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Shut It You: male-female pair right out of Central Casting. How do you think it's going to help your cause, ranting and raving and getting in people's grills downtown?

How does calling our beloved saxophone player, who has a heart of gold and brightens our day, a n-----? Repeatedly? Yelling that he should not be allowed to play there and should go back ... go back where? He's been in San Jose longer than you two have. Guaranteed. Is being a world-class city supposed to include world-class craziness and racial hate speech? Here's hoping someone catches you two with a big net and runs you through the car wash— your mouths included.

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The Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program (Safe, Clean Water) is a voter-approved, 15-year program to implement the community’s priorities for the present and future water resources of Santa Clara County.

Notice of Public Hearing What:

Public Hearing on Proposed Modifications to the Nitrate Treatment System Rebate Program and the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project

When: April 10, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.

Where: District Headquarters, Board Room 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118

Modifications to the voter-approved program require a public hearing. Two changes are currently proposed.

Nitrate Treatment System Rebate Program

Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection (Coyote Creek to Dorel Drive – San José) The proposed modification is for Project E4, the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project. The primary objective of the project is to reduce the risk of flooding to homes, schools, businesses and highways in the Upper Penitencia Creek Watershed located in San José.

The proposed modification would reduce the scope of the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project to the planning phase only through FY19, and would reallocate the remaining funds to complete flood risk reduction along 9 miles of Coyote Creek, from Montague Expressway to Tully Road. The proposed modification would address the urgent demand for flood risk reduction along Coyote Creek.

Completing the planning phase for the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project would position the District to be able to pursue additional funding for design and construction in the future as grant opportunities and other funding sources may become available.

Proposed modification to the Key Performance Indicators: 1. Complete a planning study report for a flood protection project to provide up to 1% flood protection to 9,000 homes, businesses and public buildings.

The proposed modification is for Project A2, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) #3, the Nitrate Treatment System Rebate Program (Nitrate Rebate Program). The Nitrate Rebate Program provides funds to reimburse private well users for the costs of installing a nitrate treatment system to improve water quality and safety.

The proposed modification will reduce the maximum program funding to align with the demand for the Nitrate Rebate Program.

This reduced program funding level includes the funds spent to date to develop, administer and advertise the program, along with an annual amount of $4,000 prospectively, which will be used for rebates through the project’s completion date of 2023.

This will help ensure continued assistance for well users that want to take advantage of this opportunity to reduce nitrate levels in their drinking water. The remaining funds would be reallocated to another project within the Safe, Clean Water Program.

Proposed modification to Key Performance Indicator #3: Reduce number of private well water users exposed to nitrate above drinking water standards by awarding 100% of eligible rebate requests for the installation of nitrate removal systems; up to $30,000 for all rebates.

Map of the Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project area. Shaded blue areas indicate the 1% flood areas.

For more information The board agenda memo regarding this hearing will be available on March 30, 2018 at www.valleywater.org. For more information on the public hearing, contact Jessica Collins at jcollins@valleywater.org or (408) 630-2200.

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SUSAN ELLENBERG resigned from the Silicon Valley Organization on Tuesday over the way it responded to a campaign mailer that weaponized a messy settled lawsuit against her opponent in the Santa Clara County supervisor’s race, former San Jose Councilman PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO. The regional chamber of commerce, known as the SVO, emailed its 1,400-plus members last week to denounce a flyer sent by the Santa Clara County Government Attorneys’ Association PAC. The union mailer included snippets of a gender-based harassment lawsuit filed against Oliverio in 2014. It urges voters to call SVO CEO MATT MAHOOD and SVO PAC Chairwoman TRACEY ENFANTINO to ask why they endorsed Oliverio.

Instead of ignoring the They mailer, Mahood and Did Enfantino drafted a What? defensive press release.

“The SVO may be SEND TIPS TO the most welcoming FLY@ METRONEWS. organization in Silicon COM Valley for women leaders,” the message began. “All the chairs of our major lines of business are women. Our current SVO chair is our first Latina leader. And all our vice president positions are held by women.”

The letter went on to say that they’re “befuddled” by the notion that endorsing Oliverio somehow abdicated their commitment to women’s issues, and stressed that the lawsuit accusing him of “using colorful language” was settled for a nuisance fee of $10,000.

Ellenberg, who could be strategically distancing herself from the business group to position herself for labor support in the general, wasn’t alone in interpreting the SVO’s tone as condescending. The board of the National Women’s Political Caucus of Silicon Valley rescinded its SVO membership, while a host of community leaders sounded off about how the organization tokenized its female members.

RANDI KINMAN, a Democratic Activists for Women Now board member, likened the SVO’s email to Mitt Romney responding to a question about pay parity by boasting about his “binders full of women.”

Oliverio declined comment.

DATA DEBACLE Sen. Dianne Feinstein says Silicon Valley exacts a toll on society that needs to be better policed.

Trust No One Lawmakers call for stronger oversight of Big Tech

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EN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN gave Mark Zuckerberg a fiery ultimatum. Before a roomful of a few hundred Silicon Valley executives on Monday, the top Democrat on a Senate panel investigating Facebook’s massive privacy breach told the Facebook CEO to correct course or have the government do it for him.

“Fix it before it really breaks,” she said at a “fireside chat” in Sunnyvale with Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino.

“If you don’t control your platform, we’re going to have to do something about it,” she added. “I am hopeful that they will.”

As consumers mull the ramifications

of Cambridge Analytica’s unauthorized data-harvesting to influence the outcome of democratic elections, to anyone in the know, that kind of exploitation has long been business as usual in the high-tech sector. Yahoo user data was breached in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Equifax got hit with a massive breach last year. And now there’s the latest Facebook scandal.

But a growing awareness of how Silicon Valley’s ad-supported social networks incentivize pernicious behaviors—online scams, bogus news, privacy breaches, manipulative political messaging—has prompted policymakers to consider how to police what’s arguably become the most powerful industry on the planet.

When Zuckerberg comes before the Judiciary and Commerce committees, Feinstein said she plans to ask him

about the safeguards Facebook will put in place to prevent predatory data mining from happening again.

Eric Goldman, director of Santa Clara University’s High Tech Law Institute, says people already knew that Facebook collects data to optimize services— that’s how the apps market to specific consumers. Selling access to that data is also how Facebook and the other social platforms can afford to offer their services free. And Goldman says he’s not surprised that app developers misused consumer information and disregarded privacy contracts, considering, as he describes it, Facebook’s laissez-faire approach to data.

In 2011, the Menlo Park-based company settled with the Federal Trade Commission on charges that it duped consumers with its privacy settings. The new scandal has prompted an inquiry into whether the advertising giant violated the terms of that agreement.

But Goldman finds the stakes this time around to be much higher.

“The fear we have is that because of this particular data leakage,” he says, “it took the election and caused the president who did not get the majority of votes to become the officeholder.”

Although not much has changed following past revelations, Goldman says this time may be different—if only

responsibility,” he says. “We have the skills, knowledge, and practical applications of these technologies in our state that should make California a leader in regulating big tech.”

Others, including consumer and business lawyer Ray E. Gallo, see a model for internet and social media regulations in another industry: utilities.

“In some of these cases, some of these companies arguably should be treated more like utilities because their services have become necessary to function in our society,” he says. “More utility-type regulation—good regulation designed to be responsible, not just to stifle competition or make it harder for customers to choose—might be good.”

Gallo, who has in the past two years represented clients in three lawsuits against Google’s interception of nonGmail correspondence, adds that he prefers to seek recourse in the courts.

Existing laws, such as the California Invasion of Privacy Act, would address a lot of the privacy problems posed by big tech if they were adequately enforced, he says. State statutes, unlike federal statutes, require both parties to consent to companies accessing private user information.

“The bigger problem is forcedarbitration clauses, which have prevented companies from being held accountable for a lot of this,” Gallo says.

“If you can’t bring a class action, in a lot of cases it’s just uneconomical to enforce the existing statutory and other rights that consumers are supposed to have, that the state and federal legislatures have decided are appropriate.”

That’s why Gallo pursued the Matera v. Google class-action settlement approved in February. In it, Google agreed to stop intercepting non-Google messages sent to Gmail users for advertising interests. Now, through that settlement, consumers who never consented to Gmail’s terms and conditions are filing $5,000 claims for the company’s alleged violation.

Like Google, Facebook also collects data to sell advertisements not just through surveys like Cambridge Analytica’s, but through likes, comments, shares, posts, profile details, messages, check-ins and other features.

“Some people provide tremendous information about who they are and how they live their lives that can be used to profile them,” Gallo says. He adds: “We give away more and more information about who we are, and it’s shocking.”

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because the data collection may affect whether voters will re-elect public officials. “When it comes to regulating internet companies, legislators don’t have a particularly strong track record,” he says. “There’s going to be a cost and benefit to any regulatory initiative, and we really need to understand the costs and benefits before we think that’s a good solution.”

On the national level, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Fremont, introduced a bill proposing that the Bureau of Economic Analysis study the broadband industry’s influence on the U.S. economy. Whether concrete consumer protections come out of this seemingly unprecedented public scrutiny, however, remains to be seen.

And this won’t be the first time an internet company has testified before a committee related to its role in foreign political influence. Attorneys and execs from Google, Twitter and Facebook appeared in hearings about the propaganda their platforms spread just days before the 2016 election. Yet no real accountability measures resulted from that testimony.

Big tech—despite its influence in everyday life, from how people access entertainment to news to driving directions to video tutorials—has so far remained relatively free from antitrust regulation and industry-specific consumer protections. But in February, state Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-Greenbrae, introduced a bill that would impose new restrictions.

AB 2182 proposes establishing a California Data Protection Authority, which would standardize online agreements and remove personal information from databases. In an interview with Metro, Levine says the government needs to proactively create user protections as personal data is “being monetized by big tech and weaponized against us.”

The bill, he says, would “help promulgate reasonable regulations so that when people provide permissions and approve user agreements, that they understand what it is. It puts limitations on how user data can be used, bought or sold and can perhaps restore credibility to big tech and rein in the abuses.”

Levine sees Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation as a model. It will go into effect in May and aims to protect consumers from data breaches. In his view, Silicon Valley’s influence shouldn’t stifle new laws.

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DAMAGE CONTROL A report detailing decades-old claims of sexual harassment

and abuse of power have come back to haunt Sheriff Laurie Smith.

Sheriff Lashes Out As Misconduct Allegations From 1990s Resurface BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Decades-old allegations of misconduct have come back to haunt Laurie Smith. The Santa Clara County sheriff ’s re-election campaign kicked into full damage control mode this week after the Mercury News ran an in-depth report detailing claims that Smith sexually harassed a subordinate in the early 1990s, stifled his professional advancement and removed taped evidence from an internal affairs investigation.

The story, penned by veteran courts reporter Tracey Kaplan gave Smith’s political challengers fodder to criticize the five-term incumbent. The sheriff, who declined to be interviewed for the Merc story on her campaign consultant Rich Robinson’s advice, also refused to read it.

“If I want to read trashy fiction, I'll pick something up at the airport,” she said.

But the sheriff’s consultant, who reviewed the Merc piece on her behalf,

dismissed the “Tale of the Tape” saga published Sunday as a hit piece.

“It’s the shoddiest piece of journalism that I’ve ever seen a long, long time,” Robinson said.

Robinson said he plans to demand a retraction. “I’m going to ask them to retract it all,” he says. “The whole thing, because it’s all untrue.”

The Merc spoke to retired Sgt. Gary Brady, whose complaints implicating Smith prompted two personnel investigations. Though no findings of wrongdoing ever resulted from the internal affairs probes, the article raises questions about Smith’s interference in one of those investigations by demanding to listen to a taped interview of Brady’s testimony.

Experts quoted by the Merc said Smith’s admitted seizure of the tape is concerning, and calls into question her ethics. The sheriff ’s leading opponent in the June 5 election, her former Undersheriff

John Hirokawa, called for Smith’s resignation.

Robinson disputes that Brady’s taped interview included any mention of Smith—at least, he said, “not to her recollection.” Further, he said, Smith brought the tape outside the Sheriff’s Office and to the county’s Equal Opportunity Division, which investigates workplace discrimination.

Smith’s campaign consultant also discredited Brady, saying his career was stymied not by Smith’s retaliation but by his own alcohol problem. He called the former sergeant’s claims of harassment “the fantasy of a raving lunatic.”

In the months Kaplan spent reporting on the “Tale of the Tapes” piece, Robinson tried to get the story killed. In emails to her and her editors, he repudiated the story as “tawdry” and “salacious” and threatened legal action if the newspaper decided to publish it.

Kaplan declined to comment, letting her story speak for itself.

The total cost of bringing BART from San Jose’s under-construction Berryessa hub to the Diridon Station in downtown. That’s on top of the $2.3 billion to build the BART line from Fremont to north San Jose.

Of the $4.7 billion projected for the final Berryessa-toDiridon extension, $1 billion comes from a sales tax passed by voters in 2000, $1.5 billion from another voter-approved sales tax in 2016 and the rest from federal, state and regional allocations.

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HERE MAY NOT be a unified field theory yet, but the axis of science, technology and popular culture brought together at the Silicon Valley Comic Con may help the world find the key someday. The Steve Wozniak-founded convention unites authentic scientists and wreakers of fictions, in addition to movie stars who prove the Peter Weller Rule. Weller will never overdraw the credit he got from starring in Robocop and Buckaroo Banzai—the cult film name-checked in Ready Player One. Weller will always work because science fiction and fantasy fans are the most ardent of all fans.

And they never forget.

Celebs this year include Mads Mikkelsen, the asthmatic Le Chiffre from Casino Royale (2006) and

Ian McDiarmid, the palpably evil Emperor Palpatine. Jeff Goldblum, a Weller Rule beneficiary because of Thor: Ragnarok, canceled. But Stan Lee is still slated for an appearance— the Marvel co-founder must have access to some xenotechnology that holds the Angel of Death at bay.

Nichelle Nichols, the classic Star Trek’s Uhura, was there last year to introduce Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space.

And Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Artemis will be back for another visit. “He’s been our mascot for all three years,” says the SVCC’s Steve chairman, Trip Hunter.

Wozniak Hunter worked with Wozniak at Fusion-io; organizing the event is one of his jobs as a marketer.

“People carve out time for this because it’s really fun.”

Like just about every great

gathering in the Silicon Valley, SVCC has had Goldilocks moments.

The first year was too hot: the floor was jampacked, and the air conditioning broke. In 2017 the crowd was too sparse because of the 10,000-person science march at Chavez Park, encompassed by the SVCC. “Last year,” Hunter said, “we expanded perhaps too much. It was a terribly expensive ordeal. You had to get organized with the police and the water and fire departments.

There’s a lot of hindsight in this business.”

In 2017, Hunter only attended one panel because of his schedule. He went to see Jessica Coon, the Canadian linguist who was a source for the character Amy Adams played in Arrival. “I was unsure of how popular her talk was going to be, so I was gratified to find it standing room only. I felt like we

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must have been on to something. “ The surprises are always the best part of SVCC—last year, I missed Shatner himself to go see warriorwoman movie star Pam Grier. Grier opened up about her considerable terrors and traumas. Her ability to project that lioness strength is all the more remarkable, considering what she’s been through.

“The best thing that happened to me at these conventions was the time Janna Levin, an astrophysicist from Barnard, was on one of the panels,” Hunter says. “Afterward, I got an email from a 15-year-old girl who told me, ‘I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life until I saw Janna Levin.’ I hope we’re influencing kids into STEM—because that would make this whole thing worthwhile.

“We’re trying to do a recipe that’s different than the San Diego Con— they do what they do very well. Woz said, ‘I don’t want to be the biggest, I want this to be the best we can do.’

He’s very sensitive to attendees not being happy. So we hope they’ll like the mix that we’re bringing.”

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Call the Doctor

Doctor Who’s David Tennant and Freema Agyeman materialize at SVCC BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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LITTLE WHAT, where, when and why about Doctor Who: the BBC show has bridged the space age with the digital age, having run—with one long hiatus—from 1963 to today.

The British watch The Doctor from the nursery to hospice.

Coming to SVCC is actor David Tennant, the 10th incarnation of the mysterious Time Lord, as well as Freema Agyeman, who played The Doctor’s witty travelling companion, Martha.

The two co-starred in the single finest episode of the show, director Hettie MacDonald and writer Steven Moffat’s 2007’s “Blink.” Carey Mulligan co-stars as photographer Sally Sparrow, who discovers an abandoned house on the outskirts of London infested with Weeping Angels.

Perhaps he requires an introduction, this last survivor of the planet Gallifrey, a chrononaut on permanent vacation. The Doctor is a skin-shedder—the current Doctor is a woman, Jodie Whittaker. Whatever the appearance, this Time Lord lives in his sentient TARDIS, a time-space ship disguised as a vintage London police call box. It’s much bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside. The whirring and sighing of the TARDIS is The Doctor’s herald—a noise once affectingly described as “that sound that brings hope to all who hear it.”

As for the Weeping Angels— hereafter to be referred to as “those terrifying hell-creatures”—they’re ancient beings who appear to be stone cemetery statues. Even as they hide their blank eyes with

their hands, in a peekaboo gesture of sobbing, these time vampires advance on a victim too quickly to be seen. They are masters of the horror-movie pop-up. They bare their fangs in a paralytic rictus, drain your potential future energy, and punt you out of your timeline decades back into the past, to live out the rest of your life in exile.

The Doctor has his share of nemeses. The clanking, eviscerating Cybermen. Those noneck little monsters, the Sontarans. Most infamous of them all, those fascist ambulatory trash-cans known as the Daleks, howling “EX-TER- David Tennant MIN-ATE!” like a raging Nazi with a cancer-kazoo clamped to his throat. None are worse than the Weeping Angels. They are death itself, transforming living people into memories, into piles of old photos and letters that are left behind.

The somberness of this sometimessilly TV show is the acknowledgement that death can’t be triumphed over, only defied. If E.T. had shown up on Doctor Who, he’d still be dead today.

“I am sorry, I am very, very sorry…”: When The Doctor tells you this, don’t buy any green bananas.

Mulligan is at her best in the scene by the deathbed of Billy, who was kicked decades into the past by the Angels, on the very night he met her.

Sally and Billy encounter each other one more time, after all those years, when Billy (Louis Mahoney) is old and dying: “It was raining when we met.”

“It’s the same rain,” Sally responds.

These temporal accidents occasion

The Doctor’s famous description of space-time as not shaped the way we see it, as a compass whose needle points always to the future. Rather, it’s a globe of “wibbly-wobbly, timeywimey stuff.” You’d have be David Tennant to get away with a line like that, and the endearing eccentricity Tennant brought to the Doctor was essential to the show’s appeal … such as the way he wears reading glasses when making his trans-time messages to Sally.

Tease out the inner meaning of “Blink,” and perhaps it encourages deathdefiance by living in deep study of cult materials and unblinking concentration on everyday life. With its emphasis on peaceful expertise instead of firepower, Doctor Who led TV fantasy away from stories where the characters are trapped in an alien zoo, or fighting 12-eyed beasts in an arena. “Blink” has been called “Doctor Lite” by the fans because The Doctor is in such a small part of it.

Here Tennant demonstrates the sort of massive fantasy-hero presence that allows him to come in for 15 minutes and save the day, and perhaps the universe.

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S A DEVOTED and high-profile member of the cosplay scene, Sacramento native Macy Rose enjoys playing her favorite sci-fi, fantasy and video game. She’s inhabited the bodies of Vereesa Windrunner from the World of Warcraft universe and Maya the Siren from the Borderlands video game franchise; and she’s a dead ringer for Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones.

When she takes off all the body paint, makeup, foam-core and plastic, she’s a real-life hero—working as a teacher at a preschool for children with autism.

Rose will be a special guest cosplayer for all three days of this year’s Silicon Valley Comic Con, joining fellow cosplay pros Ivy Doomkitty, Jacqueline Goehner, Kohalu, Liliphae, Mini Boba Fett,

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“It’s so much more than throwing a costume on and walking onto the floor,” Rose says of her passion for cosplay. “You get to geek out over your favorite show or favorite character.”

Rose says she was raised by parents who loved sci-fi and fantasy and regularly took her to Disneyland. She and her brother bonded over video games, like Super Smash Bros. “In our house we do geek,” she says.

At this year’s convention she’ll be cosplaying as Spider-Man’s girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson,

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Daenerys Targaryen and will be busting out her newest character, Rey—the newest hero in the Star Wars universe.

“I’m really excited about my lineup,” she says.

But what is most exciting, Rose adds, is the chance to meet new comic, sci-fi and fantasy fans— especially the kids, whom she feels especially connected to, given her full-time job at the special-needs preschool.

“I like being able to meet kids dressed up as superheroes,” she says. “That’s really cool for me.”

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Previously, she was the titular bitch in Don’t Trust the B…. in Apt. 23, and had a prominent role in a number of episodes of Breaking Bad—she played Jane Margolis, the young lady whose backslide into drugs is greased through the love of her tenant, the drug-dealing Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). She was trying to get clean, aiming to become a tattoo artist, while not having any ink on herself yet. Jesse and Jane were the most painful story in the show, and the easiest rebuttal to the claim that Breaking Bad glamorized meth.

Ritter is a different kind of figure on Jones. On the show, which just started its second season, she’s a traumatized Marvel superheroine, the victim of the mind-fucking Purple Man (David

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The streety private eye Jessica, mildly superpowered, has one particular skill.

And that comes from Ritter herself: the actress has an eye-roll that can be registered on the Richter scale.

Christina Ricci has similar nocturnal appeal. She seems like an unusual choice for the Silicon Valley Comic Con, but check the credits. Ricci co-starred with a legitimate comic book figure, Casper the Friendly Ghost. Ricci was also the live-action version of Trixie in Andy Wachowski’s Speed Racer film, and her most noted role was based on the art of the cartoonist Charles Addams. Ricci is also an Edward Gorey fan, enough so to have one of Gorey’s characters tattooed on her wrist.

One reason why people get tattoos is because they want their skins thicker. It’s not surprising that a character as unique as the 5-foot 1-inch Ricci went through it as a child. She’s talked of her parents’ acrimonious divorce, tales of bullying in her childhood in Montclair, New Jersey—a background familiar to viewers of The Sopranos. And today she’s a spokeswoman for a national network of incest victims.

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OW THAT THE first episodes of Leave it to Beaver are arriving at solar systems roughly 60 light years from Earth, one can wonder what it was that made the show so enduring.

Jerry Mathers, who played a foibleprone little boy named Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver, comes to Silicon Valley Comic Con for the customary signing, gripping and grinning.

Mathers, surely as important a cultural figure as Marshall Mathers, was a natural young actor who had worked under Hitchcock in The Trouble with Harry. Over the course of 234 episodes he kept the brisk, easy

Wednesday Addams in two 1990s Addams Family pictures. This pale, moon-faced daughter, murmuring her one-liners, must have been balm to countless odd girls all over the world.

Fondness for the role led Ricci recently to pose for a photo in widow’s weeds as Wednesday’s mother, Morticia.

Wednesday Addams had a memorable line when she turned up on Halloween without mask and costume: she drawled, “I’m a homicidal maniac. We look just like everyone else.” She’s played Lizzie Borden herself, as well as the lover of the homicidal Aileen Wuornos in Monster—Patty Jenkins’ directorial debut. Jenkins later went on to direct Wonder Woman. Ricci appeared in indie films as varied as Black Snake Moan and Buffalo 66—a kidnapping victim both times around.

Underneath the city brittleness and impatience, Ricci and Ritter share a layer of vulnerability. Both excel as women in trouble, finding a way out.

appeal of a kid. Nobody hated him.

And despite persistent rumors of him having been KIA in Vietnam, Mathers didn’t follow the Former Child Actor’s familiar road of trouble. He did record some proto-punk in 1963 with his band Beaver and the Trappers.

Mathers banked his money, did dinner theater and earned a philosophy degree from UC Berkeley.

Leave it to Beaver is considered the archetypal bland sitcom, and the fictitious town of Mayfield an almost fatuously perfect vision of leafy suburbs.

Tony Dow, who played Beaver’s older brother, Wally, once explained that really funny lines on the show were

Jerry “The Beaver” Mathers makes an appearance at this year’s Silicon Valley Comic Con.

Jerry Mathers customarily cut—the point was to keep a low dynamic range of contented chuckles. Leave it to Beaver had a fine ear for kids’ slang in the time between Eisenhower and JFK. It excelled in tales of sibling rivalry and the grubby side of little boys. It had an impressive cast of frenemies, including the mad, bad and dangerous-to-know Eddie Haskell.

What went on in the family was interesting, too, with the problem of disciplining children during the rise of

the baby boom. Beaver’s parents, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and June (Barbara Billingsley), had to conference quite a bit on the right way to proceed, as the couple were turning away from the “beat ’em when they sneeze” style punishments of their own childhoods.

Would there have been a Mr. Rogers without Hugh Beaumont, that actor for those who found Fred MacMurray too stimulating? Beaumont was a Methodist lay preacher who turned to acting to fund a rescue mission he was running. Sadly, the poor man later developed Tourette’s. It must have been disturbing to see Ward Cleaver swearing his head off in the

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COMIC CON JERRY MATHERS supermarket—fortunately, L.A. is accustomed to the differences between an actor’s life on and off-screen.

Billingsley is always remembered as the kind of mom who wore pearls when doing housework—Marge Simpson still wears them, in June’s honor—but her nonchalance stayed fresh for decades. Take the 1983 “Still the Beaver” TV movie—a must-see viewing event in its day. The Beaver was fresh off a divorce, boomeranging back to Mayfield on the bus. (“Take the Long Way Home” by Supertramp

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played on the soundtrack). Hearing of his visit, June goes to the cemetery and arranges herself in the grass by her husband’s tombstone: “Ward,” she said, “I’m worried about The Beaver.”

Mathers will appear onstage for the Leave it to Beaver Reunion on Sunday.

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AE C. JEMISON made history twice in 1992, becoming the first black woman and first physician to travel to space. Five years after joining the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s training program, she climbed aboard the Endeavor alongside six other astronauts as the agency’s first science mission specialist conducting experiments in human adaptation to weightlessness.

Though Jemison showed an affinity for science as a young girl, she initially planned to become a professional dancer. But enrolling at Stanford University at the age of 16 set a trajectory that eventually launched her into outer space.

The trailblazing astronaut, who was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the International Space Hall of Fame in 2004, told the Detroit Free Press in 2008 that she drew inspiration for her scientific ambitions as an African American from the “attitude, audacity and bravery” of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

She told Stanford Today at her alma mater that she drew inspiration for her ambitions as a woman from black actress Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Lt. Uhura on Star Trek.

After resigning from NASA,

Mae C. Jemison Jemison began exploring the nexus of social science and technology and advocating for minorities to pursue science education. She authored a memoir for children, Find Where the Wind Goes, co-wrote several volumes of the True Book Series with Dana Meachen Rau and founded two medical tech companies, the Jemison Group and BioSentient Corp.

Since making the winning bid for NASA’s 100 Year Starship, Jemison has led the project tasked with coming up with a business plan to assure interstellar travel for the next century.

In an interview with NPR after taking over 100 Year Starship, Jemison described how the project’s futuristic aspirations keep her grounded in the present—because, she said in the 2013 interview, if we “pursue an extraordinary tomorrow, we’ll build a better world today.”

Dr. Mae C. Jemison will attend Silicon Valley Comic Con on Saturday, where she will deliver a keynote and sign autographs.

—Jennifer Wadsworth

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E HAS THE stature of a rock star in the field of writing fantasy and science fiction— and indeed was a rock star of sorts, since he had a stint writing lyrics for prog rock band Hawkwind.

Silicon Valley Comic Con headliner Michael Moorcock is a figure who ranks with Alan Moore and Cordwainer Smith, a British writer willing to revolutionize the genre with subversive tales of time-travel, fantasy and speculation.

During his visit to the South Bay from his part-time home in Texas, the seventy-something Moorcock will be in conversation with the writer and live storyteller M. Todd Gallowglas—“It’s an Irish word that means ‘mercenary,’” Gallowglas explains. Gallowglas will serve as the emcee during the costume judging, and also has a panel on Sunday at noon, “The Geek’s Guide to Literary Theory.”

“I think if there was one term I’d use to describe Moorcock, it’s ‘selfconfident’,” Gallowglas said.

Science fiction and fantasy are a realm in which, formerly, genre authors tended to address social issues in interplanetary drag. Sometimes, the allegory works, and it’s what Nicholas Cage was describing when he said “science fiction is the last realm where you can tell the truth.” Other times, at its worse, it’s all potboilers and kid fodder.

In contrast to the more commercial science fiction, Moorcock was, in Gallowglas’ words, “writing what he wanted to write, stories he needed to write, rather than playing against what other people had written. He was Michael Moorcock, and he was going to write Michael Moorcock stories—he’d create a multiverse where all the stories tied together, and it dwarfed what Tolkien was doing.”

Moorcock’s A Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy changed the way Gallowglas thought about writing fantasy. In this bible of steampunk, Oswald Bastable, a Victorian gent

of 1903, becomes unstuck in time and visits a drastically different 20th century—one in which World War I never swept up the old empires, where Gandhi is the leader of a Marxist paradise in South Africa, and Stalin is a mad monk seeking power in Russia.

“It’s still kind of hard for me to describe how groundbreaking it seems to me, decades ago… it’s not quite fantasy, not quite fiction, so beautiful and odd,” Gallowglas says.

“The first book that got me into the mindset of, ‘Yeah, you can do anything, as long as you earn it.’

Moorcock does some weird stuff, but he definitely earns it.”

Moorcock has worked on different ends of the fantasy and science fiction spectrum, even writing a couple of Doctor Who novels, but he also has importance as an editor and a critic. Moorcock published the serial form of Norman Spinrad’s breakthrough novel, Bug Jack Barron—Spinrad was also famous for The Iron Dream, a book alleging itself to be the work of an obscure and cracked German fantasy writer named Adolf Hitler.

Gallowglas wishes that Moorcock’s book of criticism, Wizardry and Wild Romance, was better known. “It’s insufficiently appreciated within genre circles.” Moorcock starts his critique by tracing the origin of fantasy writing in old epic ballads of heroes, and works his way up to contemporary writers.

“He criticizes the pillars of the genre,” Gallowglas says. “Moorcock’s work asks why fantasy literature is not pushing more boundaries. We need to be less indulgent of contemporary fantasy relying on old tropes. Largely, at this point in his career, Moorcock is challenging us to be better.”

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Fri, 8pm, $50+ SAP Center, San Jose What started as a spontaneous birthday present has now turned into a massive solo tour across America. Latin recording artist Maluma did not always plan on delving into the music industry.

His uncle offered him the chance to record a song he wrote at the age of 17 for his birthday. Lucky for Maluma, some recording execs overheard his work. This reggaeton artist has collaborated with some big names, such as Ricky Martin and Elvis Crespo and fellow Colombian Shakira.

“Chantaje,” his song with Shakira, claimed the No.1 spot on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs for 11 weeks. (SM)

AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO

SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS

Fri, 7:30pm, $36 3 Below, San Jose

Fri, 7pm, Free Downtown San Jose

Groucho Marx is back from the dead—sort of. Groucho, the ringleader of the iconic Marx Brothers comedy quintet, was known for his wit and snarky remarks, his ever-present cigar and one hell of a mustache. Frank Ferrante, an award winning actor and playwright, will portray the young comedian on stage. This show has been critically acclaimed

by The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Vogue and Hollywood Reporter for its songs, stories and impromptu audience interactions.

Ferrante will be joined by a pianist who will play along with classic Marx songs, such as “Lydia, The Tattooed Lady.” (SM)

Experience the faces of one man's journals, visualize how “notches” take on everyday perspectives, and become inspired to overcome the struggles that seem to break us down, both mentally and physically. The South First Friday Art Walk is a self-guided tour featuring innovative, emotional and inspirational artwork. The tour will guide you through museums, galleries and local businesses and will have live entertainment.

Galleries, such as Anno Domini, Gallery Suha Suha, KALEID and MACLA will be open to display new artworks from various artists.

Find ArtWalkSJ on Facebook for more info. (SM)

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DOWNTOWN STREET SKATE

Camino Brewery and Taproom, San Jose

Sat, 7:30pm, Free Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose

Located on the outskirts of downtown San Jose, Camino Brewing Co. has found a new home. After contract brewing for about four years, co-founders Nathan Poulos and Allen Korenstein are opening their first proper brewery and taproom at 718 S. First St. The pair first became inspired to give brewing a try after taking a cycling trip along the Camino de Santiago trail in Spain. Today, their beer is sold by Whole Foods, Costco and a number of Bay Area bars and restaurants.

Their grand opening will feature live music, games, food and of course beer. (JR)

Downtown San Jose is home to many attractions and activities, but a roller rink is not one of them. San Jose Skate Night is an organization that has changed the skating game by introducing ways for people around the community to gather and skate together. During their upcoming event “Downtown Street Skate,” anyone with a pair of skates is invited to roll. This social outing will meander along a six-mile route with four stops.

Although the targeted groups are quads and blades, also welcome are skateboarders, scooters, bikes and anyone else on any type of humanpowered wheels. (JR)

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AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Apr 15 at City National Civic

A PERFECT CIRCLE

Apr 19 at SJSU Event Center

SOFA STREET FAIR

Apr 22 in the SoFA District

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

Apr 24-25 at SAP Center

JOYCE MANOR

May 4 at The Ritz

TAYLOR SWIFT

May 12 at Levi’s Stadium

HOT SNAKES

May 14 at The Ritz

U2

May 7-8 at SAP Center

EARTH, WIND & FIRE

May 15 at City National Civic

LYNYRD SKYNYRD

May 25 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

KANSAS

May 30 at City National Civic

KESHA & MACKLEMORE Jun 14 at SAP Center

SYMPHONY SV & HARRY POTTER

BEEKEEPING & BEYOND

Sat, 2:30pm, $45+ San Jose Center for Performing Arts

Sat, 9am, $75+ Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, San Jose

Ready your wands, grab your cloaks and remember to avoid the forest on your way to see the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the series’ fourth installment.

The film finds our Hogwarts hero competing in the Triwizard Tournament against rival wizarding schools Beauxbatons Academy and the Durmstrang Institute—and uncovering even more secrets about his past. The Symphony Silicon Valley and Chorale will perform the film’s score live, directly below the massive 40-foot screen. The film screens again at 7:30pm on Saturday and at 1:30pm Sunday. (SM)

Spring is in the air and so are the bees. But those who believe these fuzzy flyers are merely buzzing, stinging pests forget that they are also essential. Bees keep the world alive by transmitting pollen from plant to plant… and they also produce honey. At this totally sweet event, attendees will get the opportunity to learn beekeeping basics from Happy Hollow’s resident beekeeper and owner of Willow Glen Honey, Steve Demkowski. Understand what you need to get started and take in pro tips for handling hives. (NV)

*sun *tue MODERN TIMES Sun, 2:15pm, Free Santa Clara City Library

THE KING’S SINGERS

“Machinery should benefit mankind. It should not spell tragedy and throw it out of work.” Charlie Chaplin said this in an interview with the New York World newspaper in the winter of 1931. In this 1936 film, Chaplin’s The Little Tramp faces unemployment, jail and a stretch of time on the assembly line; the comedy includes the famous scene of Chaplin beta-testing an automatic feeding machine meant to do away with the lunch hour. His partner here is a female Tramp—“The Gamin,” played by Chaplin’s real-life spouse, Paulette Goddard. She keeps reappearing in his life, throughout the vagaries of jail, factory work and odd jobs.

Discussion follows. (RvB)

Grammy- and Emmy-winning British sextet The King’s Singers are celebrating their 50th year as an established choral ensemble.

Founded in 1968 in Cambridge, the group has kept its strict formation of two countertenors, one tenor, two baritones and one bass for half a century—though no original members remain. The group will perform classic choral arrangements, including Francis Poulenc’s “Liberté.” They’ll also premier Nico Muhly’s “To Stand in This House.” The King’s Singers will be accompanied by the angelic vocals of awardwinning San Jose choir The Choral Project. (SM)

Tue, 7:30pm, $45+ St. Joseph's Basilica, San Jose

VANS WARPED TOUR

Jun 23 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

POST MALONE & 21 SAVAGE

Jun 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DEAD & COMPANY

Jul 2-3 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

HARRY STYLES

Jul 11 at SAP Center

JACKSON BROWNE

Jul 31 at City National Civic

ALICE COOPER

Aug 14 at City National Civic

DAVID BYRNE

Aug 18 at City National Civic

SLAYER

Aug 26 at SAP Center

RINGO STARR

Sep 28 at City National Civic

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KID CREW An illustration from ‘Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic.’

Fragmented Fun Armand Baltazar publishes what could be the next great sci-fi franchise

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T’S A STORY that was originally intended for an audience of one. If all goes according to plan, it could evolve into a story for millions.

Armand Baltazar began the book project now known as Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic as a kind of answer to a challenge from his 11-year-old son, Diego.

But Baltazar was not your everyday suburban dad just trying to entertain his kid. As a visual artist in the movie industry, he had put together a résumé that included stints with DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar. In part because of those connections, Baltazar now has

a deal in place with star producer and director Ridley Scott that could turn his book into a multiplex blockbuster.

Timeless is a big-ticket item in the publishing industry. On one level, it’s an elaborate fantasy novel aimed at middleschool readers. But this one is different from scads of similar titles, thanks mainly to almost 200 meticulous illustrations that tip the book’s total page count to well north of 600 pages.

“I can hold up a photo of myself from when [I started this project],” says Baltazar who took on the dual role as writer and illustrator. “All my hair is jet black and there’s lots of it.

Now, my hair is quite a bit thinner, and my beard is definitely salt-and-

pepper. It’s been an odyssey, but a wonderful one.”

The book’s secret sauce is a fresh take on the old sci-fi trope of time travel.

The whole Timeless saga—the author envisions at least three books in the franchise and possibly just as many movies—began years ago when Baltazar was working at Pixar. His son Diego put together a list of everything he thought was cool in the hopes that his dad might build a narrative around them.

“He liked giant robots and I thought, yeah, I could do that,” remembers Baltazar. “And then he said he liked old World War II airplanes and dinosaurs. And, oh yeah, samurais are cool too. And then, it was ‘Oh Dad, you know when Indiana Jones fought off the Nazis.

That was awesome too.’”

Dad rolled his eyes a bit and explained the impracticality of shoehorning so many different elements into one cohesive story. So, Diego, perhaps knowing his dad a little too well, shrugged his shoulders and said, “What’s the matter? You can’t do it?”

Kids will often playfully throw down the gauntlet to a reluctant

parent, but parents rarely answer as decisively as Baltazar did, by diving into the mind-bending puzzles of time-travel logic and emerging with a splashy book-and-movie deal.

Diego on the cusp of his 13th birthday when the story opens. Diego’s dad is a prominent inventor who is kidnapped by a group of radicals in a world where everyone is from a different era—Diego himself is the product of a “mixed” marriage given that his mother and father are from different times. The kidnappers are led by a second-century Roman general and a scientist from the 2400s. Diego’s confederates include a boy from the 1920s, a girl from the Victorian era, and another girl from 1984. They are helped along the way by a Civil War-era black man who escaped enslavement to fight for the Union. Together, they set off across the ocean to rescue Diego’s dad and ultimately save the world.

In this story, time is a stand-in for geography in our world, in which everyone is judged by where they’re from. Baltazar grew up in Chicago, the only Filipino kid in his school. And his own son came of age in California where he went to school among kids from a wide variety of backgrounds.

The family now lives in the East Bay town of Pleasanton.

The parallels between cultural dislocation and time travel have long fascinated Baltazar. “A good friend of mine,” he says, “he grew up in China but came to the United States when he was about 12 or 13. As a kid, he had seen exactly four movies in his entire life, all Charlie Chaplin movies. So then he comes to the U.S., in 1978, and the first thing he sees is ‘Star Wars.’ That right there is cultural time travel.”

That dimension, the resonance with the contemporary world, is what Baltazar hopes gives his story power.

“It’s a simple adventure,” he says. “It was never intended to be something political. But considering the world we live in now, it’s the best way to tell a story, to tap kids on the shoulder and say, this is your world now.”

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AS A YOUNG Armenian-American living in post-war New Jersey, Peter Balakian’s only exposure the “old country” was through the memories and folk tales his grandmother—a survivor of the 1915 Armenian genocide—passed on.

Her remembrances made an impression on Balakian, who has drawn on his ancestral history to build a successful career writing prose and poetry.

In Black Dog of Fate, a memoir that earned him a PEN/Albrand Award for nonfiction, Balakian touches on his relationship with his grandmother and how trauma is felt across generations: “When I was with my grandmother I had access to some other world, some evocative place of dark and light, some kind of energy that ran like an invisible force from this old country called Armenia to my new world in New Jersey. It was something ancient, something connected to earth and words and blood and sky…. Now I realize that my grandmother’s stories hibernated in me until I was ready to understand them fully.”

During an interview on PBS about his work in 2016, he Peter Balakian said he wrote the book “to try to make sense of growing up in a family where a traumatic history was really Apr 12, 7pm, $20+ repressed, it wasn’t spoken about. It was silenced.” He was Hammer Theatre able to take “those fragments and encoded messages of a Center, San Jose traumatic history” and turn them into a kind of coming litart.org/peterof age story where connections are made between the his balakian American life and his family’s history.

His Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poetry, Ozone Journal, is a 54-section poem that makes some of these same connections between his approach to the Armenian genocide and his own challenges as an adult. Part of the poem is based on a trip to Der Zor he made with 60 Minutes in 2009.

Balakian notes that the site is considered to be the “Auschwitz of the Armenian genocide,” where thousands of Armenian refugees marched to their deaths.

He believes that “a poet's deepest attachment is to the image, sensory and sensual image,” and this is seen in the way the speaker of his poem utilizes a kind “tableaux freezing” of his environment. These experiences force the speaker to “[dream] back to the strangeness of his life in the 1980s, in Manhattan, when he was juggling a lot of complex life challenges.”

On April 12, Balakian will be reading from Black Dog of Fate and Ozone Journal, followed by by a conversation with San Jose State University President Mary Papazian at the Hammer Theatre downtown. The event is hosted by The Center for Literary Arts, and will be in conjunction with the university's Legacy of Poetry Day, when students and faculty will gather for readings and other festivities. —Stephen Perez

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Eighty-three-year-old

author Harlan Ellison has had a long and successful career. In the course of publishing hundreds of literary works in seven different genres, he has won numerous awards. But when he was in his 30s, there was an interruption in the upward arc of his career. The film production company Walt Disney Studios hired him as a writer. During his first day on the job, Roy Disney overheard Ellison joking with a co-worker about using Disney characters in an animated pornographic movie. Ellison was fired on the spot. I am by no means predicting a comparable event in your life, Aries. On the contrary. By giving you this heads-up, I'm hoping you'll be scrupulous and adroit in how you act in the early stages of a new project—so scrupulous and adroit that you will sail on to the next stages.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you an evolving

Taurus or an unevolving Taurus? Are you an aspiring master of gradual, incremental progress or a complacent excuse-maker who secretly welcomes inertia? Will the theme of your next social media post be "The Smart Art of Compromise" or "The Stingy Glory of Stubbornness"? I'm hoping you will opt for the former rather than the latter in each of the three choices I just offered. Your behavior in the coming weeks will be pivotal in your longterm ability to animate your highest self and avoid lapsing into your mediocre self.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you fly in a passenger jet from New York to London, the trip usually takes more than six hours. But on Jan. 8, 2015, a powerful jet stream surging across the North Atlantic reduced that time significantly. With the wind's extra push, several flights completed the trip in five hours and 20 minutes. I suspect you'll have comparable assistance in the course of your upcoming journeys and projects, Gemini. You'll feel like the wind is at your back.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Actor Keanu Reeves'

career ascended to a higher level when he appeared as a lead character in the film *Speed.* It was the first time he had been a headliner in a big-budget production. But he turned down an offer to reprise his starring role in the sequel, Speed 2. Instead he toured with his grunge band Dogstar and played the role of Hamlet in a production staged by a local theater company in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I admire him for being motivated more by love and passion than by fame and fortune. In my estimation, Cancerian, you face a choice that in some ways resembles Keanu's, but in other ways doesn't. You shouldn't automatically assume that what your ego craves is opposed to what your heart yearns for and your soul needs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A Leo sculptor I know is

working on a 40-foot-long statue of a lion. Another Leo friend borrowed $30,000 to build a recording studio in her garage so she can pursue her quixotic dream of a music career. Of my other Leo acquaintances, one is writing a memoir of her time as a black-market orchid smuggler, another just did four sky dives in three days, and another embarked on a long-postponed pilgrimage to Slovenia, land of her ancestors. What about you? Are there any breathtaking challenges or smart gambles you're considering? I trust you can surf the same astrological wave.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How sexy is it possible for

you to be? I'm referring to authentic soul-stirring sexiness, not the contrived, glitzy, counterfeit version.

I'm alluding to the irresistible magnetism that wells up in you when you tap in to your core self and summon a reverent devotion to your life's mission.

However sexy it is possible for you to be, Virgo, I suggest you unleash that magic in the coming weeks. It's the most reliable strategy for attracting the spiritual experiences and material resources and psychological support you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my analysis

of the cosmic omens, your impact is rising. You're gaining influence. More people are tuning in to what you have to offer. And yet your stress levels also seem to be increasing. Why is that? Do you assume that having more power requires you to endure higher tension? Do you unconsciously believe that being more worried is the price of being

By ROB BREZSNY week of April 4

more responsible? If so, banish that nonsense. The truth is this: The best way to manage your growing clout is to relax into it. The best way to express your growing clout is to relax into it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The immediate future will challenge you to revisit several fundamental Scorpio struggles. For best results, welcome these seeming intrusions as blessings and opportunities, and follow these guidelines: 1. Your control over external circumstances will increase in direct proportion to your control over your inner demons. 2. Your ability to do what you want will thrive to the degree that you stop focusing on what you don't want. 3. Your skill at regulating and triumphing over chaos will be invincible if you're not engrossed in blaming others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I'm about to say

things that sound extraordinary. And it's possible that they are in fact a bit overblown. But even if that's the case, I trust that there is a core of truth in them.

So rejoice in their oracular radiance. First, if you have been hoping for a miracle cure, the next four weeks will be a time when you're more likely than usual to find it or generate it. Second, if you have fantasized about getting help to address a seemingly irremediable problem, asking aggressively for that help now will lead to at least a partial fix. Third, if you have wondered whether you could ever retrieve a lost or missing part of your soul, the odds are more in your favor than they've been in a long time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The French

government defines books as an "essential good," along with water, bread and electricity. Would you add anything to that list of life's basics?

Companionship? Stories? Deep sleep? Pleasurable exercise and movement? Once you identify your "essential goods," I invite you to raise the level of reverence and care you give them. Take an oath to treat them as holy treasures. Boost your determination and ability to get all you need of their blessings. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to enhance your appreciation of the fundamentals you sometimes take for granted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Buckingham Palace is

the home and office of the queen of England. It has been the main royal residence since Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837. But in earlier times, the site served other purposes. The 17th-century English lawyer Clement Walker described the building occupying that land as a brothel, a hotbed of "debauchery." Before that the space was a mulberry garden where silkworms tuned mulberry leaves into raw material for silk fabrics. I see the potential for an almost equally dramatic transformation of a certain place in your life, Aquarius. Start dreaming and scheming about the possibilities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Carolyn Forché is a role model for how to leave one's comfort zone.

In her early career, she earned writing degrees at placid universities near her childhood home in the American Midwest. Her first book mined material about her family; its first poem is addressed to her grandmother. But then she relocated to El Salvador, where she served as a human rights advocate during that country's civil war. Later she lived and wrote in Lebanon at the height of its political strife. Her drive to expand her range of experience invigorated her poetry and widened her audience. Would you consider drawing inspiration from Forché in the coming weeks and months, Pisces? I don't necessarily recommend quite so dramatic a departure for you, but even a mild version will be well rewarded.

Homework: Buy or make yourself a present that encourages you to be more generous.

Report results at Freewillastrology.com.

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

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Twisted Nerve Stanford Theatre celebrates ‘Hitchcock and Other Masters of Suspense’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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UBLICISTS CALLED him “the master of suspense,” but Alfred Hitchcock certainly had competition. The Stanford Theatre’s spring retrospective, “Hitchcock and Other Masters of Suspense,” demonstrates the iconic director’s range: from civilized movies of intrigue, to films that are absolutely blunt instruments.

From 1935’s The 39 Steps (April 27-29) to 1954’s North By Northwest (June 1-3) we see the sort of debonair thriller Hitchcock pioneered: all the ones where

the villain has a polite exchange of views with the hero, before preparing to toss him out of an airplane. But this retrospective also offers J. Lee Thompson’s harrowing Cape Fear (1962), the home-invasion movie that should have ended them all. There’s nothing civilized about Cape Fear’s rapacious jailbird Max Cady (Robert Mitchum), any more than there’s anything holy about the mad preacher Mitchum plays in The Night of the Hunter (April 25-26).

The two-month-long fest includes 38 films—ranging in dates as early as 1931’s Frankenstein (April 20-22) to 1966’s glossy Arabesque (May 16-17). Arabesque and Charade (May 16-17) are examples of Stanley Donen (Singin’ in the Rain)

considering the the 1960’s spy film as a musical carried out by different means.

The modes are as different as the French Riviera swank of Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief (May 25-27) and a double bill by H.G. Clouzot, France’s most cold-sweatinducing director.

Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (June 6-7) was given an impressive remake

by William Friedkin as Sorcerer. The original is even more brutal. A team of no-hopers stuck far from Paris have their first job offer in a long time: to pilot truckloads of rotted, unstable nitroglycerin over bad roads. As a driver observes, hit a bump and your testicles will be hanging in the trees like cherries.

Compared to this essential drama of man’s fate, Clouzot’s Diabolique is almost a chamber drama. At a slimy boarding school, a wife (Vera Clouzot) and a mistress (Simone Signoret) are both sick to death of the petty tyrant of a headmaster whom they share.

They decide to drown him… but then the body vanishes. The source authors, a pair of writers known as BoileauNarcejac, later wrote the source work for Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

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BUZZED Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic suspense films, like ‘North By Northwest,’ are celebrated at the Stanford Theatre.

Fritz Lang’s (Metropolis) cynicism and paranoia matched Hitchcock’s sympathies as few directors did.

His Ministry of Fear (April 18-19) is about a team of Nazis pursuing an innocent man (Ray Milland) through blacked-out wartime England; the climax is lit only with the light from a bullet hole piercing a door.

On Dangerous Ground (May 2-3) is Nicholas Ray’s astonishing film noir about a vicious LAPD cop (Robert Ryan) on the edge of breakdown who is sent deep into snow country to apprehend a subject—there he falls for a blind lady (Ida Lupino) who brings back his humanity.

Ultimately there are 16 films here by Hitchcock, canonical viewing for the film scholar, also as much fun to watch as any movies ever made. Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt (May 11-13) is the pairing to see first if you’ve never seen a Hitchcock film. Strangers stars Robert Walker as Bruno, the louche murderer who cooks up an ingenious way to take care of annoying relatives.

And there are few movies of betrayal as strong as Shadow of a Doubt, about the troubled friendship between a small town girl (Teresa Wright) and her namesake uncle (Joseph Cotten) who is perhaps a serial killer. Notorious (May 4-6) is a spy film as cold as a le Carré novel, with Grant as a self-loathing U.S. agent pimping out a Florida party girl (Ingrid Bergman). The Birds is the blueprint for all zombie movies— someone could compare and contrast shots of the attacking seagulls pecking their way into a makeshift bunker with the assault of the zombies in Night of the Living Dead.

There’s a meme at large, a Maya Angelou quote: “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.”

Not so fast, in Hitchcock’s case. He marketed himself as a tranquil, honest businessman in the field of surprises. The undertones in his work are anything but facile. New viewings make one marvel at the strangeness, the matchless craftsmanship and the influence he had on generations of filmmakers.

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MODERN MASTER Nils Frahm says he doesn’t consider himself a partisan to any genre; on ‘All Melody’ he proves his conviction.

Electric Hymn

Classically trained composer and producer finds beauty blurring lines

BY NICK VERONIN

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ILS FRAHM IS not the sort of artist one might reasonably expect to see at The Ritz. The Germanborn musician doesn’t play punk, like so many of the band’s that wind up on the marquee at 400 S. First Street.

He doesn’t play metal, either. And though his music can certainly be very heavy, he is also capable of coaxing out melodies as light as air. Frahm isn’t a pop artist or a DJ or an electronic producer, either. In a way, he is all of these things and none of them.

Frahm is known for crafting haunting, new-agey piano music under his own name—as he did on his 2015

full-length Solo, which he performed on the massively resonant, 12-foot-tall upright piano. He’s also known for his work with nonkeen, a project with live drums, guitars and electronics, which he first began writing in the ’90s. Then there’s Trance Frendz, an experimental synth collaboration with Erased Tapes labelmate Ólafur Arnalds.

His latest effort, released in January, is appropriately titled All Melody. It is a culmination of everything this classically trained, electronics-loving, former punk and jazz musician has been doing his entire life.

The record’s title, he explains, comes from the throwaway name he gave to an audio file—one of the album’s earliest musical sketches.

“It’s a feel of everything is possible,” Frahm says over the phone from Germany. Actually, he’s speaking through Apple’s Facetime app, which offers a far clearer connection. Perhaps it’s an apt metaphor for the way Frahm makes music. Here is the voice of a human, translated into ones and zeros, transmitted through a network of silicon and fiber optics, re-emerging from the tiny speakers of a digital handset with all the nuance and feeling of a human voice.

Frahm performed and tracked the entirety of All Melody at Funkhaus—a mid-century East Berlin recording complex, where he parlayed the recent financial gains from a string of successful albums into a kind of gear-head’s wet dream. He filled his rehearsal and recording studio with custom-built electronic and analog equipment, live instruments and synthesizers, all made from organic and inorganic materials.

“Basically, I’m in permanent residence at Funkhaus,” he says, remarking on how impressed he was by the natural sound of the room he occupies. “You don’t have to compromise on anything when you work in there.”

Frahm doesn’t compromise when it comes to the tools he uses, either.

All Melody is full of sounds that can truly be considered unique, as Frahm often commissions one-of-akind instruments. Once he began to make money as a musician, he says it only made sense that he would spend it this way.

“Because when I play [these instruments], I feel like there is something very unique happening in that moment,” he says, adding that the idea of working with a factory preset on a desktop audio workstation doesn’t sit well with him. He wants every sound to have its own individual character, just like humans do.

“Every guitar, even if it is a Fender Stratocaster, sounds a little different,” he continues. “The computer doesn’t drift”—it always sounds exactly the same or it just doesn’t work. There is only on and off. It is binary.”

All Melody is decidedly non-binary.

Opening with the “The Whole Universe Wants to be Touched,” there is the sound of someone snapping fingers on the left and right side of a large room— mic’d in stereo. Soon, a choral group, the London-based Shards, begins intoning the motif that will resurface multiple times over the course of the album.

From there, the record moves through gooey dirges of synth and analog organ, downtempo electronics beats, and stark solo piano. All Melody’s most electronic moments are at once propulsive and lethargic—developing in no hurry, slowly morphing, self-assured of their destination: “Harm Hymn,” a whispering, bittersweet meditation, where the lines between analog and electronic are sublimated in a singular, intoxicating vapor.

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SAN JOSÉ 40TH BIRTHDAY

Being poet laureate of this county, I’m very, VERY biased here... but I would suck at my job if I didn’t say this will be hella delightful. It’s over by 4pm, so you can then go to...

6PM SAT 4/07 SUPER STACKED COMEDY SHOWCASE THE coolest comedy show ever held in a reclaimed-wood furniture shop. I dig what these folks are up to. Beer by Hapa’s Brewing Co.

NOON SUN 4/08: SAN JOSE PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET Bands, beer and bargaining... it’s church for people who go to bed at 5am.

7PM MON 4/09 JUAN FELIPE HERRERA This dude was the U.S. Poet Laureate. He’s the Voltron of poetry. Plus, it’s National Poetry Month, which makes this event as meta as you can get.

WED 4/04 WEST COAST SONGWRITERS COMPETITION

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FRI 4/06

7:30pm: Montalvo Arts Center 15400 Montalvo Rd, Saratoga

COMEDY: NICOLE BYER

6:30pm: Art Boutiki Music Hall 44 Race St, San Jose

GOT PIANO ?

JAZZ: D. MARIE & THE HOUSE CATS

COUNTRY: LUKE COMBS WITH ASHLEY MCBRYDE

featuring Danielle Walsh 7:30pm: Angelica’s Bistro 863 Main St, Redwood City

Time to get your piano tuned

ALT SOUL: RHYTHM & FOLK

7:30pm: City National Civic 135 W San Carlos St, San Jose

Expert Piano Tunings All Repairs, Rebuilding, Refinishing Also buy and Sell Used Pianos 40 years Experience PTG Registered Craftsman

Derrick Sanderlin & Nyam Adodoadji 8pm: The Continental 349 S First St, San Jose

AMERICAN ME COMEDY

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JAZZ: NOEL CATURA BAND 7:30pm: Cafe Pink House 14577 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

BLUES: ONE COUNTRY AMBIENT: NILS FRAHM Legendary German composer 8pm: The RItz 400 S First St, San Jose

8pm: Little Lou’s BBQ 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

SOUL/R&B: NOÑAMEKO April Artist Residency 8pm: Forager 420 S First St, San Jose

8pm: San Jose Improv 62 S Second St, San Jose

ROCK: THEM SLACKJAWED SOBS SAM'S BBQ

First Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek.

4th Wed, 6pm: Jerry Logan & Loganville.

1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

THU 4/05 AMERICANA: ANDY FUHRMAN

7pm: The Cats 17533 Santa Cruz Hwy, Los Gatos

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POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Tap Takeover w/The Sid Morris Gang. Last Thu, 6pm: Six String Showdown with AC Myles. Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Downtown Pro Blues Jam. Thu, Apr 5: Jonny No! Blues Jam. Fri, Apr 6: RJ Mischo Band. Sat, Apr 7: Sam One Band. Sun, Apr 8: New Orleans Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. Sun, Apr 8, 3pm: AJ Crawdaddy Band.

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ELECTRONIC: CASH CASH 10pm: Pure Nightclub 146 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Apr 6, 9pm: Andre Thierry zydeco. Sat, Apr 7, 9pm: Darby Slick’s Marshall Plan.

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PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET

Noon: The Ritz 400 S First St, San Jose

JAZZ: SUMMIT 2V1

7:30pm: Cafe Pink House 14577 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

HAWAIIAN: NA LEO PUMEHANA

7:30pm: Hukilau 230 Jackson St, San Jose

PUNK: KOFFIN KATS, GODDAMN GALLOWS

plus Against the Grain 8pm: The Ritz 400 S First St, San Jose

BLUES: PRIVATE LABEL

8pm: The Cats 17533 Santa Cruz Hwy, Los Gatos

COMEDI@NS SHOWCASE

6:30pm: Crema 1202 The Alameda, San Jose

BLUES: THE BONE DRIVERS 8pm: Little Lou’s BBQ 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

FUNK: REBELSKAMP, F.T.B. plus Audible Smoke Signal 9pm: Caravan Lounge 98 Almaden Ave, San Jose

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Thu, Apr 5, 9pm: Proudest Monkeys. Sat, Apr 7, 9pm: Hot 105.7FM’s Chuy Gomez.

5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

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

Wed, 9pm: Hip-hop & turntable open mic. San Jose.

by Jacob Esquibel & Catherine Lentini 3–9pm: Citadel Arts Studios 199 Martha St, San Jose

6pm: Terra Amico 460 Lincoln St, San Jose

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Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. San Jose. Thu–Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Tue, 10pm: PubStumpers Trivia. San Jose.

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4:30pm: Towne 3 Cinema 1433 The Alameda, San Jose

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

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7:30pm: Local Color 27 S First St, San Jose

Sun, 7pm: The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. San Jose.

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POETRY: JUAN FELIPE HERRERA

Former U.S. poet laureate 7pm: Dr. MLK, Jr. Library 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

BLUES: CHRIS CAIN

8pm: Little Lou’s BBQ 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

TUE 4/10 PUBLIC SPEAKING: SOCIALISTS SPEAKEASY

6:30pm: San Jose Peace and Justice Center 48 S Seventh St, San Jose

LIT: WELL-RED OPEN MIC Gallery’s 40th Anniversary 7pm: WORKS/San Jose 365 S Market St, San Jose

KIDS/FUN: LEGO ROBOTICS

1pm: Almaden Branch Library 6445 Camden Ave, San Jose

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

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition.

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WOODHAMS LOUNGE

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Fri, 8pm. Sat, 9pm. Sunnyvale.

BOGART’S LOUNGE

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STATEMENT #639434 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Pacific FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Diversified Insurance Services, 2. JS Tucker Insurance NAME #622566 Services,STATEMENT 15005 Concord Circle, Suite 110, Morgan Hill,

95037.person(s) This business being conducted a Limited TheCA, following is (are)isdoing business as: VanbyHoa Lam, hasNuh notThuan yet begun transacting 979Liability Story Rd.,Company. #7087, SanRegistrant Jose, Ca, 95122, Lam, Quoc business under the fictitious business name or names Anh Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business listed herein. Above entity was formed in the of begun Michigan. is conducted by an married couple.Registrant hasstate not yet /s/Adambusiness C. Reed.under Executive Vice business President. #201430810008. transacting the fictitious name or names This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa listed herein. Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu Clara County on 02/14/2018. (pub Metro 03/14, 03/21, 03/28, Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa 04/04/2018) Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639427

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639490 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DN & Son Painting, 197 Kehoe Court, San Jose, CA, 95136, My Nguyen.

This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/01/2018. /s/My Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/01/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639890 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Casper Professional Services, 1231 Franklin Mall #137, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Myralee G. Shields, 65 rio Robles East #3202, San Jose, CA, 95134. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/12/2018. /s/Myralee G. Shields. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/12/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639688 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Psuche Clothing, 165 Church St #170, San Jose, CA, 95037, Sonya Sonya. This business is being conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/06/2018. /s/ Sonya Romo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/06/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639281

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JLS Builders, 1344 Warner Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Josh Leivi Savage. 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/Josh Savage. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/23/2018. (pub Metro 03/14, 03/21, 03/28, 04/04/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639436 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Girltalk, 555 Bryant Street #565, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, Popcom, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/01/2012. Refile of previous file #572793 after 40 days of expiration date. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Daniel H. Coleman. Vice President, Legal & Business. #201112710080. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639948 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Guidry T.I. Acoustics Inc., Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Michael Guidry. President. #4098234. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/13/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640052 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Posh Bagel, 125 Main St., Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Petersophal Keo, 2840 Cedardale Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/15/2018. /s/Petersophal Keo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/15/2017. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Edward James O’Donnell, Jr., aka Edward James O’Donnell, aka E. James O’Donnell, aka James E. O’Donnell, aka Jim O’Donnell. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many action without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held as follows: May 11, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. at Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, Department 12, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110 408-758-4217 (Pub CC 04/04, 04/11, 04/18/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640563

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Casa Caribe Vacation Rentals, 783 Regent Park Dr., San Jose, CA, 95123, Allyn Karl Johnson, Celia Cruz-Johnson. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/16/2005. Refile of previous file #482106 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Celia CruzJohnson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/29/2018. (pub Metro 04/04, 04/11, 4/18, 4/25/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640114

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jade Galore Jewelry & Watch Co., 10821 N. Wolf Road, Altai Industries Inc., 316 Barber Lane, Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/27/2009. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/James Wong. CEO. #2927887. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/16/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640147

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. CSS Corp, 2.

Supportminds, 1900 McCarthy Boulevard, Suite #210, Milpitas, CA, 95035, SlashSupport, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on July 21, 2010. Refile of previous file #539304 after 40 day of expiration date. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/ Ashish Kumar. Secretary. #C2219179. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/19/2018. (pub Metro 03/28, 04/04, 04/11, 04/18/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639872 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Parties And Petals, 1834 West Hedding St., San Jose, CA, 95126, Brooklyn Traxler. 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/Brooklyn Traxler. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/09/2018. (pub Metro 04/04, 04/11, 4/18, 4/25/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640201 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Summerhill Ventures, 47 Lester Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125, Sandra Joann Leon, Michael Leon, 2280 Sharon Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Sandra Leon. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/20/2018. (pub Metro 03/28, 04/04, 04/11, 4/18/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640154 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Monarch Realty, 2939 Via Carmen, San Jose, CA, 95124, Garret Morioka, Michelle Morioka. This business is

being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/10/2013. Refile of previous file #573613 with changes. /s/Michelle Morioka. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/19/2018. (pub Metro 03/28, 04/04, 04/11, 4/18/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640348 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dogs In Harmony, 10330 Colby Ave., Cupertino, CA, 95014, Shanni Hendler. This business is being conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/22/2018. /s/ Shanni Hendler. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/23/2018. (pub Metro 03/28, 04/04, 04/11, 4/18/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639461

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Celia’s Cuisine, 1534 Berger Dr., San Jose, cA, 95112, Celia Medriz, 2312 Mt Pleasant Rd., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/281/2018. /s/Celia Madriz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2018. (pub Metro 03/28, 04/04, 04/11, 4/18/2018)

Circulation Manager Administration – Gilroy, California

This position oversees the distribution of four weekly publications in Santa Clara County and two in San Benito County. The circulation manager will work out of our Downtown San Jose and Gilroy offices with a weekly visit to our Fremont distribution center. It provides professional challenge in the office managing systems and devising strategies, and outside in the field.

Responsibilities are as follows: • Oversee all subscription fulfillment, renewals and distribution programs for three home-delivered weeklies, with goals of maximizing revenue, penetration and reach.

• Manage all aspects of sales and marketing, including promotions and advertising campaigns for home delivery and single sales.

• Generate print orders, oversee postage, manage compliance reports and provide customer service.

• Manage distribution program for three free weeklies by contract drivers.

• Manage all distribution data, billing, renewals, contractor payments and route lists.

• Maintain fleet vehicles.

• Ensure excellent delivery service for all products, including delivery partnerships.

• Continually seek opportunities to expand readership for Metro Silicon Valley, South Valley Magazine, San Benito Magazine, Morgan Hill Times, Gilroy Dispatch and Hollister Free Lance.

Qualifications sought: • Previous newspaper industry, home delivery or related experience • Previous management or supervisory experience • Good health and ability to lift up to 30 pounds on a regular basis • Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, good driving record and auto insurance • Knowledge of web tools, route optimization SaaS services and database management

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Ultimate Closing Realty Inc., 698 Morse Street, San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/31/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Doris L. Cope.

CEO. #C3817409. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

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VOCAL STYLINGS Jaap Blonk—pictured left alongside Henri Chopin and Larry Wendt during his last visit to San Jose in 1994—returns this weekend for what’s sure to be a memorable gig.

Power of Babel Storied sound poet Jaap Blonk comes to Anno Domini

BY GARY SINGH

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HE DUTCH MASTER of sound poetry, Jaap Blonk, will return to San Jose for the first time in 24 years this Saturday, when he unleashes guttural phonetic madness at Anno Domini.

Now, before I go off the deep edge with this, allow me to explain that sound poetry is an artistic form emphasizing the raw sounds of the voice as opposed to syntax or semantics. We’re talking pure vocal audio, the human voice as noise generator in a performance context.

To the uninitiated, watching this stuff might lead you to question the person’s sanity or call the paramedics, but as an art form, sound poetry traces all the way back to the dada artists in Zurich, circa 1916, and then even further back to the Italian futurists and perhaps even to “Jabberwocky,” if you really want to split hairs.

In any case, this is yet another time-shattering full-circle moment reminding me that I still live in San Jose for a reason. You see, in September and October of 1994, soon after San Jose State gave me a music degree with emphasis in

electro-acoustics and computer music, I went to Europe for the first time, taking three weeks to spend time with sound poets, academic computer music composers, neo-dadaists, avant-garde performance artists and troublemakers from various creative traditions—categories that often overlapped. I was studying, researching and/or performing such material and I can safely say it’s what I wanted to do with my life. I didn’t want to spend one more second in San Jose.

Larry Wendt, then the technician in SJSU’s School of Music and the only San Josean ever to appear on a Nurse With Wound album, was also a decadeslong sound poet with a network of connections stretching across oceans. Larry was traveling in Europe at the same time, since he was doing a performance on the same bill with Jaap Blonk and many others at the Bobeobi Festival of Sound Poetry in Berlin, which took place the first weekend of October, right before I flew back. So I showed up, ran the slide projector for Larry’s

performance and got to drink with legendary sound poets, artists and troublemakers, old and young, from around the world, including Jaap and Henri Chopin (see photo.) Many of the artists involved could legitimately trace their creative ancestry back to dada, the lettrists, fluxus, Italian futurism or numerous other threads of the 20th century avant-garde.

Some of them, like Chopin, have since passed away, unfortunately. As a first trip to Europe, the whole shebang was more than I ever imagined.

Back home at SJSU, my teacher Allen Strange, who’d traveled with me during an earlier part of the trip in Denmark, where we attended and worked at a music conference, came home to San Jose and, as a joke, told people I was staying in Europe. He said I was actually smiling all the time, enjoying myself and was not going to come back. At first, no one knew if he was serious or not.

But for whatever reason, I did come back. And so did Jaap. Later in October, just a few weeks after the Berlin festival, Jaap came to America for the first time, including a gig at SJSU. We picked him up at the airport and even took him to Super Taqueria on 10th Street. Back in those days— late ’80s, early ’90s—whenever Allen or Larry hosted a European artist at SJSU, they’d always take him to Super Taqueria. At the time, downtown San Jose was a total dump, but since Super Taq was still a new concept, it became an effective local place to bring Europeans who’d never eaten real Mexican food. And Coronas were about $1.75. For the gig, Jaap eventually gave a powerful, outre and hysterical performance in Room 150 of the Music Building, horrifying the opera singers out in the hallway. It was loud but, according to Allen, not as loud as when Henri Chopin was there in the ’80s.

Now Jaap is returning to San Jose for what should be a memorable gig at Anno Domini this Saturday, and I am still here to write this column and tell you about it. Let the voices be heard!

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spinach quiche ($9.95) is also a nearly perfect rendition, with its buttery eggs and pudding like consistency. Top either one of those off with one of their coffee espressos ($2-4), and the morning will be off on the right foot.

Southern Kitchen 27 E Main St, Los Gatos southernkitchenlg.com Not to be confused with the similarly named greasy spoon on Monterey Highway, this quaint downtown Los Gatos spot offers up down-home Southern fare. Their unique take on chicken and waffles ($14)—where the chicken is actually embedded in the waffle and then deep-fried golden brown—is not to be missed. Another “can’t miss” item is their signature shrimp and grits ($15), which won the People’s Choice award at the 2016 Bacon and Beer classic.

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CLASSIC CUT Those looking for lighter spring fare can look elsewhere; at the Mini Gourmet, traditional steak and eggs is where it’s at.

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PRING HAS SPRUNG and the crisp yet warmer air is filled with the fragrance of fresh flowers and fried eggs. Indeed, the egg is not merely a symbol of nature’s perennial rebirth, it is also a delicious breakfast food. It can be scrambled, cooked over-easy, poached or hard-boiled. It holds together pancakes and waffles and forms the delicious outer shell of omelets, which, in turn, hold a treasure trove of gooey cheese, crispy bacon and tender veggies.

Join us in this April installment of our monthly Silicon Valley Dining Guide, as we dive into some of the best local restaurants to dig into eggs Bennie, chicken and waffles, home fries and daytime drinks.

Bill’s Cafe Multiple locations billscafe.com Saying nothing of their imminent takeover of the South Bay breakfast scene, Bill’s is still up there with some of the strongest breakfast game in town. Their fresh-squeezed OJ mimosas ($7.25) are still a staple for brunch-goers everywhere. The Mexicali Benedict ($14) with carnitas, avocado and house-

made salsa is a fresh take on a classic breakfast favorite.

The Breakfast Club 1432 W San Carlos St bcmidtown.com Despite being on the scene for less than two years, The Breakfast Club (sans Molly and Judd) has stepped up as a favorite morning spot in San Jose’s Midtown neighborhood. Their selection of five bloody marys ($10) all start with their house bloody mix and are favorites here—and also available gluten-free, if desired. Their red velvet pancakes with cream cheese frosting ($9) are a carbtastic way to start one’s morning.

Purple Onion Café Multiple Locations purpleonionca.com Not feeling a heavy breakfast? Well, then Purple Onion is a good choice for a menu offering up light, tasty fare that’ll power diners up, but not weigh them down. The lox plate ($9.95) is a great choice for salmon lovers and comes served with a toasted pretzel bun. The

This family-friendly restaurant is a favorite for parents and kids alike with the kitschy décor, wallet-friendly prices and dine-in VW buses that keep the entertainment coming. Their freshsqueezed OJ, carrot and grapefruit juices ($5) will help quench the jalapeño-infused fire of their Angry Potatoes ($7). The bread pudding french toast ($7) is another favorite here, with its cinnamon egg batter, topped with the signature caramel raisin sauce.

Orchard City Kitchen 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell orchardcitykitchen.com Jeffrey Stout’s Michelin Bib Gourmand small plates restaurant might be a bit under the radar when it comes to breakfast, but diners shouldn’t miss out. Their signature P.O.G. Mimosas ($10) and Triple B (Biscuits, Bacon & Honey Butter $7.50) are the staples on their brunch menu. Feeling like something daring? Get the lobster burrito ($24.50) that comes with a Fresno chili aioli, tater tots and scrambled eggs and everyone’s favorite marine crustacean for an unforgettable breakfast.

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FLUFFY FRUITY Scrambl’z is entirely capable of beating a couple eggs, but their airy pancakes are a solid choice.

Social Policy 200 S First St, San Jose sopocafe.com This modern downtown eatery is known mostly for roasting their own coffee and serving up terrific pastries. However, they’ve expanded the menu recently to include breakfast items like the Avocado Smash ($10.50), which is served on an Acme sweet bâtard and is accompanied with a delightful miso-tahini spread. For those with a sweet tooth, their bread pudding ($10) with its whiskey sauce and chocolate drizzle will put one in a heavenly sugar-induced coma.

Hobee’s Multiple locations hobees.com This local breakfast institution has been serving the South Bay since 1974 with a nice mix of healthy and traditional breakfast fare. Their original smoothie ($6) is a terrific way to get the day

started off right, but don’t forget to get some of their aptly-named “WorldFamous” Blueberry Coffee Cake ($3). Its crumbly, moist interior is packed so full of antioxidant-filled blueberries that it seems almost semi-healthy.

Village Grill 4075 Evergreen Village Sq, San Jose villagegrillevergreen.com This Evergreen gem serves breakfast all day and has a menu that offers classic and inventive breakfast fare.

The crab cake Benedict ($13) is packed with lump crabmeat and topped with a terrific Hollandaise sauce. For those who want something special, order the Oreo pancakes ($11) filled with crumbly chunks of Oreos and chocolate chips, all topped with bananas and whipped cream.

Diabetes never tasted so good.

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Alice’s Restaurant 17288 Skyline Blvd, Woodside Alicesrestaurant.com Family-owned and -operated since the ’70s, the logging era general storeturned restaurant uses locally-sourced ingredients. You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant but try Alice’s Omelet ($13.40) featuring avocado, applewood smoked bacon, swiss cheese and tomato. Or indulge in homemade biscuits smothered in country gravy ($7.95) knowing that a hearty breakfast is balanced out by the restaurant’s commitment to environmental sustainability.

Local Union 271 271 University Ave, Palo Alto localunion271.com

SOAK IT UP Mo’s Breakfast + Burger Joint knows that the best way to wash down bread soaked in egg and cinnamon is with OJ soaked in champagne.

Hash House 851 W Hamilton Ave, Campbell From the owners of Bill’s Cafe comes a more inventive menu and a modern, chic décor. Their strawberry mimosas ($9) are made with Skyy strawberry-infused vodka and tons of fresh berries. Get the churro waffle ($10) for a Mexi-inspired take on a classic breakfast item that comes with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Mo’s Breakfast + Burger Joint Multiple locations grubatmos.com Mo’s has become a popular neighborhood gathering spot at their locations in The Den and downtown Campbell. The menu is full of delicious breakfast goodies like fried chicken Benedict ($14) that comes with house-made buttermilk biscuits. For a decadent treat, get the Nutella + Baconstuffed french toast ($12) for sweet and savory treat. And what’s not to love about

a place that offers Bottomless Mo’mosas ($14) all day, every day?

The Mini Gourmet 599 S Bascom Ave, San Jose minigourmetrestaurant.com This iconic greasy spoon—and I say that with the utmost love—has been serving up classic breakfast fare since 1971. They don’t do anything fancy, just serve up good eats at reasonable prices. They used to be open 24/7, but have since revised this to just Thursday through Saturday.

Get the certified Angus steak and eggs ($15) for a terrific all-American start to the day.

Bajis Cafe 2423 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View bajis.com Bajis may not be down the street for most, but this grub destination has been serving up homestyle breakfast and lunch entrees for over three decades. The

menu includes a multitude of breakfast and lunch options that won’t burn a hole in your pocket. Some of their specials include items such as fried chicken and waffles, cafe country scramble with gravy and a breakfast burrito.

Palo Alto Creamery 566 Emerson St, Palo Alto paloaltocreamery.com Most places have phased out making a good ol’ fashion breakfast, like mama used to make from scratch, but not Palo Alto Creamery. Since 1923, they have undergone a few changes but have kept the same wholesome promise of using the simplest ingredients and producing the most well done breakfast.

This place has some sweet treats, like their Caribbean french toast, which is topped with coconut, maple syrup and caramelized bananas. Now that’s one dish that will have mama wishing she did it first.

Start the day right with the bloody mary bar or adventurous fresh fruit mimosas like pineapple-jalapeno or blackberry elderflower. Order breakfast classics, including the smoked salmon Benedict ($13) with house Hollandaise, or the special lemon-curry stir-fry with local seasonal vegetables ($20). The familyowned, locally-sourced restaurant also offers catering and large group custom quotes.

The Village Pantry 184 Second St, Los Altos thevillagepantry.com This place lives up to its name with a variety of breakfast options that could feed a village. One look inside and this old-school diner can accommodate families or single patrons. They have a beautiful outdoor patio on which to enjoy one of their many omelet options, such as the crab omelette, or choose to build your own. Any of their Village-named entrees will satisfy your biggest cravings with their Village Benedict, Florentine or scramble.

Jason’s Cafe 1246 El Camino Real, Menlo Park Sit down with the family for a low-key breakfast served all day. Satisfy your sweet tooth with the cinnamon swirl french toast ($6.95), or feast on the

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LOX IT DOWN The Purple Onion Cafe’s lox plate is a great, light choice for breakfast or brunch.

harbor crepe ($12.50) with crabmeat, chives and avocado topped with Hollandaise sauce. Side orders range from bowls of fruit or oatmeal to a country steak or biscuits with gravy, so even the pickiest of little ones can find something.

Ann’s Coffee Shop 772 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park With its old-school diner vibe, the shop with long counters and quaint booths is a perfect place to drink a cup of coffee with a no-fuss breakfast while reading a newspaper. Try the blueberry and cream waffles ($7.45) or the linguica and eggs ($9.45). Why go to a Denny’s or an IHOP when you can check out this familyowned space?

Deluxe Eatery and Drinkery 71 E San Fernando St, San Jose For those looking for a stylish and boozy breakfast in the heart of downtown San Jose, there’s no place quite like Deluxe.

With the vintage decor and knick knacks, comfy couches and a variety of other seating options—including communal, indoor and a cozy patio—it’s a great place to chow down and grab a few morning cocktails. The Archer-inspired Eggs Woodhouse ($22) is a pricy Metro favorite.

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The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Pipes & Drums band marches at Campbell’s annual EASTER PARADE.

Eric Victorino and Carlos Letelier celebrate LIMON SALON’s Best of Silicon Valley 2018 win.

Looking fly at PURE NIGHTCLUB.

The Campbell EASTER PARADE makes dogs and humans happy.

Winning restaurateurs Randy Musterer from Sushi Confidential, Alex Hult of Flights and Jeffrey Stout of Orchard City Kitchen at the BEST OF SILICON VALLEY 2018 party.

The CHROMATIC COFFEE team showed up in full force at the Metro Best of Silicon Valley 2018 awards party at The Catamount.

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