a whole 8 inches shorter; so, say, 5’6” to a man’s 6’2”). As for why women evolved to

prefer taller men, though being tall doesn’t always mean being stronger (and thus better able to protect a woman), tallness points to physical health. (If a man’s body is riddled with parasites, his metabolic resources get invested in battling the little buggers instead of upward growth.)

In modern times, some men try to cheat their way taller, with dating profile fudgery, shoes with built-in “lifts,” and strong hair gel (the essential ingredient in a towering pompadour). However, a short man isn’t necessarily short on self-worth. According to Stulp and his colleagues, shorter men’s dissatisfaction with their height seems linked to the general preference by women for taller men. This makes sense, considering how bad it feels to know your partner doesn’t find you all that attractive. But since that isn’t a problem here, let him know.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380 S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael R. Hill, 8093 E. Zayante Rd., Felton, CA, 95018. This business is conducted by an individual.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633309 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: San Jose Locksmith, 724 Uvas Court, San Jose, CA, 95123, Timor Klien. 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/Akihito Tokuhara. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 9/06, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633085 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ballrz Fitness, 455 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA, 94041, Yoga Belly LLC, 900 High School Way, #2131, Mountain View, CA, 94041. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/18/2017. 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633290 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)

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)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Konjoe Burger Bar, 3555 Monroe Street, Suite 75, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, KBB 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. #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)

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: 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)

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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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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)

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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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633271

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)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Pain Clinic, 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)

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 408-758-4200 (Pub CC 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: It Matters 2 Me, 476 N. 4th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Michele Rene Parr, Eric John Shank. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michele Rene Parr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/14/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

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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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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633483 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633676

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Furry Faces Pet Sitting, 1391 Lyonsville Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Aaron Barrios.

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/Aaron Barrios. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2017. (pub Metro 9/20, 9/27, 10/04, 10/11/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633424 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Cider Junction LLC, 820 Willow Street, San Jose, CA, 95125, The Cider Junction LLC, 3342 Prado Lane, San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tracy Smith.

Managing Member. #201602810435. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/29/2017. (pub Metro 9/20, 9/27, 10/04, 10/11/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633817 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mail Box Etc, 45 So. Park Victoria Dr., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Severino Liclican Estillore Jr., P.O. Box 876, Cupertino, CA, 95015. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/11/2017. /s/Severino L Estillore Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/12/2017. (pub Metro 9/20, 9/27, 10/04, 10/11/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #633247 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CS Logistics, 1280 Farringdon Dr., San Jose, CA, 95127, Balwinder Kumar. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/14/2017. /s/Balwinder Kumar. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2017. (pub Metro 9/20, 9/27, 10/04, 10/11/2017)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ROBIN ALDEN DOUGLAS CASE NO. 17PR181949 To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Robin Alden Douglas. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Carlin Jensen in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: Carlin Jensen be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: November 20, 2017, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

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

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: John P. Breckenridge, Esq. 2901 Moorpark Ave., Suite 175, San Jose, CA 95128 408-243-3242 (Pub CC 9/20, 9/27, 10/04/2017)

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turns bad or your allies get sad or the news of the world grows even crazier, you will thrive. I'm not exaggerating or flattering you. It's exactly when events threaten to demoralize you that you'll have maximum power to redouble your fortitude and effectiveness. Developments that other people regard as daunting will trigger breakthroughs for you. Your allies' confusion will mobilize you to manifest your unique visions of what it takes to live a good life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "If at first you don't

succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." declared comedian Steven Wright. My great-uncle Ned had a different perspective. "If at first you don't succeed," he told me, "redefine the meaning of success." I'm not a fan of Wright's advice, but Ned's counsel has served me well. I recommend you try it out, Gemini. Here's another bit of folk wisdom that might be helpful. Psychotherapist Dick Olney said that what a good therapist does is help her clients wake up from the delusion that they are the image they have of themselves.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What is home? The poet Elizabeth Corn pondered that question. She then told her lover that home was "the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage." I offer this as inspiration, Cancerian, since now is a perfect time to dream up your own poetic testimonial about home.

What experiences make you love yourself best? What situations bring out your most natural exuberance?

What influences feel like gifts and blessings? Those are all clues to the beloved riddle "What is home?"

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You're most likely to thrive if you weave together a variety of styles and methods.

The coming weeks will be a highly miscellaneous time, and you can't afford to get stuck in any single persona or approach. As an example of how to proceed, I invite you to borrow from both the thoughtful wisdom of the ancient Greek poet Homer and the silly wisdom of the cartoon character Homer Simpson. First, the poet: "As we learn, we must daily unlearn something which it has cost us no small labor and anxiety to acquire." Now here's Homer Simpson: "Every time I learn something new, it pushes out something old."

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Filmmakers often

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have test audiences evaluate their products before releasing it to the masses. If a lot of viewers express a particular critique, the filmmaker may make changes, even cutting out certain scenes or altering the ending.

You might want to try a similar tack in the coming weeks, Virgo. Solicit feedback on the new projects and trends you've been working on—not just from anyone, of course, but rather from smart people who respect you. And be sure they're not inclined to tell you only what you want to hear. Get yourself in the mood to treasure honesty and objectivity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The poet E. E. Cummings said, "To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." On the other hand, naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau declared that "We are constantly invited to be who we are," to become "something worthy and noble." So which of these two views is correct? Is fate aligned against us, working hard to prevent us from knowing and showing our authentic self? Or is fate forever conspiring in our behalf, seducing us to master our fullest expression? I'm not sure if there's a final, definitive answer, but I can tell

By ROB BREZSNY week of September 20

you this, Libra: In the coming months, Thoreau's view will be your predominant truth.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "When you do your

best, you're depending to a large extent on your unconscious, because you're waiting for the thing you can't think of." So said Scorpio director Mike Nichols in describing his process of making films.

Now I'm conveying this idea to you just in time for the beginning of a phase I call "Eruptions from Your Unconscious." In the coming weeks, you will be ripe to receive and make good use of messages from the depths of your psyche. At any other time, these simmering bits of brilliance might remain below the threshold of your awareness, but for the foreseeable future they'll be bursting through and making themselves available to be plucked.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Barbara Ehrenreich has done extensive research on the annals of partying. She says modern historians are astounded by the prodigious amount of time that medieval Europeans spent having fun together.

"People feasted, drank, and danced for days on end," she writes. Seventeenth-century Spaniards celebrated festivals five months of each year. In 16th-century France, peasants devoted an average of one day out of every four to "carnival revelry." In accordance with current astrological omens, you Sagittarians are authorized to match those levels of conviviality in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Kittens made

French Emperor Napoleon III lose his composure.

He shook and screamed around them. Butterflies scare actress Nicole Kidman. My friend Allie is frightened by photos of Donald Trump. As for me, I have an unnatural fear of watching reality TV. What about you, Capricorn? Are you susceptible to any odd anxieties or nervous fantasies that provoke agitation? If so, the coming weeks will be a perfect time to overcome them. Why? Because you'll be host to an unprecedented slow-motion outbreak of courage that you can use to free yourself from long-standing worries.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "The brain is wider than the sky," wrote Emily Dickinson. "The brain is deeper than the sea." I hope you cultivate a vivid awareness of those truths in the coming days, Aquarius. In order to accomplish the improbable tasks you have ahead of you, you've got to unleash your imagination, allowing it to bloom to its full power so it can encompass vast expanses and delve down into hidden abysses. Try this visualization exercise: Picture yourself bigger than the planet Earth, holding it tenderly in your hands.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I got an email from

a fan of Piscean singer Rihanna. He complained that my horoscopes rarely mention celebrities.

"People love astrological predictions about big stars," he wrote. "So what's your problem? Are you too 'cultured' to give us what we the people really want? Get off your high horse and 'lower' yourself to writing about our heroes. You could start with the lovely, talented, and very rich Rihanna." I told Rihanna's fan that my advice for mega-stars is sometimes different from what it is for average folks. For Piscean mega-stars like Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ellen Page, and Bryan Cranston, for example, the coming weeks will be a time to lay low, chill out, and recharge. But non-famous Pisceans will have prime opportunities to boost their reputation, expand their reach, and wield a stronger-thanusual influence in the domains they frequent.

Homework: Imagine what your life would be like if you licked your worst fear. Describe this new world to me. Truthrooster@gmail.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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Classic Men SLOW RIDE The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride pairs classic bikes with a clean-cut look, but for a cause.

Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride to save men’s lives in style

BY GARY SINGH

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OR THE FIRST time in San Jose, more than 100 men will wear their finest tailored suits while riding classic or vintage-styled motorcycles for charity. Call it Triumph meets Tweed, or Mad Men on Motorbikes, if you will, but the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, as it has come to be known, now unfolds in 600-plus cities throughout the world.

Thousands of dudded-up and dapper dudes take to the streets to raise money

for prostate cancer and men’s mental health, with people from Melbourne to Serbia, from Vietnam to Wales, from Peru and Morocco to India and the Philippines all contributing. If you don’t ride a motorcycle but still harbor a passion for the cause, sponsor a rider or make an anonymous donation.

Locally, thanks to Martin Chirotarrab and his crew at Spirit Motorcycles on Meridian Avenue, San Jose will be joining the global effort for the first time. The ride takes place Sunday, Sept. 24, beginning with breakfast in Spirit’s back parking lot, where a barber will also take care of any last-minute facial trimmings. From there, the ride goes to Santana Row, then to Willow Glen and downtown Campbell, and on to Saratoga and Los Gatos before returning back to

Spirit Motorcycles, where end-of-ride festivities will take over the parking lot.

Spirit Motorcycles opened in June 2014, and immediately filled a gap in a longtime San Jose tradition of Indian Motorcycle distributors. Indian shops existed in downtown San Jose as early as the 1950s, if not before then. Now Spirit is a major player in Northern California’s Indian market. As of a few months ago, Spirit also acquired a Triumph license, likewise returning that brand to the South Bay after a long hiatus. Triumph is the worldwide sponsor for the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, and since Spirit already connects every new owner to various weekend riders’ groups that depart from the parking lot, everything dovetailed perfectly.

“There are a lot of similarities and synergy between what we are as a company, the way we look after our customers, and everything that Triumph is, and then what Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride does,” Chirotarrab says. “For us it’s not only

about taking from the community, it’s about giving back.”

The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is a slow type of adventure to show off elegantly dressed individuals. They won’t be zooming through neighborhoods to make a racket. Although, to be honest, I am dying to see how the spandex bicyclist powwow often infesting Los Gatos on a Sunday reacts when 100 motorcycles suddenly creep into the neighborhood, or what the nuclear families of Willow Glen might think on their Sunday strolls. That should be fun. But since these are distinguished gentlemen—and adults mind you—we shouldn’t expect any problems.

Anyone can join. The ride is free, but participants must register in advance, and in most cases, people are encouraged to donate something to the cause. Many have their own fundraising pages and other companies even jump in to match funds in certain cases. At press time, San Jose riders had already raised $16,509 for the cause.

Even better, the event is not just for men. Women are also invited to ride. In the same way that men participate in women’s causes, so shall the ladies join in the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride.

Now, when it comes to the details, here’s what they mean by distinguished: crisp shirts, tailored suits, monocles, cravats, silk waistcoats, ties, neatly trimmed facial foliage, or any combination the likes thereof.

In addition to vintage Triumphs or Indian bikes owned by dedicated enthusiasts, the rides normally feature cafe racers, bobbers, classics, trackers, scramblers, old school choppers, modern classics and maybe a sidecar or a classic scooter. Bratstyle motorcycles are also welcome. You’ll see something like Don Draper’s 1957 Matchless G3LS right alongside a custom Triumph. The idea is to feature niche bikes that aren’t normally seen all over the streets, or brands that command a cult following.

“Both Indian and Triumph are iconic brands,” Chirotarrab says.

“There’s a long tradition of fellowship.

It’s not just a piece of metal.”

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DIP IT GOOD Saratoga Corner Cafe’s six-side sampler proves good things come in many packages.

Five New Spots to Watch

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IX MONTHS IS usually considered the earliest a new restaurant, craft cocktail lounge or coffee bar can receive a fair review. By then the kinks should have been worked out, the bad apples fired and the best dishes and drinks refined.

But who’s got time for that? Starting this month, Metro will spotlight five new places we think are worth giving a look-see.

1. KALI GREEK KITCHEN With an aesthetic reminiscent of the blue-and-white breeziness of Santorini, Palo Alto’s Kali Greek Kitchen serves up a fresh take on traditional Mediterranean fare. At a reasonable price point, too, with pitas starting at $10.

451 California Ave, Palo Alto, 408.272, 6950

2. SAN PATRICIOS This downtown San Jose pub was christened after a notorious battalion of Irish immigrants, former slaves and U.S. Army defectors who fought on the Mexican side of the Mexican-American War of 1846. With Micheladas and Irish Sours, San Patricio’s drink menu pays homage to the cross-cultural band of fighters.

81 E San Fernando St, San Jose, 408.800.8118

3. STEINS BEER GARDEN This mash-up between German beer garden and California sports bar boasts a wide-ranging offering of 20 house staples and 15 rotating taps—something for everyone. Like its sister site in Mountain View, Stein’s offers everything from fresh-baked soft pretzels ($7) to its signature “breakfast for dinner” dish with Jameson waffles topped with cured pork belly and maple Dijon ($17).

10088 N Wolfe Rd, Suite 130, Cupertino, 408.564.6122

4. ACADEMIC COFFEE San Jose’s coolest new coffee shop began as a pop-up cafe inside Five Points cocktail lounge. Academic Coffee has since expanded into its own brick and mortar location, and it’s fast becoming a routine stop for patrons craving a mint or coconut twist to their caffeine fix. 499 S Second St, San Jose, 408.418.6397

5. SARATOGA CORNER CAFE Opened earlier this year by brothers Esam and Milad Shaquir, Saratoga Corner Cafe delivers healthy bites with a Mediterranean-Middle Eastern spin. Try the six-side sampler ($14), which comes with house-baked pita, tabbouleh, hummus and labne yogurt. 12019 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, Saratoga, 408.352.5445

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match at least one proud mother’s home cooking.

Pho to Make Mom Proud

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T’S A UNIVERSALLY accepted fact that when it comes to food, moms knows best. After all, nobody can cook that certain dish quite like mom, and—fair or not—we will always compare new interpretations to mom’s secret recipes. So imagine my surprise when a Vietnamese friend told me that she went out for pho with her mother—a pho master—and the matriarch came away “quite impressed.”

After hearing this, I knew I would have to check it out for myself.

This search for mom-approved pho led me to Pho Dao, located in a nondescript strip mall in north San Jose.

Upon entry, it’s easy to see that Pho Dao is different from other joints, as the elegant blue and white décor, spotless interior and smell of simmering broth welcomes guests and whets the appetite. The neatly uniformed staff is friendly, another departure from the gruff service found at a preponderance of pho houses. The straightforward menu consists mostly of soups, but they’ve recently expanded it to include a few noodle and rice dishes since opening four months ago.

I decided to order Pho Dao’s claim-to-fame, the “Kobe-style” beef Pho ($11.75/Large). Pho Dao also offers a choice of noodles: standard dried, fresh or egg. Normally I’m a sucker for fresh, but I decided to buck tradition and go with egg noodles. I also noticed my beloved salted plum soda ($3) was not on the menu. But after speaking with the waiter, it turns out they have it—it’s just not listed. I have to say that Pho Dao’s salted plum soda might be one of my favorite renditions. For those unfamiliar, it’s a combination of club soda, preserved plums and just a touch of sugar that produces a refreshingly sweet, salty and sour drink.

When the pho came out, one look told me the broth was legit. The color was a dark brown and had a nice oily sheen, and the smell was incredible. After one slurp I knew what Mama was talking about: beefy, sweet, salty and just the right balance of spices. The word “umami” definitely came to mind.

As for the Kobe beef, while tender and tasty, it wasn’t worth the slight up-charge. However, the egg noodles didn’t disappoint, as they were plentiful and diviine when combined with the broth. It’s rare that I slurp up every ounce of broth in the bowl, but this one demanded it.

In a city that isn’t exactly hurting for soup joints, Pho Dao has quickly earned a reputation for its stellar service and killer broth. Perhaps even more telling, it has mom’s seal of approval. —John Dyke PHO DAO 1631 N Capital Ave, San Jose 408.251.1917

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Feeling carefree on the car-free streets during Viva CalleSJ. Greg Ramar

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This pair dressed to impress at the opening weekend of the NorCal Renaissance Faire.

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Crowns were a common accessory at Casa de Fruta during the Ren Faire.

The graduating class of Hogwarts celebrated with drinks during the Harry Potter Pub Crawl.

The streets were wide open for beach cruisers during Viva CalleSJ.

English bulldog “Carnita� enjoys Bark in the Park.

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GRANADA THEATRE morgan hill

DINNER + SHOWS All registered and ticketed guest names will be on The Granada Theatre VIP guest list upon check-in.

All events include a pre-fixed dinner menu. If you have any dietary restrictions, please contact us 72 hours in advance.

Doors open at 6PM | Guest seating starts at 6:30PM | Tickets are non-refundable | Must be age 21 and over to attend.

17440 Monterey Road | Morgan Hill, CA 95037 | (408) 612-8805 | lealgranadatheatre.com/events.html