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Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith has avoided speaking to journalists since the Mercury News published a story earlier this month that unearthed decades-old allegations of misconduct.

Now, the 20-year sheriff who’s running for an unprecedented sixth term this June refuses to sit down for an endorsement interview with Silicon Valley’s daily paper of record until it retracts the entire article.

That’s a big ask, her longtime attorney RICH ROBINSON concedes, but he says the sheriff stands by it because “the whole thing was a lie, every single line of it.”

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Smith making herself inaccessible to the Merc’s editorial board and news reporters comes amid criticism from her main challenger for re-election that she’s also disengaged from constituents.

Former Undersheriff JOHN HIROKAWA, who’s one of a handful of candidates in the sheriff’s race, called Smith out on Tuesday for declining to participate in a series of upcoming candidate forums where she’d have a chance to publicly address an ongoing inmate hunger strike, the recent re-introduction of riot guns in the jails and how federal immigration agents were “mistakenly” allowed to interview detainees earlier this year. BILL JAMES— who chairs the county Democratic Party, which endorsed Hirokawa—says he hopes Smith “reconsiders her approach and remembers who she works for.”

Assistant Sheriff RICK SUNG, a Smith supporter, dismisses remarks from Hirokawa and his backers as desperate. “They’re doing everything they can to muddy the campaign,” Sung says.

Smith declined to talk to Fly for fear of being “taken way out of context.” But one of her campaign consultants, LAURA TEUTSCHEL, says anyone who thinks Smith is aloof fails to consider the fact that she’s essentially balancing two extremely demanding jobs.

“Bottom line is she’s running the sheriff’s office and she’s campaigning,” Teutschel says. “But she’s out in the community all the time.”

HIGHER CALLING Former Mayor Chuck Reed spent years fighting the pot industry. Now, he and his colleague at Hopkins & Carley, Mark Heyl (right) are industry advocates.

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NE OF SILICON VALLEY’S foremost experts on cannabis law never set foot in a collective until after the state legalized recreational pot sales.

“I was immediately impressed with the beauty of the location, the friendliness of the people, how educated and engaged they were,” Mark Heyl, 52, says of his Jan. 10 visit to Caliva. “Even though it was my first time and I had all these questions, it seemed like they had all the time in the world.”

The retail side may have seemed foreign to him at the time, but Heyl already possessed a firm grasp of the regulatory complexities involved in the budding legal market. As a

member of the fledgling cannabis practice at Hopkins & Carley—one of the South Bay’s most buttoned-up law firms—he’d already spent months poring over books, talking to industry experts and studying up on the dissident interplay between federal and state marijuana policy.

“When Prop. 64 passed, we started recognizing the opportunity and the need for sophisticated legal practice in the industry,” says Heyl, a 25-year attorney who previously led his firm’s corporate practice and mergers-andacquisition group. “So with legalization on the horizon, we began preparing ourselves for the eventuality.”

Since venturing into the newly expanded legal market, Hopkins & Carley’s pot practice has taken on about a half-dozen clients seeking

counsel on issues inherent to any other business—branding, intellectual property, contracts, taxes, land-use, mergers—but with the added risk of operating in a legal gray zone.

Lawyers in the burgeoning business take on some of the same risks as their clients. The feds classify cannabis in the same class as heroin, and even in 420-friendly California there’s an underlying fear that missteps could lead to prosecution for money laundering, conspiracy or aiding and abetting drug dealers. In San Diego County, the district attorney is still pursuing a case against criminal defense lawyer Jessica McElfresh, who’s accused of conspiring with a client to hide evidence of an illegal hash oil operation.

Although, according to the National Cannabis Bar Association, attorney conduct is more or less protected in California. And despite U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ hard-line stance on marijuana, the Trump administration last week agreed to let states decide how to regulate it. Meanwhile, that California’s positioned itself as the heart of the resistance, has been enough to embolden every stodgy profession imaginable—insurance

in. But as the industry matured from scofflaw to sanctioned, clandestine to corporate, Reed’s views evolved with it.

“Initially, my stance was that it’s illegal,” he says flatly.

The feds banned marijuana and the state severely curtailed it.

“To me, that made it pretty straightforward,” Reed says. “As a city, we don’t need to regulate it because it’s already illegal. That was my position about eight years ago.”

Now, the straightlaced barrister makes a living off an industry he once wanted to stamp out. The issue he tried so hard to ignore ultimately defined his mayoral legacy to a greater degree than his signature cause of reducing pension costs.

But Reed’s was a gradual change of heart, unlike the abrupt conversion of ex-House Speaker John Boehner. The Ohio Republican, who not long ago said he was “unalterably opposed” to legalization, announced last week that he plans to profit off the cash crop.

Former California Attorney General Bill Lockyer made a similar aboutface as soon as the state authorized commercial cannabis sales. The state’s former top cop, who spent decades enforcing prohibitionist laws, launched a firm earlier this year that distributes cannabis concentrates and edibles to stores in SoCal. Lockyer and Boehner went from cracking down to cashing in. Reed’s foray into the field, at least, seems to have followed a more logical progression. As a prohibitionist, Reed says he just wanted people to follow the law. When he realized its inadequacies, he helped to rewrite it. Now, as a cannabis lawyer, he’s helping the industry do what he always hoped it would: to operate as legally as possible.

“We want to get everybody into legal compliance,” he says, “to help people follow the law, and in a way that protects their interests.”

That’s what Reed says he was trying to do in elected office.

“As mayor I was trying to figure out how to move forward when voters want one thing, the state says you have to do it a certain way and the feds say you can’t do it at all,” he says. “Even today, those same issues keep coming back. There are many, many angles that intersect with cannabis business, so our traditional clients in real estate, corporate and finance that have dealings with the industry have a lot of questions. And that’s really good for attorneys.”

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agents, accountants, real estate brokers, financial managers—to join the green rush.

Veteran pot lobbyist Sean Kali-Rai, 48, who’s helped his clients adapt to San Jose’s strict licensing standards in the past few years, founded what’s basically a marijuana chamber of commerce to ease some of those unlikely newcomers into a field that’s still battling stigma from decades of criminalization. His multicounty Silicon Valley Cannabis Alliance launched last year to link dispensaries, growers and distributors with lab techs, investors, inventors, software developers, policymakers and anyone else whose line of work might intersect with the marijuana market.

“The industry is just starting to gel,” he says. “It used to be very independent.

Everybody was kind of siloed. You had a grower here, a dispensary there and you didn’t really connect without people because of the complete lack of trust.”

Kali-Rai says he modeled the cannabis alliance after the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Joint Venture Silicon Valley, which emerged as powerful lobbies for the tech sector by forging strategic alliances. “I really do think that Silicon Valley is going to become Cannabis Valley,” he says.

So many of the veteran pot pros cut their teeth in the black and gray markets before entering into the the all-but-federally-legal multi-billion-dollar marijuana sector, which makes for a tough transition without the right guidance. While the region’s nascent Cannabis Alliance plays matchmaker between white-collar professionals and their green-collar counterparts, bluechip law firms like Hopkins & Carley aim to keep everyone aboveboard amid a shifting legal landscape. That means, among other things, reconciling local laws with state mandates, working around federal restrictions that keep cannabis a cash-only business and undergoing the formidable task of restructuring nonprofit collectives into commercial corporations.

“There’s such a desperate need for quality legal services,” Heyl explains, “because of the fact that you have this coming-together of a backroom handshake kind of culture with Silicon Valley business acumen and money.”

His colleague Chuck Reed, 69, remembers those backroom-handshake days all too well. As mayor of San Jose from 2006 to 2014, the proliferation of as many as 120 pot shops forced him into a yearslong battle to rein them

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The number of cannabis collectives authorized by the city of San Jose under its regulatory ordinance, which imposes strict oversight and high taxes.

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The number of pot churches in San Jose claiming to be exempt from the city’s permitting requirements and 10 percent canna-business tax. The folks behind the Coachella Church of Cannabis on The Alameda and Oklevueha Native American Church on Meridian Avenue say they’re religious institutions that use the plant as a sacrament. But the city contends otherwise and is trying to shut them down.

SECRET STASH A year after reporters requested records about Tom Williams’ job performance, the former Milpitas city manager is still fighting to keep them under wraps.

Judge Weighs Public’s Right to Know Against ExOfficial’s Right to Privacy in ‘Reverse CPRA’ Case

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Public records have already established that former Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams tried to spend taxpayer money on his personal legal fees and threatened to sue his own city for $1 million in damages. They’ve also detailed the alarming allegations of harassment, retaliation and ethical lapses leveled against him by former department heads.

But there’s a trove of documents that Williams is still trying to keep secret a year after reporters first requested them under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) and seven months after he resigned amid revelations of misconduct. Those records, which pertain to his job performance, were blocked from release when Williams sued the city using a relatively new legal tactic known as a “reverse CPRA,”

a judicial construct that thwarts the public’s constitutional right to access.

Now, it’s up to the court to decide whether the public’s right to know what’s in those records outweighs Williams’ right to privacy. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Sunil Kulkarni heard from both sides on Monday and expects to issue a ruling within the next three months.

The case would have wrapped up sooner had it not been reassigned.

Judge Aaron Persky, who heard oral arguments in October, had to recuse himself from the case after Milpitas Councilman Anthony Phan and Mayor Rich Tran endorsed a campaign to recall him from the bench.

Attorneys from the nonprofit First Amendment Coalition, which jumped into the fray as part of a broader effort to fight reverse

CPRAs, re-argued in Monday’s hearing that the public is entitled to know the extent of Williams’ alleged misconduct and how officials responded to it. The city’s attorney, Christine Hickey, agreed.

Williams’ lawyer, Sean Gentry, countered that the public knows enough already. Further, he said, the release of potentially “embarrassing” information could hurt the former city manager’s chances of finding another job. He said Williams now works in the private sector and has no intention of applying for another government position.

While Williams has worked for a land-use consultant for the past several months, a source familiar with the situation told Metro that he’s applying for the city manager’s post in his hometown of Millbrae.

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The market value of San Jose’s cannabis sector reached $105 million in the 2016-17 fiscal year, a number that’s expected to steadily climb now that the state sanctions recreational sales.

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The amount of cannabis tax revenue San Jose collected during that same time frame.

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Wendy Sollazzi, the city’s first-ever “weed czar,” has helmed the unit since last year.

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The number of fines levied against San Jose’s cannabis collectives.

That’s good news for the pot clubs, which face penalties of up to $50,000 for flouting the city’s strict cannabis ordinance.

“We try to work with businesses,” Sollazzi says. “We want to bring people into compliance.”

Sources: City of San Jose, Silicon Valley Cannabis Alliance

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POT PIONEER Industry veteran Steve DeAngelo has watched the South Bay’s cannabis sector evolve from the “Wild West” of weed to a destination for entrepreneurs and consumers alike.

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HEN STEVE DEANGELO envisions weed’s future in Silicon Valley, he starts to sound like Steve Jobs.

Since the Jan. 1 legalization of recreational marijuana sales in California, the longtime cannabis evangelist and founder of the Harborside mega-dispensaries in San Jose and Oakland, has been all about encouraging “new adopters,” techjargon-tinged promotional efforts and, of course, lowering his industry’s tax bill.

“We’ve got a new, super innovative way for people to experience the aroma of cannabis,” DeAngelo says of a technology Harborside is developing in response to tighter state rules on offering old-fashioned smells of products prior to purchase.

In fact, the mystery sensory enhancer will actually be part of a blind

marijuana scent-testing contest planned at Harborside. “The person who guesses the largest number of strains correctly is going to get a prize,” he says.

The mobile apps, iPad ordering system and dizzying array of marijuana derivatives stocked in the sleek, natural wood display cases at Harborside are a local illustration of an industry-wide effort to professionalize and modernize pot. In San Jose, that process has also entailed a profound shift in city policy, from the freewheeling days of more than 120 unregulated dispensaries as recently as 2014 to a center of gravity in California’s highvalue legal weed industry.

Now, with many affluent neighboring suburbs still clinging to complete or partial cannabis retail prohibitions, San Jose has become the de facto—if accidental, or at least reluctant—weed capital of Silicon Valley.

The city developed its regulatory framework after then-Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio proposed in 2009 allowing collectives to operate in exchange for a tax to fund street maintenance and a police department that had been hammered by city budget cuts and personnel departures. “If San Jose is not proactive and does not establish a set of parameters,” Oliverio argued, “then we may find ourselves behind the eight ball” San Jose netted just $500,000 from the cannabis tax in 2013. But revenues have since soared to of $10.5 million in the latest fiscal year, according Wendy Sollazzi, who heads the city’s Division of Cannabis Regulation.

“San Jose is essentially your regional market,” says Sean Kali-Rai, a former city staffer turned cannabis lobbyist and founder of the nascent Silicon Valley Cannabis Alliance, a trade association much like a chamber of commerce.

The reckoning to reach this point was painful for some, winnowing several dozen dispensaries operating in the city in 2014 down to 16 licensed retailers in today’s legal market. For those who survived the back-tax payments, moves to comply with stricter zoning rules and an overhaul of the local cannabis supply chain, however, the reward has been a rapid increase in demand as other cities struggle with starting a regulatory system from scratch.

“San Jose has a drastic head start,” says Amanda Ostrowitz, founder and CEO of cannabis regulation software startup CannaRegs. Instead of

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How San Jose went from the chaos of 100-plus unregulated dispensaries to a bastion for legal cannabis in less than five years

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implementing a new licensing system like other cities, she says, the same 16 dispensaries licensed to sell medicinal cannabis prior to Proposition 64 were also granted sales rights for recreational cannabis this year.

As a result, dispensary operators say a sizable amount of their business also comes from neighboring jurisdictions in Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Mateo counties.

Affluent tech hubs including Palo Alto, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and many others have either banned cannabis sales or allowed only limited delivery services—an extension of political anxiety about preserving “local control” of state policies that also pervades debate about housing, transportation and many other development issues.

For San Jose’s surviving legal cannabis purveyors, though, the payoff has been big.

“I have clients saying they’ve seen sales grow 30, 50, 100 percent this year,” says Kali-Rai, who represents several local dispensaries through his Los Gatos lobbying firm, Jackson and Main.

Cracking Down San Jose’s weed economy didn’t sprout overnight, and it definitely didn’t grow without controversy.

When Marc Matulich decided to get into the San Jose marijuana business in 2010, he realized he was entering a legal gray zone. The founder of Coleman Avenue’s mod, aviationthemed Airfield Supply Co.—the dispensary formerly known as the South Bay Healing Center—recalls things being very different before the recent statewide green rush.

“I think I was looking on Craigslist and just randomly reaching out to properties I saw,” Matulich recalled

of the company’s original Saratoga Avenue location. “It was a different time. We kind of wanted to be discrete and not draw too much attention to ourselves.”

San Jose’s earliest cannabis legalization policies date back to the late 1990s, after California’s first-inthe-nation vote to allow medical use with the Proposition 215 campaign centered on the drug’s potential to treat residents suffering during the AIDS crisis. A local turning point came in 2010, when San Jose residents approved the Measure U ballot initiative to tax marijuana sales—not legalizing dispensaries, per se, but allowing them to operate if they paid taxes.

Many complaints, petitions and draft laws later, regulators moved to ramp up enforcement in late 2013, when a staff report to the City Council recommended new limits on where

dispensaries could operate. Areas near schools, churches, residential neighborhoods and downtown would all be off limits. State setback rules would ultimately look similar after Proposition 64, but the initial proposal in San Jose set off a more than two-year process of licensing dispensaries for the first time—an effort that kicked off a scramble among those trying to stay in business.

“There were probably only 25 decent properties in San Jose,” Matulich says.

“There were bidding wars on purchases and leases. The landlords probably benefited the most.”

Among the most controversial proposals, which was later altered by a dispensary-backed referendum, was a requirement that dispensaries vertically integrate, growing, processing and packaging all products from seed to sale.

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“It essentially required me to go out and start a new company,” DeAngelo says of a new grow operation in Monterey County started amid the uncertainty. Still, he says, the change was necessary, since many unlicensed shops didn’t test their products and cut other corners in an effort to undercut the prices of larger dispensaries like Harborside.

Under a mandate from then-San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to “keep it out of our neighborhoods, keep it out of our schools and keep it away from our kids,” an enforcement crackdown in 2014 focused on unlicensed storefront retail businesses.

“It was definitely a challenge,” says San Jose police Sgt. David Woolsey, who now oversees cannabis enforcement for the city.

Aside from a handful of ongoing criminal cases from the period before the city’s licensing system eventually rolled out in 2015, Woolsey says San Jose continues to grapple postProposition 64 with unlicensed delivery services and cannabis-centric churches that advertise their offerings online. The city recently contacted two unnamed “online platforms” advertising such products, he says, though how the city intends to follow up is not yet clear.

Canna Caucus As the sun set in a quiet corner of South San Jose on a recent weekday, a crowd wearing a mix of tailored suits, Hawaiian shirts and branded startup swag was still trickling into the sprawling, hacienda-style Hayes Mansion.

Inside a ballroom accented by lime green lights, a German shepherd loosely tethered to one attendee looked up hopefully at small groups politely chatting over baked brie and $10 beers. Like any business event worth its salt, programming kicked off with the word from the sponsors—two marijuana-focused professional services firms—and a jab at the government.

“How are California regulations treating you?” quipped a man in a plaid button-down and leather sneakers, rousing a polite laugh from the crowd. “Clearly, we’re being overtaxed.”

The “#CannabisCaucus” hosted this month in San Jose by marijuana lobbying group the National Cannabis Industry Association revolved around the newly-legal industry’s most pragmatic concerns, from tax complaints—total state and local taxes hovering around 40 percent, a premium that growers and dispensary operators say still drives some consumers to the black market—and banking problems to underlying anxiety about the feds.

For Ostrowitz of CannaRegs, San Jose is often framed culturally within the Bay Area as relatively white collar compared to the “Wild West” of Oakland and San Francisco’s perpetual efforts to try to “be progressive.”

“I think of San Jose as the corporate one,” says Ostrowitz of CannaRegs. “They follow a process to a ‘T.’ It’s like your boardroom-style meeting.”

Steve Levine, an agribusiness attorney with the firm Husch Blackwell, says San Jose is closer than other cities in California to more tightly checked markets in Colorado.

“This is what a regulated market looks like,” Levine says. “There are lots of rules.”

Among the rules that dispensary operators hope to revisit are San Jose’s 10 percent local tax rate and zoning rules that “ghettoized” dispensary locations, DeAngelo says of the city’s current mandate for locations in industrial areas.

Woolsey says city staff has not been directed to reevaluate zoning, but lowering local taxes and adding new licenses for manufacturers of marijuana products and testing facilities are both on the table for as soon as later this year.

In the meantime, DeAngelo and his peers aim to use their growing presence in Silicon Valley to expand the industry.

“We’re really trying to capitalize on the innovation that exists here that’s taken tech from an industry that was burgeoning and turned it into this worldwide phenomenon,” National Cannabis Industry Association events manager Brian Gilbert says. “That’s the initiative we’re trying to bring to our industry.”

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CLEAN SLATE Silicon Valley pot lobbyist Sean Kali-Rai has been laying on political pressure to get South Bay officials to take a page from San Francisco, which cleared thousands of pot convictions.

Off the Record Santa Clara County has lagged in clearing pot convictions in the wake of legal weed

BY DAVID ALEXANDER

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N NOVEMBER 2016, California—along with Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine—joined the likes of Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Alaska in fully legalizing the recreational use of pot. But that decision didn’t automatically erase convictions.

Proposition 64, which voters approved by a 57 percent majority that fall, went into effect at the start of 2018. In addition to allowing Californians to cultivate up to six plants for personal use, it reduced felony possession marijuana charges to misdemeanors and voided misdemeanor charges altogether. Under the law, those with convictions would have to petition

17 defender’s office to triage those with convictions by identifying people with weed charges. That effort, he says, involves contacting people affected by Prop. 64 and educating them on how to get their convictions expunged.

As for the effort being “humanitarian,” Vanier disputes such a notion.

“The court is not in the business of social justice,” he says. “The courts are in the business of following the law handed down by the state.”

Kali-Rai disagrees.

“Justice is justice, whether it is social or criminal,” he says.

Not everybody with a marijuana conviction is eligible for expungement. Those who have pot charges attached to more serious crimes may not qualify. For instance, a pot charge attached to cases where murder, torture, mayhem or the possession of a destructive device are involved would not be able to have those charges wiped.

Marijuana transportation arrests frequently involve importing or exporting the drug out of state or child endangerment, Vanier says.

Further, cultivation arrests often have an aspect of environmental crime— use of hazardous materials or theft of water, to name a couple examples— associated with them. Still, the local DA’s office is erring on the side of caution with such convictions.

Accordingly, the DA’s office has been “meticulously combing through” rap sheets and police reports to determine the specifics of each case. So far, Vanier says, the DA’s office has had 187 cases “come through the pipeline” and sent “around” 750 letters to people eligible for expungement.

The public defender’s office is working with the DA to identify those who are affected by Prop. 64.

However, Daniel Portman, deputy public defender, says those people are a drop in the bucket of the total people affected by Prop. 64—only around 600 people on parole or in custody in the county would be eligible for expungement.

Portman says his office has filed paperwork for people’s whose convictions go as far back as the late 1960s.

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the court to have those charges expunged.

But that amelioration isn’t good enough for some.

The district attorneys in San Francisco, Sonoma and Alameda counties have already announced they will begin expunging these charges on their own accord. Some advocates hoped Santa Clara County would do the same, ridding the system of marijuana offenders without them having to seek relief from the court. But South Bay officials have been lagging.

“Santa Clara County shouldn’t be any different than San Francisco or Sonoma or Alameda County,” Silicon Valley Cannabis Alliance President Sean Kali-Rai says. “We are no different than they are … Are we as compassionate as San Francisco?

This is a compassion issue.”

The Cannabis Alliance, a regional trade organization, is teaming up with groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office and San Jose State University to, as Kali-Rai puts it, “break through the inertia” he’s sensed at the DA’s office.

The coalition plans to announce a comprehensive effort a day before 4/20, the marijuana high holiday, hoping to hold expungement fairs, similar to ones held in the Los Angeles area. These fairs will coordinate volunteers to provide information to and give those with pot convictions legal assistance to get their records cleared.

Kali-Rai calls the situation a humanitarian issue, saying the DA’s office should look at all convictions “proactively.” Many of the people with marijuana convictions do not have the know-how to navigate the court system, he adds, saying the paperwork a person with a conviction needs to fill out “difficult at best.”

One of the biggest hurdles, however, is that Prop. 64 did not earmark tax money for public agencies to undertake an expungement effort.

Patrick Vanier, supervising deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County, says his office “hit the ground running [on] day one,” working with the public

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“When you imagine the number of people going back that many years, it’s a huge number,” he says. “The [people in custody who are eligible for expungement] is a very small piece of the puzzle or this problem.”

While he favors a more systematic, statewide approach, Portman says there is no certainty that will happen. His office, he says, remains open to a local approach.

A statewide effort—a top-down approach—would perhaps be a more expedient remedy because of what Portman calls “efficiencies of scale.”

“We can either do this slowly over years or even decades or we can commit resources to this in a short amount of time,” he says. “A systemwide perspective it makes more sense to review all the old convictions in a shorter time.”

Although the DA’s office plans to unilaterally review each marijuana conviction, Vanier says it is “hard to put a timeline” on as to when that effort will be complete. That effort, since it is so time-consuming, however, could be costly, he adds.

With Santa Clara County being one of the richest regions in the world, Kali-Rai rejects that excuse.

“You should be able to find the money,” he says. “I just don’t buy the ‘we don’t have the money’ argument or the ‘we can’t find the money’ argument.”

Still, because no one interviewed for this story was able to quantify how many people in the county Prop.

64 would affect, it’s difficult to say how much it would cost the county.

William Armaline, director of the Human Rights Institute at San Jose State University, says the DA’s office has not been clear about their intent regarding proactive expungement.

A coordinated effort to expunge convictions—preferably a top-down, state-level decree—is needed to “heal some of the harms done by the drug war,” he says.

Armaline could get his wish if AB 1793, proposed by Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) passes. The bill would mandate statewide expungement.

The current effort requires grassroots outreach, which is incredibly costly, Armaline says—a lesson he learned from trying to identify immigrants. He categorized expungement as a “human rights

issue.” Anyway, he adds, even if you ignore the “human rights” aspect of expungement, getting people with marijuana convictions purged from the court system makes fiscal sense.

“We are spending money keeping these people on the books,” he says.

But Vanier says he is skeptical that purging pot convictions will alleviate pressure on the court system. Since weed is now legal, its sale is taxed.

And, just as with anything, he says, some people will inevitably try to evade that tax, undercutting the market to turn a profit.

A “robust black market” has made growing pot attractive, and, the prevalence of information on the internet makes it relatively easy to learn, he adds.

Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) shares the sentiments of advocates of automatic expungement, saying it is incumbent on the government to remove obstacles for people. The issue is one of economic growth, he adds.

“People with convictions have a tougher time getting a job, a tougher time access training programs, grants,” he says.

Eliminating those convictions will cause an influx of workers into the market, he says, bolstering the economy.

However, expunging pot convictions does not guarantee a clean slate for those with a record.

Complicating matters are websites, such as Mugshots.com. Such sites post convictions, refusing to remove them—despite proof of expungement—unless the person with the conviction pays a fine, ensuring a high likelihood it is the first thing a potential employer sees when Googling their name.

Kalra says he agrees with those who see marijuana expungement as a social justice issue.

“For decades we have treated marijuana in a ‘tough on drugs’ sort of mentality … we have locked up poor young men of color,” he says.

“Social justice and criminal justice should be one and the same.”

Portman says people who believe they could be affected by Prop. 64 should call 408.299.7347. His offers to answer questions and even file the paperwork on their behalf.

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Wed, 8pm, $49+ San Jose State Event Center

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Fri, 8pm: $60+ SAP Center, San Jose

It’s been 15 years since A Perfect Circle last released a full-length album of original material. In the time between 2003’s Thirteenth Step and the forthcoming Eat The Elephant—slated for release on April 20—APC frontman Maynard James Keenan reconnected with his first big band, Tool, and helmed his own solo project, Puscifer. Billy Howerdel, the band’s guitarist hasn’t been entirely idle, either, fronting his own solo effort, Ashes Divide. Keenan and Howerdel are back together and touring behind Eat The Elephant, which finds the band reprising its blend of sludgy, heavily affected guitars and gloomy harmonies. (NV)

When it comes to rock & roll’s most iconic drummers, Keith Moon of The Who ranks high on the list—right alongside the likes of John Bonham and Danny Carrey. Known for his explosive style, explosive alcohol consumption and the explosion he set off on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Moon’s demons ultimately got the best of him long before his time. In his one-man show, Mick Berry plays the late percussionist in Keith Moon: The Real Me, which explores the man behind the myth. Berry is himself a skilled drummer. The show runs through Sunday. (NV)

With almost 2 billion views on YouTube and collaborations with some of today’s biggest stars— including Cardi B—this Puerto Rican singer and rapper is poised to ride his brand of catchy, Latintinged trap tunes to the top of the American charts. Bad Bunny comes to San Jose this week on his first North American tour: La Nueva Religion. With explicit tracks like “Diles” about sexual prowess, his dirty lyrics are next level. Up for new artist of the year at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, Bad Bunny’s contagious cadence and distinct tone bring listeners to their feet. (KL)

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BLESS ME, ULTIMA A NIGHT AT Fri, 7:30pm: $15+ THE OPERA Mexican Heritage Theater, San Jose

Questioning the familial ties that bind and rend him, Antonio Marez embarks on a magical journey of self-discovery in New Mexico with the help of Ultima, a curandera, or shaman. Based on the acclaimed coming-of-age novel by Chicano lit luminary Rudolfo Anaya, the Mexican-American opera debuts on the West Coast following its Feb. 18 world premiere in New Mexico. Featuring music by nationally recognized Mexican-American composer Héctor Armienta, the opera explores themes of destiny, the natural world and balance. Mezzosoprano Suzanna Guzman will star as Ultima and members of the San Mateo-based Masterworks Chorale will perform the opera chorus. It runs through Sunday. (KL)

Sat, 8pm: $39+ California Theatre, San Jose

Hosted by Paula Poundstone, A Night at the Opera aims to throw a humorous twist on this stereotypically stuffy artform.

The stand-up comic Poundstone is known for her quick wit and improvisational ability. Over the course of her decades-long career, she has appeared on television and on the radio. She is a regular guest on NPR’s weekly news quiz, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Some of her recent work includes a new comedy podcast Live from the Poundstone Institute. In a stage shared with Opera San Jose artists and chorus, the comedian will deliver with a recognizable sense of humor. (JR)

* concerts JOYCE MANOR

May 4 at The Ritz

BLESS ME, ULTIMA

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

TOM JONES

May 30 at Mountain Winery

TONY BENNETT

Jun 3 at Mountain Winery

KESHA & MACKLEMORE Jun 14 at SAP Center

THE ROOTS

Jun 17 at Mountain Winery

VIOLENT FEMMES

Jun 21 at Mountain Winery

INTERNATIONAL POSTCARDS Sat, 7:30pm: $10+ Trianon Theater, San Jose Featuring works by European and North American composers—and a performance by a Korean pianist— the Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose presents a globetrotting musical journey. Led by conductor Emily Ray, the concert will feature a first-ever performance of “Narcisse,”

by American composer Robert McCauley. Canadian composer Marjan Mozetich will showcase contemporary work, with a strings performance of “Postcards from the Sky.” A solo performance will be delivered by Korean pianist Michelle Kim, founder of Hong Kong Next Generation Arts.

The program will also feature familiar music, such as Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and 5. (JR)

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Get ready to roast a fatty. One of the biggest burners in the rap game closes out the 4/20 weekend at the SJSU. Tha Doggfather comes to town riding high on his 420 Wellness Retreat tour. Snoop, who needs no introduction, is sure to play the hits along with new material from the four albums he’s released over the past four years—including the 2015 Pharrell Williams-produced record BUSH and his brand new collection of gospel tunes, Bible of Love. Wiz Khalifa, Migos, Lil Pump and Rae Sremmurd are also rolling up. (SM)

Local artists, high-flying wrestlers and Silicon Valley musicians will converge with tasty food trucks, cold beer and other creative vendors in downtown San Jose this Sunday, as the biannual SoFA Street Fair returns with its yearly spring installment. This year the spring fling features four outdoor stages and 12 indoor venues— including The Ritz, Forager and Uproar Brewing Co. Pounders, David Brookings, Panhandlers Union, Steely Nash & The Cuts, Love District, Wax Moon, Israel Sanchez, Life Size Models, Super Soul Bros and Boy Uomo are all slated to perform. Plus many more. (NV)

*mon GENTLEMEN BOSSES Mon, 8pm, Free Cafe Stritch, San Jose The South Bay welcomes two allstar poets as they make a stop on a national book tour celebrating the release of their new poetry collections. Renowned performance artist and founder of Write Bloody Publishing, Derrick C. Brown, will read from his new book, Hello. It Doesn’t Matter. along with national and international Poetry Slam champion Anis Mojgani, who will read from In The Pockets of Small Gods, released earlier this month.

San Jose’s own Write Bloody poet, David Perez, will join the show, hosted by Santa Clara County Poet Laureate (and Metro contributor) Mighty Mike Mcgee. Reserve free tickets online. (SP)

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 & KACEY MUSGRAVES

Jul 11 at SAP Center

CHRIS ISAAK

Jul 2 at Mountain Winery

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

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‘Humanity in the Age of “Frankenstein”’ explores the vulnerability of our flesh

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HEN MARY SHELLEY published Frankenstein on Jan. 1, 1818, she had no idea that the bioethical questions she raised in her groundbreaking novel would still have relevance 200 years later.

Shelley’s exploration of the human form—and the moral, ethical, scientific and spiritual questions surrounding technology and the body that still remain unsolved— are the subject of a new Cantor Arts Center exhibition, which asks viewers to consider what it means

to be human, as the line between science and science fiction becomes increasingly blurry.

“Betray the Secret: Humanity in the Age of ‘Frankenstein’” is one of the main visual attractions of Frankenstein@200, a year-long, universitywide celebration of the novel’s 200th anniversary. Co-curated

by Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, the Burton and Deedee McMurtry curator of drawings, prints and photographs at Cantor, and Alexander Nemerov, a professor and chair of the art and art history department at Stanford, the exhibition acts as a jumping-off point for viewers to further examine the

bioethical issues raised in the book that we still wrestle with today.

“As they increasingly intervene in the body and our daily lives, science and technology have the capacity to alter and redefine what we think of as human,” co-curator Mitchell explains in a phone interview. “The exhibition is looking at these intersections between humanity, science, and technology — which often meet at the site of the body—and seeing continuity in the ways artists have approached the subject of the body and its interior.”

Comprising 38 works of American and European art from the mid-18th century to present day, the exhibition is divided into four subsections that all touch on aspects of the novel— from the vulnerability of the human body to the scientist’s laboratory— and allow viewers to have up-close, contemplative moments with a range of very different images that all point back to the same question: how do we differentiate between the boundaries of life and death when machines intervene with natural bodies?

Although the novel was published

in 1818, Mitchell and Nemerov purposefully chose to display a number of works that span back to the 18th century to recognize the intellectual context that the novel grew out of, and to show how similar conversations are being had today, Mitchell explained.

“These ideas didn’t just magically appear in 1800. We wanted to trace back into the 18th century to get an idea of where some of the assumptions and ideas Shelley talks about were coming from,” says Mitchell. “It was enlightening to realize we’ve been having the same conversation about the body for centuries.”

One piece that stands out in particular—and a favorite of Mitchell’s—is a graphite and ink drawing of a skeleton done by famed Bay Area printmaker Beth Van Hoesen when she was a student at Stanford studying painting. While assigned to draw a skeleton to better understand the body’s structure and proportions, Van Hoesen brought an otherwise ordinary assignment to life by giving the figure movement and a personality, opening up a conversation about what is real and what is fantasy.

“The drawing sets you up to think about art, whether it’s literature or the visual arts, as being completely fantastic but also grounded in the real world,” Mitchell explains. “I think that’s why some of the more imaginative works in this exhibition resonate so strongly and have a big impact: we are showing that visual artists are doing the same thing Mary Shelley had done, and it can be incredibly effective.”

For Mitchell, the most exciting part of curating “Betray the Secret” has been placing a collection of otherwise disparate works together to create a uniquely cohesive experience for patrons, many of whom are coming to view the exhibit without any additional background context on the book or the Frankenstein@200 celebration. Instead of drawing viewers to a specific conclusion, she hopes that the exhibition will inspire larger questions about morality, ethics and the future of medicine in an increasingly digital world.

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PINTS AND PICTURES The former Camera 7 reopens as Pruneyard

Area playwrights, like Bushra Burney, author of ‘Designated Muslim.’

Cinemas this weekend—replete with craft brew and new movies.

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CITY LIGHTS THEATER is gearing up for its second annual Lights Up festival, featuring four new full-length plays—plus a special selection of scenes stitched together under the theme of surveillance and privacy.

“Lights Up” is the result of an evaluation of about 100 plays submitted for the festival, according to the program’s manager, Rachel Bakker. “From seasoned playwrights to people just starting out,” the only requirement was that the writer live in the Bay Area.

The four plays chosen for performance touch on diverse themes, from the immigrant experience to family heartbreak to economic catastrophe.

Three of the four selected playwrights (and all four of the plays’ directors) are women. Each play will be presented once over the weekend at City Lights’ downtown San Jose theater space.

The festival begins Friday, with Bushra Burney’s Designated Muslim, a contemporary comedy about a Pakistani-American woman’s search for connection in a modern world Lights Up that thinks it’s more cultural sensitive than it really is.

On Saturday afternoon, the festival continues Apr 27-29, $7+ with Susan Jackson’s Miracle Lake, which tells City Lights Theater, the story of one family’s struggle to overcome San Jose a catastrophic accident. And Saturday night cltc.org features Speaking the Language by Marsha Roberts, a redemption tale about one woman’s economic freefall from high-powered attorney to house cleaner.

Desperate Hearts by Douglas Rees—a period drama set in the 1920s about the cultural changes experienced by three young women – is the last of the four original plays to be showcased at the festival, on Sunday afternoon.

The festival closes on Sunday evening with The Plurality of Privacy plays, a series of short (five-minute) scenarios, produced by the Goethe-Institut of Washington, D.C. The short plays all examine the issues surrounding privacy in a high-tech world, and they are being presented in a network of participating theaters throughout North America and Europe.

The combination of the original plays from local playwrights and the shorts program produced by an outside group is designed to create a festival atmosphere, Bakker says. “The overall goal of the festival is to support local talent,” Bakker says. “Every playwright’s goal is to get their play produced and we want to give playwrights that chance at a full production.” —Wallace Baine

THE PRUNEYARD SHOPPING Center in Campbell is approaching the half-century mark. Many of its contemporaries have been bulldozed for new development, but this tree-lined, open-air plaza is getting renovated.

It has a new anchor. The shuttered Camera 7 reopens as the Pruneyard Cinemas, with half the seats and twice the appeal.

It possesses that satisfying new-car smell, and features electric reclining seats and an adjoining restaurant—one menu for snacking or dining as you watch, a larger one for the lounge. The Pruneyard will be the first Silicon Valley representative Pruneyard Cinemas of a nationwide trend of cocktails at the movies, offering up an alternative to binge watching on the Opens Apr 23 couch. While some local theaters serve beer and wine, Pruneyard Shopping this is the first such venue where moviegoers will be able Center, Campbell to order cocktails directly from their seat in the theater.

Los Angeles has already gone all in for movies and drinks instead of Netflix and chill. San Francisco has a branch of the Austinbased Alamo Drafthouse—that theater’s Isaac Shumway was a consultant on the Pruneyard project. The management is a four-partner group: attorney Peter Liebow, long-time exhibitor Jack NyBlom, who co-founded Camera Cinemas in 1975; Don Orloff of Hope Services, and Ed Rathman, one of the original investors in Eulipia, the predecessor of Café Stritch.

The kitchen’s walk-in refrigerator is laden with locally sourced produce for the restaurant. The Cedar Room is decorated with 1950s RKO movie posters. The bar isn’t just a service bar for the waiters to deliver a drink order in the dark— “like Ninjas,” in Orloff’s words. It’s planned to be a destination. Built in the space that used to belong to Boswell’s, a notorious stained-glass lined fern bar of the ’70s, it includes a stage for jazz and blues. Because of noise regulations, music ceases at 10pm in downtown Campbell. Here the locals can stay up late.

Food ranges from spare-rib sandwiches to wild arugula and roasted pear salads. Suggested “Theater cocktails” include Negronis and a $14 “Nitro Zombie 1935” (“2 Max Per Guest”) as well as a suggested menu of boilermakers. Even an Akiva Goldsman script would sound plausible after an Elijah Craig Small Batch chased with a Berryessa Double Tap IPA. On the menu are top-shelf mezcals, vodkas and whiskeys, a wine list and 22 taps, about 10 of them rotating for local brews. Here are offerings as mild as Sierra Nevada’s Kellerweis and as profound as Old Rasputin Imperial Stout.

It only looks expensive: seat prices are at parity with the big-box theaters, $14 Friday and Saturday to $8 Tuesday seating all day. —Richard von Busack

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Lonely Planet Netflix resurrects ‘Lost in Space’ with a lavish all-ages reboot

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE BEGINNING OF the end of the world arrived on Christmas, just as we all knew it would.

The giant meteorite dubbed Christmas Star hit the Earth and turned our planet’s atmosphere into Beijing-level smog. Netflix’s Lost in Space begins as one chosen family, part of a convoy of settlers, lands on a wintry planet.

Passengers include young Will Robinson (Maxwell Jenkins, as tearfully vulnerable as the original Billy Mumy was modestly cocky),

the seemingly adopted prodigy Judy (Taylor Russell), and her miffed sister, Penny (Mina Sundall). On an unknown planet, the space travelers deal with family tensions, a pair of fire and ice ordeals, an emergency fasciotomy and the arrival of a suspicious castaway (Parker Posey) calling herself “Dr. Smith.”

Molly Parker is deftly cast as the mother, Maureen. This Canadian actress once starred in such extreme indie movies as The Center of the World and Kissed. Parker honors the eerie maternal calm of June Lockhart, who originated the part. After the saucer crash in the season opener, Parker’s Maureen announces that she has

broken her leg, in tones that sound like a person who just discovered there’s no milk in the fridge. She is also rather cool about her fraying marriage to John Robinson (Toby Stephens), a Marine whose frequent secret deployments caused a rift between them. Maureen tells him her opinion of how to teach the children: “I think it’s important to them to have us speaking in one voice.

That voice is mine.”

There are few Spacies compared to Trekkies—the 1965-68 Lost in Space was known for recycled costumes and incidents of absolute ridiculousness: alien Vikings, vegetable people …

But the worst of classic Star Trek is beat by the best of TV’s Lost in Space.

Early episodes had credible danger.

“Robot,” whose real name was Robot B-9, wasn’t always benign. As voiced by veteran announcer Dick Tufeld, the robot was capable of pregnant silences and sudden, alarming outbursts: “WARNING!” To encourage aliens to keep their distance, it would shoot lightning out of its claws. Netflix’s reboot gives its robot—now a mysterious alien

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DANGER A robot of alien origin becomes fast friends with Will Robinson in Netflix’s reboot of ‘Lost in Space.’

creation—the famous tag “Danger, Will Robinson,” buzzed in a Ben Burttstyle voice. But the synthetic being has some human blood on his hands already. And there’s no guarantee he won’t change back into a killer.

The original Lost in Space allowed the comedic relief to steal the show.

Harris’ Dr. Smith, an apparent Communist agent, evolved into a wicked uncle, a shirker and a coward.

Harris gave some of the most fragrant acting on that decade’s television.

He’d insult the robot: “Deplorable dummy! Tin-plated traitor!” Just as a queer kid could see Paul Lynde on Bewitched and figure out that there was life beyond being bullied in high school, kids who had a taste for sarcasm and literary language could watch Harris slap the robot with a thesaurus and feel that there was a place for them somewhere out there.

The name Smith is such a timehonored alias. Here, Posey’s selfproclaimed doctor goes on a long trek with a fellow shipwreck victim, Ignacio Serricchio’s Poe Dameron-like Don West. The color in these sequences is convincingly extraterrestrial—a little digital augmenting adds a slight trace of green to the sky and a purple-brown tinge to the land; far more subtle and convincing than the overwrought planet-building of A Wrinkle in Time.

It’s hard to imagine Posey taking over the show in subsequent seasons; she’s a seether, not a needler like Harris, and she’s still a wild card. But her naysaying adds tart contrast to Judy’s Miss Perfect qualities, and it’s clear she’ll be exploiting fissures in the broken home, or, rather, broken spaceship.

The undertone of divorce is essential to the adventure. The scene of dad John lamely trying to chat up son Will, asking him if he’s still interested in baseball and plastic models is meant to wring a baby boomer’s heart, even if those questions would be anachronistic in the near future. Mostly this new version, basically as family friendly as the original, provides the audience with a taste of nostalgia without over serving them. It plays like something made for love instead of money.

The Dap Kings

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A Closer Look At The Dap-Kings Destined to become a DJ staple, this collection of instrumental tracks by one of the greatest live bands this side of Y2K is sure to go quick. The Dap Kings were the backing band for almost the entire neo-soul movement of the early 21st century, laying down the tracks for Amy Winehouse, Charles Bradley and Sharon Jones—all of whom are sadly gone. Now this release allows listeners to hear the detail in all its glory.

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Chicano Batman Chicano Batman The long-out-of-print self-titled full length by L.A.’s Chicano Batman gets a limited reissue treatment for Record Store Day, this time with new artwork.

Celebrated for their soulful mix of psychy ’60s rock and good ol’ party vibes, they’ve been a singular (and funky) voice in Latin rock since this album dropped in 2009. A testament to their timelessness, it still sounds as fresh today as it did then. Limited to 3,000 copies.

Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas DIG THIS Get your vinyl-flipping fingers ready. Record Store Day is this weekend.

On The Record

Record Store Day returns to Silicon Valley with collectible cassettes, vinyl rarities

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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OR MORE THAN 10 years now, Record Store Day, the annual celebration of locally owned, brickand-mortar music shops, has stoked the passions of music lovers all over the country.

Every year, artists release new and previously unheard music, along with bootlegs and reissues—often in collectable formats, including vinyl and cassette.

Below are some of the choice titles that you might be able to get your hands on if you visit Streetlight or Rasputin. But don’t forget to visit other local shops. Look to On the Corner Music in Campbell for great bargains on used records. Be sure to factor in some serious browsing time in order to comb through the massive selection at The Record Man in Redwood City. And be prepared to tap into your savings account after listening to the high-fi audio equipment at The Analog Room in San Jose.

Neil Young Tonight’s the Night Live Revered and reviled in equal measure, Tonight’s The Night is an almost mythical release for Neil Young fans. Though it has some of his best songs and was named one of the 500 best rock albums of all time by Rolling Stone, it is also difficult, obstinate and drunk with grief. This live album (from a two-night stint at the Roxy) was the first performance of the songs that would haunt a generation.

On the strength of these two EPs, Courtney Barnett went from playing Melbourne bars to Saturday Night Live.

Now reprinted on picture disc for Record Store Day, this edition comes with goodies like a Mom+Pop Records 10-year poster, and a Barnett temporary tattoo.

Originally released in 2014 (before she collaborated with Kurt Vile), the record includes the hit “Avant Gardener,” which established Barnett as something of this generation’s Lou Reed and launched her career in the process.

Waxahatchee & Kevin Morby

Arcade Fire

Dark Don’t Hide It / Farewell Transmission

Arcade Fire EP

Jason Molina’s untimely death in 2013 haunted many in the music community.

In life, the singer of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. seemed dogged by an incredible pain, following him around like a shadow. This split from Katie Crutchfield (aka Waxahatchee) and Kevin Morby (Woods, The Babies) comprises two covers of beloved Molina

The first release by Win Butler and crew, this self-titled seven-song EP is available on vinyl for the first time ever. Originally appearing in 2003, the album features one song that was later re-recorded for Neon Bible (“No Cars Go”), as well as a few that have been staples of live sets over the years. Perfect for completists, or anyone interested in following the band’s development over the years.

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SEPTEMBER 1 Lost 80’s Live featuring A Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, Men Without Hats, Missing Persons, Farrington and Mann original vocalists of When In Rome UK, Dramarama, Animotion, Bow Wow Wow, Gene Loves Jezabel, Boys Don’t Cry 2 Hot Tuna Electric with Steve Kimock 5 The Orginal Wailers / Ozomatli 6 The Mavericks / Los Lobos 7 ABBA The Concert A Tribute to ABBA An Evening with 12 Lyle Lovett and his Large Band 13 Craig Ferguson 14 Daughtry 15 O.A.R. JUST LIKE PARADISE TOUR Featuring

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all ages welcome THE GO!GO! GONE SHOW WITH M IGHTY M IKE M C G EE downbeat at 8:30pm unless noted THU 19 Jimmy Gallagher Quartet FRI 20 Geechi Taylor Quintet SAT 21 Muziki Roberson Quintet SUN 22 The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session 7pm WED25 WW: Black & Brown Showcase THU 26 Eddie Mendenhall Quartet

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GET DECKED The Wu Tang Clan’s infamous 1993 debut studio album will be reissued on cassette for Record Store Day.

songs as a fundraiser for Musicares, a nonprofit that offers mental health services to musicians. Beautiful music for an important, oft-overlooked cause.

Notorious B.I.G. Juicy 12-inch Yes, this is only one track and, yes, it was originally released way back in 1994 (and can still be heard regularly today), but “Juicy” is without a doubt one of the best hip-hop songs of all time. From the beat, to the impossibly catchy chorus, to the pitch perfect rags-to-riches lyrics, this is the song every emcee in the game wishes they wrote. A must for every party, DJ set and collector alike. Biggie lives on.

Wu Tang Clan Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers) on Cassette Why give Enter the Wu Tang a cassette tape release in 2018? Because if you want to hear Wu Tang the way Wu Tang first heard Wu Tang, this is it. When it was released in ’93, the tape was the dominant format for demos and studio bounces. Plus it has a different sound than vinyl—it’s grimier and more boomy, which makes it perfect for this famously gritty record, and one of the best albums in hip-hop.

The Ramones Sundragon Sessions One of the rarest items on this list is the Sundragon Sessions by the Ramones.

Recorded in ’76, these were demos for the band’s second album, Leave Home, and were only released recently as part of that record’s 40th anniversary box set. If you didn’t get the box set then, or simply want these gems on vinyl, this is the one and only way to do so. Limited to a worldwide run of 10,000.

Czarface & MF Doom Man’s Worst Enemy 7” Inspectah Deck often gets forgotten in the rouges gallery that is the Wu Tang Clan, but he’s had a renewed sense of purpose in the hip-hop supergroup Czarface. This new 7” is meant to be played along with the accompanying comic book that serves as the record’s insert. It’s a (graphic) novel usage of media, and one makes the case for the physical record over streaming in a whole new way.

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7:30PM WED 4/18 JOHN WATERS IN CONVERSATION @ STANFORD One of my favorite weirdos who isn’t me is legendary filmmaker, John Waters. Maybe the most honorable dude nearing mythical status. He’s the Sultan of Sleaze. I like to think of him as the Bae of Bizarre. Homie’s 71 years old—hurry up!—go see him talk. Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St, Stanford University

7PM THU 4/19 DRINK & DRAW @ SLG ART BOUTIKI Carlos Velasquez hosts and DJs this monthly event that puts art and beer in your hands at the same time. “Hulllo. I’mm... Brob Rosss and I’m gunna showw you how to make trappy little creez.” Scribe and imbibe. Vinyl spins and everyone wins. 44 Race St, San Jose

9PM THU 4/19 OMAR APOLLO WITH SIN AMORES @ CONTINENTAL Tommy of Universal Grammar puts on some of the best shows in San José—always coming through with a topnotch act. He is not kidding with Omar Apollo. One of the smoothest, most soulful voices in young music. Trust me: buy your tickets now, then watch him on YouTube. 349 S First St, San Jose

2PM–9PM SUN 4/22 SOFA STREET FAIR SPRING 18 I honestly cannot think of a more spring fling thing happening in the South Bay. An event that says: “Come on outdoors! Spend the day basking in the sun in the heart of downtown San Jose... oh, and ON EARTH DAY.” Along South First Street, between San Carlos and William streets.

WED 4/18

THU 4/19

JOHN WATERS IN CONVERSATION

THURSDAYS ON THE MOUNTAIN

7:30pm: Bing Concert Hall (Stanford) 327 Lasuen St, Stanford

Country Roadhouse Night 6:30pm: Mountain Winery 14831 Pierce Rd, Saratoga

ROCK: A PERFECT CIRCLE 8pm: San Jose State Event Center 290 S Seventh St, San Jose

HIP-HOP: WATZREAL, CASH CAMPAIN plus Unanimous, Dopeless 9pm: Back Bar SoFa 418 S Market St, San Jose

VARIETY: GO! GO! GONE SHOW 9pm: Cafe Stritch 374 S First St, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Thu, 4/19, 6:30pm: Guided Pair Bbq Dinner. Sat, 4/21, 9pm: AJ Crawdaddy.

3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

9TH ANNUAL POETRY INVITATIONAL

Ten poets write ekphrastic poems about exhibited pieces.

7pm: San Jose Museum of Art 110 S Market St, San Jose

PENS & FRIENDS: DRINK & DRAW BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

Tue, 10pm: PubStumpers.

Thu, 4/19, 10pm: DJ One Man Army. Fri, 4/20, 10pm: Superbad Band. Sat, 4/21, 10pm: Emophaticks.

5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

7pm: Art Boutiki Music Hall 44 Race St, San Jose

COUNTRY: SARA EVANS

8pm: Campbell Heritage Theatre 1 W Campbell Ave, Campbell

MIGHTY MORPHIN’: POWER RANGERS LIVE

8pm: City National Civic 135 W San Carlos St, San Jose

SOUL POP: OMAR APOLLO

plus Sin Amores (Chulita Vinyl Club) 9pm: Continental Bar & Lounge 349 S First St, San Jose

RAP: ANDRE NICKATINA & SMOOV-E

9pm: Los Gatos Bar and Grill 15-1/2 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

FRI 4/20 EXHIBIT: AROUSING BIOPHILIA

Closing Sun 4/22 11am–3pm: Art Ark Gallery 88 S Fourth St, San Jose

JAZZ: KRISTEN STROM QUARTET

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

JAZZ: THE PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP

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

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HAWAIIAN: ALDON SANDERS

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

LATIN TRAP: BAD BUNNY 8pm: SAP Center 525 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

SAN JOSE SPELLING BEER A real, adult spelling bee 8:30pm: Local Color 27 S First St, San Jose

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

Sunday brunch, 10am–2pm.

Mon–Fri, 4–6pm: Happy hour. Sun, 4/24, 7pm: Cocktail Class: Forgotten Classics. $75 per person.

18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos

SOFA STREET FAIR

Spring ‘18 Edition 2pm–9pm: South First Street Between San Carlos and William streets

JAZZ: EMMET COHEN TRIO SHERWOOD INN

HIP-HOP: DJ MUSTARD

First Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek.

2nd Tue, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. 3rd Tue, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. 4th Tue, 6pm: The Mighty Crows. 2nd Wed, 6pm: Blue House. 3rd Wed, 6pm: Fred McCarthy.

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

1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose Monthly art & music gathering 7pm: KALEID Art Gallery 88 S Fourth Street, San Jose

plus Magick Blues Band 9pm: Caravan Lounge 98 Almaden Ave, San Jose

Fri, 4/20, 9pm: Zero, DJ Bit, and DJ Basura. Sat, 4/21, 8pm: Plan 9, Them Creatures, The Creepoids, and Red Devil Lie. Sun, 4/22, 2pm: SoFA Street Fair Day with Psychotica and Draemings.

400 S First St, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ

TWO-BUCK TUESDAY

PUNKABILLY: VAN GOAT, FULMINANTE

THE RITZ

8pm: Cafe Stritch 374 S First St, San Jose

TUE 4/24

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

1072 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

POETRY: DERRICK BROWN & ANIS MOJGANI

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

2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

EARTH DAY ART CELEBRATION

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

SEXY: BAD INFLUENCE BURLESQUE

8pm: Improv 62 S Second St, San Jose

Free and open to the public 12pm: Art Ark Gallery 1035 S Sixth St, San Jose

MUSICAL: GUYS AND DOLLS 1pm, 6pm: Montgomery Theatre 271 S Market St, San Jose

WILLOW DEN

LEGEND: SNOOP DOGG FEAT. WIZ KHALIFA

Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Wed: Country Music & Buck Beers.

Fri & Sat: Rotating DJs (no hip-hop). Sun: Service Industry Night (half off with your industry card).

803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

with Socorra 7:30pm: Art Boutiki Music Hall 44 Race St, San Jose

COMEDY: JASON MEWES

OPEN MICS

HAWAIIAN: NA KOLOHE KANE

MON 4/23

10pm: Pure Nightclub 146 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

SAT 4/21 ROCK: POUNDERS CD RELEASE

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

BOLLYWOOD: PRITAM CHAKRABORTY

8pm: San Jose State Event Center 290 S Seventh St, San Jose

PRINCE TRIBUTE: WHEN DOVES CRY

9:30pm: Club Fox 2209 Broadway, Redwood City

7pm: San Jose State Event Center 290 S Seventh St, San Jose Jay of Jay & Silent Bob 7pm: Improv 62 S Second St, San Jose

POETRY: DANA GIOIA

Current California poet laureate 4pm: Dr. MLK, Jr. Library 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

MEXICAN FOLKLORIC DANCING CLASS

5pm: Biblioteca Latinoamericana Branch Library 921 S First St, San Jose

BACK BAR

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

CAFFE FRASCATI

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

CAFE STRITCH

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

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ROYALE WITH THREES San Jose’s pretty lucky to have such an eclectic mix of musical acts. We’ll be even luckier on Saturday to have a new album and performance from rock power trio, Pounders. A surefire good time, doubled with Soccora as their opener. April 21 at Art Boutiki. 44 Race Street, San Jose.

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

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Where you go wrong is in taking the hesitant approach to asking a woman out—waiting for her to give you some unambiguous indication of interest (ideally, in large red letters on a lighted billboard pulled by a pair of rented elephants).

That said, you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself. The psychological operating system now driving you (and all of us) evolved to solve ancestral mating and survival problems, and what was adaptive back then can be maladaptive today.

Take how we evolved to be deeply concerned about safeguarding our reputation. Reputation is essentially our social report card—others’ evaluation of the sort of person we are. It matters today, of course, but not in the life-or-death way it often did in an ancestral environment, where— per anthropologist Irven DeVore’s estimate—many people were with the same band of about 25 others for much of their life. Back then, if a guy got

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Flash-forward to today. You’re in a bar. Some woman you hit on spurns you. Well, that blows—and more so if there are witnesses. But there are countless other bars—which means you can erase the embarrassing stain on your social rap sheet simply by trotting down the block to the next happy hour.

Ultimately, recognizing the mismatch between our evolved emotions and modern life helps you understand when the emotions driving you are counterproductively outdated—and basically stupid. In short, assuming that a woman you’re chatting up isn’t giving you a hate glare, ask her out. If she isn’t interested, she’ll let you know—either right then, with some brushoff like “Actually, I have a boyfriend…” or later, when you phone her and hear: “Home Depot, lumber department. How may I direct your call?”

I just accompanied my best friend on this extremely stressful trip to put her mom into assisted living. My friend vapes, and I started vaping, too, after being off nicotine for years. I bought a vape, but I’m hiding it from my wife because she’s so judgmental about it. I’m not ready to stop yet, but I feel awful hiding it.—Hooked What’s worse than the crime? The cover-up—when your wife asks “How was your day, honey?” and you just nod as vape smoke leaks out of your nostrils.

Your hiding your vaping is an “instrumental lie.” This kind of deceit, explains deception researcher Bella DePaulo, is a self-serving lie used as an “instrument” to unfairly influence other people’s behavior—allowing the liar to get what they want, do what they want, or avoid punishment.

Chances are, the “punishment” you’re avoiding is the rotten feelings you’d have in the wake of your wife’s dismay that your old BFF, nicotine, is back.

However, DePaulo’s research on people duped by those close to them suggests that covering up the truth is ultimately more costly—leading to far more and far longer-lasting feelbad.

It makes sense that the betrayal is the

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Telling the truth, on the other hand— leaving your wife feeling disappointed, but not deceived—sets the stage for a discussion instead of a prosecution. This allows your wife the emotional space to see the real you—the you who broke down and started vaping while doing this emotionally grueling very kind deed. (What?! You aren’t made of titanium?!) Compassion from your wife should mean more leeway for you to set the behavioral agenda—to tell her that you want to stop but ask that she let you do it on your own timetable.

(c)2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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Software Test Engineer: Job# 2017264 (1 opening) Design,develop & execute test plans for testing L2 protocol functionalitiesof the TCP/IP stack such as RSTP, VLAN and ARP. Mail resume with Job #to HR at Versa Networks, Inc., 6001 America Centre Dr, Ste 400, SanJose, CA 95002.

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Position requires experience in the following: Pandas (2 years with a Master’s degree or 3 years with a Bachelor’s degree); Python matplotlib (1 year); Python scikitlearn (2 years); Tensorflow (1 year); Keras (1 year); SpeartMing, Hyperopt, and Hyperas (1 year); Spark Compute engineer (2 years); Java for data processing and machine learning backend (2 years with a Master’s degree or 3 years with a Bachelor’s degree); Autosklearn (1 year). Employment background checks may be required. Send resumes to: Larry Chen, (KP), Arimo, LLC, 888 Villa Street, Suite 400, Mountain View, CA 94041

Engineering/ Technology Advantest America, Inc., leading producer of automatic test equipment (ATE), has opening in San Jose, CA for R&D Engineer Developing (RE05): Develop PRD (Product Requirement Description) document to help define new test system features that will benefit all customers testing SSD devices. Ref job code and send resume to Advantest, Attn: HR K.H., 3061 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95134.

ENGINEERING/ TECHNOLOGY NVIDIA Corporation, market leader in graphics & digital media processors, has engineering opportunities in Santa Clara, CA for a Sr. Sys SW Engr (SSWE493) Design, implement and maintain system software that enables communication between GPUs, as well as communication of & GPUs with other system components; Technical Product Marketing Mgr V (TPMM03) Engage with various NVIDIA technology partners and identify areas of collaboration. Position may require up to 10% of international and/or domestic travel; and ASIC Engr (ASICDE488) Design and implement the industry’s leading graphics, video, media & communications processors.

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES 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 #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)

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 #640895 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JP Development By V.B.C. Construction, 1346 The Alameda, Suite 173, San Jose, CA, 95126, Jaime Pablo Preciado, 188 s. Morrison Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, Alfred Zamora, 2488 Karen Drive., #4, Santa Clara, CA, 95050. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/05/2018. Refile of previous file #640854 with changes. /s/Jaime Preciado. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/05/2018. (pub Metro 04/18, 04/25, 05/02, 05/09/2018)

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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)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Castros Woodworks, 147 Flintwell Ct., San Jose, CA, 95138, William Richard Castro. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/02/2018. /s/ William Richard Castro. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/02/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

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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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640611 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aporo Lending, 1288 Kifer Road, Suite 205, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Aporo Lending, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Shuwu Song. President. #4127358.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/02/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640191 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tradesmen Consulting, 6404 Camden Ave., San Jose, CA, 95120. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/20/2018. /s/Joel M. Sousa.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/20/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

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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)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Orchard City RV, 309 Brian Ct., San Jose, CA, 95123, Orchard City RV 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 09/05/2012. Refile of previous file #569202 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Matt Gordon. President. #201536210442. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/05/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

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 Cruz-Johnson. 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 #640377 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vape N Smoke, 223 W. Calaveras Blvd, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Abdul Qudoos, 822 Wilow Park Lane, Tracy CA, 95376. 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/Abdul Qudoos. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/23/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640767 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Compliance Engineering LLC, 2260 Zoria Cir., San Jose, Ca, 95131. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/03/2018.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Anusha Anusha. Managing Member. #201807410340. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/04/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640858 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Reo Mason, 7472 Dumas Drive, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Chiou-Pying Cheng. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/05/2018. /s/Chiou-Pying Cheng.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Arber & Lash, 1525 Meridian Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Katerina Arber, 33 Park Village Place, San Jose, CA, 95136,. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/15/2018. /s/Katerina Arber. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/02/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640983 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Accent Fintech, 152 N. San Tomas Aquino Rd., Ste A, Campbell, CA, 95014, ASJ Funding, 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 04/06/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Sumant Jeswani.

Manager. #201807110189. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/06/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #641019 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KE Solutions, 1346 The Alameda Blvd., 7-176, San Jose, CA, 95126, David Napan. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/20/2017. Refile of previous file #631095 due to publication requirement not met of previous filing. /s/David Napan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/09/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640810 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: China Delight Restaurant, 5813 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA, 95123, JMH Business Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jennifer Hin. President. #4114644. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/05/2018. (pub Metro 04/18, 04/25, 05/02, 05/09/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #640295 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kingscape Landscape Construction, 5868 Montevino Dr., San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/01/2018. /s/Elezar Renteria. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/22/2018. (pub Metro 04/11, 04/18, 04/25, 05/02/2018)

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S IT TIME to slip your doggo some dope? Californians have been using medical marijuana for decades, and now more humans are sharing the benefits of blazing with their four-legged friends.

But before getting your furbaby lit on some good shit, Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) wants to make sure you check in first with your local veterinarian about the risks and options. That’s why he wrote AB 2215, a bill that would protect licensed veterinarians in California from disciplinary action for discussing with pet owners the use of medical marijuana as a treatment for animals.

“The law is completely silent on veterinarians advising patient owners or on dispensaries being able to sell anything targeting pets,” Kalra said at a reception in February for the Silicon Valley Cannabis Alliance. “It speaks only to human consumption. That’s why we need this guidance.”

Medical doctors would still be the only professionals permitted to issue medical marijuana recommendations in California but, according to the proposed legislation, “a veterinarian licensed under this chapter shall not be disciplined by the board or have his or her license denied, revoked, or suspended for discussing the use of cannabis on an animal for medicinal purposes.”

Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a non-psychoactive compound in marijuana that’s effective for treating ailments such as anxiety, insomnia, inflammation, arthritis, dementia and epileptic seizures in humans and household pets. Unlike THC, which gets you high, CBD doesn’t have the same effect (bummer), but it poses minimal risks for animals (yay!). The American Veterinary Medical Association opposes veterinary professionals advising owners on using CBD or THC products, but some people are ignoring The Man. Colorado State University is currently researching its potential for treating epilepsy in dogs, and scientists at UC Davis are also conducting their own anonymous online survey looking into cannabis safety and effectiveness for pets.

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S WAS EVIDENCED by a smattering of legit events last week, downtown San Jose’s literature scene is on the uptick. Many ideas came to the surface, especially some thoughts on how to foreground the literature of migration and diaspora.

For one, the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State, already a purveyor of gigs by Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors for decades, continued its foray into the urban landscape with its final gig

of the season. Peter Balakian, who won the 2016 Pulitzer for poetry, read from numerous books and talked about his life’s work in researching the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

Kicking off the week was former U.S. poet laureate and San Jose legend Juan Felipe Herrera, the poet of “Zen Jose,” who led a workshop on painting poems at the San Jose Museum of Art and also appeared in conversation in the main library. The Poetry Center San Jose continued to celebrate its 40th anniversary at WORKS/San Jose.

A Play on Words presented its latest installment at Café Stritch. Then the SJSU English department presented

its annual Legacy of Poetry Day. All in all, it was probably the most lit week of the year, so far.

For Legacy of Poetry Day this time around, participating poets were invited to explore migration and diaspora, with numerous poets presenting words about refugees, immigration, displacement or any other related issues in a marathon 90-minute event outside Hammer Theatre. A motley stew of creative types took part—men, women, young, old and even a few people reading brand new poems inspired by Juan Felipe’s workshop a few days earlier. Everyone seemed in tune, connecting to a universal empathy with the struggles of migration, a perfect lead-in to the Balakian event inside the theater.

Balakian won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for his book of poetry, Ozone Journal. His 1998 memoir, Black Dog of Fate, won even more awards. His other prizes and accolades would fill this page. At the Hammer Theatre event, he read from a variety of his works and then took questions on stage from SJSU President

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Mary Papazian. This was a rocking tag-team, since Papazian is also Armenian, her husband founded the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, and, with English literature degrees from UCLA, she hails from a poetry background.

Balakian also took questions from the audience, including one person who asked how to write about the refugee experience. Balakian said now was an opportune moment to do so.

Refugees and migrants are reshaping the world in numerous ways, he said, and their perspectives are often willfully ignored.

This is true. Refugee and migrant issues are beginning to carve out a space in contemporary world literature these days, so it’s only logical that a new wave of authors that were originally refugees, immigrants, or denizens of multiple countries are now trying to foreground concepts of displacement and migration.

That said, two brand new anthologies succeed on all of these fronts, and to wrap up this column, it is to them I shall now quickly turn, because each one will bring new dimensions and ideas to any developing San Jose literature scene, no matter what happens.

Co-published by Feminist Press and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Go Home! is a multigenre anthology of Asian-American writers responding to racist slobs who spew dreck like “Go home!” when the target of the insult was born in the U.S. and is thus already home.

Numerous authors, mostly women, fill the book with fiction, poetry and hybrid forms. Another anthology, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, was just published last week and features nonfiction essays by authors, both famous and unknown, but all of whom were once refugees.

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote the introduction for both books and also edited The Displaced, in which he writes: “Many writers, perhaps most writers or even all writers, are people who do not feel completely at home.

They are used to being people who are out of place, who are emotionally or psychically or socially displaced to one degree or another, at one time or another. Or perhaps that is just me.”

In the end, I will say, “No, it is not just you.”

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seen at her collective. “We’ve seen a big percentage increase of people seeking edibles,” says Rothrock, vice president of branding and marketing at Caliva.

She attributes the rise in edible sales to people new to pot as well as those who have smoked in the past and enjoyed it, but don’t feel comfortable using marijuana accessories or simply don’t want to inhale smoke or vapor of any kind.

How High

CANNABIS COOKIN’ From cookies to kombucha, the edibles market is expanding—and that’s a good thing for cannabis consumers.

Stoned Soup

The legal weed revolution is set to revolutionize the edibles industry

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ATING WEED IS nothing new. Humans have been ingesting cannabisinfused food for millennia: from the ancient Indian preparation of bhang through the hashish eaters mentioned in 1001 Nights, on to the magic brownies whipped up by the totally baked bakers of the 1960s and the high-octane confections that medical marijuana patients have come to know since the passage of California’s Compassionate Care Act in 1996.

However, with the recent legalization of recreational pot in the United States, edibles are taking innovative new shapes. San Jose’s cannabis dispensaries offer far more than your grandmother’s space cakes.

At any given moment, the discerning dabbler may find ganja-laced gummy bears and mints; tinctures containing various ratios of THC to CBD; dank drinks; and oils for dropping into tea or incorporating into home recipes.

For the novice, all this choice might be a bit confusing and overwhelming.

And no one likes being confused and overwhelmed—especially when it comes to cannabis dosing. So we reached out to some of our friendly

neighborhood pot professionals to get up to speed on edibles.

Don’t Trip Sarah Krishnamachari, CEO of Purple Lotus, says she and her staff are eager to help new customers understand how to ease into edibles—which have a double-edged reputation. On the one hand, many new cannabis users see eating pot as a healthier and more familiar option. Then again, stories abound about newbies getting uncomfortably high.

“We’re really big on educating,” Krishnamachari says. “Everyone who comes through that door and purchases edibles—we make sure that we educate them.”

Krishnamachari says Purple Lotus has seen an increase in customers seeking edible cannabis products.

Before Proposition 64 went into effect at the beginning of this year, she estimates that edibles accounted for about 3.5 percent of Purple Lotus’ sales. Now, she says cannabis treats make up about 7 percent.

It’s a trend Rosie Rothrock has also

When it comes to fears that consuming edibles will lead to a bad trip, both Krishnamachari and Rothrock say new state regulations on maximum dosages should put their customers’ minds at ease—well, some of their customers anyway.

For long-standing medical marijuana patients with a high tolerance for cannabis, the new caps on per-edible THC dosage mean that many will have to consume more to get the same effect.

This may prove cost-prohibitive for some, Rothrock admits, while others will not want to have to consume multiple cookies to get the same dose a single treat once gave them.

But for those just getting acquainted—or reacquainted—with cannabis, she says customers should be reassured by the fact that these new regulations are working to create more consistency across the market.

In other words, consumers are less likely to accidentally bite off more than they can chew.

Head Change For those who are comfortable smoking reefer, but aren’t as accustomed to edibles, now might be the right time to dig in. In addition to the increased consistency of dosage that comes with new regulations, the testing standards required by Proposition 64 mean that the legal pot customer can really dial in the perfect dose— especially with an edible.

“It’s going to feel a little more psychoactive,” says Rothrock, noting that ingesting cooked cannabis results in the active ingredients travelling through the liver where they are metabolized in a different way than if they were smoked. And while people often report a more intense body high, the “head high” is often less intense.

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BITES

ISLAND EATS Habana Cuba has left its sit-down restaurant on Race Street and reinvented itself at the SoFA Market.

Five to Watch

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IX MONTHS IS usually considered the earliest a new restaurant, bar or coffeeshop can receive a fair review.

Each month, Metro spotlights five of the newest places we think are worth a look-see.

Habana Cuba 387 S 1st St, San Jose. 408.998.2822 This iconic San Jose restaurant—and 16-time Metro “Best of ” winner—has shut its doors on Race Street and maneuvered into the SoFA Market. All of the usual favorites, like tostones ($6), ropa vieja ($14) and lechon ($14) are still available, but in a fast-casual setting as opposed to the sit-down style of years past. (JD)

Boiler Maker 379 E Campbell Ave, Campbell. 408.370.3400 From the owners of the now-defunct Liquid Bread, this fast-casual pub features a full bar, local craft brews, wine and cocktails, as well as re-imagined classic pub food needed to soak up the excess booze. The beer-battered deep-fried bacon ($8) and short rib Philly ($12) are two mouthwatering items. (JD)

XLB Kitchen 10235 S De Anza Blvd, Cupertino. 408.217.6510 One thing we can never have enough of are those delightful Chinese dumplings, xiao long bao (aka XLB). Dining rule No. 1: if it’s in the name—get it!

Their namesake XLBs ($6.95/6) are the go-to item here, with savory soup filling, meaty interior and plump skin. (JD)

The Funny Farm 7028 Santa Teresa Blvd, San Jose. 408.681.9501 This new south side joint is taking everyday items and giving them its own “looney” twist, such as the Monte Cristo sandwich ($10), which features turkey, Black Forest ham, bacon and Swiss cheese wrapped in a tortilla and then deepfried golden-brown. And any place that serves up poutine fries ($8) is certainly worth a try. (JD)

O Mok Jo Mok 3080 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 408.899.6000 Specializing in small, affordable dishes, this Korean style izakaya is a perfect place to grab some grub and soju ($7.77) after work. If soju isn’t your thing, they also offer peach sangria, bek seju—a rice-based fermented alcoholic beverage flavored with ginseng and other herbs—and draft beers by the pitcher or glass. Try the savory kimchi pancake ($6.77), loaded clam soup ($13.77) or mouthwatering bulgogi ($17.77). (KL) —John Dyke and Kristin Lam

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the early history of

the automobile, electric engines were more popular and common than gasoline-powered engines.

They were less noisy, dirty, smelly, and difficult to operate. It's too bad that thereafter the technology for gasoline cars developed at a faster rate than the technology for electric cars. By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the petroleum-suckers were in ascendance. They have remained so ever since, playing a significant role in our world's ongoing environmental degradation. Moral of the story: Sometimes the original idea or the early model or the first try is better. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should consider applying this hypothesis to your current state of affairs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Chesapeake Bay is a fertile estuary that teems with life. It's 200 miles long and holds 18 trillion gallons of water.

More than 150 streams and rivers course into its drainage basin. And yet it's relatively shallow. If you're 6 feet tall, you could wade through over 1,000 square miles of its mix of fresh and salt water without getting your hat wet. I see this place as an apt metaphor for your life in the coming weeks: an expanse of flowing fecundity that is vast but not so deep that you'll get overwhelmed.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You'll soon arrive at a pressure-packed turning point. You'll stand poised at a pivotal twist of fate where you must trust your intuition to reveal the differences between smart risks and careless gambles. Are you willing to let your half-naked emotions show? Will you have the courage to be brazenly loyal to your deepest values? I won't wish you luck, because how the story evolves will be fueled solely by your determination, not by accident or happenstance.

You will know you're in a good position to solve the Big Riddles if they feel both scary and fun.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Strong softness is one

of your specialties. So are empathetic rigor, creative responsiveness, and daring acts of nurturing.

Now is a perfect time to summon and express all of these qualities with extra flair. If you do, your influence will exceed its normal quotas. Your ability to heal and inspire your favorite people will be at a peak. So I hereby invite you to explore the frontiers of aggressive receptivity. Wield your courage and power with a fierce vulnerability. Be tenderly sensitive as an antidote to any headstrong lovelessness you encounter.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1973, Pink Floyd released the album *The Dark Side of the Moon.* Since then, it has been on various Billboard charts for over 1,700 weeks, and has sold more than 45 million copies. Judging from the astrological aspects coming to bear on you, Leo, I suspect you could create or produce a beautiful thing with a similar staying power in the next five months. What vitalizing influence would you like to have in your life for at least the next 30 years?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I beg you to take a break

sometime soon. Give yourself permission to indulge in a vacation or recess or sabbatical. Wander away on a leave of absence. Explore the mysteries of a siesta blended with a fiesta. If you don't grant yourself this favor, I may be forced to bark "Chill out, dammit!" at you until you do. Please don't misunderstand my intention here. The rest of us appreciate the way you've been attending to the complicated details that are too exacting for us. But we can also see that if you don't ease up, there will soon be diminishing returns. It's time to return to your studies of relaxing freedom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Singer-songwriter Roy Orbison achieved great success in the 1960s, charting 22 songs on the Billboard Top 40. But his career declined after that. Years later, in 1986, filmmaker David Lynch asked him for the right to use his tune "In Dreams" for the movie Blue Velvet. Orbison denied the request, but Lynch incorporated the tune anyway. Surprise! Blue Velvet was nominated for an Academy Award and played a big role in reviving Orbison's fame. Later the singer came to appreciate not only the career boost, but also Lynch's unusual aesthetic, testifying that the film gave his song an "otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension." Now let's meditate

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on how this story might serve as a parable for your life. Was there an opportunity that you once turned down but will benefit from anyway? Or is there a current opportunity that maybe you shouldn't turn down, even if it seems odd?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You've been to the Land

of No Return and back more than anyone. But soon you'll be visiting a remote enclave in this realm that you're not very familiar with. I call it the Mother Lode of Sexy Truth. It's where tender explorers go when they must transform outworn aspects of their approach to partnership and togetherness. On the eve of your quest, shall we conduct an inventory of your capacity to outgrow your habitual assumptions about relationships? No, let's not. That sounds too stiff and formal. Instead, I'll simply ask you to strip away any falseness that interferes with vivacious and catalytic intimacy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1824,

two British explorers climbed a mountain in southwestern Australia. They were hoping to get a sweeping view of Port Phillip Bay, on which the present-day city of Melbourne is located. But when they reached the top, their view was largely obstructed by trees. Out of perverse spite, they decided to call the peak Mount Disappointment, a name it retains to this day. I suspect you may soon have your own personal version of an adventure that falls short of your expectations. I hope—and also predict—that your experience won't demoralize you, but will rather mobilize you to attempt a new experiment that ultimately surpasses your original expectations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn rock

musician Lemmy Kilmister bragged that he swigged a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey every day from 1975 to 2013. While I admire his dedication to inducing altered states of consciousness, I can't recommend such a strategy for you. But I will love it if you undertake a more disciplined crusade to escape numbing routines and irrelevant habits in the next four weeks.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have a special knack for this practical art.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Germany was one of

the big losers of World War I, which ended in 1919.

By accepting the terms of the Versailles Treaty, it agreed to pay reparations equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold. Not until 2010, decades after the war, did Germany finally settle its bill and fulfill its obligation. I'm sure your own big, long-running debt is nowhere near as big or as long-running as that one, Aquarius. But you will nonetheless have reason to be ecstatic when you finally discharge it. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, that could and should happen sometime soon. (P.S. The "debt" could be emotional or spiritual rather than financial.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "I would rather have a drop of luck than a barrel of brains," said the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes. Fortunately, that's not a choice you will have to face in the coming weeks, Pisces. According to my reading of the cosmic signs, your brain will be working with even greater efficiency and ingenuity than it usually does. Meanwhile, a stronger-thanexpected flow of luck will be swirling around in your vicinity. One of your main tasks will be to harness your enhanced intelligence to take shrewd advantage of the good fortune.

Homework: It's easy to see fanaticism, rigidity, and intolerance in other people, but harder to acknowledge them in yourself. Do you dare? Testify 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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metroactive SVSCENE PHOTOS BY JOHN DYKE

Sunshine and fine wine in downtown WILLOW GLEN.

Tony Doporto, left, of veteran San Jose punk band SAD BOY SINISTER, had a blast at The Ritz, which hosted his 50th birthday bash.

Busting out some spring fashion at the WINE WALK.

Enjoying the sunshine in downtown

WILLOW GLEN.

Wine brings friends together at the WILLOW GLEN WINE WALK.

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The WILLOW GLEN WINE WALK was fun for the whole family.