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RE: SCHOOLS CHIEF GETS $151,000 IN SEVERANCE PAY, THE FLY, NOV. 15 Despite the current national zeitgeist of governmental bodies that totally compromise their duty to honestly provide for their constituents, the Jon Gundry debacle stands out as one that is an especially egregious offense against the community. For the County Office of Education to continue to oversee the finances of the Alum Rock School District is ludicrous given the current circumstances. So remind me again, what is the purpose of the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE)?

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Grumpy Gundry Last week Fly took a look at the many miscues of former county schools chief JON GUNDRY, who was so good at his job that the Santa Clara County Office of Education gave him $151,000 (plus bennies) to ride off into the sunset. But before Don’t everyone goes back to forget ignoring the mess that to tip! is the SCCOE, it’s worth reporting one last detail FLY@ on Gundry’s reign of METRONEWS. terror. In addition to COM numerous claims of harassment and shady deals, Gundry also was accused of racism

by MARIBEL MEDINA, the SCCOE’s former lead counsel. In a sworn deposition, she said Gundry ordered her to speak Spanish and treated her like a Mexican day laborer instead of an attorney. Medina filed a lawsuit and the SCCOE recently settled for $320,000. On Nov. 1, in one of his final acts as superintendent, Gundry signed the agreement. Of course, this was after he fired Medina in 2015 and the SCCOE paid the remaining $289,000 of her annual salary. SCCOE spokesman PETER DANIELS cheerfully emphasized in an email to Fly that the settlement was 100 percent “funded by our insurer.”

What’s in a Name?

SCOTT KNIES, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association, has quite a few initiatives—none bigger than his quest to stop Diridonification. Ever since the city’s train station was named after former county Supervisor ROD DIRIDON (who is still alive), the surrounding neighborhood and buildout plans have been getting slapped with the “Diridon” tag. “Nothing against Rod,” said Knies, who believes the addition of BART and highspeed rail should lead to a simple, civicoriented title: San Jose Central Station.

As for the surrounding district, Knies has been pushing “GoJo District,” because “go” is active and some people (bad people) apparently pronounce San Jose like idiots.

Fly asked Knies if GoJo has gained any traction. “Not really,” he said with a chuckle.

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VICTORY Santa Clara County officials applauded a federal judge’s ruling earlier this week to permanently quash President Trump’s executive order against “sanctuary cities.”

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Sanctuary Cities Order

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH A federal judge has permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s decree to withhold funding from jurisdictions that limit cooperation with immigration officials.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick handed down the 28-page ruling on Monday in lawsuits filed by Santa Clara and San Francisco counties, saying the executive branch has no right to impose new conditions on money already authorized by Congress.

Orrick added: “Federal funding that bears no meaningful relationship to immigration enforcement cannot be threatened merely because a jurisdiction chooses an immigration enforcement strategy of which the president disapproves.”

Santa Clara County could have lost $1.7 billion in federal funds—more than a third of its yearly revenue—for services such as public safety, as well as medical and mental health care.

“This is a historic victory, protecting residents of the county and jurisdictions across the nation from President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional abuse of power,” county Board of Supervisors President Dave Cortese said in a news release. “Our county will continue to welcome and embrace all people, no matter how much this administration tries to threaten or divide us.”

County Counsel James Williams called the order “a clear rebuke” of the Trump administration’s attempt to deputize local law enforcement into acting as federal immigration officers. “[Monday’s] decision vindicates a core constitutional principle: that the president cannot use federal funds to threaten local governments,” he said.

Justice Department spokesman Devin O’Malley defended Trump’s executive order, which the president signed during his first week in office. “The district court exceeded its authority today when it

barred the president from instructing his cabinet members to enforce existing law,” he said in a statement Monday.

“The Justice Department will vindicate the president’s lawful authority to direct the executive branch.” The case is already on appeal based on Orrick’s temporary injunction, issued in April.

The term “sanctuary city” broadly applies to local governments that refuse to fully collaborate with federal immigration enforcement. In Santa Clara County, the policy prevents the Sheriff’s Department from holding undocumented immigrants beyond their court-set jail stay without a warrant. The county makes exceptions for undocumented immigrants with certain violent offenses. Hundreds of local governments throughout the nation have so-called sanctuary city policies, as the courts have repeatedly ruled that ICE detainer requests—absent a warrant—are unconstitutional.

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San Jose Gives Green Light on Recreational Pot Sales for 2018 San Jose’s 16 licensed pot shops can sell cannabis to anyone over the age of 21 starting in the new year. The decision came last week by a unanimous vote of the City Council, which decided to honor the will of the voters who approved statewide legalization for adult use in 2016.

The ruling doesn’t change zoning regulations, which require collectives to stay a certain distance away from churches, schools and other so-called “sensitive uses.” Nor does it allow any more pot shops to open.

Proposition 64 gave local governments the option of permitting or banning cannabis.

All of Santa Clara County said yes to legalization in 2016, although several cities—including San Jose— enacted bans on nonmedical use until local elected officials figured out how to regulate the newly above-board pot sector.

The sign-off in San Jose will allow the city’s licensed collectives to sell and deliver cannabis as long as they obtain a state license. —Jennifer Wadsworth

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Put Out an APB on Brent Burns After a strong stretch in which they won six of seven games, the Sharks (10-8-1) have taken a step backward with three straight losses. The worst Brent Burns came Monday night with a 3-2 shootout loss (4-3) in overtime to Anaheim at SAP Center.

Going into Monday, the Sharks were 0-for-17 on the power play over a sixgame stretch. Their 14.5 percent success rate when holding an advantage in numbers ranked a hideous 30th out

of 31 teams. The club got a rare power play goal from Joonas Donskoi in the third period of Monday’s game, but it still wasn’t enough. The Sharks need to start putting pucks into the back of the net during regulation if they want to contend for a playoff berth, and no one has fallen off more than defenseman Brent Burns, the reigning Norris Trophy winner. Last season, he led all NHL defensemen with 76 points. In 19 games this season, Burns has zero goals—that’s right, the old doughnut—to go with seven assists.

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and reach-around arrows, we decided to give Jeff Bezos and his team the holiday off. Instead of taking the easy route of one click commerce and star ratings, our annual Give Guide focuses on the work of local entrepreneurs, artists and all-around good guys. From Silicon Valley streetwear and toy stores for accelerated tots to hemp-infused soap and scarves designed after ancient Japanese bondage techniques, it’s time to think local and get a little weird this holiday season.

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Adventure Toys and Teachers’ Supplies 173 Main St, Los Altos adventuretoyslosaltos.com 650.941.6043

to Roominate products (playsets designed by two Stanford grads and aimed at teaching girls engineering and design). Playing with “Emma’s Townhouse,” one of the Roominate items, involves building a miniature playhouse and then wiring it so lights and fans can be turned on and off.

In addition to STEM-oriented toys, there are also board games intended to teach life lessons, such as Anti-Monopoly, which was created by a San Francisco State professor in 1971.

Players are caseworkers who must break up an already monopolized board in the

In an age when it’s all too easy to stick a tablet into a tot’s hands to buy a little quiet time, it warms our heart to know there are still local toy stores fighting the good fight.

Adventure Toys and Teacher’s Supplies in downtown Los Altos devotes almost half of its spacious shop to educational playthings for kids of all ages, from the Noggin Stik (a high-tech LEARN TO PLAY Adventure Toys and Teachers’ rattle for infants) Supplies specializes in educational play options.

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The Bicycle Express team also gives back to the community, routinely offering up free tune-ups at SJSU and during San Jose’s annual Viva Calle cycling fest.

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interest of ushering in a return to a fairer free market. Or just go with the pogo sticks, dolls and other traditional toys.

Bar’d Soap sarajasonmakers.com Recreational pot becomes legal in California as soon as the clock strikes 2018. So how about commemorating the historic milestone with a topical gift for your favorite cannabis connoisseur: handmade vegan weed soap by Bar’d. The soap is the brainchild of Silicon Valley software engineer Jason Dorie and his graphic design partner, Sara Michener, who met on OkCupid and have been making stuff together ever since.

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Celtic Shoppe 54 E Campbell Ave, Campbell celticshoppe.com 408.379.7474

blends hemp, olive and coconut oils and a hint of freshly cut grass and eucalyptus. It won’t get people high, obviously, but in a steaming bubble bath it may enhance an already mind-altered state. Find it online along with a number of other explicitly titled soaps ($7 each), including F*ck Soap, F-Bomb, Fuck Cancer, Happy F@cking Holidays, The Heavenly F*ck and the Floating F*ck. Also featured is a coffee-scented Poop soap, an aloe-almond Nope soap and a rainbow-hued same-sex marriage-celebrating bar called Equalove!ty. Michener says making the Hills soap, a glittery glycerin homage to “Goddess of Competence and Experience” Hillary Clinton, was their way of processing the tragedy of President Trump’s election. “It

helps to be able to respond creatively to everything that has been going on and make something a bit sassy or off beat,” she says. “And then there is the added bonus of talking to people at markets or gift fairs and sharing that catharsis.” Needless to say, the “Queen Hillary”-labeled bar—which supposedly “smells like male tears” with a hint of almond “to wash off the daily stink of the most horrifying election in U.S. history”—would make a thoughtful, condoling gift for dejected Hillbots. The couple also makes jewelry, signs and other tchotchkes that play off pop culture.

Some of Michener’s faves include laser-cut wood 8-bit Mario earrings ($12) and a “Nevertheless, She Persisted” necklace ($12).

Bicycle Express 131 E William St, San Jose bicycleexpress.net 408.998.1618 Since 1982, this humble bike shop on William Street has served downtown locals and San Jose State students.

From beach cruisers and road bikes to mountain bombers and fixies, Bicycle Express has it all. Of course, they also have parts and an expert repair shop—but perhaps most important, they appreciate the elegance of the machines in which they trade. Whether a novice or a seasoned cycling veteran, all are

Cathy Cavagnaro has the lowdown on Celtic culture and history, which is probably why her shop has continually met the South Bay’s Irish needs for 36 years. She keeps the shop fresh by visiting Ireland every year and stocking up on clothes and knickknacks. Most of the Celtic garb is handwoven in Ireland and Scotland, including the vibrant kilts, tweed vests and jackets. In the corner of the shop are shillelaghs (aka walking sticks) made of blackthorn, a native European wood. On the walls hang Belleek china that make for elegant giftware. Traditional heathergem and Claddagh rings are also popular. The former are designed with two hands holding a crowned heart to represent loyalty, love and friendship. Celtic knots surround the shop, and for those unaware of the symbolism, before Christianity arrived in Ireland the three-loop symbol represented the maiden, mother and wise woman. As with many pagan traditions, Christians repurposed the triquetra to represent the father, son and holy spirit.

Curio Wolf curiowolf.com South Bay design duo Katie Wong and Summer Thornton draw inspiration from nature for their intricate, quirky textiles: leaf skeletons, crystalline minerals, woodland critters, petals and plumes.

“I’ll just start painting and see what design comes out,” says Thornton, who uses watercolor to express her whimsical aesthetic. “Sometimes

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I have to sort of figure out where it came from, but I think subconsciously it still has to do with the natural world, it still reflects those kinds of patterns.” She then turns the hand-painted artwork into prints that get fashioned into Dopp kits ($45), stationery ($4 per card; $16 per set), wallets ($35), coin purses ($15) and pouches ($32).

Wong and Thornton—high school pals who founded Curio Wolf in early 2016—also offer an elegantly designed canvas pouch packed with a watercolor set and blank postcards ($50), a “Stargazer” kit ($48) with a comic book illustrated by a local artist and a mini telescope, and—for the kiddos—a pouch with an activity book and colored pencils ($45). Shop online, or peruse the pouches in person from 11am to 6pm on Dec. 16 and 17 at the San Jose Craft Holiday Fair, 435 S. Market St., or anytime during business hours at Petit Galleria in Japantown.

Death Before Dishonor Tattoo 306 S Third St, San Jose dbdtattoos.com 408.279.3232 Gifting permanent ink for the holidays is a touching gesture, but it should come with a few ground rules. Don’t take the recipient blindfolded to the tattoo parlor, don’t pick out the tattoo

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EASY RIDER San Jose-based Elos designs its compact skateboards with the cityscape in mind.

design and don’t offer it to someone who’s deathly afraid of needles. Instead, get a gift certificate. If the beneficiary is a South Bay local, consider Death Before Dishonor, where tattooer Ben O’Hara specializes in neo-traditional, dynamic and blackwork styles.

“Organic textures and patterns are my favorite,” says O’Hara, who picked up tattooing as a way to express his art in a social environment and has come to approach the craft as “half-art, half detective work.” Each of O’Hara’s gift certificates come with a print of one of his drawings sized for wall art.The reason? “Sometimes it’s just nice to be able to offer a physical object when getting gifts,” he says. To see some of O’Hara’s work, check Instagram: @ bencadmium.

Elos Skateboards elosskateboards.com Elos skateboards were designed with the cityscape in mind. The short, egg-shaped boards lie low to the ground and weigh no more than a laptop, making them stable enough

to turn on a dime and compact enough to tuck in a backpack.

Instead of grip tape, which wears down clothes and shoe soles, there’s a foot anchor for traction. Elos CEO Tom Wang likens the boards to a race car thanks to their wide base and low center of gravity. The San Jose-based entrepreneur launched Elos—short for Effortless Lifestyle of Skateboarding—via Kickstarter in 2016, culminating a decade of prototyping that began with a group of friends who were trying to figure out how to reimagine the skateboard as a mode of urban transportation.

The boards ($179) come in a range of colors, from natural maple to skyblue and maroon, and each features a unique QR code for individualized customer support.

Gray Matters 330 S California Ave, Palo Alto graymattertoys.com 650.600.8892 Rubik’s Cubes are just the beginning at this nerd-tastic toy store. Located

just down the street from Facebook’s children, like Bunny Peek A Boo, former California Avenue campus, which challenges toddlers to and a short drive from the venture reconstruct scenes printed on cards capital firms of Sand Hill Road, out of four basic building blocks.

Gray Matters aims to foster the entrepreneur inside of every child.

Founded by Dr. Richard Abbey of the Abbey Neuropsychology Clinic, kathrynmarieonline.com the store features a number of Kathryn Marie subscribes to a cooperative board games. The object jewelry philosophy we can get isn’t to defeat one’s opponent, but 18 to work together and complete a challenge.

One such game is called The Memory Palace— it works on the same method that Benedict Cumberbatch’s 21st-century rendition of Sherlock Holmes deploys to keep his thoughts organized. Gray Matters also has brain-stimulating BRAIN GAMES Dr. Richard Abbey opened Gray Matters toys for younger to help foster young thinkers and entrepreneurs.

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An Irish Christmas Kerry Irish Productions

November 28th - 7:00 pm

Take a journey through Christmas in Ireland with superb dancing, singing, and Irish traditional music celebrating the international spirit of the holiday season!

JOY! Tandy Beal & Company

Dec 1,2 - 7:00 pm Dec 2,3 - 2:00 pm

Kick off the holiday season with JOY!, a dazzling extravaganza for the whole family, offering a mix of brilliant visuals and stunning acrobatics.

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LOCK IT UP All of Kathryn Marie’s jewelry is unique to her shop, including these designer Skeleton Key necklaces.

SJSU Jazz Orchestra

December 6th - 7:00 pm

Celebrate the holidays with SJSU Jazz Orchestra and award-winning tenor saxophonist Anton Schwartz. The performance features holiday classics mixed with mainstream jazz repertoire.

The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged) Reduced Shakespeare Company

December 7th - 7:00 pm

The fruitcakes of The Reduced Shakespeare Company take you on an irreverent yet heartwarming trip through the holidays.

San José Nutcracker The New Ballet School

Dec 15,22 - 7:00 pm Dec 16,17,23,24 - 2:00 pm

My Very First Nutcracker Dec 16,17,23,24 - 11:00 am

Make this ballet a family tradition!

Menopause the Musical Emery Entertainment

Jan 9–21 - 8:00 pm Jan 10,14,17,21 - 2:00 pm Jan 13,20 - 4:00 pm

Four women meet while shopping and form a sisterhood as they rejoice in celebrating that menopause is no longer “ The Silent Passage.”

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behind: “You’re unique. Your jewelry should be too.” Unlike the national chain chop-shops that crank out the same cut and design—and you wonder why the recipient always looks like she’s about to cry—every piece from this San Jose-based artist is handmade and just a click away.

Best of all, Marie’s unique pieces are totally affordable. We especially love her Daisy Studs earrings ($6) and her Skeleton Key Necklace ($22).

Marie we’ll be appearing at the San Jose Craft Holiday Fair, 435 S. Market St., on Dec. 16-17, or check out her personal website. She also frequently has a booth at the Taylor Street Night Market in Japantown.

Online orders over $35 come with free delivery.

featuring world-renowned authors of fiction and nonfiction. Kepler’s customers will find a large selection of books at the store. But most important, shoppers here will have the opportunity to talk to a book buyer instead of a book-buying algorithm. Like record stores, bookstores should not be in-andout affairs. They are depositories of memory and serve to remind us of our loves, losses, triumphs and tragedies. Take an hour, bask in the smell of print and leave with a meaningful gift—because a book says as much about who you are as it does about how well you know the recipient.

P.M.B.Q. shop.pmbq.com Their eyes meet from across the room and the music goes quiet. His heartbeat quickens but he lingers by the hors d'oeuvres to play it cool.

A moment later he gives his buddy a nod to say, yes, I will take another drink, but first I have business to attend to. He plucks a napkin from the table to wipe off the artichoke dip that clings to his thumb and forefinger, and he tosses it toward the trash can without looking (he misses) and keeps his eyes locked on the curves projecting from her torso.

The moment has arrived and he approaches with the confidence of a much older, wealthier man. He says: “Excuse me, I couldn’t

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Kepler’s 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park keplers.com 650.324.4321 This mid-Peninsula bookstore has been helping Bay Area readers, thinkers and political agitators get their minds right since it was founded by peace activist Roy Kepler in 1955. From the beats to the hippies and beyond, Kepler’s has always had a connection to the counterculture. Jerry Garcia and Joan Baez frequented the store, and to this day Kepler’s hosts events

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ALL TIED UP With just a few twists, Rachel Riot’s signature shibari scarves go from straight-laced to kinda kinky.

help but notice your Big Butt Panda shirt. Where did you get it?” She smiles and says, “You have artichoke dip on your face.” Phuong-Mai Bui-Quan is the creator of the Bay Area-based P.M.B.Q., our favorite “Lifestyle Panda Brand,” which can be found online and at a pop-up shop at Westfield Valley Fair from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3. Unisex Big Butt Panda tees run around $25.95.

Rachel Riot shoprachelriot.com Indie fashion designer Rachel Riot’s line of shibari scarves ($65 to $75) take their name after the ancient Japanese art of rope bondage. The handmade accessories—made from about a dozen braided strands of super soft jersey—will take any lucky guy or gal “from grandma’s house to the Folsom Street Fair in

less than 60 seconds,” says Riot, who draws inspiration for her clothing line from heavy metal music and vintage fashion. Find the scarves online, along with a collection of chokers, masks and bolos, or pick one up in person at Petite Galleria in San Jose’s Japantown.

Red Cabin Candles instagram.com/redcabincandles etsy.com/shop/eclosiontardive Annalise Smith began dabbling in candle-making after an autoimmune disease forced her to quit her teaching job. “I kind of fell into it because it was something I could do on my own terms,” she says. The Gilroy artist spent a year playing with various waxes and scents before it dawned on her that she had found a new calling. Today, the 31-year-

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SWEET TUSK Name an exotic candy and it will almost certainly be on hand at Rocket Fizz. old sells her jarred, hand-poured creations ($10 each) under the aegis of Red Cabin Candles, which she named in homage to the forestencircled home her grandparents built in the 1940s. Smith suggests taking a whiff of her holiday candles, which include scents such as Santa’s Cookies. Her latest creation, of which she’s particularly proud, is a candle she calls The Great Outdoors.

Other perennial favorites include

MAKES SCENTS TO ME Red Cabin Candles smell good enough to eat.

Storm Watch, Cactus Flower and Watermelon Lemonade. Red Cabin Candles can be found at The Arsenal in San Jose’s Japantown or at the Gilroy Gardens. For locals who buy through the Etsy shop, Smith says, she will deliver the candles in person.

Rocket Fizz 220 E Campbell Ave, Campbell rocketfizz.com 408.370.1510 Candy, soda and rockets make for the ultimate kid magnet. This franchise is known for its massive inventory. They probably have every candy bar in existence, and their wall-to-wall choices of storebrand sodas vary in flavor and style.

The vision of original owners Rob Powells and Ryan Morgan holds true in this particular location. The shop captures whatever semblance is left of post-WWII America. Nostalgia Gift Baskets ($32) are great for memory lane strollers. Weighing in at 5 pounds, they include whirly pops, theater box Double Bubble gum, candy cigarettes and more.

Simply Smashing!

241-B E Campbell Ave, Campbell simplysmashingstyle.com 408.379.1925 For 15 years, owner Deb Rohzen has stocked her eclectic boutique with a locally handmade selection of nifty jewelry, distinctive apparel and adornments. Nothing here can be found or purchased online. Each item looks and feels uniquely its own.

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LET’S SMASH Every item in Deb Rohzen’s Simply Smashing is a unique find. unapologetic freedom of style, and the vibrant trinkets add flair to any outfit. Rohzen displays art in the front window to support local artists for a two-month installation. The mantra on the store’s counter is to give tidbits of love away and brighten someone’s day.

Therapy 347 E Campbell Ave, Campbell 408.866.8999 A boutique this quirky is hard to pin down. Let’s start with Therapy’s feminist round table of Frida Kahlo handbags and copies of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Another table has notebooks with titles that read “I Regret Nothing” and “Do One Thing

BOYS CLUB West Valley Music specializes in sheet music, but don’t overlook the busts of famous composers.

Every Day That Centers You.” Their retro collection is a slice of late 1960s HaightAshbury, while nearby are neatly boxed and ready-to-gift holidayscented candles. The thrift shop is also known for providing clothes and gift bags to local causes. On Small Business Saturday (Nov. 25), Therapy will donate 10 percent of proceeds to Second Harvest Food Bank and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The School of Visual Philosophy 425 Auzerais Ave, San Jose.

408.816.7510 schoolofvisualphilosophy.com Holiday gifts don’t necessarily need

to change lives, but The School of Visual Philosophy—launched in 2013 by Yori and Dana Seeger—has lofty ambitions for students and the people who encounter their art. Rather than simply purchasing out-the-door artwork, consider the gift of experience by signing up a friend or loved one for the monthly Creative Night Out ($20) class, which is BYOB and held the third Thursday of each month. Or look at the Ladies Night Out ($20) event the first Thursday of every month, where women can get together for conversation, wine and a crash course in art making. The school’s main goal is to help create works that engage the community and inspire people to think differently.

Other gifts could include a $50 annual membership or perhaps renting that struggling artist pal studio space for a month ($200). If that sounds too complicated, just swing by the school for its Holiday Tool and Antique Sale running Tuesday through Saturday, 2-7pm, until Dec. 29.

Trichome Factory trichomefactory.com San Jose has a well-deserved rep

for top-of-the-line streetwear, and Trichome Factory—named after the follicles found on a budding plant— is a clean label worth considering for the unabashed stoner in your life.

It’s hard to go wrong with any of their vibrant Coca-Cola-inspired OG Kush hoodies, or perhaps a Death Row Records tank top featuring the silhouetted click of Pac, Snoop, Dre and Suge. Trichome’s full line can be found online while the San Jose-based lifestyle brand also has a pop-up shop going until Nov. 26 at Westfield Valley Fair.

West Valley Music 262 Castro St, Mountain View westvalleymusic.com 650.961.1566 When it comes to buying sheet music from a neighborhood store, West Valley Music in downtown Mountain View doesn’t leave customers wanting. Though cozy, the shop punches well above its weight by giving developing players everything they need to know along with plenty of obscure titles. “Online, you can look at the first couple pages,” says Diana Tucker, the store’s owner, but searching for materials on the web isn’t the same as

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Begins January 1, 2018 At VTA, we provide “Solutions that move you”, solutions to traffic, congestion and stressful commutes throughout our county. To accomplish this, VTA is changing it’s fares and improving transit services.

Here are some benefits you can expect: Two - Hour Fares Two-Hour Fares are available to customers using a Clipper card or VTA’s mobile fare app, EZfare. For two hours after the first tag on Clipper, or upon activating a Single Ride fare on EZfare, customers can transfer for free across VTA bus and light rail service except express bus*.

Reduced Youth Fares and New Adult/Senior/Disabled Fares Youth fares reduced to discounted rates, $1.00 Single Ride, $3.00 Day Pass and $30.00 Monthly Pass. All new fares are listed on VTA’s website.

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FLAMEOUT Survivors of the wildfires that devastated Sonoma and Napa counties will need all the help they can get.

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URVIVORS OF THE deadly North Bay fires lost homes, jobs and precious work hours that will leave many of them struggling to put food on the table during the holidays, let alone afford gifts for their loved ones.

The wind-fueled flames that sparked Oct. 8 razed upward of 9,000 homes, hotels, restaurants and wineries, leaving people with nowhere to live and nowhere to work. Forty-three people died and 100,000 acres burned to an apocalyptic crisp. It will take months, if not years, for the survivors to regain their footing, especially in the thick of one of the most competitive rental markets in the nation.

But when California’s Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, its two Democratic senators and 39 Democratic Congress members asked for $7.4 billion in federal disaster aid, a Republican delegation boycotted the request for their own state. In the White House’s $44 billion disaster aid bill, which earmarked funding for regions hit by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria this past week, the Trump administration budgeted nothing for the enormous disaster in Sonoma and Napa counties. Apparently, given this pernicious new low in partisan politics, it’s up to Californians to take care of their own.

On behalf of Metro’s sister newspaper, the North Bay Bohemian, we’ve set up a charitable fund with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to benefit the people affected by the wildfire. While you’re in the giving spirit this holiday season, chip in a donation by going to siliconvalleycf.org/sonomafund.

TOY STORIES With two floors of toys, Wooden Horse has everything from fuzzy stuffed animals to games for STEM learning.

thumbing through a physical catalog.

At the store, shoppers are able to plug in to the uniquely human recommendation algorithm that is the human brain. Tucker fondly recalls spending entire afternoons on the hunt for a new piece to tackle. “It would just spark ideas—you’d think of this and you’d go look for that.”

In addition to its hefty library, West Valley also boasts a large selection of band instruments, from reeds and strings to woodwinds; there is a small warren of private lesson rooms in the back, a repair shop, and all of the staff are experienced musicians.

Wooden Horse 796 Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos woodenhorsetoys.com 888.356.8821 There’s no better kid zone than this 3,000-square-foot toy sanctuary.

Christmas calls for oversize cotton-

stuffed animals, big yellow tractors and alphabet trains with wooden tracks. This two-story shop features an alluring pink room full of dolls and ponies as well as an arsenal of automobiles and build-it gadgets.

Their extensive selection offers toys for ages toddlers to preteens.

Owner Kevin Mukai was handed the keys to the wooden palace in 2006 and continues to honor the “Toys for Growing” philosophy and trademark that has graced the marquee since 1971. The store donates to mothers in nursery schools and local schools in Los Gatos. As they hope to keep up with modern trends, Mukai has embraced learning in science, technology engineering and math that carries over to most schools’ curricula. But don’t forget—they’re just kids. Consider the excellent selection of puzzles and games that cater to children’s artistic side.

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*wed BLACKOUT WEDNESDAY Wed, 5pm, Free ’Tis the night before Thanksgiving, and all through the house… your folks are driving you crazy. So head out for a nightcap—or nine.

Blackout Wednesday is a day for reconnecting with old friends and old flames (or hiding from them).

Everyone is back in town and itching for a cold one. Blacking out is not necessary, of course. Plenty of local spots are hosting lowerkey affairs, like the Park Station Hashery’s tap takeover with Hop Dogma Brewing Co. There are also ragers: ENSO Bar & Nightclub’s Black Out Wednesday comes to mind. Pick your poison. (AJ)

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Wed, 9pm, $30+ City National Civic, San Jose

Fri, 9pm, $20+ BackBar SoFa, San Jose

Fri, 8pm, $35+ The Stage, San Jose

The Give Thanks festival lays claim to being the largest Thanksgiving weekend electronic dance music event in Northern California.

The three-day festival begins Wednesday with the Parisian DJ duo of Tchami and Malaa. Their latest single, “The Sermon” comes from their upcoming collab EP, No Redemption. Malaa’s old-school style blends with Tchami’s newschool tone synergistically, putting a distinctly modern twist on breakbeat-driven ’90s house. The Las Vegas-based American producer 3LAU headlines the Friday-night show with his maximalist laserbeam beats, while the Mad Decentsigned L.A. duo Slander close out Saturday with their signature “heaven trap” sound. (AJ)

The Based God will be soon be in the building. For those Bay Area fans who missed Lil B’s appearance at Shoreline Amphitheatre’s recent Rolling Loud Fest, here’s another opportunity to catch the most outrageously prolific rapper in the game. As for all the drama that went down in Mountain View—Brandon’s sound equipment was allegedly jacked

by A Boogie wit da Hoodie and things got scrappy backstage— it’s all been squashed. After the incident, B tweeted: “it’s all good I love y’all and I forgive y’all.”

Lil B is truly a mystical dude.

Kudos for rising above the beef, President Based God. (AJ)

May and Eddie’s battle of love continues in San Jose.

This Pulitzer Prize-nominated Sam Shepard play tells the story of two lovers reconciling their feelings for each other.

And, like so many Shepard plays, Fool For Love deals with themes of heartbreak, violence and the juxtaposition of the real American West with its mythological portrayal in film and in our collective unconscious. After May leaves for the Mojave Desert, Eddie goes after her, intending to bring her back home. But it’s not that simple, of course. The play runs through Dec. 17. (SS)

BLACK FRIDAY AT STREETLIGHT Fri, 10am, Free Streetlight Records, San Jose Skip the deal-drunk hordes at Target and Walmart and support local businesses like Streetlight Records, which will be carrying a number of special Black Friday Record Store Day items. Why risk being trampled or getting caught in the eye of a smartphone brawl, anyway? There are plenty of records here to go around and limited blunt devices to beat people over the head with.

Streetlight never reveals all of the RSD pieces they’ll have in stock, but this year music from Paul McCartney, Queen, Lou Reed, Kid Cudi and more are in the offering.

Arrive early and receive a goodie bag. (AJ)

* concerts Nov 29 at City National Civic

LIL B

TAYLOR SWIFT

Dec 2 at SAP Center

PERE UBU

Dec 5 at The Ritz

PIXIES

Dec 7 at The Fox Theatre

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT Dec 8-9 at Oracle Arena

LEGEND OF ZELDA

Dec 9 at City National Civic

THOM YORKE

Dec 14 at The Fox Theatre

JAY Z

Dec 16 at Oracle Arena

WINDHAM HILL: WINTER SOLSTICE

Dec 17 at Carriage House Theatre

KSHMR

Jan 19 at City National Civic

BILL MAHER

Jan 21 at The Flint Center

‘RENT’

Jan 23-28 at SJ Center for Performing Arts

THE HARVEST FESTIVAL Fri, 10am, $4+ McEnery Convention Center, San Jose This annual arts and crafts show returns to the South Bay just in time for the holidays. The three-day event will feature live entertainment and plenty of handcrafted items by all sorts of talented artisans. Stop by the main stage for a comedic act by John Park, the funny waiter, and dance to tunes by Le Jazz Hot Quartet. Stroll by other areas for international comedy from WC Willy Stilt Cowboy, story time with a show

by Fables of the West and music by Big Mama Sue & Fast Eddie. Visit art vendors or enjoy some of the different kinds of food that will be available. The Harvest Festival runs through Sunday. (SS)

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Fri, 6pm, $85+ San Jose State Event Center

Fri, 2pm, $12.25+ Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz

It turns out that mid-’90s American bands like 311, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Zebrahead— yeah…remember them?— weren’t fusing alternative rock, ska and zany hip-hop flows in a vacuum. Down in Mexico City, a rock en español band called Molotov were busy rejecting the conventions that had made Maná a global phenomenon. Penning bombastic tunes that melded rap and punk, Molotov openly took aim at government corruption.

More than 20 years later, Molotov are still making music.

They headline this weekend’s La Tocada Fest along with El Tri, Mago de Oz, Panteon Rococo, Angeles del Infierno and Maldita Vecindad. (NV)

Starring a pair of Cirque du Soleil soloists—Jeff Raz and Diane Wasnak—Tandy Beal’s Joy! comes to Santa Cruz this weekend and San Jose the next. The show’s subtitle, A Holiday Show with Circus, Dance and Live Music, really says it all. The performance follows up on last year’s Nutz RE-Mixed! and is set to live music by SoVoSó, an a cappella group known for a rhythmic amalgamation of jazz, gospel, world and R&B. There will be high-flying acrobatics, a contortionist, slapstick comedy and awe-inspiring visuals. Joy! runs Nov. 24-26 in Santa Cruz and comes to the Hammer Theatre Center from Dec. 1-3. (NV)

*sun WORLD OF DANCE LIVE

Sun, 8pm, $29+ City National Civic, San Jose Founded in 2008, the World of Dance organization aims to inspire the entire globe through movement. WOD recently got a big boost when the program was picked up by NBC, which turned it into a reality TV series hosted

by Jennifer Lopez. World of Dance Live takes that show on the road.

The stop in San Jose features junior division finalist Eva Igo plus crowd favorites Diana Pombo, DNA, Luka & Jenalyn, Supercr3w, Elektro Botz and The Mihacevich Sisters. Styles include hip-hop, modern and Latin swing. (NV)

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT Jan 25 at The Ritz

PRIMUS

Dec 31 at The Fox Theatre

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Dec 31 at The Ritz

SHAKIRA

Feb 7 at SAP Center

CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES

Feb 8 at Carriage House Theatre

SUPER LOVE JAM

Feb 9 at SAP Center

JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Feb 21 at The Ritz

DEMI LOVATO & DJ KHALED Feb 28 at SAP Center

ROBERT PLANT

Feb 28 at The Fox Theatre

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Totally Absurd BLACK & WHITE Featured in ‘Vogue’ and the ‘New York Times’ this year, Adam Pendleton’s work is on display at the Pace Gallery in Palo Alto.

Artist Adam Pendleton plays with indecipherable nature of modernity

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CHAMPION OF nonsense and irrationality arrived in Palo Alto last week at the Pace Gallery. Adam Pendleton’s solo show in California, “Which We Can,” is just one of many stops on the Brooklyn-based artist’s move toward cultural ubiquity.

Pendleton’s work has recently been displayed in Detroit, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Berlin, New York and, not least of all, the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Vogue and the New York Times have featured interviews with him this year. At the age of 33, Pendleton has gazed at the zeitgeist, and now it’s gazing back at him.

We’re living through an era that’s resistant to the idea of definitive meanings. Headlines are now filed on a daily basis with accusations, recusals, apologies and denials. Truth suffers from dubious slippages as it moves from the left to the right and back again. In a coded response, here comes Pendleton, boldly forsaking color and easily decipherable canvases. In some of the literature printed about him, there are references to his influences, including Ad Reinhardt.

But when Reinhardt’s abstractions

went black, the temperature in the gallery cooled down. The point of view is from absolute darkness—the bottom of the sea or somewhere out in distant space. That’s not the case with Pendleton’s series of 30 silkscreens, Our Ideas. Mounted on the wall in a grid formation (10 images across by three down), these messy squiggling inks provoke and agitate. They share more DNA with Franz Kline’s angry language of unidentifiable shapes, his mangled hieroglyphic paintings from the 1950s.

If you walk into the gallery unfamiliar with what you’re about to see, the scrawls and masks, the distorted faces and inverted words, they'll all resist your best and most logical interpretations. The artist’s own treatise on his work—what he tells us we’re looking at—is crucial to be able to read meaning into it, if being told what to look for appeals to you.

Collectively, the walls shimmer with rage and disorder, although those

chaotic thoughts and emotions are carefully contained in glass-fronted, framed rectangles. Pendleton has also written, with other contributors, a book-length manifesto on his practice entitled Black Dada Reader.

In an interview with Pin-Up Magazine, Pendleton says he discovered the term in the Amiri Baraka poem “Black Dada Nihilismus.”

The artist explained that “Black Dada is a way for me to talk about the future of the past.” Without risking further obfuscation, his statement in the April New York Times feature is a clearer statement of purpose: “[Black Dada is] a way of articulating a broad conceptualization of blackness.” More helpful still is Behind the Biennale: Adam Pendleton Brings “Black Lives Matter” to Venice, a short video posted online by Artsy.

Pendleton stands in his studio and explains the idea behind his contribution to the Biennale. He says, “Some things end up really signifying the moment they came into being.”

The moment he was addressing in 2015 was the one in which Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were fatally shot. The camera hovers over some of the work in which the artist has incorporated language from the Black Lives Matter movement. One of the larger works at Pace, Untitled (A Victim of American Democracy), also employs this strategy.

Pendleton takes the title from a 1964 speech “The Ballot or the Bullet”

by Malcolm X. It’s also part of a series of paintings that could have been one enormous wall of graffiti that’s been cut apart and separated. They’re silkscreens that have also been spray painted, again, only in black and white. You can make out letters but they’re cut off or solitary. Faces appear from spreading blots that seem like Rorschach tests. Do you see anguish and terror, or the blankness and dread of nothing at all? If as Pendleton suggests in the Artsy video that his work reflects our particular political moment, it’s no wonder that he’s in such high demand at galleries around the world.

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PURE MOTION Odwa Makanda and Lwando Dutyulwa grew up in the slums of South Africa and are now professional ballet dancers.

Making the Leap FROM THE MOMENT they stepped into their first ballet studio at the age of 12, Odwa Makanda and Lwando Dutyulwa had the odds stacked against them. Growing up in poverty-stricken Langa township in Cape Town, South Africa, the idea that they would become professional dancers was far-fetched.

Twelve years after first entering the world of classical ballet, Makanda and Dutyulwa’s perseverance is paying dividends. The talented pair will be in San Jose for the next six months, training at The New Ballet Studio Company and performing in a series of shows for its upcoming season.

For three years, Makanda and Dutyulwa commuted two and a half hours each day to train at the Cape Academy of Performing Arts—one of the few ballet schools left standing in the city of Cape Town. In his spare time, Makanda inspired himself by watching The San Jose YouTube videos of up-and-coming dancers from other Nutcracker parts of the world.

Dec 15, 7pm, $20+ Then, a door opened. This past July, Makanda and Hammer Theatre, Dutyulwa arrived in the heart of downtown San San Jose Francisco for the Alonzo King LINES Summer Ballet newballet.com Program. The visit was sponsored by the Gugulethu Ballet Project, the brainchild of Kristine Elliott, who recognized the pair’s talent and helped them realize their hopes of dancing abroad.

Dalia Rawson, executive director of The New Ballet School, first met Makanda and Dutyulwa that summer. After seeing them dance in a class at The New Ballet School, Rawson soon asked them to be a part of the upcoming season. “They’re incredibly charismatic dancers. You see them dancing in class and immediately want to see more,” Rawson says. a-Their first performance will be The San Jose Nutcracker, which opens Dec. 15 at the Hammer Theatre Center. Dutyulwa is cast as the Nutcracker Prince and Makanda will dance the solo role of the Walnut in select performances of this holiday classic with a local twist.

Makando describes the experience as a steppingstone, one that will hopefully lead to more opportunities in the future. “I remember when I first came here, I still couldn’t believe that I was here,” Makando says.

“Who knows what may come next?” —Camille Miller

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Macabre Music DEAD CAN DANCE Disney’s new animated film ‘Coco’ conjures a colorful spirit world, full of music and light.

‘Coco’ brings the underworld to life with vibrant color, choice tunes

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ARIACHI TRUMPETS play “When You Wish Upon a Star” over the Sleeping Beauty castle in the titles, and papel picado comes to life to tell Coco’s back story.

It’s a Garcia-Marquez sort of tale: not a story of 100 years of solitude, but 75 years of quietude.

The Rivera family of Santa Cecilia, Mexico, has banned music in their house ever since a guitarist married and abandoned great-grandma and

her daughter back in 1942. The titular Coco is the hairy-chinned grandma, child of the wandering musician. She is now deep into senility.

The family toils in the shoemaking business. The peg, awl and leather are waiting for young Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) when he gets old enough. But the boy has a forbidden passion: a hidden homemade guitar and a secret altar to the most famous man who ever lived in Santa Cecilia.

That’s Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), a musical star of Mexico’s epoca de oro cinema. De la Cruz’s career resembles that of Jorge Negrete…but it’s not actually him, since Negrete’s ghost turns up later for a cameo. As does Frida Kahlo.

On the night of Los Muertos, Miguel breaks into the tomb to borrow the sacred guitar of de la Cruz. This bit of blasphemy has instant repercussions: glowing with a marigold-orange nimbus, Miguel is transported to the city of the dead.

He’s aided there by Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal), a tricky, hustling skeleton seemingly modeled on Mexican comic Cantinflas. Hector is trying to outwit the afterlife bureaucrats, who are as stringent as the civil servants in Beetlejuice.

Meanwhile, Miguel is already starting to see his bones through his transparent skin. The boy won’t be going home if he can’t find a relative to bless him and let him return to the land of the living.

Santa Cecilia is about as key to everyday Mexican experience as life on Ma and Pa Kent’s farm is to an average American, but the million lights of the city of the dead, spread

over the steep hills like Guanajuato, serviced by Porfirio-era trams—now, that’s worth visiting.

Among the skeleton city are living Oaxacan-style alebrije critters, including a dazzling, flying lion with ram’s horns, flamboyant in black-light colors. Other, less splendid species are lurking about: at a fancy party, there’s a crawling painted hedgehog with hors d'oeuvres stuck to his toothpick quills. Miguel’s companion is a live dog, the well-wrought comedy relief critter Dante—though shouldn’t it be Virgil? The goggle-eyed rubbery street mutt is so long of tongue that he lassoes his own muzzle.

Disney made an insane attempt a few years ago to copyright the phrase “Dia de Los Muertos” when Coco was in development—wouldn’t it have been something to see the lawyers arguing the point among themselves!

In penance, the studio hired cultural advisers, including the cartoonist Lalo Alvarez of the panel cartoon La Cucaracha. (Alvarez sounded the alarm about Disney’s attempt to rebrand Mexican cultura by illustrating a Godzilla-size Mickey Mouse skeleton attacking the world.) Scads of Latin actors pack the cast: Luis Valdez voicing one of Miguel’s deceased uncles, “Fluffy” Iglesias, Cheech Marin and the director-actor Alfonso Arau.

We’ll probably hear from fans who stoutly prefer Book of Life to Coco, just as there are people who strangely prefer Space Jam to Joe Dante’s Looney Tunes Movie. Others will detect a faint taste of Taco Bell in their mouths watching this, with its wayward third act, and a soundtrack that tends toward musical mayonesa.

The exceptions are some not-bad translations of some traditional songs and a cover of “La Llorona” performed by Alanna Ubach and Antonio Sol. And it’s not all for the kids; some poisoned tequila and betrayal is added to the mix to deepen the melodrama. This bright and mostly entertaining Coco honors Mexico. It’s a good first step. At least in terms of learning things from cartoons, a little knowledge may not be a dangerous thing.

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HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

If good intentions made the movie, Dee (Pariah) Reese’s criminally overnarrated tragedy would be as important as so many critics are saying it is. This adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s sprawling novel is an ambitious film for a director who has previously made smaller-scale work. Moreover, it’s about history that must not be forgotten. The backstory of one of the main characters involves the too-little-known 761st Tank Battalion, an all-black World War II unit celebrated for its valor. In 1946, Henry (Jason Clarke) takes his city-bred wife, Laura (Carey Mulligan, a serious stretch in the role), from Memphis to a farm south of Greenville. The circumstances there are a lot worse than he’d imagined: they set up in a house that’s more of a tin barn than anything else. Coming to live with them is Henry’s dad, Pappy (Jonathan Banks), a viciously bigoted old horror. Soon the more dashing, lively brother, Jamie (Garrett Hedlund), turns up—just back from the Air Force with a Silver Star. Laura clearly prefers the airman to her husband. The white family gets involved with black tenant farmers—laborer and lay-preacher Hap (Rob Morgan) and Hap’s newly returned son, Ronsel (Jason Mitchell), who had been a tank-driving sergeant in Patton’s army. Hitting the bottle because of his PTSD, Jamie imposes a friendship on Ronsel, despite the danger of a white man and a black man being seen together by the racists in the small town. The melodrama rises up like Mississippi groundwater, almost drowning the best sides of Reese’s film. Some of these good aspects include Clarke’s Rod Steiger-worthy performance as Henry—with a mouth too small and a nose too sharp, he looks weak and unsettled from the beginning, cowed by the pressures around him.

Clarke never has a bad moment in Mudbound—he’s the perfect actor to embody the neurotic delusions of segregation. Also good is Mary J. Blige as Ronsel’s mother, and the silvery, rainwashed landscapes are very evocative.

The voice-overs, which seem like they’re never going to cease, finally do shut up in Mudbound’s second half. Mudbound isn’t well shaped—it seems to strain to keep in all the details from the source.

Yet there are a dozen incidents that almost achieve the Faulkner quality it seeks: such as a scene in the beginning of the accidental disinterring of a runaway slave, who has a shot-out skull and chains still wound around his bones. The moment illustrates the Faulkner line that’s always hauled out to describe the South: “The past isn’t dead, it’s not even the past.” (Netflix, select theaters.) (RvB)

(2004) This gemlike animated feature from Studio Ghibli is derived from a children's book by Diana Wynne Jones, who commented, "I think I write the kind of books I do because the world suddenly went mad when I was 5 years old." She means the outbreak of World War II. Jones was slightly older than director Hayao Miyazaki, who was born in 1941. Yet both were evacuated from their childhood homes because of the war. So Howl's Moving Castle is a story of feuding wizards and enchanted castles, but also of air-raids and burning cities.

The film begins in a toylike Central European capital in about 1914. It's a cross between Paris and Vienna. But the fluttering of mauve-and-gold-striped flags and the lounging chocolate-soldier hussars in the streets are all signs of war to come. In one corner of the city, the plain girl Sophie toils away in her mother's hat shop. One evening, the feared wizard Howl materializes and takes Sophie for a little stroll in the skies.

Howl's favor is discovered by his jealous rival, the Witch of the Waste (Lauren Bacall voices her). To punish Sophie, the witch turns the girl into an old hag and takes from her the ability to describe how she was enchanted. In the foggy mountains above the city, Sophie climbs Howl's castle, a shambling, armored pile that creeps on reptilian legs, like Baba Yaga's hut in the Russian fairy tales. Inside, Sophie is given a grudging welcome from Howl's familiar, a fire demon called Calcifer (Billy Crystal). All isn't well, though, because Howl shares a problem with J. Robert Oppenheimer's: His powers of magic are required by his government, and they won't take no for an answer. Howl's Moving Castle is, as the title says, moving. As Howl, Christian Bale uses his Batman voice, powerful but insinuating. And Emily Mortimer rightfully sounds like a girl who works for a living, rather than a posh ingénue of the stage. But Crystal takes some of the scariness out of the tale. His Calcifer, the vestal fire-spirit burning on Howl's hearth is a buddy and a blusterer. Miyazaki's animation shows a creature that's a little more untrustworthy. It is never safe to turn your back on a fire. Of all Howl's magicks, one most envies the front door to his castle, a multidimensional portal to many different destinations, from a fisherman's harbor to an alpine valley.

(The business was stolen years later for Dr. Strange’s manor in Greenwich Village). Ghibli's films are a true remedy for the pain of being stuck in one era and one place. (Plays Nov 26, 27 and 29 in various valley locations; check to see if the preferable subtitled version is playing. Fathomevents.com) (RvB)

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SUPER FRIENDS Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and more come together in the new DC Universe film ‘Justice League.’

Saves the Day THE ENGAGING, endearing Justice League, in its brisk two hours, is a big improvement on Man of Steel, and what could be called Batman v Superman: The Dawn of Superman’s Funeral.

Justice League commences with charm worthy of the Christopher Reeve Superman films. A couple of off-camera kids corner Superman (Henry Cavill) for an interview. The question that stops him speechless: “What’s the best thing about Earth?”

In Batman v Superman, the demise of our hero seemed like a sad gimmick.

Here, the montage of street-corner monuments and rotting flowers on the street corner really stings: Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” on the soundtrack, Superman flanked with Bowie and Prince on a tabloid cover, Lois (Amy Adams) reaching for the empty side of the bed, and a beggar on a blanket next to a cardboard sign: “I TRIED.” Smelling blood in the water, an alien god called Steppenwolf (voiced by Ciaran Hinds) arrives by wormhole. He’s basically Sauron from Lord of the Rings, here to retrieve three strange, pulsating cubes hidden by the ancients—three boxes to rule them all.

Thus Batman recruits a defense team of metahumans, including the witty, self-

doubting Flash (Ezra Miller), the fastest man alive and a self-described “attractive Jewish kid”; the insanely hearty barbarian of Atlantis, Aquaman ( Jason Momoa); the somber half-machine Cyborg (Ray Fisher); and, in a Justice League welcome return, Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), first PG, 120 Mins. seen perched on the sword Valleywide arm of the statue of Lady Justice atop the Old Bailey courthouse in London.

It’s easy to guess that Superman isn’t the kind of figure to rot in a coffin, though the problem of resurrection is summed up by The Flash in two words: “Pet Semetary."

This rapid yet smooth film has the time for breaks—the aging Bruce Wayne gets a sympathetic ear from Wonder Woman: “You can’t do this forever,” she warns. “I can barely do this now.” Affleck, generally an uninteresting, uninvolved actor, rises to this role. The weariness and second thoughts are as much a surprise as the final battle in a version of Chernobyl, where Steppenwolf is busy un-terraforming Terra. Gadot is glorious in slowed time, and the sight of the Batmobile roaring away with a cloud of flying monsters behind it is thrilling to any former child who ever tied a towel around his neck, pretending it was a cape. —Richard von Busack

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Long Neck Life TREAL As Charlie Yin, aka Giraffage, has gained prominence as a producer, it’s meant he’s had to scale back his sampling.

San Jose-bred Giraffage stretches production skills on new LP

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NY MUSICAL ACT can talk about growing pains. With each new entry in their discography, a band or artist toils in an endless cycle of experimentation, inadvertently finding what works and what doesn’t.

For Charlie Yin—better known by his stage name, Giraffage—some of that experimentation has also involved figuring out what he can still get away with.

From the outset, much of the San Francisco producer’s work

involved flipping R&B samples into technicolor bedroom synth pop.

Many of Giraffage’s earlier releases owed their success to Yin’s knack for isolating earworm samples and grafting them onto his own chopped and screwed beats. There they would bloom to become the centerpieces of the compositions he built around them.

As he’s watched his star rise, however, San Jose-raised producer has use this technique less and less.

“Being on a bigger label, I’m not really supposed to be sampling too much anymore, just for legal reasons and whatnot. I definitely still snuck a few samples in there,” Yin says. “But now they’re just manipulated to the point where no one can tell where they’re from.”

It’s partly for this reason that his newest full-length—Too Real, released last month—feels like it’s operating on a new sonic plane. Songs that might have featured purple-tinged ’80s and ’90s R&B snippets now trade in carefully chosen guest vocalists and intricate bricklaying.

“Maybes” starts off simply enough. A feathery drum track cradles the breathy vocals of Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner as she sighs out lyrics cryptically asking if she has what the listener desires.

Each minute seems to present two or four new musical ideas for Giraffage to add to the mix. It’s about three minutes into the track that a punchy collection of dialedin synthesizers take the stage, rising into a tangled spire of shimmering arpeggios.

When he’s not showing off his new tricks, other songs find the producer illustrating what made many of his early remixes and edits so memorable.

His melodies are simple enough to get stuck in your head for a couple days without losing their appeal.

“I think a lot of the music is informed by the stuff I listened to growing up” he says. “I always tended to gravitate towards really sparse melodies. I was never really a huge fan of like jazz, where there’s a ton of notes coming at you all at once. I would usually just connect with more simple and catchy stuff.”

Just 10 seconds into the opening track, “Do U Want Me,” this point is illustrated. The four-note melody pushes forward at breakneck speed a slinky beat that merges live drums with an echoing 808 cowbell. It’s the kind of song that could soundtrack a particularly stoney interstellar voyage or a brisk evening run.

Giraffage’s penchant for simple, slowbuilding melodies help set his music apart from the cacophony of dropcentric EDM producers that continue to rule YouTube playlists. It’s no surprise, then, to hear that electronic music wasn’t really what first him to making music.

“I think it was Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights,” Yin says. “I basically grew up listening to that, and that was one of the albums that inspired me to play drums and guitar initially.

I was in bands and stuff in high school and we were basically just trying to be like Interpol knockoffs or The Strokes knockoffs.”

Giraffage says his journey really started when he got tired of having bandmates and opted to start messing around with his own compositions.

There’s no denying that his current output couldn’t be more different from a band like Interpol on the surface. Looking back, though, much of what made songs like “The New,” “Untitled” and “Stella Was a Diver” work in the first place was the foundation laid by Carlos Dengler’s sparse yet vital bass lines.

Yin, who was raised in San Jose, returns for a hometown show at The Ritz this weekend. He’ll be joined by fellow producers Sweater Beats and Wingtip.

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ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every other Tue, 7:15pm: Jazz on Tuesdays. Every Wed, 7pm: Piano Night. Sat, Nov 25, 8:30pm: The Ron Gariffo Orchestra. Sun, Nov 26, 7pm: Molly’s Revenge. Tue, Nov 28, 7:30pm: West Coast Songwriters Competition.

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

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

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JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Sunday Brunch: 10am-2pm.

Dec 18, 7pm: Cocktail Class. Los Gatos

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

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam. Fri, Nov 24: Joint Chiefs. Sat, Nov 25: Isaiah Pickett. Los Gatos.

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

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

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 RITZ Sat, Nov 25, 8pm: Giraffage, Sweater Beats, Wingtip. San Jose.

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrarra. Sat, Nov 25, 8pm: Static Tilt. Los Gatos.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Every Wed, 10pm: College Night DJ. Every Thurs, 10pm: Karaoke.

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

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

MOUNTAIN WINERY Every Third Thursday: Thursdays On the Mountain. San Jose.

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

Sun, Nov 26, 7:30pm: Molly’s Revenge. Redwood City.

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

AVERY LOUNGE Every Sun, 10pm: Reggae Sundays. San Jose.

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

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

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. Sat, Nov 25, 8:30pm: The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol.

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

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

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

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

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

Jazz/Blues/ World AGAVE Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

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

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

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

HUKILAU Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

JJ’S BLUES Every Tue: MikeB Interactive Jam. Wed-Sun: Live Music.

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FIGHT Lars Frederiksen’s ‘Never Say Die’ has been the San Jose Earthquakes’ theme song since 2014.

A Total Bastard IF YOU MISSED your chance to pick up the two Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards albums when they were released around the turn of the millennium, you’re about the get a second chance. Both the 2001 debut and 2004 follow-up by the Rancid guitarist’s side band have long been out of print. That is, until now. This week, both records by the Campbell-bred punk band get a long-overdue vinyl reissue through San Francisco label Pirates Press.

And for fans of 1977-style punk, that’s not all. In addition to the reprints, the band is also releasing their first new recording since disbanding over a decade ago: a live album, aptly titled Live and Loud.

“This is a true testament to what the Bastards were,” Fredericksen says over the phone from his home in San Francisco. “We were a live band. And at that particular time, we were blasting on all cylinders.”

Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards ‘Live and Loud’ Out Now Pirates Press Records

The album, which was recorded the same week their debut was released in 2001, documents what was only the ninth show the band ever played, capturing the group young and hungry to prove themselves on their first tour.

“There were bands that didn’t want to take us on tour because they saw us and didn’t want to play after us,” Frederiksen says. “That’s not ego talking, it’s just the truth. We were a freight train. We brought it every night.”

With gritty songs about street life in the ’80s, their music was refreshing for many at a time when punk was becoming increasingly suburban and radio-friendly. And now with Live and Loud, anyone who missed the band’s powerful live shows during their brief existence—from 2000-2005—finally has a chance to hear them in their natural element.

Many in the South Bay who aren’t familiar with the Bastards will still recognize Frederiksen’s voice and songwriting from Avaya Stadium. “Never Say Die,” which Frederiksen wrote for another of his projects—The Old Firm Casuals—has been the theme song for the San Jose Earthquakes since 2014. Frederiksen is a seasonticket holder and a lifelong fan of the team.

“You don’t have to be from some big city or some ‘cool’ place to represent,” he says, of his favorite team. Indeed. Now, with the Bastards’ albums finally back in print, a whole new generation of punk fans can represent the musicians who put Campbell on the map. —Mike Huguenor Disclosure: Gordy Carbone, a Metro employee, was a member of the Bastards.

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

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

Every Sunday: Special Dinner Shows. Mountain View.

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

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

O’FLAHERTY’S

BYRNEMAN Steve Byrne performs at The Improv this week.

Every Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún.

San Jose.

IMPROV

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Thu-Sun, Nov 24-26: Steve Byrne.

San Jose.

Tue, 8pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

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

Mountain View.

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

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

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

SAN JOSE STATE EVENT CENTER Fri, Nov 24, 6pm: Molotov, El Tri, Mago De Oz, Panteon Rococo, Angeles Del Infierno and Maldita Vecindad. San Jose.

ST. STEPHENS GREEN

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

QUARTER NOTE Every Tue: Open mic. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

Every Thu, 9pm: Karaoke w/Tony.

Los Gatos.

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Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Fri-Sun, Nov 24-26, 9pm: Laurie Kilmartin. Sunnyvale.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

Every Wed: Karaoke w/Neebor.

San Jose.

Every Mon, 7pm: Trivia Night.

San Jose

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

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

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

Every Sun, 4pm: Spanish Karaoke.

San Jose.

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Every third Sat, 8pm: Comedians at Red Rock. Mountain View.

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

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

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

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

COURT’S LOUNGE Mon, Thu & Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Campbell.

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

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

San Jose.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Tue-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Sun, 4pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

Fri: Karaoke Fridays. Sunnyvale.

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GILROY BOWL Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.

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Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. Woodside.

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Campbell.

Every Tue: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Nightly Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 10pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

RED STAG LOUNGE

OASIS Wed-Sun 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

Willow Glen.

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

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LILLY MAC’S Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke with DJ Izzy. Sunnyvale.

OFF THE HOOK Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

THE OFFICE BAR & GRILL Tue, 9pm: Karaoke with TJ The DJ. Sunnyvale.

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Every Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Sun-Thur, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

O’MALLEY’S SPORTS PUB

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Every Thur: Karaoke. Mountain View.

PLAZA GARIBALDI Every Thurs, 7pm-9pm: Karaoke.

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Nightly, 7pm: DJ and dancing.

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Fri: Foundation Fridays. Los Gatos.

Every Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

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Every Fri, 10pm: Quality Control.

Rotating DJs. San Jose.

Live music every Fri and Sat night. San Jose.

Tue-Thu & Sat: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Thu: DJ Benofficial. Fri: DJ Radio Raheem. Sat: DJ Ready Rock.

San Jose.

Thu, 10pm: Dancing w/DJ VexOne & DJ Benofficial. Fri-Sat, 10pm: DJ NoWrath. Santa Clara.

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PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

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

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

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Fri-Sat: DJ or Live Entertainment.

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

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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.

ST. STEPHENS GREEN Thu-Sat, 10:30pm: DJ Tony.

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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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I know humans are typically your subject, but this is a relationship question, so I hope you’ll consider answering it. I have a new puppy (an 8-pound terrier mutt). I eventually want her to sleep in bed with me. However, she’s not toilettrained yet, so I “crate” her at night in the laundry room (in a small dog cage).

She cries all night. It’s heartbreaking. Please help!—Sleepless In Dogtown Crate training is recommended by vets, breeders and the American Kennel Club, and it involves confining a dog to a “den”—a cage or gated-off area—with her bed and her favorite toys to dismember.

However, the crate is not supposed to be used for punishment like a Doggy San Quentin, but, say, for times you can’t watch her to keep her from using the $3,000 leather couch as a chew toy or the antique Persian rug as an opulently colored hand-knotted toilet.

The problem you’re experiencing in crating your dog at night comes out of doggy-human co-evolution.

Anthrozoologist John W.S. Bradshaw explains that over generations, we humans bred dogs to be emotionally dependent on us. Not surprisingly, dogs miss their owners, sometimes desperately, when they are separated from them—and other dogs don’t seem to fill the emotional void. In one of Bradshaw’s studies of 40 Labrador retrievers and border collies he found that “well over 50 percent of the Labs and almost half of the collies showed some kind of separation distress” when left alone.

Fortunately, puppies can be trained to understand that you picking up your car keys isn’t human-ese for “Goodbye forever!” Bradshaw’s advice: “Pick up keys, go to door, praise dog.” Next: Pick up keys

and go out door. Come right back in. Praise dog. Next: Go out for increasingly longer intervals—and “go back a stage” (timewise) if the dog shows anxiety.

And good news for you: You probably don’t have to spoon with your dog to keep her from feeling separation distress at night. My tiny Chinese crested now sleeps (uh, snores like a cirrhotic old wino) on my pillow, resting her tiny snout on my neck. However, back before she had her bathroom business under control, I went through the crying-at-night-in-the-crate thing (actually a gated alcove by my office).

I felt like the second coming of Cruella de Vil. Then I remembered something about dogs: They have a sense of smell on the level of superhero powers. Maybe my dog didn’t have to be in bed; maybe near bed would do. I snagged a big seethrough plastic container (maybe 4 feet long and 3 feet high) that my neighbors were tossing out. At bedtime, I put it next to my bed and put my dog in it with her bed and a pee pad. She turned around three times, curled up, and went to sleep—after giving me a look that I’m pretty sure said, “Hey, next time you’re gonna throw me in ‘the hole,’ gimme some notice, and I’ll menace the mailman and chase the neighbors’ bratty children with a sharpened Nylabone.”

I keep seeing men pushing dogs in baby strollers and carrying dogs as women do. What's going on? An epidemic of sissified men? If I ever did this, I’d hope my family would have me committed.—Disturbed “Release the hounds!” does lose some of its punch when it’s followed by “…as soon as you can unzip them from their polka-dot stroller.”

Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control lists no reports of an outbreak of Pomeranians poking their little heads out of man purses. However, you’re right; dog strollers are increasingly becoming a thing. As for why this is, think Field of Dreams: “If you build it …” and sell it at Petco, people will buy it so they won’t have to leave their old, tired and/or disabled doggy home alone.

As for what pushing a doggybuggy

says about a man, anthropologists and zoologists would call this a “costly signal.” This is an extravagant or risky trait or behavior that comes with a substantial price—which suggests that the quality being displayed is for real.

An example of this is conspicuous waste—signaling vast wealth by using $100 bills as birdcage liners. Accordingly, it takes a man with masculinity to burn to not fear putting off all those women who previously announced to their friends, “We want sensitive men!— though not, you know, ‘put their Shih Tzu in a baby stroller’ sensitive.”

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In alignment with the current astrological omens, I have prepared your horoscope using five hand-plucked aphorisms by Aries poet Charles Bernstein. 1. "You never know what invention will look like or else it wouldn't be invention." 2. "So much depends on what you are expecting." 3. "What's missing from the bird's eye view is plain to see on the ground." 4. "The questioning of the beautiful is always at least as important as the establishment of the beautiful."

5. "Show me a man with two feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It may seem absurd

for a dreamy oracle like me to give economic advice to Tauruses, who are renowned as being among the zodiac's top cash attractors. Is there anything I can reveal to you that you don't already know? Well, maybe you're not aware that the next four weeks will be prime time to revise and refine your long-term financial plans. It's possible you haven't guessed the time is right to plant seeds that will produce lucrative yields by 2019. And maybe you don't realize that you can now lay the foundation for bringing more wealth into your life by raising your generosity levels.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I used to have a

girlfriend whose mother hated Christmas. The poor woman had been raised in a fanatical fundamentalist Christian sect, and she drew profound solace and pleasure from rebelling against that religion's main holiday. One of her annual traditions was to buy a small Christmas tree and hang it upside-down from the ceiling. She decorated it with ornamental dildos she had made out of clay. While I understood her drive for revenge and appreciated the entertaining way she did it, I felt pity for the enduring ferocity of her rage. Rather than mocking the old ways, wouldn't her energy have been much better spent inventing new ways? If there is any comparable situation in your own life, Gemini, now would be a perfect time to heed my tip. Give up your attachment to the negative emotions that arose in response to past frustrations and failures. Focus on the future.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): So begins the "I Love To Worry" season for you Cancerians. Even now, bewildering self-doubts are working their way up toward your conscious awareness from your unconscious depths. You may already be overreacting in anticipation of the anxiety-provoking fantasies that are coalescing. But wait! It doesn't have to be that way.

I'm here to tell you that the bewildering self-doubts and anxiety-provoking fantasies are at most 10 percent accurate. They're not even close to being half-true!

Here's my advice: Do NOT go with the flow, because the flow will drag you down into ignominious habit. Resist all tendencies toward superstition, moodiness, and melodramatic descents into hell. One thing you can do to help accomplish this brave uprising is to sing beloved songs with maximum feeling.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your lucky numbers are 55 and 88. By tapping into the uncanny powers of 55 and 88, you can escape the temptation of a hexed fiction and break the spell of a mediocre addiction.

These catalytic codes could wake you up to a useful secret you've been blind to. They might help you catch the attention of familiar strangers or shrink one of your dangerous angers. When you call on 55 or 88 for inspiration, you may be motivated to seek a more dynamic accomplishment beyond your comfortable success. You could reactivate an important desire that has been dormant.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What exactly is the

epic, overarching goal that you live for? What is the higher purpose that lies beneath every one of your daily activities? What is the heroic identity you were born to create but have not yet fully embodied? You may not be close to knowing the answers to those questions right now, Virgo. In fact, I'm guessing your fear of meaninglessness might be at a peak. Luckily, a big bolt of meaningfulness is right around the corner.

Be alert for it. In a metaphorical sense, it will arrive from the depths. It will strengthen your center of gravity as it reveals lucid answers to the questions I posed in the beginning of this horoscope.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): We all need teachers.

We all need guides and instructors and sources of

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inspiration from the day we're born until the day we die. In a perfect world, each of us would always have a personal mentor who'd help us fill the gaps in our learning and keep us focused on the potentials that are crying out to be nurtured in us. But since most of us don't have that personal mentor, we have to fend for ourselves. We've got to be proactive as we push on to the next educational frontier. The next four weeks will be an excellent time for you to do just that, Libra.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is your last warning! If you don't stop fending off the happiness and freedom that are trying to worm their way into your life, I'm going to lose my cool. Damn it!

Why can't you just accept good luck and sweet strokes of fate at face value?! Why do you have to be so suspicious and mistrustful?! Listen to me: The abundance that's lurking in your vicinity is not the set-up for a cruel cosmic joke. It's not some wicked game designed to raise your expectations and then dash them to pieces. Please, Scorpio, give in and let the good times wash over you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Journalist James A. Fussell defined "thrashing" as "the act of tapping helter-skelter over a computer keyboard in an attempt to find 'hidden' keys that trigger previously undiscovered actions in a computer program." I suggest we use this as a metaphor for your life in the next two weeks. Without becoming rude or irresponsible, thrash around to see what interesting surprises you can drum up. Play with various possibilities in a lighthearted effort to stimulate options you have not been able to discover through logic and reason.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let's observe

a moment of silence for the illusion that is in the process of disintegrating. It has been a pretty illusion, hasn't it? Filled with hope and gusto, it has fueled you with motivation. But then again—on second thought—its prettiness was more the result of clever packaging than inner beauty. The hope was somewhat misleading, the gusto contained more than a little bluster, and the fuel was an inefficient source of motivation. Still, let's observe a moment of silence anyway. Even dysfunctional mirages deserve to be mourned. Besides, its demise will fertilize a truer and healthier and prettier dream that will contain a far smaller portion of illusion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the upcoming weeks will be a favorable time for you to engage in experiments befitting a mad scientist. You can achieve interesting results as you commune with powerful forces that are usually beyond your ability to command. You could have fun and maybe also attract good luck as you dream and scheme to override the rules. What pleasures have you considered to be beyond your capacity to enjoy?

It wouldn't be crazy for you to flirt with them. You have license to be saucy, sassy and extra sly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A snail can slowly crawl over the edge of a razor blade without hurting itself. A few highly trained experts, specialists in the art of mind over matter, are able to walk barefoot over beds of hot coals without getting burned.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Pisces, you now have the metaphorical equivalent of powers like these. To ensure they'll operate at peak efficiency, you must believe in yourself more than you ever have before. Luckily, life is now conspiring to help you do just that.

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NVIDIA Corporation, market leader in graphics & digital media processors, has engineering opportunities in Santa Clara, CA for a Section Systems SW Mgr (SSWM06) Drive architecture, core technology and features for NVIDIA’s Game-Stream (streaming games from GeForce GTX PC) and GRID (streaming games from the cloud) products. Position may require up to 5% of international and/or domestic travel; ASIC Engr (ASICDE478) Apply engineering applications to design and implement graphics, video/media and communications processors; Staff IT Developer (ITSD03) Provide day-to-day support for Agility and other content management software. Position may require up to 5% of international and/ or domestic travel; Systems SW Engr (SSWE469) Design, implement, and optimize all of the multimedia drivers for NVIDIA’s processors; Admin Unix Staff (AUS01) Manage SCM environment including server hardware, OS, and application level components, drive the continued automation and innovation that backs large environment. Position may require up to 2% of international and/or domestic travel; Developer Technology SW Engr (DTSE18) Interact closely with the architecture and driver teams at NVIDIA in ensuring the best possible experience on current generation hardware, and on determining trends and features for next generation architectures. Position may require up to 10% of international and/or domestic travel; ASIC Engr (ASICDE477) Design and implement CPU, Graphics, Video/ Media & Communications Processors; Compliance Analyst (COMA02) In collaboration with business process owners, primarily in Finance. Position may require up to 10% of international and/or domestic travel; Sr. Systems SW Engr, Autonomous Vehicles (SSWEAV01) Develop the RoadRunner software SDK (Software Development Kit) which is used for environmental understanding, traffic and road awareness in a self-driving car; Sr. Systems SW Engr (SSWE463) Analyze architecture, relationships between systems, and systems flow of

Systems Software Engineer Multiple openings Sihua Technologies, Inc. in Cupertino, California. Design, develop,and test operating systems-level software.

Minimum BS degree. 0-1years experience.

To apply mail resume to 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd,Cupertino, CA 95014 or email hongmei.sun@sihuatech.com.

Quantitative Analyst sought by Houzz, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA. Perform strategic mkt planning & bus. operations; perform growth initiatives w/ data driven insights. Reqs Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Statistics, Math, or Engg, + 2 yrs exp. Exp to incl creating reports & dashboards (invoices, months’ close, cash reconciliation, audit support).

Mail resumes to 285 Hamilton Ave, 4th Fl, Palo Alto, CA 94301

GlobalLogic has mult. openings in San Jose, CA: *Programmer Analysts-create, write & test programs. *QA Engineercreate, modify & exec. test cases. *SW Developer-Dsgn, dvlp & modify sw & create applctns.Some positions req.

Master/foreign equiv + relev. work exp. + skills. Some positions req. Bachelor/ foreign equiv. + relev. work exp. + skills.

Edu/Exp./skill reqs. vary depending on position level/type. All pos. mayreq. to reloc. to unanticipated lctns. Apply: 1741 Technology DR 4th Flr, San Jose, CA 95110 ATTN: Monica Esparza

end-to-end design. Position may require up to 5% of international and/or domestic travel; Marketing Data Specialist (MDS01) Implement statistical models and machine learning algorithms. If interested, ref job code and send resume to: NVIDIA Corporation. Attn: MS04 (J.Green). 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050. Please no phone calls, emails or faxes.

55+ YEARS OLD & SEEKING WORK? FREE job assistance & training.

Must meet low-income guidelines.

Call SOURCEWISE, Speak with a Community Resource Professional in Senior Employment Services (408) 3503200, Option 5

San Jose based Beck Bismonte & Finley LLP seeks an attorney CA bar. JD from Top 20 US law schools.

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REMODELING, Equity One Real Estate Inc., 5.KITCHENS,BATH. Equity Realty, 1762 Technology Dr., 40+ #106, San Jose,EXP CA, 95110. business is being conducted YRS . NOThisJOB TOO by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business SMALLCSLB#747111. under the fictitious business name or408-888-9290 names listed herein on 10/10/2013. Refile of previous file #598112 with changes.

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Arches By Design, 16463 Los Gatos Blvd., Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Nathan Archibald, 1410 Ridgewood Dr., San Jose, CA, 95118. 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/Tim Clark. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/17/2017. (pub Metro 11/22, 11/29, 12/06, 12/13/2017)

Residential Design & Services, Curie Drive, San The following person(s) is 294 (are) doing business Jose, CA, 95119, Deb K. Banerjee. This business is being as: Icey Poki, E. Brokaw Road,began Suitetransacting 30, San conducted by an1085 individual.

Registrant Jose, CA,under 95131, Poki, Inc. This business is being business the3Lfictitious business name or names conducted by11/05/2017. a Corporation. listed herein on /s/DebRegistrant K. Banerjee.began This statement wasbusiness filed with under the County Clerk of Santa transacting the fictitious business Clara County on 11/06/2017. (pub Metro 11/15, 11/22,Above 11/29, name or names listed herein on 10/03/2017.

12/06/2017) entity was formed in the state of California. /s/

Jianzhao Li. President. #4037265. This statement

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #635914

was filed withBUSINESS the County Clerk of Santa Clara FICTITIOUS County on 10/03/2017. (pub Metro 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, NAME STATEMENT #634933 11/01/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Associated Water Locating, 90 Leavesley Road, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Associated Locating, Inc. This business is FICTITIOUS BUSINESS being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yetNAME begun transacting business under the fictitious STATEMENT #634478 business name or names listed herein. Above entity The following is (are) doing businessR. was formed in theperson(s) state of California. /s/Timothy Gorsha.

CEO. #C4000311.

This 371 statement was filed with as: Simplyread Publishing, Elan Village Lane, the#122, County Santa Clara County onLLC. 10/26/2017.

SanClerk Jose,ofCA, 95134, Simplyread, This (pub Metro 11/01, 11/08, 11/15, 11/22/2017) business is being conducted by a Limited Liability

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bishops Campbell #28, 197 e. Campbell Ave., Campbell, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF CA, 95008, Synister, LLC. This business is being conducted byNAME, a LimitedCASE LiabilityNUMBER: Company. Registrant has not yet 17CV316633 begun transacting business under the fictitious business TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): name or names listed herein.

Above entity was formed inSophia the stateNoreen of California. /s/Syndee Nguyen.

President.

Hussain for a decree changing #201726310462.

This statement was filed with the County names as follows: Present name: Sophia Noreen Clerk of Santa Clara County onSophia 10/13/2017. (pub Metro 11/15, Hussain.

Proposed name: Noreen Huxley.

11/22, 12/06/2017) THE11/29, COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in

under the fictitious business name or names listed FICTITIOUS BUSINESS herein on 08/03/2016. Above entity was formed in NAME STATEMENT #635357 the state of California. /s/Debbie Whitmore. CEO.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

NAME STATEMENT 634931 Any person objecting to the name change described

Company. Registrant began transacting business

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. EQ1 #2016223100461. was filed with 3.the Evergreen Estates, 2.This EQ1 statement Evergreen Estates Realty, EQ1 County Clerk Clara County 09/29/2017.

Evergreen Realty,of4.Santa EQ1 Estates Realty, on 2901 The Villages (pub Metro 10/11,CA, 10/18, 10/25, 11/01/2017) Parkway, San Jose, 95135.

Equity One Real Setate, 1762 Technology Dr., #106, San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant FICTITIOUS began transacting BUSINESS business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein#634530 on 10/10/2013. Above entity NAME STATEMENT was formed in the state of California. /s/Marlo Ibon. VP. The following person(s) is doing #C3516812. This statement was (are) filed with thebusiness County as: of Rmj Building Maintenance, 1073 Chico Ct., Clerk Santa Clara County on 10/25/2017. (pub Metro 11/01, 11/08, 11/15, Sunnyvale, CA,11/22/2017) 94085, Robert Anthony Maes, Jr.

This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS under the fictitious business name or names listed NAME #635503 herein.STATEMENT /s/Robert Anthony Maes Jr. This statement

was filed with the County Clerk of business Santa Clara The following person(s) is (are) doing on 10/02/2017.

Metro 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, as:County Clarkconsultants, 2201(pub Monroe Street #404, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Tim Clark. This business is 11/01/2017) being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name BUSINESS or FICTITIOUS names listed herein on 04/01/2015. /s/Tim Clark.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa NAME STATEMENT #634586 Clara County on 10/30/2017. (pub Metro 11/08, 11/15, 11/22, The11/29/2017) following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

Kataneh Consulting Services, #336, 5201 Terner Way, San Jose, CA, 95136, Kataneh Emami. This FICTITIOUS BUSINESS business is being conducted by an Individual.

NAME STATEMENT #635507 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: on Swenson Builders, 777 N. First Street, 5thstatement Floor, Sanwas 10/03/2017. /s/Kataneh Emami.

This Jose, CA,with 95112, Valley Corporation.

This County businesson filed theGreen County Clerk of Santa Clara is being conducted a Corporation. has 10/03/2017. (pub by Metro 10/11, 10/18,Registrant 10/25, 11/01/2017) not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #629045 with changes. Above entity was FICTITIOUS BUSINESS formed in the state of California. /s/Case Swenson.

NAME STATEMENT #633968 President. #0416311. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County 10/30/2017. (pub The following person(s) is (are)on doing business Metro 11/08, 11/15, 11/22, 11/29/2017) as: Lee’s Sandwiches. 260 E. Santa Clara St., San

Jose, CA, 95113, CBET Corporation. This business

is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant FICTITIOUS BUSINESS began transacting business under the fictitious NAME STATEMENT #634837 business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2017.

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Above entity was formed Ifinno thewritten state timely filed, the President. court may#2973183. grant the ofobjection California.is/s/Syndee Nguyen.

This statement was filed with theNOTICE County OF Clerk of Santa petition without a hearing.

HEARING: Clara County on 10/13/2017. (pubroom Metro107 11/15, 11/22, 11/29, January 9, 2018 at 8:45 am, Probate filed 12/06/2017) on: October 3, 2017 (pub dates: 10/11, 10/18, 10/25,

11/01/2017)

Vang Restaurant Inc., 2477 Alvin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95121, TO ALL Petitioner Nam VangINTERESTED Restaurant, Inc.,PERSONS: 1221 Valley Quail Cir., San(name): Jose, Aidan Hussainis being for a decree changing names CA, 95120.Zahid This business conducted by a Corporation. as follows: Present name: Aidanunder ZahidtheHussain.

Registrant began transacting business fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/06/2017.

Refile of Proposed name: Aidan Zahid Huxley.

THE COURT previous file #505601 with changes.

Above entity was formed ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter inappear the statebefore of California. /s/Nam this court atTien the Nguyen. hearingPresident. indicated #C3528390.

This statement filed withthe thepetition County Clerk below to show cause, ifwas any, why for of Santa Clara County on 11/06/2017. (pub Metro 11/15, 11/22, change of name should not be granted. Any person 11/29, 12/06/2017)

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name(s): Me Not Spa,doing 43 S.business Park Victoria The followingForget person(s) is (are) 712, Painting, Milpitas,436 Ca, N. 95035, Charlie Hatfield, as:Unit Packer’s 19th St., San Jose, CA, 2311 Meadowmont Dr., San Jose,This CA,business 95133. Filed in Santa 95112, Shawn Laundrie Packer. is being Clara County 03/02/2017 under began file no.transacting 627124. conducted by an on individual.

Registrant business under the fictitious business name or namesThis This business was conducted by: an Individual. listed herein on 03/27/2012. of previous #623700 statement was filed withRefile the County Clerk-Recorder with changes. /s/Shawn Laundrie Packer.

This statement of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2017. /s/Charlie was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County Hatfield, Business Owner. (pub dates 10/11, 10/18,on 11/02/2017. (pub Metro 11/08, 11/15, 11/22, 11/29/2017)

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting listed herein of previous file business underon the10/11/2012. fictitious Refile business name or names #569481 with changes. /s/Nikki Wong. statement listed herein. /s/Christina M. Crosby.

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Nguyen, 3078 Warrington Ave,, Sanbusiness Jose, CA, The following person(s) is (are) doing as:95127.

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting Personal Business Computers, Inc. This business is business underbythe fictitious business name or being conducted a Corporation.

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Countyinon (pub Metro 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, President. #35997725. This statement was filed with the 11/01/2017) County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/13/2017. (pub Metro 11/22, 11/29, 12/06, 12/13/2017)

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If no#23, written objection is timely Tech, Stone Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Sigma filed, the grantisthe petition without Satellite, Inc.court Thismay business being conducted by a a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: January 9, 2018 at Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting 8:45 am,under roomthe 107fictitious Probatebusiness filed on:name October 3, 2017 business or names listed entity 10/25, was formed in the state (pubherein. dates: Above 10/11, 10/18, 11/01/2017) of California. /s/Grace Lee. President. #3150250. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Clara County on 11/03/2017. (pub Metro 11/15, 11/22, 11/29, 12/06/2017)

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11/01/2017) Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Daniel H. Coleman. Vice President. #201709610138. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on STATEMENT ABANDONMENT 10/11/2017. (pub MetroOF 11/08, 11/15, 11/22, 11/29/2017) OF USE

OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #634598 FICTITIOUS The followingBUSINESS person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business NAME STATEMENT #635633

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wingstop, 5353 Almaden Expy, Suite N62, San Jose, CA, 95118, Wings In Motion, INc. 1063 Cheshire Circle, Danville, CA, 94506. This business is being 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/ Ranjan Bhasin. Vice President. #3524544. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/14/2017. (pub Metro 11/22, 11/29, 12/06, 12/13/2017)

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Throughout 180 full-color pages, David elevates wacky motel architecture to historical status, replete with neon signage, pools and,

of course, Magic Fingers vibrating bed technology.

Like David’s first book, Mid-Century by the Bay, this new zonked-out masterpiece is a hardbound coffee-table project chock-full of wacky ephemera from David’s research over the last several years. It all began in the ’20s, when developer Arthur S. Heineman opened an inn for traveling motorists in San Luis Obispo. For a while it was known as the Milestone Motor Hotel, later shortened to the Milestone MoTel, believed to be the very first usage of that word. Connoisseurs of kitsch from across the globe are already demanding copies. Everyone seems to love kooky California history.

“My last orders were Switzerland, Japan, England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand,” David tells me at a local coffee shop. “They’re willing to

pay $35 for international shipping to get this book.”

From there, the book provides quirky history lessons galore, with insight into the growth of nuclear families and statewide automobile travel, plus the ways in which California’s varied landscape proved fertile ground for themed motels. Mid-century swimming pool culture also comes through quite well, as does the sheer variety of innovative signage up and down the state, most of which is now gone. In that regard, fans of indie business culture will adore the book. On the other hand, if you’re a jaded business traveler whose curiosity ends with how you can use your Marriott Rewards Points, well, you may adore the book somewhat less.

Speaking of which, David spent a fortune self-publishing this thing, plus hundreds of hours on the road, researching oddball accommodations and their owners, as well as amassing a collection of motel ephemera, decades-old brochures, postcards and matchbooks. All of which explode in living color.

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“In terms of theme-based marketing, there’s nothing like California,” David says. Her face lights up when talking about cheesy motel signage from 55 years ago. “We had it all. We had the desert, we had Hollywood, we had Disneyland and all the storybook themes, we had the space race. So the only other state that has such eye candy diversity is Florida. They would be the second best, but California is number one.”

Anyone with a smidgen of respect for high camp will understand that the book is not a vanity project.

David doesn’t care if she becomes famous. Her dedication to the subject matter is righteous and it comes through on every page.

“I just want to have a conversation about this,” she tells me, her face still animated. “I mean, this is cool stuff. There’s four pages on vibrating beds in there.”

Which brings us to Magic Fingers.

If you’re old enough to remember, guests would put a coin into a ridiculous machine on the nightstand, and the bed would start doing its thing. Fifty years ago, there was even a travel guide to all the motels with Magic Fingers. David owns a copy of the guide, pictured on page 145.

“I paid seventy-five bucks for it,” she says, adding that before Magic Fingers existed, Pulse-A-Rhythm vibrating beds were the norm. According to David, Motel California is the only book ever to document these technologies. She adds: “The thing about Pulse-A-Rhythm beds is that they promised a cure for pretty much everything. And the FDA came along and said, ‘Unh unh uh’ and made them pull all the devices off the mattresses and put them out of business. So after Pulse-A-Rhythm, Magic Fingers came into play.”

David also learned that the Sundown Inn of Morro Bay still has a Magic Fingers bed. She even stayed the night to sample the goods.

“The woman thought I was nuts,” David says. “But I needed to try it out.

I can’t just write about it. My Masters is in cultural anthropology and sociology. I gotta try the bed.”

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N THE EDGE of Paseo de San Antonio and First Street in San Jose, a posh Vietnamese and French bistro offers a reprieve from the downtown hustle and bustle. The sleek interior of Élyse says welcome to Paris more than Saigon, but let’s not about pecking orders when the important thing is the environment greets all guests on equal terms.

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On the wall a hand-built wooden model of the Eiffel Tower lights up like Christmas, while wheat, loaves of French bread and wine bottles hang in wired baskets. The bar carries an arsenal of spirits that nearly reach the ceiling, and bulbs high above are dim yet warm, accenting the ashen color scheme. The minimalist aesthetic allows the room to breathe in a way that is immediately relaxing. While Élyse is a white tablecloth establishment, the restaurant seems to balance parties that range from romantic face-to-face evenings to family affairs, banquets and even a ladies’ night out.

Lunch options include Vietnamese bento boxes with spring rolls, garlic noodles and a choice of salmon, short ribs or stir-fried tofu and vegetables. Instead of a midday visit, I decided to treat myself to a cocktail and three-course dinner during happy hour, when specialty drinks are half off. Consider the Razzle Dazzle ($6 during happy time), which is made with Botanist Islay Dry Gin and a pleasant rosemary garnish that gives the citrus drink an irresistible scent.

From there I began with the piquant Kobe Carpaccio ($14). Thin slices of American Wagyu beef were covered with lemon and olive oil and topped with tomatoes, onions, shallots, capers, arugula, honey sriracha and Parmesan. The grand sum of flavors created a taste bud TKO. The main entrée of coq au vin ($22), a classic French stew, featured chicken slowly braised in red wine. It also had a hint of brandy to yield a supremely rich mushroom sauce. Élyse serves confit chicken with a side of melt-in-your-mouth garlic mashed potatoes, as well as a small serving of crunchy seasoned carrots and broccoli. Each tangy bite sent a chill of delight down my spine when coupled with one or more of the sides.

I capped my meal with their Belgian-style tiramisu ($8). The delicate custard dessert—made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar and mascarpone cheese, flavored with cocoa—paired as well as one could hope with ripe raspberries completing the treat.

San Jose has lacked French cuisine options for some time, which is yet another reason why Élyse, like its guests, should feel welcome to the local culinary scene. —André Jaquez ÉLYSE 151 S Second St, San Jose. 408.854.3199

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Noodling Around at Paik’s

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NEW KOREAN restaurant opening up off of El Camino is almost as surprising as hearing the the sun will rise tomorrow. A quick search of the area turns up more than 20 restaurants just within a small stretch. However, Paik’s Noodles is a bit different from the herd.

An offshoot of a South Korean chain founded by celebrity chef JongWon Paik, Paik’s serves up a Korean-Chinese fusion that is popular in the northern parts of both countries but almost unheard of globally.

This cuisine is considered to be peasant food, as the shops that serve it typically cater to lower-income demographics.

When they first opened, Paik’s had four items on the menu; that number has now increased to nine—with more to come, including garlic wings and pan-fried dumplings. My dining companion and I decided to keep it simple and stick to their namesake noodles, so we ordered up the No. 9 Jaengbanjjajang ($13.99), or stir-fried black bean sauce noodles. After looking around, we noticed that almost every table had an order of the No. 8 Tangsuyuk ($10.99), which comes with sweet and sour pork, so we took the plunge.

First, the noodles—these aren’t any average noodles. Paik’s noodles are so long that scissors are handed out as a standard accoutrement to help cut them down to a more appropriate size. The noodles were amazingly silky, soft and chewy. They went down easily in the sweet but earthy black bean sauce. The concomitant wood ear mushrooms, baby corn, onions, shrimp, chili pods and pork made for one of the most delicious—but spicy!—stir-fries I’ve had. I found the heat to be pleasant, but my dining mate thought it a bit much. It’s worth noting that it didn’t slow her down from enjoying the dish.

Then the deep-fried chunks of piping hot pork arrived at our table. The rice flour coating was airy and had an odd crunch, unlike any I’ve tried. The accompanying sweet and sour sauce is served in a bowl on the side to prevent the sauce from sogging up the crunchy batter. At first we dipped the pork chunks into the viscous sauce one by one, but then I realized we were missing out on all the tasty veggies that were ensconced in the sauce. So we proceeded to just dump it on top and voilà—the cucumbers, carrots, cabbage and wood ear mushrooms transformed the dish from pretty good to pretty great.

Paik’s offers up a unique Korean dining experience in a neighborhood rife with similar eats. But they’re taking a little-known rustic food and elevating it to gourmet status, thanks to quality ingredients. As winter approaches, one might be tempted to try one of Paik’s soups, but don’t stray too far from the noodles. After all, it says so right in the name. —John Dyke PAIK’S NOODLES 1520 Kiely Blvd, Santa Clara. 408.244.0410

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The crew just chillin’ out at San Jose’s annual Downtown Ice open-air skating rink.

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