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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen to I SAW YOU, Metro, 380 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.

Lost Ones I was woken up around 4am by the screams of “Fire!” I jumped out of bed, grabbed my dog and guitar, and bolted outside. Blazing flames were bursting out of my next door neighbor’s second-story apartment.

Sirens were approaching and that’s when I saw you— arms waving and screaming for help. RIP, neighbors. I wish I could have helped you. That image will forever be etched in my memory.

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JoJo Heated What should have been a routine changing of the guard turned into a stalemate at last week’s county Board of Education meeting, when a motion to appoint trustee CLAUDIA ROSSI as vice president failed to muster enough votes.

With trustee MICHAEL CHANG absent, Rossi was blocked after the bloc of charter school boosters—JOSEPH DI SALVO, DARCIE GREEN and GRACE MAH— They abstained. Such Did assignments are typically What? a matter of rotation, SEND TIPS TO so it took Rossi aback, FLY@ she said, especially METRONEWS. to see Green oppose COM her as VP by instead naming Di Salvo, “who just a few weeks ago treated her female colleagues so poorly.” That poor treatment took place at a Sept. 6 hearing, when the veteran board member flipped out over a charter school petition. Rossi was the first member of the board to interrogate applicants, and she pulled no punches.

When trustee ROSEMARY KAMEI chimed in with a reminder about the time, and to note that Green had walked out, Di Salvo loudly interrupted, wondering why Rossi got to speak first. “We have always given everyone the opportunity to speak,” Kamei explained. “Not since I’ve been on the board,” Di Salvo replied. “I’ve been on the board longer than you.” Trustee ANNA SONG, who sat just left of DiSalvo, placed her hand on his arm and asked him to calm down. Di Salvo flung her hand off. “Excuse me, don’t touch me,” he said.

“Don’t touch me.” Kamei said, “Joseph, Joseph,” in a tone typically reserved for a child. “It’s going to be OK. Let her finish.” Di Salvo missed the following board meeting, but sent his wife, CHRIS DI SALVO, to read his one-page mea culpa. In a phone call with Fly, DiSalvo chalked up his outburst to “passion” for charters and frustration with Rossi’s critical line of questioning.

“I felt that it was a conspiracy to start out from a negative place,” he said. “So, yes, I got angry.”

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HEAR NO EVIL District staff directed auditors PMA Consultants to avoid looking into claims of illegal behavior by consultant RMC Water and Environment.

Audacious Audit Water district papers over internal claims of false billing with sham audit

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N LATE 2015, the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s board of directors unanimously approved an audit of RMC Water & Environment, a consultant that has received millions of dollars in contracts from the public agency in charge of Silicon Valley’s drinking water and flood protection.

It took nearly two years for that audit to come to fruition, but the findings from a report delivered in September—as well as subsequent records requested by Metro—show

that an investigation is only as good as its intentions. And it appears the top priority for water district executives has been, and continues to be, protecting their own.

In the years leading up to the 2015 audit request, employees for the water district sounded internal alarms about RMC benefiting from conflicts of interest and billing for work that was never done, in particular an unfinished Lower Silver Creek watershed project between San Jose and South County that cost $512,000.

Leslie Orta, a senior in-house counsel for the district, acknowledged in emails from 2014 that the former water district CEO, Beau Goldie, had broken agency bylaws by amending

and increasing RMC’s contracts on the project without public disclosure and board approval.

Perhaps even more troubling, RMC received multimillion dollar contracts from the district while Melanie Richardson—currently the agency’s interim chief operating officer (COO) of watersheds—was overseeing district managers who handled RMC consulting work. Richardson is married to Tom Richardson, a principal of RMC, which merged with Woodard & Curran in 2016.

Board Director Gary Kremen spent much of 2015’s board meetings challenging the district’s cozy relationship with RMC, and he even called for the district attorney to launch a criminal investigation. His colleagues on the board, some more reluctant than others, eventually concurred that an external audit of RMC work was in order.

With all of this in mind, Kremen and board colleague Barbara Keegan were a bit bewildered in September, when the district’s Board Audit Committee received a report on RMC’s work on Lower Silver Creek that took no interest

‘An investigation is only as good as its intentions. And it appears the top priority for water district executives has been, and continues to be, protecting their own’ Attempts to clarify what this means were unsuccessful, as all of Metro’s reporting on RMC and the district have cited internal allegations of misconduct within the district. Requests to interview Camacho, who was installed as the permanent CEO of the district in July, Grimes and district communications director Rick Callender were denied, as all were said to be unavailable.

However, sources at the district have told Metro that the second expansion of PMA’s audit is designed to help make Melanie Richardson a more acceptable candidate to take over the district’s role of COO of watersheds on a permanent basis.

“It’s outrageous,” Kremen told Metro. “Using taxpayer money to discredit news reporters is upsetting and disconcerting. I’m for saving money. I’m against circumvention.”

The board director added that he is drafting a memo to bar RMC and its parent company from consulting with the district in the future.

“I don’t think we can have RMC do any more work,” he said.

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that was not done,” as well as “additional analyses” on whether district staff gave an accurate presentation to the elected board at an Oct. 27, 2015, meeting in which staff reported “no irregularities” in RMC’s invoices.

Second, and far more unusual, the committee asked PMA to “review media allegations in newspaper reports and video and ensure that they have been addressed.”

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in claims of false billing and illegal activities by the contractor and district staff. PMA Consultants, a national construction and project management firm with offices in San Francisco, was paid $89,526 to compile the report, which scored the district’s compliance of basic accounting and management procedures for Lower Silver Creek at 72 percent, or a C- average.

Additional concerns were raised when director Kremen asked a PMA employee if the audit examined whether RMC or the district violated the law in their dealings, which in some cases had project completion mandates linked to federal grants.

“No,” the PMA employee said, “our initial proposal included that scope and financial and legal ramifications of the audit were removed, based on district direction.”

Director Keegan was also dismayed with the myopic approach of the audit, which noted six instances of noncompliance and 16 instances of only partial compliance.

“I’m not sure I agree with some of the exclusions in your report, particularly the financial ones,” she said.

Since that September meeting, interviews and public records requests have found that district staff did not request interviews for several key figures involved in RMC work with the district. The list of people not interviewed includes: Melanie and Tom Richardson; Chris Elias, a former district project manager who oversaw RMC work; former district CEO Goldie; and current district CEO Norma Camacho, who helped oversee an internal investigation into RMC billing in 2015 and was one of the first people at the district to receive allegations of false billing practices by RMC. She received these warnings as far back as April 2014.

“I don’t see how they could do the audit,” Kremen told Metro. “You would think anyone at the district would have to sit for an audit.”

In an email, district spokesman Marty Grimes said: “The District provided PMA with a list of possible interviewees, generated by determining those with the most direct involvement in the project, and PMA selected the people to interview.”

The Board Audit Committee told PMA to expand the scope of its audit on two fronts: first, to include a “financial review to ensure that there was no double billing and no billing for work

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LIGHTEN UP Looking forward to 2018, we take a look back at the past year.

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S CONTRIVED AS the practice is, there is a reason we mark the beginning of a new year by promising to better ourselves. We humans are creatures of habit who take cues from the daily turning of the globe and the Earth’s elliptical path around the sun.

And in the non-stop hustle and bustle of daily life it’s important to slow down and take stock of where we came from and where we’re going— at least once every 365 days.

In a valley where time seems to move faster than most other places, 2017 absolutely blew by. Still, in the past 12 months we’ve seen the South Bay swell with great new restaurants, improve its standing as an arts and entertainment destination and continue to develop as the global leader in tech.

Before perusing our list of New Year’s Eve parties, press pause on your inner hare, think like the tortoise and join us as we reflect on the last year.

FOOD From the foothills of East San Jose to the quiet slopes of Menlo Park’s Intestate 280 corridor, 2017 has

been a big year for local food. High up on Mount Hamilton Road, local restaurateur Maurice Carrubba has transformed the GRANDVIEW RESTAURANT , reimagining the legacy brand as a top-flight venue and steakhouse where patrons can enjoy great farmto-table food, live entertainment and a spectacular vista. On the opposite side of the valley and a little farther north, MADERA —the Rosewood Sand Hill restaurant—quietly regained its Michelin star.

San Jose may just be boasting the lion’s share of new eateries and drinkeries in Silicon Valley. Those looking for a jolt should make sure to take note of ACADEMIC COFFEE ; at

the intersection of South Second and East William streets, they have an innovative menu of caffeinated beverages and small bites. Just around the corner, on South First Street, the guys at UPROAR BREWING COMPANY are serving something a bit stronger— some of the first beers brewed in the heart of downtown. Their to-the-point menu of pub fare is on point, as well.

CULTURE Silicon Valley nightlife is the best it’s been in decades. This past year saw so many great shows in downtown San Jose. Run The Jewels played CITY NATIONAL CIVIC, Coldplay gave the

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middle finger to Santa Clara’s curfew when they played LEVI’S STADIUM , and the city’s smaller venues definitely upped the ante. Over the summer, things got so jampacked with great music that THE CONTINENTAL and THE RITZ ended up competing for leftfield electronic fans when the former booked Stones Throw Records signee Mndsgn and the latter hosted the buzzed-about Seattle producer Sángo on the same night. It caused a bit of a headache for promoters, but it’s something that would never have happened even a year ago when we were already feeling so great about the SoFA District’s music scene.

TECH It’s not finalized, and plenty of people are crying foul for the anticipated gentrification it will cause, but GOOGLE is in talks with the city of San Jose to move in next door to the Shark Tank.

The proposed project would finally push the Diridon train station to become the South Bay transit hub it has always promised to be—connecting BART and Caltrain lines. It would likely also spur the picturesque and historic Alameda corridor to live up to its full potential as another hotbed of food, nightlife and culture. And it would certainly make San Jose’s insistence that it is the “Capital of Silicon Valley” true.

Out in Fremont, the TESLA plant has been feverishly cranking out the Model 3 as fast as it can. The electric car company’s success has only been improved by introducing a car aimed at average new-car buyers and promises to cement the region as a leader in drivable tech.

HOUSING The South Bay’s surge in growth has led to soaring rental prices. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Local agencies appear to be getting serious about creating more affordablehousing initiatives and San Jose even signed off on its first “TINY HOME”

VILLAGE to help confront the region’s homelessness crisis.

And while we don’t want to see the working class squeezed out of the valley, we are pleased to see the revitalization that an influx of homebuyers has had on many of San Jose’s historic neighborhoods. Take the MARTHA’S GARDEN area for example.

The area, located just south of Interstate 280 is rife with Edwardian, Craftsman and American Modern architecture. The neighborhood is also home to the recently refurbished FABER’S CYCLERY, which looks as if it’s just about ready for someone to turn it into a gastropub. —Nick Veronin

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AULD LANG SYNE Good friends are all we really need to bid farewell to 2017.

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Low key, low cost and low volume THE DYNAMIC MISS FAYE CAROL DEC 31, 8:30PM

Cafe Stritch 374 S First St, San Jose Jazz is a lot like wine. The older you get, the more you appreciate the intricacy of its rhythms and the better you get at just sitting

back and allowing it all to wash over you. San Jose’s best jazz club welcomes 2018 with the smooth sounds of Faye Carol and her talented band.

NYE @ JACK ROSE +BRAMBLE & BIER DEC 31, 8PM

Jack Rose Libation House 18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos Los Gatos neighbors Jack Rose and Bramble & Bier are partnering up for this year’s NYE celebration, which will feature live music DJ Keoni at Jack Rose and The Cottontails at Bramble & Bier. Admission comes with a complimentary midnight champagne toast to ring in 2018.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTIES SAGE NYE CELEBRATION DEC 31, 9:30PM

Christmas in the Park 191 S Market St, San Jose Gather up the young’uns and take a stroll through Christmas in the Park before ringing in the New Year with R&B dance band SAGE. The band’s performance will begin at 9:30pm at the main stage and will look back at some of 2017’s brightest moments while also looking forward to 2018.

KISS OFF 2017 DEC 31, 6PM

San Pedro Square Theatre 29 N San Pedro St, San Jose Laugh off 2017 with a night of jokes at the Tabard Theatre Company as comedian and political commentator Will Durst presents his Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show.

KICKING IT @ COURT’S DEC 31, 8PM

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Turn up and dance ’til dawn MARGARITAVILLE NYE DEC 31, 9PM

Tres Gringos 83 S Second St, San Jose Turn up! Join Tres Gringos in saying adios to 2017 at what is sure to be one of the most lit parties in downtown San Jose this year. The theme is Margaritaville, and in honor of Sammy Hagar, Tres will be providing complimentary margaritas to toast the new year.

Court’s Lounge 2425 S Bascom Ave, Campbell Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. This is a favorite neighborhood pub for many in Campbell.

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NYE @ BACKBAR DEC 31, 9PM

BackBar SoFa 418 S Market St, San Jose With three rooms open but only one cover, revelers will have their pick of dance parties.

In Club Miami, DJs will spin Latin music; in BackBar’s smaller room, Son De Cali will be playing live, and in BackBar’s larger room, Ethiopian music will usher in 2018.

NYE @ GLASSHOUSE DEC 31, 8PM

The GlassHouse 2 S Market St, San Jose Dance 2017 away with selections by DJ Sean Bass. He’ll be spinning Top 40, house and club hits in the run-up to a midnight champagne toast and balloon drop. VIP bottle service available.

PARTY @ THE STUDIO DEC 31, 6:30PM

Poor House Bistro 91 S Autumn St, San Jose Maxx Cabello Jr., Myron Dove, Mike Vanderhule and James Michael Day will all be in the building to keep the party rocking with lively tunes at the Poor House Bistro’s auxiliary venue, The Studio.

RED CARPET NYE DEC 31, 9PM

San Jose Bar and Grill 85 S Second St, San Jose facebook.com/events/174008733181966 The annual red carpet event is back at SJBG. Celebrate the new year with DJ J-Quest, who

will keep revelers dancing through the night.

Sign up for the VIP guest list and get in to the party early with a complimentary champagne to toast to welcome in 2018.

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The Ritz 400 S First St, San Jose When you can’t decide whether you want to hit the club or sweat to indie and alt-rock mashups—but you know you want to drink— The Ritz is really the only place to be. DJ Bit and DJ Basura will be doing what they do best: keeping the dance floor lit with new wave, electronic and alternative disco cuts.

PANTS OFF DANCE OFF DEC 31, 6PM

Lupin Lodge 20600 Aldercroft Hts, Los Gatos This clothing-optional event to celebrate the craziness of 2017 will include drinks, dinner and other activities. Become a Lupin member for a discounted price on admission and be sure to grab a raffle ticket.

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Dynasty Banquets 10123 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino Think of it as two parties for the price of one.

Dance to the biggest Bollywood hits with DJ Sam or hit the floor with DJ Ron Deazy as he spins American Top 40. Tickets include access to the snack buffet.

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The Saddle Rack 42011 Boscell Rd, Fremont Giddyup, cowboys and cowgirls! The biggest, baddest country bar around is throwing a Vegas-themed party this New Year’s Eve. From 7-9pm, enjoy drink specials and a live Vegas-style stage show with Diablo Road and the Vegas Show Girls. End the night with a midnight balloon drop and champagne toast.

Deluxe & San Patricio’s 71 E San Fernando St, San Jose It’s a two-for-one party as Jorge Sanchez hosts a New Year’s Eve celebration at the neighboring Deluxe and San Patricio’s. DJs Dave, Albert Campoy and Richard G will be spinning.

DEEP HOUSE NYE

Hyatt Regency 5101 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara Get those semi-formal outfits ready for this party, organized by the South Bay Professionals Guild. Rock out to tribute band Fast Times as they play hits from the ’80s and ’90s. Enjoy complimentary casino games, drinks, a midnight balloon drop and all the memories made with friends.

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DEC 31, 9PM

The Continental 349 S First St, San Jose Ring in the New Year with house music by Mr. V and Julius Papp in the main room. Wen Davis will be holding down the decks on the patio.

Reserve a VIP section for friends if you’re feeling saucy.

DRESS TO IMPRESS It’s always fun to get suited and booted.

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CHOW DOWN Eat, drink and be merry A BRITANNIA NYE DEC 31, 8PM

Britannia Arms Almaden 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose Enjoy your favorite beers, or take in an entire meal at the Almaden Brit’s New Year’s Eve celebration. Document the moment in the free photo booth and dance to DJ Dinero.

NYE SOIREE DEC 31, 7PM

LB Steak 334 Santana Row, San Jose An open bar with a five-course meal to ring in the new year—how could you go wrong?

Join LB Steak for a black-tie soiree, cocktails, dinner and dancing. Don’t forget to grab a glass of champagne and toast to 2018.

Tickets to the celebration include dinner, the hosted bar, tax and gratuity.

NYE DINNER DANCE DEC 31. 6:30PM

St. Martin Parish Hall 593 Central Ave, Sunnyvale Celebrate the dawn of 2018 with dancing,

dinner and, of course, champagne. Three packages are available for this party. Get dinner and dancing, dancing only, or reserve a table without food.

NYE WITH JOHNNY NERI BAND DEC 31, 9PM

Viva Los Gatos 15970 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos The Johnny Neri Band will be rolling out all the hits from your favorite classic rock and soul groups. There’s no cover charge to enjoy the bar, but a ticket gets patrons a three-course meal and party favors.

MUCHOS MAYHEM DEC 31, 9PM

Muchos Taqueria 72 E Santa Clara St, San Jose Muchos is much more than an after-hours nosh spot. They also have a full bar. Stay close to the delicious food while ringing in the new year. There’s a free champagne toast a midnight, plus complimentary party hats, horns and noisemakers. Best of all—they’ll be open until 3am.

NYE WITH A VIEW DEC 31, 6PM

GrandView Restaurant 15005 Mt Hamilton Rd, San Jose With a live big band, a prix fixe menu, craft cocktail bar and tapas—plus that epic view of

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JUST DANCE Lose yourself in the music this New Year’s Eve. Silicon Valley—the GrandView Restaurant is a classy way to ring in the new year with great food, entertainment and drinks.

GLITTER & GOLD DEC 31, 9PM

The Province 1788 N First St, San Jose Straits 333 Santana Row, San Jose Roots & Rye 3055 Olin Ave, San Jose Sino 377 Santana Row, San Jose South Bay restaurateur Chris Yeo is pulling out all the stops this New Year’s Eve— hosting parties at all four of his San Jose establishments. One ticket gets you into every “Glitter and Gold”-themed party, but driving will be required to make it to every spot before the ball drops, so designate a driver or call a cab.

NYE GALA

DEC 31, 6PM American Legion Post 99 1344 Dell Ave, Campbell Ring in the new year with a three-course dinner and dancing. Local band Seeking Attention will play live music all night.

NYE MASQUERADE BALL DEC 31, 7PM

Granada Theatre 17440 Monterey Rd, Morgan Hill Put on your best duds and head to the Granada Theatre to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Tickets include a three-course dinner, dancing with music by DJ Sho-T and a midnight champagne toast. Don’t forget the masquerade masks for this formal event.

GOODNIGHT ’17

Party hard, sleep it off NYE EXTRAVAGANZA III DEC 31, 8PM

Marriott Hotel 301 S Market St, San Jose Join Hot 105.7 DJs as they ring in the new year with some fiery tunes. A reservation gets you free champagne and party favors. Sign up for the exclusive package, which comes with a hotel room, dinner at the Marriott, and access to the VIP lounge with bottle service. This is a black-tie event, so be sure to dress sharp.

A NIGHT OF ELEGANCE DEC 31, 7PM

DoubleTree 2050 Gateway Pl, San Jose This black-and-gold-themed New Year’s Eve party will be held in the recently remodeled Bayshore Ballroom. Headlining the event is Too Smooth, who will play top dance hits, along with Rock the Heat and DJ Jammin J. Purchase the VIP package for a hotel room, two tickets to the New Year’s Day breakfast buffet and a parking pass.

NYE @ HOTEL VALENCIA DEC 31,

355 Santana Row, San Jose If you’re planning to party at Santana Row, why not do it up? Spring for the NYE guestroom package at Hotel Valencia for a room and a ticket to the New Year’s Eve Underneath the Stars Gala. The package also includes a New Year’s Day breakfast.

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LEE PARDINI

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Wed, 8pm, Sold Out City National Civic, San Jose

Thu, 8pm, $20+ Improv, San Jose

Thu, 8pm, $55+ City National Civic, San Jose

Thu, 7:30pm, $10 Art Boutiki, San Jose

Fri, 9pm, Free Caravan Lounge, San Jose

Classically trained electric violinist Lindsey Stirling is fiddling her way to the top of the Billboard charts.

The showstopper is surpassing holiday heavyweights—including Michael Buble and Josh Groban— with her new Christmas album, Warmer in the Winter. She recently partnered with Mastercard to donate gifts to first responders, which helped with the hurricane relief efforts in Houston. Beyond her badass bow skills and her philanthropic pursuits, she’s also not bad on the dance floor. In fact, Stirling was introduced to the masses in 2010 on Dancing with the Stars and even made it all the way to the semifinals. (AJ)

Harlem-bred comic Zainab Johnson wants people to know she isn’t defined by her shaven head, Muslim garb or any particular joke—her standup routine sticks to factual storytelling. Whether that be the fact she’s a black woman, has a big family or that she sometimes has issues with her body. Last fall, Johnson starred on HBO’s All Def Comedy special and hosts a relationship podcast, Just Friends. Johnson’s take-itor-leave-it brand and sharp wit recently grabbed the attention of ABC. With the help of her mentor and fellow female comedian Wanda Sykes, she is developing a family sitcom focused around a character of Johnson’s image and comedy. (AJ)

Saxophonist Dave Koz has played with everyone from Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, to Celine Dion, U2, and Burt Bacharach. And if you’ve ever wanted to get in on a little Koz-play, the City National Civic is the place for you this week. For the past past years, Koz has helped people ring in the holidays every December with a special set of seasonal tunes.

This year, to celebrate the event’s 20th anniversary, the nine-time Grammy nominee reassembles his original holiday quartet of pianist David Benoit, guitarist Peter White and trumpeter Rick Braun. (MH)

Spiller might have started in Eugene, Oregon, but the band is made up of members from San Jose, Maui, Lake Tahoe and Hong Kong. A band made up of transplants and nomads, their sound is equally nomadic and exploratory, including elements of ’90s indie rock like Karate and Tortoise, swelling choruses of radio emo grandeur and improvisatory passages of modal guitar interplay.

It’s a complex sound that comes off as comfortable, assured, and at least a little playful (like the Radar Love sounding blues section that unexpectedly occurs in their EP’s second track). This is an exciting and interesting band well worth checking out live. (MH)

Although Identical Tentacles, Joan and the Rivers’ 2016 EP, has just three songs, it makes a strong case for the band as one of San Jose’s most inspired group of weirdo rockers. These guys got lost somewhere between the garage and the bar, sending dirty howls through the deadend streets of the suburbs like a midnight transmission from KFJC. Part Rocket From the Crypt, part Doctor Demento, Joan and the Rivers don’t seem to care much about the rules of genre or taste. If you need a break from the condominium complex muzak that has taken over much of San Jose, this is for you. (MH)

* concerts Dec 22 at The Ritz

DJ MUSTARD

Dec 29 at Pure Lounge

PRIMUS

Dec 31 at Fox Theatre

KSHMR

Jan 19 at City National Civic

THE SOFT WHITE SIXTIES

Jan 20 at The Ritz

BILL MAHER

Jan 21 at The Flint Center

‘RENT’

Jan 23-28 at SJ Center for Performing Arts

LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY

Jan 24 at The Ritz

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT

Jan 25 at The Ritz

JUSTIN MOORE

JOAN & THE RIVERS

Jan 25 at City National Civic

CAM

Jan 26 at Club Rodeo

SHAKIRA

Feb 7 at SAP Center

CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES

LEE PARDINI Fri, 8:30, Free Cafe Stritch, San Jose Lee Pardini has established himself as one of the most sought-after musicians from San Jose. In addition to playing keys with Roger Waters on 2017’s acclaimed Is This What We Really Want?, Pardini has become a fulltime member of L.A. rock group Dawes, which has taken him to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He’s also toured with John Mayer. Now he returns to Café Stritch for a holiday show with his trio, including a rotating cast of guest musicians, all of whom bring some of the finest musicianship to ever come from the 408. (MH)

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AMY DABALOS TRIO Sat, 7:30pm, Free Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company Amy Dabalos’ voice sparkles. The bold, classically trained singer from San Jose takes inspiration from jazz greats of old, like Sarah Vaughan, to modern marvels like Lianne La Havas. Dabalos’ latest single, “Change,” is a gentle pianoled piece with politically charged lyrics. Dabalos has been making the rounds on the Bay Area jazz scene. She’s recently performed at Studio Grand Oakland, 1300 on Fillmore in San Francisco and Café Stritch in San Jose. Joining Dabalos on the bandstand are pianist Bennett Roth-Newell, bassist Frederick Paclibon and drummer Mike Mitchell. (AJ)

NAUGHTY OR NICE Sat, 8pm, $15+ Capital Club, San Jose High atop the KQED Building in downtown San Jose, the Silicon Valley Capital Club offers some of the best views of the South Bay available anywhere. With holiday beats courtesy of Jason Dee, topshelf cocktails and an awesome venue, this holiday party boasts exclusivity without an obscene price tag. Hosted by South Bay entrepreneur Mauricio Mejia and local body-builder Ray Arde, this shindig is the perfect way to kick off the Christmas weekend in style. A dress code will be enforced, so leave the jeans and T-shirts at home and put on your best threads. (NV)

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Mon, 8pm, Free The Continental, San Jose After all the gifts are unwrapped and the hot toddies are kicking in, sometimes you just need to get out of the house and get down.

While plenty of watering holes will be closed, the Continental will have a wide open dance floor. This James Brown tribute—hosted by the Conti in coordination with Motown on Mondays—is a bona fide holiday tradition. Just a couple of years ago, Mayer Hawthorne stopped in and played a set, so there’s no way of knowing who might show up, but you can count on DJs Sake One and DJ Cutso being on the decks to keep everyone rocking around the Christmas tree. (AJ)

Feb 8 at Carriage House Theatre

SUPER LOVE JAM

Feb 9 at SAP Center

JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Feb 21 at The Ritz

SHE WANTS REVENGE

Jan 22 at The Ritz

BATTLE OF THE ZAE IX

Jan 27 at The Ritz

DEMI LOVATO & DJ KHALED

Feb 28 at SAP Center

ROBERT PLANT

Feb 28 at Fox Theatre

BONNIE RAITT

Mar 15 at City National Civic

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL

Mar 28-Apr 1 at SAP Center

U2

May 7 & 8 at SAP Center

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STRONG SILENT TYPE Leon Gilmour’s 1939 wood engraving, ‘Cement Finishers.’

Men At Work

The New ‘Crossroads’ exhibit at SJMA tells American stories without words

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OU’LL RECOGNIZE Grant Wood’s name first in the San Jose Museum of Art’s “Crossroads” exhibit. He’s the painter made famous

by American Gothic (1930), the one with the pitchfork standing upright between a farmer (modeled after the artist’s dentist) and his daughter (after the artist’s sister Nan). But this painting doesn’t appear in the show.

“Crossroads: American Scene Prints from Thomas Hart Benton to Grant Wood” is devoted solely to lithographs, etchings, and wood engravings by Benton, Wood and their lesser-known contemporaries.

In fact, there are only two works by Benton and three by Wood, whereas Leon Gilmour and Louis Lozowick, neither household names, are represented by almost a dozen each.

The drawings in Benton’s lithographs Cradling Wheat (1939) and A Drink of Water (1937) undulate across the canvas.

He sketches the world in a gentled state of fluidity, as if he could see the liquid

motion of the planet moving beneath his feet. Grant Wood’s lines are more defined, if not entirely angular. In Seed Time Harvest (1937) and Tree Planting Group (1937), his human figures are stolid. They are aware of their spines and use them to stand up straight. Both men draw recognizable versions of mythical American farm lands.

But juxtapose Leon Gilmour’s work against theirs and these same landscapes suddenly intensify. He envisions rural life, and its transition into an urban one, as something stark and alien. His black-and-white engravings remind the viewer that before graphic novels existed artists told complex stories without words.

In two of them, Gilmour abandons any nod to realism. If you were to categorize Outposts (1936) and Let the Living Rise (1937), they veer toward the expressionist work Gods’ Man

by Lynd Ward (1905-1985). The characters in them also prefigure Doctor Manhattan, Alan Moore’s superman from The Watchmen.

Outposts is a strange portrait of twinned bald men. In the center of the frame, one cranes his neck up, the other stares directly in front of him.

They overlap each other, as if conjoined, and appear to be growing out of a primordial ooze. Like the statues on Easter Island, they stand disembodied from the neck up. The night sky swirls with comets and stars, but both men reveal no awe or emotion of any kind.

And they may be blind. One of them returns as a naked figure in Let the Living Rise. His body lies outstretched as one hand summons a volatile windstorm along the horizon line. Growths of cartilage have formed on the man’s back.

He’s not unlike the Engineer in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, related to mankind but oversized and threatening.

However, these are the exceptions to the rule. The rest of Gilmour’s work is a series of botanicals and also finely wrought landscapes (save for one compelling urban scene in Cement Finishers). But once you’ve taken in the bald men, even the cactus flowers in Christmas Candles (1936) take on and give off an eerie effect. Lozowick too focuses on oddities (note the addition of a random squirrel next to a man passed out on a park bench). But his strongest lithograph is Subway Construction (1931). He brings an architect’s eye to every beam and girder. His other pieces are hazier and lack this lithograph’s rigor and clarity.

The artists collected here all share some relationship with the “American Scene,” the naturalist style of art and painting that includes Social Realism and American Regionalism. Crossroads ranges in time from 1905 to 1955, roughly the first half of the 20th century. The America they depicted back then was still in formation. To our eyes, these drawings present a ghost world that’s long gone. If they were placed together as panels in a book or graphic novel, they’d tell the story of our great migration from the open spaces of a hushed world to the coming noise and rush of the 21st century.

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Will Durst & His Merry Band of Pranksters

The Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show XXV IF THE SONG FITS In ‘Cinderella,’ an opera composed by 12-yearold Alma Deutscher, a special melody wins over the Prince.

Mozart Across the Pond

A SOLD-OUT crowd welcomed musical prodigy Alma Deutscher to the California Theatre for the North American premier of Cinderella. A reproduction of the the classic fairy tale—only with a decidedly modern feel and opera-centric twist, Cinderella is the first full-length opera by Alma, a 12-year-old English girl, who previously attracted media attention for her impressive musical talent.

Alma composed her first piano sonata at age 6, her first short opera at age 7, as well as a litany of other mind-bending musical accomplishments before hitting adolescence.

Cinderella Now at the distinguished age of 12, Alma is bringing her talents to Silicon Valley’s Opera San Jose.

Thru Dec 23 The show opens on Cinderella in the back of an California Theatre, old opera house. Cinderella lives with her stepmother San Jose and stepsisters, who have been running the company since Cindy’s dear old dad passed. This Cinderella is a talented composer. However, her bullying stepsisters and stepmother force her to perform the tedious busywork of transcribing the scores of others and do not allow her to write her own music. Across town, the King finds out his health is declining. To ensure his lineage, he cajoles his poet son, The Prince, to host a singing competition to find a mate. Then, through a series of coincidences, schemes and signals of fate, the Prince and Cinderella are brought together at last.

The pacing is sparse but purposeful, the sets are beautifully textured, and the actors hit their marks with lively characterization. Nathan Stark as the King is dramatically goofy, punctuating his regal whimsy with a deep baritone. The Prince (Jonas Hacker) is precocious, with almost twinkling eyes. Cinderella’s stepsisters, Griselda and Zibaldona are haughty, condescending and hilarious in their physical comedy. Their voices are like competing songbirds. Cinderella, played by Vanessa Becerra is innocent, youthfully passionate, with a voice as elegant as it is powerful.

Now to the 12-year-old elephant in the room.

Frankly, it’s hard to distinguish Alma from her older, more famous composer peers. Her tunes are composed with remarkable scope and vision for anyone of any age, and when her melodies take a minor or augmented turn before soaring into lush, baroque modulations, Alma’s one-in-a-million talent is more than recognizable.—Tad Malone

Laugh your way into 2018!

The 9 p.m. show will feature a complimentary champagne toast & do-it-yourself balloon drop!

6pm & 9pm December 31, 2017 408-679-2330 www.TabardTheatre.org

Performances at 29 N. San Pedro St. Downtown San Jose

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LIVE BROADCAST The Los Altos Stage Company’s ‘1940s Radio Hour’ runs through Dec. 23.

‘THE 1940S RADIO HOUR’

It’s 1942, and many American men are fighting away in World War II, but WOV New York radio was there to deliver its holiday special. Reminisce to “Strike Up the Band” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.”Thru Dec 23. Los Altos Stage Company.

‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’

Back in February, the Anderson Reservoir spilled over, causing portions of Coyote Creek to overflow.

Flood waters hit the Olinder Community Center—home to Northside Theatre Company for three decades.

Northside had to cancel productions and for a while it was unclear whether they’d be up and running in time for their annual production of A Christmas Carol, a show they’ve put on since they opened. Fortunately, the repairs were completed this fall and Northside is up and running again, just in time for this holiday classic.

Presented by Northside Theatre Company. Thru Dec. 24. Olinder Theatre. San Jose

‘AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS’

Through natural disaster and animal stampedes, one person, told through five characters, must travel the world in 80 days. Phileas Fogg and his valet, Jean Passepartout,

set out to win a wager against the Reform Club on a £20,000 budget. Presented

by TheatreWorks. Thru Dec 31.

Lucie Stern Theatre. Palo Alto.

‘THE SANTALAND DIARIES’

When an unemployed slacker signs on as a Yuletide elf at Macy’s, a village of candycaned kids and cynical Santas springs to hilarious, if humiliating, life in this play by David Sedaris. This rollicking one-man cure for an overdose of holiday hype will have you ho-ho-hoing till the red-nosed reindeer comes home! For mature audiences.

Presented by TheatreWorks.

Thru Dec 23. The Lohman Theatre. Foothill College.

‘EVELYN IN PURGATORY’

When a complaint is filed against one of the 70,000 teachers in New York's public schools, they're sent to a Reassignment Center.

Totally true! There, they sit and wait for their case to be reviewed. Presented by Tabard Theatre Company.

Jan 12 - 28. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

‘THE LARAMIE PROJECT’

In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student from the University of Wyoming, was kidnapped, beaten and left for dead. The senseless hate crime served as the impetus

for The Laramie Project— originally produced by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project. The play synthesizes more than 200 interviews conducted in the university’s surrounding college town of Laramie.

The play explores how the local community reacted to the murder and paints a picture intolerance as well as understanding in rural America. Presented by The Palo Alto Players. Jan 19 Feb 4. Lucie Stern Theatre.

Palo Alto.

‘THE ROAD TO MECCA’

Inspired by a true story, the play follows Miss Helen, a South African widow who harbors an unconventional artistic impulse. She is caught between an old friend who urges her to conform and a young friend who encourages her to follow her heart. Jan 18 - Feb 11. The Pear Theatre.

Mountain View.

‘SWEENEY TODD’

Sweeney Todd has returned from exile and he’s out for blood. After a corrupt judge sends Sweeney to prison on trumped-up charges—and with the aim of seducing Todd’s young wife—the Demon Barber of Fleet Street returns seeking vengeance.

Feb 7 - Apr 2. San Jose Stage Company.

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Heartbreak Kid ‘Call Me by Your Name’ sometimes evocative, sometimes so-so

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ANOHLA DARGIS OF The New York Times says that “you don’t just watch Luca Guadagnino’s movies, you swoon into them.” There was much swoonage to be had in his I Am Love, but his newest—Call Me by Your Name—invites not a swoon, but perhaps a pitch forward into a doze.

Erotic or sclerotic, it focuses on two American men in a highly unequal relationship in Italy’s Lombardy

region in the summer of 1983. Young Elio (Timothée Chalamet) becomes fascinated with a handsome 24year old American student named Oliver (Armie Hammer, old for the part). Oliver has come to stay in the family’s villa for six weeks to assist Elio’s archeologist father (Michael Stuhlbarg). Throughout this summer’s yearning, Elio also has a thing going on with a friend of the family Marzia (Esther Garrel), a lovely Parisian girl.

Hammer is tremendously built, and watching him stride coolly through this film seems to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald’s speculations

that rich people just seem to be less affected by the heat than the rest of us. His aloofness—he’s almost rude— compliments Elio’s own personality.

Elio is such a good pianist that his facility even bores himself. He has all the ruthlessness of a 17-year old, and twice the callow gabble. Showing off a grove with a swimming hole, he blurts, “I can’t tell you the number of books I’ve read here.”

Working from André Aciman’s novel, scriptwriter James Ivory (as in Merchant-Ivory) uses ancient art as a vision of homoeroticism unfrosted by Christianity. This is the kind of idea that gets politely described as so old that it’s new. It’s unimportant that the budding romance is illegal in the USA. It’s more important that Oliver’s own heartless teasing of Elio isn’t judged by familial onlookers. Oliver strokes the boy with one hand and pushes him away with the other, leaving Elio notes that say things like “Grow up. I’ll see you at midnight.”

Hammer looks like a late stage

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LOVE GAMES In ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ first comes love, then comes misery in 1983 Italy.

recurrence of the Josh Hartnett Crisis; hot thoughts about Hammer, as Hartnett, seem as unfeasible as masturbating to the J. Crew catalogue.

Call Me by Your Name has its acute moments, risky ones, as in Elio’s inhaling the fragrance of Oliver’s used bathing suit, or the boy’s sudden intense lust for a peach, in the American Pie sense.

Waiting for Oliver to arrive, Elio lies in the position all adolescents have assumed at one point or another. It’s that “do with me what you will” pose, shirtless and stiff-bodied: like planking, only on your back. Also evocative of young love is the self-hatred, and the words that come out like toads when you want them to come out like honey.

This arrogance cuts both ways. When Elio explains there was once a terrible World War I battle in the vicinity, Oliver goes curt: “Is there anything you don’t know,” he says, patronizingly. Every bright kid has heard that phrase or something like it, but it’s bitter to hear it from a scholar. What exactly is Oliver interested in, beyond toying with Elio?

Call Me by Your Name concludes with a much-praised monologue about the difference between old and young love, claiming that the aged are no longer capable of the kind of all-consuming love felt in youth. Stuhlbarg, outfitted with a badger beard that makes him look rabbinical, delivers the speech with every ounce of his humanity. And not a minute of it can be believed.

It’s no favor to his love-scalded son, and it’s hardly true. Age does what it can to put the brakes on the folly of romantic love, but of course, it never stops, all the way to the grave.

Luca Guadagnino’s latest film owed us some perceptions of the sort that informed Certified Copy, as both love story and travelogue. He does show us Italy, the townscapes of Crema, the country roads, stunning waterfalls, the villa with its rock-lined swimming pool and sun-dappled creeks—this is where the swoon comes in. Do people love the movie, or do they love the real estate?

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Now Playing FERDINAND

Not horrib-bull and often lovibull. Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s tale, filmed by Disney as an Oscar-winning short subject, had weighty repercussions when it was published in 1936. Hitler banned it. Pacifists, who still believed the looming war could be headed off, took courage in this story of a bull who’d rather enjoy the flowers on his hill than fight. The oversized bull Ferdinand (voiced by John Cena) is baffled by the fate that sends him and his fellows either on a one-way trip to the bullfighting arena, or to the slaughterhouse—his intelligence and compassion opposes the law of the corral: “the soft ones always go down.” In this version, Ferdinand escapes and finds shelter at a young girl’s farm, until his desire to see the nearby town’s flower festival gets him cornered, captured and transported back to the fighting bull ranch. Carlos Saldanha (of the Ice Age series) adds a great deal of filler, including a car chase through Madrid, but he keeps the material clear and sometimes poignant. Celebrity voices include David Tennant as a shaggy Scottish Highland bull, and Kate McKinnon as Lupe, the nerve-wracked calming goat who shares Ferdinand’s stall. (The one line that seems most like the great McKinnon is Lupe’s description of the front row at the bullfights as “the splash zone.”) The most sterling addition to the tale is a trio of haughty, Austrian-accented Lipizzaner horses who jeer at Ferdinand: “His parents weren’t even related!” But it’s Miguel Ángel Silvestre, voicing the arrogant bullfighter, who seemed the most reliably funny; the final showdown between him and Ferdinand is a peak of what had previously been pretty par-for-the course animation, Saldanha works up serious fright as the picadors bare their lances and corner Ferdinand.

If Ferdinand isn’t the peerless 1953 “Bully for Bugs [Bunny]” it deserves ranking as one of the best satires of the barbarous pastime. (RvB)

Revivals THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER/ THE WIZARD OF OZ (1940/1939) One of the peaks of the romantic comedy in cinema. It was remade as You’ve Got Mail—

but do yourself a favor and forget all about that one. Ernst Lubitsch’s seasonal romance was executed in the finest classic style—it’s light, sophisticated and glowing with William Daniels' creamy lighting in the close-ups. But Daniels also records the dingy cloakrooms at the shop, and the language here is Old-World formal. In the dialogue, you can hear the careful locutions of men and women who don't want to be misunderstood by authority.

Alfred Kralik (Jimmy Stewart) enters, dyspeptic from some inferior goose-liver pâté; soon, he'll have more cause for heartburn.

The young man is the best sales clerk at Budapest’s Matuschek and Company, a small notions store run by the avuncular but stern Mr. Matuschek (Frank Morgan).

Today, a woman he thought was a customer, Klara Novak (the heavenly Margaret Sullavan), turns out to be just another job seeker.

Klara is hired on as a saleswoman, to Alfred's disgust. As the rush season ensues, Klara and Alfred are conducting affairs through letters with strangers; neither ever realizes that their idealized correspondents are the same persons they’ve been spatting with all the livelong day.

This confectionery old-movie plot is made stinging and smart by Lubitsch's views of life at the shop.

We never even see any character's home in this film; one of the more touching scenes is Matuschek's own realization that he has no home other than his store. The old man’s troubles make him subject to poor business decisions—such as the purchase of a gross of leatherette cigarette boxes that tinkle out the Russian lament "Ochi Tchorny." (Sullavan's sale of one of these unsellable trinkets to a furbedecked matron is a memorably crafty bit.) Lubitsch was bold to make a Christmas movie about retail work—a reminder of how love and generosity fight for a place amid pestering customers, sagging sales and mandatory overtime.

BILLED WITH The Wizard of Oz; little needs to be said of this musical. If deep down I prefer the far crasser Goldfinger as an annual holiday bonbon, it’s hard not to be shaken

by Judy Garland’s torch song about the world over the rainbow, or entertained by the ex- song-anddance men who join Dorothy on her quest for the Wizard…or thrilled by the Mordor-like setting of the witch’s palace. Keep rewatching it—one of these times, that fine witch is going to win. (Plays Dec 18-23 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

REVIEW

SNATCH Dry and implausible, ‘All the Money in the World’ replays the Getty kidnapping.

Not So Great Escape THE 1973 J. Paul Getty III kidnapping is a chilling story that left its imprint on late20th century cinema: the single grisliest detail was borrowed for everything from Blue Velvet to Reservoir Dogs. It’s been said that a filmmaker always needs to think of something to put on the poster, and one bit of ad art for All the Money in the World had a severed ear on it—the catalyzing detail in this story of lawless Italy. In Reservoir Dogs QT swerved the camera away from the eartrimming scene; here in All the Money Ridley Scott spares us nothing.

John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) was the grandson of the world’s richest man, tripping through what’s left of the La Dolce Vita scene in shapeless hippie clothes. He was stuffed into a VW van by bumbling Calabrian kidnappers, who demand a $17 million ransom. The elder Getty (Christopher Plummer, notedly a last-minute replacement for the disgraced Kevin Spacey) refuses to pay up. According to this version, the billionaire Getty had both defensible and indefensible motives for the miserliness. Getty the elder had 17 grandchildren, all of whom might turn up kidnapped later if the criminals prospered.

Less defensible: only the first million dollars of paid ransom is tax deductible.

It’s surprising how toast-dry this story

of decadence and crime is. One problem is the difference between the plausible fictionalizations and the implausible ones, including an entire ending chase sequence that’s obviously concocted, as All the Money in the World well as comeuppance to the plutocrat cheapskate.

R; 132 Mins.

(Plummer lets us take it on faith that Getty was Valleywide a self-made man, though like Trump, the elder Getty inherited a small fortune which sped him on his way.) As Paul’s grieving mother, Gail, Michelle Williams is a feisty blank seemingly from nowhere, a character there to demonstrate Williams’s ability to go full Pieta in five seconds. Despite his one exciting near-escape from captivity using fire, Charlie Plummer isn’t much more interesting playing the imprisoned victim.

Pauline Kael had a prejudice that there never had been a really great movie about kidnapping—Kurosawa’s High and Low being the exception that proves the rule. All the Money in the World is a poor movie, and all it needed was a bad main performance to sink it. As Getty’s ex-CIA security chief, Chase, Mark Wahlberg does the trick.

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CRAZY FOR COSTANZA Get Married play Art Boutiki on Dec. 23, which is apparently the official date of Festivus.

Festivus Cheer San Jose punks Get Married celebrate the ‘Seinfeld’ holiday

BY NICK VERONIN

T

HE HOLIDAYS ARE upon us once again.

That means it’s time to gather together with kith and kin, raise an unadorned aluminum pole and commence with the airing of grievances. It’s a Festivus for the rest of us!

Well, sort of. The Costanza clan won’t be in town this weekend, but San Jose pop punk band Get Married will be celebrating the anti-commercial holiday with a show at Art Boutiki.

The plan was hatched by chance, when Jaake Margo, guitarist and singer for Get Married, hit up Art Boutiki

owner Dan Vado about booking this coming Saturday—the official date of Frank and Estelle’s ersatz Xmas. (For those not in the know, Festivus is a spoof holiday which first entered the national lexicon via the sitcom Seinfeld.)

Vado, a big fan of the show, was on board with hosting the Get Married gig. His only condition was that the band mark the occasion appropriately.

“I said, ‘Hey, we want to do this big Christmas party show on Dec. 23, is that cool?’” says Margo, Get Married’s singer and principal songwriter.

“He said: ‘That’s actually the day of Festivus. So yes, I’m in, if it can be a Festivus thing too.’”

Margo, for his part, was game. “I

didn’t know it had an actual day that it falls on,” Margo says. “But I guess it falls on Dec. 23 every year. News to me.”

While the ragtag holiday is presented in Seinfeld as a source of constant grief for George—a dubious heritage that he longs to escape—Get Married’s celebration promises to be quite fun. And, hey. When we really stop to think about it, there is something charmingly down to Earth about the Costanzas’ tradition.

After all, the original and only true Festivus dinner—as observed in the 1997 Seinfeld episode “The Strike”— was populated by service workers on strike, bookies, habitual liars (Jerry and Elaine) and a CEO who spends most of the dinner with a flask in his hand. The Festivus pole (remarkable for its “very high strength-to-weight ratio”) and the traditional meal of meatloaf served on a bed of lettuce are modest trappings.

It’s only fitting, then, that the Festivus part of the event at Art Boutiki is also a little off the cuff.

“He [Vado] said somebody has to bring a pole,” Margo says, chuckling at the thought. “Feats of strength,

airing grievances, and the pole…we’re gonna try. I don’t really know what’s going to happen once we get there, but we’re gonna try.”

In addition to celebrating a more or less made-up holiday, the show also serves as something of an anniversary for the band: last December, Get Married released Into the Cosmos, their first EP with a label, L.A.’s Wiretap Records.

The album opens with “Dream Boy,” which kicks out the gate with a shredding lead that would make Ozma and Tony Molina proud. At their core a pop punk band, Get Married mix Iron Maiden-esque guitar heroics and ’50s-inspired melodies, often to surprising effect. Creative in its musical combinations and performed tightly by the band, Into the Cosmos is both fun and sincere, and just saccharine enough for lovers of unabashed pop.

Many around the South Bay might have also seen Margo perform in a variety of local theater productions in 2016 and 2017—most notably Palo Alto Players’ production of the Tony Awardwinning musical Million Dollar Quartet.

In it, Margo had the opportunity to play someone whose work has inspired him throughout his entire life: the King himself, Elvis Presley.

“Get Married started as an Elvis cover band,” Margo says. “A friend of ours was having this Halloween party and he was like, ‘Hey, if you want to play, it’s going to be all cover sets.’ We formed to play as Elvis. That was what made our band happen. And then I got the part in the show. It was a cool coincidence.”

And while Million Dollar Quartet ended its run in October, the Art Boutiki concert is also a reunion of sorts for most of its lead performers.

Joining the personnel of Get Married are two of Margo’s castmates from the musical: Nick Kenrick (Jerry Lee Lewis), and Tarif Pappu (Carl Perkins), both of whom are talented musicians in their own right, and lend additional piano and guitar to the group, respectively.

“I got Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins in my band for the show,” Margo says with pride.

It’s a Festivus miracle!

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his bandmates don’t take each other for granted anymore.

Totally X’d Out IN THE RUN-up to this year’s XXXMas Fckfest, Eric Victorino, frontman for South Bay alt-rock heroes Strata and The Limousines, started to hear murmurs through the social media grapevine. “People would get on Twitter and ask, ‘Are you going to do the show this year?’” he recounts.

The answer to him was obviously yes. This is the first time Victorino has headlined the long-running pre-Christmas show—which began at The Blank Club and continues at The Ritz—with Strata. But he still plans to keep things sexy. That means dressing up as an erotic elf or BDSM Santa Clause is not only welcomed but encouraged. And it also means, there will be naughty stage antics and a more than a little bit of holiday-themed porno projected behind the bands as they play. Even in the post-Weinstein era, Victorino Strata doesn’t see anything wrong with that.

“It’s weird to me that just because a few powerful men Dec 22, 8pm, $13+ can’t keep their dicks in their pants that this is going to The Ritz, San Jose become some kind of puritanical environment,” he says. theritzsj.com For die-hard fans of Strata, all of this is likely beside the point. After first reuniting with his old band in 2015, the group reconnected in a big way and now they are working on a new album. After more than a decade as a professional musician Victorino knows better than to give a firm release date on when Strata might drop their next LP, but he says it’s in the works.

Inspired by many of the bands that they looked up to in the mid2000s—like Thrice, who recently put out a new record—Victorino says he and his bandmates thought it only made sense to make more music. Plus they were having a blast jamming together.

“Some of what we’re doing right now is some of the heaviest music we’ve ever made,” Victorino says, noting that the current political climate has encouraged the band to crank up their amps. In fact, it’s similar to how they felt during the Bush years. “We’re expressing the frustration that we’re all collectively living through right now,” he says, adding that he isn’t sure he could scratch the same itch with The Limos or with his solo music. “There’s a national anxiety—it’s like a global migraine. I don’t think dance music is necessarily enough for me. I can’t escape just by dancing a little bit. I gotta scream a little bit and break shit.” —Nick Veronin

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MOUNTAIN WINERY

Every third Thur: Thursdays On the Mountain. San Jose.

ART BOUTIKI

NYE 2018!

Party Favors & Glass Champagne • $10 cover Free Photo Booth.

Party with DJ Dinero Dinner reservations.

8pm • Space limited. $40 per person

Karaoke 10pm

WED & SUN w/ DJ Hank

THUR DJ DVS DAVE 12/21 Dance Party

Sat, Dec 23, 7:30pm: Get Married’s Festivus, Tiny Stills.

San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Every other Tue, 7:15pm: Jazz on Tuesdays. Every Wed, 7pm: Piano Night. Wed, Dec 20, 7:30pm: Christmas Divas Live!

A Christmas Cabaret Revue.

Thu, Dec 21, 7:30pm: Notes from Cheri… Jazzin’ the Spirit!

Fri, Dec 22, 8:30pm: Caminos Flamencos. Redwood City.

THE BACK BAR SOFA

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

Sun, Dec 31: NYE Celebration: DJ Keoni and complimentary champagne toast. $30. 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.

THE QUARTER NOTE

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

Every Mon: Live Music Jam with Dana’s Band. Every Tue: Karaoke / Open Mic Every Wed: Live Music Jam Funk with Michael “B” Band. Every Thu: Live Music Jam Funk with Vicious Groove. Every Sun: Live Music Jam with Michael “T”. Sunnyvale.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN

THE RITZ

BRANHAM LOUNGE FRI 12/22 BROTHA REESE

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

SAT 12/23 SPAZMATICS $10 COVER

OPEN CHRISTMAS NOON-4PM

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

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Every Thu: DJ Benofficial.

Every Fri: DJ Radio Raheem.

Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock.

San Jose.

THE CARAVAN

Thu, Dec 21, 8pm: El Vez. Fri, Dec 22, 8pm: Strata, Pipe Dreams, Dokoe, Boy Uomo. Sat, Dec 23, 8pm: The Aggrolites, Ethan Tucker, Law. San Jose.

SHERWOOD INN

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

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

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

THE CATS

Jazz/ Blues/ World

Every Sun: Joe Ferrarra. Thu, Dec 21: Pro Rock Jam. Sat, Dec 22: Fossil. 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.

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

AGAVE

Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo, 9:30pm: DJ Norman. Every Sat: Las Mejores Bandas De La Bahia.

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METROACTIVE.COM Every Sun: 4pm-8pm: Edith Del Sol. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson. Thu, Dec 21, 7:30pm: Cheri Note Anderson.

Fri, Dec 22, 8:30pm: Caminos Flamencos. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI

Every Sun: Live Jazz Show.

San Jose.

BLUE NOTE LOUNGE

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

CAFE STRITCH

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

CAFFE FRASCATI

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

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

San Jose.

CAFE PINK HOUSE

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

Fri, Dec 21, 7:30pm: Caleb Murray and the Blue Horizon.

Sat, Dec 22, 7:30pm: Jason Keiser & Michael Carter Duo. Saratoga.

CASCAL

Every Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live Music. Fri, Dec 22, 9pm: Conjunto VibraSON. Mountain View.

THE CATS

Every Sun: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX

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

Wed, Dec 20, 6:30pm: Chris Cain. Redwood City.

HEDLEY CLUB

Every First and third Wed: Jazz Jam. San Jose

HUKILAU

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

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

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

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

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ

Every Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blues Jam. Campbell.

LOUISIANA BISTRO

Blues Jam. Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/Sid Morris & Ron Thompson. Every Tue, 6pm: PHB Open Mic Night. Fri, Dec 22, 6pm: Andy Santana and The West Coast Playboys. Sat, Dec 23, 6pm: Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88’s. San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE

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

Every Sunday: Special Dinner Shows. Mountain View.

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I’m a woman, and I recently made a new professional connection—a man who’s excited about my work. We’re planning on doing a big important project together. I’m worried that he’s interested in me romantically (based on a few things he’s said). I’m not interested in him in that way. What’s the right thing to say to get that across?—All Business It’s tempting to get everything out in the open right away: “I’ve run the numbers on your chances of having sex with me, and they’re pretty close to the odds of your being crushed to death by a middle-aged dentist falling out of the sky.”

Informing a guy pronto that you aren’t romantically interested in him—though in somewhat kinder language—would be the right thing to do if he were just some persistent Tinder date you wanted to unload forever. But you’re hoping to have a continuing business relationship with this guy. So even if it were wildly obvious that he has the hots for you, the last thing you should do is mention that particular elephant in the room.

Cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker points out that “most social interaction” involves some conflicting goals—for example, when only one of two people is interested in ending the evening in the tool shed/sex dungeon. (Yes, sometimes the nightcap is a rubber hood.)

Pinker explains that “indirect speech,” or not saying exactly what you think or want,

is a way two people can maintain their relationship—even when both suspect or are pretty sure that their desired outcomes are in sharp conflict. The sometimes tiny measure of ambiguity that is fostered by indirect speech does a big job. It allows the person who wants something the other doesn’t to save face, enabling the two to preserve their common ground.

So, refraining from telling the guy that you aren’t interested (in so many words) allows him to cling to the ego-preserving possibility that you might be. If he goes direct on you and tells you he wants to sex up your business relationship, that’s when you likewise get explicit: Tell him straight out that you want to keep things strictly professional. However, this may not be necessary if you act in ways that say “just business!” Avoid going flirty in communicating with him, and schedule meetings for the utterly unsexiest times and places possible. Nobody ends up doing the walk of shame because they had seconds of biscotti and one too many double espressos.

There’s always been an attraction between this guy and me. I’ve been thinking of testing the waters with him romantically, but he recently mentioned that he freaks out when women cry. He says he just has no idea what to do. Well, I’m an emotional person—generally happy but also a big crier. Are we a bad match, or could I teach him to soothe me?—Waterworks Most men are comfortable dealing with any leaky item—as long as it can be fixed with an adjustable wrench and a Phillips screwdriver. If there’s a decoder ring for human emotion, it’s the female brain. Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen finds that men, generally speaking, just aren’t as good as women at what’s called “theory of mind,” or the ability to “infer what other people might be thinking or intending.” He explains that women, from childhood on, tend to be the “empathizers” of the species, driven to identify others’ “emotions and thoughts, and to respond with the appropriate emotions” (say, by hugging a teary-eyed person instead of treating them like a statue weeping blood).

In contrast with female “empathizers,” Baron-Cohen describes men as the

“systematizers” of the species. This is a fancy way of saying they’re engineeringfocused—driven, from a young age, to identify how inanimate stuff works and “derive the underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system.” However, these are “reliable” rules, like the law of gravity— what goes up must come down—and not at all helpful for fathoming what the girlfriend’s got swirling around in her head when she suddenly goes all funeral face.

Typically, women believe “If he loved me, he’d figure it out.” Um, no. Not here in realityland. Assume most heterosexual men are sucky at emotional tea leaf reading. When you’re in boohooville (or on your way), tell a man what you’re feeling and how he could help—for example, by just listening and rubbing your back.

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

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11/29, 12/06, 12/13, 12/20/2017) 16PR179712 In re the Matter of the CAPELLA FAMILY REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED JULY 30,BUSINESS 1997, by Manuel J. Capella, DecedentNotice is FICTITIOUS hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of Decedent NAME STATEMENT #635817 Manuel J. Capella that all persons having claims against the Decedent are required to file themiswith thedoing Superior Court of the The following person(s) (are) business as: San State of California, County of Santa Clara, at 191 N. First Street, San Jose Locksmith, 115 North 4th St., #101, San Jose, CA, Jose, CA 95112, and mail or deliver a copy to David Capella, successor 95112.

Timor Klein, 724Revocable Uvas Court, CA,30, 95123. trustee of the Capella Family LivingSan Trust Jose, dated July This business is being conducted Individual.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622430 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Union Avenue Liquors, 3649 Union Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Kim Dao Corporation, 36 Leominster Ct., San Jose, CA, 95139. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Michael John Perazzo President #C39443143 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622360 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa, 1692 Tully Road, Suite 12, San Jose, CA, 95122, Dai Nguyen, 650 Island Place, Redwood City, CA, 94065. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dai Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/12/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636098 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wizardrix Technology Solutions LLC, 3165 Olin Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95117, Wizardrix Technology Solutions, LLC, 59 Dearwell Way, San Jose, CA, 95138.

This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/01/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Anna Liza Navarro. President. #201700610073. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2017. (pub Metro 11/29, 12/06, 12/13, 12/20/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636307 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Star Express, 165 Blossomhill Rd., SP# 125, San Jose, CA, 95123, Hector Munoz Lopez, 110 Roundtable Dr., Bldg#24, Aprt#4, San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/28/2017. /s/Hector Munoz Lopez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/28/2017. (pub Metro 12/06, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cox Office Partners, 1372 White Dr., Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Collin Forgey, 2010 El Camino Real, #704, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Lester Workman, 105 Auzerais Ct., Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/29/2017. /s/Collin Forgey. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/29/2017. (pub Metro 12/06, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sticker Dreams, 979 Nattinger Way, San Jose, CA, 95125, Joel Gomez. 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/Joel Gomez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/09/2017. (pub Metro 12/06, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Timesheets.com, 155 San Pedro Cir., San Jose, CA, 95110, Timeclockonline.com, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/01/2004. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Joel Slatis.

President. #2715583. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/15/2017. (pub Metro 12/20, 12/27/2017 01/03, 01/10/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636216 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, 2. Evil Mad Scientist, 1285 Forgewood Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Evil Mad Science LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/1/2013. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Lenore Edman. CoFounder. #200730410183. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/22/2017. (pub Metro 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2017, 01/03/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636633 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Northern California Association Of Morehouse Parents, 2. NCAMP, 4106 Beebe Circle, San Jose, CA, 95135, Northern California Association Of Morehouse Parents, 2 Tullach Place, Hayward, CA, 94542. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/02/2012. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Antoinette R. Battiste. President. #C3795402. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/07/2017. (pub Metro 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2017 01/03/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636182 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: California Safes, 5055 Dent Ave., San Jose, CA, 95118, Sergh Kurguzov. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/09/2017. /s/Sergh Kurguzov. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/21/2017. (pub Metro 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2017, 01/03/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636758 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: True-Blue Translations, 6078 Monterey Hwy #207, San Jose, CA, 95138, Ana Ruth Larios De Cruz. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/28/2015. /s/Ana Ruth Larios De Cruz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/12/2017. (pub Metro 12/20, 12/27/2017, 01/03, 01/10/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636521 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Storybook Connections, 1726 Fulton Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94303. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Judy Diggeler. Manager. #201810910336. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/05/2017. (pub Metro , 12/20, 12/27/2017, 01/03, 01/10/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636823 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Created Space, 421 N. Central Ave., Campbell, CA, 95008, Monty John Lucas, Robin Paula Sedor. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2011. /s/Robin Sedor.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636777 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lab 452, 7467 De LA Farge Dr., Cupertino, CA, 95014, Lieh-Wen Chang, Wen-Chen Ko. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/19/2017. /s/Lieh-Wen Chang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/13/2017. (pub Metro 12/20, 12/27/2017, 01/03, 01/10/2018)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF XIAO-FEI FENG CASE NO. 1-17PR-182098 To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: XIAO-FEI FENG Petition for Probate has been filed by: JESSE CHEN in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: JESSE CHEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the courtTHE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 1/10/18, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your life in the first half

of 2018 will be like a psychological boot camp that's designed to beef up your emotional intelligence.

Here's another way to visualize your oncoming adventures: They will constitute a friendly nudge from the cosmos, pushing you to be energetic and ingenious in creating the kind of partnerships you want for the rest of your long life. As you go through your interesting tests and riddles, be on the lookout for glimpses of what your daily experience could be like in five years if you begin now to deepen your commitment to love and collaboration.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You'll soon have a chance

to glide out into the frontier. I suggest you pack your bag of tricks. Bring gifts with you, too, just in case you must curry favor in the frontiers where the rules are a bit loose. How are your improvisational instincts?

Be sure they're in top shape. How willing are you to summon spontaneity and deal with unpredictability and try impromptu experiments? I hope you're very willing.

This may sound like a lot of work, but I swear it'll be in a good cause. If you're well-prepared as you wander in the borderlands, you'll score sweet secrets and magic cookies. Here's more good news: Your explorations will position you well to take advantage of the opportunities that'll become available throughout 2018.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): These days it's not unusual to see male celebrities who shave their heads. Bruce Willis, Dwayne Johnson, Seal, Tyrese Gibson and Vin Diesel are among them. But in the 20th century, the bare-headed style was rare. One famous case was actor Yul Brynner. By age 30, he'd begun to go bald. In 1951, for his role as the King of Siam in the Broadway play The King and I, he decided to shave off all his hair. From then on, the nakedheaded look became his trademark as he plied a successful acting career. So he capitalized on what many in his profession considered a liability. He built his power and success by embracing an apparent disadvantage. I recommend you practice your own version of this strategy in 2018. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to begin.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the Northern

Hemisphere, where 88 percent of the world's population resides, this is a quiescent time for the natural world. Less sunlight is available, and plants' metabolisms slow down as photosynthesis diminishes. Deciduous trees lose their leaves, and even many evergreens approach dormancy.

And yet in the midst of this stasis, Cancerian, you are beginning to flourish. Gradually at first, but with increasing urgency, you're embarking on an unprecedented phase of growth. I foresee that 2018 will be your Year of Blossoming.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you've had an unfulfilled

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Most of us regard our

ring fingers as the least important of our digits.

What are they good for? Is there any activity for which they're useful? But our ancestors had a stronger relationship with their fourth fingers. There was a folk belief that a special vein connected the fourth finger on the left hand directly to the heart. That's why a tradition arose around the wedding ring being worn there. It may have also been a reason why pharmacists regarded their fourth fingers as having an aptitude for discerning useful blends of herbs. I bring this up, Virgo, because I think it's an apt metaphor for one of 2018's important themes: A resource you have underestimated or neglected will be especially valuable—and may even redefine your understanding of what's truly valuable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In fairy tales, characters are often rewarded for their acts of kindness.

They may be given magical objects that serve as protection, like cloaks of invisibility or shoes that

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enable them to flee trouble. Or the blessings they receive may be life-enhancing, like enchanted cauldrons that provide a never-ending supply of delicious food or musical instruments that have the power to summon delightful playmates. I bring this up, Libra, because I suspect that a similar principle will be very active in your life during 2018.

You'll find it easier and more natural than usual to express kindness, empathy, and compassion. If you consistently capitalize on this predilection, life will readily provide you with the resources you need.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Like all of us, you go through mediocre phases when you're not functioning at peak efficiency. But I suspect that in 2018 you will experience fewer of these blah times.

We will see a lot of you at your best. Even more than usual, you'll be an interesting catalyst who energizes and ripens collaborative projects. You'll demonstrate why the sweet bracing brightness needs the deep dark depths, and vice versa. You'll help allies open doors that they can't open by themselves. The rest of us thank you in advance!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The blunt

fact is that you can't be delivered from the old demoralizing pattern that has repeated and repeated itself—until you forgive yourself completely. For that matter, you probably can't move on to the next chapter of your life story until you compensate yourself for at least some of the unnecessary torment you've inflicted on yourself.

Now here's the good news: 2018 will be an excellent time to accomplish these healings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2018, one of your

primary missions will be to practice what you preach; to walk your talk; to be ambitious and masterful in all the ways a soulful human can and should be ambitious and masterful. Live up to your hype in the coming months, Capricorn! Do what you have promised! Stop postponing your dreams! Fulfill the noble expectations you have for yourself! Don't be shy about using exclamation points to express your visions of what's right and good and just!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Years ago, when I

started my career as a horoscope writer, my editor counseled me, "Always give priority to the Big Three.

Romance, money, and power are what people care about most." After a few months, he was disgruntled to realize that I wrote about how to cultivate psychological health and nourish spiritual aspirations as much as his Big Three. He would have replaced me if he could have found another astrology writer whose spelling and grammar were as good as mine.

But his edict traumatized me a bit. Even today, I worry that I don't provide you with enough help concerning the Big Three. Fortunately, that's not relevant now, since I can sincerely declare that 2018 will bring you chances to become more powerful by working hard on your psychological health . . . and to grow wealthier by cultivating your spiritual aspirations . . . and to generate more love by being wise and ethical in your quest for money and power.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What binds you? What keeps you closed down and locked up? I urge you to ponder those questions, Pisces. Once you get useful answers, the next step will be to meditate on how you can undo the binds. Fantasize and brainstorm about the specific actions you can take to unlock and unclose yourself. This project will be excellent preparation for the opportunities that the coming months will make available to you. I'm happy to announce that 2018 will be your personal Year of Liberation.

Homework: Write a parable or fairy tale that captures what your life has been like in 2017. Freewillastrology.com

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

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INTO THE FIELD David Bacon lost his job in tech after union organizing, fueling him to document the state’s migrant farmworkers.

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David Bacon’s new exhibit at History Park highlights migrant workers’ humanity

BY GARY SINGH

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HIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, David Bacon was fired from his job at National Semiconductor on Kifer Road for trying to organize a union, after which he was blacklisted in Silicon Valley.

As a result, he dedicated the rest of his life to prolabor activism, documentary photography and the plight of migrant farmworkers.

Skip to the current day and Bacon’s remarkable blackand-white images comprise a new show at History San Jose at Kelley Park.

A bilingual and decidedly nonneutral exhibit, In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte runs until next year, with Bacon arriving Jan. 14 for a lecture and book signing.

About half of the show emphasizes close-up shots, many with a wide angle lens to throw the viewer right into the scene. The textures of lettuce, bell peppers and jalapeños become visible like road maps. Scarf-covered faces battle the blazing sun. You can almost feel the heat, the dust, the sand or the mud. The viewer feels transplanted right inside a lemon tree, a potato crop or a bucket of broccoli seedlings.

In one image, Manuel Garcia, a farmworker from Esteli, Nicaragua,

shows his hands and arms, covered in juice from trimming tobacco plants. His body absorbs the nicotine in the process, resulting in green tobacco sickness, a major occupational health hazard, but the rancher won’t let him wear gloves because it harms the plants.

Several other images similarly reveal the hazardous conditions in which many workers are forced to toil away. We read about beatings, diseases, ethnic slurs, institutionalized embarrassment, poor sleep habits and workers routinely getting swindled out of their daily totals by the ranchers. Statistics explain the decline of wages and working conditions, as well as the scope of geographical dislocation. See Bacon’s work and you’ll never look at a piece of Romaine lettuce the same way again.

In a handful of specific text panels, detailed stories come to us directly from the workers themselves, providing even more context. For example, Romulo Muñoz Vazquez came from Oaxaca to an encampment near San Diego with his four children. He bought some nylon and a tarp for his roof and built a shack

himself. Most people in his camp speak their indigenous language. “There is a little of everything,” he writes. “Those from Guerrero speak one language; the people from San Pedro Muzuputla speak another. We speak Amuzceñas.

We don't understand Mixtecos or Triquis—it’s very different.”

In another case, Lorena Hernandez gets up at 4 in the morning to pick blueberries all day in the blazing sun.

When she gets home, her hands feel dirty, tired and mistreated. She has no energy to even speak to her daughter at night. She has no friends, only acquaintances from work.

As if that wasn’t enough, the other half of the exhibit showcases the miserable squalor in which many of these workers live. We see shacks, rented rooms and filthy encampments—right alongside religious rituals or even traditional ethnic dances, proving that the workers are still making every possible attempt to retain their native culture and find happiness. In that sense, the show is not just a barrage of misery.

In a more encouraging story, Raymundo Guzman came to work in the fields as a kid, but after graduating high school he wants to be a rapper with a conscience thanks to the inspiration of Tupac Shakur. “He told the truth and had good advice,” Guzman says. “He spoke about all of us kids in poverty. He talked about our lives. It’s like Tupac used to say, we’re a flower that grew in concrete. You can see the rose and stem is twisted, but it grew out of the hard concrete. We’re from the hood but we’re going to come up. Some people may not want us to achieve much, but we’re human too.”

In perhaps the most hopeful image, we see a shot of children sitting on a fence at Sakuma Farms. One holds a sign that says, justicia para todos (justice for all). Without a doubt, these kids will become the next generation of activists. We are left with a few shreds of optimism. We get a sense that at least some of the subjects in the photos are positioned to advance their lives.

Disclosure: David Bacon has been a longtime Metro contributor.

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Jeremiah Harada

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LEG UP Uproar Brewery’s growing cast of craft beers pays homage to old favorites and new beginnings.

New Beer, cheer Uproar Brewery’s patience pays off as SoFA suds house finds it footing

BY TOMEK MACKOWIAK

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MET MR. Harada at the old car wash station in Martha’s Garden, off of South First Street in San Jose, near what was once Faber’s Cyclery. I arrived in my 1942 Steelcraft pedal car, modeled after the WWII Spitfire airplane. Mr. Harada had just soaped up his 1950s GMC cabover Truck manufactured by the Binghampton Manufacturing Corporation of New York.

We gingerly washed our tiny

pedal-powered vehicles as the sun began to set.

Mr. Harada looked dismayed as he rubbed the last bit of wax from his ride. I too was a bit disappointed with my vehicle’s lack-luster paint job.

Seventy-plus years of hard cruising can do that to a pedal car. Luckily, one of our favorite auto body/paint establishments was just up the street, next to our favorite live music venue: The Cactus Club.

We slipped into evening traffic and pumped our legs at 420 rpm to achieve a respectable 7 mph as we headed toward the shop. We passed the haunted Faber’s building

and passed under the highway 280 overpass. Our pedal-powered vehicles squeaked with joy as we shimmied past City Lights Theater.

Mr. Harada and I arrived at the old address and were met with a new reality. Our beloved Cactus Club was cleaned up, polished and vacant of a crowd. More importantly, the paint shop was now a brewery, after an apparent short stint as an arthouse. San Jose changes quickly, unconcerned with old memories.

Mr. Harada and I hopped out of our rides and arranged them near the front entrance. I rattled my keys and said, “Bee boop!” One must deter pedal-car bandits—no one messes with an alarmed ride, and not every pedal-pusher can afford an Alpine security system.

We stepped into the spacious room and I remembered the old Mercedes that used to sit in the front corner. I first saw it when it was a burgundy color, around 1994, but over the years it picked up a dusty grey. Now the space was filled with handsome, soon-

to-be occupied tall tales. Stainless steel brewing equipment glistened in the back. My mustache quivered as I heard the sound of food sizzling in the kitchen.

We parlayed at the bar and I chose a delicious IPA crafted onsite by Uproar. If I’m not mistaken, Mr. Harada had the Fieldwork Lager.

We took our places at the tall tables and began observing the crowd. Uproarites are generally well-behaved artistic types. Most of the people on this night looked agreeable, except one.

A hulkish character came tromping towards us looking half Wolfman Jack and half IT engineer, a combination that would be barred entry from even the Pokémon universe. He strolled with an unfailing confidence, as if he owned the place. It was Steve Vandewater, the owner of the place.

Steve was quite hospitable and generous with tales of his trials and tribulations. It took a lot to open Uproar. A vast amount of money and time was spent to give the SoFA District a proper brewery. Steve and his wife, along with a dedicated team, fought gremlins, orcs, dragons and everything else that has thrived at City Hall in the new century. Luckily for us, all we had to do was sit back and enjoy several fresh cervezas.

Although Steve experienced quite a bit of frustration, he recalled the ordeals with a glint of satisfaction in his eye. He had succeeded in turning what was once a budget car paint shop into an impressive brewery in the heart of downtown San Jose.

After the minorest of consultations, Mr. Haraad and I agreed that Uproar Brewery is a change that warrants our blessing. Sure, the pedal cars will have to be shipped to north San Jose for a proper paint job, but it’s a small price to pay: they fit on Light Rail, which is an exceedingly reasonable $2 each way.

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André Jaquez

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NO SMALL FRIES Wahlberg brothers Paul, Donnie and Mark have teamed up to create a burger chain that now has roots in Palo Alto.

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OMEDIAN WILL FERRELL describes actor Mark Wahlberg as “the perfect human being.” But does the former Calvin Klein underwear model and rapper turned Hollywood A-lister have a brother capable of building the perfect burger? To find out I ventured to Palo Alto, home to California’s first Wahlburgers, the fast-growing family franchise that Mark, Paul and their brother Donnie launched in 2011 in the Boston suburb of Hingham, Massachusetts.

The casual burger restaurant and bar in Palo Alto sits at the intersection of University Avenue and Emerson Street—ground zero for local foodies.

Just a few weeks in business at the time of my visit, Wahlburgers has a distinctly Irish vibe with its gray-and-green color scheme, and the restaurant is split in three sections: one part diner to the right, another part casual fast-food service to the left and a shiny bar in the back.

Each specialty burger checks in around $10.50. I went with a classic American-style burger, known as “The Our Burger,” which comes with Chef Paul’s signature Wahl sauce, a sriracha’d Thousand Island dressing.

The meticulously crafted burger is juicy and tender, with each bite containing crunchy thin-sliced lettuce. It was a damn good burger.

A more hearty choice is the BBQ Bacon, noted as “Donnie’s Fave.” It comes with a third of a pound of beef, cheddar, bacon, fresh jalapeños and housemade barbecue sauce and avocado spread. Another unique creation is the Fiesta Burger: a half-pound patty dusted with southern spice, including jalapeños, pepper jack cheese, salsa and chipotle mayo.

All of the sides are priced at $4, and by far the best were the Sweet Potato Tots. These bite-sized delights melt in the mouth and complement the savory with an addictive sweetness.

For a drink I went with the housemade frappé ($4.95), which is made with farm-fresh milk and local ice cream. These milkshakes are thick but go down smooth, and the richness of the malt packed a punch to the palate.

Two other Wahlburgers franchises are slated for the Golden State: one near the University of Southern California campus and the other set for Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. As for the Bay Area, the chain hopes to expand to Pier 39 in San Francisco and Santana Row in San Jose within the next six years, according to Palo Alto manager Max Lee. —André Jaquez

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Stanford’s AMY WILKINSON, left, spoke about her new book at TEDx.

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Entrepreneur, race car driver and vintner KEVIN BUCKLER showed off his wine at the TEDxPaloAltoSalon event at the Oshman Family JCC.

These youngsters brought a little ComicCon to a CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK cosplay meetup.

SHERIFF SMITH, center, flanked by state senator BOB WIECKOWSKI and telegenic criminal attorney STEVE CLARK, fundraised at Christopher Schumb’s Willow Glen manse.

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