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There’s been lots of loose talk about Silicon Valley progressives recruiting someone to run against San Jose Mayor SAM LICCARDO in his bid for re-election, but so far no labor-backed contenders have pulled nomination papers for the June 5 primary. That doesn’t mean this is a one-man show, however. Two obscure candidates have put their names in the running: a retired septuagenarian doctor named QUANGMINH PHAM and Mexican seafood restaurateur ED RAEL. The former pulled his papers in early January after growing frustrated with the city’s escalating fees, which he says delayed his plans to develop a parking garage off of Hedding Street. “I’ve watched different mayors come and go without a significant life lift for people living here They decade after decade,” Did says 73-year-old Pham, What? a Vietnamese refugee SEND TIPS TO who has lived in San FLY@ Jose since 1975. The METRONEWS. COM reluctant contender put together an imaginative 32-point plan he calls “San Jose Reconstructive Operation” to reduce city fees, prevent displacement and generate revenue for taxpayers, in part, by selling ads and launching a cityrun shopping mall. “From a penniless refugee to now a mayoral candidate for my home city, I am an outsider, outside of the established circle of the city politics,” Pham acknowledges. But, he says, he can no longer stand by “while the rich come to the city to enjoy the benefits and proceeds from the growth built by those people with their sweat.”

Rael, 70, who owns Maverick’s restaurant on Meridian Avenue, says he’s entering the fray to solve the city’s intractable homeless problem. “I voted for Liccardo, so this is nothing against him,” says Rael, who wants to build sanctioned encampments on a 200-acre property he owns in San Jose’s eastern foothills.

“But since he’s become mayor, crime is up, homelessness is up and we need someone to step in and fix this.”

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LAB TAB San Jose police have seen a major increase in sexual assault reports. But they aren’t sure whether rapes are rising, or whether more victims are speaking up.

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SJPD grapples to understand factors behind big decade-long increase

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APOLEON MANZANO found his underage victims on Snapchat, authorities say. In December 2017, the 21-yearold San Jose man allegedly used the app to lure two girls, ages 13 and 14, to his house on separate occasions, where he plied them with weed and alcohol before raping them.

The San Jose Police Department arrested Manzano last month on felony charges of lewd acts with a child, oral copulation, rape by force and sexual penetration and a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of

a minor. It’s the kind of case involving online connections that San Jose police say they encounter more often.

Yet, such investigations can only partly account for the 263 percent increase in the number of rapes reported to SJPD in the past decade— from 217 in 2007 to 571 last year. That’s the highest level of reported rapes since the early 1990s, according to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report. San Jose’s year-to-year increase stands at odds with national figures. According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey, sexual violence nationwide has fallen by 63 percent since 1993, from a rate of 4.3 assaults per 1,000 people to 1.6 per 1,000 in 2015.

Lt. Jason Ta, head of SJPD’s 28-member Sexual Assault Investigation Unit, declined to speculate about what’s driving San Jose’s dramatic spike in reported assaults, saying that’s something for crime analysts to figure out. SJPD Chief Eddie Garcia, however, says the rise in rape reports doesn’t necessarily reflect an increase in the number of actual assaults.

“I think it has to do with our victims having more access to resources, lack of fear in reporting and having someone to lean on to help them through the process,” Garcia says.

In addition to the surge in online dating-related, or social media-related assaults, local rape crisis centers say the #MeToo movement has emboldened more victims to come forward. YWCA Silicon Valley CEO Tanis Crosby says that’s driving at least some of the trend.

“We have certainly experienced an increase in requests for support as a result of the Me Too movement,” Crosby says. “I hope it is a sign that survivors are getting the support that they are choosing for themselves.”

Historically throughout the U.S., only 5 to 20 percent of rapes get reported, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest

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Or, more often than not, they worry about retaliation.

Indeed, fear of retribution has historically prevented survivors from speaking up—especially since the vast majority of them were victimized by a personal acquaintance. Garcia says 74 percent of adults and 80 percent of juveniles who reported rape in San Jose knew their attackers. He says SJPD depends on its partnerships with crisis centers and nonprofits to encourage victims to come forward.

“We can’t do this on our own,” Garcia says. “Our victims need help, many times, to come forward.”

It’s possible that San Jose’s collaboration with victim advocates has prompted more survivors to contact police. Another factor that may be contributing to the higher reporting rate is that the legal definition of rape has changed. For more than eight decades, the FBI classified “forcible rape” as “the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” In 2013, it reclassified the crime as “penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” Naturally, that broadened the scope of the crime.

San Jose did see a sharper spike in rape reports following the FBI’s revised definition—from 270 in 2013

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to 306 in 2014, 375 in 2015 and 451 in 2016—but the trend predated the semantic shift. From 217 reported assaults in 2007, the SJPD fielded 220 in 2008; 258 in 2009; 253 in 2010; 226 in 2011 and 280 in 2012.

While SJPD has no definitive answer for what’s leading to the increased number of reported assaults, Ta says his unit is constantly working on preventive measures. The national Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force works with Ta’s unit to train teenagers who may be vulnerable to sexual exploitation through social media such as Snapchat or Facebook. Sexual assault detectives also provide survivors with resources and referrals to advocate services depending on their cases.

“If we see certain patterns that could be considered reckless, we try to bring that to (survivors’) attention,” Ta says.

“We try to see if they can try to change the way they do things to cause them to be less apt to be victimized with regard to dating apps or other things like that.”

That heightened focus on prevention may be encouraging more people to turn to police to report crimes, says Crosby, of the YWCA. Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), who authored legislation last year to raise money to process untested rape kits, says agencies must ramp up outreach to underserved communities to make it easier for them to notify police when a crime occurs.

“We need to make sure that we have a safe environment,” Low says, “not only in the workplace but also at home.”

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Screen Time POWER PLAY Locally-raised director Dustin Cohen will screen his new hockey doc, ‘Flin Flon,’ at this year’s Cinequest.

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AST YEAR, IN the wake of downtown San Jose losing its first-run movie multiplex, the Camera 12, it looked like the Cinequest was in trouble. In official programs and publicity materials, the shift to screening films at Santana Row and in Redwood City was billed as something akin to an expansion—an opportunity for festivalgoers to experience more of Silicon Valley.

If film lovers who had shelled out hundreds of dollars for allaccess festival passes viewed all this as marketing spin, they would be

forgiven. It’s not exactly convenient to schlep from downtown San Jose to Santana Row and then over to the Century 20 in Redwood City—

especially when all the movies in the festival used to screen within just a few city blocks of one another.

Still, Halfdan Hussey, director and co-founder of Cinequest, remains staunchly optimistic about the challenges the festival endured last year, framing the issue as just another one of life’s curveballs.

“Every year, something has happened,” he says, observing that running a film festival that screens hundreds of marquee, independent, foreign and virtual reality films will never go off without a hitch. And he’s fine with that. After all, the best movies are always about conflict and resolution.

In the case of Cinequest, that resolution came during the latter half of the 2017 festival. “We had our best second week of Cinequest ever,” Hussey says, citing record box office numbers.

With Cinequest 2018 right around the corner—beginning on Feb. 27 and running through March 11—Hussey and the rest of his organization are gearing up for what he believes will be another successful year.

As usual, a number of big-name celebrities will be on hand to receive awards and promote their films.

William H. Macy helps kick off the festival with Krystal. The quirky

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Cinequest 2018 hits the ice, explores virtual reality and rolls out the red carpet for big-name stars

romantic comedy stars Rosario Dawson and marks Macy’s third time directing a feature film.

Nicolas Cage will also be stopping by to accept his Maverick Spirit award. An often polarizing actor, Cage will be recognized for the many achievements of his long career, which include starring roles in cult comedies, such as Raising Arizona, to his Oscar-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas.

Andie MacDowell, Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen will also be honored with Maverick Spirit awards.

In keeping with last year’s emphasis on VR filmmaking, this

year’s Cinequest will again focus on developments in virtual reality and augmented reality storytelling— however, Hussey says, this portion of the festival will be scaled back a bit. “Last year we tried to do a bit too much,” he says, explaining that the technology is still very new and that both storytellers and the general public are still learning how to create and engage with fully immersive movies.

This year’s festival will feature 229 movies across multiple genres— including comedies, dramas, thrillers and documentaries, plus a large selection of foreign films. Of the 229

films at the festival, 130 are world or U.S. premieres. Many of these films would be hard to catch on the big screen outside of the art houses of Los Angeles and New York, Hussey notes.

“It’s not going to be the same experience you have watching Netflix or Amazon Prime at home,” he says, explaining that Cinequest is about discovery and interaction. “This is something you can’t get in a typical night of film-going.”

The festival’s nightly meet-ups and cocktail hours are meant to foster conversation among film fans and provide networking opportunities for those in the industry at all levels. All

told, counting screenings, mixers and award ceremonies, there are a total of 510 events, so stock up on popcorn.

It’s time to go to the movies.

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UNCAGED Cinequest 2018 gives Nicolas Cage a hero’s welcome, honoring him with one of this year’s Maverick Awards.

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Actor Nicolas Cage is one of the most misunderstood geniuses of our time By Richard von Busack

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O ACCOUNTING FOR taste, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and all of that mouthwash, but if you think Nicolas Cage is over the top, you belong under the ground. You are the same person as your mother was, bursting into your bedroom, screaming that the music is too loud. No, it’s not too loud, you’re too weak to stand it!

Eye-popping, roaring and tirades are all part of an actor’s toolbox, and if you flinch—congratulations for voting for beigeness. Appearing at Cinequest this year, this hardworking actor is bringing a VR addendum to his upcoming flat-screen movie,

The Humanity Bureau. He has one remarkable career to discuss.

Cage can be what they call camp, and he can clown—one cherishes his cackling cameo as evil mastermind Fu Manchu in Grindhouse, as well as the implication that it was the immortal Fu behind those Nazis all along. Yes, Nicolas Cage has made movies that even Redbox machines spit out in disgust, but every actor has a patch in their career where they have to go where they’re taken.

Watch the documentary on Tim Burton’s failed Superman Lives— it explains the purpose of that Kryptonian disco-looking super suit that everyone keeps memeing. He would have slayed in that part, just as he was a terrific Elvis in 1993’s True Romance. He would have been a convincing Jesus, too, if that had

come to pass. Financial woes and divorces strike the best, especially when actors are the kind of lavish spenders who buy a German castle, accumulate $1.6 million worth of comic books and donate millions to charity.

Born Nicolas Coppola, he is the son of a San Francisco State English professor, and the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. As an actor, he was electrified by James Dean. This comic book devotee (he later named his son Kal-El) took his working name from that hero for hire Luke Cage.

He has worked for the best of their era, and ours—Brian de Palma (1998’s amazing Snake Eyes), the Coen brothers (1987’s Raising Arizona) and David Lynch (Wild at Heart, 1990).

He’s astonishing in Werner Herzog’s 2008 film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call

New Orleans. In Cage, Herzog had found an American analogue for his madman star Klaus Kinski.

When people gossiped that he had some molars pulled for a part to help him play a disfigured war vet, it was widely believed. Such is Cage’s savage devotion to his craft. And to retell a tiresome story, he indeed ate a live hissing Madagascar cockroach for the part of Vampire’s Kiss (1988). Cage was playing a vamp at the Renfield stage, that’s why—and moreover, Vampire’s Kiss is the movie your precious American Psycho (2000) was trying to be.

Cage has played maimed characters, such as an Italian baker with a wooden hand who’s sweet on a mature customer in Moonstruck (1987). His portrayal of a jaunty alcoholic going on one last bender in Mike Figgis’ Leaving Las Vegas (1995) got him the best actor Oscar—it’s a highly romantic story of buried pain and shame, of manic highs and lows.

His comedic turn as a pair of twins with screenplay aspirations in 2002’s Adaptation is a film not to be missed by anyone trying to mill out a script.

He’s been out in Silicon Valley before, for Alan Parker’s 1984 movie Birdy. Cage played a South Philly war veteran with half his face blown off by a grenade—the source of the pulled-tooth story—trying to reach through to his buddy, a catatonic soldier (Matthew Modine). Location photography took place at Agnews State Hospital in Santa Clara and at a trash mountain in Milpitas. Someone decided to end this tragedy upbeat, with a bouncy rendition of ‘La Bamba’ for the outro; this cravenness failed to sabotage the soulful Cage, who triumphed in that hard test for an actor, playing against someone who doesn’t move or speak. Cage goes big, but Picasso’s comment that ‘good taste is the enemy of creativity’ applies to what he does on screen. He’s provided an element of surprise for decades, and merely contemplating the surprises he has in store is invigorating.

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can plagiarize the drunkalogues—as the most arresting of the talkers Rick Fox brings Idris Elba-level gravity to this role.

The film starts as a rom-com but then gets zanier, as composer Dan Romer brings out the accordions and banjos. We never get enough of Dawson in the movies, and she’s a bewitching love interest—you can see why Taylor is obsessed, trying to appear tough even though he looks more, in his own words, like “a small jar of Miracle Whip in penny loafers.”

To use the tailor’s parlance, Krystal is summerweight. Will Aldis’ script is closer to John Patrick Shanley than Macy’s frequent collaborator David Mamet. The supporting cast keeps it crisp and diverting; Kathy Bates turns in one of her Southern ladle-of-honey roles, and William Fichtner is hilarious as a stoned, useless emergency room doctor. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, play Taylor’s parents. Casting himself as a beloved theologian with a secret life, Macy amps up his milk-of-humankindness side by wearing long hair and a beard.

After studying to become a veterinarian, Macy transferred to Goddard College in Vermont, where he met Mamet and studied acting. He soon became invaluable for directors looking for a man breaking under pressure. The poet E.E. Cummings described a “stink of excuse’ emanating from an unsuccessful

salesman. Macy had that reek in his best-known film, 1996’s Fargo, starring as a sales manager whose embezzlement snowballs into a string of murders. That scent of shame and compromise informed other standout parts, such as Macy’s heartbroken Little Billy in Boogie Nights (1997).

Macy exemplifies the rule that character actors are generally more interesting than leading men and women, though he’s been first-billed in several worthy films. In Henry Bromell’s Panic (2000) Macy played an assassin in therapy; analogous to The Sopranos, this off beat film was on its own wavelength, and it was enlivened with Neve Campbell at her best. He also starred against Laura Dern in Focus (2001) and Maria Bello in The Cooler (2003), demonstrating the unusual dynamic that occurs when you match a strong woman with a crumbling man. Macy can go manic and jazzy: he’s terrific playing fast-talking announcers in Seabiscuit, Radio Days and David Lynch’s Inland Empire. Gene Hackman said that his goal was “to play common men, uncommonly”—this is Macy’s particular genius, too.

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Moose-limb-loving hockey extremists gather in faraway ‘Flin Flon’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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VEN IF YOU don’t give a flying puck about hockey, Flin Flon: A Hockey Town is a winner. The documentary— director Dustin Cohen’s feature-length debut— profiles an oddly named mining town on the line between Saskatchewan and Manitoba, some 620 miles north of the U.S. border. Here, the locals live and breathe hockey, and they “bleed maroon”—the color of the team’s jerseys.

Cohen and his small crew take, as their centerpiece, the place in town where everyone in Flin Flon comes together. That’s the Whitney Forum home to the Flin Flon Bombers—a

minor-league team that’s lasted 90 years, longer than many NHL franchises. The Bombers have matriculated some major league luminaries, including Bobby Clarke and Reggie “The Riverton Rifle” Leach.

Dustin is the son of David Cohen, who many years ago was co-owner of Metro Newspapers.

The younger Cohen has worked as a photojournalist for Metro and Silicon Valley Community Newspapers. He now works as a professional photographer for corporate clients and New York magazines alike. He’s had short films at Cinequest: Conrad and the Steam Plant and The Shoemaker. He started Flin Flon more than a year ago, while trying to learn a little more about Canadian junior hockey.

“I was a fan,” he says via phone from Brooklyn, where he lives and

works today. “My dad took me to Sharks games, and that started it. I was thinking about making a documentary about a year and a half ago, to take a road trip with a remote Canadian junior hockey team. We chose between a handful of teams in interesting places, all off the beaten path.”

Hence the copper- and zinc-mining town Flin Flon (population 5,185).

It’s a company town owned and operated by the Canadian mining conglomerate HudBay. Flin Flon takes its distinctive name from a nowforgotten book. In J.E.P. Mudduck’s 1905 The Sunless City, the explorer Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin descends via submarine to a golden civilization in the depths of a bottomless lake.

The miners passed around the book; they got to calling their hamlet “Flin Flon” in honor of both the intrepid submariner and a deep nearby lake

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GOAL Dustin Cohen’s documentary ‘Flin Flon’ chronicles a Canadian hockey town’s pride and joy.

that reminded them of his harrowing journey. It’s said that here is the only town in the world named after a science fiction character.

Flin Flon may not be famous, even in the roster of hamlets of the prairie provinces, but hockey fans know it. “I got a Bombers jersey while I was there,” Cohen said. “When I’m wearing it, it surprises me to find out how many people who have a relative or a cousin or a friend who played with that team.”

Flin Flon follows the Bombers during their relatively tough tour schedule, particularly during a road trip to La Ronge, Saskatchewan. The players ride the bus with the team’s three-legged toy moose mascot, or moosescot, if you will, dangling from the rearview mirror. The local ritual has it that when the Bombers win, someone throws a severed moose leg onto the ice.

“It doesn’t matter how many people you asked about the moose leg, you get a different answer,” Cohen says. “I think it’s become a legend.

Athletes being superstitious, the custom caught on. It’s been going on for decades—many of the people who live there have had the honor of throwing the frozen moose leg.”

Cohen and his crew of two photographers and his producer couldn’t afford scouts, so they arrived early and spent some extra time in the town. The camera people—“my amazingly talented cinematographer friends,” Christine Ng and Soren Nielsen—sometimes worked in tandem, sometimes separated as A and B units. “Time was limited. Working without hierarchy, we shot a ton more footage than with a single camera.”

They shot in severe cold. In Flin Flon, 20 degrees Celsius below zero temperatures are a matter of frequent fact, not a matter of comment. When the filmmakers arrived in Flin Flon last February, it was 30 below (-22F).

“One lesson we had to learn was how to transition the camera equipment from warm to cold,” Cohen says, explaining that the machines react poorly to chilly conditions. “We got used to the cold fairly quickly, but the days we were filming near the lake it was particularly bad. The wind cut through all 10 layers of what I was wearing.”

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DIGITAL NOW Virtual reality is more than a fad, according to former Cinequest judge and SFAI Film Program Chair, Christopher Coppola.

Virtual Future Christopher Coppola shares Cinequest’s belief in digital and VR tech

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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CION OF A phenomenal family and a regular guest at Cinequest, Christopher Coppola is chairman of the film program at SF Art Institute. A pupil of George Kuchar’s, Coppola now supervises the classes that the pioneer underground filmmaker once taught at SFAI. He’s adding VR to the curriculum at the school. He’ll be presenting “Universe at Play” a fantasy short about the collision between the world of a beatnik composer and a forest troll.

Coppola’s appearance at the fest will be part of the way Cinequest is doubling down on its VR component Cinequest s. Viveport is presenting a VR Experience Lounge, and Samsung hosts a six-program selection of Virtual Reality Cinema shorts. Mar 1-4 the fest offers a series of VR Workshops, where tips on scriptwriting, post-production, and monetizing are offered up, “How to make money off of all this is important to students,” Coppola observed.

The actor, director and teacher creates low-budget films he terms “digiflix.” “I stay engaged, but I’m very old-fashioned.

Hire editors, light the set, remember story and your actors. Everybody is a star, everybody is a director.” Coppola has even taught cinema syntax to the

blind—“you don’t need to have vision to have vision!”

With fast, cheap movie-making, failures never end careers. Coppola claims Deadfall (1993), in which he directed his brother Nicolas Cage, is one of the worst movies ever made: “We played brothers, and he killed me.”

Deadfall is today the object of a lively cult, and Cage starred in a prequel released last year.

In 1999 Coppola directed a Super 16mm film titled Palmer’s Pick-Up. He needed a top-drawer negative cutter and got a recommendation from Spielberg himself. “What I didn’t know is that this cutter fled his wife to go live under a pyramid in Sedona, Arizona, and he left the kids in charge. They put glue

all over the negative. I heard that there was a new machine called Spirit that would scan the film and remove the glue marks. It saved the film. Now that I had a digital copy, I submitted this weird pirate Coppola movie to [Cinequest co-founder] Halfdan Hussey. After that, I was a judge at Cinequest and spoke at some of the digital cinema workshops.”

At Cinequest in 2000, Coppola was declaring “digital cinema isn’t the future, it’s now”—he says that some of this faith in technology came from being the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola.

In 1981, the elder Coppola directed One from the Heart from the inside of an Airstream trailer with audio-visual

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The reverse problem, transitioning from cold to warm, was a matter of worry for Cohen. Canadians— particularly small-town Canadians— are a reticent people.

“In the documentary world, your biggest fear is not warming up the subjects,” Cohen says. “You have great conversations when they’re off the record—but turn on the cameras, and the conversations stop. Hockey was a window into this cool community.

We told them, ‘When you’re ready to talk, let us know’—that way, we didn’t start off filming the younger hockey players right on the first day, lining them up for an interview. The way we proceeded, things were more fluid, organic.”

The story of the Bombers’ 201617 hockey season seemed a natural frame for the documentary. Cohen said, “You can make a comparison of a season of hockey to the choices an 18-year-old has to make. These players are figuring out what they’re going to do next season. It’s a life-changing decision, whether they’re going to stay with the team or go up to Division 1. And for some players it’s the last hurrah.”

There is a certain sadness that goes beyond the winter light here—such is the essential problem of sports: many are called, so few end up as pros. But

Flin Flon captures the salty side of these players, who explain to us the reasons for the brawling endemic to ice hockey… as per what has been called the Official National Joke of Canada—“We went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.”

Cohen is coming to Cinequest and will be on hand for all three screenings of Flin Flon: “This is like coming full circle for me.” His film gives an endearing look at a faraway place, slightly forlorn, but peaceable and special. Cohen has a natural grasp of the poetry of remoteness; his documentary is less like Hoop Dreams and more like director Bill Forsyth films Local Hero and Housekeeping.

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MOOSESCOT The small Canadian town of Flin Flon has some quirky sports traditions, including throwing a severed moose limb on the ice after their hockey team, The Bombers, win a game.

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FAMILY SIGN Christopher Coppola has nothing but good things to say about his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, and his brother, Nicolas Cage. He’s also interested in VR. hookups and playback system. The director of the Godfather series also embraced digital cinema as early as the middle of the last decade. Similarly, Christopher Coppola was on hand at an early display of the possibilities of digital video, shortly after the year 2000. “When Allen Daviau (the cinematographer of ET) showed us a test, most of the audience couldn’t tell the difference between it and film, “I said, ‘Mark my words, film is dead.’ And I wouldn’t have said it if I didn’t believe it.”

Christopher Coppola has a similar faith in the destiny of VR. Like primitive digital cinema, VR has growing pains.

The technology doesn’t quite work yet for live action.

“Actors that are 10 feet away from the VR camera look like they’re 1,000 feet away,” he says. And as in 3D filmmaking, the editing can’t be too rapid. “Something has to stay where it is for about 10 seconds before you steer the eyeballs.”

Still, the building blocks of VR are the same tools used elsewhere on stage and screen—whether it’s scripts to contain the windows of possibilities, or the importance of an actor hitting his marks.

Coppola is an engaging and persuasive speaker, and when he discusses the possibilities of VR— touring forbidden tombs, exploring jumbo-jet engines—it’s tough not to get enthusiastic. However, VR today

seems to drift toward violence, such as the VR setups that put you in the place of a serial killer. Hence Coppola’s question: “Can we develop games to make better people instead of better killers?” He mentions one example of how it could be done. Since his uncle was uninterested in Redwood Shores’ EA 2006 Godfather game, Christopher decided to look it over for him. “One fascinating thing is that you got extra points if you negotiate instead of pulling the trigger.”

Coppola’s famous brother, Nicolas Cage, will accept the Maverick Spirit Award this year, and also star in a VR short “The Humanity Bureau.” And yet Coppola says, “It’s hard for him to get his head around VR as an actor. I was doing some Oculus Rift stuff and my brother came by. He thought it didn’t work. He respects it, but he’s not feeling it yet. But his uncle is Francis, also, so I think he will get it eventually.”

As for his brother’s acting: “What happened to the men actors? They’re all boys—Johnny Depp and the rest. There are few real man actors. And Nicolas is definitely one of the few.”

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THE KING AND I

Thu, Feb 22, 5pm, $20+ Olla Cocina, San Jose

Thu, 7:30, $48+ Center for the Performing Arts

This week, Olla Cocina kicks off a string of tequila-oriented events in partnership with Espolòn Tequila.

These award-winning tequilas are crafted in Jalisco, Mexico, so it comes as no surprise that their label plays tribute to Mexican culture and José Guadalupe Posada, a 19th-century artist and printmaker. Today, Espolòn offers four different types of tequilas— Blanco, Reposado, Añejo, and Añejo X. Olla Cocina welcome anyone over 21 to come and enjoy some drinks, eat some Mexican bites and learn about the process behind tequila-making. (JR)

When a widowed British schoolteacher is summoned by the king of Siam to tutor his wives and children, worlds collide, as the two develop a temperamental relationship. He’s a staunch traditionalist of an old culture, and she’s modern, educated foreigner. The pair push at each other’s buttons and boundaries until they realize how deep their feelings for each other run. It’s a story of culture clash, imperialism and love. One of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most notable, Tony Award-winning musicals features the beloved songs “Getting To Know You,” “I Whistle a Happy Tune,” “Hello Young Lovers” and “Shall We Dance?” Runs through Feb. 25. (SP)

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LEGACY OF POETRY SLAM Thu, 6pm, Free Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose Ten poets have been chosen and invited as semi-finalists to a competition that could land them on the Hammer Theatre stage this spring. Semi-finalists have already submitted video and text for their work, but now we’ll get to see how they perform live. Winners of this competition will go on to perform in the finals on March 22. There, they will be judged by award-winning poet and recently appointed Santa Clara County poet laureate Mighty Mike McGee. The top three in both competitions will receive cash prizes and be invited to perform at the Legacy of Poetry Day Festival at the Hammer in April. (SP)

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Thu, 5:30pm, $35 Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale

Fri, 9pm, Free Caravan Lounge, San Jose

Struggling to land jokes at one of the many local comedy open mic nights? Instead of drowning your sorrows after the set, consider saving up for an interactive stand-up class. It may help you take your game to the next level. Heather Barbieri, owner and booker at Rooster T. Feathers, isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. In an hour-and-a-half session—the first Barbieri will put on after a 10-year hiatus— she’ll share more than 15 years of experience in stand-up. Find out what bookers want and how to secure paid comedy work. Go to roostertfeathers.com for more info. (KL)

If you’re craving the sweet, electronic sounds of your favorite ’90s video game, Vector Hold has your fix. This solo project, fronted by San Jose musician Peter Rice, deals in blippy, 32- and 64-bit synthwave compositions. Much of the Vector Hold catalog is original material, though Rice has had some fun crafting covers of ’80s and ’90s tunes—all of which sound as if they could be part of the soundtrack for the Sega Genesis game Road Rash. Last year, Rice recreated the Rush songs “Subdivisions” and “Ghost of a Chance” as a tribute to the Canadian prog-rock trio. Rice will perform with the Caravan’s DJ Bit. (SP)

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JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Feb 21 at The Ritz

DISNEY ON ICE

Feb 21-25 at SAP Center

SHE WANTS REVENGE

Feb 22 at The Ritz

BACON & BEER

Feb 24 at Levi’s Stadium

BETTY WHO

Feb 25 at The Ritz

DEMI LOVATO & DJ KHALED

Feb 28 at SAP Center

ROBERT PLANT

Feb 28 at Fox Theater (Oakland)

KAYZO

Mar 10 at City National Civic

BONNIE RAITT

Mar 15 at City National Civic

TSOL

Mar 22 at The Ritz

MASON JENNINGS

Mar 24 at The Ritz

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL

Mar 28-Apr 1 at SAP Center

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DON’T LOOK AWAY BACON AND BEER Fri, 7pm, $10 Carriage House Theater, Saratoga

Sat, 12pm, $69+ Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara

Words and music can be transformative, as they have the power to shape how people see, and are seen, in society. Two-time Grammy-winning musician and cofounding member of Living Colour Will Calhoun, along with acclaimed poets and performers Danez Smith, Monica Sok and Julian Talamantez Brolaski, aim to break boundaries, erase stereotypes and express painful histories and contemporary injustices with an evening of poetry and music at the Montalvo Arts Center’s Carriage House. From the intergenerational trauma of surviving the Khmer Rouge regime to issues of indigeneity, resistance, two-spirit, trans and mixed-race identity, the performances promise to be powerfully authentic and diverse. (KL)

What’s better than hanging with your buds and having a few brews? The answer is obvious: adding bacon. Levi’s Stadium is hosting the third annual Bacon and Beer Classic—where two of our favorite things converge for a daylong festival featuring more than 30 bacon dishes and 100 beers from local breweries, including Highway 1, Tilt, Loma and Bear Republic. Guests can try their hand at giant Jenga at the 50-yard line, bob for bacon, sample brews in a blind taste test, strut their stuff in a bacon beauty pageant or compete in a bacon eating contest for a chance to win a year’s supply of—you guessed it—free bacon. For more info, visit baconandbeerclassic.com. (SM)

SAVE THE DANCING PIG

Sun, 2pm, Free Poor House Bistro, San Jose San Jose’s iconic “Dancing Pig” is in peril. With Google snapping up land in downtown, the retro marquee for the long-defunct Stephen’s Meat Co. may soon need a new home. That’s why Poor House Bistro is hosting the Save Our Dancing Pig Party, with live music and a silent auction this weekend to raise money to restore and eventually relocate the sign.

A quarter of proceeds from the party will go to the Preservation Action Council, which aims to undo the “demolition by neglect” that’s starting to take its toll on the little porker. Donate online at preservation.org. (JW)

NILS FRAHM

Apr 5 at The Ritz

MALUMA

Apr 6 at SAP Center

DJ SPUN Sun, 4pm, Free The Continental, San Jose Those who remember anything from the bad old Bay Area rave days of the early ’90s may recall the work of DJ Spun. The San Josebred selector is known as a “DJ’s DJ” for weaving together totally bananas sets of disco, breakbeat, rave classics, techno and more— the dude basically does everything you could imagine on the ones and twos. Known to his Silicon Valley friends as Jason Drummond, he has been based in New York for years, where he runs his record label, Rong Music, and was an early curator of the taste-making MOMA party, The Warm Up. This year he celebrates 30 years on the decks by releasing 30 tracks. (NV)

THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS

Apr 14 at City National Civic

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Apr 15 at City National Civic

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

Apr 24-25 at SAP Center

TAYLOR SWIFT

May 12 at Levi’s Stadium

U2

May 7-8 at SAP Center

EARTH, WIND & FIRE

May 15 at City National Civic

KANSAS

May 30 at City National Civic

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SEEING RED ‘An Almost Empty Cherry Crate with a Red Stripe,’ a 2005 painting by Raimonds Staprans.

Restraint

SJMA’s ‘Paintings by Raimonds Staprans’ demonstrates power of holding back

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AIMONDS STAPRANS’ living room window overlooks the growing cluster of skyscrapers in downtown San Francisco.

From this vantage, the artist can also see pedestrians ambling about the city streets and cars driving east across the Bay Bridge. He’s lived in the house since the 1960s but the busyness of urban life isn’t his primary subject.

“Paintings by Raimonds Staprans,” now at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA), is a career retrospective spanning several decades of his work.

The exhibit, which originated in Sacramento last year at the Crocker Art Museum, serves as a welcome introduction for a viewing public who may be more familiar with his contemporaries—Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud, Gregory Kondos— than the Latvian-born painter. Like them, Staprans has made his reputation by distilling California light into lush, or spare, oil paintings. On his canvases, he pares down urban, suburban and rural spaces until he achieves a stillness.

He excludes what he feels is inessential.

Depending on the viewer’s mood, you can find the deep blues of the waterfront scenes soothing, or the florid red skies blazing with menace. Or vice versa. One notable, recurring motif, regardless of the emotional content, is

the painter’s tight horizon lines that cut off or exclude the sun, the moon, stars and clouds. Sitting at home in front of one of his canvases dominated by a curving rectangle of verdant green, Staprans explained his approach to painting these abbreviated skylines.

“I love to work by not putting things in, but taking out,” he says. “I look at the painting and ask, ‘What can I take out?’ I make it simpler and simpler. Do I really need that cloud there? And if I don’t need it, I take it out.”

Staprans describes his paintings as “abstractions.” They aren’t literal renderings of the sky and the sea, streets and buildings, paint cans or oranges. On a first tour of the SJMA galleries, you can make out solid geometric patterns that appear to be as well-planned as architectural blueprints. But apart from masking tape, he doesn’t sketch directly onto the canvas. On second and third tours, gradations of color blend into each other and the gridlines begin to soften and blur together. “You start out with something. You are not sure whether it’s going to be a landscape or a still life,” he says, reflecting on his process. “Maybe it will be a human figure or a flower pot with flowers.

Then you go on from there.”

The 90-year-old artist just starts painting.

“I don’t know what will become of it,” he says. “How it develops: that’s where I get my biggest satisfaction. At this late date, why I keep on painting and why I like it, I discover something new, how things work together, even today. Personally, that’s my only reward: discovering these new relationships.

Usually it’s luck. You don’t plan it and then you see.”

Later, when we walk down two flights of stairs to his basement studio, he shows me a work in progress that’s as yet untitled.

He calls it a “white” painting, even though other colors populate the work, including a small patch of peacock blue. Staprans tells me it used to be a tree, but he painted over it. “I hate busy paintings,” he says.

“That’s my personal feeling. Nature outside, as it is, is too busy.”

His innate talent for choosing colors that please the eye is checked by a rigorous awareness of “a decorative streak within” him. “I have to be careful with color because it can become a decorative item,” Staprans says. “When you put in nice blues and nice reds, you have to ask yourself, ‘Isn’t that just a decoration?’ The color itself should be interesting. And that is really what I’m fighting about.”

His studio, like the rest of his house, is filled with paintings and books. At the end of the day, Staprans reads poems in his native Latvian. But the way he described his love of poetry—“Every word has an emotional charge in it”— drew immediate parallels to the way a museumgoer could “read” his paintings.

He believes that “when you’re upset and you want to take a tranquilizer or something, you can pick up a poem.

Then you read it and reread it, see how you become open to it, and what the poet has done with language. All those beautiful connections.”

As our conversation ends, the sky at dusk has faded to violet. We remark on the beauty of the dying California light.

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SHAKE ’EM The dread-headed Kweku Collins is a promising hip-hop talent from Illinois.

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T JUST 21, Kweku Collins has done a lot more in the world of hip-hop than many do in a lifetime. Just four years ago, he was like any other senior at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois—making any excuse to get out of class.

But unlike his peers, who were busy deciding on which colleges to attend or what to wear to the senior prom, Collins was eager to be at the studio—his bedroom at the time—

writing, rapping and producing his own songs. Many of those would make it onto his 2015 debut EP, Say It Here, While It’s Safe, which landed him on Pigeons and Planes’ “20 Rappers Under 20” list and catapulted his after-school project to a full-fledged music career while he was 17 years old.

“Whether I was in school or at home, I was always trying to work on songs,” Collins says. “I never really went to parties at school, mostly because I didn’t like them.

I would always rather be at home making music—that was all I really wanted to do growing up.”

Born into a creative family of musicians and artists in suburban Chicago, Collins’ parents helped foster his love for music, both rhythmically and lyrically, from a young age. His father, an AfroLatin percussionist, and his mother, a dancer and English teacher, both encouraged his creativity by involving him in their passions— he was often playing percussion with his father growing up, and attributes his love for writing and lyricism to his mother.

“My enjoyment of literature, facilitated by my mother, pushed me towards songwriting,” Collins says.

“I kind of think of songwriting as mathematical literature, because to me it has to all make perfect sense.

Coupled with a love of music from my father, there’s a lot of rhythm passed down to me from my family.”

Now signed to Chicago-based record label Closed Sessions and working alongside artists like Taylor Bennett, Jamila Woods and Femdot, Collins has made a place for himself as an artist

who’s not just able to produce soulful, unique beats and melodies, but also to write lyrics that feel simultaneously introspective and accessible to his listeners. His wide-ranging vocal skill is apparent in his songs, as he can transition from laying down bars to harmonizing with a melody with ease.

Some of that can be attributed to his eclectic, wide-ranging taste in music—he mentioned his love for Paramore’s Riot! as well as Gang Starr’s Moment of Truth—but most of the time, Collins’ songwriting reflects what feels authentic and relatable to him in that moment of the creative process.

“When I write music, I try to ask myself: ‘How do I want to hear this?

What do I want to hear? What do I feel like I need to hear?’” he says.

“I try to put myself in that frame of mind so that somebody could hear things that are personal or metaphorical to me and be like, whoah, I can identify with that, too.”

With two successful EPs and one full-length album under his belt, Collins is spending the foreseeable future working nonstop on his next album, which he described emphatically as “a proper, proper full length—the kind of album where you’re like, ‘Goddamn, there’s 17 songs on this fucker!’”

He’s also got a handful of smaller musical projects in the works, the first of which he hopes will be finished by the summer.

Collins’ one-off Stanford show is just one of the many side projects that keep him motivated during the more tedious process of finishing an album. But the Evanston native is in no hurry to rush the creative process, nor should he be. He’s already found a unique and mature sound at a young age. Right now, Collins is focused on perfecting his craft and delivering a sound that’s consistent with his fans and most importantly himself.

“When I make music now, I think about it like I were a fan,” Collins says.

“So that if I turn on the radio one day and I heard it playing, I’d stay listening to that station.”

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ROCK/POP/ HIP-HOP ART BOUTIKI Thu, Mar 1, 7:30pm: WomenCrushSJ: March 2018 Showcase feat. Q&A, Taylor Rae, Containher, and Ren. Fri, Mar 2, 7:30pm: Particle Kid, Dogcatcher, and Brad Sanzenbacher. San Jose.

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

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Sat, Feb 24, 8pm: Powerage, A Tribute to AC/DC, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers - ZZ Top Tribute, and Mean Streak - Tribute to Y & T. Sat, Mar 3, 8:30pm: The Peatot Purim Party 2018. Redwood City.

Fri, Feb 23, 8pm: J. Stalin and Livewire. San Jose.

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ANGELICA’S BISTRO Thu, Mar 1, 7:30pm: D. Marie & the House Cats feat.: Danielle Walsh. Redwood City.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu, 10pm: The Weekend Warm-up with DJ Sean Blak.

2nd Fri, 10:30pm: Quality Control feat. DJ David Q. 4th Fri, Quality Control Dus Dave.

2nd and 4th Sat, Lounge Life feat. DJs Krucial and Nessrock. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed, 10pm: DJ Hank. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Tue, 10pm: PubStumpers. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed: DJ Remedy. Thu: DJ Eternal. Fri: DJ Radio Raheem.

Sat: DJ Ready Rock. Sun: Industry Night. Mon: Pint Night. Tue: College Night. San Jose.

CAFE STRITCH Wax Wednesday, Feb 21, 9pm: Go! Go! Gone Show! TwoYear Anniversary. San Jose.

THE CARAVAN LOUNGE First Tue, 9pm: Redux w/Miss London (New Wave). 2nd Tue, 9pm: Last Rites w/DJ Robert Mortis, Owen, Xiola, and Stiletto. Sun: Tooth and Nail DJ Night. San Jose.

THE CATS Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Wed, Feb 21, 7pm: Michael Ahern Band Unplugged. Fri, Feb 23, 8pm: Hi NRG. Sat, Feb 24, 8pm: No Vendetta. Los Gatos.

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

Fri, Feb 23, 8pm: Music Residency–Vudajé. San Jose

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Fri, Feb 23, 7pm: Spill The Wine. Sat, Feb 24, 7pm: Private Label Band. Sun, Feb 25, 2pm: PS3. Tue, Feb 27, 6pm: Chaz Solo. San Jose.

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

THE X-BAR

Fri, Feb 23, 9pm: Sufferer, WRVTH, Wolf & Bear, Demon In Me, and Ardra. Cupertino.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

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

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JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Sunday brunch, 10am–2pm.

Mon–Fri, 4–6pm: Happy hour. Sat, Mar 17, 4pm: St. Patty’s Day live music in the beer garden by Hot Tub Time Machine. Los Gatos.

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Fri, Feb 23, 9pm: The Rayford Bros. Mountain View.

PIONEER SALOON

Sun, 4pm: Music Jam With Terry Hiatt & Brett Brown.

Woodside.

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Wed: Live Jam–Dave Gonzales Band. Thu: Live Jam–Vicious Groove. Sun: Live Jam–Will Roc’s Band.

Mon: Live Jam–Dana’s Band.

Fri, Feb 23, 9pm: Jackie Saturday and The Touch. Sat, Feb 24, 9pm: Skate Till You Die. Sunnyvale.

Thu: Banda La Unica.

Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo, 9:30pm: DJ Norman. Sat: Las Mejores Bandas De La Bahia. Sun: 4pm–8pm: Edith Del Sol. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Wed, Feb 21, 7pm: Piano night with Rick Ferguson and guest vocalist Katerina Brown. Thu, Feb 22, 7pm: JetBlacq feat.

Rebecca and Frank Faiola Band. Sun, Feb 25, 7pm: Mike Galisatus Big Band feat.

Duane Lawrence. Tue, Feb 27, 7:30pm: Rebecca Yarbrough.

Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI

Fri, Feb 23, 7pm: Knower. Sat, Feb 24, 7:30pm: 7th Street Big Band album drop - "Off Cinderella Lane." San Jose.

BLUE NOTE LOUNGE

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

CAFE STRITCH THE RITZ

Wed, Feb 21, 10:50am: Japanese Breakfast, Jay Som, Hand Habits. Thu, Feb 22, 8pm: She Wants Revenge.

Fri, Feb 23, 7pm: Wanting.

San Jose.

Wax Wednesdays: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session.

Thu, Feb 22, 7pm: SJZ 2018 WF: SJZ Collective. Fri, Feb 23, 7pm: SJZ 2018 WF: Masters of Hawaiian Music. Sat, Feb 24, 8pm: SJZ 2018 WF: Mike Clark’s Four and More. San Jose.

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First Sat, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience.

Fri, Feb 23, 8pm: Jazz Jam. Sat, Feb 24, 8pm: Scott Siskind. San Jose.

CAFE PINK HOUSE

Sat, 2pm–3:30pm: Saturday Live Music Hangout. Thu, Feb 22, 7:30pm: Anya Malkiel. Sat, Feb 23, 7:30pm: Masaru Koga.

Sat, Feb 24, 7:30pm: Russ Pettit Group. Saratoga.

CASCAL

Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live Music. Fri, Feb 23, 9pm: Gypsy Tribe. Sat, Feb 24, 9pm: Conjunto VibraSON. Mountain View.

THE CATS

Sun: Joe Ferrara. Thu, Feb 22, 7pm: Jonny Reason and Friends. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX

Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri: Salsa Spot. Wed, Feb 21, 7pm: Daniel Castro Band. Redwood City.

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

HUKILAU

Fri, Feb 23, 8pm: 808 Fusion.

San Jose.

MURPHY’S LAW

Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

O’FLAHERTY’S

Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún.

San Jose.

PIONEER SALOON

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

Woodside.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 6pm: Tap Takeover w/ The Sid Morris Gang.

Last Thu, 6pm: Six String Showdown with AC Myles.

Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night (comedy, poetry, music, singing). Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. San Jose.

Thu, Feb 22, 6pm: AC Myles feat. Rockin’ Johnny Burgin.

Fri, Feb 23, 6pm: Daniel Castro Band. Sat, Feb 24, 6pm: Shari Puorto Band. Sun, Feb 25, 11am-2pm: School of the Blues Jam. Sun, Feb 25, 2pm: Blues for a Cause. Sun, Feb 25, 6pm: The Ned Band.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

Wed, Feb 21, 6pm: Lisa Lindsley. Thu, Feb 22, 6pm: Tammy Brown Trio. Mon, Feb 26, 6pm: Jerry Sauceda Solo.

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

Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blues Jam. Wed, Feb 21, 7pm: Knee Deep.

Fri, Feb 23, 8pm: Lyin’ I’s. Sat, Feb 24, 8pm: South City Blues Band. Sun, Feb 25, 5pm: Dan & Chuck’s Pro Jam. Mon, Feb 26, 6pm: Fred McCarty. Tue, Feb 27, 7pm: Jam Session with Miguel PZ & Associates.

Campbell.

MOROCCO’S

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

Sunday: Special Dinner Shows. Mountain View.

MOUNTAIN WINERY.

Third Thu, 6:30pm: Thursdays On The Mountain - Party In The French Quarter. Saratoga.

Thu: Acoustic Music Nights.

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

PIONEER SALOON

First & Third Wed, 9pm: Tues Night Ritual. Second & Fourth Wed, 9pm: Marty 2.0. Thu, 9pm: Whiskey Hill Billies. Sun, 4pm: Music Jam with Terry Hiatt and Brett Brown. Fri, Feb 23, 9pm: Groovy Judy.

Sat, Feb 24, 9pm: Lencat.

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Wed, Thu, Fri, 7pm: DJ Tony Loco. Wed, 7:30pm: Rebel Soles Wednesday. Thu, Fri, 9pm: Diablo Road. Sat,10:15 pm: Diablo Road. Sat, Feb 24, 7:15pm: One Country.

Fremont.

Fri, Feb 23, 9pm: CISUM R&B Sensation. Sat, Feb 24, 9pm: Chrome Deluxe. Fremont.

First Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek.

Second Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special. 2nd Wed, 6pm: Dark Hollow. 3rd Tue, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. First & Third Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle and Co. 4th Tue, 6pm: The Mighty Crows. 4th Wed, 6pm: Jerry Logan & Loganville.

Wed, Feb 21, 6pm: Fred McCarty. San Jose.

OPEN MIC/ COMEDY Wed, 9pm: Hip-hop & turntable open mic. San Jose.

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Tue, 7pm: Music Open Mic. Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. Thu, 7pm: Live Lit Writers Open Mic. San Jose.

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Fri, Feb 23, 8:30pm: Steven Gregory with West Coast Turnaround. Redwood City.

MISSION PIZZA

Thu, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. First Fri, 7pm: Cimarron Rose Band. 2nd Fri, 7pm: Stampede. 3rd Fri, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Last Fri, 7pm: Stragglyrs. 2nd Sat, 7pm: Footprints. 3rd Sat, 7pm: Beargrass Creek. Fremont.

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THE CARAVAN LOUNGE

Wed, 9pm: Caravan Lounge Comedy Show with Mr. Walker. San Jose.

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Mon, 7pm: Mixed open mic.

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Mon, 7pm: Mixed Open Mic Night. Third Sat, 8pm: Comedians showcase at Red Rock. Mountain View.

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Sun, 4pm: Spanish Karaoke.

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Tue, 8pm. Cupertino.

BOGART’S LOUNGE

Wed, 9pm. Sunnyvale.

BOULEVARD TAVERN

Thu, 9pm: Tony. Los Gatos.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO

Sun-Tue, 10pm. Cupertino.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN

Wed: With Neebor. San Jose.

THE CARAVAN LOUNGE

Mon: Mandatory Monday.

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Tue, 9pm: DJ Rob. Santa Clara.

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RED STAG LOUNGE

Nightly, 9pm–1:30am. San Jose.

Wed, 9:30pm: With Jade. San Jose.

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CARDIFF LOUNGE

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

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Tue-Sat, 9pm. Sun, 4pm.

Campbell.

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

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

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GILROY BOWL

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Sun-Thur, 8pm. San Jose.

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

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Fri-Sat, 9pm. Gilroy.

Thu, 7:30pm–9:30pm: Treatbot. San Jose.

DIVE BAR

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm. Campbell.

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

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Follow your dreams—and end up doing five to 10 in the pen for home invasion and assault!

The widely believed myth that dreams are filled with meaningful symbolism is an unfortunate form of what I call Freud reflux. The assumption that Freud knew what he was talking about comes not from any solid evidence for his claims but, probably in part, because he “accessorized so credibly, with the cigar, the iconic eyewear and the groovy Viennese fainting couch.”

Psychologist G. William Domhoff, on the other hand, has done decades of research on dreaming. He finds there’s really no good scientific evidence that dreams have any importance for guiding our lives.

Domhoff explains dreaming as “intensified mind-wandering” that leads to “imaginative but largely realistic simulations of waking life.” Brain imaging of people in REM sleep suggests our capacity to dream is “an accidental byproduct of our waking cognitive abilities” and may be a “subsystem” of the “default mode network” of the brain.

This is simply the network of neurons the brain “defaults” to when you aren’t doing targeted thinking, like trying to solve some complicated equation or remember some word in French. Your brain doesn’t just shut down between these targeted thinking jags. It does what I think of as “background processing,” gnawing at problems you were previously focused on—but it does it beneath your conscious awareness while you’re, oh, washing a dish or having sex.

So, in a way, dreamtime seems to be a kind of cognitive autopilot. In brain scans of people in REM sleep, neurobiologist Yuval Nir sees decreased self-awareness, attention and memory. There’s also reduced “voluntary control” of action and thought—which is why, when dreaming, we cannot control “the content of the dream,” like by changing the channel from HesWithSomeHussy!TV. Nir also finds that there’s often—surprise, surprise—greater emotionality when dreaming. (Presumably, you don’t go around punching your ex-boyfriend’s dates in your waking life.)

However, Domhoff says that in many instances, dreams “dramatize ongoing emotional preoccupations.” These are sometimes unhealthy or at least unhelpful. You’d think you could just try to avoid thinking those thoughts during your waking hours. Unfortunately, research by the late social psychologist Daniel Wegner suggests otherwise.

Wegner, famously, instructed research participants, “Try not to think of a white bear.” This is a failed proposition from the start, because your mind sweeps around to check whether you’re avoiding bearpondering—thus leading you to think about the bear. In short, Wegner found that trying to suppress thoughts made them come back with a vengeance. The same was true when he later had subjects try to suppress thoughts just before going to sleep. These subjects were much more likely to have those thoughts be all “We’re baaaack!” in their dreams.

But—good news—there is a way to outsmart your brain’s yanking you back into the same old abyss. Psychologists Jens Forster and Nira Liberman found that you can probably keep yourself from endlessly revisiting a thought if you simply admit that not thinking of it is hard. As I explain in my new book, “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence,” their solution “probably sounds too simple to be real, but it makes sense. Removing the need to patrol your thoughts also removes the mental sticky note that tells you to keep going back into Thoughtland … to see how well you’re doing.”

In general, you should try to avoid ruminating—pointlessly rechewing the past, like your mind’s a sadistic TV station always showing the same disturbing rerun.

Moving forward takes thinking about the past in “forward” ways—basically, by making meaning out of it. So when you find yourself reflecting on this relationship, remind yourself to put the right spin on it: looking at it from the standpoint of what you’ve learned—what you’ll apply to make your relationships work better in the future. Before long, you could be on a date again—and I don’t mean one of his, with binoculars from a car across the street.

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In re the Matter of the CAPELLA FAMILY REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED JULY 30, 1997, by Manuel J. Capella, DecedentNotice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of Decedent Manuel J. Capella that all persons having claims against the Decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara, at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95112, and mail or deliver a copy to David Capella, successor trustee of the Capella Family Revocable Living Trust dated July 30, 1997, of which the Decedent was the settlor, at the Sowards Law Firm, Sr.S.Circuit Design Engineers (Jobwithin Code: 2542 Bascom Avenue, Suite 200, Campbell, CA 95008, the later of four (4)-months after November 2, 2016atgate (the date& of the first SCDE) Implmnt circuits publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally trnsistr-lvl &(60) verfy perfrmnce & functn delivered to you, sixty days after the date this notice is mailed simulatns; Dsgn,dvlp, & do anlyz orusng personally delivered to you.LATE CLAIMS: If you not file your claim within the timeintgrtd required bycircuits law, you must to file a mixd-signl &petition specializd late claim as provided in California Probate Code §19103.FAILURE TOI/O FILEcompnts;Perf A CLAIM: Failure to fileblck a claim lvl withmodelng the court and to serve a copy of the claim on thecircuits; trustee will in most instances invalidate of mixd signl Asist w/ layout your claim.(Pub dates: 10/26, 11/02, 11/09/2016)

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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 get11/09, out high paying onCome 10/12/2016.to (pubTexas Metro 11/02, 11/16,of 11/23/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER NAME STATEMENT #638100 ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EB NO. 16PR178443 Maintenance And Handyman Services, LLC, 3438 Calvin

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK Avenue, San Jose, 95124. This business is being PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO.CA, 16PR178443To all heirs beneficiaries conducted by acreditors, Limitedand Liability Registrant creditors, contingent personsCompany. who may otherwise not yet begun be has interested in the will ortransacting estate, or bothbusiness of: MARK under PASCOEthe KELLY. fictitious business or names herein.

A Petition for Probate hasname been filed by: Jameslisted J. Ramoni, PublicAbove Administrator the County Santa Clara the Superior Court ofJ. entity wasofformed in of the state of in California. /s/Eric California, County of Santa Clara.

The Petition forThis Probate requests was Bourdon.

President. #201736010178. statement thatfiled James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer 01/25/2018. (pub Metro 01/31, 02/07, 02/14, 02/21/2018) the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative FICTITIOUS BUSINESS to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before NAME STATEMENT #638032 taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required toisgive notice to interested The following person(s) (are) doing business as: persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the San 1. A2BHQ, 2. A2B HQ, 2530 Berryessa Rd., #236, proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will Jose, CA, 95132, Amy Grigsby, 968 Dionne Way, San be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the Jose, CA, 95133.

This business is being conducted petition and shows good cause why the court should not grantby an individual.

Registrant business authority.

A hearing on the petitionbegan will betransacting held in this court as underNovember the fictitious business name namesatlisted follows: 28, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Dept.or 10 located 191 herein on STREET, 01/01/2018. /s/Amy Grigsby.

This statement NORTH FIRST SAN JOSE, CA, 95113.

IF YOU OBJECT to thewas granting the petition, you should at theClara hearing filedofwith the County Clerkappear of Santa andCounty state your or file(pub written objections the court onobjections 01/24/2018.

Metro 02/07,with 02/14, 02/21, before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your 02/28/2018) 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of NAME STATEMENT #638196 letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) the California Probate Code, or (2)doing 60 daysbusiness from the date Theoffollowing person(s) is (are) as: of mailing or Bobcat personal Service, delivery to1336 you of a notice under section Romero Old Bayshore Hwy., 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California San Jose, CA, 95112, Alfredo Romero.

This statutes business is andbeing legal authority mayby affect rights as aRegistrant creditor. Youbegan may conducted anyour individual. want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. transacting business thecourt. fictitious YOU MAY EXAMINE the file under kept by the If you business are a personname or names listed onfile12/20/2012.

Refile of previous interested in the estate,herein you may with the court a Request #636748 due to publication requirement notand met on forfile Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory previous filing. /s/Alfredo statement was appraisal of estate assets or of any Romero. petition orThis account as provided in Probate Codethe section 1250.Clerk A Request for Special formon filed with County of Santa ClaraNotice County is available from the court clerk.02/07, Attorney for petitioner: MARK 01/29/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28/2018) A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 95110, Telephone: 408-758-4200 (Pub CC, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

NAME STATEMENT #636916 The followingBUSINESS person(s) is (are) doing business as: FICTITIOUS Cobete Retail, 765 N 7th, San Jose, CA, 95112, Victor NAME STATEMENT #622566 Gomez Magana. This business is being conducted by

Thean following person(s) is (are) doing Van Hoa Lam, individual.

Registrant hasbusiness not yetas:begun transacting 979business Story Rd., #7087, Jose, Ca, 95122,business Nuh Thuanname Lam, Quoc underSan the fictitious or names Anh Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business listed herein. /s/Victor Gomez Magana. This statement is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yet begun was filed with under the County Clerk of Santa Clara County transacting business the fictitious business name or names onherein.

12/18/2017.

Metro 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018) listed Refile of(pub previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT #638099 FICTITIOUS The followingBUSINESS person(s) is (are) doing business as: Main Street Chevron, 401 Main Street, Los Altos, CA, NAME STATEMENT #622752

94022, KN Petroleum LLC, 210 San Mateo Rd., #201, Half

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380 Moon Bay, CA, 94019. This business is being conducted S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael R. Hill, 8093 E. Zayante a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant Rd.,by Felton, CA, 95018.

This business is conducted by anbegan individual. transacting the business fictitiousunder business Registrant has notbusiness yet begununder transacting the name or names listed herein on listed 01/25/2018.

Above entity fictitious business name or names herein. /s/Michael R. was in thewas state ofwith LLC.the /s/Keet Managing Hillformed This statement filed CountyNerhan.

Clerk of Santa Clara Member. #200829810224.

This 11/09, statement was filed with County on 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/25/2018.

(pub Metro 02/07, 02/14, 02/21, 02/28/2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621712 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Countrywide Carrier, 2947 Capewood Ln., San Jose, CA, 95132, Rajwinder

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637591

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638615 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DVBE Drywall, Inc., 948 Dolores Ave., Los Altos, CA, 94024, Green Zone Construction, Inc. 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/Anthony Q. Hattey. President. #C3989962.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/07/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638789 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Play Parties, 988 Edenbury Lane, San Jose, CA, 95136, Angela Marie St. John. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2018. /s/Angela St. John. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/09/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638698 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bottle Babes’, 1059 Park Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Marrufo Vanessa. 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/Vanessa Marrufo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/08/2018. (pub Metro 02/21, 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639015 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Island Air Hvac, 2. Island Heating and Air Conditioning, 3.

Island Air, 652 Faye Park Dr., San Jose, CA, 95136, Vance Taitano. 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/ Vance Taitano. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/15/2018. (pub Metro 02/21, 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636912

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Acopio, 399 S. 24th St., San Jose, CA, 95116, Taqueria Lorena’s Inc. 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/ Ralph Portillo. Vice President. #C1420391. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/18/2017. (pub Metro 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638915 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Just Imagine Events, 2. Creative Visions Group, 1786 San Luis Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94043, Leonardo Munoz. 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/Leonardo Munoz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/13/2018. (pub Metro , 02/21, 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638376

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Community Trust Real Estate, 116 E. Campbell Ave., Suite 5, Campbell, CA, 95008, Stevensen And Neal Realtors Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #524825 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jessica Taitano. Treasurer. #C1573607. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/12/2018. (pub Metro 02/21, 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/2018)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Anything Mechanical, 1392 Cathay Drive, San Jose, CA, 95122, Drew James Davey. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/01/2018. /s/Drew James Davey. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/01/2018. (pub Metro 02/07, 02/14, 02/21, 02/28/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638050 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kilner Consulting, 3412 Ridgemont Drive, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Peter H. Kilner. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/25/2007. Refile of previous file #562389 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Peter H. Kilner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/24/2018. (pub Metro 02/21, 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638960 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cardinal Plumbing Solutions, 4202 Houndsbrooks Way, San Jose, CA, 95111, Hai Nhat Lam. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/14/2018. /s/Hai Ngat Lam. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/14/2018. (pub Metro 02/21, 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638627 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Open to Serenity, 2339 Cimarron Drive, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Anna Veronica Beltran. 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/Anna Veronica Beltran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/07/2018. (pub Metro 02/21, 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638382 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Las Muchachas Restaurant, 2483 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, CA, 94043, Lucino Gonzalez Gonzalez, 523 Walker Dr, Apt 1, CA, Mountain View, CA, 94043. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/01/2018. /s/Lucino Gonzalez Gonzalez.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/01/2018. (pub Metro 02/21, 02/28, 3/07, 3/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636910 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Taqueria Lorena’s, 854 N. 13th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Taqueria Lorena’s Inc., 399 S. 24th St., San Jose, CA, 95116. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/1987. Refile of previous file #255900 withe changes and after 40 day of expiration date.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ralph Portillo. Vice President. #C1420391. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/18/2017. (pub Metro 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638478 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Society Barbershop, 946 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Evelyn Vejar, 1150 Pedro, #C7, San jose, CA, 95126.

This business is being conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/02/2018. /s/Evelyn Vejar. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/02/2018. (pub Metro 02/07, 02/14, 02/21, 02/28/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638305 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kimberly European Skin Care, 500 E Calaveras Blvd., STE301, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Kimberly Thi Nguyen, 667 Meadow Creek Dr., San Jose, CA, 95136. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/12/2005. Refile of previous file #542491 with changes. /s/Kimberly Thi Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/30/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638033 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Stanford Terrace Inn, 531 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Stanford Waterford. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/21/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Sophia Huang.

Director. #C4101006. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/24/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #638034 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Stanford Terrace Inn, 531 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Stanford Terrace LLC. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 01/11/2017 under file No. 6252339. This business was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. Filed on: 01/24/2018. /s/Sophia Huang, LLC Manager. (pub dates: 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638682 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Los Gatos Nail Works, 140 West Main Street, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Georgette Rachelle Stanley, 5589 Makati Circle, San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/01/2018. /s/Georgette Stanley. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/08/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638643

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Post, 395-397 Main Street, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Truckee’s Post, LLC, 85 Oakwood Dr., Redwood City, CA, 94061. 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/Victoria Breslin. Managing Member. #201634910083. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/07/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638651 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Milohas, 4662 Meridian Ave., San Jose, CA, 95118, Milohas Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/26/2017.

Refile of previous file #634692 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mireya Baez.

President. #4096278 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/07/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638672

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: First Choice Family Dental, 967 Mclaughlin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Camtu Thi Nguyen, D.D.S., A Professional Corporation.

This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/05/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Camtu Thi Nguyen. President. #4101244 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/08/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #638629 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: American Custom Designs, 4878 Westmont Ave., San Jose, CA, 95008, Jordan Lee Davis. 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/Jordan Lee Davis. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/07/2018. (pub Metro 02/14, 02/21, 02/28, 03/07/2018)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #637677 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Garden Salon, 765 Julian St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Phoung Pham. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 06/22/2011 under file No. 552946. This business was conducted by: an Individual. Filed on: 01/11/2018. /s/Phoung Pham. (pub dates: 02/07, 02/14, 02/21, 02/28/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637676 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Garden Salon, 765 E. Julian St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Phoung K. Pham, 845 Roy Albrook Ct., 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 01/11/2018. /s/Phoung K. Pham. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/11/2018. (pub Metro 02/07, 02/14, 02/21, 02/28/2018)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Universal Trade Service, 1260 Clark Way., San Jose, CA, 95125, Matthew Dembowski. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/03/2018. /s/Matthew Dembowski. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/09/2018. (pub Metro 02/07, 02/14, 02/21, 02/28/2018)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you gorge on 10 pounds of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please don't do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake's maxim is applicable: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." So is his corollary, "You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough." But keep in mind that Blake didn't say, "The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom."

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever had a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out?

Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia. I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): "There is no such thing

as a failed experiment," said inventor Buckminster Fuller, "only experiments with unexpected outcomes." That's an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You're entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge.

There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During World War II, British

code-breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered top-secret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You'll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean. You won't get fooled by deception and misdirection. This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating -- thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In April 1972, three

American astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zerogravity conditions, it drifted off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin. Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space. Duke was able to grab it and bring it in. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to British philosopher Alain de Botton, "Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness." He says that our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves. I believe these meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next four weeks, there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing and sex. The astrological omens suggest that these pursuits will bring you even more health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, mind, and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder. Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing, and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The little voices

in your head may have laryngitis, but they're still spouting their cracked advice. Here's another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I'm tempted to speculate that you're at least temporarily telepathic. There's a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response, I bid you to bark "Enough!" at all these meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Paleontologist

Jack Horner says that developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus—a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and a dinosaur. This project is conceivable because there's an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and the modern bird.

Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you'll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Be stubborn about

your goals but flexible about your methods." That's the message I saw on a woman's T-shirt today. It's the best possible advice for you to hear right now.

To further drive home the point, I'll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: "Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind."

Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her novel The Round House, writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family's house. "How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place," she says. Then she adds, "ideas, too." Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure that nothing gets planted in the wrong place. Your second assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted.

Homework: Is it possible there's something you really need but you don't know what it is? Can you guess what it might be? Go to Freewillastrology.com and click on "Email Rob."

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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PUB HUB IN 1994, none other than pop star Rod Stewart hung out with other soccer fans to watch World Cup games at Britannia Arms Almaden, which first opened in 1988.

Rule, Britannia The Almaden Brit celebrates its 30-year anniversary

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OME OF US were hanging out at Britannia Arms on Almaden long before Rod Stewart ever showed up. In my case, as soon as I turned 21, I drove down Blossom Hill at midnight and bought my first legal beer at the Almaden Brit. I think it was a Harp.

I was not there at the very beginning in 1988, but since this classic institution is now celebrating

its 30th anniversary, the memories are spiraling back to the forefront and I can’t hold back my two cents.

I have more memories in that pub than at any other place south of Branham that’s still left.

We’ll begin with the 1990 World Cup. There was nothing close to top-flight pro soccer in the U.S. at that time, the rubes on the major networks hated the sport, and there was nowhere else for us to go watch games except Britannia Arms. 1990 was also the first time England made it to the semis since it won the tournament in 1966, so the

semifinal against Jurgen Klinsmann and the Germans drew an overcapacity crowd to the Brit. Soccer fans of every nationality jammed the place. It was elbow to elbow, with Britons especially fired up.

Some context here is mandatory.

In 1990, the area surrounding the Brit looked vastly different. Highway 85 did not exist yet. The vile, hideous stripmall monstrosity across Almaden was essentially an orchard. Inside the Brit, proprietors bragged about one large 10-foot TV screen in the corner with maybe two other small ones behind the bar. The most expensive item on the menu was the “combo plate” at a whopping $8.95. On tap were McEwan’s, Watney’s and John Courage—exotic for the time, since the current onslaught of bearded craft brew hipsters was still in diapers.

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Olivier and cued it right to the St. Crispin’s Day speech, with Sir Larry leading the men off to battle. As the speech played on the large screen, many in the capacity crowd at the Brit narrated the words: “From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered—we few, we happy few, we band of brothers” and so on. Then at the end of the speech, everyone in the bar screamed “ENGLAND!!!” with pints raised on high. England eventually lost on penalties, but it was one of the most emotional moments I’d ever seen watching a sporting event.

During that same World Cup, the Mercury News sent a reporter to the Brit to document the crowds. The story still sits on the wall and some of the people mentioned are still sitting at the bar, today, 28 years later. In my view, there was nothing in domestic American sports that compared to the intensity of the World Cup and it was great to have a local place in which to escape the drabness of suburbia and watch the world’s game.

Even Rod Stewart believed as much. In 1994, the World Cup finally came to the USA with several games at Stanford Stadium. Stewart, the rock singer who would have been a pro soccer player had he not chosen music instead, was in L.A. and instructed his handlers to call the Brit and inform them of Stewart’s intent to come up and attend a game at Stanford. He wanted a place to watch the other games beforehand, which is exactly what ended up happening.

According to the proprietors, Stewart was down to earth, not a prima donna, and was just like one of the guys. He had a wonderful time hanging out, so much that when Brazilian legend Pele invited Stewart to join him in his luxury box at Stanford, Stewart reportedly declined, saying he’d rather just hang with his new mates from the Brit.

I was not there when Stewart showed up, but former Metro music editor Todd Inoue captured the festivities. The column he wrote, along with the photo of Stewart he took, still graces the wall on the way to the restroom.

Now that Britannia Arms Almaden is officially celebrating its pearl anniversary, the memories will hopefully continue. Here’s to another 30 years!

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SOUPY SICHUAN Chang’an Artisan Noodle brings a variety of flavors to Mountain View.

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AMED FOR THE city where the Silk Road originated, Chang’an Artisan Noodle embodies much history. In nearly a millennium, the ancient Chinese capital was home to over 10 imperial dynasties, serving as an epicenter of cultural and economic exchange in northeast China. Its influence as a crossroads is clear in its cuisine.

A newcomer to the dense Chinese restaurant scene in Mountain View, Chang’an Artisan Noodle is in an ordinary shopping center off Rengstorff Avenue. What the restaurant lacks in curb appeal, however, it makes up for with a varied Asian fusion menu, from noodle soups to Japanese-style curries.

When I visited on a Saturday afternoon, the cozy restaurant was packed.

We started with the best part of the entire meal, the beef roll ($5.50), which included thinly sliced, perfectly cooked braised beef, black bean sauce and fresh cilantro rolled up in a dense, chewy scallion pancake.

For mains, I opted for the vegetarian noodle soup ($11.50), which came with a generous portion of spinach, broccoli, sweet corn, enoki mushroom and cauliflower. It was garnished with dried garlic, and I opted to add a poached egg ($1.50). The broth was less flavorful than I had hoped, but the addition of hot chili oil and the egg added much complexity. That being said, the abundant amount of veggies, paired with chewy, delicious ramenlike noodles, made for an extremely satisfying meal.

We also tried the Zha Jiang noodles ($11.50), a soupless dish that was tastefully presented with a generous topping of kurobuta pork—the “waygu of pork”—black bean sauce, a soy-braised egg, shredded tofu, cucumber, corn, scallions and surprisingly, kimchi. The pork was superbly flavored and cooked well, pairing well with the tangy, spicy kimchi. I also appreciated the generous amount of cucumber and corn that came with the dish, as it balanced the more intense flavors.

As a last-minute addition, we also ordered the vegetarian mapo tofu ($11.50), which comes in steaming hot clay dish that included king oyster and wood ear mushrooms, corn, and carrots. The dish’s complex flavors were drowned out by salt, making it difficult to finish without a few glasses of water. If you aren’t familiar with Sichuan peppercorns are, you’ll be in for a surprise: after about three bites, I thought I was having an allergic reaction. Turns out it was just the peppercorns, which cause your mouth and tongue to tingle and go numb.

Like any new restaurant, it still has some kinks, but its future looks mouth-numbingly promising. —Avi Salem

CHANG’AN ARTISAN NOODLE 580 N. Rengstorff Ave, Ste J, Mountain View.

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COLD CUBED Ice3 Ice Cream delivers Instagram-perfect ice cream in South San Jose.

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OVE OVER, FROYO. A new dessert craze has landed in the South Bay, and it comes in the form of sweet and neatly sculpted ice cream curlicues. Rolled ice cream, also known as stir-fried ice cream, is the latest trend in frozen treats in the Bay Area, but it has long been a street food favorite in Thailand.

Made on a frozen metal surface, liquid ice cream base is poured onto a slab, spread thin until frozen, and then curled into thick rolls that are embellished with toppings.

Ice3 (pronounced ice cube) Ice Cream is one of the few shops that’s brought this delicate dessert to the mainland. The concept is pretty simple: you choose a house-made ice cream base—vanilla, chocolate, chocolate mint, strawberry, matcha green tea or mango—then add your favorite combination of mix-ins, like fruit, Oreos, cereal or graham cracker crumbs. Mix-ins are chopped up and folded into the base, which begins freezing almost immediately after touching the sub-zero slab of metal. Within minutes, ice cold curls are formed, and the dessert is topped with your choice of over 30 different toppings and drizzles.

Luckily for me, Ice3 makes things easy for rolled ice cream novices. In addition to their do-it-yourself flavor combinations ($7), which all come with one base, one mixer, three toppings, and drizzle of your choice, the shop also has a lengthy list of Ice3’s favorite (and most popular) combinations.

At $7 each, or $5.50 for a kids-size portion, I opted for the cookies and cream, a base of vanilla mixed with Oreo and topped with marshmallows, whipped cream, chocolate wafer sticks and chocolate drizzle; the mocha, a chocolate base mixed with coffee and topped with a deluge of chocolate sprinkles, chocolate wafer sticks, whipped cream and chocolate drizzle; and the fruit roll-up, a mango-based mixed with fresh pineapple and topped with more pineapple chunks, fresh strawberry, strawberry wafers and capped with condensed milk.

While watching the ice cream get made is half the fun, Ice3’s finished creations also look and taste top notch. The cookies and cream, presented with roasted marshmallows on skewers and tons of whipped cream, was almost too pretty to eat. Ice3 also serves a variety of boba milk teas, as well as a dozen or so gelato flavors, all made in-house and without eggs. With unique flavors like Snickers and black sesame, I gave in and ordered a bubble waffle with a giant scoop of house-made Earl Grey gelato ($8) for good measure. The spherical, egg-shaped waffle was warm and crispy on the outside, and its tear-off bubbles made for great dipping tools. For the purists, Ice3 also serves waffles and ice cream scoops a la carte ($4.50 each).—Avi Salem

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La Misa Negra pulled excited fans all the way from the East Bay for their Winter Fest show at ART BOUTIKI.

Young Lions’ vibraphonist Dillon Vado works his mallets at FIVE POINTS bar during SJZ Winter Fest.

The Jacob Joliff Band’s Winter Fest set impressed these three at CAFE STRITCH.

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