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THIS MODERN WORLD

By TOM TOMORROW

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The Kindness of Strangers I don’t know what kind of person offers to pick up a 6-foot-3 dude walking down the street in the middle of the night. I was initially suspicious, but the fact that my phone wasn’t working and I was quite far from home—and probably due to the feeling of invincibility imparted upon me by multiple holiday spirits—I set my parents’ stern warnings aside and got into a car with a rando. You dropped me off without robbing me or making things weird. I shan’t be doing that again, but it’s nice to know that even in this crazy world, it is still possible to rely upon the kindness of strangers.

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Claudia Rossi is one of the best informed and most civil trustees sitting on this board, and a champion for families who, like her, come from an immigrant background. The idea of blocking her routine appointment like this to promote someone like DiSalvo is unconscionable, and an example of private interests trying to take control of our public bodies.

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THE FLY

Tiny hearts

Plans to build tiny cabins for the homeless have kindled surprisingly vitriolic backlash since the city proposed the idea more than a year ago. But the anti-homeless hostility reached a fever pitch in August, when District 2 Councilman SERGIO JIMENEZ was cut off at a community meeting by audience members chanting “build a wall.” Jimenez tried to quell the outburst by warning attendees against the kind of divisive rhetoric spewed

by President TRUMP. While the chant ended, the protest has now transmogrified into a concerted effort to derail the city’s so-called tiny homes project and oust Jimenez from elected office. Not long after that meeting, a group called San Jose Action materialized at SanJoseAction.org and on NextDoor, where people left factually off-base antihomeless, anti-Jimenez comments on the forum. Who’s behind the group was a bit of a mystery. No names were listed on the website or on their Facebook page, and Fly’s emails to the group were ignored. But Jimenez says he got to meet some of the players when a constituent named PATTY FISHBURN invited him to meet with residents at her place, where he spent three hours answering questions they scrawled on slips of paper in a cookie jar. Despite the effort, Fishburn and her gang are still railing against Jimenez. San Jose Action held its first major meeting this past week at Hayes Mansion, and they expressly told the councilman not to come and refused to disclose who the guest speakers would be. Jimenez staffers HELEN CHAPMAN and VANESSA SANDOVAL showed up along with an impressive turnout—400 They attendees, but, oddly, no Did public officials—to find What? out that the organizers were promoting SEND TIPS TO FLY@ Jimenez’s recall and that METRONEWS. the surprise speakers COM included a ghost of election past: STEVE BROWN, the hard-right anti-LGBTQ candidate who lost to Jimenez in the 2016 council race.

Brown took the stage along with fellow fringe candidate JONATHAN FLEMING, who’s running against Councilman TAM NGUYEN in D7. Several attendees who spoke with Fly said the event confirmed their suspicions that San Jose Action was a political group masquerading as a grass-roots neighborhood association.

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THE X-MEN Silicon Valley hotshots (clockwise from top left) Dave McClure, Justin Caldbeck, John Draper, Andy Rubin, Shervin Pishevar and Travis Kalanick all had work-related sex scandals come to light in 2017.

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#MeToo movement forces Silicon Valley tech into a moral reckoning

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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OR A TIME it seemed that Silicon Valley’s brilliant geeks, missiondriven startups and aspirations for a more open, connected world would evolve our economy beyond the Wall Street greed that tanked it in the late aughts.

But the futuristic sheen obscured age-old problems lurking beneath the surface.

Three in 5 women in Silicon Valley reported experiencing unwanted

sexual advances, according to a landmark survey titled “Elephant in the Valley.” Two-thirds said the overtures came from a superior.

Sexism in tech has long manifested itself in the frat-boy antics of young founders and diversity stats that illustrate the imbalance of pay and power that enables men to marginalize women.

Gamergate in 2014 gave the broader public a glimpse of the tech world’s distinctly atavistic hostility toward women when a mob of anonymous trolls bombarded female gamers with death and rape threats. A year later,

former Facebook employee Chia Hong filed a lawsuit claiming that the company repeatedly scolded her for not prioritizing work over family.

This year, the issue took on renewed urgency when ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler published a damning first-person essay about the abhorrent sexual harassment she endured at the company. Those words forced the most valuable privately held company on the planet to face a moral reckoning.

Fowler’s account helped inspire a chain reaction of lawsuits and disclosures that culminated with the #MeToo movement at the latter end of this year. The allegations are nothing new, but the consequences are. And so is the sheer number of victims going public about their abuse.

On the cusp of 2018, the tech world, it seems, is finally at a crossroads. Here, we look at some of the most notable tech figures accused this year of either committing sexual harassment or failing to use their authority to stop it.

Dave McClure

Uber’s Travis Kalanick got knocked from his perch as CEO of the $69 billion ride-hailing company by Fowler’s scathing 3,000-word account.

In it, she detailed the unchecked sexism under Kalanick’s watch that protected high performers accused of bad behavior—perpetrators that Uber board member Arianna Huffington would later refer to as “brilliant jerks.”

Fowler’s essay, which ultimately resulted in the ouster of Kalnick and about 20 other employees, marked the first time a public scandal took a material toll on Uber’s business. It also showed that people in positions of power could be held to task for abuse reported under their watch, whether or not they were directly involved.

When the New York Times this summer exposed Dave McClure as a sexual harasser, the founding partner of 500 Startups copped to the charge, admitting he’s a “creep” and bowed out from his post at the Mountain View-based tech incubator. In a mea culpa published on Medium, McClure said he was guilty of taking advantage of many more women.

“I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate,” he wrote. “I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.” McClure’s admission undermined his stated intentions— espoused not a month before the Times report—to support female-led startups.

Shervin Pishevar When Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang gave voice this month to several women accusing Shervin Pishevar of sexual assault, the high-profile Uber investor denied the claims but agreed to step down from Sherpa Capital, the VC firm he co-founded. One of the women claims Pishevar kissed and groped her during a dinner convened to discuss investing in her startup. Another says Pishevar tried to put his tongue down her throat after luring her to his house with the offer of sharing career advice.

What’s particularly troubling about the Pishevar scandal is how he responded to the allegations by threatening to file defamation lawsuits against his accusers.

It’s a chilling reminder of why so many accusers hesitate to put their names on the record, even amid a cultural shift toward believing victims.

Andy Rubin When the former Android CEO left Google in 2014 to launch a startup incubator, it looked like nothing more than a friendly departure and Larry Page publicly wished him the best.

But Information, a tech news outlet, revealed last month that Andy Rubin’s exit came after an internal investigation into an “inappropriate relationship” with a female subordinate. Rubin’s defense was that the relationship was consensual. After the story broke, his company, Essential, told reporters that Rubin was taking a leave of absence “for personal reasons.”

Justin Caldbeck Just a few months after being accused by a half-dozen women of making unwanted sexual advances, Justin Caldbeck had the gall to attempt a postscandal comeback. In November, the Binary Capital VC changed his LinkedIn title to “Head of Self-Reflection, Accountability and Change,” and said that he would set about educating young men about the pitfalls of “bro culture.” Victim advocates questioned the sincerity of Caldbeck’s personal campaign and whether he’s qualified to teach others how to behave.

John Draper The allegations have dogged hacking pioneer John Draper—aka “Captain Crunch”—for years, but a BuzzFeed article published in November finally forced the aging Silicon Valley scion to respond to the troubling claims. Several victims told reporters that Draper routinely preyed on men and teenagers at tech conferences by inviting them to what he called “energy workouts,” where he then sexually assaulted them. Draper, oddly enough, admitted to getting aroused during the bizarre exercises but denied they were sexual in nature. The testimonials shed light for the first time on what’s been described as an open secret in the hacker community, which has inspired others to come forward with allegations against the renowned cyber-security activist.

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2017 YEAR IN REVIEW A

Fred Harper

ND WE THOUGHT 2016 was bad. The last 12 months have been record setting in all the wrong ways.

The largest wildfire in California history leveled Santa Rosa like a nuclear bomb. A single shooter in a Las Vegas casino suite killed more people in a single incident than anytime before in our nation’s history, which is saying something for gun-loving America.

Hurricane after hurricane pummeled Houston and Puerto Rico in a devastating loss of life and property.

And Nazis are actually a thing again!

Thank goodness we had a steady leader in the White House sending out thoughtful tweets regarding a potential nuclear war with North Korea … But let’s kill the noise on catastrophes and national embarrassment. There were some incredible moments this year, like the Women’s March on Washington paving the way for the #MeToo movement. Brave survivors of sexual assault stood up and broke their silence, creating a real dialogue and actual change across all industries.

There were also more than a few dubious achievements that brought a smile to our crooked faces. From a millennial mayor in Milpitas plagiarizing Jay-Z and Barack Obama to the sheriff ironically reigniting a jail hunger strike by fat-shaming her prisoners, there was no shortage of surprises as the months flew by.

The world is spinning so fast it’s hard to keep track of the news and the so, so many bad hot takes.

Here’s what we’ll remember from 2017, at least until tomorrow.

BY ANDRÉ JAQUEZ, DAN PULCRANO, JENNIFER WADSWORTH, JOSH KOEHN, NICK VERONIN AND SATVIR SAINI

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January WOMEN STRIKE BACK The Dark Lord of the Sith looked out across the bigly crowd—well, kind of bigly, as many folks were surely stuck in traffic (period)—and proclaimed that, finally, the empire would be great again. Proving the world has surely fallen off of its axis, former President George W. Bush summed up the moment by exclaiming, “That was some weird shit.” The resistance to Donald Trump’s inauguration was swift, as

two days later millions of women took to the streets and marched in support of equal rights and maintaining control over their bodies.

How Much Do You Tip a Robot?

DoorDash began a test trial for robot food deliveries where the cute little tugs were given a human chaperone. Sadly, these will be the last people jobs in 20 years.

BUGGIN’ OUT The district attorney's office charged 45-year-old Julio Pino Reyes, of San Jose, with making and selling illegal cockroach powder, after he started advertising his mystery insecticide dust on Facebook and Spanish-language magazine El Avisador. Exposure to the powder apparently caused nausea, shaking and dizziness. Reyes called his wonder drug: The Year 2017.

Courtesy of Mark Harris

ART HISTORY A brouhaha broke out at the East Side Union High School District offices after Jeff Moore, head of the local NAACP chapter, helped install several pieces of Mark Harris’ brilliantly subversive art, which pairs Norman Rockwell-esque drawings with modern-day photos of police in riot gear and Black Lives Matter memes about “killer cops.”

Why Trump Hates Courts

Santa Clara County filed a lawsuit to stop Trump after 45 signed an executive order to defund “sanctuary cities,” a term for places that refuse to help with the deportation of nonviolent undocumented immigrants. In November a judge ruled that Trump’s cut in funding went beyond the president's authority and made the block permanent.

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Cookie Monster

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Frank Alexander Bedgood, 48, was arrested in Gilroy after he stole $5 from a 6-year-old boy who’d just bought a cookie, drink and donut for his sister. In Bedgood’s defense, the kids were totally going to ruin their appetite before dinner.

FEBRUARY SEPTUAGENARIAN SWINDLER Mario Landino, a 74-year-old Sunnyvale man, was sentenced to just probation after embezzling roughly $350,000 from Giovanni’s New York Pizzeria. The lesson: If you’re going to steal, do it when you’re old.

BUST OUT THE ‘O’ Jasvir Singh and his wife, Donna Santo, were nabbed by cops in Mountain View for running an opium ring. A search led to the discovery of more than 4,000 pounds of the stuff, which was being ground down to make a potent tea.

Yeah, Sure

The daughter of Milpitas Councilman Garry Barbadillo sent police on a wild goose chase after claiming she’d been kidnapped, released and then kidnapped again. Oh, kids.

DOC.CON Ex-Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Wertkin tried to sell a sealed court doc for $300,000 to a tech company in Sunnyvale. Defense attorneys claimed he was going through a rough patch.

The Capital of Bad Intel Silicon Valley FISHY BUSINESS Morgan Hill restaurant Odeum had to pay a $120,000 fine and distribute credit coupons after the upscale Mediterranean eatery was caught substituting tilapia for pricier petrale sole.

A CASE OF THE VIRALS

CAPTAIN AMERICA SWORN IN San Jose Councilman Lan Diep was sworn into office while holding his replica Captain America shield, proving that sometimes government can be fun. Or corny.

We still can't decide.

In his first month in office, Milpitas Mayor and strident millennial Rich Tran vowed to go viral after plagiarizing Barack Obama and Jay Z, violating the Brown Act on public meetings and commissioning a documentary on the inspirational story of Silicon Valley’s youngest mayor (a.k.a. him).

Proving the boy mayor keeps it trill, Tran got a tattoo that says “Milpitas” on his forearm.

Apple stunned Silicon Valley— wherever that is these days—by selecting San Jose to host its annual developer conference over San Francisco. The party was intense once everyone got on their phones.

ON A POSITIVE NOTE, NO ONE DIED An overflowed South Valley dam soaked homes and businesses east and south of downtown, prompting San Jose to blame the water district for the fact that many residents only realized their homes were in danger when sewage-infused water flowed into their living rooms. The district shifted the blame to God, noting that it was actually heavy rains, not their poorly designed dams and inadequate pumping systems, which caused the flooding.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich (pictured below) kissed the ring in Trump’s Oval Office before announcing the creation of a $7 billion manufacturing plant in Arizona. The free advertising from a laudatory Trump tweet was apparently worth Krzanich saying nothing about the president’s Muslim travel ban, despite Intel opposing it in a court brief.

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HEY, MR. SPACEMAN

A couple of weeks after the Oakland Raiders announced they will move to Las Vegas, Stanford economist Roger Noll called it the “worst stadium deal in the world.” Al Davis must be rolling in his grave knowing he couldn’t get over on Sin City.

A digital billboard in Milpitas asked Elon Musk (pictured) to “dump Trump” and quit the president’s business advisory council, leading the Tesla and SpaceX founder to note that The Donald needed “more moderate” voices in the room, not fewer. Three months later Musk and others quit after Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord.

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Caulk Naked

San Jose police shot and wounded a naked man after he led them on a high-speed chase and pointed a “caulking gun” at officers. Because what other kind of gun would a naked guy have?

TRUMP VISITOR NO RELATION TO MILPITAS MAYOR The Secret Service arrested Jonathan Tran, a 27-year-old Milpitas man, after he tried to break into the White House. When asked if he had the proper clearance, Tran reportedly told security, “No, I am a friend of the president. I have an appointment.” It probably would have worked if he’d said it in Russian.

Oh, Snap!

Mountain View parochial school St. Francis saw its $15,000 startup investment in Snapchat jump to $40 million when the video-sharing service made its Wall Street debut.

JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL Wannabe youth pastor Rajeev Sanhi touted his tight relationship with Jesus while offering underage girls “relationship makeovers” in between offers of gifts, money, show tickets and other trinkets. Sanhi apparently failed to ask WWJD. (See: he would wait until they’re 18.)

April Fat Chance

Hundreds of people fruitlessly waited in line for hours to snag free tickets to a Chance the Rapper concert in San Jose put on by Facebook for its F8 Conference.

For a company so hellbent on ingenuity, employee parking is but an afterthought at Tesla. The company’s Fremont and Palo Alto parking lots were put on blast via an employee’s Instagram account, @teslaparkinglot, which gained 10,000 followers as it chronicled nightmarish attempts to find a spot.

WORD IS BONDERMAN Uber board member David Bonderman decided an all-hands-on-deck meeting about rampant sexual harassment within the company was the perfect time to joke about women talking too much. He would later resign.

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2017 YEAR IN REVIEW

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GOOGLE DEAL San Jose’s elected officials held a fist-pumping news conference to announce that the city is in negotiations to have Google build an 8 million-square-foot office complex next to Diridon Station that will create 20,000 jobs. Longtime residents and businesses expressed concerns that they’ll be pushed out, which led Mayor Sam Liccardo to step in by noting that “the only revered occupant who’s being displaced by Google’s arrival is the dancing pig on the Stephen’s Meat sign.”

Sticker Shock

An 825-square-foot cottage in Mountain View was priced at $1.9 million, leaving many to wonder how a closet could cost a quarter-million.

LIFE BEHIND BARS WHAT A DUMP Residents in Mountain View started complaining after a string of colorful Google bikes were being dumped into local creek beds. Google employees were the main suspects, but the company said bike thefts had increased and it had an “active team” working to resolve the issue.

May Sarah, Smile

Helen Mirren came to San Jose to film the Sarah Winchester biopic based on the haunted owner of the Winchester Mystery Mansion.

The movie is set for release in early February.

CROP TOP KING The Thai government demanded that Facebook remove dozens of pages from its servers after a video showed its new king strolling through a shopping mall in a skimpy tummy-exposing sleeveless t-shirt.

NOT HOTDOG A hotdog-identifying app in HBO’s Silicon Valley is a real thing, apparently. Why do we need an app to tell us if something is or is not a hotdog? Shut your face.

Johnny Boys

Twenty-one men were arrested in a prostitution sting in San Jose near an area littered with liquor stores and car dealerships. Officers knew something was up when the men asked for tuneups after removing their trousers.

SIGN HIM UP, NINERS Yousef Youkhaneh, an 82-year-old San Jose man, came to his wife’s rescue by tackling a 30-year-old woman who had broken into the house and beaten his spouse.

June DARWIN AWARD Some genius stole cutting-edge tracking devices from a startup in Santa Clara, which gave away his whereabouts and led to a quick arrest.

Why Bother Calling Cops?

Two teens entered the back door of Mayor Sam Liccardo’s home in a burglary attempt. The credit for stopping the thieves in their tracks, however, belongs neither to Liccardo nor the San Jose Police Department, but to first lady Jessica Garcia-Kohl.

Antolin Garcia Torres was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of Morgan Hill teen Sierra LaMar. The verdict offered some closure to Sierra’s family despite her body never being found.

July Dire Wolves

Local shelters sounded alarms that “Game of Thrones” fans were irresponsibly adopting and then abandoning huskies.

Pet owners adopted the dogs because of their resemblance to the show’s dire wolves, but soon learned that the breed is highly energetic, tough to train and rarely eats people’s faces on command.

UNCOOL CAT Serial cat slayer Robert Farmer, the son of a former San Jose police officer, was sentenced to 16 years— one for each cat he killed.

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DISRUPTED Google fired engineer James Damore after he penned a novellalength screed against the company’s efforts to improve gender parity in the ranks, turning him into a men’s rights cause celebre.

Virtual Private Spaceship Apple’s new spaceship campus opened its large glass doors in

Cupertino. Apple CEO Tim Cook hoped its unveiling would draw attention away from the controversy over its removal of VPN products from the app store in China.

Anti-censorship advocates called the move a cave-in to the Chinese government’s suppression of dissent.

Like that matters.

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AUGUST

LOVE TAKES WORK Supercouple Elon Musk and Amber Heard broke up, citing “work schedules.” Musk said he downed Red Bulls to overcome the “severe emotional pain” and get through his Model 3 launch event. Despite his success as a serial lover of beautiful actresses, the electric car billionaire complained to Rolling Stone, “It’s so hard for me to even meet people.”

Sally the Salad Robot

Palo Alto’s Calafia Cafe & Market a Go-Go hired an unlikely employee when “Chowbotics” chef Charlie Ayers and CEO Deepak Sekar created the world’s first salad robot. What kind of world are we living in when a man can’t even toss his own salad?

BOMB BUYBACK A man in Sunnyvale tried his best good Samaritan impersonation by bringing in a cache of ammunition and grenades for disposal. Cops thanked him by urgently evacuating the building and calling in the bomb squad.

PONG AND SPACE INVADERS ARE NEXT A Milpitas family and three associates at a Santa Clara arcade game manufacturer CoinOpStore were charged with selling Pac-Man forgeries, according to the district attorney’s office.

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla lost a legal battle keep the public off Martins Beach, near Half Moon Bay. The billionaire can still appeal, but in the meantime must open the gates.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Mark Espinoza Sr. and his son, Marcos, were arrested in Alviso for possessing more than half a ton of fireworks. Their excuse: who cares?

A San Jose State professor went public about having to live out of her car because of the valley’s skyrocketing housing costs. If that sounds bad, consider that her TA spent most of his nights in the trunk.

GOOD BOY A German shepherd in Milpitas was caught on video pushing a shopping cart around. The store’s manager complained that the customer violated the shirts and shoes policy, but was otherwise a very good boy.

Never Crane

A crane that had been extended 200 feet in the air toppled over and fell on the roof of a house in Campbell, leaving significant damage. Police treated the incident like an accident, because paperwork, man.

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HANDS FREE Apple introduced the ultraminimalist iUrinal at its new headquarters, complete with groin recognition sensor that triggers a downward water swipe when any crude biometric match decouples.

BOVINE BEATS THE HEAT As a Bay Area heat wave scorched cities, one Gilroy cow decided to wade into a pond. Chest deep into the watering hole, the ranch owner thought the cow was in trouble, but to his amazement his cow simply took a dip to cool herself off. He couldn’t help but laugh.

STREET SMART Tina Lam and Michael Cheng, who live in San Jose’s Berryessa neighborhood, bought a street in one of San Francisco’s most exclusive neighborhoods. The couple paid $90,100 for the property at an auction after the Presidio Homeowners Association neglected to to pay $994 in back taxes, penalties and interest. They were in a position to charge the 35 mansion owners, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, to park in front of their own homes, until the city revoked the sale and returned the street to the HOA.

SEPTEMBER Poor Patsy

Dominic Shamo and Juan Arzate were charged with using a mentally

disabled teen as a surrogate jewelry thief to rob Asian women in San Jose shopping center parking lots.

COLUMBUS CALLED OUT A woman vandalized the Christopher Columbus statue at San Jose’s City Hall, after a public hearing in which no one defended keeping the depiction of the genocidal explorer. Aw, poor Columbo.

Equifaxed Up

On Sept. 7, the credit behemoth Equifax announced it had been hacked and almost every American’s credit information was at risk. A lawsuit was filed a week later in federal court in San Jose.

FACEBOOK FRIENDS, DA Facebook admitted to congressional investigators that a Kremlin-linked “troll farm” sought to influence

voters by purchasing $100,000 in ads during the U.S. presidential campaign. It initially refused to turn the information over to investigators, citing privacy concerns, but gave its commitment to confidentiality a rethink after public outcry.

FRESH OUTTA JUICE Juicero—the venture-backed startup behind a famously useless $400 juicer—shuts down. The closure came months after Bloomberg reporters found out that they could squeeze the juice packets by hand without a fancy machine, which goes to show that not all press is good press.

With Friends Like These

Alum Rock school trustee and congressional hopeful Khanh Tran touts endorsement from felonious former pol George Shirakawa.

MOUNT UMUNHUM OPENS TO PUBLIC After 37 years, Mount Umunhum opens gates to visitors as a public park. Look past the stories of the albinos on Hicks Road and hike up to the Cold War radar tower, to take a look at the 360-degree view of the Bay Area.

October Hangry Strike

Santa Clara County inmates announced that they would call off a planned hunger strike over jail conditions but began refusing food anyway to protest Sheriff Laurie Smith’s remarks to Metro about how “some of them could stand to lose a little weight.”

COLDPLAY DON’T PLAY The band enraged Santa Clara officials after performing past the pm Levi’s Stadium curfew.

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Two inmates make a daring escape from the Palo Alto courthouse.

Santa Clara County Sheriff ’s Office put a positive spin on the incident, noting that it would reduce jail overcrowding and bring down costs.

DEADLY LAS VEGAS SHOOTING San Jose native Michelle Vo was among the 59 people killed at the country music concert mass shooting, the deadliest in American history.

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SHAME ON SHAIAN Local political consultant Shaian Mohammadi (pictured left) sued Metro, San Jose Councilman Don Rocha and a former City Hall staffer for libel after multiple women came forward with claims of harassment and even an allegation that Mohammadi posted revenge porn of his ex on Twitter. Mohammadi admitted to Metro that he posted a topless photo—inadvertently—but screenshots of Facebook chats suggested otherwise. Mohammadi then changed his story and sued but never bothered to serve any of the parties with the lawsuit, leading a judge to throw it out with prejudice.

RoboDoc

The Sunnyvale-based manufacturer of surgical da Vinci robots got slapped with a number of lawsuits following reports of death and injuries.

SLIMY SCOBLE “Tech evangelist” Robert Scoble admitted to groping and otherwise sexually harassing numerous women. Never has a person wearing Google Glass been so deserving of a punch in the face.

November HIGHER POWER Coachella Valley Church, which considers cannabis consumption a sacrament and sells the stuff out of a little shop outside its sanctuary, opens in San Jose. But could it be just another dispensary trying to test a loophole in the city’s moratorium on new pot clubs?

A woman led Sunnyvale police to an alleged meth maker by reporting her alleged stalker, an increasingly aggressive, obsessive co-worker named Christopher Todd Oicles. The woman’s call for help on Nov. 22 prompted officers to search the guy’s home, where they found guns and a meth lab. In addition to drugs and weapons charges, Oicles was booked in jail on suspicion of stalking and attempted kidnapping for rape.

December BUCK FROCK TURNER An attorney for former Stanford swimmer and convicted sexual predator Brock Turner, who was found raping an unconscious woman at an oncampus party in 2015, filed an appeal to have the case retried. Turner apparently believes he was deprived a fair trial after being found guilty on three felony counts—he only spent just three months in jail. On the bright side, the appeal brought attention to a year-old YouTube song called “Fuck Brock Turner.”

Lotto Looters

The week before Christmas, Santa Clara detectives trekked all the way up to Travis Air Force Base to bust a group of guys suspected of pilfering lottery tickets at various gas stations and liquor stores. Cops followed the suspects from the South Bay to Fairfield, where the accused thieves crashed their Chevrolet through a manned gate at the military base and tried, unsuccessfully, to escape on foot.

TO CATFISH A PREDATOR San Jose cops reportedly nabbed a would-be pedophile last week by posing as an underage girl. Thirty-threeyear-old Joe Nanez allegedly showed up to the rendezvous expecting to meet a 14-year-old girl, but was instead greeted with handcuffs.

Up a Creek

Salmon making their annual winter run from the Pacific Ocean to the Guadalupe River to spawn encountered more than the usual obstacles this season. Man-made traps—nets, stacks of rocks, other makeshift snags—have been placed on the migratory path of the king salmon, presumably set by people living along San Jose’s creeks.

BAD APPLE Apple finally admitted what people have long suspected: that the company purposely slows down old iPhones to force people to buy a new one.

Half-Step Theft

Four executives for Applied Materials in Santa Clara were charged in a conspiracy to steal trade secrets from their employer to benefit their competing startup in China. Unfortunately, the plot failed because they didn’t … apply themselves. (Thank you, we’ll show ourselves out to 2018.)

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Jailbreak

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CHOICES BY: André Jaquez Tad Malone Nick Veronin

SHEN YUN

JAMIE KENNEDY

*wed *thu *fri

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY Wed, 11am, Free Cantor Arts Center, Stanford

To celebrate its ever-growing collection, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is highlighting its extensive Modern and Contemporary art galleries in the last two weeks of the year. The “Modern and Contemporary” art exhibit will feature a plethora of early- to late20th century art with an emphasis Bay Area artists—as well as featuring objects from the museum’s permanent collection, others on special loan and newer acquisitions that showcase the range and variety of the museum’s collection.

The show exhibit will feature local legends like Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Arneson and Henry Moore. It runs through Jan. 23. (TM)

SHEN YUN

Thu, 7:30pm, $80 Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose Take in a sweeping, leaping, musical history of China. The new Shen Yun program dances its way through 5,000 years of Chinese mythology, war and political upheaval—combining age-old legends with modern technological achievements. The globally acclaimed program has been updated for 2018. Hundreds of handmade costumes and cutting-edge digital projection backdrops will merge with some of the world’s best dancers and musicians to bring the story of the world’s most populous country to Silicon Valley. The show runs through Dec. 30. (NV)

JAMIE KENNEDY Fri, 7:30pm, $25+ The Improv, San Jose

Veteran West Coast comedian Jamie Kennedy will help the San Jose Improv close out 2017.

Kennedy first rose to prominence starring in the popular Scream movie series. From there he starred in his eponymous prank show, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment. Kennedy is also known for his offbeat, goofy role in the love-to-hate comedy Malibu’s Most Wanted. As for standup, Kennedy has filmed numerous specials, including Unwashed: The Stand-Up Special. He also directed and produced Heckler, a documentary that analyzes the means and motivations of hecklers at live comedy performances. (TM)

JOHNNY V’S FAMILY REUNION Fri, 8pm, $5 The Ritz, San Jose Although legendary downtown dive Johnny V’s closed its doors last December because of an improper alcohol license, its spirit of hard-partying fun and loud, live music lives on. The Ritz is hosting a family reunion night for the bar, featuring a number of heavy metal and punk bands as well as DJs to keep the dance floor jumping. The lineup includes heavy metal act KooK, two-piece punk band The Has Beens, veteran punk group HBA (Hidden By Authority), Sad Boy Sinister and many more. (TM)

DJ MUSTARD Fri, 10pm, $20+ Pure Lounge, Sunnyvale Producer and DJ Dijon McFarlane picked up his stage name at age 10 when his uncle let him spin at a family party in South Central Los Angeles. McFarlane’s tagline— “Mustard on the Beat Hoe”—is heard at the intro of every track he produces. The sample is rapper YG from the song “I’m Good.”

McFarlane’s has been all over hiphop radio for years now. Recently, fans of Travis Scott will have heard Mustard’s handiwork on Scott’s infectious trap drop “Want Her,” featuring Tyga and Quavo from Migos. McFarlane recently landed the music supervisor gig for for the All Def Comedy program on HBO. (AJ)

* concerts KSHMR

Jan 19 at City National Civic

DADA LIFE

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

Jan 25 at City National Civic

CAM

Jan 26 at Club Rodeo

BATTLE OF THE ZAE IX Jan 27 at The Ritz

SHAKIRA

Feb 7 at SAP Center

CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES

Feb 8 at Carriage House Theatre

SUPER LOVE JAM

THE BARNYARD STOMPERS Fri, 9pm, Free Caravan Lounge, San Jose In an age where country music mostly consists of overproduced love ballads and nauseatingly poppy songs about a man’s truck and dog, it’s refreshing to hear something a little more raw.

Outlaw Country band the Barnyard Stompers takes that idea, straps it onto the back of the General Lee and launches it into the bayou, with a sound that is as wild as it is intense and infectious. The San Antonio-based duo play fast, uproarious songs in a variety of styles—dealing with everything from revenge to high-proof corn liquor. (TM)

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Feb 9 at SAP Center

WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW

Feb 12 at SAP Center

JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Feb 21 at The Ritz

DADA LIFE

DEPARTERA

PRE-NYE

Sat, 10pm, $30+ Pure Lounge, Sunnyvale

Sat, 1pm, $10+ Teatro Visión, San Jose

Sat, 8pm, Free Enso Bar & Nightclub, San Jose

Taking their name from the absurdist, avant-garde movement that swept Europe and America in the early 20th century, Swedish DJ duo Olle Cornéer and Stefan Engblom aren’t afraid to be a little wacky. In true dada style, the pair’s particular fascination with champagne and bananas is intentionally nonsensical. Dada Life fit into the rave culture with progressive house bangers like “One Last Night on Earth,” rattling eardrums across the farthestreaching EDM landscapes. Coming off the single “We Want Your Soul,” Cornéer and Engblom are preparing to embark on a world tour in 2018. (AJ)

San Jose’s premier Chicano theater company has been producing great stage productions for more than 30 years. Its latest is a staged reading of Departera, a new in-the-works play by actor and playwright Evelina Fernández.

Departera revolves around Doña Juana, a midwife, who instead of helping deliver babies, helps the dying move from one plane to the next. When she takes on a young protege in Connie, they both must navigate the trials and tribulations of helping others meet their maker.

In collaboration with Teatro Visión, Fernández spent the last year gathering stories from the San Jose community to give Departera a decidedly personal and familiar feel. (TM)

New Year’s Eve is always one of the biggest party nights of the year. So, it only makes sense to get a rolling start and pre-game for on Dec. 30. Right? Enso, which first opened its rebranded doors in downtown San Jose this summer, has got all the cocktails and dancing you’ll need to start your New Year’s Eve weekend off right. The venue has four rooms, three bars and two dance floors.

Featuring live DJs in the mix and a mix-and-mingle cocktail hour from 8pm-10pm. VIP table service is available. (NV)

DISNEY ON ICE

Feb 21-25 at SAP Center

SHE WANTS REVENGE Feb 22 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

For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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PRIMUS

Dec 31 at Fox Theatre

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IN THE GARDEN In his painting ‘Mapping the Seasons’ artist Steve French channels Monet, albeit with a decidedly modern twist.

Life’s Seasons Former SJSU art professor gets fitting retrospective at SJICA

BY NICK VERONIN

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HE THROUGHLINE in Steve French’s oeuvre— from the 1960s until his death in 2014—can’t be defined with one approach or a singular aesthetic. He isn’t like Claude Monet (1840-1926), an artist whose recurring palette and subject matter remain instantly recognizable.

However, while looking at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art’s (SJICA) retrospective of his

work Overture: The Art of Steve French, the exhibit confirms that you can identify French, as well—but within a series of varying artistic strategies, from shaped prints that resemble oversized origami to industrial bronze assemblages and, of course, his paintings.

One such subset, French’s last, is very Monet-like in spirit. French took inspiration for these pieces from his garden. The signature image of the exhibit comes from this series. Yellows and greens dominate the canvas Mapping the Seasons. He’s taken the perspective of an inquisitive insect,

a bee buzzing above the flowers in search of a sepaled landing place or that of an ant trudging through a forest of heavy leaves and stems.

The view, although kaleidoscopic, could just be a single flower repeated as seen through the lenses of a compound-eyed bug.

Many of the paintings are there courtesy of his widow, Wanda Waldera, also an artist. She and the curators were smart to incorporate French’s notebooks into the exhibit.

One of them is open to a page filled with sketches for what would become Mapping the Seasons. All the colors are confirmed, but the details aren’t.

In the notebooks, we get a glimpse inside his thought process. The artist works out his ideas there on a micro level until he arrives at the finished piece. He starts with white space that slowly fills up with stones. Those ovals then reduce in size, shrinking until they recede to become seed pods, part of the garden’s overlapping abundance.

Three untitled paintings, also from 2014, take the garden as a point of departure but as seen with night vision. The abstracted shapes French paints are animal and vegetal—distended and dark green lotus pads, internal organs that bulge out in oranges, yellows and whites, or pink and red scribbled lines that suggest flowers in a state of disarray. Nothing holds its shape in this series. Each contains a black background that controls the tone and tames down the spirals, the flashing colors.

Commenting on these acrylic paintings before he died, French said, “Two subjects with cyclical themes occupy my recent work. One is the journey, a repeated cycle of beginning and end; the other is the garden with its continuing cycle of seasonal changes.” Both reflect back on each other, as day does to night. One is a journey into darkness; the other a return to vibrant life in spring.

In a companion gallery, the SJICA is honoring another aspect of French’s longtime career at San Jose State University. He began as a teacher there in 1966, retiring in 1998 as associate dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts.

Encore: The Legacy of Steve French features work by the students who considered him a mentor.

A notable art teacher himself at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, Howard Ikemoto’s Abstraction in Grey is a riot of liquefied concrete disintegrating into watery smudges of ash. Steve Pon included West Coast Blue no. 3—his bright, messy and cheerful word collage.

And Katherine Huffaker Jones’ Ranch House is a playful take on a diorama, a vision of the suburbs as seen in miniature. None of the work in the Encore gallery owes a particular aesthetic debt to French.

They’re not derivative or intent on imitating their former professor.

What he gave them was the freedom to experiment, and to find their own authentic selves.

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GET OUT, 2017 Perhaps the most zeitgeisty film of the year was Jordan Peele’s allegorical horror.

Sunken Place

All the films that helped us forget our woes, remember what we’re fighting for

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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N THE COMEDY The Square, a pair of whip-smart idiots from the marketing department are pitching a viral campaign for an exhibition at a huge Stockholm art museum. They’re sketching in the details, but their idea is that the ad will feature a crying homeless child blown up by a time bomb. Art museums don’t compete with other art for the eyes of the viewers, the two hucksters argue—it competes with the spectacles of the time, the disasters, the wars.

To sell art, you’ve got to use violence.

They may be right—as a friend says, violence is the universal language. There were few movies so eye-popping and action-packed in 2017 that audiences weren’t watching them with one eye over their shoulders. Maybe one, Wonder Woman, with its Don Quixote approach to war—the gods delude men into fighting, so let’s go kick Mars’ ass! Watching that film was the first two hours since the Inauguration that made me forget about Trump. David Lynch’s return on TV unspooled one episode at a time, so one could check the newsfeed for fresh disasters, even while

the fabric of reality disintegrated into a whirl of electronic static, time loops and doppelgangers.

Most of the time, 2017 was “The Sunken Place,” in the parlance of Get Out—the zone of helplessness in which one can only observe and hope for deliverance. In some respects, Get Out was the most zeitgeist-ridden movie of the year, this mousetrap of a film about horrible science fiction skullduggery carried out by good white people. War for the Planet of the Apes and Wonder Woman were vaster and more detailed with revolutionary fervor.

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water had the texture of classic cinema, from its yearning for the red-velvet lined movie theaters of the old days, to its sensational color (someone should pen an essay on the use of green in this movie). It could be said that The Shape of Water had a simplistically vicious villain.

But Shannon knew his enemy, the Bannonoids, well, just as well as Del Toro seduced us with a strange forbidden body, and the lure of escape and the sea. Sally Hawkins’ performance sums up one odd

aspect of 2017 in film—there were so many fine mute performances: Hawkins (the best), the delightful Millicent Simmonds as a girl of 1927 in Wonderstruck, and Amiah Miller’s Nova in Apes.

The Florida Project’s endearingly hopeful study of the ground-down poor was unique. The street kids were ingenious, hustling, sticky, and mischievous, in this tribute to the Our Gang series set in Florida welfare-land motels. It couldn’t have been a different approach from The Square’s video—not a guilt-whipping over a homeless kid, but a fun if grotty vacation. Lady Bird could have been as facile as John Hughes’ Pretty in Pink—but there’s a difference in the way it savors the reverse angle of the hard-working, weary mom (Laurie Metcalf) driven nuts by her daughter’s fancies.

Whose Streets?, a documentary made under the noses of the police in Ferguson, Missouri, introduced us to people drastically different than the rampaging thugs in the news.

We need visions of heroism—real, as in the neighborhood guardians in Whose Streets?, comic book style, as in the gallant Gal Gadot, or just plain comic, like Lil Rel Howery’s TSA agent in Get Out. Peele’s faith in the TSA, like David Lynch’s faith in the FBI, are demonstrations that we still have some trust in our institutions yet—but the time is running out on how long we have left to learn to understand one another.

As for the worst: American Assassin and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword were close enough to the bottom of the barrel. I’d rather not get splinters

RvB’s Top 10 of 2017: The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Shape of Water The Square Twin Peaks: The Return War for the Planet of the Apes Whose Streets?

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Runners-Up: Kedi I Am Not Your Negro Last Flag Flying Personal Shopper Maudie

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winding lysergic chain. The group, which was rounded out by bassist Todd Flanagan and drummer Craig Heitkam, was composed entirely of veteran San Jose musicians. The self-titled record was tracked mostly live in a studio overlooking the SoFA District. The band used See’s analog, reel-to-reel recording console, which when paired with the album’s vinyl release makes for an especially warmsounding product. But it wasn’t just vintage gear and good chemistry that made the album work. The energy of the room is palpable. “It’s instant vibe when we’re here,” See says of the band’s rehearsal space and recording studio.

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ELP. ANOTHER YEAR has flown by. This one seemed particularly hectic—what with the Trump-dominated news cycle, all the natural disasters and the #MeToo movement. But this is the music section. So, let’s set aside all of the insanity of 2017 and focus on the insanely great local music that we saw over the last 365 days.

Covet ‘ARIES’ Back when Metro first began looking into Covet, the band fronted by Saratoga guitar heroine Yvette Young, they were still putting the finishing touches on the music video for “Aries.” It’s the only official 2017 release from the band this year, but it demonstrates the musical dexterity and songwriting abilities of Young and her bandmates. It also is proof that they’re ready to

become full-blown rock stars. In the clip, which they posted on YouTube back in February, Covet completely trash a room—which they built specifically for the shoot in Young’s parents’ garage. In some ways it’s a fitting visual for the song, but there’s also a bit of a juxtaposition going on: while it’s true that Young, bassist David Adamiak and drummer Keith Grimshaw are totally shredding on the track, the song is far more serene than many of Covet’s peers on the proggy, guitar-driven instrumental music scene.

The Gentle Cycle THE GENTLE CYCLE Though Derek See and Maxwell Borkenhagen—guitarists behind the local psych rock project The Gentle Cycle—share many interests, it seems that location was the chief bonding agent in their music’s

Fritz Montana had a good summer.

The locally brewed indie blues trio released their first full-length. Father Mother Sister Brother is a catchy, bare-bones, nine-song collection.

The band released the LP on June 30 and celebrated the very next day by headlining San Francisco venue The Independent for the very first time.

Recorded at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, the new collection is the culmination of years of work for the band, which started in 2013 but consider the record their first official statement. “We started off wanting very much to be something along the lines of the Black Keys,” drummer Matthew Hagarty says, noting that the Keys album Brothers, and Sound & Color by the Alabama Shakes, were both early influences for the group. It shows—but not in a bad way. Album opener “Everyday” is built around two repeating guitar riffs, verse and chorus, each of which evokes that same sense of distant familiarity that The Black Keys aim for—simple and homey, but not quite nostalgic.

Vector Hold A TRIBUTE TO RUSH Anyone who was pumped about the second season of Stranger Things would do well to check out Vector Hold. The latest two-song set by Pete Rice—a.k.a. the one man band known as Vector Hold—not only channels the buzzy analog sounds of John Carpenter and Survive (who famously composed

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EGG ROLL BARS Chow Mane fused his family’s Eastern heritage with Dirty South trap beats on his ‘Mooncakes’ EP.

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back to China’s Cultural Revolution, which was the impetus for his family fleeing China. Hard times and family history form the foundation of Yan’s deeply personal, lyrical storytelling.

On Mooncakes, the excellent EP Yan released at the beginning of October, he revisits the struggles he experienced growing up the child of immigrants in Salinas and East Side San Jose. But he also drops hard-stunting bars about just how dope his grandmother’s cooking is.

On “Dumplings,” Chow Mane fuses the pride he has in his heritage with a trap music trope. The result is this euphoriainducing line: “Grandma steaming dumplings up on the stove,” Yan raps, before an overdubbed callback cuts in.

“Whip it up, Grandma!”

Ask Charles Yan—a.k.a. Chow Mane— where he comes from and he won’t start with his birth. For him, it all goes

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Every other Tue, 7:15pm: Jazz on Tuesdays. Every Wed, 7pm: Piano Night. Thu, Dec 28, 7:30pm: “Jingles” with JetBlacq. Fri, Dec 29, 8:30pm: Pre-New Year’s Celebration with the Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra. Sun, Dec 31, 9:45pm: New Year’s Eve with the Touch of Class Band.

Redwood City.

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

BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

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JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

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.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE

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

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

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Every Thu: DJ Benofficial.

Every Fri: DJ Radio Raheem.

Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock.

San Jose.

THE CARAVAN

with Rick Ferguson. Wed, Dec 27, 7:30pm: Quyne’s Wacky World. Thu, Dec 28, 7:30pm: Jingles with JetBlacq. Fri, Dec 29, 8:30pm: Pre NYE Celebration w/ Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI

Every Sun: Live Jazz Show.

San Jose.

AVERY LOUNGE

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

BLUE NOTE LOUNGE

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

CAFE STRITCH

Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every 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.

THE RITZ

CASCAL

Sat, Dec 30, 8pm: Deke Dickerson. Sun, Dec 31, 8pm: New Year’s Eve Black & Red Ball. San Jose.

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

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

Every Sun: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

Every Sun: Joe Ferrarra. Los Gatos.

Jazz/ Blues/ World

Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Every Fri: Salsa Spot. Fri, Dec 29, 8pm: The China Cats.

Sat, Dec 30, 7pm: Top Shelf Band. Sun, Dec 31, 9pm: The Sun Kings. Redwood City.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

AGAVE

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.

0THE CATS

Every Wed, 10pm: College Night DJ. Every Thu, 10pm: Karaoke. Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

CHARLEY'S LG

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

MOUNTAIN WINERY

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

Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

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

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

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night.

Every Wed: Piano Night

CLUB FOX

HEDLEY CLUB AT HOTEL DE ANZA Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam. San Jose

HUKILAU

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

JJ’S BLUES

Every Tue: MikeB Interactive Jam. Wed-Sun: Live Music.

Every Fri: Latin Rock Nights.

San Jose.

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Fremont.

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

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Open Mic/ Comedy

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

MOROCCO’S

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

MURPHY’S LAW

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

BACK BAR

Every Wed, 9pm: Open mic.

San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI

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Every Sun, 4pm: Spanish Karaoke. San Jose.

ALEX’S 49ER INN

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

THE BEARS

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

BLUE MAX

Fri: Karaoke Fridays. Sunnyvale.

BLUE PHEASANT

Tue, 8pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.

Every Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

Every Tue, 7pm: Open mic.

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

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Every Wed night: J.C. Smith Jam. Los Gatos.

O’FLAHERTY’S

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/Sid Morris & Ron Thompson. Every Tue, 6pm: PHB Open Mic Night. Thu, Dec 28, 6pm: AC Myles, Daniel Castro. Fri, Dec 29, 6pm: Albatross, Dave Gonzales. Sat, Dec 30, 6pm: Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.

San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE

Every Mon, 7pm: Open Mic Night. Mountain View.

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

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

Thu, Dec 28, 8pm: Rivest Dunlap. Fri-Sun, Dec 29-31, 7pm: Jamie Kennedy. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Every Mon, 6pm: Open mic.

San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE

Every Tue: Open mic.

Sunnyvale.

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

Mountain View.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS SAM'S BBQ

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

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

Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Sun, Dec 31, 7:30pm: Nick Guerra.

Sunnyvale.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

Every Mon, 7pm: Trivia Night.

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

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, Dec 29, 9pm: Paula Harris & The Beasts of Blues. Sat, Dec 30, 9pm: Wee Willie Walker w/

7 STARS BAR & GRILL

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

BOGART’S LOUNGE

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

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

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN

Every Wed: Karaoke w/Neebor.

San Jose.

THE CARAVAN

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

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

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

COURT’S LOUNGE

Mon, Thu & Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

DIVE BAR

Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke with Jade. San Jose.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

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

GALAXY

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

GILROY BOWL

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.

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

CARDIFF LOUNGE

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE KATIE BLOOM’S

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

KHARTOUM

Every Wed & Thu, 10pm1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

KING OF CLUBS

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

SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

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

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

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

THE NEW JERSEY’S

Once a month. Call bar for details. Campbell.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

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

OASIS

Wed-Sun 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

OFF THE HOOK

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

THE OFFICE BAR & GRILL

WILLOW DEN

Every Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Willow Glen.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

Tue-Thu & Sat: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

THE X BAR

Every Thur, 7pm-9pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

PIONEER SALOON

Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. Woodside.

THE QUARTER NOTE

Every Tue: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

RED STAG LOUNGE

Nightly Karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

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

LOS GATOS BAR AND GRILL

Fri: Foundation Fridays. Los Gatos.

Dance Clubs

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

AJ’S BAR

APPARITION

PLAZA GARIBALDI

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

NOMIKAI

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

Every Thu: Karaoke. Mountain View.

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. Campbell.

Every Mon, 9pm: Karaoke w/ KJ Vinnie. Cupertino.

DJs and dancing every night.

Mon-Sat, 6pm-1am; Sun, 8pm12:30am. San Jose.

O’MALLEY’S SPORTS PUB

KATIE BLOOM’S

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

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

Every Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

DIVE BAR

LIQUID

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

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

CHARLEY'S LG

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

LILLY MAC’S MARIANI’S

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

Thu, 9pm: Club Lido. San Jose.

AURA LOUNGE

Wed-Sun: DJs and Dancing.

San Jose.

AVERY LOUNGE

Fri-Sat, 10pm: DJs and Dancing. San Jose.

BAMBOO LOUNGE

Fri-Sat: DJ or Live Entertainment. The Island Grill.

San Jose.

BLUE PHEASANT

Nightly, 7pm: DJ and dancing.

Cupertino.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Every Fri, 10pm: Quality Control. Rotating DJs. San Jose.

Live music every Fri and Sat night. San Jose.

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

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Thu: Banda Music. Fri: Rock en Español & Live Bands. Sat: Regional Mexican & DJ. Sun: Banda Night. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Every Tue: DJ Benofficial. Every Thu: DJ Shaffy. Every Fri: Live Video Mixing with VJ One. San Jose.

ST. STEPHENS GREEN

Thu-Sat, 10:30pm: DJ Tony.

Mountain View.

WILLOW DEN

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

FOX

CLUB

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

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I follow you on Twitter, and I was disgusted to see your tweet about marriage, “No, humans aren’t naturally monogamous—which is why people say relationships ‘take work,’ while you never hear anybody talking about what a coal mine an affair can be.” If a person finds fidelity so challenging, they should stay single.—Ethical Married Person Reality has this bad habit of being kind of a bummer. So, sure, that person you married all those years ago still has the capacity to surprise you with crazy new positions in bed—but typically they’re yogi-like contortions they use to pick dead skin off the bottoms of their feet.

That line you quote, “relationships ‘take work,’ while you never hear … what a coal mine an affair can be,” is actually from one of my old columns. I tweeted it along with this advice: “Don't just assume you & romantic partner (will) stay monogamous. Maybe discuss how, exactly, you'll go about that.”

From where I sit—opening lots of letters and email from cheaters and the cheated upon—this is simply good, practical marriage- (and relationship-) preserving advice. But from some of the responses on Twitter, you’d think I’d suggested braising the family dog and serving him on a bed of greens with a “tennis ball” of candied yams.

Though some men and women on Twitter merely questioned my take, interestingly, the enraged responses (ranging from impersonally rabid to denigratingly hateful) came entirely from men. Granted, this may just have been due to chance (who was shirking work on Twitter just then), or it may reflect research on sex differences that suggests men tend to be more comfortable engaging in direct conflict.

However, though evolutionary psychologist David Buss, among others, finds that both men and women are deeply upset by infidelity—or the mere prospect of it—there seems to be a sex difference in who is more likely to go absolutely berserko over it. Buss, looking out over the anthropological literature, observes: “In cultures the world over, men find the thought of their partner having sexual intercourse with other men intolerable. Suspicion or detection of infidelity causes many men to lash out in furious anger rarely seen in other contexts.”

Evolutionary psychologists have speculated that the fierceness of male sexual jealousy may be an

evolved adaptation to combat the uniquely male problem of “paternity uncertainty”—basically the “who actually is your daddy?” question. A woman, of course, knows that the tiny human who’s spent a good part of nine months sucker-punching her in the gut is hers. However, our male ancestors lacked access to 23andMe mail-in DNA tests. So male emotions seem to have evolved to act as an alarm system, goading men to protect themselves (like with a scary expression of anger to forewarn their partner), lest they be snookered into raising another man’s child.

The problem with enraged response is that it kicks our brain into energy conservation mode—shunting blood flow away from our higher-reasoning department and toward our arms and legs and organs needed for “fight or flight.”

So the mere mention of cheating— even coupled with suggestions for how to prevent it—kills any possibility of reasoned thinking. In our dumbed-down enraged state, all we’ve got is the knee-jerk response: “I am so totally moral, and so is my wife, and anyone who needs to discuss how they’ll stay monogamous is the Whore of Babylon!”

Unfortunately, aggressive denial of reality is particularly unhelpful for infidelity prevention. It’s especially unhelpful when it’s coupled with feelings of moral superiority. Organizational behaviorist Dolly Chugh and her colleagues find that people’s view of themselves as “moral, competent, and deserving … obstructs their ability” to make ethical decisions under pressure.

So, as the late infidelity researcher Peggy Vaughan advised, “a couple’s best hope for monogamy lies in rejecting the idea that they can assume monogamy without discussing the issue.” They should instead admit that “attractions to others are likely … no matter how much they love each other” and “engage in ongoing honest communication about the reality of the temptations and how to avoid the consequences of acting on those temptations.”

(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).

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY compassionate supporters, ethical role models, and loyal friends, and I need them right now!" writes Joanna K., an Aries reader from Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the other hand, there's Jacques T., an Aries reader from Montreal. "To my amazement, I actually have much of the support and assistance I need," he declares. "What I seem to need more of are constructive critics, fair-minded competitors with integrity, colleagues and loved ones who don't assume that every little thing I do is perfect, and adversaries who galvanize me to get better." I'm happy to announce, dear Aries, that in 2018 you will benefit more than usual from the influences that both Joanna and Jacques seek.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the Scots language spoken in Lowland Scotland, a watergaw is a fragmented rainbow that appears between clouds.

A skafer is a faint rainbow that arises behind a mist, presaging the imminent dissipation of the mist. A silk napkin is a splintered rainbow that heralds the arrival of brisk wind and rain. In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose we use these mysterious phenomena as symbols of power for you in 2018. The good fortune that comes your way will sometimes be partially veiled and seemingly incomplete. Don't compare it to some "perfect" ideal. It'll be more interesting and inspiring than any perfect ideal.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 2018, half-buried residues from the past will be resurfacing as influences in your life. Old dreams that you abandoned prematurely are ripe to be re-evaluated in light of what has happened since you last took them seriously. Are these good or bad developments? It will probably depend on your ability to be charitable and expansive as you deal with them. One thing is certain: To move forward into the future, you will have to update your relationships with these residues and dreams.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Poet Diane Ackerman tells

us that human tongues, lips, and genitals possess neural receptors that are ultra-responsive. Anatomists have given unsexy names to these bliss-generating parts of our bodies: Krause end bulbs, also known as bulboid corpuscles. (Couldn't they have called them "glimmering rapture hubs" or "magic buttons"?) In any case, these sweet spots enable us to experience surpassing pleasure. According to my understanding of the astrological omens for 2018, Cancerian, your personal complement of bulboid corpuscles will be even more sensitive than usual. Here's further good news: Your soul will also have a heightened capacity to receive and register delight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Mise en place is a French term

whose literal translation is "putting in place." When used by professional chefs in a restaurant kitchen, it refers to the task of gathering and organizing all the ingredients and tools before beginning to cook. I think this is an excellent metaphor for you to emphasize throughout 2018. In every area of your life, thorough preparation will be the key to your success and fulfillment. Make sure you have everything you need before launching any new enterprise or creative effort.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Experimental composer

Harry Partch played one-of-a-kind musical instruments that he made from objects like car hubcaps, gourds, aluminum ketchup bottles, and nose cones from airplanes. Collage artist Jason Mecier fashions portraits of celebrities using materials like noodles, pills, licorice candy, bacon, and lipstick tubes.

Given the astrological configurations for 2018, you could flourish by adopting a similar strategy in your own chosen field. Your most interesting successes could come from using things as they're not "supposed" to be used. You could further your goals by mixing and matching resources in unique ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I wish I could make it nice

and easy for you. I wish I could proclaim that the forces of darkness are lined up against the forces of light. I'd like to be able to advise you that the opening months of 2018 will bring you a showdown between wrong and right, between ugliness and beauty. But it just ain't that simple. It's more like the forces of plaid will be arrayed against the forces of paisley. The showdown will feature two equally flawed and equally

appealing sources of intrigue. And so you may inquire, Libra, what is the most honorable role you can play in these matters? Should you lend your support to one side or the other? I advise you to create a third side.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2018, your tribe will

be extra skilled at opening things that have been shut or sealed for a long time: heavy doors, treasure boxes, rich possibilities, buried secrets, shy eyes, mum mouths, guarded hearts, and insular minds.

You'll have a knack for initiating new markets and clearing blocked passageways and staging grand openings. You'll be more inclined to speak candidly and freely than any other generation of Scorpios in a long time. Getting stuck things unstuck will come naturally. Making yourself available for bighearted fun and games will be your specialty. Given these wonders, maybe you should adopt a new nickname, like Apertura (the Italian word for "opening"), Ouverture (the French word for "opening"), Šiši (Yoruban), Otevírací (Czech), Öffnung (German), or Kufungua (Swahili).

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I predict that

the coming months won't bring you the kinds of opportunities you were imagining and expecting, but will bring you opportunities you haven't imagined and didn't expect. Will you be alert and receptive to these sly divergences from your master plan? If so,

by September of 2018 you will have become as smart a gambler as maybe you have ever been. You will be more flexible and adaptable, too, which means you'll be better able to get what you want without breaking stuff and wreaking whirlwinds. Congratulations in advance, my daring darling. May your experiments be both visionary and practical. May your fiery intentions be both steady and fluidic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hungarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz dismissed the idea that a person should be on a quest to "find himself" or "find herself." "The self is not something that one finds," he said. Rather, "it is something one creates." I think that's great advice for you in 2018, Capricorn.

There'll be little value in wandering around in search of fantastic clues about who you were born to be.

Instead you should simply be gung-ho as you shape and craft yourself into the person you want to be.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2018, one of your themes will be "secret freedom." What does that mean? The muse who whispered this clue in my ear did not elaborate further. But based on the astrological aspects, here are several possible interpretations. 1. You may have to dig deep and be strategic to access resources that have the power to emancipate you. 2. You may be able to discover a rewarding escape and provocative deliverance that have been hidden from you up until now. 3.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636705 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A Stroke Of Luck, 5669 Snell Ave., #252, San Jose, CA, 95123, Rita Louise Ecdao-Lubey. This business is being conducted by an individual.

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/11/2017. (pub Metro 12/27/2017, 01/03, 01/10, 01/17/2018)

BUSINESS on FICTITIOUS 01/28/2014 under file number 587505. This business was conducted by: STATEMENT An individual /s/Minh#636904 T. Hoang Date filed with the NAME clerks office: 10/12/2016 (pub dates 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016 The following person(s) is (are) doing

business Bay AreaTO Performance Cycles, NOTICE OFas: PETITION ADMINISTER 1245 Kaylene Court, San Jose, CA, 95127, Bay ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE is Area Performance Cycles Inc. This business being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant NO. 16PR178443

began transacting business under the fictitious NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO.or 16PR178443To all heirsherein beneficiaries business name names listed on creditors, contingent creditors, andprevious persons whofile may#573949 otherwise 06/08/2002.

Refile of be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARK PASCOE KELLY. with changes. Above entity was formed in A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public the state of California. /s/Ilene Mindich.

Vice Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of President. statement was filed California, County #C2414630. of Santa Clara.TheThis Petition for Probate requests County of Santa thatwith Jamesthe J. Ramoni, PublicClerk Administrator of theClara CountyCounty of Santa on Clara be appointed(pub as personal representative to administer 12/18/2017.

Metro , 12/27/2017, 01/03, 01/10, the01/17/2018) estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before FICTITIOUS BUSINESS taking certain very important actions, however, the personal NAME STATEMENT #637011 representative will be required to give notice to interested persons they have waived notice or consented The unless following person(s) is (are) doingto the business proposed action.) The independent administration authority will as: Cleo Day Spa, 2166 Story Rd., San Jose, CA, be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the 95122, Huynh.

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IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent01/03, creditor 01/10, of the 01/17/2018) 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section NAME STATEMENT 58(b) of the California Probate Code,#636866 or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under The following person(s) isa(are) doingsection 9052 of the California Code. Other California statutes business as: 1.Probate Peninsula Integrative Medicine, andNaturopathic legal authority mayPC, affect rights as a creditor.

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Attorney for petitioner: business names listed hereinMARK on A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE 11/19/2012.

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Above (Pub entity was11/09, formed in the 95110, Telephone: 408-758-4200 CC, 11/02, 11/16/2016) state of California. /s/Rebecca Green Pozin.

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FICTITIOUS the County BUSINESS Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/15/2017. (pub Metro 12/27/2017, 01/03, 01/10, NAME STATEMENT #622566 01/17/2018)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, 979 Story Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc AnhFICTITIOUS Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business BUSINESS is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yet begun transacting under the fictitious business name or names NAMEbusiness STATEMENT #636926 listed herein. Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu The following person(s) is (are) doing Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk ofbusiness Santa as:County Focus Properties, 26 Ryland Clara on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02,Park 11/09, Drive, 11/16/2016)San

Jose, CA, 95110, Allen Maury Carroll Trustee, Diana Fields Carroll Trustee. This business is FICTITIOUS BUSINESS being conducted by a Trust. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under NAME STATEMENT #622752 the fictitious business name or names listed The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380 herein. /s/Allen Maury Carroll This S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael R. Hill,Trustee.

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CENSORED Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen’s book ‘The Refugees’ will be published in Vietnam, but one short story set in San Jose was forbidden by the Communist government.

Valley Refuge One story that sticks out in an otherwise insane 2017

BY GARY SINGH

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HEN EACH YEAR concludes, the anti-man-abouttown usually feels obligated to yack about his most rewarding columns of the previous 12 months. This year, however, one particular column stands out far above the rest because the absurdity continues to unfold.

Just a few weeks ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction maestro and former downtown San Jose denizen Viet Thanh Nguyen learned that

his autobiographical short story set in San Jose, “War Years,” would be censored from the Vietnamese translation of his collection, The Refugees. Apparently the apparatus of state power in Vietnam did not enjoy the anti-communist sentiments he employed in the narrative.

“I agreed to the censorship only if the story’s absence would be signaled by blank pages equaling the story,” Viet told me via email, adding that he and his publisher eventually agreed on a few blank pages instead of the whole story length. But it still didn’t fly. “Then my publisher contacted me on the eve of publication and said

the publishing house that grants the publishing license would not permit any blank pages and only a footnote acknowledging the excised story.”

When the original U.S. version of The Refugees came out last January, the column I wrote became one of my all-time faves. Viet had already won the 2016 Pulitzer for his novel, The Sympathizer, but this bunch of short stories resulted from his life as a refugee and his youth in San Jose. Together, the stories deal with war, memory, the erasing of history, global exile, estrangement, emotional distance and the collision of nativism and non-nativism on multiple levels.

It’s a fantastic book.

The story “War Years” was the only autobiographical one, with Viet placing the narrative in and around his parents’ store, New Saigon Market, which for decades was located across the street from where San Jose City Hall now stands. The store was demolished around 2002, when San Jose decided to relocate its city hall back to downtown. The humble

stripmall across the street had to go, so the city forcibly exiled Viet’s parents from their cherished shop.

Skip to 2016. Last year, in a textbook San Jose facepalm, the current administration brought Viet back to town and gave him a city commendation for winning the Pulitzer Prize. He had to stand in the building directly across the street from where the city demolished the very market his parents ran for 20 years, after they came to San Jose as refugees.

This is not an isolated incident, of course. In this town, multiple generations of family memories and livelihoods are often being destroyed by real estate greed and political indifference. It’s part of the San Jose condition. Some of us natives almost expect to feel like refugees in our own city. Or maybe it’s just me, who knows?

So, last January, when Viet’s short story “War Years,” came out, I had to write a column in this very space about the absurdity of it all because the situation captured so many themes I often explore in this column: San Jose destroying its own history in lieu of something much dumber; physical buildings merging with the temporal; serendipitous trajectories converging; ghosts of former businesses haunting the landscape; and the universal-in-San Jose conundrum of the aspiring writer trying to decide if he should stay or go. That last one has haunted me for 20 years.

Now Viet’s only short story taking place in San Jose is banned in Vietnam. If readers in Saigon want to read about the intersection of Fifth and Santa Clara Streets, they won’t be able to. Think about that for a second: After the U.S. botches the whole shitty, murderous Vietnam War in the first place, after Viet comes to San Jose with his family as refugees, after he leaves San Jose to launch an academic career, after his parents are forced to give up their business just so greedy real estate people can erect a skyscraper, after Viet subsequently becomes famous all over the world and wins multiple awards, after he finally publishes his only autobiographical short story about his youth in San Jose, the Communist government back in his original country bans the story. What a way to wrap 2017. Maybe I should be grateful to still live in San Jose.

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FANCY GRILL QBB makes exceptional BBQ, but the bourbon selection raises the bar up another level.

Pit of Heaven

Quality Bourbons and Barbecue gives Mountain View a smoky new style

BY JOHN DYKE

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HEN AISHA AND Kasim Syed—owners of the Tap Room, Palo Alto Brewing Co. and the Rose and Crown— were looking to open up QBB (Quality Bourbons and Barbecue), the first thing they needed was a pitmaster. A Craigslist ad later, they heard from Sunnyvale native and CIA-trained Ryan Pang.

“We had interviews and tastings with a couple of different chefs,” says coowner Jon Andino. “Ryan was the best, so we came to an agreement.”

Pang is a disciple of Barbecue Hallof-Famer Ric Gilbert, and though he might not be a household, those in the

competitive BBQ world know him as one bad dude. His competition team, Bad S BBQ (the “S” is for Sunnyvale), has been on the scene since 2010 and taken home more than 100 awards. His top achievement has been winning the People’s Choice award at the Silicon Valley BBQ Championships every year since its inception in 2013.

“I am trying to bring competition quality barbecue to the masses,” Pang says. “QBB has given me the platform to use my competition barbecue skills paired with my formal training and over a decade as a chef.”

With a top chef secured and a prime location on Castro Street in downtown Mountain View, the only thing the restaurant needed was a hook.

“Whiskey was always in the plans,” Andino says. ”The original name was

Quality Beers & Barbecue, but we changed it because places that have bourbon have beer, but the inverse isn't always true. We decided to focus on bourbon to have a more focused and unique product.”

And focus on bourbons they most certainly did, as QBB has well over 100 different varieties to suit every taste and budget ($6 to $59).

My dining partner—a former butcher and bourbon connoisseur— was just as excited as I was to try QBB, like opening the first Christmas present. We were a bit disappointed that there were no two- or threemeat combos, except the preset House Plate ($18), but our waiter told us the best thing to do is order a one-meat combo and then order other meats à la carte. We went with a half slab of pork ribs ($22); prime brisket plate ($17); one-third of a pound of pulled pork ($9); and onethird of a pound of pastrami ($11).

And, of course, a meal at QBB wouldn’t be complete without a bourbon or two, so we ordered up a classic Four Roses ($6) and the 9-yearold Belle Meade Sherry Cask ($22). It should be noted for bourbon purists that the Belle Meade isn’t a true

bourbon, per se, as a bourbon—by definition—must be aged in an oak cask. But this is just semantics.

The bourbons arrived first and we dived right in. The Four Roses is a really incredible buy. Despite the inexpensive price tag, its flavor is right up there: robust and full-bodied, yet it goes down smooth. As for the Belle Meade, the first thing one notices is the dark amber color that can only come from long aging. Its dark, fruity and caramel notes made it a sublime accompaniment to barbecue.

After eyeing the bevy of smoked meats before us, we both girded our loins for the inevitable meat sweats.

First was the pastrami, a real treat, as house-made pastrami is almost unheard of. And, boy, is it worth it.

Beefy, tender and not overly salted, this would make for an incredible Reuben. The pulled pork came next, and it arrived topped with lightly pickled red onions and drizzled with a vinegar-based Carolina barbecue sauce. The pulled pork was as it should be: juicy, smoky and loaded with melt-in-the-mouth porky goodness.

We then moved on to the brisket, and here the meat seemed a bit too lean for prime. It lacked that signature smoke ring that usually comes with brisket. The meat was a bit tough and disappointing, as even the flavorful spice rub couldn’t save it.

Fortunately, we saved the best for last, as the pork ribs were spot on: smoky, fall-off-the-bone tender. The flavorful spice rub put us both in barbecue heaven. It should be noted that QBB doesn’t drench their meats in sauce, but instead serves it on the side.

QBB has closed a gap on Castro Street, as a quality barbecue joint was much needed in the area. In a foodiedriven society that’s always looking for outré tastes, it’s nice to settle in with some down-home, classic American fare.

“I hope to capture the audience who appreciates quality and a chefdriven BBQ joint,” Pang says. “We offer a quality dining experience, creative specials, quality sides and one of the Bay Area's most extensive, yet approachable, bourbon menus.”

QBB BBQ

216 Castro St, Mountain View

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650.969.1112

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Cinequest honored ‘Portlandia’ star

While San Jose wasn’t in the path of totality, many still marvelled at the Aug. 21 SOLAR ECLIPSE.

FRED ARMISEN in February.

These two were totally pumped to see U2 at Levi’s Stadium in May.

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These die-hard SHARKS fans showed up to cheer for the home team on opening day in October.

The Tech Museum’s ‘BODY WORLDS DECODED’ drew these happy folks in October.

HUNTER PENCE donned a San Jose Giants uniform when he rehabbed at Municpal Stadium this May.

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