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Project P rojecct Runaway Runaway While everyonee and their mom-inlaw weighs a run r ffor or mayor of San Jose Jose in 20 2014, 014, Councilmember DON R ROCHA OCHA is considering c calling it quits at the end of his h first term. He insists no decision ha has as been made, but the CCambrian ambrian councilmember counncilmember has publicly and privately voiced v his displeasure displeasure with some of his h colleagues and their constant focus focuss on pension reform, reform, as opposed to public safety, safetyy, libraries, libraries, community cen centers nters and str street eet paving. If things don’t don’t change, R Rocha ocha says, he would be willing willin ng to walk away in two years from from public pubblic service—as service—as well as a ffour-year, our year, $320,000 our-year $320 0 000 contr 0,000 act; assuming contract; he ’s rre-elected e-electedd as most incumbents ar e. he’s are. One would think thin nk Rocha Rocha knew the score score back in 2010, having h worked six years in the city’s now-defunct now--defunct Redevelopment Redevelopment A gency as well well as serving serving as a Agency chief of staff to to former former Vice Mayor D AVE V CORTESE CORTESE and a district staffer staffer DAVE during the may yoral terms of SUSAN SUSAN mayoral H AMMER, RON RON GONZALES GONZALES HAMMER, CHUCK R EEED. But and CHUCK REED. Don’t eness council divisive divisiveness forget eased in rrecent ecent has incr increased to tip! Rocha’s years, and Rocha’s fi ce it distaste is so fier fierce FLY@ has started to have METRONEWS. COM estations. physical manif manifestations. According to a ffew According ew of his council coll colleagues, leagues, Rocha Rocha makes a point of sitting apart from group from the gr oupp during closed session chooosing a small desk over meetings, choosing droom m table. R ocha admitted it ’s the boar boardroom Rocha it’s ugh but blamed the tight true with a lau laugh oom. But to quarters and a lack of legr legroom. prove prove distancee doesn’t doesn’t necessarily make ow w ffonder, onder, Rocha Rocha goes as the heart gr grow far as walking out of the rroom oom any time far Councilmembeer PETE CCONSTANT ONSTANT gives a Councilmember verbal b l update d t on rretirement etir ti ementt bboards. boards. d If R ocha does decide deecide to call it quits, he’ll he’ll Rocha shortage career have no shorta age of car eer choices, having buil strong resume resume and builtt upp a strong numer ous con nections. But selfishly, selfishlyy, we numerous connections. would pr efer he h goes back to prefer male modeling g. modeling.

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FY YOU’RE OU’RE interested in making a non-tax deductible contributio contribution n to a man who misused th ho ousands of taxpayer thousands d olllars, in addition to hidin ng dollars, hiding ca am mpaign disclosure formss campaign fo or years Shirakaw wa for years,, George Shirakawa w wo uld like to speak with you. y would

JJust u b ust before effo ore the Christmas br break eak laast month, the ccounty last ounty sup supervisor ervisor created new the cr reaated a ne w ccommittee ommittttee ccalled alled th he “George Shirakawa Legal Defense “G Geeorge Shirak awa L egal Def fense e Fund. F und.” Ther un There’s e’s no limit on how m muc much ap person erson ccan an ccontribute ontribute to

th fund, the f d which hi h iiss sole solely l ly designed d i d tto o help Shirak Shirakawa awa pa pay ay leg legal gal bills bills.. Those bills ccould ould ccome ome to a hefty h tot total al dep depending ending on what th the he Fair P Political olitical Practices Practic es C Commission ommission and District Attorney’s A tttorney’s O Office ffice find in i their separate investigations in nvestigations into Shi Shirakawa, rakawa, which aree each going into the ar their eir ffourth ourth o now.. month now Ass far as we know know, A w, no n one has donated to this needy ccause ause yyet. et. Worth W or o th noting in thee ne new w ccommittee ommittee fforms orms is wh o who ho help helped ed Shirakawa Shirak awa pr prepare epare thee do documents— cuments— not Linda Delgado Delgado,, Sh Shirakawa’s hirakawa’’s previous pr evious tr treasurer easurer and d the mother children. Stacy Owens,, of one of his childr en. St S acy Owens who works for for o the firm m Henry Henry C. C. Levy Levy and C Company, ompan ny, is listed d as the financial

ccaretaker aretak t ker this t time thi ti ar around. ound. d The firm firm’s m’s website sa says ays y the ccompany ompany sp sspecializes ecializes in ““tax tax rreturn eturn preparation, pr eparatio on, litigation supp support, ort, political p olitical ccampaign a ampaign b bookkeeping ookkeeping and rreporting eporting t and ccompliance ompliance and political p olitical tr treasurer easurer supp support, ort, business valuations,, and mediation and valuations arbitration services. n ser vices.” the firm’s does What th he firm ’s website do es not include is a list of its other clients clients.. The Henry Henry C. C. L Levy evy Company Compan ny and Ms. Ms. Owens also o handle tr treasurer easurer duties ffor or a st o state ate p political olitical action ccommittee ommittttee of note: C Californians a fo alif ornians ffor o or Qualit Quality ty Paramedic P aramedicc Ser Services, vices, Sp Sponsored onsored b byy Rural/Metro Corporation. R ural/Metr u ro C orporation. The amb ambulance bulance ccompany ompan ny that rreceived eceived Sh Shirakawa hirakawa and ttwo wo other

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’NEILL: Disapp ointed in the BRIAN O O’NEILL: Disappointed Mercury N ews ab out how the Mercury News about theyy personally at aattack tack p eople affiliated personally people abor. L et’s w ait ffor or o the pr ocess with L Labor. Let’s wait process d to b bee done done.. FORREST WILLIAMS: WILLIAMS: I Merc is biased FORREST Merc Lab bor and minorities. minorities. against Labor JACQUIE HEFNER: HEFNER: The issue is how JACQUIE xpenses ffor or o axxpaayer eexpenses he used ttaxpayer Democraticc P arty eevents. veents. W Democratic Party Wee need accountabillity. accountability. ossed TONY TONY A ALEXANDER: LEXA ANDER: W We’ve e’ve all cr crossed way or another. another. The the line onee way people in his h district should hold people accoun ntable. him accountable. JOHN KESSLER: KESSLLER: We We should not b JOHN bee taking this as an issue; Chuck R eed e taking Reed ay back b $40,0 00 to the cit ty had to pa pay $40,000 city 06. in 20 2006. OMAR T ORRES: N ever trusted the OMAR TORRES: Never Mercury N ews. Shirak awa, Diaz and Mercury News. Shirakawa, Gonzalez sh hould not b ed to Gonzalez should bee lump lumped reﬂect mino oritty ccommunity. ommunity. reﬂect minority STEVE CHESSIN: CHESSIN: S Suggest let ttter writing STEVE letter campaign to t Mer egarding R eed e campaign Mercc rregarding Reed an ndard. double st standard. DAV VID CCOHEN: OHEN N: What st andards should DAVID standards ur elected officials? W we hold ou our Wee as a party shoul ld hold them ac countable. party should accountable. EMILIE GGATFIELD: ATFIELD: This incident EMILIE oblem in highlights a major pr problem county go vernment. county government. Ro oss Gome ez: N othing illegal ab o t out Ross Gomez: Nothing about eeed did. what R Reed DRINA CCOLLINS: OLLIINS: How man ny of yyou ou o DRINA many lived in Dis strict 7? I w as ther lived District was theree sinc sincee George’s fat ther w as C ouncilmember. George’s father was Councilmember. They wer oth eexcellent xcellent They weree b both councilmem mbers. councilmembers. HERB HERB ENGSTROM: ENGSTR T OM: W Wee should hold other in hig highest ghest ethic ethical al st standards. andards. But the me media edia ccan an ttake ake things w way ay out off pr proportion. op portion. i

SSWANEE WANEE EEDWARDS: DWARDS: A shaamed of the Ashamed actions of the Sup erviso or. Supervisor.

SWANEE A EEDWARDS: DWA ARDS: It ’s not just the SWANEE It’s Mercury N ews; FPPC and D A Mercury News; DA looking looking int into to it also also..

GGERRY ERR RY HUNT T: A CP PA A, it i is HUNT: Ass a CPA, unf for o tunate that the County Countty has unfortunate maint ained poor poor oversight. oversiight. maintained

JORDAN JORDAN ELDRIDGE: ELD DRIDGE: We We look look stupid as a Party Party iff we support support someone before beffor o e they they go to jail.

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supervisors’ blessings ffor supervisors’ o or a multimillion dollar ccounty ounty ccontract o ontract in 2010—after Shirak awa to ok a jaunt Shirakawa took to San Diego in late 20 09, on the 2009, ccounty ountty dime di t ““tour” t tour” ”R ural u l Metr M t o’s dime,, to Rural Metro’s facilities—has the samee tr easurers, treasurers, Ms evy vy, listed on its Ms.. Owens and Mr Mr.. L Levy, fforms. orms. And it o ’s not a ccoincidence. oiincidence. it’s A ccording to ﬁlings on o the According C aliffo ornia Secr etary of St ate website California Secretary State website,, R ural Metr u o’s P AC to ok k an inter est Rural Metro’s PAC took interest in supp orting not only Shirak awa in supporting Shirakawa his rre-election e-election bid last yyear ear but also get ting some of his clos sest friends getting closest and p olitical allies elect ted to the political elected Demo cratic i C entrall C o ommit itttee. ((The Th The Democratic Central Committee. P AC also sp ent mor han $6 0,000 PAC spent moree th than $60,000 supp orting JJimmy immy Ngu uyen in his supporting Nguyen failed bid ffor or R o ose o Herr rera’’s San JJose ose Rose Herrera’s City C ouncil seat.) City Council Among the men who o wer weree included on a slate mai iler with mailer Shirak awa and ffellow eellow Sup S ervisor Shirakawa Supervisor Da ave C ortese, who also o ran Dave Cortese, unopp osed to rre-election, e- electio on, wer esus unopposed weree JJesus Gome z, JJavier avvier Gonzale z Andr z, es Gomez, Gonzalez, Andres Quinter o and Omar T o orres. (On a Quintero Torres. side note orres is plan o nning to run note,, T Torres planning ffor or Sam Lic o cardo’s Distr rict 3 seat in Liccardo’s District 2014. A sour ce tells Met tro that T orres o source Metro Torres w as bullied into signingg on to the was slate mailer and has sin nce disa avowed since disavowed Shirak awa’’s illegal sp en nding.) Shirakawa’s spending.) R ural Metro’s u Metro’s PAC, PAC, which w Rural is supported supp orted eexclusively xclusively b byy the ccompany ompan ny based out of Sc Scottsdale, ottsdale, Ariz., spent sp ent $76 $769.36 9.36 apiec apiecee in n supp supporting orting Shirakawa Shirak awa and C Cortese, ortese, while the PAC’s P AC’s eexpenditures xpenditures wer were re $1,0 $1,006.51 06.51 ffor o or each of the D DCC CC ccandidates. andid dates. Bringing it all home home,, in its last meeting of 2012, the D DCC CC had an item on its meeting min minutes nutes agenda titled, “Discussion on S Shirakawa hirakawa issue..” Below is what th issue the he D DCC CC officials said, ac according cording to the minutes: m

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But does this mean the th he V Valley alley is anyytime soon? due to go vertical anytime Maybe not. The upside, upside, however, howeverr, is growth may m not be that vertical growth necessary to revitalize revitalizze the area. area. San Jose’s skyline skyline hass always been target a tar get of controversy, controverssyy, primarily downtown because the downtow wn core core is in the ﬂight path of nearby neaarby San Jose A wide Mineta International Airport. A swath of buildings along alo ong this path is subject to height restrictions. resttrictions. The possibility of another ano other major earthquake in the region reg gion has also had a limiting effect effect on o construction, codes require as earthquake q requir q e major j eff orts to stabilize bu uildings. But efforts buildings. that hasn’t stopped the the construction of a new wing ffor or thee county’s major hospital, or thee construction of a nearby professional professional football football stadium, or the development develo opment of a high-rise casino and d several several downtown high-rise condominiums. c

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Indeed, the biggest impediments im mpediments to vertical growth growth in San n Jose and the general aren’t South Bay in gener al ar en’tt airports en or earthquakes or even eveen the economy. economyy. Fundamentally, it’s about Fundamentally y, it ’s ab bout geography, geographyy, aesthetics. globalization and aes sthetics. Unlike San Francisco, Francisco, which sits at the tip of the peninsula penin nsula and is cornered corner ed by its rugged ruggeed hills—or New York, York, which is circumscribed cirrcumscribed which by the island on whic ch it rresides— esides— is really Silicon Valley Valley a reallyy huge, with a lot of available building build ding space. there’s So ther ee’ss no driving need to go vertical. Second, and perhaps even more more important, most companies comp panies in Silicon V Valley alley have become practiced practiced in the art of of workforce workforce just isn’t globalization. So the need n there there to have a “superstructure” “supeerstructure” for ofﬁces for their corporate corporate of ﬁces or highrise housing structures structures e for for their employee base. vertical The rreal eal catalyst for for ve rtical growth growth in the valley may not be be the tech industry or housing needs neeeds at all. Rather, Ratherr, it may come in the form form of inspired inspir ed investment in environmentally environmentally sustainable grand grand design. desig gn. —Dan Holden

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The brand-new, 112-million-dollar, 842-seat Bing Concert Hall opened at Stanford last weekend, and it will now

serve as the venue for the Stanford Symphony’s Beethoven Project, kicking off this weekend. The symphony will devote its entire season to the performance of all nine Beethoven symphonies, and there will be educational concerts and Beethovencentric curricula. The symphony will even tour Europe this summer with the theme “In Beethoven’s Footsteps.” As I walked through the Bing Concert Hall a few days before it opened, workers were still putting the ﬁnal touches on things. It is an immaculate venue, with the symphony and the Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra now permanent residents. The hall itself is “in the round,” that is, the seats are arranged in a “vineyard” format, with seating sections surrounding the stage and beginning on the same level as the performance

platform. The furthest seat is only 75 feet from the conductor. Even better, there are no right angles anywhere inside the hall. Every component of the architecture ﬂows like a stream, in wavelike fashion, throughout the space. The acoustics took priority, and everything else was built around the acoustics. In the bigger picture, the idea is to ensure that every Stanford student has access to and appreciates the arts. Aside from the concert space, there are huge restrooms, a cafe, a veranda, studio/rehearsal spaces and even foyer sections that open to the surrounding greenery, providing a natural transition between architecture and nature. Throw in plenty of free parking and dozens of bike racks, and you have what’s probably the most modern concert venue anywhere around here. Even the dressing rooms have ﬂoor-to-ceiling windows that face the landscaping outside. In a complementary set of circumstances, over at SJSU, the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at SJSU launches an exhibit, “Beethoven’s Vienna,” on Jan. 26, continuing for

the rest of the spring semester. If you haven’t been there, the Center now officially contains the largest collection of Beethoven materials in the Western hemisphere, a treasure trove of historical artifacts, scores, research materials, prints, facsimiles, objets d’art, historic keyboard instruments and real-life goods, including the famous Guevara Lock of Beethoven’s hair. Named after Dr. Alfredo Guevara, one of those who originally purchased the lock of hair at Sotheby’s, London, nearly 20 years ago, the lock is a fully authenticated piece of Beethoven’s hair, residing under a glass display for all visitors to see. The Center is similarly organizing a tour, this October, to Vienna, so folks can walk in Beethoven’s footsteps. Upon my visit to the Center last week, volunteer Richard Sogg, M.D., sat down at the historical fortepiano and played a version of “Tennessee Waltz,” before with the Herb Alpert & the regaling me w Tijuana Brass cclassic “Spanish Flea” on keyboard. I immediately felt another keybo reconnected w with my alma mater. Sogg’s shenanigans, curator Following S Patricia Stroh gave me the lowdown exhibit, which will provide on the new ex glimpses into tthe years 1792 to 1827, Beethoven lived and worked when Beethov Vienna. We will see: engravings of in Vienna bombardments, florists, honey sellers and camels; a lottery ticket; an 1803 Viennese cookbook; a zograscope (an viewing device that imparts the illusion of depth) and vue d’optique prints; the last quill pen Beethoven ever used; music engraving tools; one of Mälzel’s first metronomes; as well as a Biedermeier coffee grinder and coffee maker. Whew! But for me, the synchronistic aspects here are even more mind-blowing because I was just in Vienna a few months ago, lurking in the shadows of Beethoven’s former houses and haunts myself—but with no foreknowledge there would be celebrations of such things right in my own part of the world come January. The pillars of self, time and space once again underwent a profound transfiguration. The past, present and future have compressed into one. Applaud, my friends, the column is over.

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HE SECOND SECOND WEEK in Octoberr of 1901 brought sw sweltering weltering Indian sum mmer days summer to the Santa Clar Clara aV Valley. alley. F orest ﬁres throughout throug ghout Forest Centr Central al California cast a smoky haze over the t region as the ﬁnal push of o the v valley’s alley’s annual fru fruit uit harvest w was as well underway. underway a .

Nationally, National llyy, the ccountry ountry w was as still mourning the sho shocking cking assassination of President Presiden nt W William iilliam McKinle McKinleyy and ccoming omingg to terms with the unanticipated unanticipa ted asc ascension ension of his yyoung oung vice-president, vic i e-preside ident, Theodore Th dor Theo d e Roosevelt, Roosevelt, l to the high highest hest offic officee in the land. After a nearly n month-long mourning p eriod during which period R oosevelt ordered o dered ﬂags b or Roosevelt bee ﬂown at half f--masst, he issued a ne w order order half-mast, new rreturning eturning them t to their normal p osition. McKinley’s M McKinle y’s assassin, position.

the anar anarchist chist L Leon eon Czolgosz, was was arrested, arr ested, tried and cconvicted onvicted in na matter mat ttter of weeks weeks.. By the end of the month, he would b bee eexecuted xecuted in i an electric chair chair.. I San In S JJose, ose, the h U University niv i ersit iy Extension Club announc announced ed its fall f schedule of classes as well as its 10th season of lectur es, a celebrated celebrated series lectures, held annually at the C aliffo ornia St ate California State N ormal Scho ol (which,, o ver th he Normal School over the ensuing ccentury, entury, would transf fo orm transform into San JJose ose St ate U niversity). State University).

According to the Sa According San an J Jose oose Mer Mercury, curry, the lectur lectures es “of the ccoming oming season aree fully up to the aaverage ar verage of their past in their qualit quality, y, and in some rrespects espects ar aree more more attractive atttractive than any” an y”” that h had h d pr previously evio iously l b been een offered off ffeered b byy the club club.. One of the prime rreasons easons ffor o or such an assessment w was as th the he fact that the season w was as to b bee kick kicked ked off b byy JJack ack ed b London, L ondon,, describ described byy the lo local cal daily as

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ACK L ACK London ondon was waas no stranger Contrary to San S JJose. ose. C ontrary to the assessment asse essment of at least one Oakland-centric London Oak kland- centric L ondon historian (and ( rregurgitated egurgitated b byy the Mercury 1990s) Mer curry in n the 19 90s) that the writer “ne “never ver sp spent e mor ent moree than a da day ay or visiting Santaa Clara C County, ttwo wo visitin ng Sant ounty,” Extension lecturee would the Extens sion Club lectur mark one of many many visits he had the city—and “Valley made d to t th h cit he ity—and — d to t the th “V Vaalle ll y Heart’s of the Hea art’s Delight,” as it was was known in the late 19th and early 20th ccenturies—dating entu uries— dating back to his adolescence. adolesc encce. opening ening of his Indeed, the op famous most famo ous and lasting work of literature, Call Wild (1903), literatur e, The C aall of the W ild i (19 03), chronicles onicles the epic journe journeyy of which chr Bernard Dutch-Collie, a Saint Be rnard DutchCollie, “Buck,”” from California Yukon fr om rurall C aliffo ornia to the Y u ukon Territory, was T eerritor i y, w as set lo llocally: cally ll :

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a “y “young yo oung author who has h alr already eady won his spurs as one of the most vivid and powerful p owerful of our shor shortt stor sstoryy writers writers..” The pap paper er noted th that hat L London’s ondon’s anthology antholo gy Son of the W Wolf, olf o f, rrecently ecently published b byy Houghton, Houghto on, Mifflin &C Co. o. to widespr widespread ead p popular opular and critical critic al ac acclaim, claim, w was as th the he “b “best est portrayal p ortraayyal of Alaskan Alaskan sc sscenery enery and lif life fe that has eever ver b been een wr written.” ritten.” The pap paper er trump trumpeted etted L London ondon as a “practic “practiced ed public sp speaker” eaker” and a rregular egular lectur lecturer err before beffo ore the prestigious pr estigious Ec Economist onomistt L League eague of San Francisc Francisco, o, and it mist m mistakenly akenly identiﬁed an aaward-winning ward-w winning essay essaay byy London b London as titled “C “Competitive Competitive West”—its W eest”—its ” its actual titlee b being eing “Competitive “C ompetitive Waste,” Waastte,” a stinging denouncement denounc ement of ind industrial dustrial ccapitalism apitalism and an earl early ly fformation o ormation of L London’s ondon’s so socialist cialist world w vie view. w. Theree was Ther was no mention n of L London’s ondon’s radical radic al p politics olitics in the Mercury M curry Mer announcement. announc ement.

lived Buck liv e at a big house in the ed sun-kissed Santa Valley. sun-kisse ed Sant ta Clara V aalleey. Miller’s place, was Judge Miller’ M ’s plac e, it w as called. stood from halfIt st ood bback ack fr om the rroad, oad, half fhidden among a the ttrees, reeess, through through glimpses which gl limpses ccould ould bbee caught wide veranda of the wi ide ccool ool v eranda that ran around sides.. ... There ar roound its i ffour oour sides There were great stables, w ere gr reat e st abless, where wherre a dozen grooms gr rooms and a bboys oyys held fforth, orth rrows oorth, ows vine-clad servants’ of vinec ser clad vants’ ccottages, ottaagess, endless orderly an endle ss and or derly array of outhouses, grapee arb arbors, green outhouse ess, long grap orrs, gr een orchards, ppastures, astures, or chardss, and bberry errry ppatches. attcches. passage was The pas sage w as a precise precise description n of the home of JJudge udge Bond, Hiram Bo nd, a prominent prominent prune gr grower ower an and nd bank banker er in the Sant Santaa Clara V Valley. aalleey. L London ondon had sp spent ent par partt of hiss ccelebrated elebrated journe journeyy to the K Klondike londike with Bond’ Bond’ss ttwo wo sons sons,, Marshall and a L Louis, ouis, on whose do dogg “J “Jack” ack” L London on ndon had based his her heroic oic ccanine anine cha character. aracter. In a 19 1903 0 letter 03 letter written written fr from om Alviso Alviso—the —th he bustling p port ort of San JJose ose in thee late-19th late-19th and early-20th earlyy--20th ccenturies— enturies— —L London ondon acknowledged to Marsha Marshall all Bond that “Buck w was as based up upon o yyour on our do dogg at Da Dawson. aw wson wson. And of ccourse ou urse JJudge udge Miller’ Miller’ss placee w plac was as JJudge udge Bond’ Bond’s—even s— even to the ccement em ment sswimming wimming ttank ank & the ar artesian teesian well. And don don’t ’t yyou ou rremember emem mber that yyour our father w was as at attending tttend ding a meeting of the Fruit Fruitgrowers grow wers [sic] A Association ssociation the

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Jack L London ondon and his new n wife, Bessie M Maddern, addern, on their honeymoon in Santa Cruz Cruz, z, after stopping with frien friends nds in San Jose on the July y 4 weekend of 1900. night I visited yyou, ou,, and dL Louis ouis w was as organizing or ganizing an athletic club club—all —all of which eevents vents figur figured ed with w Buck.”” In his b bestselling estselling b book, ook, London London included intimate det details a of the ails valley’s valle y’s terrain and geo geography. ograph hy. When Buck w was as stolen fr from om the t “Miller” ranch L ranch, London ondon rreferenced effeeren nced ““the the lit little tle flag railw railway ay station station kno known own as C College ollege Park,” P ark,”” a small train sto stop p that, to this day, da ay, is lo located cated in the C College ollege P Park ark neighborhood, neighb orhood, just off ff the Alameda near Bellarmine Pr Preparatory epaaratory School. School. The C Call all a of the W Wild ild i w was as not a rregional egional one one-off. - off ff. L London’s ondo on’s shor shortt storyy and pla play same name,, “A stor ay of the sa ame name “A Wicked Woman,” entirely W iicked W oman,” o ” is sett entir ely in Santaa Clara. In addition Call Sant additio on to The C aall of Wild, portions the W ild i ,p ortions of att least a dozen novels, of his no vels, works of journalism, short-story essays— shor t-story ccollections ollections and essa ayys— prominently Whitee Fangg and most pr ominently in Whit W Valley Moon—are The V alle a ey of the Mo on—ar — e set in,, or makee rreference locations mak effeerence to, to, lo cations a in the Santaa Clara V Valley. Anyy asser assertion Sant aalley. An tion London was unfamiliar that L ondon w as unfam miliar with San JJose ose and its en eenvirons nvvirons is thoroughly absurd. thor oughly absur d.

ORN in San Fr Francisco rancisco in 1876, JJohn ohn Griffi Griffith ffith “J “Jack” ack” London L ondon had b been e raised een throughout thr oughout th the he Ba Bay ay Ar Area, ea, living at various lo locales caless in the East Bay—Oakland, Baay—Oakland, Emeryville, Em meryville, Liv Livermore—and ermore—and as far south as pr present-day esent-daay Moss Beach h in San

Mateo County, Cou untty, then ﬁnally back to O akland d, wher tended Oakland, wheree he at attended grammar sc chool and sold ne wspapers school newspapers fr om str eett corners corners to help his family from street make ends meet. make L ondon’s childhood childhood p overty ma ay London’s poverty may ha ave been been some ssomewhat what eexaggerated xaggerated have b hor in later yyears, ears, but the byy the auth author yyoung oung L on ndon w as fforced orced to work o London was various job bs in ccanneries, anneries, jute mills jobs and laundr ries. He cleaned salo ons laundries. saloons and sho veleed ccoal, oal, work ed as a ship shoveled worked hand and b ecame an o yster pirate became oyster on San Fra ancisco Bay, Baay, regularly regularly Francisco sailing as fa ar south as Alviso fr far from om his adolescence adolesc ence well into his adultho adulthood. od. In what has b been een a lar largely gely unchronicled unchr oniclled adv adventure enture of L London’s ondon’s to the Sant Santa ta Clara V Valley aalley sometime during his early teen yyears, ears, circa circa 1890, 18 90, L London ond don visited San JJose ose with his clo close ose childho childhood od friend and scho schoolmate olmate Frank A Atherton. therton. Atherton A therton had h rrecently ecently mo moved ved her heree from fr om O Oakland aklaand with his family and would laterr yyet et move move to L Los os Gatos, Gatos, wheree London wher London would also visit him and se serve erve as b best est man in his wedding.. wedding I what In h tw was as a bio bi biographical graphic hi all manuscriptt ne never ver published during his lif lifetime feetimee (it w was as later included in a 19 1997 97 ed edition dition of the J Jack aack LLondon ondon Journal, J oournal, edited ediited b byy Mark E. Zamen), Atherton A therton rrecounted ecounted his childho childhood od

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memories of his friend d “Johnny.” “Johnny.” Certainly C ertainly not all of th the he anec anecdotes dotes and cconversations on nversations ccompiled om mpiled b byy Atherton A ther t ton ccan an b bee ttaken aken n vverbatim, erbatim, but his manuscript pr provides rovides the most thor thorough ough ﬁrstha ﬁrsthand and ac account count of London’s L ondon’s childho childhood od eever ver writ written. ten ten. In one par particular ticular ch chapter hapter titled “Jack “J ack V Visits iisits Me in San n JJose—An ose—A An Exciting In Invasion vasion of Chinatown,” C ” Atherton, A ther t ton, who eeventually ventu ually b became ecame ab beloved eloved music teach teacher her in the Ba Bay ay Area Ar ea (he died in 1953) 1953), ),, rrecounts ecounts a journeyy that he and his journe h yyoung oung friend made into the Chines Chinesee quar quarters ters of downtown San JJose ose during d what appears app ears to ha have ave b been een the L Lunar unar N New ew Year Y eear ccelebrations. elebrations. In the aftermath of an a 18 1887 87 vigilante arson at attack, ttack,, S San JJose’s ose’s main Chinatown had b been een destr d destroyed oyeed and scattered, sc attttered,, later rreforming efformin o ng into ttwo w wo Chinese neighb neighborhoods, orhoods d , one near F Fifth ifth and T Taylor ayylor streets, streets, and another near the W Woolen oolen Mills Facto Factory, ory, also lo located cated on T Taylor ayylor Str Street eet east off Guadalup Guadalupee Creek. Cr eek. Ther Theree wer weree also Chinese truck farmers tending vvegetable eegetable a gar gardens dens throughout thr oughout the rregion. egion. egion. London Atherton Both L ondon and A ttherton possessed racialized p ossessed the racialize ed animus directed immigrants dir ected at Chinese im mmigrants California living in C aliffo ornia ccommon ommon period (London’s during the p eriod (L o ondon ’s towards Asians Africans racism tow ards A sianss and Afric ans been debated has b een widely debat ted and

discussed),, and their foray—and fo oraay—and the language that t A Atherton ther t ton used in the rretelling—certainly etelling— — certainly rreflected eflected those ugly pr prejudices eju udices and the “othering” of A Asian sian Americ A Americans ans during this shameful era e in C California aliffornia o histor history. y. “The The ou outstanding utstanding episo episode de during JJohnny’s ohnny’s visit v w was as an adventurous adventurous invasion in vasion of o San JJose’s ose’s Chinatown,”” Atherton A therton rrecalled, ecalled,, with L London ondon leading th thee char charge ge in “boldly” “boldly” disruptingg “c “celebrations” elebrations” of ““their their profusely pr ofusely dec d decorated orated joss houses houses.” .” Att first the A t ttwo wo teenagers wer weree satisfied w with ith mer merely ely pr procuring ocuring ccandy andy and nuts as a their lo loot. ot. L Later, ater, howe however, ver, London L ondon pu pursued ursued a mor moree subst substantive antive trophy tr oph hy of his h in invasion, vasion at one p vasion, point oint absconding absc ondingg with an “item “item”” that must have ha ave b been een “v “very ery sacr sacred ed to them.” Theyy ccontinued The on ntinued their antics from fr om joss house h to joss house until theyy wer the weree finally fi driven drivveen from from the ccommunity ommunitty b byy angr angryy Chinese ccelebrants elebrants with “huge knives. knivvees.” Still not to b bee outdo outdone, one, the theyy raided a Chinese truck farm m ffor o or strawberries straaw wberries and gor gorged ged themselves themselv veess on them,, until,, they they werr werree byy a Chinese farmer p possessed chased b ossessed knife. of a “big kn niffe.” Afterward, Atherton, After war a d,, according according to A therton, theyy ttalked about the alked d ab out “real “real adventures” adventures” distant lands,, appar apparently ently in dist ant lands London’s fforeshadowing oreshadow o wing L ondon’s later journeys Pacific. journe ys to o the South P acific. But London’s the rrest est off L ondon’s 10-day 10- daay visit

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London, his wife, Bessie London, Be essie M Maddern addern London London (top lef left), ft), and his ﬁrst love, Mabel M abel Applegarth, in n the College Park Park neighborhood neighborhood of San Jose, at the Applegarth home, July Ju uly 1901.

London’s Dar London’s Darwinian winian cconceptions o eptions of onc human eevolution. vo olution. “In this t sternest of struggles struggles,, man [sic] de d developed veloped the greatest variability, gr eatest variabilit ty, the highest ccapacity apacitty ffor or adapt o adaptation, ation,” he ccontended. onttended. “Thus became he b ecame the favored faavo ored d child of the keenest k eeenest ccompetition ompetition eever veer w waged aged a on the planet.” It is generally acknow acknowledged wledged that L London ondon w was aas a ttalented, alen nted,, if not eexceptional, xc x eptional, ti l, sp speaker. eak keer. He He had h d honed h d his oratoric oratorical al ttalents alents on n the soapb soapboxes oxes and str street eet ccorners orners of th thee Ba Bay ay Area Area (he had eeven ven b been een arr arrested ested ffor o or so doing in 18 1897), 97),, and public lectures lecttures would rremain emain an integral par partt of his lif life. fe. One ac account count of his oratoric oratorical al skills noted that his “smile is i p pervasive, ervasive, his vvoice oice charming charming.” .” Anot Another ther asser asserted ted that his “smo “smooth oth fac facee is guiltless of lines lines,, and his eeyes yes ttwinkle w winkle with boyish b oyish i h enjo enjoyment. j yment. ... W With iith h a gestur gesturee that is familiar to thos those se who ha have ave seen him on the lectu lecture ure platform, platfo orm, the author shak shakes es his ttawny aw wny hair from fr om his br brow ow as he sp speaks, peaks, and he is a fluent ttalker, alker, rready eady with w his wor words, ds, and ut uttering tering them in a vvoice oice as flexible fle xible as a child’ child’s.” s.”

ose, London London laid out In San JJose, critiquee of the “competitive his critiqu “competitive ssystem” ystem” (a euphemism ffor o or industrial ccapitalism) apitalism) by by pointing pointing out the waste waste of the “mi “middleman” ddleman” in bourgeois bourgeois (“the ccommerce ommerce (“ the drummer classes”); the additio additional onal ccosts osts to the ccollective ollective byy the de devices property b v es of private pr vic operty (he sp speculated eculated that the ccost ost of ffences eences in Indianaa alone at “two “two hundred hundred million illi do d dollars”); ollars”); ll ”) and d th the iineff ineffective ffectiv ffe ti e organization or ganization of shop k keeping eeping into small,, family-owned fam milyy- owned units units.. Some off what L London ondon argued argued seems naïv naïve ve and simplistic a ccentury entury later.. But his later h obser observation vation ab about out the “aesthe “aesthetic etic loss”” promulgated promulgated by by industrial ccapitalism apitalism was was profoundly proffoundly o prescient pr escient in i rregards egards to public art. ar t. He accurately accurately c noted that the privatization privatizati ion of ar artworks tworks kept kept them aaway way from fr f om m the h masses masses.. Art, Ar t,, to b bee truly eff effective, ffeective, should b bee partt and par par p parcel cel of lif life, fe, and p pervade ervade it in all its interstic interstices. es. It should b bee work-a-day work k--a-daay as well as idle idle-day. - daay. F Full ull justicee sho justic should uld b bee ac accorded corded the ar artist tist

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The fish and chips are quite delicious. The batter in particular, which is homemade and done tempura style, is crispy and flavorful; the fish is tender and practically falls apart when you pick it up. If greasy fried fish isn’t your thing, then you may not like it, but otherwise, it is worth making a trip to try it. A onepiece fish and chip order is available for $4.95; a two-piece order is $7.95. I found the accompanying tartar sauce to be a bit too sweet, but the fish with just a dash of lemon was good enough all on its own. They also offer it in panko style. The clam chowder was good, though not anything special. It’s available in a cup ($3.50), bowl ($4.95) or a sourdough bread bowl ($6.95). The other option is to order a fish and clam chowder combo. For $7.95, the combo comes with a cup of clam chowder, one piece of fish and your choice of coleslaw (which is the creamy variety) or fries (which are basically diner style). The calamari ($7.95) is thick and lightly breaded and not greasy like the fish and chips. It makes for a good appetizer and doesn’t veer far away from expectations. The cocktail sauce has a nice tangy punch to it. To get a sense of their nonfish items, I tried some chicken wings and a grilledchicken sandwich. The wings are available in barbecue and buffalo sauce. I preferred the barbecue sauce, which was highly zesty; the buffalo sauce was a bit too heavy in vinegar flavor. The chicken sandwich was a pleasant surprise. The chicken was grilled with Cajun spices, and the sandwich wasn’t loaded with mayo and cheese—just chicken and veggies on a roll. The succulent flavor of the chicken really came through. The wings are served with a drink and a side as five-piece ($7.95), 10-piece ($11.95) or 15-piece ($13.95) meals. The grilled-chicken sandwich is $6.50. Fries are an additional $1.50 There were so many other items I would have liked to try—shrimp ceviche, fried chicken, Ceasar Salad, mussels, Mozzarella sticks, Philly cheesesteak sandwich—but will have to leave for another visit.—Aaron Carnes THE CITY FISH 30 E. Santa Clara St., Suite 140, San Jose; 408.293.3474

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San Jose Rock Shop, San Jose Wed – 6:30pm; $5 If it’s possible to boil down the Thrill Jockey Records indie-rock sound to its bare essentials— technical musicianship with moody overtones—and then reassemble it into the current post-rock sound—musical arcs based on dynamics instead of standard song repetition—the result would sound like L.A.’s Hearts and Minutes. Though simple at its core, the dialogue between the two guitar players

CRASHFASTER Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free Of all the artists playing the niche musical style chiptune (a genre that uses Nintendo Gameboys as instruments), San Francisco’s Crashfaster is one that is really ﬂipping the idea on its head. Morgan Tucker, the band’s leader, creates some sophisticated electronic music using old Gameboy bloops and bleeps for his sound palette instead of standard synths (although there are some synths in there). Tucker has some new albums coming out this year that will push the boundaries of chiptune even harder, including

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Peacock Lounge, Sunnyvale Thu – 9pm, $5 Reggae really reached its sweet spot somewhere between the mid-’70s and the mid-’80s. A lot of the bands were mixing the different budding subgenres, like dub and dancehall, and creating a lively, spiritual sound. Santa Cruz’s Pure Roots reﬂects that reggae and does it right with a

largee ensemble featuring horns and percussion. Lead singer Andrew “Blood” Rein is the son of legendary Jamaican reggae artist Junior Reid (who has lent some vocals to Pure Roots). Junior Reid recorded his ﬁrst album in 1980, right when it was all coming together. (AC)

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DJ FELLI FEL Studio 8, San Jose Fri – 9pm; free before 11pm L.A. DJ Felli Fel has produced hit singles for artists such as 50 Cent and Chris Brown, as well as released his own club hits, which always

feature the biggest names in Top 40 and cutting-edge newcomers. “Boomerang,” for instance, features Akon, Pitbull and Jermaine Dupri, while “Get Buck in Here” features Ditty. His songs are sexy dance tracks that infuse hip-hop, R&B and pop with thumping beats and synth hooks. His latest, “It’s Your Birthday Bitch,” showcases Lil Jon and Jessie Malakouti (from the electro-pop group Jessie and the Toyboys). It is not only a club hit waiting to explode but also a catchphrase waiting to take off: “It’s your birthday bitch, let me see you dance.” (AC)

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cosmic bounce of Britney Spears’ steamy statement “I’m A Slave 4 U” and the lazy sway led by a toy ﬂute and mouth percussion on Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot” can all be attributed to the Neptunes, one of the most successful production teams for more than a decade. It’s hard to remember what urban radio sounded like before Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams teamed up for a sonic onslaught that would forever alter the landscape of the hip-hop and pop universe back in 2000. Their laundry list of hits runs deep. Aptly-titled “Party on the Ocean Floor,” a shout-out to the off-kilter instrumentation and de-tuned drums that have long been the duo’s trademark, the latest installment of D1ME celebrates the Neptunes with Sake One and The C.M.E working the decks.

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A musical revue dedicated to the songs and sound of Tony Bennett, from Tabard Theatre.Runs Jan 18-27. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm (plus Thu, Jan 24, 8pm). $15-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

A solo piano recital. Tue, 8pm. $12.50 and up. Bing Concert Hall, Stanford.

“Henrietta Shore: Understanding Nature.” A retrospective of works by California painter of the early 20th century. Jan 18June 30. “Clay in the Bay.” Works by contemporary clay artists. Jan 18-Mar 17. TueSun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara.

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The program features Quartet San Francisco and tango dangers Sandor and Parissa. Sat, 8pm. $40. Flint Center, Cupertino.

“Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting.” Thru May 12. “Raging Opulence.” An installation by Mark Dean Veca. Thru Mar 31. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

Standup comedy. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm. $13-$19. Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale.

INTIMATE APPAREL A drama by Lynn Nottage about her grandmother, an African American seamstress who worked her way out of poverty. Runs thru Jan 27. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $20-$25. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

LOOKING FOR NORMAL The Palo Alto Players present a drama about a married couple suddenly shaken by the husband’s desire for a sex-change operation. Runs Jan 19-Feb 3. Preview Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $20-$29. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

MANY MOONS A family show based on a James Thurber story, presented by Peninsula Youth Theatre. Fri, 9:30 and 11am, Sat, 11:30am and 1:30pm. $8/$10. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

CHARLEY MURPHY Standup comedy. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm. $25. Improv San Jose.

NEXT TO NORMAL A musical about a suburban family facing mental illness. Runs thru Feb 3. Opens Wed, 7:30pm. This week Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $20.50 and up. San Jose Repertory Theatre.

SOMEWHERE A music and dance story about a young Puerto Rican girl’s Broadway ambitions. Presented by TheatreWorks. Runs Jan 16-Feb 10. Preview

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PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE The program features works by Corelli and Vivaldi. Wed, 8pm. $12.50 and up. Bing Concert Hall, Stanford.

SAINT MICHAEL TRIO A varied program hosted by the Fremont Symphony Guild. Sun, 3pm. $10/$35. First United Methodist Church, Fremont.

VIVACE YOUTH CHORUS Winter concert with music of Bencini, Kocsar and more. Sat, 4pm. $8/$15. Campbell United Methodist Church.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years.” A show of works from the permanent collection. Thru Feb 3. TueSun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Portraits: New Works by Donna Cehrs.” Thru Jan 27. “Karen Frey.” Encaustics and watercolors. Thru Feb 3. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

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“The Jazz Masters Series” by BRUNI. San Jose.

ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Draw Me A Story.” A survey of illustrations from 100 years of children’s books. Runs Jan 17-Feb 24.WedSun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “The Jameel Prize: Art Inspired by Islamic Tradition.” Works by Krywick Gibbons. Thru Mar 10. “Video Quartet,” Christian Marclay’s multiscreen installation collaged from movie clips. Thru Feb 10. “Drawings From L.A. in the 1960s and 1970s: The Marmor Collection.” Thru Feb 3. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Holidays Unboxed.” Cardboard and packing tape imaginatively turned into an art installation. Thru Feb

GALLERY HOUSE “New Year, New Work, New Show.” Thru Mar 2. Wed, 11am-4pm, Thu-Sat, 11am8pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Gallery House, Palo Alto.

GOOD KARMA CAFE New works by Sandra Caravalho. San Jose.

GALLERY SARATOGA Watercolor landscapes of California by Karina Svalya. Thru Jan 31. Wed-Sun, 1am-5pm. Big Basin Way, Saratoga.

OLIVE HYDE GALLERY “Retrospectacle.” Works by Matt Ritchie. Thru Feb 2. Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Rashomon.” Works by

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sculptor Charles Ginnever. Thru Feb 16. “Amy Kaufman: b + w.” Installation of charcoal drawings. Thru Feb 9. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

“Phil Tiger Art Marine.” A memorial show with pieces by Phil Tiger and works about him by Ben Alexy, Tom Chargin and John Riley. Thru Jan 19. San Jose.

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“City Beneath the City.” Artifacts from the early Chinatown in San Jose. Thru Apr 30. Mon-Thu, 8:30am5:30pm, Fri, 8:30am-5pm. Bldg 500, Stanford.

STANFORD ART SPACES “Cuba 2012.” Images by American photographers. Thru Jan 17. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. 420 Via Palou at Campus Drive and Via Ortega, Stanford.

DISHCRAWL PALO ALTO A chance to sample various cuisines in the downtown area. RSVP to www.dishcrawl. com/paloalto. Tue. Palo Alto.

ANREW MACRAE A book-launch party with the author of “Murder Misdirected.” Wed, 7pm. Books Inc, Mountain View.

LISA O’DONNELL A booksigning with the author of “The Death of

Bees.” Fri, 7:30pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

MARK RUSSELL The satirist appears for the Celebrity Forum. Wed-Fri, 8pm. (Call 650.949.7176) Flint Center, Cupertino.

SJMADE AND GOGO CRAFT A mini-mart with local independent artisans and craft people. Thu, 5-8pm. San Jose Museum of Art.

TREE TOUR City Forest leads weekly tours of exotic ﬂora in the park. Sat, 2pm. Free. Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose.

WHERE ART ORIGINATES A discussion with artists about the process of creation. Wed, 7pm. Free. Palo Alto Art Center.

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Taxi Driver Wisdom, a received idea from a cabby: “When you marry someone, it’s a way of saying, ‘I will be ready to bury this person.’” The opening: doors thrown open on an apartment where an elderly woman’s flower-bedecked corpse is discovered in a gas-filled room by a squad of Parisian firemen and paramedics. We flash back to the events leading up to this moment. Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) and Georges ( Jean-Louis Trintignant, in his first film in nine years) are an elderly couple with a great love of classical music, relaxing in an apartment furnished with books, paintings and a grand piano. They discuss some

of the usual pressures: familiar unhappiness, mainly, since their daughter (Isabelle Huppert) is involved with a two-timing British husband. One morning during coffee, Anne stops her in tracks, dumbstruck. She’s lost a minute of her life to a stroke; this incident is followed by complications from surgery to relieve the damage. Then comes another stroke, paralysis and irreversible decline. Anne was a correct Parisian woman with a horror of being useless or dependent, let alone ugly. Georges’ particular aversion is to melodrama or tears. And with Trintignant’s Olivier-like skill, we see the dichotomy of how a man may be deeply devoted to his wife and still be a rather cold bastard. I liked the scene of the escalation of a ﬁght with a nurse Georges is ﬁring, with neither one wanting to back down. The nurse tells him to

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go fuck himself. That doesn’t make him flinch. What makes him flinch is when she slams the door on the way out: the door to the apartment counts as one of his possessions. The scene rhymes with the worried, old-people-style fussing about burglars. That’s Haneke’s bleak sense of humor; we worry about thieves, we worry about invaders (if there’s such a thing as poetry to home invasion, Haneke sought it in his two equally unwatchable versions of Funny Games). The joke is that we have no idea what can be stolen from us at any moment. Amour’s perfection lies in its clinical refusal to euphemize. That’s visible in the way the camera is positioned right at the foot of Anne’s bed, as if standing in the place of someone who didn’t know the sick woman all that well, who can neither politely leave the room nor sit down close to her pillow like a daughter. The film has the 3am clarity of a fantasy of downfall, unredeemed by p and spiritual afflatus about false uplift the satisfa satisfaction of dying in your own bed. (They take your bed, anyway, and replace it with one of those hospital models.) T The beauty and spirituality that’s said to be waiting at the end of life may ju just be something else that keeps peo people pliable—all of it just mystification, cat which Haneke proposes to strip aw away. You cou could claim, and it has been claimed, that Haneke is addicted to cruelty, because of his desire to get it right, to tell this story of desperation and love with as little skirting reality as possible. (Amour has humor, though, with incidents of Georges trying to retrieve a pigeon that keeps sneaking through a window. “Hope, the thing with feathers,” you could say.) The other criticism: Why watch Amour if you’ve seen people going through it like this? Answer: People go through it in a lot of different ways. If it offers redemption, it’s in the hope there’s a balance—the way we failed people we loved who were dying might be redeemed by the way we’ll be failed when we die some day.

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singing) in a heroic-struggle-of-thesong-and-dance-men-to-mountthe-musical musical. One tune, “Oh Oh Oklahoma,” pre-dates the better known Rodgers and Hammerstein effort (euphonious word, Oklahoma); the tune “Scraping the Toast” may be the ﬁrst and last use of that song title. BILLED WITH Next Time We Love. Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart are a career-crossed pair: she’s a Broadway star, and he’s a reporter. Preston Sturges was an uncredited hand on the screenplay. (Plays Jan 16-17 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre. ) (RvB)

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American Badass! made me proud to live in a country where citizens have the right to make a movie this appalling. (Plays Fri at midnight at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (RvB)

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The Dark Mirror, a juicy noir with the South Bay’s own Olivia de Havilland as a pair of identical twins—one of whom is a killer. Robert Siodmak directs. (Plays Jan 18-21 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

(R; 109 min.) A crime story about an excop locked in a dangerous struggle with a big-city mayor. Stars Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe. (Opens Fri.)

(R; 107 min.) Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a border sheriff suddenly faced with an escaped Mexican drug kingpin. (Opens Fri.)

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(R; 93 min.) Ranging from genial lunacy to absolute idiocy, FDR: American Badass! climaxes when “The Delano,” as he calls himself, addresses his soldiers. Roosevelt is played with gargantuan brio by Barry Bostwick. FDR informs his Normandy invasion force that he will personally be leading the charge against Occupied Europe. Delivering the famous line about how we have nothing to fear, he concludes: “Now let’s go kick some werewolf ass!” According to director Garret Brawith and screenwriter Ross Patterson, FDR’s career as a werewolf ﬁghter began when he was crippled by the bite of a polio-carrying Nazi wolfman. The president did his best to keep us out of the war with the trio of Axis werewolves. Thanks to the craft of Albert Einstein, the president can bring the war back to those who started it in his goldplated, ﬂame-throwing, machine-gunladen wheelchair. FDR: American Badass reminds me of the vintage days of the National Lampoon, but the problem is that it’s stuck in the sacred-cow-tipping 1970s, complete with a drug joke. It’s undeniably spirited and celebratory. FDR:

(PG-13; 100 min.) Jessica Chastain stars in a spooky tale of weird kids raised in the woods. (Opens Fri.)

Revivals A DOUBLE LIFE/THE DARK MIRROR (1947/1946) File under both Shakespeare adaptations and ﬁlm noir. Ronald Colman’s Anthony John, an actor, is a walking mask. Nobody really knows him. And thus no one knows him well enough to recognize that he’s on the edge of a breakdown. He has signed a yearlong contract to play Othello on Broadway, a part that wears him out until he begins to look to his wife, as Iago said. When John’s Othello pleads, “I have done the state some small service,” it’s as if he’s gently calling attention to the demands of his art. Anyone who mistakes Colman as an old-school pose-and-declaim matinee idol should see this essential movie about acting as a disease and the neurotic energy that burns players up from the inside out. BILLED WITH

(1981) The quote-along version. (Plays Jan 18-20 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

(1948/1939) Aldous Huxley’s short story “The Giaconda Smile” (he scripted) was the source for this melodrama about a falsely accused man (Charles Boyer) headed for the scaffold because of circumstantial evidence that he murdered his wife. The young Jessica Tandy co-stars. BILLED WITH Tower of London. With typically bracing style, Roland V. Lee (Son of Frankenstein) explains the story of the last of the Plantagenets for people who have trouble with the funny talking in Shakespeare. Mord the executioner is played by Boris Karloff—he’s the most useful subject of bloody, hunchbacked Richard III (Basil Rathbone). Vincent Price (who played King Richard in the thrifty remake) is the soon to be marinated Duke of Clarence. Who says history is boring? (Plays Jan 22-24 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

YOU’RE A SWEETHEART/NEXT TIME WE LOVE (1937/1936) George Murphy and Alice Faye (dancing as much as

(R; 120 min.) Ben Affleck’s film is a comedy about the nadir of the American ’70s, the Iranian hostage crisis and the apparent impotence of our nation. Derived from a true-life story of rescue, the film’s heroics should prove particularly appealing. Yet while Affleck goes full ’70s, his nerve failed somewhere. He decided to pump up the tale. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA officer of tensed nerves and troubled stability. Mendez will organize the scouting of locations for a fake science-fiction movie. Six Americans who escaped the revolutionary roundup are currently hiding in the Canadian embassy in Tehran. They will be removed, disguised as crew members and writers. The film sees the famous “Canadian Caper” as comedy. While some documentarylike scenes of an embassy in flight ground the movie, it’s a fantasy about how a magic charm of lies is able to brave the walls of the worst reign of terror situations. Who was the Scarlet Pimpernel, if not a showman? (RvB)

DJANGO UNCHAINED (R; 165 min.) Django, an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx, emulating the stolid heroes of yesterday’s blacksploitation films) joins up with a benign German (Christopher Waltz, practically a oneman Goethe Society). Their mission is to free Django’s wife (Kerry Washington) from a vicious Southern planter. Talky and sprawling, the film rests solidly in Quentin Tarantino’s comfort zone, with alternating bands of speechifying and big payback. The fun parts are undimmed by the Connecticut tragedy. When you see blood spatter all over white flowering cotton, it’s a perfect illustration of Godard’s comment, “That’s not blood; that’s red.” Samuel L. Jackson catalyzes what Tarantino has to say about slavery. Every white liberal who flinches at seeing an Uncle Ben rice box will get that sting watching Jackson playing a diabolical old house man. Jackson shows us the corrosion of a man who has to pretend to be a pet, putting on a show of human warpage that only white people grown stupid

and lazy from the slaveholder’s life wouldn’t suss out. If it’s foolery, it’s the kind of fooling that goes on in King Lear. (RvB)

GANGSTER SQUAD (R; 113 min.) The title could use an exclamation point; the film is so inept you almost feel protective of it. Josh Brolin, the star, is meant to look like Robert Ryan, but they keep shooting him in profile so you think “Dick Tracy” instead. He leads a group of vigilante cops on the trail of 1940s L.A. thug Mickey Cohen (played by a minion-killing, roast-peacock-eating Sean Penn—beaky, foreshortened and looking like a Rondo Hatton bobblehead). Nick Nolte, of the last bad movie about this era, Mullholland Falls, is once again strangled by a tight collar. As Chief Parker, Nolte sounds like a laryngectomy patient. Parker reminds us of what a racially harmonious place L.A. in the 1940s was by approving this mixed-race band (including Ryan Gosling, Michael Peña and Anthony Mackie) to get the goods on the megalomaniac Mickey. Locations are a plus: Union Station, Clifton’s Cafeteria, Charles Beelman’s Elks Building for the finale, a good digital recreation of Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom’s nightclub, with Yvette Tucker doing a first-rate Carmen Miranda impersonation on stage. But the Mexican cop’s name (Navidad) and the forest of gunned-down Xmas trees say everything that the tell-tale January release doesn’t say: this was meant to be a holiday tentpole, but audiences got wise. Stick around for the last third. It’s hilarious rewrite mania: the fates of Mickey’s unfaithful squeeze (huge-eyed Emma Stone, looking a treat in those period gowns) and Brolin’s clay-pigeon pregnant wife (Mireille Enos) must have hung in the balance with every draft. Ultimately, trick gunplay fit to make John Woo cry bullshit meets plotting to make James Ellroy cry, vow to quit and enter the priesthood. (RvB)

HITCHCOCK (PG-13; 98 min.) The ﬁlm’s main pleasure lies in watching Anthony Hopkins inhabit the famous silhouette as the famous theme plays. The actor is entombed in fat makeup, and only Hopkins’ eyes have much range; he must express stirring fear, vanity and jealousy inside the outward tranquility. He fears losing his wife, Alma (Helen Mirren), to a young upstart (Danny Huston). The ﬁlm credits the power of the bond between the Hitchcocks in a time of crisis over Psycho, which studio heads and censors alike are claiming can’t be made. The closer Hitchcock sticks to the matter at hand, the better. There should have been more on composer Bernard Herrmann and less on the idea of Hitchcock boiling with jealous rage. (RvB)

LES MISÉRABLES (PG-13; 157 min.) The realism of the cinematic close-up marries the figurative qualities of the beloved stage hit—they have a baby and it’s ugly. It’s the material that’s to blame: a rhyming-dictionary heavy libretto, a plot (don’t blame it on Hugo) that zips around making characters turn up aged with white hair for yet another coincidental path-crossing, requiring them to describe their feelings in “What is this I’m feeling right now?” lyrics. Tom Hooper’s film version seeks streetiness through hand-held cameras and an emphasis on blood and realistically filthy sewers. Through it all, Hugh

RUST AND BONE (R; 120 min.) A mostly dry-eyed species of wheelchair romance. Director Jacques Audiard uses authenticlooking desperation to ﬁnesse the French seaside sweetness. Everything touched by the bruiser Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) looks semilegitimate. He has run off to the south of France with his son to land a gig as a bouncer at a thuggy nightclub, where he meets Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a troubled killer-whale trainer at a Marineworldlike park. The ﬁlm features Cotillard’s best acting yet, with the delicacy and the existential hardness both visible, both believable. If it sounds like Oscar-

bait, it is, but it’s honorable and not euphemistic. There’s intelligence here, but more importantly there’s balance between Ali’s and Stephanie’s stories, which isn’t the usual case in a movie about a ﬁghter and his lady. (RvB)

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (R; 123 min.) The bipolar Pat (an ultimately monotonous Bradley Cooper) returns home to the Philly suburbs after an eight-month sentence to the mental hospital for threatening his wife. He’s lured back to coping with the help of his pal’s widowed sister-in-law, Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who’s just as full of meds and emotional troubles as he is. Director David O. Russell veers all over the map charting these two troubled love birds, considering them as everything from quirky truth tellers to screaming troublemakers. (RvB)

THIS IS 40 (R; 134 min.) Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) endure the week before her 40th birthday. Their marriage is under pressure because of child rearing, lack of sex and debt. The attempt to peel back the comedy seems to reveal all the more sitcom undercurrent, all the more vertigo-inspiring navel (and other oriﬁces) gaze. (RvB)

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military procedural has a ragecrush on Jessica Chastain—she of flaming hair, sturdy cheekbones, huge wounded mouth and brimming eyes. If 9/11 was personal to anyone, it’s the spook known only as “Maya.” The action takes place over a decade, between 9/11 and the final killing of Osama bin Laden. The opening torture scenes have rustled up plenty of controversy. I see no controversy; the film is reluctantly in favor of it, no matter how it insists on the cost of torture—the cost to

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(PG-13; 169 min.) Basically a very long monster moshpit, made with very simple, even childish aims. Richard Armitage, stalwart but dull, plays the landless king Thorin Oakenshield. Under the advice of the wizened wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), he is taking along the fussy and hardly battle-hardened Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) on a quest to find a dwarf kingdom. Except for Cate Blanchett, sauntering in satin as Galadriel, the Lady of Lorien, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a female-free zone. Instead of romance, we get creatures: leprous orcs, gross, ravenous trolls and stone giants. It’s a wellstocked menagerie, but is it anything more? The creatures are either bad villains or good heroes here, and the most serious personal conflict is confined to one mere character: the oily, murderous Gollum (voiced by Andy Sirkis, returning). (RvB)

Jackman (Jean Valjean) and Russell Crowe (Javert) bellow at each other at close range. It’s a sunless movie, seeking to re-create the surly clouds of the illustrator Doré. But Hooper is also trying to emulate Tim Burton’s last great movie, Sweeney Todd, in the soot and satin costume design, the gore and the whores; we even get two of Sweeney’s cast members, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. Amanda Seyfried gets the role of the uninteresting good girl Cosette. As Fantine, Anne Hathaway gives something like 10,000 percent; she plummets into her fate so fast, that there’s no time to feel anything for her. (RvB)

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bloodied, surrounded by dancersturned-pariahs with theatrical bulbs flashing—a victim of the fame. This was, of course, only shortly after her first album had been released, and its artistic statement was muddied by the fact that Lady Gaga had only recently achieved even a semblance of the fame she claimed to be falling victim to. Here, Gaga was giving us the dramatic finale to her entire mythology as a pop artist—all before we’d even gotten a chance to fully digest her. Has there ever been a more postmodern performance in mainstream media than that of the Icon as Martyr, before even being established as either? It was clear that a performer with a true knack for zeitgeisty self-promotion had been born. And just in time, too. With

the official death of monoculture Cronkite, Johnny Carson Carson, (Walter Cronkite Michael Jackson, most of the Beatles), the state of pop culture had been in a heady tailspin for the better part of a decade, making it almost impossible to imagine a time where a single person could dominate more than just momentary conversation. Multiple sources are to blame: declining revenue in a time where the culture is expected to be free; the speed of the Internet and the faster rate of overturn and backlash; Warhol’s retort that “everybody will be famous for 15 minutes” proving to be alarmingly prophetic. So when Lady Gaga entered the scene in 2008, and when she commanded the scene in 2009, and when she became the scene in 2010, it felt like we had collectively found the icon that had eluded us for most of the aughts. Finally, someone understood the culture’s scope and could take the shift and embrace it wholly as part of her identity, both mockingly and self-serious. Lady Gaga, who performs Jan.

17 at HP Pavilion, is the first pop superstar to be born during the decade of hysterical celebrity culture. Madonna used the then-growing paparazzi syndicate to her advantage, creating a shock-and-awe campaign everywhere she went; Britney was a victim of the lens, proving once and for all that the act of observation will inevitably change that which is being observed. But it’s Gaga who is the true byproduct of the 24-hour news cycle, where celebrity news has become both personal and political; where tabloids are read as religious texts; where fame and infamy are no long mutually exclusive. Her influence is undeniable. Lady Gaga has morphed the state of music and the state of pop culture as it exists now. She has, of course, been aided by this era’s refusal to build anything particularly new, rehashing a series of images with some semblance of history, recycling it until it can vaguely be recognized as both something familiar and something radical. Gaga has been aided by this, and has cleverly referred to her body of work as an extension of pop art, which is, by its very nature, about recycling the familiar until we find something new in it.

There Is No Center Here’s the most important thing to realize as a citizen of contemporary culture: there is no longer a center. Think of the culture, as it exists now, as a dance circle. Various people take turns jumping in the middle, doing a combination of moves and riling up the crowd, only to then gradually fade back into the surroundings, waiting for another to jump in and test out their moves. Gaga’s sheer theatricality is her move. And it is in fact the same thing that has kept her personal life at arm’s length, allowing her to maintain a private life that would make other stars of her stature salivate. Her persona as a pop artist who values presentation and the grandiose makes her life beyond the stage less and less interesting—an irony considering that her big picture mythology is that of a star forever in conﬂict with the notion of “fame.” Her impact has been rather immediate, and her inﬂuence on

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seem to be completely immune to a culture that expects more and expects it more often. Her ticket sales (largely considered to be the only way for a musical artist to make money anymore, aside from endorsement deals) have gone down tremendously, with some tickets selling for over 50 percent less than face value. Her last album had one of the biggest ﬁrst-week sales in Soundscan history, only to then see an 84 percent sales drop the following week. This is, for lack of a better term, bad news. But what makes Gaga such a product of her time is that her work and her evolution as an artist has become so self-referential so quickly, harking back to her own iconography and showing us the end path of a star still in her infancy. In that way, it doesn’t quite matter if Gaga the performer maintains her status—whether she is still kicking on stage or hanging bloodied off of it. It’s always been the idea of Gaga that’s persisted most. Why else would we have seen the end so close to the beginning?

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publication requirement 1/23/2013) not met on previous filing. /s/Efthymios FICTITIOUS Theoharis. This statement BUSINESS was filed with the County FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT Clerk of Santa Clara The following person(s) BUSINESS County on 1/07/2013. 573362 is (are) doing business (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, The following person(s) is NAME STATEMENT as: U.S. Floors, 5600 (are) doing business as: Bellagio Dr., San Jose, CA, 1/30, 2/06/2013) #573399 Gtcomman, 44 Broadway, 95118, Tonaran Sargsyan. The following person(s) FICTITIOUS Los Gatos, CA, 95030, This business is is (are) doing business George Theoharis. conducted by a BUSINESS as: Barbara of Paulines, This business is individual. Registrant 1093 Malone Road, San NAME STATEMENT conducted by a Jose, CA, 95125, Antonia began transacting individual. Registrant #573421 Saldivar, 3610 Warner Dr., business under the The following person(s) is began transacting fictitious business name San Jose, CA, 95127. (are) doing business as: business under the or names listed herein. This business is Vua Kho Bo, 979 Story fictitious business name /s/Tonaran Sargsyan conducted by a Rd., #7081, Lien Dao, or names listed herein on individual. Registrant has This statement was filed 2549 S. King Rd., #A8, 1/03/2013. /s/George not yet begun transacting with the County Clerk San Jose, CA, 95122. Theoharis. This statement of Santa Clara County business under the This business is was filed with the County on 1/02/2013. (pub fictitious business name conducted by a Clerk of Santa Clara Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, or names listed herein. individual. Registrant has County on 1/03/2013. 2/06/2013) /s/Antonia Saldivar not yet begun transacting (pub Metro 1/09, 1/16, This statement was filed business under the 1/23, 1/30/2013) FICTITIOUS with the County Clerk fictitious business name BUSINESS of Santa Clara County or names listed herein. STATEMENT OF on 1/04/2013. (pub NAME STATEMENT /s/Lein Dao. This WITHDRAWAL Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, statement was filed #573611 2/06/2013) FROM with the County Clerk The following person(s) of Santa Clara County PARTNERSHIP is (are) doing business FICTITIOUS on 1/04/2013. (pub as: Home Resolutions, OPERATING BUSINESS Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 3194 De La Cruz Blvd., UNDER FICTITIOUS 2/06/2013) NAME STATEMENT #10, Santa Clara, CA, BUSINESS NAME 95054, Carol Pefley. This #573619 business is conducted by FICTITIOUS #573367 The following person(s) a individual. Registrant The following person(s) BUSINESS is (are) doing business has not yet begun / entity (ies) has / have as: BMK Wine Company, NAME STATEMENT transacting business withdrawn as a general 3140 De La Cruz Blvd., #572330 under the fictitious partner(s) from the Santa Clara, CA, 95054, The following person(s) business name or names partnership operating SMBGenie,Inc, 1. BMK is (are) doing business listed herein. /s/Carol under the following Sedan Services, 2. BMK as: California Fresh, 8697 fictitious business Pefley. This statement Export & Imports, 3. San Ysidro Ave., Gilroy, was filed with the County name(s). Simple Building BMK Nuts, 4. BMK. This CA, 95020, Espresso Clerk of Santa Clara Services, 730 Race St., business is conducted Roma, 1310 65th St., San Jose, CA, 95126, by a Corporation. Above County on 1/10/2013. Emeryville, CA, 94608. (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, Felipe Velazquez, 330 entity was formed in the This business is 1/30, 2/06/2013) Atlanta Ave., San Jose, state of California conducted by a CA, 95126. Filed in Registrant began Corporation. Above FICTITIOUS Santa Clara County transacting business entity was formed in on 3/01/2012 Under BUSINESS under the fictitious the state of California File No. 562013. /s/ business name or NAME STATEMENT Registrant has not Felipe Velazquez. This names listed herein yet begun transacting #573525 statement was filed on 1/10/2013. /s/Bala business under the The following person(s) with the County Clerk Ravana CEO #3106915 fictitious business is (are) doing business of Santa Clara County This statement was filed name or names listed as: Denise’s Donuts, 4138 on 1/03/2013. (pub with the County Clerk of herein. /s/Sandy Boyd Monterey Hwy., San Jose, Metro 1/09, 1/16, 1/23, Santa Clara County on President #C0985637, CA, 95111, Sanny Duch, 1/30/2013) 1/10/2013. This statement was filed 27863 Pompano Ave., (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, with the County Clerk Hayward, CA, 94544. FICTITIOUS 1/30, 2/06/2013) of Santa Clara County This business is BUSINESS on 12/04/2012. (pub conducted by a STATEMENT OF Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, NAME STATEMENT individual. Registrant WITHDRAWAL 1/23/2013) began transacting #572773 business under the FROM The following person(s) FICTITIOUS fictitious business name is (are) doing business PARTNERSHIP or names listed herein on BUSINESS as: 1. Clark Termite OPERATING 1/1/13. /s/Sanny Duch Control, 2. Golden State NAME STATEMENT UNDER FICTITIOUS This statement was filed Exterminators, 417A Lano #572329 with the County Clerk Street, San Jose, CA, BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) is of Santa Clara County 95125, Clark Golden Inc. #573398 (are) doing business as: on 1/08/2013. (pub This business is The following person(s) California Fresh, 10123 N. conducted by a Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, / entity (ies) has / have Wolfe Rd., Cupertino, CA, Corporation. Above 2/06/2013) withdrawn as a general 95014, Espresso Roma entity was formed in partner(s) from the Corp, 1310 65th St., FICTITIOUS the state of California partnership operating Emeryville, CA, 94608. Registrant began BUSINESS under the following This business is transacting business NAME STATEMENT conducted by a fictitious business under the fictitious name(s). Silhouette, Corporation. Above entity business name or names #573483 2050 Concourse Dr., was formed in the state The following person(s) listed herein on 1/2/98. #36, San Jose, CA, of California Registrant is (are) doing business /s/Richard M. Clark 95131, Juliette Thai 1716 as: Cosmos Electric, 44 began transacting President #2065249. Parkview Green Cir., San business under the Broadway, Los Gatos, This statement was filed Jose, CA, 95131. Filed in fictitious business name CA, 95030, Efthymios, with the County Clerk Santa Clara County on or names listed herein Theoharis. This business of Santa Clara County 6/27/12 Under File No. on 11/23/2012. /s/ is conducted by a on 12/14/2012. (pub 566667. /s/Juliette Thai Sandy Boyd President. individual. Registrant Metro 1/09, 1/16, 1/23, This statement was filed #C0985637. This began transacting 1/30/2013) with the County Clerk statement was filed business under the of Santa Clara County with the County Clerk fictitious business name FICTITIOUS on 1/04/2013. (pub of Santa Clara County or names listed herein BUSINESS Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, on 12/04/2012. (pub on 11/30/2012. Refile of 2/6/2013) NAME STATEMENT previous #572218 due to Metro 1/2, 1/9, 1/16,

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#573036 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: South Bay Wellness Center, 1066 Saratoga Ave., Suite 120, San Jose, CA, 95129-3432, Jay Ebadat, 780 Pricewood Ct., San Jose, CA, 95120. This business is conducted by a individual Refile of previous #509826 with changes Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/21/2008. /s/Jay Ebadat. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/21/2012. (pub Metro 1/09, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572407 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Two Ogres, 100 N. Whisman Road, #2022, Mountain View, CA, 94043, Ebru Taylak This business is conducted by a individual. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ebru Taylak. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/06/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573193 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Innovation Family

Learning Center, 800 Hillsdale Ave., Apt 511, San Jose, CA, 95136, Tricia Darrell, Kurt Darrell, Ken Darrell, 149 Franklin Terrace, Mablewood, NJ, 07040. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ken Darrell. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/28/2012. (pub Metro 1/09, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572919 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eclipse Microdevices, 2095 Ringwood Avenue., Suite 60, San Jose, CA, 95131, Eclipse Microwave, Inc.,. Refile of previous file #570691. Due to publication requirement not met on previous filing. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jeffrey Rapadas CEO #2400134 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/19/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Queen Kho Bo, 190 Story Rd., #30, San Jose, CA, 95122, Huong Nguyen, 2486 Roslyn Ct., San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is conducted by a individual. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Huong Nguyen. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/04/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573100 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TimeLinux.com, 4673 Jarvis Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95118, Mrinal Sarkar. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Mrinal Sakar. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/26/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

94538, Maria I. Vega, 571 Continental Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Sandra Dowell and Maria I. Vega Co-Owner. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/17/2012. (pub Metro 12/26, 1/02, 1/09, 1/16/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572889 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. B&J Enterprises, 330 W. Hedding St., Suite 115, San Jose, CA, 95110, 2. B&J Management, 3. Wodins Kennel, Joyce Bledsoe, 11429 Clayton Rd., San Jose, CA, 95127, Robert T. Bledsoe. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Joyce Bledsoe, Robert Bledsoe. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/19/2012. (pub Metro 12/26, 1/02, 1/09, 1/16/2013)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Different Choice Insurance Services, 301 N. Jackson Ave., Ste. 4A, San Jose, CA, 95133, Sandra Dowell, 4442 Ladner St., Fremont, CA,

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Premier Auto Care & Locksmith, 3295 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 94551, Carmel Greenberg, 3177 Scott Way, Napa, CA, 94558.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571953 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Åmuris Mobility, 3270 Payne Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95117, Prasanna Vinjamuri. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on 9/1/2012. /s/Prasanna Vinjamuri This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/21/2012. (pub Metro 12/19, 12/26, 1/02, 1/09/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572498 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Nutralife International Inc., 2. Lifetime Energy Solutions, 2471 Autumnvale Dr., Suite D., San Jose, CA, 95131. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on 12/02/2011. /s/Ernesto Martinez President #C3271602 This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/07/2012. (pub Metro 12/26, 1/02, 1/09, 1/16/2013)

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harmless—handguns are lethal enough to have accounted for nearly half of U.S. murders in 2011. Writers no doubt target the shoulder for nonlethal bullet wounds on the assumption that it contains no vital organs. In reality, however, it can be a dangerous place to get shot. The shoulder contains the subclavian artery, which feeds the brachial artery (the main artery of the arm), as well as the brachial plexus, the large nerve bundle that controls arm function. If you get hit in the brachial plexus, you’re probably not going to be walking around good as new five minutes later. A study of 58 gunshot victims wounded in the brachial plexus found 51 of them needed followup surgery to deal with blood vessel damage, severe pain and loss of motor function. As for the subclavian artery, a study from a New Orleans hospital reported that out of 16 cases of acute injury thereto, four patients died and another lost the arm. Still, all this tells us is that a gunshot to the shoulder is potentially pretty bad. What happens in the real world? I had my assistant Una review 79 news reports of persons shot in the shoulder in 2012. Among the more memorable episodes: © MHMe-year-old Pennsylvania girl wearing a black and white Halloween costume was shot in the shoulder by a shotgun-wielding relative who mistook her for a skunk. © California weightlifter claimed he’d gotten his shoulder wound when he dropped a dumbbell on a .22-caliber cartridge, causing it to fire. © Nllowing an argument over the price of condoms, a Detroit convenience store clerk pulled out a gun and fired a warning shot into the shoulder of an unruly customer, who subsequently died. But that last guy was the exception. Only three of the 79 shoulder wounds Una looked at resulted in the victim’s death. Writers therefore may indulge in this shopworn gambit without fretting that they’re taking factual liberties. I still wouldn’t volunteer.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21–April 19): “If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it,” wrote 19thcentury poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Every arrow that ﬂies feels the attraction of the earth.” This is good counsel for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect you will have a good, clear shot at a target you’ve been trying to get close to for a long time. Make sure you adjust your trajectory to account for the attraction of the earth.

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or a crucial new lesson while you are tipsy or outright blitzed, you will probably forget it when you sober up. And it will remain forgotten as long as you abstain. But there’s a good chance you will recall the vanished information the next time you get loopy. I’m telling you this, Taurus, because even if you haven’t been inebriated lately, you have deﬁnitely been in an altered and expanded state of consciousness. I’m afraid that when you come back down to earth in a few days, you might lose some of the luminous insights you’ve been adding to your repertoire. Is there anything you can do to ensure you will retain these treasures? It would be a shame to lose track of them until the next time your mind gets thoroughly blown open.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Studying the movements

of the planets is my main way of discerning the hidden currents of fate. I sometimes supplement my investigations by reading Tarot cards and the Chinese Book of Changes, also known as the I Ching. To arrive at your horoscope this week, I used all of the above as well as the following forms of prognostication: catoptromancy, which is divination by gazing into a mirror underwater; cyclomancy, or divination by watching a wheel that’s turning; geloscopy, divination by listening to random laughter; and margaritomancy, divination by observing bouncing pearls. Here’s what I found, Gemini: You now have the power to discern previously unfathomable patterns in a puzzling mystery you’ve been monitoring. You also have the ability to correctly surmise the covert agendas of allies and adversaries alike. Maybe best of all, you can discover certain secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): “To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need,” said drama critic Henry Hewes. I agree. We all need to periodically reinvent ourselves—to allow the old ways to die so that we can resurrect ourselves in unforeseen new forms. According to my analysis, Cancerian, your next scheduled rebirth is drawing near. For best results, don’t cling to the past; don’t imitate what has always worked before. Instead, have faith that surrendering to the future will bring you the exact transformation you need. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): My readers Paul and Sophie

wrote to let me know they have patched together three Latin words to invent a term for a new concept: vomﬁabone. They say it means “a curse that becomes a blessing.” Here’s an example of the phenomenon at work in their lives: While driving home from work together, they experienced car trouble and had to pull over to the shoulder of the road, where they called a tow truck. Later, they discovered that this annoying delay prevented them from getting caught in the middle of an accident just up ahead. Extrapolating from the current astrological omens, I’m guessing that you will experience at least one vomﬁabone in the coming week, Leo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): I bet that in the next five months you will be obliged to carry more responsibility than you have in the past. You will find it hard to get away with being lazy or careless. I suspect that during this time you will also have the privilege of wielding more influence. The effect you have on people will be more pronounced and enduring. In short, Virgo, your workload will be greater than usual—and so will your rewards. To the degree that you serve the greater good, you will be a major player. As for next few weeks, you should concentrate on the work and service and responsibility part of this equation. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Do you know what a

“binky” is? It’s what a rabbit does when it gets so crazily happy that it exuberantly leaps up into the air, stretching and twisting its body as it ﬂicks and ﬂops its feet. I’m not sure if lexicographers would allow us to

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apply this term to humans. But assuming they might, I’m going to predict that you’ll soon be having some binky-inducing experiences. You’re entering the Joy and Pleasure Season, Libra—a time when abundant levels of fun and well-being might be quite normal.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): You know that area

on your back that you can’t quite reach if you want to scratch it? It’s called your acnestis. I propose that we make it your featured metaphor of the week. Why? Because I suspect you will have to deal with a couple of itchy situations that are just beyond your ability to relieve. Yes, this may be frustrating in the short run. But it will ultimately make you even more resourceful than you already are. By this time next week, you will have ﬁgured out alternative solutions that you haven’t even imagined yet.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “We need new friends,” said essayist Logan Pearsall Smith. “Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.” Smith could have been talking about you Sagittarians in early 2013. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you need some fresh alliances. Their inﬂuence will activate certain potentials that you haven’t been able to access or fully express with the help of your current circle. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): A San Francisco

writer named Maneesh Sethi decided he was wasting too much time on the Internet. His productivity was suffering. So he hired a woman to sit next to him as he worked and yell at him or slap his face every time his attention wandered off in the direction of Facebook or a funny video. It worked. He got a lot more done. While I would like to see you try some inventive approaches to pumping up your own efﬁciency, Capricorn, I don’t necessarily endorse Sethi’s rather gimmicky technique. Start brainstorming about some interesting yet practical new ways to enhance your self-discipline, please.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): “Ronnyjohnson618” is a guy who posts his opinions on a wide variety of YouTube videos. Many times, he claims to be an expert in the ﬁeld he’s commenting on. Responding to a live music performance, he says he’s a conductor for an orchestra. Offering his opinion about a mimosa plant, he asserts that he is a botanist. Beneath other YouTube videos, he declares he is a meteorologist, chemist, psychologist, soldier, and geometry teacher. I love this guy’s blithe swagger; I’m entertained by the brazen fun he’s having. As you express yourself in the coming week, I recommend that you borrow some of his overthe-top audacity. Create a mythic persona. Imagine your life as an epic story. Play the part of a hero. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): The earliest performance artist on record was the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. In one of his notorious stunts, he wandered around Athens with a lit lantern during the daytime, claiming to be looking for an authentic human being. I recommend that you undertake a similar search in the coming days, Pisces. You don’t have to be as theatrical about it. In fact, it might be better to be quite discrete. But I think it’s important for you to locate and interact with people who are living their lives to the fullest—devoted to their brightest dreams, committed to their highest values, and sworn to express their highest integrity. Homework: Imagine that thanks to scientiﬁc breakthroughs, healthy habits, and good luck, you’re still alive in 2090. What’s your life like? Testifyy at Freewillastrology.com. gy 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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