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Grateful Peons Wow, and just when it appeared they couldn’t get any more obvious in the thumbing of the nose at the rules the little people have to live by (“Family Health Fiasco,” SVNews, May 22).
This whole group couldn’t be more incestuous if they were an actual royal family. I think that might be the problem: they think they’re royalty sitting up on thrones throwing out crumbs for the little people and then being indignant when the peons don’t just shut up and act thankful. “Oh, thank you, sir & madam, for stealing our tax dollars for your personal use. We are ever so grateful. Our children are without health care or child-care centers, and the libraries close early, but so long as you enjoy your jaunts to the casinos and keep hooking each other up for these lofty positions, we are every so grateful.” AWARE D5 | SAN JOSE
Shameless Looks pretty clear that Kathleen King was using a health plan email address to fundraise for a political campaign. Where’s the DA on this? And Cindy is a party to the conversation. LILY SERENO | SAN JOSE
Out of the Steno Pool Nice to know there are still journalists out there. Thought they all had become government stenographers. PAUL REDDICK | METROFB.COM
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organization to revisit the homeless issue. I’ve been a resident of the Bay Area my entire life and have never seen anything like it. I know you’ve done stories before but maybe it should be an ongoing column. It’s a huge epidemic that has swept every town and city in the Bay Area and California. I just don’t think enough reporting is being done about it. SEAN DAVIS
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Regular R egularr Joe? JOE SSIMITIAN IMITIAN takes t exception with the transparent. notion that he isn iisn’t ’t tr ansparent.. But on TTuesday, uuesdayy, the recidivist reccidivist county super supervisor visor pedantic, waxed pedantic c,, crashing crashing the Finance Government Operations and Governmen nt O perations Committee meeting to ar argue guue that the county could get sunburned by a new policy of publishing county officials officials’’ calendars. Unlike Unlike his supervisor colleagues YEAGER super visor colle eagues KEN Y EAGER and DAVE DAV VE CORTESE, CORTE T SE, who support the idea, Simitian Simitian la lamented amented the suddenly fashionable After fashionable sunshine sun nshine movement. A fter having his statee Assembly Assembly and SSenate enate calendars cloak cloaked ked the last dozen years, Simitian thinkss having the people Simitian says hee think who pay his sal salary lary (the public) know how he’s he’s spending his h time could hamper his hi ability bilit to t co consort nsortt with ith community it stakeholders,, ass well as rreveal eveal his political playbook to spe special interests. ecial inter ests. Or, Or, could ing to do with Simitian’s Simitian’s it have somethi something raising? After After easily winning perpetual fundr fundraising? ’s District Distrrict 5 June primary y, Simitian Simitian last year year’s primary, traversed the pe eninsula to rraise aise funds ffor or traversed peninsula his officeholderr account, which—unlike paigns—has no monetary candidate camp campaigns—has restrictions.. In just just the last restrictions. three months of o 2012, 2012 three Don’t Simitian took inn mor Simitian moree forget than $46,000 and a spent to tip! Some of his $58,064. Some more inter esting payouts more interesting FLY@ Santa Clar went to:: the Santa Claraa METRONEWS. atic County Democr Democratic COM Central Committee’s Committtee’s Central United Democr a atic United Democratic Campaign ($2,5 500), Campaign ($2,500), ankrollingg mailers callingg which is now ba bankrolling Democrat Teresa Teeresa Alvarado Alvarado a Republican Democrat esident and Fellows of Har vard darling;; Pr President Harvard 0);; the ““Simitian Simitian ffor or County College ($5,000 ($5,000); Central Commit ttee 2016”” ($7 7,500); , ; and an Central Committee ($7,500); p tickets and dinner assortment of plane ber. With aspir ations to tabs in Decemb December. aspirations o U.S. or U.S. Congress, Congress,, current current run someday ffor woould allow Simitian Simitian to take county rules would ey is in his officeholder whatever mone money pply it to a diff erent account and ap apply different campaign comm mittee in the futur e. That committee future. efused an appointment could be why hhee rrefused ocal Agency Agency Formation to the county’s LLocal AFCO), which rrestricts estricts its Commission (L (LAFCO), om raising raising more more than $250 members fr from from people who whho have business with from d. the boar board.
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County Co ounty prosecutor Chuck Gillin Gillingham ngham spends his free time loo looking oking for hookers and dirty pic pictures ctures on the Internet.
Wag W ag the Dog D H to change the How th he conversation fr from rom dirty politics to sex B JOS BY JOSH H KOEHN KOE H N There’s Ther e’s no den denying nyying it. I w was as a horrible player ho orrible baseball pla ayer as a kid. In n myy last season, I had one hit hit—an m t—an — incredibly in ncredibly luck lucky ky double to deep picked shortly tlyy ccenterfield. e enter field. I got pick ed off shor after aft fter rreaching eaching thir third d base. base. The only other thing I rremember emember e about was fistfight ab bout that season w as a near fist tfi figght between b e ween opp et opposing osing managers managers.. One m got the upp man upper er hand in a deba debate ate about ab bout something something,, ma maybe ayybe balls and d strikes, st trikes, and the other manager decided de ecided to deflect. He changed thee subject su ubject and told his adv adversary ersary thatt he was w as nothing mor moree than a pimp pimp,, lou loud ud enough en nough for for o eeveryone veryone in the st stands ands
hear.. It w was risky move, to hear as a a risk ky mo m ve, but the inflammator inflammatoryy ac accusation cusatiion rredirected edirected player parent’s attention eevery very pla ayer and par en nt’s at tention aaway way fr from om the game game,, as a one manager defensive. now ffound ound o himself on the def feensive. A similar at attempt tempt to o obfusc obfuscate ate took place and discredit discredit to ok plac ce last week in the lo local cal pr press, ess, only the teams in involve weekly newspaper this spat in volve a wee kly ne wspaper and a ccollection ollection of p political oliitical entities/ silencing free ee aspirants intent on sile encing fr speech pretense sp eech under the pr eteense of endangered children. endanger ed childr en. County prosecutor C ountty pr osecutor Chuck C the Gillingham JJr., r., son of th he fformer ormer o ccounty ountty sheriff, press sheriff ff,, ccalled alled a pr ess cconference on nffeerence last
Wednesday accusing Metro being W ednesda e ay ac cusing Met tro of b eing prostitution an accomplice accompllice to pr ostitution and sex Noting oting an underage se ex trafficking. trafficking. N classified Backpage.com, online class sified site, site, Backpage .com, bee na navigated from Metro’s that ccan an b avvigated to fr om Met tro’s URL—the newspaper URL —the ne wspaper has a linking agreement agr eement with the site but no ccontrol ontrol over o ver its ccontent—Gillingham on ntent—Gillingham eexplained xplained theree ar “pictures that ther aaree “pictur es of women their privates,, and making eexposing xposing th heir privates they won’t vvery eery obvious ob bviou v us what the ey will and won n’t ’ do..” In addition escort ads,, Backpage do addiition to esc ort ads estate ads,, ccars also has rreal ate ads ars ffor or o sale and eaal est listings—more 38,000 job listings— —more than 38,0 00 jobs at last ccount. ount. Saying was speaking Sa ayying he h w as sp eaking as a
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held ccourt Bellevue Park, ourt at a Belle vue P ark, JJim im Unland, president Unland, pr e esident of the San Jose P olice O fficers A ssociation, Jose Police Officers Association, jumped int to the fra ay and wr ote a jumped into fray wrote column ccalling allling Met ro and me out column Metro fo or “questio oning” Gillingham and for “questioning” Siversten. ersten L eaavving aside the fact Siversten. Leaving eporters tend to ask questions that rreporters questions,, Unland—w whose union also emplo ys Unland—whose employs d DeR Ro ollo —blamed Metro Mettro Saggau and DeRollo—blamed fo or human trafficking nland for trafficking.. What U Unland and NBC Ba Bay Area B ay Ar ea left out of their reports w as as this rrecorded ecorded eexchange: xchange: reports was “Just to b ou “Just bee clear then, ar aree yyou at Met ro is facilit ating the alleging tha that Metro facilitating exploitation n of childr en?” I ask ed exploitation children?” asked Gillingham. Gillingham m. “Absolutely, have “A Ab l tely Absolute ly, when h yyou ou ha o h ave advertisements there, have advveertisemeents in ther e, when yyou ou ha o ave people look like people who lo ok lik ke their 17 yyears eears old,” Siversten jumped answered. Sivversten e jum mped in and ans sw wered. “So, saying theyy lo look 17, “So, yyou’re ou’re sa aying y the ok 17 7, but you don’t have anyy pr proof they’re you don ’t ha h ave an oof the y’re 17?” “I don don’t have proof, Sivertsen ’t ha h ave pr ooff,” Siv ertsen said. Unfortunately, Unffo ortun natelyy, citing how old someone lo looks ooks is a ccommon ommon ttalking alking point society’s point when n the so ciety’s moral arbiters ttackle ack kle an issue eeveryone veryone opposes: sexual children. opp oses: se x l abuse xual b off childr hild en. They on that’s been They rrely ely o n ffolk olk wisdom that o ’s b een repeated manyy times it b becomes repeated so o man ecomes dogma. Evidence dogma. Evi idence ccollection ollection now stops at paging th through escort hrough online esc ort ads and tr trying person’s ying to t determine a p erson’s age fr from photo.. A Aside from om a photo p side fr om the fact that this is ccompletely unscientific,, ompletely unscientific giving cr credence person’s edeence to an older p erson’s judgment of slippery slope. o age is a slipp ery slop e. More than have More tha an a dozen yyears ears ha ave passed sinc sincee I graduated fr from om high school, school, and d I ccan an no longer distinguish the diff difference between ffeeren nce b ettween w someone in their latee teens ccompared ompared to someone who w ccan an buy their first beer. So,, ho how beer. So ow ccan an Gillingham and Siversten, let’s bee p polite Siversten, who w let ’s b olite and say have saay ha ave a ccombined ombined age of rroughly oughly 100, accurately difference 100, ac curaately know the diff ffeerence between 17, bettween w 177, 18 and 19-year-olds? 19-year-olds? Chris K Kelly, third person elllyy, the thir dp erson recruited speak Gillingham’s recruited to o sp eak at Gillingham ’s press press cconference, onffer erence, seems to have haave backed minute.. backed out at the last minute Founder Safer California Founder off the Saf fer e C aliffo ornia Foundation Foundation n and a fformer o ormer chief privacy offi officer Facebook, Kelly fficer for for o Fac ebook, K elly
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public citizen, and not in i his official doubled ccapacity, apacitty, Gillingham do oubled down byy adding that Metro b Metro is rresponsible esponsible ffor or o number a ccountless ountless numb er of childr cchildren en who ha ave b een fforced o orced into pr p ostitution. have been prostitution. The rreason eason the numb number ber is ccountless? ountless? Well, knows W ell ell, e as Gillingham kno ows in his gig as a pr prosecutor osecutor of gangss and fformerly ormerly o working se sexual xual assaults assaults,, it it’s ’s har hard d to build a ccase ase without eevidence. viidence. N Nobody obody at the pr press ess cconference onffeerence b bothered othered to submit a single shr shred proof ed off pr oof that Metro Met ro has had an any ny rrole ole in i underage se sex ex trafficking on the pagess that ar ve aree fiv five from page.. clicks aaway way fr om Metro’s Mettro’s home page Gillingham br brought ought along a LGBT activist and San JJose ose St State a pr ate professor/ offessor/ e ccounselor ounselor l W Wiggsy iiggsy Siv Si Siversten t to t back b k up erssten claims.. One ccan speculate his claims an onlyy sp eculate that her pr presence esence w was as a rrequired equirred b because ecause a 6-foot-5 block about 6-f foott--5 blo ck of a man ttalking alking ab out he’s been scouring how he ’s b een sc ouring the net ffor or o yyoung oung nak o naked ed women in n classified ads lacks a ccertain ertain je ne sais quoi qquoi.. what’s happening? So what ’s rreally eeally happ en ning? On the number investigative heels of a numb er of in nvestigativ e ve rreports eeports Metro have Met tro and San JJose ose Inside ha ave cconducted onducted o over from George Shirakawa o ver e the last yyear, ear e r, fr om Ge eorge Shirak kawa week’s Fiasco, JJr. r. to last l week’ k’s Family F il Health H l hF i o, it iasc i political factions—generally seems ccertain errtaain p oliticcaal fact ctions—generally aligned with or organized ganized lab labor—have aborr— —haave st taarted a ccampaign aampaign to rretaliate eetaliate a and started change the discussion. Gillingham, who is ru umored to rumored b ossible ccandidate andidate in the 2014 bee a p possible District A ttorne t y’s rac e, has rrefused efused to Attorney’s race, ttalk alk ab out his inter est in i the job about interest job.. He ess Wednesday’s press also denied that W eedneesdaayy’s pr cconference onffeerence had an ythin ng to do with anything pa ayyback ffor or Met o ro’s rreports eports on Cindy payback Metro’s Chavez. did, however, Cha avez. Gillingham did d, howe ver, lunch rrecently ecently sit down ffor or lu o unch with Go vernment A tttorneyss A ssociation Government Attorneys Association (GAA A) pr esident Max Zarzana Z (GAA) president and GAA tr easurer K evin v Smith. treasurer Kevin olitical The GAA, which emplo oyys p employs political cconsultants onsultants T o om Sagga au and Dustin Tom Saggau DeRollo, stepped DeR Ro ollo, has stepp ed up p its rhetoric in rrecent ecent months in a cclash lash o ver e over administrativ ave tim me granted b administrativee lea leave time byy D A JJeff eff R osen. o DA Rosen. Contacted text message Friday, C ontacted via te exxt mes ssage Frida ay, about Gillingham rrefused efused to ttalk allk ab out his lunch with Smith and Za arzana, the lat tter t Zarzana, latter ancelled an inter view of whom abruptly ccanceled interview with Met tro on Ma ay 15 and d now rrefuses eefuses to Metro May meet or ttalk alk via telephon ne. telephone. But just ttwo wo da ayys aft er Gillingham days after
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Design Is All PROFESSIONAL P ROFESSION O A L DREAMER DR E A MER Philippe Sta Starck rck told the audience about the ro routes outes to creativity and a much much-younger h-younger wife.
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The anti-man-ab anti-man-about-town outt--town fle flew w ou out ut fr from om Silic Silicon on V Valley aalley and obser observed ved the th he muse meeting the business plan n firsthand. fir rsthand rsthand. This w was aas not a normal business cconference. o feerence. The Montr onf Montreal eall jjoie de viv vivre vrre ffortified o tified eeverything, or ver e ything, so instead of yyeareeaarrold bags,, horrible ccoffee ol ld Bigelow tea bags off ffeeee and an nd generic cconvention-center on nveention-center hors d’oeuvres, d’ ’oeu uvvres, the ffood ood included grilled octopus, o ctopus, braised oxt oxtail ail and linguini with w cuttlefish cu uttttlefish ink. Folks F olks crack cracked ked e op open en b bottles ottttles of champagne Sincee Montr Montreal ch hampagne at lunch. Sinc eaal is one on ne off the h UNESC UNESCO O Cities Ci i off Design D Design, i n,, a pop-up p op-up shop off offered ffeered w wares aares fr from om lo local cal designers. Montreal’s creative de esigners. And Montr eal’s cr eativve subcultures su ubcultures ar aree par partt of how it brand brands ds it tself as a cit ty. Gee oncept. itself city. Gee,, what a cconcept. Fr ed Dust of IDEO to ok the st taagee Fred took stage first, fir rst,, op opening ening the show with a humb humble ble yyet e provocative et provocativve philosoph hy of lo okin ng philosophy looking
at the world and huma human an ssystems ystems fr from om a designer’ designer’ss p perspective. erspectivve. Design is eeverything, veerythingg, he said. It im impacts mpacts all that we do do.. Be bra ave in yyour o our designs, desiigns, he stressed, stressed, brave empathy and learn empath hy ffor or those o t yyou’re ou ou’’re designing ffor. o orr. This ccan an apply a to designing pr products, oducts, neig neighborhoods, ghborhoods, economics, ec onomics, business models mo odels or eeven ven e art. art. An eexample: xxample: The ma mayor ayor o of Bo Bogota, gota, Colombia, C olombia,, didn’t didn’t know w how to deal offenses, with rampant traffic off ffeenses, so he ff designed a team to rreplace epllace traffic ccops ops with mimes mimes.. Knowing that t C Colombians olombians value their pride ab above ove all else else,, it w was aas an eexperiment. xxperiment. The mim mimes mes publicly ridiculed those who ccommitted om mmitttted traffic offenses, off ffeenses, and as a rresult, esult,, the off offenses ffeenses decreased dramatically. decr eased dramatic allyy. That,, says saays y Dust, was w aas a bra brave ave and cr creative eativve idea. Such w was aas the at attitude tttitudee of the entir entiree cconference. onffeerence. C2-MTL he head ead honcho Bouchard JJean-François ean-Franç F ois i Bouchar B h d eexplained xplained l i d that h creativity cr eativitty is at the rroot oot of o eeverything veerything we know. know w. Ev Everything ver e ything st starts artss with a cr creative eativve shoes wearing,, thought. The sho es yyou’re ou o u’’re wearing sitting on, the seat yyou’re o ou u’’re sit tting t on n,, the films yyou ou w o watch, aatch,, the home yyou o ou liv live ve in,, the drugs that cur ou,, thee bicy o yccle yyou ou o curee yyou, bicycle ride—they ride —theey all st started arted with w a cr creative eativve
somewhere. idea some w e. wher Everything product Ev veeryythiingg is the pr p oduct of human imagination. imagination n. Innovation Inno ovvation is neither meree “division” a fad nor a mer “division n” in yyour o our Nowadays, bee the ccompany. ompan ny. N ow waadaayys, it must b function organization. main funct tion of yyour o our or ganization. Cr eativitty involves invo in olvvees everybody. eveerybodyy. Ev veen the Creativity Even b ean ccounters. ountters. bean Man ny pr resenters rreiterated eiterated that Many presenters sentiment,, usually in the ccontext onteexxt of his or he er own work. W o orldher Worldrrenowned enowned designer d Philpp tar a ck Philppee St Starck characteriz ed his 40-year 40 40--yeear ccareer aareer with characterized se veeral buz zzwords, including honest ty, several buzzwords, honesty, ethics bveersion and in nvvisibilitty, all as ethics,, sub subversion invisibility, eexamples xamples of o cr eativitty. creativity. In a thick k Fr ench ac cent,, St tar a ck also French accent, Starck ffelt eelt the need neeed to tell eeveryone veeryo one that his latest wif fe is i 33 yyears eears yyounger o ounger than he is. is. wife He fac etiou usly declar ed himself a genius facetiously declared and said hee w aas onst taage to impr ess her was onstage impress her,, sinc aas in the audience. audience. “I am sincee she w was not a busin nessman,” he said. “I am a businessman, professional pr offessiona e al dr dreamer. eamerr.” When it ccame ame to his own work, Starck St arck pr provided ovided v se several everal e eexamples. xxamples. He delib eraately ttaps aaps into eeveryone’s veeryo one’s deliberately ccollective ollectivve memor m memoryy bank when designing shap es and motifs ak kees obsolete shapes motifs.. He ttakes designs and d giv gives vees them new new spirit. St arck al lso famously designed Ste ve Starck also Steve JJobs’ obs’’ multim multimillion-dollar million-dollar minimalistic yacht,, ar ticu ulating St arck’s cconcept oncept of articulating Starck’s dematerialization. demateriali ization. W iith that, thaat, at, the anti anti-man-ab man aboutt-town -town With anti-man-about-town ffelt eelt proud proud to t b bee from from Silicon Silicon V Valley. aalley. One night,, he parties paarties with N olan Bushnell, Nolan who origin originally nally emplo employed oyeed Steve Steeve JJobs obs 41 yyears eears ago, ago o, and then fiv ve da ayys later r, five days later, he flies to Fr F French ench C Canada anada and lurks ar ound St tar a ck,, who designed JJobs’ obs’ around Starck, yacht. Ev Everything veerything seemed cconnected onnected via creativity creativitty and the writing of this ccolumn. olumn. But I dig gress. So much imagination digress. went down n at C2-MTL, C2-MTL, it w aas was imp ossible to k eeep track. Neri Neri Oxman impossible keep of the MIT Media L ab eexplained xxplained how Lab measuring silk kw worm activity activitty ccould ould b silkworm bee mapp ed onto on nto te extile x fabric ation and mapped textile fabrication ar chitecturre. If we w aant to learn the architecture. want futur ellectronics, Oxman said,, we futuree of electronics, need to stu udy biolo gy. O ther pr esenters study biology. Other presenters included Diane D vvon o on F urstenberrg and Furstenberg Richar d Branson. Braanson. In Montr eal,, the ey Richard Montreal, they sa ay pparfait arrfait a t (“p ((“perfect”) erfeect”) after eevery veery other say sentenc e. I ffound o ound m yyself rrepeating epeating the sentence. myself same thing g. thing.
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Google’s new self-navigating cars are a boon to traffic—and the biggest data-mining experiment yet BY GREG BEATO
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OMPARE OMPARED ED T TO, O, say say, y, the slat-a slat-armored armored fighting g g vehicles commandeered command deered by y the U.S. U.S. Army’s Army’s 1st Stryker Brigade B Combatt Team, Team, Google’s Google’s expanding exp panding fleet of autonomous autonomou us Prii and Lexuses Lexuses hardly seems threatening. (Y Yes, for the record, Prii P is the (Yes, official plur plural al of the Toyota Toyota Prius.) Prius.)
The Google self-driving self-driv ving cars, cars, of which there are now a dozen or so, so, have the company’s company’ p y’s familiar, familiarr, friendly logo plastered plaste ered on their doors. doors. Their roofs sport laser scanners scanners rotating on spoilers so clunky they seem purpose-built p make the cars to make seem less technologically technologically disruptive than th han they really are. 115 5
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Along with witth Google, more m than two dozen carr manufacturers manufact turers and otherr entities are a currently y at work on o driverlesss automobiles. automobi iles. personal information been p ersonal inf formation o t that had b een transmitted over unprotected WiFi transmit ted o ver unpr otected W iiFi networks. (Google says never net works. (Go ogle sa ayyss it ne ver looked lo oked at the information.) infformat o tion.) This is the Go Google ogle th that hat agr agreed eed to pa pay ay a $22.5 million fine to the Federal F ederal Trade C Commission ommisssion in 2012 ffor or b o bypassing ypassing privacy set ssettings tings in Apple’s Apple ’s Safari br browser owser and that already alr eady maint maintains ains a m massive assive dossier about ab out yyour our inter interests ests an and nd so social cial ties using dat dataa obt obtained ained th through hrough its dozens of disparate ser services. rvices. “Our ccars ars ha have ave senso sensors ors with which theyy magic the magically ally ccan an see eeverything verything around ar ound them,”” Go Google ogle engineer Sebastian Thrun eexclaimed xclaiimed in a 2011 TED ttalk. alk. And yyet et no one o ran out of the rroom oom scr screaming. eaming. That T That’s ’s b because ecause Go Google ogle has done such an eexcellent xcellent job of p positioning ositioning self self-driving f- driving ccars ars as an unmitigated so social ciial go good od that the privacy implic implications ation ns of these lumbering, lumb ering, 3,0 3,000-pound 00-poun nd ttablets ablets
have haave barely barelyy b been een acknowledged, much less discussed. d Instead, the t disc discourse ourse has ffocused ocused on the thousands thou usands of annual traffic deaths self-driving selff- driving ccars ars will pr prevent, event, the billionss of gallons of gas the theyy will save, saave, and th the he ccarbon arbon emissions the theyy will rreduce. educe. Along w with Google, moree than ith Go ogle, mor two manufacturers two dozen ccar ar manufactur ers and other entities aree curr currently th entit titties ti ar ently tl att work k on driverless automobiles.. But it it’s driverleess automobiles ’s Google that toward Google tha at is piloting us tow ard new transportation the radical radical ne w transp ortation reality around bend. reality just ar ound the b end. Earlier this year, presentation year, in n a pr esentation to the Society Automotive Engineers,, Society of A utomotive Engineers Google product Anthonyy Google pr oduct manager Anthon Levandowski Levandowsski said the ccompany ompan ny “expect[s] technology “expect[s] to t rrelease elease the technolo gy in the next fivee yyears.” nextt fiv ears.” Already person Al eady Alr d a blind bli d p erson ccan an safely saffeely operate operate the vvehicles, ehicles, which use a laser sc scanner, radars,, GPS GPS,, anner, radars cameras high-resolution cameras and an nd high-r esolution maps to determine wheree the theyy ar aree in determin ne wher the world, what else is nearb nearbyy and what they arrivee they need n to do to arriv safely saffeely at their th heir ultimate destination. Presumably, people Presumablyy, drunk p eople ccan an operate too, operate them theem to o, not to mention 8-year-olds, 80-year-olds, narcoleptics, 8-year- olds, 8 0-year- olds, nar coleptics, problem texters possibly problem bl te exters and dp ossibly ibl eeven ven high-functioning border high-functiioning b order ccollies. ollies. Even Even with witth this eexpanded xpanded driving pool, driving pool, drivin ng will ostensibly get safer, abilityy saffeer, because becau use of the ccar’s ar’s abilit to eliminate error eliminatte human err or while assessing and an nd rreacting eacting to the world around Accidents drop byy around it. A ccidents ccould ould dr op b as much as 9 90 percent. 0p ercent. And while more increasing more drivers drivers e will ttake ake an incr easing numb number er off trips trips,, we we’ll ’ll actually sp spend end less overall overall time in transit b because ecause driverless driverless ccars ars ccan an tra travel avel at higher speeds speeds saf safely. felyy. Plus Plus,, onc oncee yyou ou hit yyour our destination n yyou ou ccan an bail and let yyour our car car find a parking p spac space. e.
Autos A utos and A Autonomy utonomy Of course, Of course, when w Go Google ogle pr presents esents its vision off a futur futuree wher wheree traffic jams ha have ave gone g the w way ay of pa pay ay phones and d rroad oad rage cconsists onsists of angryy ttweets eexchanging xchangingg angr weets with about night’s episode strangers ab bout last night ’s episo de Apprentice, unspoken of Celebrity Celebrit e t y Appr entice, an unsp oken presumption narrative: pr esumptio on underlies the narrativ e:
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“That thing?”” yyou ou ccan’t a ’t help but an look one.. “That “That’s ask when yyou ou lo ok at one o ’s the thing that that’s ’s going to t mak makee Against gainst Drun Drunk Mothers A nk Driving as p pointless ointless as a radiato radiator or in a T Tesla eesla factory?” factor y?” Remember, R eemember, howe however, verr, what we’re about. ccompany ompany we ’re ttalking alkingg ab out. This Google was is the Go ogle that w as rrecently ecently byy 38 st states fined $7 million b ates and the Columbia Di t i t off C District olumbia l bi ffor o or ccollecting ollecting ll ti messages,, pass passwords email messages wo ords and other
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LOOK L O OK M MA, A, N NO O HANDS H A NDS The new Google ca cars ars are designed to take the ag agency gency (and anxiety) out of the human-car equation once and d for all.
Everyone is ju ust as jaz zed ab Everyone just jazzed about out driverless driverless ccars arrs as Go Google ogle is is.. In this visio vision, aree no on,, there there ar congested lanes byy L Luddites congested lan nes ccaused aused b uddites putt-putting putt-putting down the highway highway at 80 80 miles an hou hour Porsche ur in their 2013 P orsche Boxsters. aree no dar daredevil Boxsters. There Theere ar edevil pranksters gu gunning old-school unning their oldschool Camaros standing Camaros through through o st anding rred ed lights and lau laughing uproariously ughing upr oariously as all the rrobo-cars obo - cars slam on their brakes precise, brakes in pr ecise, automatic deference. Everyone gotten deffeerence. Ev veryone has got ten with the program, program, g , thus enabling the attainment attainment of maximum safety, saffeety, efficiency and energy d ener gy cconservation. onservation. But is eeveryone veryone rreally eally so eager to see the automobile, stands autom mobile, which st ands as one of hist history’s great eat amplifiers tory’s gr of personal personal autonom aautonomyy and lib liberty, erty, evolve device evolve into a giant tracking de vice controlled byy a $2 $250 controlled b 50 billion corporation makes moneyy corporation that t mak es its mone through through an increasingly in ncreasingly intimate
an nd obtrusive obtrusive knowledge of its and customers? cu ustomers? Granted, we alr already eady use our phones growing ph hones and ttablets ablets to tell a gr owiing scrum dataa sno snoops wheree we go sccrum of dat ops wher g and we’re an nd what we do when we ’rre not in Att thiss n front front of our ccomputers. omputers. A point, temper point, however, however, we ccan an still temp per our Wee ccan ou ur disclosures disclosures fairly easily. easilyy. W a an disable GPS.. We devices diisable the GPS We can can turn de v es vic off leave ff completely completely or eeven ven lea ave them m at home occasion. home on o ccasion. Boot Google however, Boot up a Go ogle ccar, ar, howe verr, and easyy to cut the an nd it’s it’s not so eas connection with the online connection o mothership. m mothership . If yyou ou use it as intended—i.e., mode— in ntended i e., in driverless ntended—i.e driverless mo dee— you start great you o immediately st art sending gr reat quantities qu uantities of rrevealing evealing information inffo ormatio on to o a ccompany ompany that that’s ’s alr already eady hoarding emoticon hoarding eevery very emotic on yyou’ve ou’ve ever Even weree p possible ever IM’ed. IM’ed. Ev en if it wer ossible to o operate operate the ccar ar in some kind of o “manual” likely “m manual” mode, mode, yyou ou would lik elyy
still b bee sending inf information fo orm mation back to headquarters. headquar ters. In time time,, Go Google ogle wil will ll know when arrivee at work eac each morning,, yyou ou arriv ch morning how man manyy times a we week eek yyou ou go to T Taco aaco Bell Bell, how longg yyou ou sp spend end at the ggym. ym. A Ass illumin illuminating nating as our searches sear ches and other on online nline b behavior ehaavior v might b be, e, ther there’s e’s still some s rroom oom ffor or o ambiguit ambiguity. y. Ma Maybe ayb y e yyou’re ou’re doing all those sear searches ches on “brain “ tumor” because b ecause a rrelative elative is si sick, ck, or yyou’re ou’re doing some sor sortt of rreport ep port or yyou’re ou’re simply curious curious.. C Combine omb bine that inf info fo with the fact that yyou ou u st start art visiting the hospit hospital al eevery very wee week, ek, howe however, ver, and Go Google ogle knows yyou’ve ou’vve got ccancer. ancer. The driv driverless erless ccar, ar, in n shor short, t,, is a dataa detectiv dat detective’s e’s dr dream, eam, a de device vice that ccan an disc discern ern when yyou ou get a ne new w job job,, how man many ny one-night one-night st sstands ands yyou ou have, ha ave, how often yyou ou go g to the dentist. Ass demar A demarcation cation lines b between etween the rreal eal world and the vir virtual t tual world
continue to continue t blur blur,, autonomous function ccars ars will fu unction not so much as browsers br owsers but b links links,, the w way ay we get from fr om one app aappointment ointment or transaction opportunity opp ortuniity to the ne next. xt. In theor theory, ry, Go Google ogle will determine the rroute oute to t yyour our desir desired ed destination based on dist d distance, ance, aavailable vailable v infrastructure infrastruct ture and curr current ent traffic cconditions. onditionss. But what if Go Google, ogle, which alr already e eady filters cyb cyberspace erspace ffor or o yyou, ou,, b begins egin ns cho choosing osing rroutes outes as a way w ay of putting puttting t yyou ou in pr proximity oximity to “relevant “r elevant ccontent”? ontent”? Many Man ny p people e eople will no doubt lo love ve such ne new w functi functionality. onalitty. O Others thers will opt out, or rrefuse efuse to o opt in. in O Others, thers, however, howeveerr, will simplyy w want aant to st stay ay as far aaway way from fr om self self-driving f-drriving ccars ars as p possible. ossible. Anotherr class of users who ma may ay not sharee Go shar Google’s ogle g ’s vision of the futur futuree is those wh who ho lik likee the old-fashioned kinetic ple pleasures easures of driving driving.. A thir third d cconsists onsists off p people eople whose pr professions offessions e
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depend on traditional, human-piloted depend ccars: ars: cabbies, cabbies, truckers, truckers, bus b drivers, drivers, ccararinsurancee salesmen,, etc. insuranc etcc. (UPS drivers drivers maybe pizza-delivery and ma ayb y e eeven ven piz za-deliv d ery guys should b bee fine; someone someon ne has to carry carry the goods goods from from the curb currb to the door.) door.) Att F A Forbes.com, orbes.com, busin business ness Chunkaa Mui cconsultant onsultant Chunk Mu ui characterizes the coming comiing driverless driverless rrevolution evolution as a potential potentiial $2 trillion di disruption. ti Car Car design d i will ill change, change h , with less emphasis on steel and airbags.. Ov airbags Overall erall car car sale sales es may maay drop drop substantially subst antially as car car sharing shaaring becomes becomes far mor moree cconvenient. onvenient. ((No No mor moree will have yyou ou ha ave to figure figure out how to get to the car car sharing lot. Your Yo our car car will automatically house.) automatic ally come come to o your your house .) Auto A uto financing companies, com mpanies, personal-injury p ersonal-injury lawyers laawy w errs and emergency medical emer gency medic al personnel personnel will all likely decline business. lik ely l see a d li iin b business i . Local Locall governments go vernments will lose major sources sources of revenue revenue because because of reduced reduced moving mo ving violations and d parking citations. cit ations. Currently, Curr entlyy, it is legal to operate operate driverless a driv erless car car only in Nevada, Nevada, California and Florida.. But as these C aliffornia o vvehicles ehicles become become commonplace, comm monplace, demand ffor o or a regulatory regulatory U-turn Mothers will increase. increase. So Mothe ers Against Against Drunk k Driving i i will ill morph mo orph h into i Mothers Against Against Driving, Driviing, a crusading organization organization n determined America’s to get Americ a’s deadliest deadliiest assault weapon weap on off the streets streets for for o good good by by advocating adv ocating legislation that makes makes it illegal to operate operate traditional tradittional vehicles. vehicles. It will be be joined by by ccountless ou untless other organizations interests or ganizations whose in nterests aree served best byy man mandatory ar served b est b ndatory driverlessness. driv erlessness. Granted, legislation mandating m self-tracking self f-tracking vvehicles ehicles is not likely likely to pass quickly quickly. y. But give give cr credit redit where where it’s it ’s due. due. Years Yeears before beffo ore an anyone nyone else had even even realized realized whatt was was at stake, stake, Google Go ogle w was as mapping out o the coming coming discourse, disc ourse, paving paavving the way way for for o a future future in which driv driverless erless cars carss are are a virtuous virtuous and ine inevitable vitable mark off progress, progress, and traditional cars cars ar are, e, lik likee cigar cigarettes ettes and military-style milit ary-style semiauto semiautomatic omatic rifles rifles,, dangerous danger ous goods goods whos whosee legal status status is up ffor or o debate. debate. Buckle up up,, Americ America! a!! W We’re e’re in ffor or o a saf safe, fe, efficient and oppressively opp pressively intrusivee ride intrusiv ride..
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HE BETTER-BEER scene continues its ascent in the South Bay with Steins Beer Garden & Restaurant inhear downtown set to HEN PEOPLE the wordMountain “macaron”View (mack-ahopen March There beof wine and chewy cocktails, but ROHN), 28. they oftenwill think a sweet, little mound beers. Steins the primary focusdried will coconut be on high-quality of shredded known as a macaroon (macka menu modern American will feature 30 taps aand ah-ROON). In actuality, macaron is aofFrench, meringue-based chef andinBay Area comfort foodResembling crated by executive almond cookie. a minihamburger appearance, Reade. native Colby a macaron consists of two brightly colored small cakes with eggshell-thin sandwiching a isganache, buttercream or Owner and crusts South Bay native Ted Kim a beer enthusiast; he tells me fruit-jam filling. Offering exquisiteGerman texture and taste, macarons that Steins is a salute to the traditional beer halls and gardens, have come to defineduring the Parisian experience which he experienced his travelsgastronomic throughout Europe’s premierfor beer cities. by architect Marc Dimalanta, Steinsopened features alast 300-year, many. One Designed local French-American shop, which 8,000-square-foot interior room and ato4,000-square-foot is seat, bringing the fableddomed Parisian confection Palo Alto. True to itsoutdoor name,patio. Chantal Guillon Macarons & Tea specializes in lightTed, with his contagious positive energy, says that he can’t wait as-air French macarons and tea. for folks to check out the “in-your-face, custom-made walk-in cooler” Spotless white walls and hugecan mirrors a bright, feel to the place. next to the main bar. Guests gaze lend at the uniqueairy direct-draw draft Families, doe-eyed and college students taking a break from system—the tapcouples, handlestourists are connected to the kegs, eliminating draft studies the counter. Children pressquality their faces hands lines mill and about helping toservice keep the beer at the highest andand freshness against display with French accents from levels.the Having 30glass. draftSmiling beers isservers a manageable number forzip staff , Tedcustomer says: to “I customer. Some rst-time visitors snapI want pictures of aable wallto want them to (presumably) know exactlyfiwhat we’re serving. to be adorned with Ms. Chantal Guillon’s collection of handbags. I appreciate give genuine beer recommendations, so ongoing beer education willthe befact that Chantal Guillon maintains a strictly gluten-free kitchen. important. ” Each Chantal Guillon’s chefs craft culinary jewels according out of almond flour, Theday, food will have a local, farm-to-table emphasis to chef pure caneand sugar, egg whites, natural foodin-house, coloringincluding and—occasionally—gold Reade, everything will be made breads and paint. ThereBecause are nineofclassic flavors: Tahitian espresso pretzels. the generous kitchen vanilla, space, there willcoff alsoee,besalted incaramel, Italian pistachio, almond amaretto, dark chocolate, green lavender house charcuterie, butchery and pickling programs. “We want tea, to make poppy and Persian rose. Seasonal fl avors include: passion fruit, lemon, Red food as fresh as the beer is,” says Reade, who embraces beer’s versatility in Velvet, dark chocolate-yuzu, cherry Amarena and strawberry. foodraspberry-lychee, pairing. WithSome a totalexamples of 16 different avors choose oneinclude might feel overwhelmed from fl the tidytomenu offrom, 25 items pork belly or tempted to try them all. Macarons cost $21 per dozen. Single macarons are $1.80. The almond amaretto reminds me of marzipan and smells of fresh-out-ofthe-oven shortbread. This spring, the flavor many people are talking about is Red Velvet. Classic lipstick-red with a delicate, crispy, buttery shell and white chocolate filling, this morsel symbolizes a happy marriage between French technique and American taste. Another strikingly red offering on the seasonal menu is cherry Amarena. It contains real dark-cherry pieces and smells like Black Forest cake. Chantal Guillon also carries beautiful, fragrant teas from master tea blender Mariage Frères. “We are very lucky to be able to carry Mariage Frères teas,” remarks one young, bright-eyed Frenchman working at the counter. Most of the teas are available for smelling and can be bought by the cup (hot and ready for immediate drinking), tin (loose leaf) or box (cloth sachets).—Sophia Boettcher CHANTAL GUILLON MACARONS & TEA 444 University Ave., Palo Alto; 650.322.2255
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Liquid Lounge, San Jose Thu–9pm; free before 11pm, $5 after While EDM continues to become more mainstream, underground DJs are working tirelessly to make a place for the cutting-edge side of electronic music. In San Jose, there’s the Dip, a monthly party at Liquid Lounge that focuses on the best in authentic house, bass, trap and dubstep. In the past, they’ve brought in artists from such labels as Dirtybird, Play It Down, Snatch! and Pet Recordings. You know these guys are legit because even the name, the Dip, is a reference to a song by Dirtybird house producer Justin Jay. Featured this month are resident DJs Flipside, Christiano, Shineslikegold and headliner AK
No.47, who mixes some gritty, nasty, techy beats. Liquid Lounge will be selling $20 bottles of champagne all night. (AC)
JO KOY San Jose Improv, San Jose Thu – 7pm; $30-$35 Jo Koy stands out from other comedians with positive energy and a well-rounded sense of humor, which probably stems from when he performed impromptu shows in front of his family. He had a fairly modest beginning as a performer in his childhood, slowly moving up to coffeehouses in Las Vegas. He got his first career start on Chelsea Lately and The Tonight Show. Since then he’s been touring nationwide with stops in all the big comedy clubs. (AD)
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Cafe Stritch, San Jose Fri – 8pm; free
New Jerseys, Campbell Fri – 6pm; free
The Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $10
The time has finally come: San Jose lo-fi, fuzz-rock Dinners are releasing their long-awaited full-length record. And by record, they mean an actual slab of vinyl. As members of two of San Jose’s most cherished indierock bands, Worker Bee and Doctor Nurse, these four guys are San Jose indie-rock royalty. Dinners, though, doesn’t sound like either of their root bands—more of a psychedelic rock group, with Jeff Brummett (Doctor Nurse) and Andy Barnes (Worker Bee) taking equal reins on songwriting duties. Their own rich history as music listeners (and possessors of gigantic record collections) makes for the kind of music that other
Hard-rock riffs and R&B grooves seem like a natural blend, though not a lot of bands these days attempt the combination. Locals Melted State ride a very thin line between the genres. It’s honest, genuine music, even if it isn’t following whatever trend is popular at the moment. Singer Noah Kibreab’s soulful growling voice will get under your skin—if the music hasn’t already moved you. If this were the ’90s, their breed of groove-rock would have landed them a record deal by now—but such are the times. With the bass, drums, guitar and a keyboard, they unabashedly offer to play their hearts out to you. (AC)
Hailing all the way from Sonora, the Kountry Kittens make a stop in San Jose to present their Vaudeville Tease Roadshow. What makes this burlesque show unique is their blending of punk and “kountry” aesthetics into a classic burlesque show to, if you will, give it a kick. In the past, this trio has even performed joint shows alongside punk bands like Swinging Utters and the Reverend Horton Heat. What’s most impressive is that the three girls take care of all their management, costumes and show choreography purely on a D.I.Y. formula. Their San Jose appearance is part of a minitour, with stops in only four cities throughout California. (AD)
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9IFFB< ;% San Pedro Square Market, San Jose Sat – 7pm; free Local beatboxer and songwriter Brooke D. is back in San Jose. Not only does she write thoughtful songs that any Bay Area girl can relate to but she also engages everyone at her shows. In addition to the beats, she samples live and gets the audience to clap and sing along. She’s constantly writing and experimenting with new material so each of her shows will present a new tune or, sometimes, a classic cover. Her latest album, As We Pictured, deďŹ nitely shows off her musical talent, but hearing and engaging with her songs as she performs is a pure experience rarely matched by any other local solo musician. (AD)
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No Green Day fan who grew up listening to “Dookie� or “Insomniac� could have imagined their songs interpreted into any sort of theatrical distribution. Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer, however, found a way to craft this nowmainstream punk band’s songs into a Broadway show that has achieved critically acclaimed success. The show follows the stories of three lifelong friends who are faced with honoring their personal values in a post-9/11 world. The play features all singles from the album, along with “21 Guns� (from 21st Century Breakdown). This touring show is presented by Broadway San Jose. (AD)
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*stage * AMERICAN IDIOT AM The musical version of the Green Day album, presented by Broadway San Jose. Runs Jun 4-9. Tue-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. See SJTIX.com for ticket info. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
AVENUE Q A play about a young man and some profane puppets; presented by Los Altos Stage Company. Runs thru Jun 22. Wed (starting Jun 5), 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3 or 7pm. $18-$28. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.
CALIFORNIA THEATRE CENTER The company presents three plays in repertory. Runs May 30-Jul 21. This week: “Dangerous Corner” by J.B. Priestley. Thu-Sat, 7:30pm. $10-$26. Sunnyvale Theater.
FOOTLOOSE A rock musical from SCU Presents. Runs May 31-Jun 8. This week” Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $10-$15. Mayer Theatre, Santa Clara University.
FUNNY GIRL Presented by South Bay Musical Theatre. Runs Thru Jun 8. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $26-$42. Saratoga Civic Theatre.
THE GOLDEN GATE Vikram Seth’s novel in verse will be performed as a multimedia opera. Thu, 8pm. Bing Concert Hall, Stanford.
HANGING GEORGIA A drama about Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe. Runs thru Jun 9. This week: Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15/$30. Pear Avenue Theater, Mountain View.
NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT FACTORY A chance to sample plays in the works. Runs thru Jun 9. “Sexbot” plays Fri, 8pm. “The Killing Jar” plays Sat, 2pm. “Almost Happy” plays Sun, 2pm. $10. Dragon Theatre, Redwood City.
SNOW WHITE BALLET A performance by the students of Lise la Cour’s LaCademy. Sat, 2 and 4pm. $15. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.
SPACEBAR Michael Mitnick’s comedy,
subtitled “A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman,” follows the misadventures of a teenager trying his hand on Broadway. Runs May 30-Jun 22. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Plus Jun 8, 2pm, and Jun 12 and 19, 8pm. $24.95$39.95. City Lights, San Jose.
SPREADING IT AROUND A comedy about tomfoolery in a retirement community, presented by Santa Clara Players. Runs thru Jun 8. This week: Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $16-$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara University.
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GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “Art of Zines 2013.” “Death Will Tear Us Apart.” A solo show by Mike Egan. Both end May 31. San Jose.
CALDWELL GALLERY “Favorite Works in Mixed Media.” Pieces by Joyce Barron Leopardo, Marianne Lettieri and Joyce Savre. Ends Jun 28. Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm. County Government Center, Redwood City.
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*concerts REDWOOD SYMPHONY A performance of “Sweeney Todd.” Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $10-$25. Cañada College Main Theatre, Redwood City.
SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY Guest guitarist Jason Vieaux will perform Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez”; also on the program will be selections by Debussy and Strauss. Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $46-$86. California Theatre, San Jose.
VIVACE YOUTH CHORUS A gala show for the group’s 10th anniversary. Sat, 5pm. $8/$20. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.
*art MUSEUMS CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley.” Ends Jun 16. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Seeking Answers: Photographs by Wynn Bullock.” “Face: Portraits by Valentin Popov.” “Henrietta Shore: Understanding Nature.” All three end Jun 30. Tue-Sun, 11am4pm. Santa Clara.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Come Healing.” A new show by six arts about healing and wholeness. Ongoing. Also: Final Friday, 6pm, celebrates “Art on the Grounds” exhibit. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Mari Andrews: Over, Under and Inside Out.” Sculptures, Jun 1-Sep 7. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.
SEEING THINGS GALLERY “The Out of Towners.”Tue-Fri, 11am-7pm, Sat, noon-6pm. 30 N. Third St, San Jose.
STUDIO BONGIORNO “Stray.” Works by Mary Waclaw, Eric Shaffer, Harmony Beckett, Larry Cazes and more. Jun 1-30. Call. Mon-Wed, 10am-7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 11am-8:30pm, Sun, 10am-2pm. Santa Clara.
*events Showcase of seasonal and classic beers returns. Sat 1, 1-5pm; $30. Downtown Mountain View.
DIY ART A chance to work with Spin Bots. Sun, 1-3pm, free with admission. San Jose Museum of Art.
FOOD AND WINE CLASSIC
“New Stories From the Edge of Asia: This/That.” Ends Sep 15. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
Meet with top chefs and vintners. Proceeds benefit education programs. Sun, 5:30-8:30pm; $175-$225. Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.
“Milestones: Textiles of Transition” and “Threads of Love: Baby Carriers From China’s Minority Nationalities.” Both ends Jul 21. Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.
ITZHAK PERLMAN, the esteemed Israeli-American violinist, will kick off the 2013–14 season of Stanford Live. Perlman’s Music Program (Sept. 22) showcases the talents of young musicians, with Perlman acting as conductor and mentor. Other classical-music highlights of the upcoming season include perennial favorites the Kronos Quartet (Jan. 15, 2014) performing new pieces by Philip Glass and Valentin Silvestrov. Chanticleer and the New Century Chamber Orchestra will combine instruments for the first time next March. Their joint concert, called “Atlantic Crossing,” is designed to replicate the music of the period between the World Wars as experienced on a luxury liner. The program takes place March 20, 2014. Superstar violinist Joshua Bell performs Feb. 8. One of the major projects of the season looks to be “Linked Verse” (Dec. 7), a multimedia concerto by Stanford composer Jaroslaw Kapuscinsky. It will feature the stage magic of OpenEnded Group, a digital-media collective, with music by sho player Ko Ishikawa and cellist Maya Beiser. The evening aims to compete with Avatar in its use of 3D stereoscopic videos—glasses provided. The Stanford Lively Arts 2013–14 season begins Sept. 22. Most concerts take place at the new, highly touted Bing Concert Hall on the Stanford Campus; ticket prices range from about $20 to $75 for most shows. Subscription tickets go on sale June 3; single tickets will be available Sept. 7; see live.stanford.edu for ticket details. For a complete schedule, see Metroactive.com.—Michael S. Gant
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GREEK FESTIVAL Food, arts and crafts and live music. Fri–Sun, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, San Jose.
with more than 100 sites around the Bay Area, with a score in Silicon Valley. Sat-Sun, various locations. (See www.facebook. com/MaddiesPetAdoptionDays for details.)
REDWOOD MOUNTAIN FAIRE An annual festival featuring art, food, children’s activities and live music. Sat–Sun. Roaring Camp Railroads, Felton.
ROOTS THAT ROCK Santa Cruz Mountains Vintners’ Festival runs two weekends and features scores of wineries. SatSun. (Also Jun 8-9). See www.
scmwa.com for details.
ST. CLARE FESTIV’ALL An annual three-day affair with family events, including music, a car show, arts and crafts, and a barbecue. Fri–Sun. Free. St. Clare School, Santa Clara.
ST. PIUS FESTIVAL This year’s festival has an international flavor, celebrating the theme of “St. Pius Around the World.” Fri–Sun. Free. St. Pius Church, Redwood City.
SUMMER FASHION SHOW A showcase for sartorial design features Vernon Davis as one of
the models. Sat, 1 and 4pm. $40. Santana Row.
SUMMER GET-TOGETHER Car show from the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association with thousands of vehicles, plus autocross races and entertainment. Sat–Sun. Pleasanton Fairgrounds.
SUNNYVALE ART AND WINE FESTIVAL Wine tasting from regional wineries, beer and more. Sat–Sun. Free. Washington and Sunnyvale avenues, downtown Sunnyvale.
MADDIE’S PET ADOPTION A major free pet adoption event
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SoFA District (and beyond) on the First Friday of the month.
JUNE 7th ART WALK 7-11pm
Anno Domini
Higher Fire Clay
MACLA
366 So. First St.
499 So. Market St.
510 So. First St.
Artists’ Reception: Wes Smoot and the 49ers featuring: Mark Pavlovits, Shaun Roberts, Michael Linton Simpson, Wes Smoot, Patrick Thompson, Derek Weisberg, Lulu Yee. An epic tale of the E.O. 49: their members, practices and great legends as told through illustrations, paintings, sculpture and puppetry theatre. Live music by Johanna Chase, and Halo Between.
Fabulous Finds. For June, we offer piles of pots at BARGAIN prices made by studio members and students. Beautiful bowls, plates, vases, mugs and other creative ceramic works will be on display for SubZERO at the Higher Fire booth. Our continuing exhibit of tea-themed works, “Steeped in Tradition”, will on display in the main studio gallery just across the street from the Gore Park section of SubZERO.
In MACLA’s Gallery: Pop to the Rescue summons Latina popular culture strategies and aesthetics to deal with chaotic environments. Work by Mitsy Ávila Ovalles, Carolyn Castaño, Las Hermanas Iglesias, and Ana Serrano. In MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse, come enjoy Tango and More starting at 8pm. Image: Carolyn Castaño, Writer, Lover, Confidante (Virginia Vallejo), acrylic and mixedmedia, 2009
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
WORKS San José
520 So. First St.
Nerve | Path Video installation artists Shaun Benak and Sieglinde Van Damme employ large scale projection to investigate the visualization of thought, emotion, and voice. Both artists use line as a tool to visually map, recount, and unravel stories of past experience and internal forces.
Exhibitions: Milestones: Textiles of Transition and Threads of Love: Baby Carriers from China's Minority Nationalities Etsy Meet & Make: No Sew Coasters with Rebecca Saylor. Erica Spitzer Rasmussen, Red Hot, 2005 Cast hand–made paper. Cotton, acrylics, gold leaf, wax, metal, rubber, matchstitcks, 25’ x 12” x 11”, photo credit: Petronella Ytsma
365 So. Market St.
artwork by Sieglinde Van Damme
First Friday, JUNE 7th 6pm-Midnight in the SoFA District Art Ark Gallery
KALEID Gallery
Mezcal Restaurant
1035 So. Sixth St.
88 So. Fourth St.
25 W. San Fernando St.
Artists’ Reception 6-9pm: The Facets of our Aggregate Lore An art exhibition exploring and celebrating mythology through the visual arts. Curated by Duncan Cook Live Music by Lynn Tsai & Dizi, and Cassie Chen & Pipa
VANITAS group exhibition. A Vanitas is a work of art based on the idea of the transience of human existence and the knowledge that all has it's end. Common throughout the history of art, sometimes incredibly morbid, others with obscured meaning hidden beneath a veneer of beauty. KALEID presents over 40 artists and their contemporary vision of this classic theme.
From the Earth to the Spirits by Alejandra Cano Presented by The Consulate General of Mexico in San Jose, this photographic series by Alejandra Cano tells the story of the mystic path of Mezcal, from being a precious gift of the Earth to the tavern, where it alleviates the troubled spirits of men.
Image: "Pan" by John Landry
Focused on emerging and present subcultures thriving in our region, SubZERO is a DIY, artistically bent, hi/lo-techno mashup where street meets geek. In addition to the South FIRST FRIDAYS monthly art walk you'll find outdoor stages of live music plus artists, performers & indie businesses celebrating the creative spirit! Visit www.SubZEROFestival.com for listings.
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A Fairy Tale Ballet Choreographed by Lise la Cour Composed by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre Photo by Paul Tumason
Historic Hoover Theatre 1635 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126
June 1st, 2013 2pm & 4pm For more information, please visit:
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is from Copenhagen, Denmark. She was trained at the Royal Danish Ballet School and joined the Royal Danish Ballet where she performed soloist and principal roles. Ms. la Cour was made a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and awarded the Margot Lander Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the world of ballet.
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FASHION, football and philanthropy anchor a splashy soiree planned for the fifth-annual Summer Fashion Show at Santana Row on Saturday. Extra excitement this year comes courtesy of guest Vernon Davis, the 49ers’ star tight end. His scheduled stroll down the catwalk has prompted faster ticket sales than in Fashion Shows previous years. “We always sell out, but we’ve seen a lot more tickets purchased earlier this year than in past Saturday, June 1; years,” says Collette Navarrette, marketing director at 1 and 4pm; $40 Santana Row. “I think Vernon has a lot to do with that.” Santana Row, San Jose The show, which typically raises $8,000 to $10,000 for the featured foundations, hopes to beat fundraising efforts from previous years—a plausible feat for Santana Row’s affluent community. Fifty percent of each ticket purchase will go to the Vernon Davis Foundation for the Arts, which provides art education to underprivileged youth. Davis, who paints when he’s not making the highlight reel on sports news shows, opened Santana Row’s first art gallery, Gallery 85, last December. Davis will close the fashion show wearing menswear by Franco Uomo—a designer who has dressed Davis for various red carpet events. Having a 49er model isn’t the only “first” for the Summer Fashion Show. This will be the first year the show will offer a Beauty Lounge. The preshow events include complimentary makeup touch-ups, artificial-eyelash application and wine tasting from six local wineries. Newly opened women’s fashion retailer Calypso St. Barth will kick off the show with its signature resort wear—fitting for the poolside function. The fashion show will feature clothing from Santana Row retail stores, including Pink Stripes, Free People, Splendid, Brooks Brothers, Tommy Bahama, Ted Baker and Penelope. Swag will be dispensed, including 15 percent discounts at participating stores and restaurants. After the show, festivities will continue with in-store events throughout the Row. Stores like Calypso and Furla will host wine tastings, raffles and DJs for all shoppers. “I call it fashion that looks and feels good, because you can enjoy fun fashion and wine, but you also know your money is going back to a wonderful cause,” says Navarrette.—Jennifer Elias Summer
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black-and-white. It’s true that Frances is, like Diane Keaton’s Annie, one of those people born without that little switch on the throat that stops us from saying everything we think. Like Annie, Frances doesn’t know what she thinks, anyway, until this instant she’s just heard herself saying it. And the situation worsens when she drinks. But this kind of blurting is an eternal quality among young women orbiting the art world. During this 27th year of her life, Frances’ shield is her dependably plain ex-college pal Sophia (Mickey Summer). She’s a lean, sharpfeatured woman with a pair of spectacles so severe that their frames seem to glow in the dark. She and Frances are housemates and best friends forever, pledged
to being “undatable.” But Frances doesn’t consider the problem of different personal velocities. Sophia moves up, settling in with a boyfriend she supposedly didn’t like much—and it turns out that he makes serious money. Frances meanwhile gets edged out from her Manhattan dance troupe and starts taking the path of least resistance to one after another of several shared apartments. The film’s not fluffy. It notes weight of rent on prevaricating artist types with no visible means of support. And there’s pretty constant class-card playing—the money woes help make Frances the awkward one among the smooth people she knows. As New York becomes more ruthless with cash, Baumbach works among the margins left to the artists of the city: Chinatown and the untrendy parts of Brooklyn. Ultimately, our heroine makes a field trip home for a Unitarian Christmas in good old dowdy Sacramento.
You don’t often see movies now about women who are friends— “We’re like a lesbian couple that doesn’t have sex anymore.” The way Gerwig and Summer portray their relationship, you’re satisfied that there isn’t any kind of spark between them, or that denying that spark is the key to Frances’ “undatability.” Some people are vines, and some people are trellises, and the triumph in this is that Frances only seems to be looking for someone to cling and grow on. The movie is a love letter to Gerwig. She is the actress who made mumblecore happen. She has now been kicked upstairs to work with a director who really sees her and knows what she’s capable of (as opposed to those dry experimental films with directors who sat there and waited for something to happen). Frances Ha loves Gerwig in motion, when she dances awkwardly, leaps down a street on aw her way to work or rides a bike he bundled up in a December day bu in the suburbs. The off-blonde hair and the Stanwyck contours ha of her mouth are celebrated, as is the unpretentious style: showing th off a cure for the booze-spins and slanging it (when she hears some sla boy she knows say, “Ahoy, sexy,” on the cellphone, Frances can’t stop using that dumb phrase ironically). Gerwig is so good that she brings out the poignancy in a whirlwind, sleep-deprivation-blighted, creditcard-financed trip to Paris, foolishly taken on the spur of the moment just so Frances can be equal to the fancy people she meets at a party. Frances Ha makes a star out of Gerwig, and she’s the kind of star we need: a goofy one we can feel tender about but never underestimate. The film ends happy, and maybe you don’t buy it, but what Frances Ha says is true: people of an unusual type need to create an unusual kind of art to express themselves.
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New (PG-13; 100 min.) A dystopian tale of a future in which Earth is depopulated. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Will Smith. (Opens Fri.)
BEFORE MIDNIGHT (R; 108 min.) Director Richard Linklater takes another look at the relationship between Jesse and Celine. Stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. (Opens Fri.)
FAST & FURIOUS 6 (PG-13; 130 min.) This so-so fifth sequel is getting better word of mouth than its predecessor, possibly because of director Justin Lin’s emphasis on family bonding (it’s preparing us for the cartoon series). Maybe the film is popular because it’s uncomplicated: the story is relatively free of twists with the points spelled out in easyto-understand block letters, and the dialogue might as well be in Esperanto, considering how necessary it is. The plot is euphemistically described as “some 007 shit.” The cast has to track down a rival team of race-car-driving felons headed by a sinister Brit (Luke Evans); the team is assembled by Interpol agent (Dwayne Johnson) and his former criminal partner (Vin Diesel). Maybe all this aging muscle is setting a softer tone: Johnson’s straightness of face is as much of a miracle as his physique, with a neck that literally dwarfs his head. Vin Diesel’s transformation to Telly Savalas is nearly complete—once walking hard-on, now as avuncular an old baldie as you might find parked behind a table full of dominoes in Queens. This time around, Paul Walker is the family hump whose new baby we’re urged to care about. He is recruited from this new-dad life with the line “How’s life for a retired international criminal?” Then we get a lot of standing around
FRANCIS HA (R; 86 min.) See review on page 28.
NOW YOU SEE ME (PG-13) A thriller about an international search for bank-robbing tricksters. Stars Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Ruffalo. (Opens Fri.)
THE PAINTING (NR; 78 min.) An animated kids’ feature about a world of characters who live in a painting. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.)
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Revivals FROM HERE TO ETERNITY/CLASH BY NIGHT (1952/1953) Soldiers at a remote island garrison while away their days with fights, adultery and drinking—and then the enemy attacks. The classic adaptation of James Jones’ knowing, very adult novel about Pearl Harbor has a landmark cast, including Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Cliff, Donna Reed. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr iconically spawn on a black-sand beach in Hawaii. BILLED WITH Clash By Night. After some Rossellini-style images of Monterey stirring and awakening as the fishing boats dock at Cannery Row, director Fritz Lang gets down to business. A weary local lady,
Mae (Barbara Stanwyck), returns on the morning train, having been chewed up and spit out by the outside world (“Big ideas, small results,” she says). She gets involved with two men: Jerry (Paul Douglas), an egoless dullard of a fisherman, and his antsy but studly buddy Earl (Robert Ryan). Together Ryan and Stanwyck have explosive physical chemistry. It’s a duet you don’t get often: an actor who displayed the bitterness of the postwar era in his face, matched with an actress who was at home on ocean liners and tugboats alike. But this is a hard-nosed, urgent movie firmly on the side of the usual victim of this kind of picture: the straying wife. Marilyn Monroe has a small role as a cannery girl. (Plays May 30-31 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN/ BRIGADOON (1952/1954). Singin’ in the Rain has no rivals as the best musical ever made. Gene Kelly plays a fancy-boy silentmovie star troubled by the invention of sound film; he’s befriended by a sharp chorus girl played by Debbie Reynolds. Donald O’Connor is at his best, and there is that famous line: “If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, we feel all our hard work ain’t been in vain for nuthin’.” BILLED WITH Brigadoon. More effable than its ineffable partner on the double bill: Kelly and Van Johnson as visiting Yanks who discover a mystical Scottish hamlet that comes to life every 100 years. Tunes (“Almost Like Being in Love”) make up for the obvious backlotism. (1964). (Plays Jun 1-2 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
(NR; 86 min.) A documentary about the development of modern ink-on-skin art. (May 30 at 7pm at Camera 3 in San Jose.)
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Their electronic-pop sound and instrumentation remain intact, but the lyrics and tone of the new material has evolved into more emotional territory. Of the 10 songs the Limousines played, eight came from their upcoming sophomore album, Hush, set for digital release on June 6 and to be celebrated with a party at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco. “We were there to show them who we’ve become,” says vocalist Eric Victorino. “We wanted to make that one statement that we’ve changed a lot.” Over the past five years, the Limousines have, in fact, changed a
lot while also remaining San Jose’s biggest, most nationally recognized band still releasing music. The Limousines first hit the scene with the brilliant pop gem “Very Busy People,” a song Victorino likes to say is about “jerking off to Tumblr” but is really a smart commentary on the information overload that everyone is experiencing in the age of the Internet and smartphones. The song made it on the radio, bringing them more national exposure than they ever expected to garner. The clever existentialism continued on their debut LP, Get Sharp, first released independently in 2010 but then reissued on Dangerbird Records later in the year. It featured the fun, selfreflective single “Internet Killed the Video Star.” The track hit a million views on YouTube and brought the band an international fan base.
HUSH Hush, funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign that more than doubled the band’s goal when it reached $75,000, opens with a mood we have not yet experienced with the Limousines. “Love Is a Dog From Hell” describes the thrill of a first kiss but cautions that love is unpredictable and complex once the door is opened. “We wanted to write songs that we could perform as adults for the rest of our lives,” Victorino says. “I can see being 45 years old and singing ‘Love Is a Dog From Hell.’ The old stuff had a short shelf life. I can’t see myself being 40 and singing a song about Tumblr.” The album talks about love from a multitude of angles, which range from painfully honest to almost clichéd in their deliberate lack of witticisms. Unlike a lot of music other bands have written about love, Hush taps into the reality of what love actually feels like and not a fantasyy image of love. of the record “Ninety percent p is about all the best parts and the worst parts and the middle parts of what loving somebody is all about,” explains. Victorino ex In “Little Space,” for instance, talks about his own Victorino ta with intimacy. “It’s hard challenges w to be loved and to hate yourself at the h same time,” Victorino tells me. “It’s hard to feel like you don’t deserve love. That’s where a lot of the songs I wrote from my perspective are coming from.” On “Bed Bugs,” he wrote about bandmate Giovanni Giusti. Victorino had watched him experience the heartbreak of falling in love with someone who didn’t reciprocate the feeling. Complementing the lyrical shift on Hush is a new depth in production that brings a more multilayered sound to the new songs. The beats laid down by Giusti, who also mixed the record himself, have a more distinctly ’80s sound than Get Sharp, and it won’t be hard to get crowds to dance to them. Retro, however, it is not. “I remember stuff on Get Sharp, I was making beats in my mom’s sewing room,” Giusti says. “That was so long ago, my production has changed 100 percent.”
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LOVE MOVEMENT It took several months after they’d received the money via Kickstarter before their songwriting really clicked. While Hush is indeed darker than Get Sharp, they let go of the idea of making a “dark” album and instead went with their instincts and wrote an album mostly about love. Then the album poured out. “We thought we were working before. It wasn’t until that last period where we were like, ‘Oh we’re really working on this thing.’ It’s kind of funny because in a way we were working on it for two or three years, and in another way we weren’t working on it until a couple months ago,” Victorino says. So far, the Limousines have gotten positive responses from “Love Is a Dog From Hell,” released a week ago, and they’re optimistic about the rest of album. “The fact that it was funded by Kickstarter or whatever is going to be a footnote,” Victorino says. “The big feat wasn’t raising that money. The feat was that we morphed from one type of band to another successfully and made a great record.”
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The San Jose Taco Festival returned to History Park for its second year with interesting taco recipes from more than 35 food trucks, live entertainment, clothing and jewelry vendors, and lucha libre wrestling.
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THE BLANK CLUB Fri, 9pm: The Vaudeville Tease Road Show, Kountry Kittens Burlesque. $10. Sat, 9pm: Beta State, April Chase, the Goodnight. $8. San Jose.
BOSWELL’S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 9:30pm: Liquid Courage. Fri, 9:30pm: The Gents. Sat-Mon, 9:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
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Wed, 9pm: Adam Walter Band. Thu, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue. Fri, 9pm: Bone Drivers. Sat, 9pm: Eddie Toro and the Blues Rockers. Sun, 6pm: Joel Ferrara. Tue, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.
Fri, 9pm: Sad Boy Sinister, Blank Spots, Can Toker, FUKM. San Jose.
CAFE STRITCH
MARIANI’S INN
Fri, 8pm: Dinners (CD release), Ugly Winner, Breathing Patterns. All ages. Free. San Jose.
Fri-Sat: Live music. Santa Clara.
LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9pm: Hella Good Band. Sunnyvale.
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Sat, 6:30pm: Mustache Harbor. $8. Menlo Park.
Fri, 8pm: Adria Amenti. San Jose.
MOJO LOUNGE
Fri, 10pm: Rebel Yell. Sat, 10pm: Live music. San Jose.
CHROMATIC COFFEE
Fri, 9:30pm: The Johnny Cat Band. $5. Sat, 9:30pm: Kid Dynamite. $5. Fremont.
BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN
Mon, 6pm: Tony Molina, Blanche Beach, Crabapple, Drainbow. $5. Santa Clara.
BRIT ARMS ALMADEN
Thu: Jack Rip-Off. San Jose.
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The fact that it took three years to release a follow-up to Get Sharp seemed a mystery to fans, but behind the scenes Victorino and Giusti were reeling from personal tragedies and problems with their label. Since getting out of their record deal, they’ve been very candid about the degree to which Dangerbird didn’t deliver on anything it had promised. In that time, several close friends of Victorino and Giusti passed away. In 2011, the band’s success continued to climb while Victorino bottomed out emotionally. Struggling with bipolar disorder, he attempted to end his life and was eventually hospitalized. He wrote about the entire incident in his book, Trading Sunshine for Shadows. “To have eight of your friends die in less than two years, in separate instances, it’s pretty fucking strange. You can’t go write ‘Very Busy People’ again after that. You can’t go be happy. Things change,” Victorino says. The only song to make it on to Hush from the early demos was “Haunted,” about not being able to stop thinking about someone. Of all the band’s songs, “Haunted” marks the biggest change in direction for the Limousines. When Victorino sat down to write the lyrics for Get Sharp, he methodically assembled clever stanzas, played with rhyme schemes and remained fully aware of the meaning behind each line. “Haunted” was different. “I was walking, and all the words just came into my head,” Victorino recalls. “I called Gio, and I told him, ‘I have to come over, and we have to work on it.’ I just blurted the song out. I get chills thinking about it now. We were both really moved by the outpouring of it.” At the time, the meaning of the words were a mystery to Victorino—something he hadn’t allowed himself to do with the Limousines, though he did do so years earlier with his previous band, Strata. “I used to never think about the words, because I grew up worshiping Kurt Cobain and watching all his interviews and knowing that most of the time he
didn’t know what he was talking about, but he knew it was coming from somewhere. And it was just as valid. It doesn’t matter where it’s coming from,” Victorino says. This experience shaped Hush, allowing it to be an album that came from their hearts and not their heads. Rather than being clever or sarcastic, Hush is honest and vulnerable. Over three years, Victorino and Giusti also got to know each other a lot better. They previously recorded all their songs by emailing tracks back and forth to each other and never working in the same room together. With Hush, working in the studio together has allowed them to discuss ideas and be much more collaborative. “I think now that we’ve gotten to know each other, we’ve come close enough and worked together as artists, it’s OK for him to see my process, and it’s OK for me to see his,” Victorino says. “It used to be a mystery. I never even saw him make music before. I had no idea how he did it.”
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NINE LIVES Sat, 8pm: Dave York’s Birthday Bash feat. Hammer Down, J.J. Hawg. 21+. $10. Gilroy.
NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Sun, 9pm: Rock Sundays. Santa Clara.
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: JC Smith jam. Thu, 9:30pm: Second Story Band. Fri, 9:30pm: Joint Chiefs. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Juke Box Heroes. $10. Los Gatos.
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WOODHAM’S LOUNGE First three Fri of month: Live music. Santa Clara.
Jazz/Blues/ World AGENDA LOUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Thu, 9pm: Banda. Sun: Reggae Vybez. San Jose.
ALOFT HOTEL Sat, 6pm: Joanne LeBlanc & the Fugitive Blues Band. Cupertino.
BLUE ROCK SHOOT Fri-Sat 8pm: Thriving Artists’ Showcase. Sun, 4pm: Blues jam. Saratoga.
LOU’S VILLAGE Wed: SJ Jazz presents Kandinsky Effect. Fri: Monica Marquis. San Jose.
MOROCCO’S Wed, 5pm: Belly dancing. Thu, 5pm: Acoustic guitar. Fri, 5pm: Bobby Love & Sugar Sweet. Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing & world music. Sun-Mon, 5pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Johnny Williams. Mountain View.
MOSAIC Fri-Sat, 6-9pm: Jazz for dinner. San Jose.
MURPHY’S LAW
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
Thu: The Honey Wilders. Fri: Rev. Love Jones. Sat: Blind Pilots. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.
Sat, 7 & 10pm: The B-Side Players. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.
Every first Sun, 6pm: Carolyn’s Jazz. Cupertino.
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PEACOCK LOUNGE Thu, 8pm: Maxx Cabello Jr. Sunnyvale.
Every first Sat, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. San Jose.
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CASCAL
Wed: Pro Jam. No cover. Thu: Pro Jam hosted by Vicious Groove. No cover. Fri, 9pm: Starlight. $5. Sat, 9pm: Live music. Sun: Pro Jam. Sunnyvale.
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THE REFUGE Fri, 6pm: The Rest Will Fall, Strength in Numbers, the Dialed, MARA, Gold Standard, Ahalmez, From the Messenger. All ages. Sat, 6pm: You Me and Everyone We Know, Squid the Whale, the Orphan the Poet, the Path, Till I Fall, Clouds Like Mountains. All ages. Cupertino.
SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Sat, 8pm: Brooke Dabalos. San Jose.
STATION 55 Live music most Fri-Sun. Call for info. Gilroy.
X BAR Sat, 8pm: The Albert Square (CD release), Breathing Patterns. All ages. $8. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
Sun, 4pm: Live blues. San Jose.
CAFFE FRASCATI
Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live world music. Mountain View. Wed, 8pm: Adam Walter Band. Thu, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue. Fri, 9pm: Bone Drivers. Sat, 9pm: Eddie Toro and the Blues Rockers. Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Tue, 6pm: The Blackouts. Los Gatos.
CLUB FOX Wed, 7pm: Blues jam with Kaye Bohler. $5. Fri, 9pm: Salsa, bachata, merengue, cha cha cha, rhumba. $15. Redwood City.
GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with John Garcia. Fri, 8pm: Johnny Neri birthday bash. Sat, 8pm: Screamin’ Iain. Campbell.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Charles Wheal Band. Fri, 6pm: Keith Crossan Band. Sat, 6pm: Mighty Mike Schermer Band. Sun, 2pm: Blues jam with Sid Morris, Jay Meduri. Every first & third Mon, 6pm: Ukulele jam with Steve Martin. San Jose.
SJSU CENTER Sat, 7:30pm: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. $59-$99. San Jose.
SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Fri, 7pm: Jessica Johnson. Free. San Jose.
TESSORA’S Fri, 8:30pm: Hootenanny. The Pruneyard, Campbell.
THEATRE ON SAN PEDRO SQUARE Fri, 7pm: Give Kids the Blues with JC Smith Band. $25/$30. San Jose.
HEDLEY CLUB
TRAIL DUST BBQ
Every first & third Wed: Jazz jam. Every second & fourth Thu: Brian Ho Trio. Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live jazz. Mon, 5pm: Gus Kambeitz Duo. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.
Fri, 6-9pm: Live blues, roots and Americana. Morgan Hill.
J.J.’S BLUES CAFE
ZONE 8
Wed: Gomer Hendrix Experience. Thu: Groove Zoo. Fri: Ruckus, Mark English Project. Sat-Tue: Live blues. San Jose.
WINE AFFAIRS Wed, 7:30pm: Paulo Renslow. San Jose. Sat, 8pm: Octobop. Casino M8trix, San Jose.
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C&W/Folk BLUE ROCK SHOOT Fri, 8pm: Music showcase. Sat: Thriving Artists presents live music. Saratoga.
mic. San Jose.
LIQUID Wed: Poetic Justice. Open to all forms of expression. Free. San Jose.
NINE LIVES
BOULEVARD TAVERN
Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.
RODEO CLUB Thu, 7pm: Matt Kennon, Morgan Frazier, Haley & Michaels. 14+ with ID. $10. Sun: Gretchen Wilson. 21+. $15. San Jose.
ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 & 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Butch Bradley. $13-$19. Sunnyvale.
Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
THE SADDLE RACK
7 STARS BAR & GRILL Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. Mon, 8pm: Trivia. San Jose.
of San José
Wed, 6pm: Phil Vassar, the California Cowboys. $20. Thu, 9pm: Icy Hot Club. Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Live country music. Fremont.
Emily Ray
SAM’S BBQ
Portuguese Dances nos. 3, 5, and 6 Armando J. Fernandes Violin Concerto Carlos Damas, violinist João D. Bomtempo Symphony no. 2
Five Wounds Portuguese National Church 1375 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose (Free parking in the lot next to 28th St.)
Tickets: $25 general, $20 senior, $12 student & $10 child Order tickets online at www.missionchamber.org For more information call 408.236.3350
Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
BRANHAM LOUNGE Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.
BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank. San Jose.
BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.
BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.
BRIX Tue, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
THE COURT’S LOUNGE Thu & Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. Sat, 8:30pm: Joe or Darryl. Campbell.
DASILVA’S BRONCOS Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
ALEX’S 49ER INN
THE WOODSHED
APPARITION
Wed-Sat & Tue, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.
Even second Thu: Gothic, industrial karaoke. Club Lido, San Jose.
FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY
AZÚCAR LATIN BAR
Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.
Wed: 8pm-midnight: Karaoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish). San Jose.
GALAXY
Open Mic/ Comedy
Ruy Coelho
BOSWELL’S
Wed, 6pm: Matt & George and Their Pleasant Valley Boys. Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special. San Jose. Sat, 7:30pm: Steve Seskin, Julia Sinclair, Liz Longley. $18/$22. Sun, 7pm: Doug Young’s Acoustic Guitar Night. $10. Los Gatos.
Sunday, June 9, 3:00 p.m.
Wed, Fri & Sun, 9pm-1am: Wildside Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO.
Fri, 8pm: Blake McMurray and Friends. Sat, 8pm: Dogcatcher. Mountain View.
Carlos Damas, violinist
BOGART’S LOUNGE
MISSION PIZZA
RED ROCK COFFEE
Music of Portugal
Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.
Sat, 7pm: Hootenanny. San Jose. Thu, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Fri, 7pm: Prairie. Sat, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers & Friends jam. Fremont.
Music Director and Conductor
BLUE PHEASANT
Wed, 7pm: Downtown Comedy Night feat. Anthony Hill, Matt Gubser, Melanie Bega. 18+. $10/$12. Gilroy.
THE GRAPEVINE
Mission Chamber Orchestra
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BAMBOO LOUNGE Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer/songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.
Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
THE BEARS
EFFIE’S RESTAURANT
Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.
Fri, 9pm: Darryl. San Jose.
GILROY BOWL
BENNIGAN’S GRILL
Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.
Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
CITY ESPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.
IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Feraz Ozel’s Comedy Kebab. $12. Thu, 7pm, Fri-Sat, 7 & 10pm: Jo Koy. $30-$35. Sun, 7pm: Full Throttle Comedy. $12. San Jose.
JOHNNY V’S Wed: The Cypher. Hip-hop open
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY
THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE
Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
BLUE MAX
HUDDLE
Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.
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GREG BENNICK plus Alpha & Omega also FocusedXMinds and Young Turks Ecophagy $RS ONLY s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M 4HURSDAY -AY ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 16+
DECAPITATED plus Decrepit Birth !DV $RS s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M
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Friday, May 31 AGES 16+ !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M &RIDAY -AY ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 21+
THE BILLY MARTINI SHOW
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HazeXperience $RS s $RS P M P M
Saturday, June 1 AGES 16+ !DV $RS s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M Saturday, June 1 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 16+
The Holdup
CRUZMATIK
!DV $RS s P M P M
Tuesday, June 4 ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 21+
CHUCK FENDA plus Messenjah Selah !DV $RS s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M June 5 New Found Glory (Ages 16+) June 5 Fools Gold Atrium (Ages 16+) June 6 Juicy J/ ASAP Ferg (Ages 16+) June 6 Boostive Atrium (Ages 16+) June 15 IAMSU/ HBK (Ages 16+) June 22 The English Beat (Ages 21+) June 29 Streetlight Manifesto (Ages 16+) July 2 Face To Face (Ages 16+) July 16 Black Flag (Ages 16+) July 25 Guttermouth/ Agent Orange (Ages 16+) July 26 Del The Funky Homosapien (Ages 16+) Aug 2 Xavier Rudd (Ages 16+) Aug 17 Tainted Love (Ages 21+) Sep 22 Tech N9ne (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online
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salsa, house, hip-hop & more. Mon: Salsa. San Jose.
FAHRENHEIT
AGENDA
JOHNNY V’S
Most Fri: Hip-hop, Top 40, club hits. Tue: 4 the Love of Tuesdays. San Jose.
Thu, 9pm: Slap!. Fri, 9pm: Traffic. Mon, 9pm: Retoxx. Tue, 9pm: Trap Shop. San Jose.
THE BLANK CLUB
KATIE BLOOM’S
LIQUID
Thu, 9pm: Atomic. $5. San Jose.
Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. Campbell.
BRANHAM LOUNGE
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S
Thu: Audio Revolution with DJs Jason Dee & Hi-Grade. Fri: Quality Control. Sat: Cocktails & Dreams. Tue: Irie Nights with DJs Hi-Grade & Tesfa. San Jose.
34 JOHNNY V’S Sun: Sunday Funday karaoke. No cover. San Jose.
KATIE BLOOM’S Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
KOJI SAKE LOUNGE First & Third Thu, 7pm: KJ Bob and Starmaker. San Jose.
Wed, 9pm: Cabaret Karaoke with DJ JR. Los Gatos.
OFFICE BAR Fri-Sat, 9pm, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.
PURE LOUNGE 408 Fri: Pure Ladies’ Night: Hello Kitty Party. Sat: Pure Saturdays: Boot Camp. Sunnyvale.
STATION 55 Thu: JR. Sun: JR Diaz Family Karaoke. Tue: James. Gilroy.
Dance Clubs
Thu, 9pm: DJ Scotty Boy. Fri: Fly School Ruckus. Sat, 9pm: BeatzBoutique, DJ Goldenchyld. Los Gatos. Thu-Sat: DJs. Los Gatos.
Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.
Mon & Wed, 9pm: Darryl. Milpitas.
LOS GATOS BAR AND GRILL
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S
RUDY’S PUB
TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR
Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays. Thu, 9pm: Liquid. Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJs & dancing. $10. Mon: Industry. Tue, 9pm: Turn Up Tuesdays. San Jose.
BRIT ARMS ALMADEN
SONOMA CHICKEN COOP
Thu, 10pm: DJ Dinero. San Jose.
Thu-Sat, 9pm: Late Night at the Coop. San Jose.
BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN
STATION 55
Fri: DJ Benofficial. Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.
Sat: DJ dance party. Gilroy.
STUDIO8 AZÚCAR LATIN BAR
THE ELEGANT PUB
Thu, 9pm: DJ party. Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am: Live music & DJs,
Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Checo. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.
Fri: Summer Jump Off. Sat: Hot Import Models with DJ Adam Cova. San Jose.
San Francisco’s City Guide
INSANE CLOWN POSSE Get there early to see hipsters dutifully photographing Juggalos in line. May 29 and 30 at Oakland Metro.
TAME IMPALA AC/DC may have rocked and Midnight Oil bellowed, but these Aussies warp your mind. May 29 at the Fox Theatre.
!!! Sacramento-by-way-of-Brooklyn band hits nonstop dance party on new album, ‘Thr!!!er.’ May 30 at Rickshaw Stop.
LUDOVICO EINAUDI KXd\ @dgXcX Find more San Francisco events by subscribing to the email newsletter at www.sfstation.com.
Profilific Italian composer whose work spans from the piano cycle ‘Le Onde’ to the film ‘Black Swan.’ Jun 1 at the Warfield.
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Classically-tinged instrumentals from New Mexico duo connected to both Beirut and Neutral Milk Hotel. Jun 2 at Cafe du Nord.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578844 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OnTrack Home Inspections, 3507 Palmilla Drive, #4144, San Jose, CA, 95134, David S Morgan. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/David S Morgan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/23/2013. (pub Metro 5/29, 6/05, 6/12, 6/19/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578550 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dolcetto Cafe and Market, 1399 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125, Italian Market and Cafe LLC, 1195 Coolige Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. 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/Laura Mills Manager #201311010092. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/16/2013. (pub Metro 5/29, 6/05, 6/12, 6/19/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577800 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Allure Flower Decor, 1271 Story Rd., #10, San Jose, CA, 95122, Aline T. Le, 1520 E. Capitol Expressway, #121, San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #533019 with changes /s/Aline T. Le This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/25/2013. (pub Metro 5/22, 5/29, 6/05, 6/12/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578708 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: YakiniQ SJ, 1783 West San Carlos St., San Jose, CA, 95126, Daeho Hwang, 405 Serrano Dr., San Francisco, CA, 94132. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Daeho Hwang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/20/2013. (pub Metro 5/29, 6/05, 6/12, 6/19/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578746 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Leah Jay Artworks, 1684 Zinnia Lane, San Jose, CA, 95124, Leah B. Jakusovszky. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Leah B. Jakusovszky. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/21/2013. (pub Metro 5/29, 6/05, 6/12, 6/19/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578692 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Murray’s Carpets Upholstery and More, 649 Shadow Creek Dr., San Jose, CA, 95136, Shane 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/Shane Murray. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/20/2013. (pub Metro 5/29, 6/05, 6/12, 6/19/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578632 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Planiotes4, 1022 Cranberry Dr., Cupertino, CA, 95014, George Pappas, Adriani Pappas. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/17/13. /s/George Louis Pappas. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/17/2013. (pub Metro 5/29, 6/05, 6/12, 6/19/2013)
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listed herein on 2/1999. Refile of previous file #499392 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Terry Jiminez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/20/2013. (pub Metro 5/29, 6/05, 6/12, 6/19/2013)
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578538 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OSO Pepper Company, LLC, 192 Venado Way, San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state of California. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2013. /s/Vincent Verret Vice President #2012223410030. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/15/2013. (pub Metro 5/22, 5/29, 6/05, 6/12/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578543 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Almaden Press, 2549 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Stone Publishing. 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 10/2001. Refile of previous file #502715 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Harold G. Timmons CFO #C2362942 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/16/2013. (pub Metro 5/22, 5/29, 6/05, 6/12/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578642 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mr. Ben Studio, 246 Cresta Vista Way, San Joe, CA, 95119, Benjamin Corrales. This business is conducted by a individual. Above entity was formed in the state of California. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2013. /s/Benjamin Corrales. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/17/2013.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578140 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: O’Reilly Auto Parts #4429, 3015 Monterey Rd., San Jose, CA, 95111, CSK Auto, Inc., 233 S. Patterson Ave., Springfield, MO, 65801. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of Arizona. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tom McFall Treasurer #C0636520 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/07/2013. (pub Metro 5/22, 5/29, 6/05, 6/12/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578380 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fusion Cuisine Catering, 3442 Kohler, San Jose, CA, 95148, Jorge Pena, Charles Fernando De La Torre, Jr., Newark, CA, 94560. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/10/2013. /s/Jorge Pena This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/10/2013. (pub Metro 5/22, 5/29, 6/05, 6/12/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577325 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Recess 101, 15732 Los Gatos Blvd., #125, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Phouc Nguyen. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/01/13. /s/Phouc Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/15/2013. (pub Metro 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/05/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578109 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Viet Save Coupons, 2296 S. King Rd., San Jose, CA, 95122, Thuy Thanh Tran. This business is
conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/06/2013. /s/Thuy Thanh Tran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/06/2013. (pub Metro 5/22, 5/29, 6/05, 6/12/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578183 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Metropolitan Planning Group, Inc., 579 Clyde Avenue, Suite 340, Mountain View, CA, 94043, Metropolitan Planning Group. 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 7/13/2013. /s/Geoff I. Bradley President #C2899232. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/07/2013. (pub Metro 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/05/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577837 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silver Linings-Services for Seniors, 2508 Lansford Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125, Marianne McPherson Malik. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Marianne McPherson Malik. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/26/2013. (pub Metro 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/05/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577731 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Evonne’s Residential Care Facility #1, 2719 Pentencia Creek Rd., CA, 95132, Philomena Agbontaen. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under
the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Philomena Agbontaen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/24/2013. (pub Metro 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/05/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577482 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vigilant Consulting Security & Trading Co., 1832 Queen Elizabeth Wy., San Jose, CA, 95132, Matt Vigil. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Matt Vigil This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/18/2013. (pub Metro 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/05/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578135 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Original 420 Brand, 14938 Camden Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Wade Atteberry, 5104 Westmont Ave., #7, San Jose, CA, 95130. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Wade Atteberry. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/06/2013. (pub Metro 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/05/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578081 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Quik Stop Market #94, 1510 Mt Pleasant Dr., San Jose, CA, 95127, Rohit S. Subhra, 3047 Bayberry Lane, San Jose, CA, 95148, Bhawna Subhra. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Rohit S. Subhra. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578061 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bali Spa, 2373 Pruneridge Ave, #2, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Christine Fu, 1660 Triton Ct., Santa Clara, 95050, Chung Hsiao Fu. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Christine Fu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/03/2013. (pub Metro 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/05/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577735 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Back N Balance, 5754 Santa Teresa Blvd., San Jose, CA, 95123, Zhouran Wang, 305 E. Empire, San Jose, CA, 95112, Hong Juan Wang. This business is conducted by copartners. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Zhouran Wang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/24/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #578110 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Postal Annex+ Store 396, 5655 Silver Creek Valley Rd., San Jose, CA, 95138, LaVinski Jones, 3977 Country Vista Ct., San Jose, CA, 95121, Tracey Jones. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/LaVinski Jones. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/06/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577792 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Thirst Tea, 150 S. 1st St., #118, San Jose, CA, 95113, Christopher Yao, 525 Falcon Place, San Jose, CA, 95125, Jenq- Yuan Yao, Florence Hsieh. 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/Christopher Yao. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/25/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577928 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: C2SV, 550 South 1st Street, SVSX, LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. 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/Dan Pulcrano Managing Member #201222610192. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/30/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577944 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Farmers Union, 151 W. Santa Clara, San Jose, CA, 95113, 151 Partners, 8 N. San Pedro, Ste. 300, San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. 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 Mssinger Managing Member #201234510006 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/30/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Panicale, 830 Stewart Dr., STE 143, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, Yoon Suk Song, 1575 Tenaka Place., Apt 2v, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. This business was conducted by an Individual. Filed in Santa Clara county on 7/21/2011. Under file no. 553941. /s/Yoon Suk Song. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/15/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577898 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hurricane Roses, 1018 Bird Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, David Cohen, Michael Arnoldi, 2743 Almaden Rd., San Jose, CA, 95125, Angi Lemucchi, 360 Hyde St., San Francisco, Ca, 94109, Jon Havens, 3110 Dakan Ct., #4, San Jose, CA, 95136, Alexander Ethan Sanchez, 20891 Almaden Rd., San Jose, CA, 95120, Jesse Sotelo, 5770 Winfield Blvd., #15, San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/29/2013. /s/David Cohen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/30/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
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Investments, 1313 N. Milpitas Blvd., #245, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Adriana De Anda, 3241 Pinkerton Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on January 2011. /s/Adriana De Anda This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/26/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
real estate SALES 2 LEGAL PARCELS, END OF ROAD, RIGHT IN TOWN Garden paradise w/SW exposure & End of Rd. privacy. Sunny side of Hwy 9 w/ tons of trees & good balance of sun/ shade. Dual access from Fairview Rd & Highland Dr. Adjacent, contiguous parcel 090-061-37 also avail. Both have survey of record. Just minutes to town. View of Coastal Mtns., Near Camp Joy neighborhood. Fire Hydrant at lot line, each parcel $119,000 or both $180,000. Owner financing avail. Call Debbie @ 408-395-5754 or visit: www.donnerland.com.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577839 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Genesis Realty, 1313 N. Milpitas Blvd., #235, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Adriana De Anda, 3241 Pinkerton Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on January 2011. /s/Adriana De Anda This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/26/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
BAVARIAN SKIES Private driveway to 145 Acres, consisting of 8 parcels. Spectacular ridge top, Pristine, Untouched, Quiet, Serene, & Off-The-Grid. Potential for solar or wind power. Access off of Logan Creek Rd. Owner Financing. Offered at $495,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #577930 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Notehouse Publishing, 2322 Cory Ave., San Jose, CA, 95128, Bill Cefalu. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Bill Cefalu This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/30/2013. (pub Metro 5/08, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29/2013)
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2 LEGAL PARCELS, END OF ROAD, RIGHT IN TOWN Garden paradise w/SW exposure & End of Rd. privacy. Sunny side of Hwy 9 w/ tons of trees & good balance of sun/ shade. Dual access from Fairview Rd & Highland Dr. Adjacent, contiguous parcel 090-061-37 also avail. Both have survey of record. Just minutes to town. View of Coastal Mtns., Near Camp Joy neighborhood. Fire Hydrant at lot line, each parcel $119,000 or both $180,000. Owner financing avail. Call Debbie @ 408.395.5754 or visit: www.donnerland.com.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21–April 19): Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools. To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,” she said, “it’s good enough for us.” She was dead serious. I suspect you may soon have to deal with that kind of garbled thinking, Aries. And it may be impossible to simply ignore it, since the people wielding it may have some influence on your life. So what’s the best way to deal with it? Here’s what I advise: Be amused. Quell your rage. Stay calm. And methodically gather the cool, clear evidence about what is really true.
TAURUS (April 20–May 20): A few weeks ago, the principal at a school in Bellingham, Wash., announced that classes would be canceled the next day. What was his rationale? A big storm, a bomb threat, or an outbreak of sickness? None of the above. He decided to give students and teachers the day off so they could enjoy the beautiful weather that had arrived. I encourage you to make a similar move in the coming days, Taurus. Take an extended Joy Break—maybe several of them. Grant yourself permission to sneak away and indulge in spontaneous celebrations. Be creative as you capitalize profoundly on the gifts that life is offering you. GEMINI (May 21–June 20): In Japan, it’s not rude to slurp while you eat your ramen noodles out of a bowl. That’s what the Lonely Planet travel guide told me. In fact, some Japanese hosts expect you to make sounds with your mouth; they take it as a sign that you’re enjoying your meal. In that spirit, Gemini, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be as uninhibited as you dare this week—not just when you’re slurping your noodles, but in every situation where you’ve got to express yourself uninhibitedly in order to experience the full potential of the pleasurable opportunities. As one noodleslurper testified: “How can you possibly get the full flavor if you don’t slurp?”
CANCER (June 21–July 22): Here’s a thought from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “A person will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push that door.” I’d like to suggest that his description fits you right now, Cancerian. What are you going to do about it? Tell me I’m wrong? Reflexively agree with me? I’ve got a better idea. Without either accepting or rejecting my proposal, simply adopt a neutral, open-minded attitude and experiment with the possibility. See what happens if you try to pull the door open. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): If you have been waiting for the right moment to perfect your party skills, I suspect this might be it. Is there anything you can do to lower your inhibitions? Would you at least temporarily consider slipping into a chronic state of fun? Are you prepared to commit yourself to extra amounts of exuberant dancing, ebullient storytelling, and unpredictable playtime? According to my reading of the astrological omens, the cosmos is nudging you in the direction of rabble-rousing revelry.
VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Where exactly are your power spots, Virgo? Your bed, perhaps, where you rejuvenate and reinvent yourself every night? A place in nature where you feel at peace and at home in the world? A certain building where you consistently make good decisions and initiate effective action? Wherever your power spots are, I advise you to give them extra focus. They are on the verge of serving you even better than they usually do, and you should take steps to ensure that happens. I also advise you to be on the lookout for a new power spot. It’s available. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Reverence is one of the most useful emotions. When you respectfully acknowledge the sublime beauty of something greater than yourself, you do yourself a big favor. You generate authentic humility and sincere gratitude, which are healthy for your body as well as your soul. Please note that reverence is not solely the province of religious people. A biologist may venerate the scientific method. An atheist might experience a devout sense of awe toward geniuses who have bequeathed to us their brilliant ideas. What about you, Libra? What
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excites your reverence? Now is an excellent time to explore the deeper mysteries of this altered state of consciousness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): When explorer Ernest Shackleton was planning his expedition to Antarctica in 1914, he placed this ad in London newspapers: “Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.” Would you respond to a come-on like that if you saw it today? I hope not. It’s true that your sense of adventure is ratcheting up. And I suspect you’re itching for intense engagement with the good kind of darkness that in the past has inspired so much smoldering wisdom. But I believe you can satisfy those yearnings without putting yourself at risk or suffering severe deprivation.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “I’d rather not sing than sing quiet,” said the vivacious chanteuse Janis Joplin. Her attitude reminds me a little of Salvador Dali’s. He said, “It is never difficult to paint. It is either easy or impossible.” I suspect you Sagittarians may soon be in either-or states like those. You will want to give everything you’ve got, or else nothing at all. You will either be in the zone, flowing along in a smooth and natural groove, or else totally stuck. Luckily, I suspect that giving it all and being in the zone will predominate.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): In 1948, Nelson Mandela began his fight to end the system of apartheid in his native South Africa. Eventually he was arrested for dissident activities and sentenced to life imprisonment. He remained in jail until 1990, when his government bowed to international pressure and freed him. By 1994, apartheid collapsed. Mandela was elected president of his country and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Fast-forward to 2008. Mandela was still considered a terrorist by the United States and had to get special permission to enter the country. Yikes! You probably don’t have an antiquated rule or obsolescent habit that’s as horrendous as that, Capricorn. But it’s past time for you to dissolve your attachment to any outdated attachments, even if they’re only mildly repressive and harmful. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): As a renowned artist, photographer, and fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld has overflowed with creative expression for 50 years. His imagination is weird and fantastic, yet highly practical. He has produced a profusion of flamboyant stuff. “I’m very down to earth,” he has said, “just not this earth.” Let’s make that your mantra for the coming weeks, Aquarius: You, too, will be very down to earth in your own unique way. You’ll follow your quirky intuition, but always with the intent of channeling it constructively. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): In the following passage, French novelist Georges Perec invites us to renew the way we look upon things that are familiar to us. “What we need to question,” he says, “is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us.” A meditation like this could nourish and even thrill you, Pisces. I suggest you boost your ability to be sincerely amazed by the small wonders and obvious marvels that you sometimes take for granted.
Homework: Name one of your least useful attitudes: a belief or perspective you know you should live without, but which you haven’t had the courage to banish. Freewillastrology.com
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