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GILROY STRONG Police were praised for their rapid response to the shooting that took three lives Sunday.

Fright Fest Gilroy grapples with fallout from Garlic Festival massacre BY SILICON VALLEY NEWSROOM

HE GILROY GARLIC Festival shooting took the lives of three victims Sunday night—two of them children from San Jose. Overnight, their names and that of the small Santa Clara Valley town where a gunman killed them were thrust into the national spotlight.

Stephen Romero, 6, and Keyla Salazar, 13, both lived in San Jose. The two children died in a hail of gunfire just as the fair was winding down. As did 25-year-old Trevor Irby, who flew in from Romulus, New York, to visit his fiance at the annual food festival that for more than four decades has served as a hub for family reunions. A dozen others were afflicted with gunshot wounds, authorities said, and

were sent for treatment at several local hospitals. Almost immediately, the community responded by launching GoFundMe drives for the victims and the families of the three deceased fairgoers. The gunman’s name became widely known the following morning: 19-year-old Gilroy native Santino William Legan, who comes from a well-known local family. Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said investigators did not know the suspect’s motive, which continues to be a subject of the ongoing investigation that has kept the festival site at Christmas Hill Park off limits to the public since the evacuations on Sunday night. In multiple press conferences these past couple days, Chief Smithee praised the actions of Gilroy police officers on duty at the Garlic Festival, who quickly responded to reports

Festival lover who has attended for the past eight years. Throughout the day Monday, many survivors were still trying to figure out who made it out of the festival alive. On Facebook, hundreds of people began marking themselves as “safe” using the website’s emergency notification feature. “But there’s a lot we don’t know right now,” Mark Turner, president of the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce, said in a phone call. Turner said he was standing by the amphitheater when the shots sounded, and he took off running—in the opposite direction of the fleeing crowds. “I thought my wife and daughter were in that area,” he said, “so I rushed toward the gunfire.” As he charged toward the chaos, he grabbed as many people as he could to pull them into the Chamber’s beer trailer, he said.“I helped two women who were shot,” Turner said. “A whole bunch of us were trying to help people who were shot and wounded, trying to load them in vehicles. I saw two people—a man and a woman— who appeared deceased. They were rushed out of there, and I don’t know what happened to them.” Memories of the incident continue to replay in Turner’s head, he said. “You know, at times—I was telling my wife this earlier—it felt like what we were helping people in slow motion,” he said. “You see blood, then you’re just grabbing people and running them to safety, and of course, the most vivid scenes were the people who appeared to be critically wounded. I don’t know if they survived.” Another recurring image: all the people who did what they could to help. “As I was running around attending to others, so many other non-law enforcement volunteers at the festival were doing the very same thing, trying to help people get to cover,” Turner said. “I mean, talk about heroics. I saw so many people who were doing that. That instinct just kicks in and you think, ‘I’ve got to do something.’” Safely at home with his family, Turner said he’s trying to stay hopeful. “This is going to be a difficult thing to work through,” he said. “But I know we’ll come together and make this happen and figure out what we’re going to do next. I believe this can unite a community, and I believe it will unite ours.”

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of shots fired about 5:40pm Sunday. He said three officers confronted the suspect as he returned fire at the police, and shot and killed the gunman within a minute of reports of the initial gunshots. “There absolutely would have been more bloodshed” if the officers had not subdued Legan when they did, Smithee said. The shooter bypassed security checkpoints by entering the festival by either climbing over or cutting a hole in a perimeter fence surrounding the city park, according to conflicting reports, bringing in what was described as an SKS rifle, an AK-47 type weapon that has been used in mass shootings. After serving search warrants on Legan’s Gilroy home, his car and a property of relatives in Nevada, authorities say they found another gun also purchased outside of California. The shooting scene at Christmas Hill Park remained off limits at press time, secured by a perimeter of police officers. The FBI is assisting local police in investigating the shooting. Smithee said Gilroy Police Department accepted help from the federal authorities due to the size of the crime scene, which the FBI described as “several hundred acres.” FBI agent Craig Fair of the bureau’s San Francisco division said more than 40 FBI evidence technicians remained at the scene Tuesday processing evidence. In a rush to escape Sunday, many attendees left things behind. Many of the witnesses leaving the festival grounds on the night of the attack told reporters that they heard what they thought were firecrackers. One festival-goer said he saw the shooter’s body with handcuffs behind his back near a kids’ slide. Nate Hines of Oakland said she was with her husband and godson eating at a picnic table under the giant tent when she heard gunshots in close proximity. “My first thought was that it was firecrackers, but then I just saw people running,” she said. “I grabbed them and we got out of there and to safety,” said Hines, as her family waited near Gilroy High School to be picked up and taken to their vehicle. Hines said they were moved several times through the back of the park near the amphitheater, where she saw several victims being treated. “We saw about four victims. They were wheeling them out and picking them up in trucks,” said Hines, a Garlic

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Guns in Silicon Valley BY NICHOLAS CHAN

156%

The growth rate of gun sales from 2001 to 2015 in Santa Clara County, with an average of 24,000 guns sold per year. Forty-eight percent of guns sold were long guns and 52 percent of guns sold were hand guns. Sacramento has seen a 406 percent growth of gun sales between 2001 to 2015, the highest rate in California.

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SECURITY CRACKDOWN A week after Garlic Festival shooting, county officials ramp up security for annual fair.

Shooting Sparks Safety Concerns for County Fair BY GRACE HASE Just days after a gunman opened fire on a crowd at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, officials are beefing up security at this weekend’s Santa Clara County Fair. Sunday evening 19-year-old Santino William Legan cut through a fence and fired his AK-47-like weapon at festival-goers. Six-year old Stephen Romero, 13-year-old Keyla Salazar and 25-year old Trevor Irby were killed and more than a dozen others were injured before law enforcement killed Legan. While community members grapple with the tragedy, the Santa Clara County Sheriff ’s Office said it’s working to make sure that the public is safe at this weekend’s fair. The annual event will take place Thursday through Sunday and will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. In a press release, the Sheriff ’s Office said it’s working with the county executive and the Board of Supervisors to, “provide an increased level of security for all attendees.”

“It is our continuing mission to provide a safe and welcoming environment for the residents and visitors of our County,” the statement said. “The Sheriff ’s Office encourages everyone to come out and enjoy their time at this fun, family-friendly event.” On Monday, county Supervisor Dave Cortese sent a letter to County Executive Jeff Smith, asking for a “confidential memorandum” prior to the fair’s opening about the event’s safety strategy. Smith’s office then put out its own statement to quell the public’s nerves. “We have reviewed security plans for the county fair and are working with the Sheriff ’s Office to increase our vigilance and security measures this year,” it wrote. “We hope the community will attend the county fair and enjoy all the activities the fair has to offer.” A spokesperson for the fairgrounds said that they would be deferring all

questions about safety concerns to the county’s sheriff and executive offices. Although last weekend’s shooting has put many people on guard, lots of 4-H groups still plan on showing up and participating in the event’s many festivities. Susan Weaver, a 4-H representative, said that she knew of many members who typically volunteer at the festival every year. Many of them, she said, are “shaken.” “The shock is still so fresh,” she said. “I am grateful that the gunman is no longer a threat. Sadly, there is a risk no matter where we go.” Even with the tragedy so fresh, Weaver said that the 4-H members were already at the fairgrounds getting ready for the competitions. “Everywhere we go, we should be aware and know our exits,” she added. “We must watch out for things out of place. I have heard the fairgrounds is increasing security, as well. It’s an unpredictable world we live in.”

Number of guns legally sold in California in 2016. It has decreased to 882,585 in 2017 as the number of long gun sales decreased from 758,678 to 359,601.

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The number of offenses involving firearms among K-12 students from 2015 to 2016. Eighty-six percent of these incidents resulted in a suspension, 9 percent in an expulsion and 5 percent in disciplinary action.

Percentage of assaults and homicides that resulted in deaths from firearm injuries between 2007 to 2016 in Santa Clara County while 59 percent of suicides were gun-related. In California, 71 percent of homicides involved a firearm from 2010 to 2015.

$126,644,000 The annual economic cost of firearm injuries incurred from deaths, hospitalizations and emergency department visits in Santa Clara County.

431

The number of aggravated assault with a firearm in San Jose in 2016, an increase of 206 incidences from 2006. In California, there were 101,872 aggravated assault with a firearm from 2010 and 2015.

Source: Santa Clara County Department of Public Health

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JAZZ ADVOCATE NEA Jazz Masters Fellow Dorthaan Kirk will be at Cafe Stritch this weekend to honor her late husband, Rahsaanathon.

Vital Link Cafe Stritch pays its annual homage to its ‘cosmic patron saint’ BY GARY SINGH

ORTHAAN KIRK, the grand matriarch of the annual Rahsaanathon at San Jose’s Cafe Stritch every August, was recently the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship, the highest accolade our nation bestows upon jazz artists.

Each year since 1982, the program has recognized a select number of living legends whose exceptional contributions to jazz have made the USA a better place. Dorthaan was given a fellowship alongside Bobby

McFerrin, Roscoe Mitchell and Reggie Workman to complete the 2020 class. In Dorthaan’s case, she was awarded the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy. Dorthaan is the widow of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the cosmic patron saint whose music, energy and spirit propel Cafe Stritch through thick and thin. This weekend will be the seventh annual Rahsaanathon and the seventh time Dorthaan has flown out from New Jersey to attend. She considers San Jose to be one of her extended families, so we got to talking. When Stritch launched the first

Rahsaan tribute gigs in August 2013, no one, especially Dorthaan, knew it would turn into an annual party, with Rahsaan’s former bandmate Steve Turre flying in every year. “It’s created new listeners of Rahsaan, and exposed his music to people that probably, maybe in that area, never would’ve discovered him,” Dorthaan told me. “Also, it brought out people who actually saw him in the Bay Area many, many years ago. So because of that, it’s kept his music and spirit alive. And I’m sure a lot of people have discovered who Steve Turre is, who’s kept [Rahsaan’s] music alive for 40 years.” Over the last seven years, Turre has recruited some of the best players to re-create the spirit of Rahsaan at Cafe Stritch. When Dorthaan first showed up in 2013, she was skeptical. But they convinced her. “I was very nervous the first year because Steve was using the West Coast musicians, and I didn’t know them,” said Dorthaan. “I was frankly nervous that they were going to be able to play [Rahsaan’s] music as

I know it should be played. Even though Steve had sent them the music ahead, they didn’t have a lot of time to rehearse. I remember coming into the club that first time and saying, ‘All right, you all better get it right.’ I just kind of slyly said that. But I was amazed, really amazed, at how they nailed his music.” What’s different nowadays— for good or bad—is that the Rahsaanathon no longer erupts during the San Jose Jazz Summerfest. For the few years it did, Stritch became the prime gathering joint where other living legends would show up or sit in, following their gigs elsewhere at the festival. In 2015, for example, jazz-rock fusion guitar hero Larry Coryell played a gig at the California Theatre and then afterward showed up at Stritch, where Steve Turre even acknowledged him from the stage. Sadly, we never saw him again, as Coryell passed away in 2017. Another year, Dorthaan and I were sitting outside Cafe Stritch when Latin jazz trumpeter Jerry Gonzalez, likewise a living legend, just happened to come sauntering over. Within seconds, he and Dorthaan got to talking, the conversation spinning through 40 years’ worth of stories and memories. Everyone knows Dorthaan. Sadly, Gonzalez died in a tragic house fire last year. Rahsaan’s music, though, has not passed away. His spirit will forever inhabit 374 S. First St. “I’m amazed, because Rahsaan’s been dead over 40 years, and his music still goes on,” Dorthaan said. “And I don’t know any musician— Sue Mingus was doing something, and there’s always some activity around T. S. Monk—but there’s not a lot of musicians who are no longer with us whose music is still being perpetuated as Rahsaan’s is. So it’s all good.” NEA fellowships aside, the Rahsaanathon remains an event that diehard fans look forward to every year, both Stritch regulars and those on the periphery. “It is truly a bright moment, what they’ve done there,” Dorthaan said. “Their dedication and support of Rahsaan and his music is kind of overwhelming, and I applaud them for continuing to do this event.”

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Senseless Violence

The Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting underscores the intractability of gun violence in America BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH & NICK VERONIN

HE GUNMAN BREACHES a wire fence during the wind down of the Gilroy Garlic Festival’s third, final day. In military-style fatigues and armed with a semi-automatic rifle, 19-yearold Santino William Legan—a last name familiar to those who remember his public office-holding grandfather in the 1980s—marches past a live-music stage and sprays bullets into the crowd.

Hannah Hernandez, 15, stops helping her family pack up their ice cream booth and looks up. Like many

people around her, she supposes that someone smuggled in illegal firecrackers. As she glances at Legan, he unloads a second series of shots and stomps forward. Chaos erupts. Everyone around the shooter screams and sprints, scrambling for a place to hide. The TinMan rock band halts mid-encore as its members dive under the stage. Lead singer Jack van Breen sees a man with a grayish handkerchief around his neck and an assault rifle in his hand, heading towards the food court. Hernandez bolts back to the counter, where her mom and dad already hunker behind a wood barrier. “That way he couldn’t see us,” she says.

Not far from the Hernandez family, 56-year-old Gilroy real estate agent Lisa Faria pauses upon hearing the same initial gunfire burst. “What idiot would bring firecrackers to a garlic festival?” she recalls thinking as a tense hush fell over fair-goers. The former Gilroy Chamber of Commerce board chair turns to say as much to a colleague, Michele Campbell, 53, when another cluster of loud cracks shatters the silence. A wave of freaked-out bystanders crash toward them in the festival’s bustling Gourmet Alley. “Take cover! Take cover!” people shriek as they pile up behind the two women. The gunman murders three people:

six-year-old Stephen Romero, 13-yearold Keyla Salazar and 25-year-old Trevor Irby. He wounds at least a dozen more before police draw handguns and kill him, a minute into his rampage. The gunfire subsides, but panic mounts, as the crowd bolts for a parking lot across an open field. There’s no evacuation plan in place. Elderly people trip in the stampede. Families split up. Attendees who arrived with Uber or Lyft are stranded. “My friend had blood all over him from helping carry people,” Campbell recounts. “I saw people with gunshot wounds holding their heads but walking.” Campbell chokes up as the images flash in her mind’s eye.

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“I’m sorry,” she sobs. “It hits so close to home.”

A Tragic Routine The general narrative is familiar enough. An angry man with a gun airs his grievances by firing his weapon into a crowd—or at an estranged lover, or an overbearing boss. If the shooter makes enough of a spectacle, the story is picked up by international media outlets. Politicians seize on the tragedy in ways both direct and subtle. And people all over the country take to social media, shouting into the electronic ether. This is what passes for a meaningful debate about gun

violence in America. In the aftermath of Sunday’s shooting, local network affiliates ran wall-to-wall coverage of the tragedy, looping helicopter footage of police in tactical gear combing Christmas Hill Park and the surrounding area. Gov. Gavin Newsom visited victims at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center before delivering an impassioned speech outside the hospital. He inveighed against federal lawmakers for frustrating California’s attempts to rein in gun violence. “You can’t put borders up ... to a neighboring state where you can buy this damn stuff legally,” he said Monday to a crush of reporters— simultaneously underscoring

California’s strict gun control laws and the lax federal regulations that undermine them. The semiautomatic rifle Legan purchased legally in Nevada would have been illegal for him to own in California. “How in the hell is that possible?” Newsom continued. “I have no problem with the Second Amendment. You have a right to bear arms, but not weapons of goddamned mass destruction.” The first-term governor decried the national government that he says “turns a blind eye and won’t do a damn thing” to prevent gun violence. “California’s doing its part, but Jesus, these guys, the folks in the White House have been supporting

the kinds of policies that roll back the work that we’re doing in states like ours to get rid of large-capacity magazines, to address the issues that we’re trying to advance on background checks.” Just last week, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton of Santa Ana affirmed the state’s prohibition on semi-automatic rifles with certain key features, including a so-called “bullet button,” which aids in the rapid switching of magazines and allows would-be mass shooters to keep pumping out rounds without pausing to reload their weapon one cartridge at a time. That ruling will almost certainly be taken up by the

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Supreme Court. If it is struck down by the majority conservative bench, it will be a coup for the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers. Meanwhile, even as police continued to collect evidence from the festival grounds, subscribers to the @ GilroyDispatch Facebook page were having it out in the comments section. “Allow us to be armed to protect ourselves and family,” Chelsea Ferreira wrote. “Good guys with guns are the only way to stop bad guys with guns.” Tony le Batteur responded: “I wouldn’t trust you with a dull fork to ‘protect us,’ let alone allow you to run loose in a crowd of thousands along with other armed imbeciles and gun fetishists who would undoubtedly do far more harm than good.” Crystal Johnson jumped in: “I know this town is grieving but [gun] control is not the answer here!”

Easy Access John Donahue III used to own a gun but hasn’t for a while. “Like many gun owners, mine was stolen,” Donahue says. The Stanford law professor built a career on studying gun violence and gun culture in America. He began his research in the mid-1980s. Around that time, violent crime was surging in the U.S. He wanted to know why. Donahue continued studying the subject as crime dropped steadily through the 1990s. He says he witnessed a correlation between the passage of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 and a decline in violent crime. “I do think there is also a causal factor there,” he says, noting that killers like Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook shooter, would have had a harder time obtaining powerful weapons if they hadn’t been so readily available. Donahue concedes that bad actors will find ways to obtain weapons irrespective of the laws in place. He also believes that better safeguards will prevent mentally unstable individuals from undertaking a shooting spree. However, he adds, “It’s just going to be a question of prevalence. The more dads that have assault weapons, the more disturbed

children of those dads will find those assault weapons.” America’s gun problem is both predictable and unique. No other developed nation rivals the United States’ rate of gun violence. It has six times Canada’s gun-homicide rate and nearly 16 times Germany’s. Though gun violence rates dropped steadily beginning in the 1990s as California imposed stringent regulations on semi-automatic weapons, a sharp local and national uptick began in 2014. San Jose responded to 23 percent more gunrelated calls in 2017 compared to the prior year, according to Santa Clara County’s Department of Public Health. In addition to lives lost from guns—which averaged about 75 a year in Santa Clara County until the rate climbed in the past five years—firearms exact a staggering economic toll. In 2013, public health officials estimated that gun violence cost the county more than $112 million in medical bills, lost productivity and other factors. Researchers for the Gifford Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence estimate that firearms cost the American economy as a whole about $229 billion a year. Though California has some of the nation’s strongest gun laws and lowest gun death rates, firearms still rack up $6.5 billion a year in directly measurable costs, according to the pro-gun control think tank. “If California’s gun death rate remained at its 1993 level, when California’s gun laws were relatively weak, gun violence would currently cost the state over $41 billion each year,” according to a 2018 Gifford Law Center report. “Additionally, if California’s gun death rate was as high as a state like Louisiana, which has some of the weakest gun laws in the nation, the cost of gun violence in California would total approximately $45 billion annually.” Banning so-called assault rifles, closing private sale loopholes, preventing batterers and the mentally unstable from buying weapons and cracking down on high-capacity magazines would go a long way toward preventing gun violence, Donahue says. The Centers for Disease Control’s firearm mortality data consistently bear this out: states with fewer guns experience fewer

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The idea that every citizen ought to be able to go toe-to-toe with ground troops has also been stoked by gun manufacturers and the NRA—more specifically by Ackerman McQueen, the NRA’s advertising and PR agency, which has served the gun group for more than three decades. The Oklahoma-based firm is responsible for such slogans as, “It’s not just about guns. It’s about freedom.” Through his studies, Donahue has had a front seat to this “interesting intellectual transition,” which has seen the NRA evolve from an organization founded to represent hunters and sportsmen into what it is today—a massive lobbying and marketing engine for the American gun industry. In other words, the mythology embraced by so many gun-rights advocates does not run as deep as many would believe. It was manufactured in the same way our need for the latest and greatest gadgets are manufactured—by Madison Avenue creatives. And it happened over the course of a single generation. If Americans can learn to turn their backs on something as physically addictive and aggressively marketed as tobacco, surely we can learn to unfriend guns. And looking purely at the numbers, we’d be better off if we could.

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gun-related deaths, including murders and suicides. However federal law often undermines the strictest state-level controls. Buying guns in lax locales and then transporting them across state lines is so common that the route between Southern states and New York City has become known as “The Iron Pipeline.” Chicago’s ban on retail gun shops is rendered toothless by the proximity of Indiana’s freewheeling gun shows. Even California’s toughest-in-thenation gun laws couldn’t prevent Legan from bringing his AK-47variant from Big Mikes Guns & Ammo in Fallon, Nevada, to his family home in Gilroy. Another roadblock to meaningful change that Newsom didn’t address during his recent visit: the vast, unrivaled and unprecedented quantity of firearms in the United States. Americans own nearly 400 million of the world’s guns. That’s just about half the civilian-owned firearms on Earth in a nation comprising less than 5 percent of the planet’s population. Are there simply too many guns to control? Perhaps not. Donahue has a theory about the recent rise in gun violence and mass shootings. For him, it boils down to a combination of irresponsible marketing and increased access—and he blames the NRA and the gun industry as a whole for both. “The NRA has managed to recreate history, in a way,” he says. It’s true that guns have always loomed large in the American psyche. However, it has taken concerted advertising campaigns and serious lobbying to convince the public and lawmakers that every American adult ought to have the right to own weapons that are almost identical to those carried by U.S. soldiers. It’s true that military issue rifles are often capable of fully automatic fire—squeeze the trigger and the gun will continue pumping out rounds until it runs out of ammo. However, this function interferes with accuracy, causes the weapon to heat up quickly and can be thwarted by a mechanical jam. “Most of the time the military uses these weapons in semi-automatic firing mode,” he says.

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SCARRED FOR LIFE Candace Marquez (left) and Cheryl Low witnessed a gunman shoot several people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

On June 25, 60-year-old Steven Leet walked into the Morgan Hill Ford Store where he’d been fired earlier that day. After lingering for a while in the parts department, he charged into the office and shot his supervisor, Xavier Souto, at point-blank range in the head with a .38 caliber revolver. Another manager, Brian Light, brought Leet to the ground in a move police would later call “nothing short of heroic.” But the gunman fired several more shots during the scuffle, killing Light. Colleagues hid behind desks and customers dropped to the floor. Police arrived minutes later to find Leet slumped on a curb outside from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities called the incident Santa Clara County’s bloodiest workplace massacre in eight years. Two days before Leet slaughtered his co-workers, San Jose police responded to a hostage situation that ended four hours later in a quintuple murder-suicide. The man who fatally shot four relatives before taking his own life, 66-year-old Chi Dinh Ta, somehow

acquired a Springfield XD 9mm semiautomatic handgun despite decadesold robbery convictions that barred him from owning or having firearms. Ta had reportedly been wracked with jealousy over his wife sponsoring relatives from Vietnam for visas when he could not because of his past felonies. According to SJPD, Ta murdered his wife’s relatives—23-yearold Thanh Hoa Hoang and 42-year-old Thi Que Pham—around 8:40pm June 23 at his Habbitts Court home. He shot two others, 51-year-old Le Thuy Hoang and 48-year-old Phung Ngoc Hoang, who survived. His wife, daughter and niece managed to escape. In the hours before Legan began indiscriminately spraying bullets into the crowd at the Gilroy Garlic Festival—an annual gathering of thousands of families on 60 acres that raises millions of dollars for charity— he published a series of photos on his sparsely used and since-deleted Instagram account. Among them, an image of a Smokey the Bear sign warning about fire danger and urging people to read Might is Right, a white supremacist manifesto on social

Turning Japanese Gun rights advocates could rightly say all of these men were unstable. It’s hard to imagine that anyone would dispute that. But to argue that mass shootings are inevitable simply because there will always be maniacs in the world is to ignore examples of other countries where gun control has worked. Donahue points to Japan. A nation of 127 million, Japan has a similar media landscape to the United States. Violent video games and movies abound. However, strict gun control laws make it much harder for citizens to use a gun when acting on their worst impulses. Though no country is a perfect analog for another, and while cultural differences obviously play a role, Japan averages around 10 gun deaths per year. But turning from Japan, which enacted gun controls far earlier in its history, and looking at Australia, Donahue says it’s possible to see how a country can shift cultural norms through legislation. In 1996, 28-year-old Martin Bryant killed 35 and wounded another 28 in a cafe on the island of Tasmania. The reaction was swift and decisive. John Howard, Australia’s then-prime minister, convinced lawmakers to act quickly to enact sweeping changes to the existing gun laws. Restrictions were dramatically tightened, a national registry was created and a mandatory buyback of all prohibited firearms was instituted. This National Firearms Agreement, as the law was called, seems to have accomplished its goal. A 2011 Harvard

study concluded that the rates of suicide and homicide by gun were each slashed by about half. In America’s current political climate such a program is unimaginable, Donahue says. And while the Democrat-controlled House passed a bill that would require universal background checks for gun sales, President Donald Trump has vowed to veto it should it ever cross his desk.

Survival Techniques Initial reports of a mass shooting detail a body count, which ticks up as the hours pass, and whether the gunman is active, dead, at large or detained. Names of victims usually trickle out over the next day or so, first from friends and family and then from the coroner. As the investigation proceeds, we begin to hear more about the gunman, what he looked like and where he came from and how normal or quiet he seemed to neighbors. The lingering question, for which there’s never a good answer is, “Why?” Senior FBI agent Craig Fair told reporters on Monday that a team of 30 investigators are trying to figure out Legan’s affiliations and ideological bent. “Our pre-eminent and principal concern,” he said, “is motivation.” That’s more of a concern for law enforcement, however. For survivors trying to heal, it doesn’t really matter whether a killer was motivated by jealousy or despair, hate for their boss, hate for women, hate for immigrants or hate for America. “I think that healing process has to be done in large part with these vigils,” says Gilroy Chamber of Commerce President Mark Turner, who was in the thick of the gunfire trying to help people when Legan squeezed off a hail of bullets. “A lot of it is coming together, sharing what you’re going through and memorializing the victims.” Jaqueline McCool also contributed to this report.

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Darwinism that calls on the “strong” to dominate the “weak.” His plug for the tome was followed by the question, “Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?” In another entry, he uploaded a picture of his maternal grandfather, named as Ali Asghar Vahabzadeh, with a remark about “anglicizing” his Iranian surname to Baylor. A third post appeared to be taken from the garlic festival about an hour before police fielded the initial calls about a shooting that night. It read, “Ayyy garlic festival time come get wasted on overpriced shit.”

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THE WORKS The stacked micheladas at Bravo! House of Enchiladas are worth a visit—and that’s not even considering the tender chicken enchis.

Kick Back Bravo! House of Enchiladas puts love and devotion into every succulent dish BY MATTHEW A. CLOSE

T A TYPICAL Mexican restaurant, diners may reasonably expect their plate of enchiladas to come with a side of rice and beans and perhaps a “salad”— which is, of course, to say, a smattering of iceberg lettuce, a slice of tomato and a dollop of sour cream. Bravo! House of Enchiladas is anything but typical.

At this Tully Road eatery, customers will receive a pile of darkly

charred summer squash or an entire “fried to order” extra crispy chicken leg depending on their order. Bravo! also serves rice and beans— and they excel at the task. Each grain of ultra-puffy rice stands out, competing in a texture contest with the creamy, aggressively seasoned beans. A sign on the wall proclaims everything is cooked from scratch with heart. It shows. The taco menu at Bravo! features all the usual suspects, including an excellent and very crispy fish taco. Dig deeper to discover one of their house specialties—tacos pastorino ($3.99).

Served on warm corn tortillas, they are overflowing with avocados, onions, cheese and a truly lethal amount of bacon and pork al pastor. Two of these babies were enough to inspire a three-hour nap after lunch. The tostadas are offered only in one variety, chicken tinga. But considering how good this tinga is, there is simply no need for Bravo! to offer up any other options. Chicken tinga is at its root a stew of chicken legs seasoned with smoky chipotle chiles. Braised slowly in homemade chicken stock and the chiles, the meat is very tender, with a succulent texture usually only found in duck confit. The strong smoke of the chile is held in place by the rich stock, which serves as the base for most of their sauces. There are only five tables inside Bravo! and on the day I went, it felt crowded with just a few patrons eating. But this is not just because of the limited square footage of the dining room; it is also due to the number of steaming platters

and massive micheladas that most customers ordered. The dishes and spicy tomato beer concoctions crowded every occupied table. Taking the hint, I ordered my own michelada with Negra Modelo and aguachile ($13). At 32 ounces, the drink would be gigantic without the addition of garnishes. I added spicy pickled shrimp (six pieces, very juicy), wedges of tomato and cucumber slices to mine—though customers may choose fish ceviche or grilled shrimp instead. This was easily the best michelada I have ever had and is a must for anyone dining here. A delicate balance of spicy, sour and savory, the drink is incredibly refreshing and acts as a palate cleanser between bites. I haven’t even mentioned the enchiladas, which range from the simple, like beef or chicken topped with red, green and mole sauce (three for $10.99), to the more complex varieties like Califas ($10.99), a decadent take on surf and turf featuring a hefty serving of steak and shrimp. The mole is epic: Close your eyes and you can almost taste each of the 20-plus ingredients dancing on your tongue. The enchiladas Michoacanas ($11.99) were my favorite—cheesy tortillas covered in the red sauce, with a flavor so deep and savory it makes you question every enchilada you have ever tried before. Garnished with fried chicken and potatoes, there was enough food for at least two meals. The chicken was moist, well seasoned and very crunchy, but it was the potatoes that grabbed my attention. Sliced lengthwise and fried twice, the outer shell was very crispy with a soft mashed potato interior. Food this good does come at a cost, even if that cost doesn’t end up on your check. In the case of Bravo! it is ticket times. Few dishes leave the kitchen quickly, but that’s just fine with me. After all, that’s what the micheladas are for.

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Pat Simmons Jr. is primarily known for his music, which is to be expected when you’re the son of a founding member of one of the most famous groups of the ’70s and ’80s—San Josebred Doobie Brothers guitarist Patrick Simmons—and your own musical career began when you were barely old enough to walk. The 28-year-old Simmons, who released his debut album This Mountain in 2017 and is currently working on a follow-up, is on a West Coast tour, which comes to Moe’s Alley this week. (MS)

While the Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers have been busy worrying about the work ethic of Millennials, Gen-Z has been quietly blossoming into a cultural force all its own. L.A. bedroom pop sensation Cuco mixes loungy, bossa nova guitars, lo-fi drum clippings and the inside jokes of a generation raised on the internet into a lazy, hazy brew. At this week’s Music in the Park he’s joined by Bay Area musician Marinero, who crafts gauzy, laidback indie rock, inflected with Spanish and island flourishes. “Flor de Jamaica” sways lightly like a palm tree blown by a mild tropical breeze. (MS)

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MAX AMINI Fri, 7:30pm, $30+ The Improv, San Jose Arizona-born Iranian American comedian Max Amini knocks improv out of the park, incorporating the audience in essentially every show he does. It seems he’s changing lives, to a certain extent—phoning a husband who stayed home on Valentine’s Day while his wife came to the show and helping attendees find romance—all from the stage. He was a part of NBC’s “Diversity Showcase” circa 2009, which inspired Amini to spearhead an “Exotic Imports” comedy tour, exploring the diverse material of funny-boned second-generation comics. Amini personally has fun probing the Persian-American experience, sometimes performing sets in Farsi. (ER)

*sat OPERA IN THE MARKET Sat, 7pm, Free SoFA Market, San Jose It’s not every day that such iconic characters as Carmen, Tosca or Figaro roam the food court. But this weekend, Opera San Jose—celebrating its 35th year— serenades SoFa Market. Resident artists from the local company show off their vocal chops and mingle with fans. Attendees may enjoy drinks from the Fountainhead Bar while nibbling on a variety of choice snacks from Hawaiian Poke Bowl, Habana Cuba, Pizzetta 408, Tacos Los 3 Hermanos, Umi Hand Roll, Vietnoms, Sticks N’ Greens and Vitamina. First time at the opera? No sweat. The event is free, and you can leave the tux at home. (ER)

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SAN JOSE REN FAIRE Sat-Sun, 10am, $10+ Discovery Meadow, San Jose Turkey legs and goblets of wine? Sounds like a good olde tyme. History and fable come to life as nobility walk the meadow— including the Queen of England (Elizabeth I, bringer of the Elizabethan Era), ogres under the fairy ruler’s dominion, mermaids and whatever or whoever else makes their way into the sun this weekend. Of course, the relished joust takes center stage among other shows, aptly described as “part history lesson, part rodeo, part demolition derby.” An Artisan Marketplace will feature plenty of locally made treasures, plus mead, ale and grown-up grape juice. The faire runs through Aug. 4. (ER)

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SURF CLASSIC

GIPSY KINGS

LUCHADORES

Sep 13 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

Sun, 5pm, $22 The Ritz, San Jose

Tue, 7:30pm, $62+ The Mountain Winery, Saratoga

Tue, 6pm, Free St. James Park, San Jose

KUNG FU VAMPIRE

Back in the late ’50s and early ’60s, there wasn’t anything more punk rock than surf music. The musical rebels of yesteryear repurposed the Spanish scales they heard on their parents’ Andrés Segovia records— speeding it all up and running it over the top of rumbling drums and through overdriven amplifiers. Today, many younger bands that cut their teeth playing root-thirdfifth punk are finding inspiration in their parents’ vinyl collections, riding a second wave of surf across the rock clubs of America. The Boss Martians headline this celebration of tremolo picking and Fender Reverb amps. They’re joined by The Surfrajettes and Los Tiki Phantoms. (NV)

An acoustic guitar-wielding troupe of Andalusian descent, the Gipsy Kings came up in the south of France and play a Roma-influenced flamenco style known as Catalan rumba. But don’t let that intimidate you. Even if you’ve never owned any recordings by Gipsy Kings, you’re likely guilty of crooning uberballad “Volare” in the shower and you may be surprised that you know at least some of the words to “Bamboleo.” The Kings’ genius is in making a physically and technically demanding style go down like a glass of cool sangria, like on the reggae-flavored “Escucha Me” or the salsa-funk of “Vamos A Bailar.” (AL)

Since 2008, the Pro Wrestling Revolution has endeavored to return the art of acrobatic battle back to a simpler time. Namely, their revolución resurrects truly freestyle wrestling—the definition of lucha libre. The group tours throughout California with shows that are high-flying and fuerte. It’s been referred to by one of the collective’s luchadores as “the cheapest therapy that exists,” and their undertaking may strike even deeper for the Mexican-American community: Some matches feature heels dressed as US Border Patrol agents. Spectators can also throw back some brew in the beer garden, enjoy Mexican favorites and participate in family-friendly games. (ER)

Sep 13 at The Ritz

MALUMA Sep 15 at SAP Center

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Sep 20 at Mountain Winery

BOB SEGER Sep 26 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

MANÁ Sep 27 at SAP Center

BLACK LIPS Oct 10 at The Ritz For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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DESIGNER The poster for a Los Angeles exhibition of artist Diana Thater’s work is one of many on display at the Stanford Art Gallery.

Posted Up ‘Here Today’ exhibit at Stanford looks at the art of promotional design BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

HERE’S AN ART to creating an exhibition poster for a gallery show. The graphic designer assigned to the task has to balance practical information—the who, what, where and when—while also repurposing a compelling image from the show so that it will entice the viewer to make a trip into the gallery.

As most corporate illustrators and designers can attest, bold design work is sometimes compromised or sacrificed for the sake of perfect legibility. Or to please a demanding

client. A common dictum repeated in the trade is, “Make the logo bigger.” “Here Today: Posters from 1301PE, Los Angeles” (at the Stanford Art Gallery through Aug 30) dispenses with that approach of appealing to the lowest common denominator. Curated by Jennie Waldow and Jon Davies, PhD candidates in art history at Stanford— and facilitated by D. Vanessa Kam, Head of the Bowes Art & Architecture Library of the Stanford Libraries—this survey of archival posters grabs your attention with imagery. Making sense of what you’re looking at, or not being able to make sense of it, is part of the fun. Some of the posters from 1301PE, a contemporary art gallery in Los

Angeles, are as eye-catching as DIY streetlight fliers for local bands. Others tell sophisticated stories in the same way their close cousins, classic vinyl record covers, used to do. But a few of them are so abstract that they only exist as private references or inside jokes from the artist’s mind that can’t be explained or retold. The collected works here date back to the gallery’s opening date in 1992. Since that time, Brian Butler, founder of 1301PE, has represented and championed artists who are now known well beyond the confines of one Southern California art gallery. Several names recur on the wall, including Jack Goldstein, Sarah Seager, Jessica Stockholder, Pae White and Kerry Tribe. If some of these artists are unfamiliar to you, you’re in luck. Tribe’s film Afasia is playing at the Cantor Arts Center through Sep 30 (she’s a visiting artist at Stanford this year). And Pae White has a mobile-like sculpture and giant tapestry on display at the San Jose Museum of Art. In fact, the show takes its name from a poster made in support of White’s 2011 show, her sixth solo exhibit at 1301PE. From a distance, the image in

White’s original “Here Today” poster looks like the skin of an exploded orange, with the white pith expanding into an arc of billowy white clouds. Up close, it’s simply an enlarged kernel of popped corn. On the “Past Exhibitions” link of the 1301PE website, you can find images of two popcorn sculptures that White made. But the poster differs from that work, as someone’s drawn in a pair of ballet dancers pirouetting on the rounded edge of soft, white corn. All of the posters were designed by the artists themselves or in collaboration with Butler. They vary thematically, representing different ideas and personal obsessions. Or they’re devoid of any visual clue whatsoever. Kirsten Everberg’s poster from 2013 includes her name, printed in a large black font, with the exhibition dates printed underneath in red. While the “g” in her last name covers part of the opening night’s hours written below it, there’s nothing that indicates the style or content of her accomplished still life paintings of empty rooms. As a strategy to drum up interest, it suggests that for the initiated, recognizing her name would be enough of a draw. Paul Winstanley’s name also appears on the walls more than once, with imagery that’s consistently intriguing. His poster from 2010 displays a section of his oil on linen Evergreen in the Grounds. His painting of a tree calls to mind an overexposed photograph. The evergreen’s branches replicate themselves upward into bleached-out grays and shadowy whites. He sandwiches the tree between the corners of two buildings. Companion paintings depict the interiors of those buildings, part of a public institution that opened in South London after World War II. “Here Today” doesn’t just amplify the self-sustaining mythology of one specific gallery in Los Angeles. The posters introduce us to painters, sculptors, video and conceptual artists we might otherwise have never discovered. That’s why the second half of the expression referenced in the exhibit’s title—“Gone Tomorrow”—doesn’t apply.

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Bum’s Paradise Friendship and flamethrowers abound in ‘Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

NE FEELS LESS like reviewing Once Upon A Time in… Hollywood, and more like writing Quentin Tarantino a letter that begins, “Thank you for retrieving my lost city.” The movie dreams of LA 1969, in a heatwave winter and half a year later during the fateful weekend of Aug. 8-9. It admires open freeways, brushy hills, blazing movie marquees, and

colossal advertising signs that seem to flaunt every zoning law. One of several rhapsodic driving scenes has Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) crossing the San Fernando Valley at night. Coming up on his right is something that looks like a hallucination: a giant glowing blue X. Old Angelenos recognize this wonder as the delft-blue windmill from a Van de Kamp's coffee shop, its blades 20 feet long. The film is about the partnership of a pair of unequal men. Cliff is the drinking buddy, chauffeur and stunt double for

the skidding actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo di Caprio), who is getting paunchy from booze and living off the residuals of his 8-year-old TV hit Bounty Law. That line in The Dark Knight—“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain”—tell it to Jimmy Carter or RBG. However, it is absolutely true for actors. A helpful agent (Al Pacino) points out that once every detective, cop and rancher on TV is through punching Dalton out, he’ll be finished. Suffering from an emperor-sized hangover, Dalton tries to play the villain on an episode of the forgotten Western TV show Lancer. He can’t remember his lines. Booth is nerveless and solitary, and very athletic (going to fix a rooftop TV aerial, he scampers up the side of a house like a parkourist). But Booth’s own career is in eclipse, because of what seems like QT’s oblique reference to the #MeToo movement. Booth was found innocent of a capital crime. The circumstances were cloudy, but the

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ON SET Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio star in Quentin Tarantino’s epic, ‘Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood.’

gossip never stopped. And then he made things worse by calling out the one and only Bruce Lee (Mike Moh) when Lee was doing some bragging. Dalton has a new neighbor: the velveteen-clad director Roman Polanksi and his new wife, the starlet Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). In the film’s most lyrical passage, Tate— young, pretty and in love with the world—goes for a walk in Westwood. She talks her way into a matinee of her newest movie, the second-worst Matt Helm film, The Wrecking Crew. The introduction of the hippie villains commences with the sight of a lithe, plush-mouthed runaway called Pussycat (Margaret Qualley, terrific) who Cliff keeps encountering. This skinny moppet lives in a place Cliff knows well, the now-decrepit Spahn Movie Ranch. It’s currently the residence of a commune full of hippies. Booth’s arrival into this stageWestern town, with the wary freaks staring him down, parallels the show Dalton is doing in which a lone rider meets a Mexican town full of malos. It’s a nostalgic, gentle film, unrecognizable as the work of the man who directed Hateful Eight… right up until the grindhouse ending, when the prowlers arrive on that bad August night. Some would say the finish here tampers slightly with history. Inglourious Basterds concluded with Pitt branding a Nazi with a knife; as for Manson, he poked his own swastika in his forehead. QT’s opinion of how to deal with this breed is well known. One minor reason to love movies is that they offer the sight of formidable men. It’s been almost 30 years since Pitt whipped off his shirt in Thelma and Louise; reprising the gesture on a roof overlooking LA, he defies time. One feels a great empathy for the crumbling Dalton, and sees the beauty in the friendship between the two men. This loving study of the bum’s paradise is suffused with mellowness that goes beyond the smog-softened light, blue-gray at magic hour. The anxieties are either remote or kept at bay by pitchers of margaritas. Here is a serene easiness to everything.

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HOUSE PARTY From left, Riley McShane, Isaiah Wilson and Leopoldo “Jon Jon” Macaya of The Come Up.

Making Noise Local promotion collective The Come Up continues to expand its vision BY MATEI PREDESCU

AFFE FRASCATTI’S Tuesday open mic nights and Cafe Stritch’s Wax Wednesdays draw crowds of young artists, musicians and poets who convene to jam, freestyle and share ideas. The vibrant community of local creatives is all there. What’s lacking, however, is a larger network of performance spaces, accessible and all-ages, to sustain this burgeoning culture beyond those two venues. But a local grassroots music production collective is aiming to change that. Since their debut in late 2017, San

José Come Up, or simply The Come Up, has grown into a promising force on the local arts scene. The organization provides performance spaces for South Bay artists by throwing house shows, and by collaborating with SoFA district venues like Uproar Brewing Company and Cafe Stritch to elevate all-ages accessibility for the DIY music community. “The main point of The Come Up is to provide a platform for upcoming artists and to build a community for young creatives looking for something to do,” says musician and writer Isaiah Wilson, who, alongside Riley McShane and Leopoldo “Jon Jon” Macaya, founded The Come Up in order to stimulate San Jose’s creative culture.

“Jon Jon’s the eyes, Isaiah’s the ears, and I’m the mouth of The Come Up,” McShane quips about the trio’s individual talents. McShane and Wilson, who curate and book talent, are both artists. Macaya, a professional photographer, is their publicity and social media guru. “I think we all just have pretty good taste,” Macaya adds. Indeed. The group’s success in facilitating the DIY music scene stems from their gravitas as interdisciplinary artists with insider knowledge of the scene. A perfect example is their upcoming music and film festival, South by South Bay. SXSB will showcase San Jose musicians like Swells and the Lünatics at The Ritz, and short films from local filmmakers at MACLA the following day. “It’s a logical next step for us and what we do,” Wilson says about The Come Up’s move toward curating films and video art. “We’ve done music for a while now, and film has always been in the back of our minds.” The collective sees SXSB as an opportunity to introduce their growing community to new spaces in the SoFA District. Hopefully, their collaboration

with culturally significant community centers like MACLA will provide an established platform to bring creatives together and address the “gap of San Jose artists not knowing each other,” as Macaya puts it. The Come Up was born out of a casual meeting between the three founders one night outside Cafe Stritch. The conversation soon evolved into a brainstorming session. They would host a showcase of local bands. The crew then successfully pitched their idea at Pitch Please!?, a Shark Tank-style competition organized by San Jose-based arts non-profit Local Color. The contest’s judges chose The Come Up’s pitch from a pool of about 10 contestants, and Local Color awarded the trio $1,000 to execute their vision. They used the prize to put on their first show at Uproar Brewery Company in February 2018. “After that, it was really just a matter of people taking a chance on us,” McShane recalls. Following a series of events at SoFA Market, The Come Up hosted a pair of wellattended house shows. The turnout at these two events added to The Come Up’s clout and served as a testament to the collective’s knack for community engagement. Now, The Come Up puts on monthly showcases at Cafe Stritch’s Wax Wednesdays and at The Ritz. They’ve also collaborated with popup shop facilitators SJMADE for an exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. Their creative direction speaks of longlasting sustainability, but the founders see things from a larger perspective. “The end goal is not to be the only ones putting on shows for years to come,” Wilson says, reflecting on the long-term prospects of The Come Up. “We want to inspire other artists to book their own shows with a do it yourself attitude and form their own collectives—to provide their own come up. The important thing for us is how we execute the torch-carrying—how do we pass on the torch to the next generation of creatives?”

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JUL 31–AUG 8 | HOLY HELL, MAYBE WE ARE A VALLEY OF MUSIC LOVERS... My dearest South Bae, I hope you like music. My listings below are full of music (and a Renaissance Faire)—so much music, in fact, that I had to forgo a ton of recurring events in order to fit this week’s incredible schedule. It is as if the entire county is one big music festival this week. You may have a hard time selecting which events to attend, and I know this because I had a hard time selecting anything specific for you to check out. I am so impressed with the local offerings, from the East Palo Alto Blues Festival to South FIRST Fridays Art Walk to the Santa Clara County Fair to Cabaret at City Lights Theater Co. If you need a “directommendation,” I would point to the last sentence and to Music in the Park, South By South Bay, Ruin Your Zae2 and anywhere Magick Blues Band is playing. You can find nearly every genre of music (in purple) being played somewhere in Santa Clara County. = MUST SEE

= MORE AT SANJOSE.COM

WED 7/31 CEDAR ROOM

Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm– 5:30pm & 9pm–10pm. Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo. Mon, 7pm: Big Bands. Tue, 8pm– Close: Tiki Tuesdays— exotic cocktails and island vibes. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

8/6, 6pm: Bean Creek. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

OMNI-IDIOMATIC MUSIC | THOLLEM’S ELECTRIC CONFLUENCE 7:30pm. Plus Lisa Dewey & John Testani. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

ASTRONOMY ON TAP SOUTH BAY #11 7:30pm. Uproar Brewing Co, 439 S First St, San Jose

= SEE PHOTO

= FREE

Fri, 10pm: DJ/Live Music. Sat, 10pm: DJ/Live Music. Sun, 1pm: Princess Bride Sunday Funday Trivia! Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 10pm: Game Night. Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

THU 8/1 SWEET HAYAH ACOUSTIC SET

5:30pm. Naglee Park Garage, 505 E San Carlos St, San Jose

MUSIC IN THE PARK 2019 | CUCO THE RITZ POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ The Legend Ron Thompson & “Special Guests.” Thu, 6pm: Jam Night featuring the music of Tom Petty. Fri, 6pm: Casey Hensley Band “On Tour.” Fri, 9:30pm: Octobop (in The Studio). Sat, 6pm: Jimmy Dewrance Blues Band. Sun, 11am: Sunday Brunch with Johnny Fabulous "Piano on the Porch". Sun, 3pm: Rum & Reggae Party with the Rusty Zinn Band. Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

Wed, 8pm: Barefoot Gen – Front Bar. Thu, 8pm: The Art Show At The End Of The World - The Front Bar. Fri, 8pm: Satori 14th Anniversary Farewell. Sat, 7pm: South By South Bay: A San José Music and Film Fest. Sun, 5pm: International Surf Classic IV. 400 S First St, San Jose

ALT ROCK | WALTZ ENTRE EL CIELO Y LA TIERRA | LOVE AND PEACE TOUR 9pm. With Aurora Beam & Aris. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

5:30pm. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

COMEDY | BEER & STAND-UP SERVED

8pm. Hosted by Zach Lord. Lilly Mac’s, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke. Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. 2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

ROCK | BLOOD AND THUNDER, DISRUPT THE PARADIGM, EL GUAPO

9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ

Wed, 6pm: Blue House. Tue,

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed, 10pm: DJ Hank. Thu, 10pm: Throwback Thursday.

ELECTRO | KILL FRENZY (DIRTYBIRD), TORIE

10pm. LVL 44, 44 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

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11am. Garden At The Flea, 1590 Berryessa Road, San Jose

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays. Fri, 10pm: TGIFF with DJ Brotha Reese. Sat, 10pm: Snap Saturdays with DJ Vex One. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

FRI 8/2

THE WILLOW DEN PUBLIC HOUSE

Fri, 9pm: Live music. Sat, 9pm: Life Size Models. Sun, 5:30pm–Close: Service Industry Night = 1/2 off drinks with your industry card! Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. 803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

LITERATURE | VETERANSWRITE: A WRITING GROUP FOR VETERANS

1pm. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Rm 390, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

FRIDAY VIVA PARKS! MUSIC BY ALEX STANLEY + MEGHAN WILLIAMS

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

Fri & Sat, 9:30pm. 1072 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

CELEBRATION OF VIETNAMESE AMERICAN CULTURE AT THE SCC FAIR

EAST PALO ALTO BLUES FESTIVAL

7pm. SoFA Market, 387 S First St, San Jose

SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS ART WALK SJ + STREET MKT

7pm. Various locations throughout downtown San Jose. southfirstfridays.com

CANDID CAMERA’S LOL TOUR WITH PETER FUNT

7:30pm. 3Below Theatres, 288 S Second St, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

Fri & Sat, 8pm–Close. 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

SMOKING PIG BBQ

DANCING | TAMBA! AFROPOP PARTY 4pm. From Cairo to Cape Town. Continental Lounge, 347 S First St, San Jose

9pm. 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

MONDO MONDAY KARAOKE

10pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

TUE 8/6

Noon–7pm. Also Sun. Bell Street Park, 550 Bell St, E Palo Alto

5pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

SAN JOSE RENAISSANCE FAIRE & FANTASY FEST

ACOUSTIC NIGHT | THE NEW NORMAL, MATT PLESS, ADIRA SHARK

10am–6pm. Also Sun until 5pm. Discovery Meadow Park, 180 Woz Way, San Jose

NORTHSIDE NIGHT MARKET

5pm. Backesto Park, 551 N 13th St, San Jose

HIP-HOP | BOTZ & RYD PRESENTS: RUIN YOUR ZAE2

5pm. 880 Savaker St, San Jose

SOUTH BY SOUTH BAY: A SAN JOSÉ MUSIC AND FILM FEST

POP FOLK | LISA DE NOVO

7pm. $5. Game Shop Downstairs, 124 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

WED 8/7 HARDCORE/SCREAMO | KYLO REN (EUGENE), HAWAK (OAK/SJ)

8pm. Plus dontcryformeimalreadydead (Fresno), Slob (SJ). Playback Studios, 1813 S 10th St, Unit A, San Jose

7pm. Music event. See film event on Sun. The Ritz, 400 S First St, San Jose

THU 8/8

LIVE MUSIC | KAVANAUGH BROTHERS CELTIC EXPERIENCE

LOTERÍA ON A SUMMER NIGHT

8pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

Fri, 9pm: Christopher Patton. Sat, 9pm: Johnny Rawls. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

SUN 8/4

SYNTH | VECTOR HOLD, RAD WARRIOR AND MONOTREMATIC

POETRY BOOK CLUB WITH DARRELL DELA CRUZ

9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

11am. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

KARAOKE | O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

SAT 8/3

OPERA IN THE MARKET

VIVA PARKS SUNDAY BRUNCH WITH MAGICK BLUES BAND

MON 8/5

5pm. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

6pm. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Rd, San Jose

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SWEET HAYAH - LIVE AT THE SAN JOSÉ FLEA

10am. Markham House at History Park, 635 Phelan Ave, San Jose

5pm. Garden At The Flea, 1590 Berryessa Road, San Jose

STAGE | JUNIOR TALENTS ROALD DAHL'S JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH 7pm. Montgomery Theatre, 271 S Market St, San Jose

STAGE | CABARET

8pm. Through 8/25. City Lights Theater Company, 529 S Second St, San Jose

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Friday, August 2 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

GRIZFOLK

plus Laura Jean Anderson

Saturday, August 3 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

PACIFIC ROOTS

plus Soulwise also Hijinx

Tuesday, August 13 • Ages 16+

Matisyahu Thursday, August 15 • Ages 16+

Hawthorne Heights

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Aug 16 The Original Wailers (Ages 16+) Aug 22 Tuxedo/ DJ Kurse (Ages 16+) Aug 24 Los Cafres (Ages 16+) Aug 27 Protoje (Ages 16+) Aug 31 Danny Duncan (All Ages) Sep 2 Xavier Rudd (Ages 16+) Sep 12 Gogol Bordello (Ages 16+) Sep 13 Iya Terra/ For Peace Band (Ages 16+) Sep 14 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 15 Lil Keed/ Lil Gotit (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Hot Chip/ Holy Fuck (Ages 16+) Sep 28 & 29 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Collie Buddz (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Riot Ten/ Al Ross (Ages 18+) Oct 12 Manila Killa (Ages 16+) Oct 14 Yung Gravy (Ages 16+) Oct 19 & 20 Santa Cruz Music Festival (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars (Ages 16+) Nov 2 Elephante/ PLS&TY (Ages 16+) Nov 14 Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque (Ages 21+) Nov 17 Snow Tha Product (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

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DOGGY STYLE At 78, funk legend George Clinton is still tearing the roof off the sucker.

King of Funk

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Wed July 31

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

Chris Cain 7pm • $7

Thur Aug 1 A Celebration of Jerry Garcia’s Birthday

The China Cats

8pm • $15 adv/$20 day of show

Fri Aug 2

MUSIC ON THE SQUARE

Steel ‘N’ Chicago

5:30pm • No Cover • Full Bar plus Beer & Wine to go

Fri Aug 2 SALSA SPOT

Alberto y su Orquesta La Diferencia Doors 8pm, Salsa lesson at 8:30pm $15 cover/$10 w/student ID

Sat Aug 3

Dr. Rock & LRI Present 50th Anniversary of Woodstock with

Zebop! Tribut to Santana LIQUID SKY - Tribute to Jimi Hendrix & Janis Joplin: 8pm • $15 adv / $20 day of show

2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

THERE’S MORE TO George Clinton than many fans realize. The Kannapolis, NC-born musician is the voice and face of Parliament Funkadelic. A leading light of the music scene, Clinton brought a sensibility that—much like Frank Zappa, to whom he is often compared—combined humor with advanced musicality. Through the 1970s and ’80s, the music made by the various aggregations under the P-Funk banner delighted fans who wanted something beyond the ordinary. The space-themed outfits, high-energy and outrageous live shows won Clinton and his band mates a loyal following that continues to this day. But Clinton didn't appear out of nowhere. By the time Funkadelic began attracting critical attention with albums like 1970's Free Your Mind … And Your Ass Will Follow, he had been working as a professional musician for several years. With his friend Sidney Barnes (the latter a member of another George Clinton & groundbreaking musical act, Rotary Connection), Parliament Funkadelic Clinton worked as a staff songwriter at Motown. “We wrote a hundred-and-something songs in Aug 3, 5:30 p.m. the Jobete Records catalog over the course of a $79.50 and up year,” Barnes recalls. At the same time, Clinton Mountain Winery, also produced many sessions for fledgling artists, Saratoga honing his skills behind the recording console. mountainwinery.com In the middle 1960s, Motown head Berry Gordy set up a New York office for the company, headed by his estranged wife Raynoma. Barnes says he and Clinton “recorded hundreds of demos of songs—our songs, other people’s songs—because everybody at that time was interested in getting a Motown song.” Even at the height of Parliament Funkadelic’s success, Clinton was actively helping other artists. During the ’70s he worked again with Barnes and Mike Terry (billing themselves as Geo-Si-Mik Productions) at Golden World Records, working on sessions for Edwin Starr, including “Agent Double-O Soul” and “Stop Her on Sight.” While today Clinton and his P-Funk projects are thought of primarily as live acts, all of those experiences in the studio sharpened Clinton's approach to music. In recognition of his life of achievement, Clinton was inducted (with Parliament Funkadelic) into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; just over a decade later, his home state recognized him as well, inducting him into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. Today, as he approaches his retirement from live performance, Clinton remains active; behind the scenes he has been working with Barnes on development of a docudrama focusing on the chitlin’ circuit of the mid-20th century. —Bill Kopp

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656433 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. HMH Incorporated, 2. HMH Landscape Architecture, 1570 Oakland Road, San Jose, CA, 95131, HMH Engineers. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/14/2012. Refile in facts from previous filing #571751. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/William Sowa. Vice President. #C0762379. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #656388 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): SMSTRAT, 1114 Savannah Drive, San Jose, CA, 95117, Sujata Ramnarayan. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 02/20/2014. under file No. 588464. This business was conducted by: An Individual: Filed on 06/28/2019. /s/Sujata Ramnarayan. (pub dates: 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV349595 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Ashley Kay Braun for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Ashley Kay Braun. Proposed name: Ashley Kay Duty. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: November 5, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: June 21, 2019 (pub dates: 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV349805 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Shiela Marie Riker for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Shiela Marie Riker. Proposed name: Shay Marie Riker. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: November 12, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: July 1, 2019 (pub dates: 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656540 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Empowerment Financial Guidance, 4030 Moorpark Avenue Suite 250, San Jose, CA, 95117, Empowerment Financial Guidance LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/06/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Margaret Stephan. Managing Member. #201913410663. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/02/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656470 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Excel, 1120 N. First Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Excel Energy, 785 Ellerbrook St., Mountain House, CA, 95391. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/02/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mushtaq Omar. CFO. #C4265481. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/02/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656499

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: South County Newspapers, 380 S. 1st St., San Jose, CA, 95113, NUZ Inc.. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Dan Pulcrano. President. #C3646164. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/03/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CUTECUBSFCC, 566 Monterey Ter., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Seema Sharma. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2016. /s/Seema Sharma. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/05/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656545 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kay Green Landscape, 5980 Cabral Ave., San Jose, CA, 95123, Young Hun Bae. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2013. Refile in facts from previous filing #576288. /s/Young Bae. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/05/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV350389 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Jennifer Marie Glaeser for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Jennifer Marie Glaeser. Proposed name: Jennifer Glaeser Beck. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: August 20, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: July 9, 2019 (pub dates: 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656573

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Puffle Services, 27801 Edgerton Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA, 94022, Hua Zhong. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/08/2019. /s/Hua Zhong. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/08/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tocotea, 1694 Berryessa Rd., San Jose, CA, 95133, Tocotea Incorporated. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/31/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ryan Tran, Secretary. #C4270072. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/08/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656554 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Red Carpet Real Estate Professionals, 2. Red Carpet Re Pros, 3. BCW Construction, 4. BCW & Sons Construction, 5. Pacific Northwest Mortagage Corp, 25N 14th Street #830, San Jose, CA, 95112, Bruce Caldwell Williams, 25 North 14th Street, Suite 830, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/03/2007. /s/Bruce Caldwell Williams. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/05/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656607 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Moonshot Education, 282 San Antonio Road, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Harmony Plus 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/Ying Li, CEO #C3998687. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/09/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656580

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Evermath, 3702 Carlson Cir., Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Haiying Li. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/02/2019. /s/Haiying Li. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/08/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656400 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: November Hair Studio, 2118 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95050405, Nguyen Thao Doan, 249 Spence Ave., Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/15/2019. /s/Nguyen Thao Doan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656439

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Angelic Cleaning Services, 9410 S 2nd Ave., Inglewood, CA, 90305, Howard Hines, 350 S. 10th Street #1, San Jose, CA, 95112, Saintclair Hines. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Howard Hines. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656669

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656752

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Elevative Media, 20 East 5th Street, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Alex Douglas Vo, Mark Jensen Sebastian. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/11/2019. /s/Alex Vo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/10/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Killian Consulting, 27801 Edgerton Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA, 94022, Earl A Killian. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on on 07/15/2019. /s/Earl A Killian. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/15/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656630

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656699

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Akara, 16105 Montebello Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Second Coming Books 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/Leslie A. Pantling, President. #C4291877. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/09/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. South Bay Battle-Tested, 2. PSYKATSU, 149 South 15th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Gary Anthony Pomeroy, Bertrand Ferreras Paule, 1986 Lupine Rd., Hercules, CA, 94547. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/11/2019. /s/Gary Anthony Pomeroy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/11/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656443 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. 1 Plus 1 Cares, 2. 1+1 Cares, 3. 1+1, 4. 1 Plus 1, 990 Linden Dr. STE 201, Santa Clara, CA, 95050. 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/Ray Liu, President. #C3058075. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/09/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656792 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Masterchinese, 1765 Landes Ave., #164, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Sun Grace. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/16/2013. /s/Grace Sun. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/16/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656986

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657022

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mint And Stitch, 530 Showers Dr. STE 222, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Romi Hakmon. 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/Romi Hakmon. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/22/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Moodfit, 748 La Para Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Roble Ridge Software, 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 07/01/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jon Schlossberg, Manager. #201026310264. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/23/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656872 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Haul Away Today, 4520 Sherbourne Drive, San Jose, CA, 95124, Denis Weir. This business is being conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/07/2019. /s/Denis Weir. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656918 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Marauder Fishing Brand, 575 University Ave., San Jose, CA, 95110, Jayson Reduta. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. /s/Jayson Reduta. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657000

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656768

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #655983

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Drain Assist, 115 S. Sunset Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Trieu Vo. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/Trieu Vo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/15/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Pit Row, 2555 Lafayette St., Suite 122, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Apexx Unlimited LLC. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 07/31/2017. under file No. 632446. This business was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company: Filed on 06/19/2019. /s/Dennis Grahovic, Managing Member. (pub dates: 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Graciepu Boutique, 1478 Crespi Dr., San Joe, CA, 95129, Credo Invictus, 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 07/31/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Grace Anne Pugal-Liao, Managing Member. #201731310384. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/22/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656724

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656949

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV350877 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Jessica Gorganne Mora for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: A. Jessica Gorganne Mora, B. Matthew Lawrence Mercado. Proposed name: A. Jessica Gorganne Lopez, B. Matthew Lawrence Lopez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: November 26, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: July 15, 2019 (pub dates: 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV348746

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Teri McFadden for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Maria Stephany Gonzalez. Proposed name: Maria Stephany Suchan THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: November 5, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: October 15, 2019 (pub dates: 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bio Wellness LLC, 95 Hobson St., #2B, San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/31/2016. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Roger Fung Chow, Managing Member. #20180311411 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/12/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656843 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Baby Your Back, 2. Baby Your Back Massage, 3. Baby Your Back Prenatal Massage, 4428 Scottsfield Dr., San Jose, CA, 95136, Kristyn Marcon Powell. 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/ Kristyn Marcon Powell. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656958 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alexandra Sung Real Estate, 109 Bond Ct., Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Alexandra Sung, Jeffrey Sung. 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/Alexandra Sung. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Elevated Design, 20763 St. Joan Ct., Saratoga, CA, 95070, Aimee Janet Mckone. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/19/2019. /s/Aimee Janet Mckone. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656968 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Retro Fitness, 868 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose, CA, 95123, Big Ideas Inc., 919 Theresa Ct., Menlo Park, CA, 94025. 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/Joshua Lee, President. #C4277616. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/22/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657031 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Harmoniq, 3500 Granada Avenue #110, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Nadezda Shapiro. 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/Nadezda Shapiro. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/23/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656659 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Barryâ€™s Bootcamp, 3060 Olsen Drive Suite 120, San Jose, CA, 95128, BBA San Jose LLC, 2120 Steiner Street, San Francisco, CA, 94115. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Adam Shane, CEO. #201818010234. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/10/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657044 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Photofox Photo Booth, 1843 Laurinda Drive, San Jose, CA, 95124, Madfox 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 01/02/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Michael Fox, Managing Director. #201901710294. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/24/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656935 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Tax Muse, 171 Main St., #235, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Montparnasse 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 07/18/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Wendy L Hsu, Manager. #20191820396. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656700 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Zenibella Nail Spa, 1148 Riverside Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94024, Zenibella. 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/Huy H. Fong, President. #4286944. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/11/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657071 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SMH Learning, 322 Los Gatos Saratoga Road, Los Gatos, CA, 93030, Stephanie Macey Hanses, 1865 Johnathan Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/25/2019. /s/Stephanie Macey Hanses. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/25/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

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by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide," wrote psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. I think that description fits many people born under the sign of the Scorpio, not just Scorpio artists. Knowing how important and necessary this dilemma can be for you, I would never glibly advise you to always favor candid, straightforward communication over protective, strategic hiding. But I recommend you do that in the coming weeks. Being candid and straightforward will serve you well.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Even if you're an ambidextrous, multi-gendered, neurologically diverse, Phoenician-Romanian Gemini with a fetish for pink duct tape and an affinity for ideas that no one has ever thought of, you will eventually find your sweet spot, your power niche and your dream sanctuary. I promise. Same for the rest of you Geminis, too. It might take a while, but I beg you to have faith that you will eventually tune in to the homing beacon of the mother lode that's just right for you. P.S.: Important clues and signs should be arriving soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sometime soon

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet

boring astrologer tell you at a time like now? Maybe something like this: "More of other people's money and resources can be at your disposal if you emanate sincerity and avoid being manipulative. If you want to negotiate vibrant compromises, then pay extra attention to good timing and the right setting. Devote special care and sensitivity to all matters affecting your close alliances and productive partnerships." As you know, Cancerian, I'm not a normal, boring astrologer, so I wouldn't typically say something like what I just said. But I felt it was my duty to do so because right now you need simple, basic, no-frills advice. I promise I'll resume with my cryptic, lyrical oracles next time.

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you to cultivate curiosity and excitement about the big picture of your destiny. If you hope to respond with intelligence to the questions and challenges that each new day brings, you must be steadily nourished with an expansive understanding of why you are here on Earth. I bring these ideas to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to illuminate and deepen and embellish your conception of your life story.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his poem "Wild Oats," poet W. S. Merwin provided a message that's in perfect alignment with your current astrological needs: "I needed my mistakes in their own order to get me here." He was not being ironic in saying that; he was not making a lame attempt to excuse his errors; he was not struggling to make himself feel better for the inconvenience caused by his wrong turns. No! He understood that the apparent flubs and miscues he had committed were essential in creating his successful life. I invite you to reinterpret your own past using his perspective.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What would a normal,

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journalist, LoveMancer, who's standing by with a live report from inside your imagination. What's happening, LoveMancer? "Well, Rob, the enchanting creature on whose thoughts I've been eavesdropping has slipped into an intriguing frontier. This place seems to be a hot zone where love and healing interact intensely. My guess is that being here will lead our hero to breakthrough surges of love that result in deep healing, or deep healing that leads to breakthrough surges of love—probably both."

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo figure skater Scott

Hamilton won an Olympic gold medal and four World Championships. He was a star who got inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame and made a lot of money after he turned professional. "I calculated once how many times I fell during my skating career—41,600 times," he testified in his autobiography. "But here's the funny thing: I also got up 41,600 times. That's the muscle you have to build in your psyche—the one that reminds you to just get up." In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, I'll be cheering you on as you strengthen that muscle in your psyche during the coming weeks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What's the story of your

life? Psychologist James Hillman said that in order to thrive, you need to develop a clear vision of that story. How do you do that? Hillman advised you to ask yourself this question: "How can I assemble the pieces of my life into a coherent plot?" And why is this effort to decode your biography so important? Because your soul's health requires

Aracelis Girmay writes, "How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & strangely rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered. We exist as phantom, monster, miracle, each a theme park all one's own." Of course that's always true about every one of us. But it will be extraordinarily true about you in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be at the peak of your ability to express what's most idiosyncratic and essential about your unique array of talents and specialties.

I suspect you will arrive at a crossroads in your relationship with love and sex—as well as your fantasies about love and sex. In front of you, a hearty cosmic joke that would mutate your expectations and expand your savvy. Behind you, an alluring but perhaps confusing call toward an unknown future. To your left, the prospect of a dreamy adventure that might be only halfimaginary. To your right, the possibility of living out a slightly bent fairy tale version of romantic catharsis. I'm not here to tell you what you should do, Capricorn. My task is simply to help you identify the options.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How many handcuffs

are there in the world? Millions. Yet there are far fewer different keys than that to open all those handcuffs. In fact, in many countries, there's a standard universal key that works to open most handcuffs. In this spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I'm designating August as Free Yourself from Your Metaphorical Handcuffs Month. It's never as complicated or difficult as you might imagine to unlock your metaphorical handcuffs, and for the foreseeable future it will be even less complicated and difficult than usual for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): People who sneak a gaze into your laboratory might be unnerved by what they see. You know and I know that your daring experiments are in service to the ultimate good, but that may not be obvious to those who understand you incompletely. So perhaps you should post a sign outside your lab that reads, "Please don't leap to premature conclusions! My in-progress projects may seem inexplicable to the uninitiated!" Or maybe you should just close all your curtains and lock the door until your future handiwork is more presentable. P.S. There may be allies who can provide useful feedback about your explorations. I call them the wounded healers. Homework: Fantasize about ways you could make money from doing what you love to do. Report results! 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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