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SSuper uperr Supe Supe R Race ace The county’s four four o remaining remaining super supervisors visors voted TTuesday uesday to hold a million dollar special electionn on June 4 to fill the seat of soon-to o-be-jailbird GEORGE GEORGE soon-to-be-jailbird SSHIRAKAWA HIRAKA AWA JR R. If only ther JR. theree was an app ffor or that. Considering Considering the job pays six figur g es,, ppr o ovides alPERS ppension,, figures, provides a CCalPERS comes with all kinds of perk s— perks— assuming you don’t don’t exceed a $3,000a-year local m eal allowance with your meal PCard (r eally??!)—and could last 12 P-Card (really?!)—and years if all thr e terms are ee are completed, three ther ants. theree should bbee no shortage of entr entrants. P AT TRICIA MARTINEZ-ROACH MARTINEZ-ROACH wasted PATRICIA the least time, declaring her candidacy TTuesday uesday on Fac cebook. Martinez-Roach Martinez-Roach Facebook. has run ffor or nearly neaarly every office in the Union—she ac ctually managed to actually lose two elections elections in 2012—and she pr obably has about a as good a chance probably of winning thiss rrace ace as Shirakawa. Shirakawa. M ore likely con ntenders include More contenders T ERESA AL VARADO—a water district TERESA ALVARADO—a spokesperson and daughter of BLANCA BLANCA AL VARADO, who whho pr eceded Shirakawa Shirakawa as ALVARADO, preceded the District 2 supe—and s labor matriar ch matriarch CI NDY CHAVEZ, CHAVEZ V , who CINDY heads up the nonpr nnonprofit ofit Don’t W orking P artneerships Working Partnerships forget US A. Others who wh ho are are USA. to tip! inter ested in th he job interested the include MA GDALENA MAGDALENA FLY@ CA RRASCO, who whho beat CARRASCO, METRONEWS. M artinez-Roacch in Martinez-Roach COM November for for a seat Side on the East Sid de Union school board, board, and a T ONY EESTREMERA, STREMERA, TONY workss as an attorney and ser serves who work ves on board. the Water Water District District boar d. (He (He was one boardd m of two boar members who accepted a $90K pensio n payout behind closed pension doors last year r.) CCarrasco arrasco has an year.) inter esting cho oice to make, however interesting choice however,, as she doesn’t doesn’t cu rrently live in D2. A nd currently D-2. And while Estremera Estremerra could benefit fr om from being the only man in the rrace, ace, many people seem too think a woman would be better suited ttoo join the ffour our white guys cur rently on th he Boar d. But who says currently the Board. ther isn’t dive ersity alr eady? Boar theree isn’t diversity already? Boardd chair KEN Y EAGER iss gay ASSERMAN is YEAGER gay,, MIK MIKEE W WASSERMAN Republican, DAVE DAV VE CCORTESE ORTESE is comatose a Republican, and, last time we SIMITIAN w checked, JOE SI MITIAN is still bald.

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BLACK B LACK FRID FRIDAY AY P Prosecutors rosecutors decided d to drop the hammer on n George Shirakawa Jr Jr. r. but stil still ll don don’t ’t know where he got go ot the untraceable cash that fo found ound its way into his accounts accounts. s.

Why Friday’ W Friday’ss dé dénouement énouement happened the e way it did By JOSH KOEHN KOEHN

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T’S always T’S always a shame to o let facts interfere with witth a good story, story y, but county coun nty Supervisor S upervisor George Shir h akawa Jr.’s Jr.’s downfall didn’t did dn’t Shirakawa sttart with a hushed voice start frrom a trench coat in the dark da ark from co orners of a parking garage. garage e. corners Ther Theree w was as no Deep Thr Throat, oat, no ttip ip from p from political olitical enemies or fformer o ormer associates, as ssociates, such as p political olitical cconsultant onsulttant R R Rich Robinson, obinson, o who had eevery very righ right ht to ob bee disgruntled cconsidering onsidering he w was as owed ow wed mor moree than $40,0 $40,000 00 as rrecently ecen ntly ass last fall ffor or o his work on Shirak Shirakawa’s awa’s 2008 20 008 sup supervisor ervisor ccampaign. ampaign. And th there here weree no anon w wer anonymous nyymous vvoicemails oicemails fr from o om spurned sp purned lo lovers vers or a print shop thatt Shirakawa Sh hirakawa also owed mone moneyy to to.. Instead, the 20-year 20-year p political olitical career, carreer, w which to took ok off when his father die died ed in n offic officee and he w was as app appointed ointed to

the San JJose ose Cit City ty C Council oun ncil in 19 1994, 94, unraveled because unra aveled b ecause of a simple Why does politician question: Wh hy do es a p olitician need moneyy when he he’s unopposed to raise mone h ’s unopp osed ffor or o rre-election? e-election? observation That obser vation led to t a rroutine outine inspection disclosuree insp ection of ccampaign ampaign disclosur documents—and, ultimately, do cuments—and, ultim matelyy, to last week’s Accompanied byy week’ k’s dramatic d ti eevents. veents t .A ccompanied i db attorney Friday morning, Shirakawa his at tttorneey Frida ay morn ningg, Shirak kawa surrendered surr endered himself to the t ccounty ountty jail ffor o or o booking five b ooking on fiv ve ffelony eelon ny char ccharges. ges. In an email message to t cconstituents onstituents morning, later that morning g, the ccounty ountty o supervisor saying sup ervisor rresigned, esigned, sa ayyiing that he suffered from depression suff ffeerreed fr om depr reession n and a gambling addiction, and that he would w plead guilty March guilt ty on Mar ch 18 to ffour ou o ur ccounts ounts of perjury, ffelony eelon ny p erjury, one ffelony eelon ny ccount ount of misappropriation public misappr opriation of pub blic funds and seven se eveen misdemeanors rrelated ellated to not filing disclosuree fforms. ccampaign ampaign a disclosur orm o ms. fivee yyears, Shirakawa In the last fiv ears, Shirak awa moved moree than $130 $130,000 mo ved mor 0,000 in and accounts, out of ccampaign ampaign ac cou unts, the public treasury fund support tr easury and a slush fu und to supp ort lifestyle and an opulent lif feestyle an d gambling

according affidavit byy habit, ac cor o ding to an affida avvit filed b District Attorney’s Office. the Distric ct A ttorne t y’s O ffice. Metro’s investigation started While Met M ro’s in nvestigation g st arted basic with a basi ic question, the findings prompted moree questions than only pr om mpted mor answers. The Registrar ans wers. Th he ccounty ountty R egistrar e of Voters Metro Shirakawa V oters told o d Met ro that Shirak awa had skipped eight skipp ed eig ght fforms orms rrelating o elating to his 2008 supervisor, 20 08 run ffor o or sup ervisor, which rang $110,000 up almost $110,0 00 in debt, and that been he had b eeen notified rrepeatedly. epeatedlyy. The DA affidavit D A noted in its affida avvit last week weree that no ffewer ewer w than 16 rreminders eminders wer Shirakawa’s sent to Shi irakawaa’’s home demanding submit that he sub bmit the fforms. orms. o Shirakawa When S hirakawa and his chief of staff, Garcia, st aff ff,, Eddiee Gar cia, sat down with Metro discuss Met ro to di iscuss the missing fforms, o orms, both men’s was display. b oth men ’s hubris w as on full displa ay. Shirakawa stammered Shirak awa st ammered out eexcuses xcuses maintaining breath while main ntaining in the same br eath theree w was Garcia that ther as no eexcuse, xcuse, while Gar cia uncomfortably aside,, p possibly sat unc om mffo ortably aside ossibly why wonderingg wh hy the hell he eever ver agreed agr eed d to an a inter iinterview. vie i w. Attorney Rosen District A ttorne t y JJeff eff R osen said o press Friday at a pr ess cconference onffeerence Frida ay that his officee in investigated supervisor’s offic vesstigated the sup ervisor’s misuse of ccampaign ampaign and public funds as a rresult Metro’s September esult of o Met ro’s Septemb er 2012 Shirakawa rreport—which eport— —w which ffeatured eeatured Shirak awa 10 Garcia and Gar ciaa laughing off

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evidence of illegal campaign evidence cam mpaign activity— activity— ct Records Act as well as a Public R eecor o ds A (PRA equest Met ro made m rregarding egarding (PRA)) rrequest Metro Shirak awa’’s ccounty ountty cha arge ccard ard Shirakawa’s charge activit y. activity. A esult of the eexpected xp pected criminal Ass a rresult cconviction, onviction, Shirak awa will ne ver ser ve Shirakawa never serve as an elected official in nC aliffo ornia California again. He will b equiired to pa ay bee rrequired pay $50 $50,0 000 in fines to thee Fair P olitical $50,000 Political practic es C ommission (FPPC), practices Commission which aided the D A in n subp oenaing DA subpoenaing Shirak awa’’s bank ac cou unt rrecords, ecords, Shirakawa’s account and mor 00 in fur ther moree than $6,0 $6,000 further rrestitution estitution to the ccounty. oun ntty. (He has alr eady rrepaid epaid mor han $7 7,,000.) He already moree th than $7,000.) ely will lose his p ension, which w is lik pension, likely wor th hundr eds of tho ousands of worth hundreds thousands dollars e up to a yyear end ear dollars,, and he will sp spend b ehind bars A gets his w ay. behind bars,, if the D DA way. “J Jail, ail”” Rosen Ro osen said Frid daay. “II don’t don’tt mean “Jail, Friday. picking up trash or wee ek keend work.” weekend Shirak awa’s missing ccampaign ampaign Shirakawa’s rreports eports pr oved to b ust the ic eberg’s proved bee ju just iceberg’s tip ro ffollowed ollow o wed up oking tip.. When Met Metro up,, lo looking into Shirak awa’’s ccounty ountty P -Card, it Shirakawa’s P-Card, b ecame clear that Shir rakawa w as became Shirakawa was br oke and w aas clingingg to the char ge broke was charge plate ffor o or w alking-around mone y. walking-around money. A gain, Shirak awa shiel lded his Again, Shirakawa shielded activities b efusing to o submit the byy rrefusing rrequired equir i ed d itemized it i d rreceipts. eceipts ei t . A sc avenger hunt off some of scavenger Shirak awa’’s fa avorite ha aunts, in which Shirakawa’s favorite haunts, Met ro track ed down ite emized rreceipts eceipts Metro tracked itemized thr ough nearly a dozen n rrestaurants’ estaurants’ through p oint-off-sale ssystems, ystems, rresulted esulted in one point-of-sale aawkward wkwar w a d moment wh en a rrestaurant estaurant when manager ask ed, “Do yyou o need ou asked, an nyything else rakawa?” The anything else,, Mr Mr.. Shir Shirakawa?” sleuthing turned up th he $10 0 steaks the $100 steaks,, lunches with rred ed vvelvet elvet e ccake, ake, Diet C ok kees and, d in i a ccouple ouple l off ccases, ases, the h Cokes pur chase of alc ohol. purchase alcohol. A dinner rreceipt eceipt fr om m P..F F. Chang’ from .F. Chang’ss on F eb. 17 7, 2012, in whi ich Shirak awa Feb. 17, which Shirakawa b ought ffood ood and drink ks ffor or San JJose o ose bought drinks C ouncilman Xa avier v C a os and amp Councilman Xavier Campos A ssistant Cit ty Manage orberto Assistant City Managerr N Norberto Dueñas n addition to Dueñas,, showed that in let tuce wraps ollss and other lettuce wraps,, egg rrolls app etizers, the sup erviisor also b ought appetizers, supervisor bought a De vil’s C anyon Amb er Draft, Stella Devil’s Canyon Amber Ar tois and a piña ccolada. olad da. Artois Shirak awa managed d to esc ape Shirakawa escape detection of this char g , lik ge ny charge, likee so man many others ovidin ng a det ailed others,, b byy not pr providing detailed rreceipt eceipt ffor or the meal. He o H ccould ould ha ave have ffound ound o himself in eeven ven deep er legal deeper tr ouble had the ccounty ountty done a b ettter t trouble better job of drafting its missi ing rreceipt eceipt missing

cumentt. Shirak do awa signed a document. Shirakawa missing ite emized rreceipt eceipt memo man itemized manyy times that declar ed no alc ohol w aas declared alcohol was eever ver pur ch hased, but it didn ’t rrequire equire purchased, didn’t him to at ttteest under p enalty of p erjury. attest penalty perjury. “U nffo ortu unatelyy, the ccounty ounty de vised “Unfortunately, devised a fform o orm tha at did not ha ave what ’s ccalled alled that have what’s an ‘enablin ng clause orm o the ‘enabling clause,,’ so the fform ccounty ounty w ass using didn ’t ha ave an ny was didn’t have any teeth”” D teeth, A pr osecutor Kar yn Sinunu SinunuDA prosecutor Karyn T ower o y eexplained xp plained Frida ay. Towery Friday. In his message m Frida ay to Friday cconstituents, onstituen nts, Shirak awa wr ote: Shirakawa wrote: “F or yyears eears I ha ave suff ffeered fr om “For have suffered from depr ession n and a gambling addiction. depression U nffo ortunaatelyy, m Unfortunately, myy gambling addiction went w untr eated ffor o or to o untreated too long h led to bad decisions and long,, which actions tha at I deeply rregret. egret.” that Sour ces tell Met ro that Shirak awa Sources Metro Shirakawa st arted rreceiving eceiving tr eatment ffor o or his started treatment gambling addiction a sometime in the last half off 2012, but the first step to rrecovery—acknowledging ecovery— —acknowledging the pr oblem, at a least publicly y— didn’t problem, publicly—didn’t o ccur untill the jig w aas essentially up occur was up.. On Dec awa def feended Dec.. 4, Shirak Shirakawa defended himself aga ainst an onslaught of against damning media m rreports eports b owing byy thr throwing out the rac ce ccard ard and eeven ven noting his race allegianc t the Oakland Raiders allegiancee to Raiders.. Th in The iinvestigations vestigations e ti ti i t Shirak into Shi kawa’s Shirakawa’s activit y, b A and media outlets activity, byy the D DA outlets,, will ccontinue, ontin nue, though. Due to his h still missing ccampaign aampaign fforms, orms, and the o t fact that Shirak kawa has Shirakawa yyet eet to meett with in nveestigators, the D A investigators, DA still do esn’t know how he loaned his doesn’t sup ervisoriaal run $78,10 0 in 20 08, if he supervisorial $78,100 2008, rreceived eceivved e mo oneey in eexchange xxchange ffor o or vvotes otes on o money land deals or o ccounty ountty ccontracts, ontracts, or if he had an ny hel lp in k eeeping the dec eption any help keeping deception a secr et. Inc competence on the h par secret. Incompetence partt off auditors an nd the financ ce depar tment and finance department seems to o cconvenient on nveenient in this ccase. ase. too “W We don n’t ha ave the ans wers to all “We don’t have answers of the ques stions,” R o osen said Frida ay. “I questions, Rosen Friday. made a dec cision her decision heree that we needed to mo ve qu uickly in this ccase, ase, and move quickly ccarefully, arefullyy, but b we ccan’t an’t w ait until we ’ve wait we’ve ans wered all a of the questions out answered ther effo orre filing char ges. theree b before charges. “If we w aited to ans wer all the waited answer questions yyou ou ha ave and that we have ha ave, we would w b ears aaway way fr om have, bee yyears from oncludingg this cconcluding this..” That wo ould lik ely b ase, would likely bee the ccase, rregardless egardless of o whether Shirak awa sp ent Shirakawa spent his da ayys sit tting t on a har d jail seat or a days sitting hard high-back ked e supervisor’s supervisor’s chair, chair, waiting waiting a high-backed ffor or o the full stor come to light. storyy to come

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If it wer weree only that si simple. imple. The triumph of Go Good od o over ver Evil stor storyy line quickly morp morphed phed into a human tragedy as thee ccounty ounty supervisor sup ervisor ffell ell e on his ssword, w d, rresigned wor esigned hi p his position, o ition agr osition, agreed eed to plead guilt gguilty ilty and at attributed tributed his b betrayal etrraayyal of public trust to a gambling add addiction. diction. Case C ase closed. Or ma maybe ayb ybe not. Ap political olitical actor ccannot ann not go on a ttwowo w dec decade ade graft spr spree ee witho without out an arm armyy of enablers enablers,, and an anyone nyo onee who buys the lone gunman theor theoryy is welc welcome ome to join me in a game of thr three-card ee-card Monte.. Or ma maybe booze-fueled Monte ayybe a b ooze o -fueled jaunt Mexican border easy down to the Me exxican b o der with eas or sy byy the emergency women funded f d db h llocal ocall emer gency provider. rresponse esponse pr ovider. have heree iss a What we ha ave her sophisticated political sophistic ated p olitical machine m moneyy thr through that pumps mone o ough support multiple sectors to supp port its economically own—and a ccoalition oalition of o ec onomically interconnected special inter connected sp ecial inter iinterests. ests. The Machine tolerates and ma may m ay eeven ven prefer personal weaknesses pr effeer p ersonal weakne esses in a public officee holder if the vvotes offic otes ar aree rreliable. eliable. George Geor ge Shirak Shi Shirakawa kawa JJr. r. w was a ap as pocket ock ket vvote ote ffor or the South Ba o Bay ay L Labor abor C Council, ouncil, majority which ccontrolled ontrolled a majo oritty of the board supervisors and b oard of sup ervisors an nd funds its political through network p olitical activities thr ou ugh a net work of county-dependent county-dependent foundations, fo oundations, nonprofits government-funded nonpr ofits and go vernm ment-funded initiatives. health ccare are initiativ es.

Having Ha aving v llost ost its majorit majorityy ccontrol ontrol of the San JJose Cityy C Council ouncil last yyear— ear— osse Cit that abilityy to easily and with th hat the abilit perks employees dole out p e erks to public emplo yees payroll whose pa ayyrroll deductions generate membership was memb ership rrevenues—SBLC evenues—SBLC w as about influencee o over not ab out to t ccede ede its influenc ver billion the $4.2 bil llion ccounty ounty budget. boss Chavez, likee an anyy So b oss Cindy C Cha avez, lik developed ccompetent ompetentt strategist, de veloped a position. plan with a fall-back p osition. The bee to first ccourse ourse of action would b tryy and k keep Shirakawa office, tr awa in offic e, eeep Shirak byy the last just as she had h stuck b local politician lo cal p oliticcian cconvicted on nvicted v of ttaking aking moneyy whi while office: Cityy mone ile in offic e: San JJose ose Cit Councilman Terry Gregory. ouncilmaan T C err e y Gr egory. tryy and derail She wentt to bat to tr prosecution, throwing the pr osecu ution, thr owing down racee ccard behind scenes the rac ehind the sc enes and arrd b letting justicee ttake suggesting that let ting justic ake its would bee vie viewed unfavorably ccourse ourse wou uld b wed unfa avorably Side.. Then, anticipating on the Eastt Side implied threats that implie ed thr eats might not D.A., ssway way an honest ho onest D .A., she rresigned esigned labor post, over her lab or ccouncil o ouncil p ost, slid o ver to better-funded the b etter-ffunded and ccontrolled ontrolled nonprofit Working Partnerships nonpr ofit W orking P o artnerships and prepared pr epared h herself erself to run ffor or o her close ally’ss seat sh ally’ ally should hould Shirak Shirakawa awa fall. fall If Cha avez runs ffor or the District 2 o Chavez supervisor’s sup ervisor’s seat, and some think she will, she she’ll ’ll no o doubt ha have ave to ans answer swer w about she’d hoped questions ab bout subjects she ’d hop ed would b o gotttten, such as the $4 or bee fforgotten, million subs sidy to the Grand Prix that subsidy ly abandoned San JJose ose b effo ore subsequently before subsequentl bankrupt; support going bankr rupt; her supp ort ffor or garbage o rate incr easees pr ompted b ayo or increases prompted byy Ma Mayor R on Gonzal o les’ cconcocted oncocted stories to the Ron Gonzales’ attempts ccouncil; ouncil; her at ttempts t to derail sunshine ontract initiatives protect secret labor initiativ vees to o pr otect secr et lab or ccontract g; and fisc al p olicies that deal-making; fiscal policies deal-making bankrupted nearly bank krupted San JJose. ose. After los ing the ma ayor’s rac losing mayor’s racee b geest mar gin a cr edible byy the lar largest margin credible ccandidate andidate iincurred ncurred sinc om o sincee T Tom McEner d feated e Claude Fletcher McEneryy def defeated

Shirakawa was w a pocket vote e for the South Bay L abor Labor Council, which h Council,which controlled a majority of the board of supervisors prompt further sits will no doubt pr ompt fur th her questions,, which she she’ll likely questions ’ll most lik e ely dodge, Chavez’s practicee wi with do dge, as is Cha avez’s practic ith anyy rreporting organization an eporting or ganization thatt asks critical questions.. critic al questions goes The ssystemic ystemic ccorruption orruption go es beyond cronyism b eyo ond cr on nyism y and machine politics. bureaucratic p olitics. It eextends xtends to the bur eauccratic functionaries,, such as the R Registrar functionaries eegistrrar of Voters V oters who failed to aler o alertt the dist district trict attorney at ttorne t y that ccampaign ampaign filing la laws aws w weree b wer being eing br broken; oken; auditors who o slid internal ccontrols ontrols aside; seniorr ccounty ountty eexecutives xecutives who failed to promulgate pr omulgate a cultur culturee of transpar transparency rency and ac accountability; countabilitty; la law aw enf enforcement for o cem ment leaders who won won’t ’t ttalk alk ab about out wh what hat theyy know the know. w. And it eextends xxtends to the financial and adv advertising veertising ccommunities ommu unities that defunded media w watchdogs atchdo a gs in favor fa avor of ccontextual ontextual Fac Facebook ebook and d Google Go ogle ads and email ccampaigns. ampaignss. This time time,, one individual gott ccaught. aught. Who else kne knew w of of, f, supp supported ported or b benefited enefited fr from om his activities?? And has the flurr flurryy of activit activityy impr improved oved an anything ything so that the public trus trust st won’t won ’t b bee b betrayed etraayed again? I don don’t ’t think so so..

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Groupon Gr oupon Groupoff G oupoff Gr It’s It ’ss been no secr secret et thatt Gr Groupon oupon hasn’t hasn t it’s ffared ared well of late,, but n now it ’s official. Last Wednesday, Wednesdayy, the daily d deal $638 website rreported eported $63 8 million in rrevenue evenue for for the ffourth ourth h quarter of Although 2012.. Al though analysts analyssts expected it to make that figure, figure, e according according to TechCrunch.com, TeechCrunch.com, those th hose same experts didn’t see Groupon Groupon o making a major leap forward forward with dozens of crowding competitors cr owding g the market.

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The Chicago-based company, com mpanyy, which has an office in Palo Palo Alto, A Alto, hoped to make a profit profit of 3 cents centts per share. share. Instead, Groupon Groupon was 12 1 cents per sharee in the red shar red for for thee quarter, quarterr, which quickly calibrates calibrates to a $12.9 million loss after factoring factoring in operating o ating costs. oper The setback was a surprise surprise to many, manyy, was considering that the company c hoping to reel reel in holiday holid day profits. profits. Shareholders saw Groupon’s Sh Shar eholders h ld G Groupon’s o ’ stock t k plummet almost 20 percent, p cent, mainly per due to poor global performance peerformance and missed revenue. revenue. Theree are Total Ther are still some positives. p Total o earnings are are up 30 percent peercent from from last year,r, billings are year are up 24 24 percent percent to $1.52 billion and subscribers subsscribers are are up moree than 37 percent mor percentt to 200 million. “Record “Recor d billings growth growth h this quarter love i a clear is l signal i l that th t customers cu ustomers t l Groupons,” Gr oupons,”” said Andrew Andrew w Mason, CEO of Groupon, Gr oupon, per VentureBeat.com. VeentureBeeat.com.. “We “We will growth through continue to invest in gr rowth thr ough opportunities 2013 as we see new op pportunities to what give our customers wha at they want.” By week’s end,, Mason was w out of a job.—Nick TTrenchard reencharrd

Beta Bunny Video chatt start-up Rabbit says that it hass raised raised $3.3 million in seed funding fundiing from from Google Ventures, Ventures, CrunchFun nd and Bebo founder founder CrunchFund Michael Bi Birch, irch, as well as from from existing angel an ngel investors. The moneyy was raised raised in parallel parallel of Rabbit in private with the release release e beta earlier earlieer this month. The company plans to use usse the funding for for continued investmentt in Rabbit’s Rabbit’ss video-chat and content-sharing content-sh haring technology. technologyy. Rabbit allows allo ows users to watch videos, and share listen to music m share any type of contentt together while video chatting with w friends. “Rabbit’s and user “Rabbit ’s design d experiencee is unlike anything I’ve seen,”” said d Kevin Kevin Rose, general general partner at Google Ventures. Ventures.. “Video “Video chatting iss always designed for for utility, utility y, but Rabbit has created created an online social soccial experience that is out with your closer to hanging h friends in real real life.” life.” Rabbit was founded founded by four four videogame pioneers who who saw a need for for a new approach synchronous, appr oach allowing a synchronous,, realrealtime video chat and sharing of content with small or o large large groups. groups.. By combining current cur rent Internet Inteernet infrastructure infrastructure with social gaming, soc gaming, cial and VOIP VOIP frameworks, frameworks, ameworks the principles of as well as applying a massively multiplayer m tiplayer online gaming mul and new innovations innovations in product product design, Rabbit has delivered delivered an application that is “a “a quantum quantum leap in video chat and social networking,” n ” according according to a company statement. sttatement. —Dan Holden

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Last year, a call for poetry blasted across the horizon, resulting in nearly 100 submissions, all related to the theme of invention. Folks from every corner of the county, of all ages, submitted their work, with the judges

somehow filtering five winners out of the bunch. Those five winners had their poems displayed on rectangular cards inside buses and lightrail trains for the last year. For example, right next to the Transit Employee of the Month announcement, one might have seen poems by Dennis Noren, Samantha Le, Mark Heinlein, Diana Clarke and Danielle Roberts. In some cases, the cards remain and probably will not be removed for some time. The book, Invention: Poems That Celebrate Who We Are and What We Do in Silicon Valley, will soon be available at every branch of the county library, with remaining copies for sale from the county. It is about 100 pages long and shaped like the rectangular cards one sees along the insides of public

transportation, above the seats. Every poem submitted is now included in the book, one on each page. Readers can search for any of the poets by an index in the back. Ashton says the response blew her away. “What I was really pleased with was the broad spectrum of people sending in poems,” Ashton says. “From all over the county, I think every city was represented. ... People took to the theme of invention really creatively. I told them that it could be a poem that addresses invention as a theme, or where the poem itself as an invention.” The poems tend to view the emergence of Silicon Valley in a positive light, rather than endlessly emphasizing the demise of apricot orchards 50 years ago. Ashton says that was precisely the idea: “I decided on this theme of invention, rather than a theme around the buses and trolleys and whatnot, just to get us thinking about who we are as a whole county, and to embrace that positive-change aspect rather than the kind of nostalgic mourning of who we once were.”

Joe Miller, a lecturer in what’s now called the Department of Design at SJSU, designed the cards to be installed on the lightrail and the book. Using solid bright colors and a large typeface, the cards visibly stood out inside the buses and lightrail cars. Much of the interiors of these vehicles, above the seats, constitutes dead area that most wouldn’t care to advertise in. The areas aren’t lit very well, dreariness dominates and no one ever remembers what’s there anyway, so Miller specifically went for a bold approach. “We talked a lot about what the constraints were,” he explains. “I tried to figure out what people would actually read on the bus, looked at a lot of other programs like New York and other places, looked at their shortcomings and mostly just tried to figure out, typographically, what people could swallow in that environment.” environm result, the cards stood out, at As res least for me. The lime green, orange, lavender and light bluishpink, lav purple ccards—each with a white typeface—did wonders to highlight typeface usually a drab-looking what’s u interior. weren’t so graphic-heavy They w they blended in with the ads. that the Instead, they popped out and made me read the poems. No disrespect to my VTA pals, but it was refreshing to read poetry on the bus, as a complement to the latest of 30 years’ worth of transit employees of the month, even if the poetry was not world-class material. The county Poet Laureate, at least in Santa Clara County, is a position one actually has to apply for. Compared to other scenarios, where the poet may just take the money and write her next book, the position here is much more civic minded, which is why Ashton’s first major project, in 2011, was a call for favorite poems. Everyone was invited to send in a favorite work that inspired him or her, in whatever way, shape or form. Her term ends this month; look for the county to announce the next laureate any week now.

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Johnny V’s, San Jose Wed – 8pm; no cover before 10:30pm/$3 after 10:30pm Underneath YDMC’s bravado lies a socially conscious rapper who actively gives back to the community. Originally from Atlanta, he got involved with the San Jose hip-hop scene via the Hip-Hop Congress, which is a nonprofit organization that seeks to inspire social change and creativity in the community. He eventually became the president of the San Jose chapter. Still that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have swagger; he does, a lot of it, not to mention some clever lyrics and some well-produced, hard-hitting

beats. But still, his songs aren’t just about him. (AC)

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SUBVOLTAGE 9 Lives, Gilroy Thu – 8pm; $5/$10

There are a lot of Christian bands in the South Bay. For whatever reason, most of them are really angry—not so Gilroy’s Subvoltage. Just look at the banner picture on the group’s Facebook page. These are some happy dudes. The band mission reads: “We are here not to condemn but to testify of what God has done in our lives to inspire a world that is slowly decaying.” They also, unlike a good number of the

South Bay Christian bands, don’t play screamo or hardcore. They play a little rock & roll, pop, metal and reggae, all with positive vibes. Their music is as happy as they are. (AC)

EOM SESSIONS HOSTS TYREL WILLIAMS Johnny V’s, San Jose Thu – 9:30pm; free before 10:30pm with RSVP; $5/$10 Serato may now be the standard, but when eomSessions invades Johnny V’s on the first Thursday of the month as part of weekly party SLAP!, they’ll be broadcasting an all-vinyl affair. Quite fitting that in the heart of Silicon Valley, even a nostalgic idea has a way of staying tech-savvy. eomSessions started in 1999 on pulseradio.com, the broadcast, now

on Common Coommon Ground Radio, Radio offers selectors the chance to drop tracks they wouldn’t otherwise play out. Tyrel Williams, a resident at Acid Test and Housepitality, headlines the night, bringing with him crates of 12-inches. Leathal, Cole, J Swizza and Notorious P.I.G. are set to spin as well. (BR)

*fri KOBAN

Chromatic Coffee, Santa Clara Fri – 6pm; $3-$5 Everyone thinks the ’80s were this overly synthesized, super-poppy, cocaine-fueled time in rock—which they were—but they also produced some of the weirdest underground music that has ever existed, precisely because of the crazy, epic singles

the major labels were churning out. Canada’s Koban channels this stranger side of the decade, taking bits of early industrial, goth and darkwave right out of the slums of the transgressive New York arts scene. The group mixes all these elements into a dissonant wash of sounds and primal beats, with small traces of pop. This is not a Pitchfork band making obscure ’80s music palatable. No, this is just weird. (AC)

GUITARFEST Various venues, San Jose Fri-Sun; $115/$30 for concerts The South Bay Guitar Society does what it does best this weekend: celebrate and support the art of classical guitar playing. The GuitarFest gets underway on Friday at 8pm with a concert by Rene Izquierdo and Duo Exaudi at Le Petit Trianon. Saturday’s show

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SAN JOSE JAZZ WINTER FEST ROCK AN AND WORSHIP ROADSHOW Mar 8 at 3pm, HP Pavilion

THE SHE’S

MAROON 5 Mar 13 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

ALARM WILL SOUND Mar 16 at 8pm, Bing Concert Hall, Ma Stanford

WILLIE K. Mar 16 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

ANDRÉ RIEU Mar 16 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

SHITKICKERS Mar 29 at 9pm, the Blank Club, San Jose

THE ENGLISH BEAT Apr 6 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

RIHANNA Apr 13 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

JOE BONAMASSA Apr 18 at 8pm, San Jose Civic

LAURIE ANDERSON With the Kronos Quartet, Apr 20 at 8pm, Apr 21 at 7pm, 7 Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

BON JOVI Apr 25 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

CHRIS TOMLIN Apr 225 at 7:30pm, SJSU Event Center

LADY ANTEBELLUM Apr 26 at Shoreline

MIRANDA LAMBERT With Dirk Dirks Bentley, May 11 at Shoreline

ALFARA STRING QUARTET A With the Cecilia String Quartet, May 19 at 2:30p 2:30pm, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

(also at 8pm at Le Petit Trianon) Grammy nominee Paul ffeatures t G i P l Galbraith. All Saturday and Sunday, the society presents a wide range of clinics and classes in various styles and techniques, from tremolo to Brazilian. (MSG)

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Homestead Lanes, Cupertino Sat – 8pm, $8 There’s a reason San Francisco’s the She’s were recently on the cover of the SF Bay Guardian. Sure, they play some ultracatchy, Beach Boys–style surf-pop—and do it well. And they balance syrupysweet songwriting with just the right amount of tart. But that’s

not it. These girls, who are barely out of high school, are just regular girls—not that pseudo–“girl next store” or put-a-pair-of-glasseson-a-model nonsense, but actual normal, somewhat geeky girls, who are nothing if not totally sincere. They know how to pen a good tune and deliver wonderful harmonies. What else could you want? (AC)

DONOVAN Axis, Santa Clara Sat – 9:30pm, $20 Donovan has hosted somewhere in the range of 600 events in the past decade. He spins some funky house-laden electronic dance music. What separates him from the herd is the sensibility he brings to shows. He calls it “upscale nightlife.” It’s still booty-shaking dance music, but it is packaged with class and refinement. His show at the Axis is in fact a suit-

and-tie event, which should definitely make for an interesting night out for South Bay club rats. Women get in for free. Men trying to impress them should remember to tip the bartender. It shows you got class. (AC)

LAURIE RUBIN Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont Sat – 8pm; $15-$20 Mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin has performed at Carnegie Hall and even the White House, which makes her appearance at Ohlone College something of a coup. Rubin, who is currently an artist in residence as a composer at Montalvo Arts Center, is also a budding author, having recently published a memoir called Do You Dream in Color? (Stories Press). The subtitle reveals how special Rubin’s success has been: Insights From a Girl Without Sight.

Born blind, Rubin persevered, forging an independent, globe-trotting and acclaimed career. (AR)

FLEETWOOD MAC May 22 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

VICTORIA JUSTICE

MISSION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA First Unitarian Church, San Jose Sat – 7pm; $25 Several senses are satisfied in synchronicity at Mission Chamber Orchestra’s Noteworthy Desserts special concert. The evening features chamber music pieces by Prokofiev, Joplin, Dvorak and more, as well as wine and sweets to sample. The participating businesses include Jen’s Cakes, Dick’s Bakery, Morocco’s Restaurant, Schurra’s Fine Confections, Marianne’s Ice Cream and Layla’s Bistro. A live auction rounds out the fundraiser. (MSG)

Jun 29 at 7pm, SJSU Event Center

BEYONCÉ Jul 2 at HP Pavilion

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Jul 7 and 12, HP Pavilion

DAVID BYRNE/ST. VINCENT Jul 20 at Mountain Winery

ONE DIRECTION Jul 30 at 7pm, HP Pavilion For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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*stage THE APPLE NEVER FALLS A new detective drama by Paul Braverman. Runs thru Mar 10. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15$24. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mtn View.

COMEDY CLUB NIGHT A new standup venue begins. Fri, 8pm: Daniel Dugar and Rodger Lizaola. Sun, 8pm: Dean Austin and Jeremy Greenberg. $30 (includes two drinks). Dragon Theater, Redwood City.

DEGREES OF SEPARATION SCU Department of Theatre & Dance presents John Guare’s drama. Runs thru Mar 9. Regular Shows: Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm. $10-$15. Mayer Theatre, Santa Clara.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF A family play by Peninsula Youth Theatre. Runs thru Mar 10. This week: Thu-Fri, 9:30am, Fri, 7:30pm, Sat, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1pm. $16-$20. Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts.

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Concourse Exhibition Center

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Saturday 10:30-6pm Sunday 11am-5pm

Admission $10 ($2 Off With This Ad) Early Buy $20 Saturday 9-10:30am

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Santa Clara Players revives the comedy about an imaginary rabbit. Runs thru Mar 16. ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $16/$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara.

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SPRING AWAKENING A musical about sexual rebellion, presented by Foothill Music Theatre and Theatre Arts. Runs thru Mar 10. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $10$28. Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

SUGAR A musical comedy from West Valley Light Opera. Runs thru Mar 30. This week: Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $18-$33. Saratoga Civic Theater.

*classical EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY This 50th-anniversary benefit concert features guest artists Naomi Kudo, Brandon Ridenour and Philippe Quint. Sat, 7:30pm. $10. Flint Center, Cupertino.

GUITARFEST Presented by South Bay Guitar Society, with Rene Izquierdo and Elina Chekan plus Paul Galbraith. Sat-Sun daytime events at Evergreen Valley High School Theater, San Jose. Fri-Sat concerts at 8pm, $15-$30. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

IRISH FOLK MUSIC A concert with the duo Young Ireland and guests Kyle Alden and Athena Tergis. Fri, 7:30pm. $15-$20. SCU Recital Hall.

A Latin-themed musical from Children’s Musical Theater San Jose. Runs Mar 8-17. This week: Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $15-$24. Montgomery Theater, San Jose.

MISSION PEAK BRASS BAND

THE MOUNTAINTOP

Classical jam. Sun, 3pm: $10$30. Saratoga.

A TheatreWorks presentation of Katori Hall’s drama about a woman who worked as a maid for Martin Luther King Jr. Runs Mar 6-Apr 7. Previews Wed-Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows: Wed, 7:30pm (except Apr 3), Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat 2 and 8pm (no 2pm show Mar 30 and Apr 6), Sun, 2 and 7pm (no 7pm show Mar 31 and Apr 7). $31-$51. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

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

JIM SHORT Standup comedy. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm. $28. Improv San Jose.

Performing works by Gershwin, Holst and more. Fri, 8pm. $10-$12. Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

MISSION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA The evening features wine and exceptional desserts from local chocolatiers and bakers, plus music by Mission Chamber Orchestra. Sat, 7pm. $25. First Unitarian Church, San Jose.

PALO ALTO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Benjamin Simon conducts the orchestra; the featured soloist is violinist Kaila Flexer performing Balkan-flavored pieces. Sat, 8pm. Free. Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto.

LAURIE RUBIN A concert by an acclaimed mezzo soprano. Sat, 8pm.

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WELCOME SPRING A program of classical and folk Persian music with Mahvash Guerami and Hossein Massoudi. Sun, 3pm. Free. Engineering Auditorium 189, SJSU.

*art MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Perpetuation of Myth.” Mar 6-Apr 14. Works by four IranianAmerican artists from Bay Area. Reception Thu, 6-8pm. WedSun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Hauntings: American Photographs, 1845-1970.” Mar 6-Jul 7. “More Than Fifteen Minutes: Andy Warhol and Celebrity.”Thru Jun 30. “North Africa and the Holy Land in 19th-Century Photographs.” Thru Jun 2. “Dotty Attie: Sometimes a Traveler/There Lived in Egypt.” Old Master paintings repurposed with politically charged texts. Thru Jun 16. “The Jameel Prize: Art Inspired by Islamic Tradition.” Thru Mar 10. Wed-Sun, 11am5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Henrietta Shore: Understanding Nature.” A retrospective of works by California painter of the early 20th century. Thru Jun 30. “Clay in the Bay.” Works by contemporary clay artists. Thru Mar 17. Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM “War & Healing.” A group show about conflict and healing. Thru Mar 21. Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Shaped by Water: Past, Present & Future.” A show about the importance of water in local history. Pacific Hotel Gallery. Also “Bay Area Youth Art Month Exhibit.”Thru Mar. McKay Gallery. History Park San Jose.

MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE “From Fiber to Fabric: A History of American Textile Production.” Thru Aug 18. Fri-Sun, 11am4pm. Palo Alto.

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@k :fdglk\j WHEN Angela Cartwright, never to be forgot as “Penny Robinson,” comes to the San Jose Super Toy, Comic and Collectible Show this weekend, she carries with her the residual electricity of having been a passenger on perhaps the bravest of 1960s TV spaceships, the Jupiter 2. “What is so sadly lacking in recent sci-fi TV series is what Lost in Space always had: a wonder and a whimsy and an innocence,” says longtime fan Robert Emmett of the Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack show on KFJC-FM (89.7). A sci-fi watching friend adds, “Sometimes, San Jose Super it’s like: Star Trek is better than Lost in Space how?” Fighting words, maybe, but there was Toy, Comic and a spot of hard science in Lost in Space; the Collectible Show Robinsons survived thanks to hydroponics, still a technology in use as opposed to Trek’s Saturday, 11am–4:30pm, still-undiscovered dilithium crystals. For three Sunday, 10am–3pm; seasons, as seen today on Hulu Plus, the Jupiter March 8–9; $6 2 survived whatever was thrown at it, from Santa Clara County unicorn-chimp crossbreeds to alien werewolves Fairgrounds to talking carrots. The Enterprise had a radio that worked and a Federation behind it to back it up. By contrast, the bewildered Robinsons had to make their own way. The rival shows were hives of fragrant vaudeville acting, but nothing on Trek was as reliably entertaining as Jonathan Harris’ Dr. Zachary Smith—a well-spoken, devious shirker who, on a less merciful ship, would have been jettisoned into outer space. He was the middleman in a commedia del arte three-way with the good but never disgustingly good Will (Billy Mumy), and the renowned straight-man Robot B9. (It’s pronounced “benign,” though he could fry you with his claws.) The late Dick Tufeld, who had the best radio voice on TV, was the larynx of this metal watchdog, throbbing out a spine-chilling warning at five-minute intervals. Metal though he was, B9 was also a master of the pregnant silence, clicking and whirring significantly before delivering an anguished “It does not compute.” Recommended: “A Visit to Hades,” the episode where Smith goes to Hell, ruled by red satin-suited former Mercury Theater player Gerald Mohr. A big influence on Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, this one. Cartwright will be accompanied by her sister, Veronica (The Birds, etc.). Meanwhile, there’s the main draw, the mosh-pit in the aisles of vintage toys, guaranteed to shock the back of the mind. Better than a year of therapy for recovering memories.—Richard von Busack

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SPERRY CHANGE The old flour mill building has been converted into a new collective of businesses. MAVERICK MEAL MAKER In addition to filmmakers, Cinequest has also begun to honor some star chefs with its Maverick Spirit Award. This year, Dominique Crenn of Atelier Crenn will be feted at an event that includes some samples of her creations and a culinary discussion with Liam Mayclem of KCBS. The affair takes place Friday, 5–7pm, at the Fairmont Hotel.

28 SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “New Stories From the Edge of Asia: This/That.” Art in many media about identity issues. Thru Sep 15. “Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography.”Thru Jun 30. “Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting.”Thru May 12. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Folk Indian Textiles From the Collection of Carol Summers.” “Meditation in Space & Time: Junco Sato Pollack Sutra Chants Hangings and Stitch.” Both thru Apr 28. Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

Sperry Station (30 N. Third St), San Jose.

GALLERY SARATOGA “Images by Gina Dias.” Photographs of nature and wildlife. Mar 6-31. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm. Big basin Way, Saratoga.

Installation with collaged maps. Thru May 18. “Judith Rothchild: Black Magic.” Mezzotints. Thru May 18. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

SEEING THINGS GALLERY

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“Possessed.” Skateboard photography by Joe Brook, Rhino and others. Thru Mar 26. 30 N. Third St, San Jose.

“Enantiodromia.”Thru Mar 23. Works by Joe Perea. San Jose.

STUDIO ROCK CLIMBING GYM

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE

“Japaints on Studio Parade.” Paintings by Japaints. San Jose.

“Modern Mata Ortiz.” Works by Jerardo Tena and other Mata Ortiz potters. Thru Mar. “Loving Cups.” Vessels made for Valentine’s Day. Thru Mar 10. San Jose.

THOMPSON GALLERY “See Your Self Sensing.” Works by Madeline Schwartzman. Thru Apr 5. Art Building, SJSU.

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“Crime Scene.” Works by Julie Bilyeu. “Left Front Lobe Slowing.” By René Lorraine. San Jose.

“Beyond Gaga.” A group show. Thru Mar 9. San Jose.

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“Umwelt Belt.” By Michael Joaquin Grey. San Jose.

“Deciphering the Ash of Effigies.” By English artist Joseph Loughborough. San Jose.

ART ARK GALLERY “Cross Pollination.” Works by faculty and staff from local community colleges. Runs thru Mar 16. San Jose.

“Assembling the Pieces: Reconstructing Memory and Hybrid Identity.”Thru Mar 16. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

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*events TOHOKU INSIGHTS 2013

“Happiness Is ...” A group show about emotional health. Thru Apr 14. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

A conversation via Skype about the two-year anniversary of the tsunami. Sat, 6pm. Free. JapaneseAmerican Museum of San Jose.

“Always Have Your iPhone With You.” Photos by Nadia MattaToledo. Thru Mar. San Jose.

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“Color.” Paintings by Ken Brenner. Thru Mar 23. San Jose.

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SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

The event, “Weaving Our Wisdom: From Roots to Wings,” features panels and workshops. Sat, 8:30am-6pm. $14/$15. (See wwww.southbaywc.org for details.) SJSU Student Union.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA

“Animal Catalogue.” Paintings by Jordan Maliksi. Thru March.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

“Val Britton: Intimate Immensity.”

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Sperry Station Fills Up SPERRY STATION is a relatively new business collective located in a historic building in downtown San Jose. Since last October, it has quickly established itself as an ambitious purveyor of the arts and a spot for creative types to exhibit and sell their work. The historic building (once the home of WORKS/San Jose and, long ago, the Sperry Flour mill) includes a music shop, an arts and crafts boutique, Seeing Things art gallery, a concert space and, possibly soon, a barbershop. This past weekend the collective held the first Sperry Station Bazaar—half a collection of art and crafts and half an indoor flea market—offering every strange and interesting type of item that you didn’t know you needed until it caught your eye. Oddities including vintage skateboarding magazines, clothes, jewelry, leatherwork and plant aquariums were for sale by vendors. Sperry

Station The Bazaar was organized by Stacy Sutherland, a friend of the building’s owners, who told Metro she wanted to “create 30 N. Third St., a space for like-minded people to exhibit their crafts, arts and San Jose collectibles—and to attract customers who are willing to pay above garage-sale prices for unique items.” Despite it being the inaugural edition of the event, Sutherland says she was surprised at the level of attendance. She hopes to put on at least one Sunday bazaar per month.

But you don’t need the bazaar as an excuse to visit Sperry Station. The place is filled the rest of the week with unusual shops. The most interesting is EcoMonster, a boutique that offers an eclectic mix of crafts from local artists and weekend workshops specializing in recycled and green-related crafts. EcoMonster is owned by Thoey Ngo, who has expanded her business from an online-only shop to an elegant space displaying everything from baby booties made out of ramen noodle packages to planters in the shapes of giant-letter type. While her boutique is a bit hidden, Ngo’s offerings have already made the big time with a feature in Better Homes and Gardens. Ngo hopes with the addition of weekend workshops for craftmaking and DIY art and her participation in San Jose’s South First Friday program, that EcoMonster will become a somewhat less hidden gem. All of this creative activity under one roof is thanks to owner Dave Nevin, who purchased the space in October for his popular Rock Shop music store. After setting up his musical equipment and repair store, Nevin found he had extra space. His friend Jai Tanju convinced Nevin to let him make it the Seeing Things Gallery. From there a burgeoning collective of musicians, artists and craftsmen have established a venue that offers exposure and opportunity for the local art and music scene.—Tad Malone

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COPS Playing at the noble California Theatre with the proto-Spider-Man feature Safety Last with Harold Lloyd is Cops (1922), a Buster Keaton short. It is the one movie that you’d want to use to introduce a child to the essence of silent comedy (although Cops also appeals to adults who know what it’s like to have the police in your face). In the first half, the vigorous but immobile-faced Keaton commences an accidental crime wave, pinching a wallet, stealing a horse-drawn wagon and knocking a traffic policeman cold. The rampage expands wildly in the second half. Buster’s hopped-up horse interrupts a police parade, and he gets mistaken for an anarchist bomb thrower. Buster is chased

b hhundreds by d d off angry policemen—not li t the th shambling clowns of Keystone but faceless and immaculately uniformed police in battalions. They roll in on all sides, emerging from behind parked cars, swarming like ants. It’s first-rate slapstick, but it’s more than slightly frightening, anticipating the ranks of uniformed men in Triumph of the Will. For that matter, anyone who feels Christopher Nolan invented the idea of using large squads of cops for drama in his Batman movies needs to see this. And anyone who cares about film needs to see the peerlessness of Keaton as both physical comedian and lone existential figure running for his life.

(U.S.) Both rewarding and funny, The Playback Singer is one of the highlights of this year’s Cinequest. Director Suju Vijayan tells a humane story of a pair of men facing failure. One is 38-year-old Ray (Ross Partridge), currently spinning his wheels in his newest career as an architectural designer; his wife, Priya (Navi Rawat), is patiently putting up with him as he works with his only current client, a friend who wants a backyard jungle gym. Into Ray and Priya’s y small Van Nuys y home arrives Priya’s wayward father, Ashok (th (the well-known Indian actor and singer Piyush Mishra). Pi The old man, a performer of classical Indian music, is what we ccall in America “a handful”—a demanding heavy drinker who h is stunned to find out his public isn’t there to greet him. The meltingmelting-pot movie and the reparenting movie alike gl glut the film-festival circuit. Yet this assured fea feature film— reminiscent of the work oof Thomas McCarthy (Win Win, The Visitor)—charms with its tender, low-down qualities. The father-in-law and son-in-law bond over mutual irritations (they’re both mutterers). And Mishra’s Frank Langella–like suaveness and testiness are revealed in the most off-hand lines. The rich score is by Jacob Yoffe.

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(Japan) In ruminative tone crossed with CG glitter fest, Goldfish Go Home is something like a live-action Studio Ghibli film and was likely meant for a children’s audience in Japan. In a depressed seaside small town, a group of misfits tries to make a place for themselves. A father and a daughter working an indebted goldfish farm face dispossession when the conniving low-comic mayor (Takashi Sansano) wants to seize the land for a tourist-grabbing amusement park. A neighboring family of Brazilian immigrants, whose youngest son (Takeshi Nagata) is a pudgy reject, are left homeless when Mom loses her job at a food-packing company. That’s when a miraculous, glowing blue goldfish called a “tensei” materializes to seemingly save the day—though in this bittersweet semi-fantasy film, it’ll take community organizing, not miraculous occurrences, to set things right. Forgivably cute.

(U.S.) Sexy, but ultimately only Red Shoes Diary sexy. “This story is as real as you want it to be” says the title, which at first seems too cute, and then seems too mean to complain about. Girl meets boy: Delilah (soaps vet Natalie Zea) is a “fantasy facilitator” (i.e., 976 Dial-a-Wank operator). She reads Anna Karenina and plays with a chess board to show she’s no fool. She gets rung up by Samson (Jeffey Vincent Parise), a would-be writer who has a pistol to show he’s tough and a pet canary to show he’s sensitive. The on-the-phone romance has been done before, in martyred Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh’s 1-900 and Nicholson Baker’s Vox. The question of whether or not to meet gives this story the friction you need in erotica, and that resistance is buffered with the Anaïs Nin thing in Samson and Delilah’s mutual Fantasyland (romantic Budapest before the Great War with a little black-and-white A Farewell to Arms). One always hopes for some kind of push and pull between the female director (actor/writer Terri Hanauer) and the male scripter (longtime TV writer Peter Lefcourt) and a quarrel over what the two sexes consider arousing. It’s like that here, and it’s always nice to see the (none-too-explicit) erotic matched with the poetic and fanciful instead of with brutality and big money.

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DEAD MAN DOWN (R; 110 min.) A victim of crime (Noomi Rapace) puts the moves on a man of violence (Colin Farrell). (Opens Fri.)

EMPEROR (PG-13; 106 min.) Japan 1945: Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) has 10 days to decide whether to try— and possibly hang—Emperor Hirohito for war crimes. Doing the research is

Gen. Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox). The film baits and switches, preparing, then stalling, the meeting between Hirohito and the American Caesar. It’s terribly sentimental when it comes—Hirohito (Takataro Kataoka) is such a little chap in his 1920s Bertie Wooster formal clothes. But so much is censored: the rumored “Operation Blacklist” involving the pressure from above to clear the names of the royal family. What we get instead is a moment of bogus relativism as a Japanese cabinet minister upbraids the West for its

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colonialism: “We were just following your fine example!” (Opens Fri.) (RvB)

NO (R; 110 min.) Gael Garcia Bernal plays an ad man who helped bring down Pinochet in the 1988 referendum. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose at the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)

OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (PG; 123 min.) Sam Raimi directs the backstory of the famous L. Frank Baum character. (Opens Fri.)

Revivals BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN AND THE FARM MIDWIVES (NR) Genuinely uplifting documentary

about the brave woman who started a revival in the craft of midwifery. Gaskin joined her partner Stephen in the founding of a Tennessee commune. Out of necessity, she and her fellow women learned how to deliver babies. Her method was a combination of studying salvaged medical books and trying to get a calm state of mind during the birth. While wondering over the huge spike throughout the industrial world in voluntary inductions and Caesarians— the latter, absolutely a necessity in some cases—Gaskin insists that there’s a way in ordinary childbirths to minimize the pain and even find delight in it. (Plays Mar 8–14 in Cupertino at the BlueLight Cinemas.) (RvB)

JOURNAL DE FRANCE (NR; 100 min.) Raymond Depardon,

co-founder of Gamma films, is a documentary filmmaker. This fascinating profile shows Depardon in his old age—on expeditions in a camper van to photograph the forlorner parts of France with a hooded camera on a tripod. He shoots the crumbling, damper small towns and the off-season beaches. But as his career is revealed to us, we can see why Depardon is interested in stillness in his old age—his cameras have captured so much turbulence. He was a war correspondent at numerous riots, and he was in Prague when the Soviet tanks arrived. As narrated by longtime collaborator Claudine Nougaret, this study of a half-century of image collecting is a compelling summing up of a remarkable career. (Plays Mar 9 at 1pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

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Square with his Experiment as part of San Jose Jazz’s Winter Fest. “Then I went to Lagos, Nigeria for two days with Maxwell—and I just got back.” With his serious jazz chops and love of the piano trio format, Glasper might not seem to be a likely candidate to spearhead a soul revival. But his R&Binfused Experiment, the band featured on Black Radio, is steeped in the cadences of the African American church, which is where Glasper learned to play. His mother, Kim Yvette Glasper, was a Houston institution, a pianist and vocalist who led a soul band and played regular jazz gigs. She was also the music director at the East Wind Baptist Church, which is where Glasper started performing in public. She was killed in a double homicide with Glasper’s stepfather in April 2004.

“I was the only child, and I grew up just with her,” Glasper recalls. “She was one of those moms who didn’t want a babysitter, so when I wasn’t with my aunt, I was at a lot of rehearsals and gigs. She sang everything, and every night [played] a different kind of gig: jazz, R&B, Broadway, pop, rock. I grew up with no understanding of genre, like an iPod on shuffle. That was the vibe.” Glasper started accompanying his mother in his early teens and co-wrote many of the gospel tunes that she recorded on two albums for Born Again Records. Another pianist who often played with her sparked Glasper’s interest in jazz, showing the aspiring teenager interesting chord voicings. When it came time for him to audition for Houston’s vaunted High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (which also produced drummer Kendrick Scott and pianist Jason Moran), the pianist taught him the Spider Man theme as a minor blues, and it did the trick. Glasper made the move to New York City in the mid-1990s to study at the New School, which is where he met neo-soul belter Bilal Oliver, who

ended up introducing him to numerous hip-hop and R&B artists. For the past decade, Glasper has maintained an enviable double musical life. He landed a series of high-profile gigs with jazz heavyweights like guitarist Russell Malone, trumpeter Terence Blanchard and bassist Christian McBride while also leading a sophisticated postbop trio featuring drummer Damion Reed and bassist Vicente Archer. Jazz’s most prestigious label, Blue Note, cemented his status as a rising star by signing him in 2005, the first new addition to the label in five years. At the same time, he has sustained deep ties to the world of hip-hop, collaborating with artists such as Q Tip, Kayne West, Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, Common and, most importantly, Mos Def (a.k.a. Yasiin Bey), who hired him as music director. He tried to bridge the two musical realms on his 2009 Blue Note album Double Booked, which he divided between his straight-ahead trio and the Robert Glasper Experiment, a quartet featuring Casey Benjamin on saxophones, flute and vocorder, electric bassist Derrick Hodge and drummer Chris Dave. On Black Radio, Glasper stepped away from jazz to deliver an R&B manifesto featuring a host of soul-drenched singers, including Bilal, Lalah Hathaway, Erykah Badu, Chrisette Michele, Meshell Ndegeocello and East Bay–raised Ledisi (on the Grammy-nominated track “Gonna Be Alright”). A clever play on words, Black Radio can be seen as a cri de coeur over the sorry state of R&B on the FM dial. But the title track refers to the indestructible black boxes recovered from plane crashes, using the familiar image as a metaphor for the enduring power of black music. “It has a double meaning,” Glasper says. “When music is crashing around us, this will not burn in the flames. Good music always stands the test of time.” Whatever side of the street Glasper chooses to play on, his music embodies timeless values, delivering a welcome dose of smart and buoyant soul.

ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Saturday March 9, 8 and 10pm $25/30 Master Class Saturday March 9, 1pm $15 Theatre on San Pedro Square

Festival Picks borders, Punjabi bhangra, traditional Irish dance music and international electronica beats come together in British Columbia’s Delhi 2 Dublin. Originally assembled for a St. Patrick’s Day club night in Vancouver seven years ago, the Indian/Irish axis kept the dance floor so packed the musicians decided to turn the one-off project into a band.

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JOSÉ JAMES Friday at 8pm, Theatre on San Pedro Square; $25/$30. Always on the lookout for fresh blood to join the thin ranks of male jazz singers, the scene has readily embraced José James, though he’s still in the process of figuring out where he fits. A soulful crooner, he has explored jazz tunes with pianist Junior Mance and interpreted ballads with McCoy Tyner (in a project based on the classic album pairing vocalist Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane). But his new album on Blue Note, No Beginning No End, taps into hip-hop, soul and electronica, styles he references with authority and fluidity. A real talent to watch.

Saturday at 4pm, Theatre on San Pedro Square; $25/$30. A prodigious horn player who held down the lead trumpet chair in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from 2004 to 2010, Sean Jones is a powerfully expressive improviser who has recorded a series of excellent albums for Mack Jazz focusing on his original compositions. Wynton Marsalis isn’t the only trumpeter who has employed Jones. When masters like Tom Harrell and Jon Faddis keep calling a cat for gigs, he’s got to be fierce.

TONY MONACO TRIO

DELHI 2 DUBLIN Friday at 9pm, San Pedro Square Market; $25. Proving that the party music knows no

Sunday at 2pm, Theatre on San Pedro Square; $25/$30. On a scene rife with impressive young organ players who know their way around a Hammond B-3, Tony Monaco stands out as one of the very best. Championed by organ great Joey DeFrancesco, who produced his breakthrough 2001 album, Burnin’ Grooves (Summit), Monaco possesses superlative technique, sweat-inducing rhythmic drive and boundless imagination.

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MIKE PARK TOURS WITH YO GABBA GABBA Mike Park, owner of Asian Man Records, has done his fair share of touring over the last 25 years—with local ska-punk legends Skankin’ Pickle, the Chinkees and the B. Lee Band, as well as with his solo material. He takes an interesting detour with his latest project: touring with popular children’s act Yo Gabba Gabba.

HEALTH TRUST BENEFIT Harrison Russell, one-third of the South Bay’s popular indie-rock trio San Francesca, is performing March 9 at the Family Resource Center with locals Ben Henderson and Ronnie Grigsby in a benefit he is organizing for Health Trust, a Silicon Valley nonprofit wellness organization.

Q&A: GUTTERMOUTH’S MARK ADKINS Punk rock provocateurs Guttermouth won’t be coming to San Jose on March 9, after all, thanks to a booking error with the band. Before the announcement, we checked in with singer Mark Adkins to discuss new music in the works and why he’ll never perform in San Francisco again.

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MOJOLOUNGE Sat, 9:30pm: The Honey Wilders. $5. Fremont.

ARTBOUTIKI Fri, 7:30pm: Koruscant Weekend, Solwave, Animal Eyes, Coast Jumper. $10. Sat, 7:30pm: Conversions, Owl Paws, Dogcatcher, Good Intentions. $10. San Jose

THEBLANKCLUB Fri, 9pm: Denali Kennedy, Mean Faces, Hillman. $5. San Jose.

BRITARMSALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Superbad. Sat, 10pm: Auto Replay. San Jose.

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NETO’SGRILL THE CATS Wed, 8pm: Jam session. Thu, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue. Fri, 9pm: The Hummers. Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Tue, 6pm: Johnny Fabulous. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX Sat, 7pm: Bay Area Tributes 10-Year Celebration. $12/$14. Sun, 6pm: Wild Child. $18/$20. Redwood City.

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Sat, 7pm: MrMiMe. Cupertino.

Sat, 7pm: 7 Shades of Black. Sunnyvale.

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Thu: Jack Rip-Off. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Madman of RDV, YDMC, Audio Dru. Sat, 8pm: At Least We’re Dreaming. San Jose.

THECARAVAN Fri, 8pm: Lucabrazzi. Sat, 9pm: INFM. San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: Rock Solid. $8/$10. Sat, 8pm: Roadshow. $10. Santa Clara.

NINELIVES Thu, 8pm: Battle of the Bands. $5/$10. Fri, 8pm: ZZ Topless, Cat People. $10. Sat, 8pm: Shane Dwight. $15/$20. Gilroy.

NUMBERONEBROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: J.C. Smith jam. Thu, 9:30pm: After Sunset Band. Fri, 9:30pm: Joint Chiefs. Sat, 9pm: Groove Doctors. Los Gatos.

THEREFUGE Fri, 6pm: Hard Age, the Rest Will Fall, Taking Us Alive, Amidst the Kings, Repent or Perish, the Robotic Pony Killers, Death of a Legend. Sat, 6pm: Lionheart, Xibalba, the Mongoloids, Helm’s Deep, Bad Times Crew. Cupertino.

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Student Rehearsal. Mon, 6pm: Bob Welsh. San Jose.

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Tue, 6pm: Bluesday. Jam hosted by the Dan Goghs. San Jose.

Fri, 7:30pm: Young Ireland. $15$20. Santa Clara.

Karaoke 7BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose. Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

TESSORAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Fri, 8:30pm: Scotty GrifďŹ n Trio. Sat, 8pm: Stuart Westbrook. Campbell. Fri, 8pm: Jose James. $25/$30. Sat, 4pm: Sean Jones. $25/$30. Sat, 8 & 10pm: Robert Glasper Experiment. $25/$30. Sun, 2pm:Tony Monaco Trio. $25/$30. San Jose.

ALEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S49ERINN Nightly, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

TRAILDUSTBBQ Fri, 6-9pm: Live blues, roots and Americana. Morgan Hill.

BLINKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SCANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;TSAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. $5. Fri, 9pm: Salsa, bachata, merengue, cha cha. $10. Redwood City.

GRANDDELLSALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Ron Hacker. Fri, 8pm: Johnny Neri. Sat, 8pm: Ron Hacker. Campbell.

HEDLEYCLUB Fri, 8:30pm: Rick Vandivier. Sat, 8:30pm: The Bad Five. Mon, 5pm: Gus Kambeitz Duo. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

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Fri, 9pm: Delhi 2 Dublin. $25/$30. Sat, noon: Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco. $10. Sat, 1:30pm: SJSU Jazz Orchestra. $10. Sat, 3pm: San Jose Jazz High School All Stars. $10. Sat, 7pm: Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic featuring Miko Marks and Pam Hawkins. $15. Sat, 9pm: Carolyn Wonderland. $25/$30. San Jose.

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HUKILAU Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live Hawaiian music. San Jose.

BOGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SLOUNGE UPSTAIRSJAZZCAFE Wed, 7pm: Luc Perrine. Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic. Fri, 7:30pm: Poppy Jasper Trio. Sat, 7:30pm: John Garcia Blues Guitar. Morgan Hill.

ZONE8 Sat, 8pm: Diminished Blue. Casino M8trix, San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: Rene Izquierdo. $15-$30. San Jose.

MARIANIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SINN Fri, 8:30pm: Joanne LeBlanc & the Fugitive Blues Band. Santa Clara.

POORHOUSEBISTRO Wed, 6pm: Wendy DeWitt & Kirk Harwood. Thu, 6pm: John Garcia Band. Fri, 6pm: Tip of the Top. Sat, 6pm: Chris Cain Band. Sun, 11am: School of the Blues

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRITARMSALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank. San Jose.

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Sat, 7:30pm: James Reams and the Barnstormers. Mountain View.

Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.

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J.J.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;SBLUESCAFE Wed: Dan Goughs. Thu: Dennis Dove. Thu: Liars Club. Sat: Mike Osborn. $10. Sun: Jackie and Friends. Mon: Noel Catura. San Jose.

Wed & Fri-Sat, 8pm-2am: Wildside Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 7pm: Monica Marquis. Sat, 7pm: Hootenanny. San Jose.

Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu-Fri, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Sat, 7:30pm: Footprint. Fremont.

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Wed-Sat & Tue, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

Fri, 8pm: The Line-Up. Sat, 8pm: Hardly Strictly Trad with Doug Young. Mountain View.

ELRANCHOSPORTSBAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

SAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SBBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special. San Jose.

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Brit B-Day LAST WEDNESDAY, the Britannia Arms Almaden held a private event celebrating its 25th anniversary, a huge accomplishment considering that 25 years is a lifetime in the restaurant and nightclub industries—and the Brit has managed to be successful in both arenas. Back in 1988, when the place opened, it was serving a much more limited, strictly British menu—and for nightlife brought in bands that played traditional British and Irish music. Today, the menu has expanded to include American food, and the entertainment includes rock bands and DJs that spin hip-hop and Top 40. “There were a lot more Brits in the Bay Area when we first opened,” says coowner Michael North. “We still have a lot of Brits, but we appeal to everybody.” The Brit still fills a niche for Bay Area British ex-pats by serving common British pub food that’s not so common in the States, like shepherd’s Britannia Arms pie, bangers, sticky toffee pudding and, of course, steak and kidney pie. “Because of trends in foods, not a lot of British 5027 Almaden pubs [in the United States] serve steak and kidney pies Expwy; San Jose; anymore. That’s one of the things that people drive miles 408.266.0550 for,” North says. There are a handful of other Britannia Arms in the South Bay, Capitola and Monterey, which are loosely affiliated, with some overlap in ownership and similarity in terms of menu and nightlife. The club currently hosts live music every Friday and Saturday night, with karaoke on Wednesdays and Sundays, and DJs every Thursday. Tuesdays are reserved for a more distinctive British pub tradition: trivia night. Some people know the Britannia Arms as the go-to location to watch soccer, hockey and other sporting events. During the World Cup or a Sharks home game, the Brit can get filled to capacity, and then some. What is truly remarkable is the way the club has given back to the community. For the past 15 years, for instance, the Brit has given turkeys to people around Thanksgiving and toys to children around Christmas. The club’s response to 9/11 was by far the most amazing. The Saturday after the tragedy, they raised $50,000 for Red Cross through sales and donations by patrons. —Aaron Carnes

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Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.

Wed-Sat & Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.

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GALAXY Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.

THEGOOSETOWNLOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

Sun: Sunday Funday karaoke. No cover. San Jose.

AZÚCAR LATIN BAR

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell. Wed: Cabaret Karaoke. Los Gatos.

Wed, 8pm: Karaoke & DJ. Thu, 9pm: Tequila RoX Lounge. FriSat, 9pm: Salsa, Latin fusion DJs. Mon, 8pm: Salsa lessons. San Jose.

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Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 9pm: Atomic. $5. Sat, 9pm: New Wave Prom. $5. San Jose.

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Sun-Mon, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm: Slap!. Mon, 9pm: Retoxx with DJ Casp3r. Tue, 9pm: Trap Shop. Hip-hop, reggae, rap, retro, R&B. San Jose.

Thu: Irie Nights with DJ HiGrade. Fri: Quality Control. Sat: Cocktails and Dreams. Tue: Fat Tuesday with DvS Dave. San Jose.

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REDSTAGLOUNGE Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am. San Jose.

SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

LOS GATOS BAR AND GRILL Fri, 9pm: BeatzBoutique. Los Gatos.

MOTIF Fri: DJs & dancing. Sun: Members Only. San Jose.

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Thu: Speakeasy with DJ Noble. Fri: Fishnet Fridays with DJ Haun Solo. Sat: Smoking Hot with DJ Noble. Los Gatos.

Thu: JR. Sun: JR Diaz Family Karaoke. Tue: James. Gilroy.

THREEFLAMES Wed, 8pm: Chris. San Jose.

WOODHAM’SLOUNGE Tue-Thu & Sat (plus fourth Fri of month): Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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PAGODA LOUNGE BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Thu, 10pm: DJ Dinero. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN Fri: DJ Benofficial. Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

BRIX Thu: Contest Thursdays. Fri: Flirty. Sat: Brick House. San Jose.

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AGENDA Fri: California Dope. Most Fri: Hip-hop, Top 40, club hits. San Jose.

AXIS NIGHTCLUB Sat, 9:30pm: Donovan. Santa Clara.

Wed, 9pm: Wine. Thu, 9pm: Liquid. Fri, 9pm: March Madness College Party. $10. Sat, 9pm: DJ Solarz. $10. Mon: Industry. Tue: College Night. San Jose.

Every second Fri, 10pm: Soul’d Out featuring HarryWho? Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

PEACOCK LOUNGE Fri: Video DJs. Every second Sat: South Bay Hip-Hop Showcase. Sun: Island Rock Sundays. Wed: Inked Out with DJ Jason Lee. Sunnyvale.

PLAYHOUSE Fri, 9pm: SJ Bass Club. San Jose.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Thu: Wreck-A-Noize. Fri: Video Junkie. San Jose.

SUMMIT LOUNGE Sat, 9pm: Club ReMix. Four Points Sheraton, San Jose.

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ZAKIR HUSSAIN The world’s greatest tabla player settles in for a fivenight residency. Mar 5-10 at the SFJAZZ Center.

SKY FERREIRA With “Everything is Embarrassing,” heroin chic meets impeccably produced pop. Mar 7 at Rickshaw Stop.

MORRISSEY No one’s holding their breath on this, after Moz canceled four SF shows in a row. Mar 9 at the Regency Ballroom.

JOSÉ JAMES Blue Note signee with the voice of Gil Scott-Heron and the production of D’Angelo. Mar 9 at the New Parish.

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New album is based on field recordings from a ghost town near the North Pole. Mar 11 at Great American Music Hall.

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The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Taqueria el rey, 2044 Mckee Rd., San Jose, CA, 95116, Roberta Rangel, 1599 Maurice Lane #4, San Jose, CA, 95129. This business was conducted by an Individual. Filed in Santa Clara county on 9/04/2012. Under file no. 569140. /s/Roberta Rangel. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/04/2013. (pub Metro 3/06, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #575610 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Taqueria La Guera, 2044 Mckee Rd., San Jose, CA, 95116, Elizabeth Patino 1107 Ribisi Cir., San Jose, CA, 95131. This business is conducted by a Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Elizabeth Patino This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/04/2013. (pub Metro 3/06, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #575530 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Clean It Carpet and Upholstery, 5703 Playa Del Rey, #2, San Jose, CA, 95123, Brandon Murray. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Brandon Murray This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/01/2013. (pub Metro 3/06, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #575485 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Resolution Insurance Services, 301 N. Jackson Ave., Suite 3, San Jose, CA, 95133, Sandra Dowell, 4442 Ladner St., Fremont, CA, 94538. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #575410 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 408 Organics, 60 Fordwell Ct., San Jose, CA, 95138, Michael Sparacino. 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/Michael Sparacino. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/26/2013. (pub Metro 3/06, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #575317 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Neolithic Press, 655 Trace Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Joseph Stampher. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Joseph Stampher This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/25/2013. (pub Metro 3/06, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574983 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Santa Clara Vapors, 1609 Long St., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Julio Goulart Jr., 1638 East Saint James St., San Jose, CA, 95116, Kyle Fisher. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/18/2013. /s/Julio Goulart Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/18/2013. (pub Metro 3/06, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #575241 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sunnyvale Town Center Dental, 333 W. Maude Ave., STE 101, CA, 94085, Maa and Wong Dental Corp. 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. Refile of previous file #361830 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Jerry Maa President #C2134587. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/22/2013. (pub Metro 3/06, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574161 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sau An Fortune Teller Company, 2175 Aborn Rd., #160, San Jose, CA, 95121, Khang Nguyen. This business is conducted by a indvidual. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/28/2013. /s/Khang Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/28/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574787 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Just Vapor, 1748 Capemisty Dr., San Jose, CA, 95133, Dominic Lopez, Jesus Gonzalez, 3231 Young Rd., Modesto, CA, 95358. This business is conducted by a Joint Venture. Registrant not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dominic Lopez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/12/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #575220 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Property Solutions Services, 3194 De La Cruz Blvd., #9, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Alex Yap, 460 Glenmoor Circle, Milpitas, CA.. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Alex Yap. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/22/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: H & M Concrete, 3033 Duran Ave., San Joe, CA, 95111, Heriberto Lopez, Manuel Cardenas. 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/Heriberto R. Lopez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/21/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Patchcore, 5524 Taft Dr., San Jose, CA, 95124, Michael Barber. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael Barber. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/14/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #575126 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Williamson Music Production, 3939 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara, CA, 95031, Albert F. Williamson Jr., 42 Montgomery St., Los Gatos, CA, 95030. This business is conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2000. /s/ Albert F. Williamson Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/21/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574058 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Harmony In-Home Care Services, 2352 Castro Place, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Aida Miranda. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Aida Miranda This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/24/2013. (pub Metro 2/20, 2/27, 3/06, 3/13/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574656 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eric Enterprises, 6584 Tam Oshanter Dr., San Jose, CA, 95120, Eric Zibell. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Eric Zibell. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/08/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574380 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: K & S Refurbisher, 16120 Caputo Dr., Suite F, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Eric Sanders, 5652 Scenic Meadow Ln., San Jose, CA, 95135, Scott Sanders. 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/Eric Sanders. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/01/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574692 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. All Walls Drywall, 810 Harliss Ave., San Jose, CA, 95110, 2. All Walls Construction, Gilbert

Chavez. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/01/2007. /s/Gilbert Chavez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/11/2013. (pub Metro 2/20, 2/27, 3/06, 3/13/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573701 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aserve, 3602 Flora Vista Ave., Apt 304, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Raj George. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Jan 16, 2013. /s/Raj George. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/14/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574685 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Huijia International Trade Co., 3452 Hostetter Rd., San Jose, CA, 95132, Yanbo Hui. This business is conducted by a indvidual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/08/2013. /s/ Yanbo Hui This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/11/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574693 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Inkollectiv, 505 S. 10th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Linh Ngo, 2524 Glen Ian Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Linh Ngo/ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/11/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574667 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ramos Furniture, 577 Burke Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Laurel Wood Furniture Inc. 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 1/1/2013. /s/ Jose Alejandro Ramos CEO #C3529300 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/08/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574607 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Innoled Lighting, 4507

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Porter Ct., San Jose, CA, 95127, Yuping Hu. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Yuping Hu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/07/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573836 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Prototype Solutions, 1520 E. Capitol Expy, #72, San Jose, CA, 95121, Binh Nhan Ngo . This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/17/13. /s/Binh Nhan Ngo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/17/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #575609

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ARIES (March 21–April 19): Maybe you’re not literally in

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): The genius of Leonardo

TAURUS (April 20–May 20): Do you have a recurring nightmare that has plagued you? If so, I suspect it will recur again soon. Only this time, Taurus, you will beat it. You will trick or escape or defeat the monster that’s chasing you. Or else you will outrun the molten lava or disperse the tornado or fly up off the ground until the earth stops shaking. Congratulations on this epic shift, Taurus. Forever after you will have more power over the scary thing that has had so much power over you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): Ready for a

exile. You haven’t been forced to abandon your home, and you haven’t been driven from your power spot against your will. But you may nevertheless be feeling banished or displaced. It could be due to one of the conditions that storyteller Michael Meade names: “We may experience exile as a lack of recognition, a period of transition, an identity crisis, a place of stuckness, or else having a gift and no place to give it.” Do any of those describe your current predicament, Aries? The good news, Meade says, is that exile can shock you awake to the truth about where you belong. It can rouse your irrepressible motivation to get back to your rightful place.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): The following request

for advice appeared on Reddit.com: “My identical twin is stuck in an alternate dimension, and she can only communicate with me by appearing as my own reflection in mirrors and windows. How can I tell her I don’t like what she’s done to her hair?” This question is a variant of a type of dilemma that many of you Geminis are experiencing right now, so I’ll respond to it here. I’m happy to say that you will soon get an unprecedented chance to commune directly with your alter egos. Your evil twin will be more available than usual to engage in meaningful dialog. So will your doppelganger, your shadow, your mirror self, and your stuntperson.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): Usually, I advise Cancerians to draw up precise borders and maintain clear boundaries. As a Crab myself, I know how important it is for our well-being that we neither leak our life force all over everything nor allow others to leak their life force all over us. We thrive on making definitive choices and strong commitments. We get into trouble when we’re wishy-washy about what we want. OK. Having said all that fatherly stuff, I now want to grant you a partial and temporary license to get a little wild and fuzzy. Don’t overdo it, of course, but explore the smart fun you can have by breaking some of your own rules and transgressing some of the usual limits. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): In the course of formulating his

theory of evolution, Charles Darwin read many books. He developed a rather ruthless approach to getting what he needed out of them. If there was a particular part of a book that he didn’t find useful, he simply tore it out, cast it aside, and kept the rest. I recommend this as a general strategy for you in the coming week, Leo. In every situation you’re in, figure out what’s most valuable to you and home in on that. For now, forget the irrelevant and extraneous stuff.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Here’s a passage from Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations: “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Judging from the astrological omens, Virgo, I suspect your life may be like that in the coming days. The emotional tone could be sharply mixed, with high contrasts between vivid sensations. The nature of your opportunities may seem warm and bright one moment, cool and dark the next. If you regard this as interesting rather than difficult, it won’t be a problem, but rather an adventure. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): “I worked as a hair stylist

in Chicago’s Gold Coast for 20 years with some of the most gorgeous women and men in the world,” writes sculptor Rich Thomson. “Once I asked a photographer who shot for the big magazines how he picked out the very best models from among all these greatlooking people. His response: ‘Flaws. Our flaws are what make us interesting, special, and exotic. They define us.’” My challenge to you, Libra, is to meditate on how your supposed imperfections and oddities are essential to your unique beauty. It’s a perfect moment to celebrate—and make good use of—your idiosyncrasies.

da Vinci was in part fueled by his buoyant curiosity. In his work as an artist, musician, inventor, engineer, and writer, he drew inspiration from pretty much everything. He’s your role model for the coming week, Scorpio. Just assume that you will find useful cues and clues wherever you go. Act as if the world is full of teachers who have revelations and guidance specifically meant for you. Here’s some advice from da Vinci himself: “It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas.” reality check? It’s time to assess how well you know the fundamental facts about where you are located. So let me ask you: Do you know which direction north is? Where does the water you drink come from? What phase of the moon is it today? What was the indigenous culture that once lived where you live now? Where is the power plant that generates the electricity you use? Can you name any constellations that are currently in the night sky? What species of trees do you see every day? Use these questions as a starting point as you deepen your connection with your specific neighborhood on planet Earth. Get yourself grounded!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): There’s a writer I

know whose work is brilliant. Her ideas are fascinating. She’s a champion of political issues I hold dear. She’s well-read and smarter than me. Yet her speech is careless and sloppy. She rambles and interrupts herself. She says, “uh,” “you know,” and “I mean” so frequently that I find it hard to listen, even when she’s saying things I admire. I considered telling her about this, but decided against it. She’s an acquaintance, not a friend. Instead, I resolved to clean up my own speech—to make sure I don’t do anything close to what she does. This is a strategy I suggest for you, Capricorn: Identify interesting people who are not fully living up to their potential, and change yourself in the exact ways you wish they would change.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): The German word Verschlimmbesserung refers to an attempted improvement that actually makes things worse. Be on guard against this, Aquarius. I fear that as you tinker, you may try too hard. I’m worried you’ll be led astray by neurotic perfectionism. To make sure that your enhancements and enrichments will indeed be successful, keep these guidelines in mind: 1. Think about how to make things work better, not how to make things look better. 2. Be humble and relaxed. Don’t worry about saving face and don’t overwork yourself. 3. Forget about short-term fixes; serve longrange goals. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): “Telling someone your

goal makes it less likely to happen,” says musician and businessman Derek Sivers. Numerous studies demonstrate that when you talk about your great new idea before you actually do it, your brain chemistry does an unexpected thing. It gives you the feeling that you have already accomplished the great new idea— thereby sapping your willpower to make the effort necessary to accomplish it! The moral of the story: Don’t brag about what you’re going to do someday. Don’t entertain people at parties with your fabulous plans. Shut up and get to work. This is especially important advice for you right now.

Homework: Describe how you plan to shake off some of your tame and overly civilized gy behavior. Testifyy at Freewillastrology.com Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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