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Three Thr ee Amigos A Amigo s There is life There life af after ter GE GEORGE ORGE SHIRAKAWA SHIRAKAWA JR.,, as thr three aree pr proving JR. ee men m ar oving with varying degr degrees eees of success. First First there’s there’s EEDDIE DDIE GGARCIA, ARCIA, who w worked as chief of staff ffor or the in incarcerated carcerated fformer ormer county supervisor. super visor. W When hen Shir Shirakawa akawa pleaded guilty guil ty in March, Marchh, h the county quickly canned his topp lieutenant. Gar Garcia cia took to FFacebook acebook to an nnounce ““an an end to public announce life,” lif e,”” and 233 friends f gave a thumbs-up to the status update—pr uupdate—proving oving the social seriously network seriou usly needs a dislike button. But B ut in Septemb September, ber, Gar Garcia cia made a glorious rreturn eturn by start starting ing the ““East East Side EEddie ddie Report,” R eport,”” a blogg dedicated to rrewriting ewriting history and nev never ver mentioning his complicit rrole ole in i defrauding defrauding taxpayers. taxpayers A nother man with w a new lease on lif Another lifee is VINOD SH SHARMA, ARMA, the fformer ormer CFO ffor or Santa CClara lara CCounty. ounty. FFound ound to be spinning ffacts acts about how how Shirakawa’s Shirakawa’s theft went undetected undetected by the finance agency, agencyy, demoted Sharma was de emoted to a deputy controller position Valley Medical contr oller posit tion at V alley M edical CCenter. enter. While While his h pay remains remains the same, mor moree or less, his h benefits have been rrestructured, estructur t t ed, d aaccording ccording di to t sour sources ces in i the th county Meanw while, renowned renowned HARVEY HARVEY county.. Meanwhile, R OSE auditor R OGER MIALOCQ MIALOCQ just scar ed ROSE ROGER scared the pants off tthe he contr oller ’s office controller’s by rreviewing eviewing bbooks ooks pr eviously under previously Sharma’s watch. But Sharma ’s watc ch. B ut the man who has escaped most unscathed so ffar ar is acting P olice CChief hief LA ARR RY EESQUIVEL, SQUIVEL, who is Police LARRY expected to ha ave the ““acting” acting”” part of his have title rremoved emoved any a day now n testimony now.. IIn previous shown at Shirakawa’s Shirakawa a ’s trial, the pr evious top cop in San Jose, Chris Chris Moore, Moore, rrecounted ecounted the time EEsquivel squivel br ought brought along Shirakawa Shirakaw wa and Councilman Councilman XAVIER XAVIER CA MPOS to a command c staff dinner CAMPOS dinner.. Shir akawa play yed the big shot and used Shirakawa played county funds ttoo pay part of the bill, fforcing orcing M oore to rreimburse eimburse the county Moore squivel also rreimbursed $400. EEsquivel eimbursed the county $100, but b he’s he’s never said why why.. He also pr eviouusly owned pr operty with previously property Shir akawa, whom whoom Moore Moore called one of Shirakawa, EEsquivel’s squivel’s “hig h school buddies.” W hile “high While unlikely, might unlikely y, it mig ht behoove city officials to find out just ho ow close EEsquivel squivel and and his his how old friend wer e. weree and still ar are.

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HARD HA ARD TIME Once the top electe elected d ofﬁcial in Santa Clara Count County, ty,

George Ge eorge Shirakawa Jr. will spend d time behind bars for stealing sttealing more than $130,000 in campaign c funds.

SShirakawa Shir akawa Getss YYear eear in Jail Seeconds after George Seconds George Shirak Shirakawa awa JJr. r. spend next rrealized e ealized he would sp end the ne xt yyear e in jail, a bailiff to ear took ok him b byy the th he arm and led him out of ccourt, ourt, t, wheree he w w wher was as rremanded emanded into cust custody. odyy. source A sour ce tells San JJose ose Inside that Shirakawa, Sh hirakawa, the fformer ormer ccounty o ountty supervisor guiltyy in su upervisor who pleaded guilt March M Mar ch to 12 ccounts ounts rrelated elated to his pilfering of campaign pi ilffering e campaign funds, funds, will serve se erve time in Alameda C County ountty jail jail. l. detailing Shirakawa’s Along with det ailing Shirak awa’s theft th heft of $130,0 $130,000 00 in ccampaign ampaign fun funds nds and an nd la lavish avvish use of a ccounty ountty charge charge ccard, a d, ar d deputy d deput ty District Di t i t Attorney Atttorney Kar K Karyn y yn Sinunu-Towery Si inunu--To owery delivered delivver e ed a damnin damning ng presentation pr resentation that showed Shirak Shirakawa’s awa’s

his crimes ﬁnal plea ffor o or leniency, leniencyy, that t were were strictly ccaused aused b byy a raging was gambling addiction, w a just the latest as li in lie i a ttale ale l off ccorruption orruptio ion and d gr greed. eed. d “We agree “W We agr ee with the jjudge’s udge’s decision,” District A Attorney tttorney JJeff eff R Rosen o osen said trial’ss cconclusion. “We after the trial’ onclusiion. “W We think that’s that ’s an appr appropriate opriate se sentence entence ffor or his o from om the public public..” cconduct. onduct. He stole fr “He will alw always ays y b bee disgrac d disgraced ed fformer ormer o supervisor George Shirakawa, sup ervisor Geor ge Shir rakawaa,” John John Williams, W illiams i , Shirakawa’s Shirakawa’s top ttop-dollar -dollar defense attorney, def feense at tttorney, said while w asking the judge ffor or a jail sentenc o sentencee lighter than a yyear. ear. “N “No o mat matter tter t what h he h do d does. es.” On that we ccan an all agr aagree. ee. — Josh Josh o K Koehn oehn

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DA Dr DA Drops o R ops Rape ape CCharges harges Against Bay A gainsst South B ay Nightclub N ightcclub IImpresario mpresario District A ttorney's offic The District Attorney's officee decided d id d las llast st week k to dr d drop op its i ccase ase ay Shafazand, the South against Ra Ray Bay Baay nightclub nightcclub impr impresario esario ac accused cused of rape last yyear. ear. rape Shafazand, Shafazan nd, who has b been een in the hospitality business sinc 84 and hospitality sincee 19 1984 previously previouslyy owned downtown San Jose’s Jose’s Cuccini, Cuccini, c Sabor Sabor and Myth Taverna and Lounge, was Taverna an nd L ounge, w as eexpected xpected to go to trial trrial in F February ebruary 2014. He was was accused accuseed of raping a woman who was was sleeping sleepin ng in a guest rroom oom in his house. house. He told San JJose ose Inside that his attorney attorneey deliv delivered ered ne new w findings in the ccase asee that the alleged victim and another anoth her woman conspired conspired to frame him him. m. “It was was tot ttotally ally a lie and I b believe elieve it was was fina financially ancially motivated,”” Shafazand d said. “It pr pretty ettty much ruined m myy lif life, fe, ruined m myy reputation. reputation n. Since Since the th he char charges ges wer weree filed in February Februarry 2012, Shafazand has divested divested fr from rom all of his nightclub operations operationss and b become ecome a hospit hospitality ality consultant, consultantt, he said. “My business is based on nm myy rreputation, eputation, and the nightlife nightliffe iss basic basically ally yyour our rreputation. eputation. So, So, I lost all a of that. My family suffered. suff ffeered. My M wif wife fe suff suffered.” ffeered.” Shafazan Shafazand, nd, 51, is still at attempting tempting to get his rrecord ecord ccompletely ompletely clear cleared ed by by the D DA A while he cconsiders onsiders get getting ting back into the t nightclub business business.. —J Josh oosh K Koehn oehn

THAT’S T HA AT ’S W WHAT HA AT H HE/SHE E / SH E SSAID AID “She started started 30 years ago in our ofﬁce very ery strong and passionate ve about justice. justiice. And she’s ﬁnishing stronger strong ger than she started.” — District Disstrict Attorney Attorney Jeff Rosen on his deputy pr prosecutor osecutor Karyn Karyn SinunuSinunu-Towery -To owery (pictured), (pictu ured), who will retire retire next month montth after successfully ar arguing guing to have fformer orrmer countyy Supervisor Super p visor George Geo org ge Shirakawa Shirakawa Jr. Jr. placed p in jjail ffor or one yyear year..

“I think the e next mayor needs to be someone someo one who heals, someone who can c keep the community co ommunity together and can so solve olve problems. If I don’t hear th that hat vision from m the other candidates, I am lik likely kely to jump in and run. … After Afte er seven year years rs of a strong mayor and going through economic hardship, we w don’t wantt the next person in line to be a political Machiavellian.” Karyn Ka aryn Sinunu-Towery

— San Jose Councilwoman Rose Ro ose Her Herrera rera on the possibility she will join the 2014 mayor’s mayor ’s race, race, which whicch appears to alr already eady have 12 candidates. candidaates.

Rose Herrera

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IINTERIOR N TER IOR CELEBRATION CELEBR ATION The San Jose Earthquakes E won the champio championship onship at the N North orth American League’s Paul tournament’s scorer. Soccer L eagu ue’s ﬁrst indoor tournament. P aul Child (#10) was the tourna ament’s top scorer r.

San Jose Sports H Hall a of F all Fame ame inducts ts P Paul Child, induc aul Child d,, star s striker for original Earthquakes origi nal Earthquak kes soccer team m BY B Y GARY GARY SINGH

N 1974, San Jose Jose w was as an absolute absolut te wasteland. wasteland. If one was w as a child c at that time, your parents pa arents took you to Eastridge for f fun, since it had just opened earlier. j p d a few years y earlier. That or you u went to Frontier Village. There The ere was was simply nothing else elsse to do here. When Milan Mandaric Man ndaric launched a North North American Ame erican Soccer League League franchise franchise in in San Jose Jose that year, yearr, everything g changed.

The original San JJose ose Ear Earthquakes thquak kes games Spartan Stadium ga ames jammed Spar tan St adium players eevery veery single time and the pla ayers human cconnected o onnected with eeveryone ver e yo one on a hum man level, le eveel,, giving San JJose ose its first eever veer professional sports identity. Theyy wer weree p roffessional e sp orts identit ty. The w working-class a ccommunity-based, ommunitty--based,, workingclass squad from beginning, sq quad fr om the vvery ery b eginning, a club c that many th hat ffor o or man ny of us put San JJose ose on n the time.. th he map ffor or o the first time star striker The first st ar strik er ffor or those o original Quakes o riginal Quak kees teams, teams, a young young Paul E Englishman named P aul Child, became scorer b ecame San JJose's ose's leading goal sc orrer through San th hrough 1979,, and subsequently Sa an professional soccer star. Next JJose's o ose's first pr offeessional so ccer st ar. N ext into w week he rreturns eturns to get inducted in nto the Sports Fame,, a th he San JJose ose Sp orts Hall of Fame

moment long o overdue. verduee. from Birmi ingham,, Child Initially from Birmingham, ccame ame up through through the A ston V iilla Aston Villa ffootball ootball club ’s yyouth outh ssystem, y ystem, , but b club’s byy age 19 the ccoach oach had deemed d him to o too old. Child ccame ame to the U .S. in 1972 to U.S. pla p ay in A ttlanta until th he team ffolded o olded play Atlanta the in 1973. He had actuall ly gone back actually to England,, to st ay at his h in-la aw ws' ﬂat, stay in-laws' b effo ore Milan Mandari alked him before Mandaricc ttalked into making a mo ove to o San JJose ose ffor o or the move Ear thquak kees' inaugura al season. N ow a Earthquakes' inaugural Now long gttime rresident esident of Pit P tttsburgh,, P enn., longtime Pittsburgh, Penn., Child still has ffond ond o me emories of those memories workingclass squads t fans working-class squads,, the fans,, the legendar ayeers he b atttled t against legendaryy pla players battled and his time in San JJose. osse. “Th team “The t w aas th l thing thi was the only San Jose Jose had,” Child recalled. recalled. “That's eat thing w what the gr aas—we were were great was—we ac cepted so gr eatly b t p eople, and accepted greatly byy the people, the fans as magic. magiic. We'd We'd e play plaay fans.. ... It w was our hear ts out ffor o or the fans ou o had a hearts fans,, yyou st adium that held 19,0 000 p eople and stadium 19,000 people it w aas packed pack keed eevery very gam me, and all yyou o ou was game,

w anted to do w aas send those p eople wanted was people home happ py and get a victor y.” happy victory. A es prided Att that time time,, the Quak Quakes themselv ess on a workingclass themselves working-class ment alitty ab aabove ove all else ty mentality else.. The majorit majority of the fans at eevery veery game had pr eviously met some of the pla ayeers previously players alr eadyy. N o one on the team w as in it already. No was ffor or the big bucks o ecause ther bucks,, simply b because theree wer en't an ny big bucks weren't any bucks.. “W We jus st had a bunch of har d“We just hardworking gu uys that w aanted to go out guys wanted and pla ay ffor o the p or eople who paid play people mone ome w aatch us pla ay,” said moneyy to ccome watch play, Child. ““As As I lo ok back on it now w, that look now, w as the rreal eaal diff ffeerence. N ow yyou ou was difference. Now ha ave the B eckhams of the world and have Beckhams all these st a of the teams ars stars teams,, but we just work ked har d ffor or o each other and worked hard had gr eat chemistr cchemistry. y. ... And the cit ty great city itself just ac aaccepted cepted us as the us.. That w was diff ffeerence.” difference. P erhapss the b est asp ect of those Perhaps best aspect da ayys, eitherr fr om a pla ayer er'ss p erspectivve days, from player's perspective or that as a yyouth outh in those cr owds, crowds, w as that so ome of the world's b est was some best ffootballers ootballerss par ticipated in that league participated during thee ’70s oach had ’70s.. After his ccoach writ ten him m off at 19,, Child w as able to written was ccome ome to th he U .S. and pla ay against P elé, the U.S. play Pelé, Franz Beck keenbauer, Gerd Gerd Mueller, Mueller, Beckenbauer, JJohann ohann Cru uyff ff,, Eusébio and Geor ge Cruyff, George Best,, essent tially all the legends he'd essentially gr own up idolizing iidolizing.. He would ne ver grown never ha ave pla ayed against those guys in have played England. Child sa ayys it's all ffodder odder ffor o or life's liffee's says lessons ttter what sp ort yyou're ou'r o e lessons,, no mat matter sport in. N ever giv ggivee up and yyou ou just Never ma ay wind up in some hall of fame may some where. somewhere. “When I left England,, I ffelt eelt at the b ottom off the barr el,” Child said. “It bottom barrel, w as the big ggest downer was biggest downer.. But then I get the opp portunity to pla ay against opportunity play all those gu uys II'd d gr own up w atching. guys grown watching. ... [It's lik eing in a slump] but likee b being then yyou ou get g out of that hole and yyou ou ne veer quit. That's what this is all never ab out,, it's to tell the yyounger ounger athletes about, that ar o oming along that yyou ou just aree ccoming don't quit.. Y o ou k eep on going You keep going,, and yyou'll ou'll ha ave yyour our ups and downs have downs,, but at the end,, if yyou ou just k eep on tr ying keep trying as har d as yyou ou ccan, an,, yyou'll ou'll ccome ome out hard smelling li ike rroses. oses.” like

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s deputies led G eorge Shirakawa Jr. away last Friday to begin serving a year-long county jail term—for charges that could have sent him to state prison for up to eight years—a 283page transcript sitting five floors beneath the courtroom escaped the media’s attention. It detailed a frantic, behind-the-scenes scramble for power that saw money shuffled amongst accounts and to consultants. Prosecutors now allege that the incarcerated former county supervisor engaged in a “Godfatherlike” conspiracy to strongarm East Side city council candidate Magdalena Carrasco out of the 2010 race. When the county supervisor and local Assemblywoman Nora Campos failed to muscle the candidate aside, Carrasco’s opponents stole the election by branding her a sympathizer of Vietnam’s communist government in a fraudulent mailer to Vietnamese-American voters. 14

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X MARKS M A R KS THE THE CLOUD C L OU D T Trouble rouble r seems to follow Sa San an Jose Councilman Xavier Xavier Campos wher wherever rever he goes goes..

Shirakawa Shirak awa aide and cconﬁdante onﬁdante Xavier the byy Xa avier v Campos Campos won th he election b a slim margin margin and w was ass sworn sworn in as a public p official of Am America’s merica’s 10th largest lar gest city city three three years yearss ago ago.. Campos Campos rrefuses efuses to ccooperate ooperate with w the legal investigation, in vestigation,, according accordin ng to grand jur juryy transcripts eexclusively xclusively obtained obtained by by Metro. Met ro. O Off 15 witnesses ccalled alled b before effo ore the late grand jur juryy in late l Octob October, er, only ttwo wo rrefused efused to an answer nswer questions from fr om pr prosecutors osecutors and jur jurors: ors: C Campos ampos and the mother of onee of Shirak Shirakawa’s awa’s children, childr en,, Linda Delgad Delgado, do, who served serveed as tr treasurer easurer to both. both. In fact,, after st stating taating his h name ffor or o the rrecord, ecord,, C Campos, ampos, thee br brother other of Assemblywoman A sssemblywoman N Nora ora C Campos, ampos, refused refused to eeven veen sa say ay what he do does e ffor es or o a living living. g. “I would lik likee to ans answer swer the grand jury’s jur y’s questions this morning m morning,” ,” Xa Xavier avvier Campos C ampos said. “I ha have ave b been een instructed

by by my my at attorney to orney to asser assertt m myy constitutional answer constitutio onal right not to ans wer any an ny question questiion or mak makee an any ny st statement atement duringg to today’s dayy’s p da pr proceedings.” oceedings g .” “Are “A Are yyou ou u in invoking nvoking that right when I ask k yyou ou yyour our o occupation?” ccupation?” inquired inquired Karyn K yn SinunuKar Sinunu-Towery, To owery, a top prosecutor proseccutor ffor or the Sant o Santaa Clara County County District Diistrict A Attorney’s ttorne t y’s offic office. e. “On thee instructions of m myy attorney, attttorney, I asser assertt m myy right not to testify,” testiffy,” Campos Camp a os rreplied. eplied. “Is Nora Noraa C Campos ampos yyour our sister sister?” ?” Sinunu-Towery Sinunu-Tower o y ask asked. ed. “On thee instructions of m myy attorney, attttorney, I asser assertt m myy right not to testify,” testiffy,” thee ccouncilman ouncilman rrepeated. epeated. “Mr. “Mr. Campos, Camp a os, what is yyour our right not to testify?” testtiffyy?” “On thee instructions of m myy attorney, attttorney, I asser assertt m myy right not to testify.” testiffy.”

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Beffo Before ore C Campos ampos went to t work ffor o or Shirakawa, Shirakawa, he ser ved e as chief served op erating offic er of thee Me xican operating officer Mexican Americ an C ommunity Ser vices American Community Services A gencyy. Shor ds to op erate Agency. Shortt on fund funds operate i net its work k off char h ter scho h ols l, network charter schools, housing pr ojects and ssocial ocial projects ser vice pr ograms, the nonpr n oďŹ t service programs, nonproďŹ t misappr opriated $1 mi illion fr om misappropriated million from the rretirement etirement ccontributions ontrib butions of its own emplo yees. MA CS SA CEO Olivia employees. MACSA Soza-Mendiola and Ch hief F inancial Chief Financial O fficer Benjamin T aan wer w oth Officer Tan weree b both char ged with ffelony elon e y gr rand theft and charged grand subsequently pleaded guilt gguilty. y. C ampos, who at tend ded meetings Campos, attended during which the illega al div ersion of illegal diversion funds was was discussed, was was not charged. charged. U nlike Soza-Mendiola and T an, a he Unlike Tan, ccontinued ontinued to allow ded ductions to b deductions bee ttaken aken fr om his pa aychecck eeven ven after from paycheck management stopp ed dep ositing stopped depositing the funds into the rretirement etirrement plan ac count. He made rroughly ougghly $10,0 00 account. $10,000 in w asted p ension ccontributions, onttributions, wasted pension suggesting to pr osecutors that he prosecutors ma ay not ha ave understo ood what may have understood w as going on. â€œMer nowledge was â€œMeree kn knowledge of criminal activit n enough,â€?â€? activityy is not Sant ounty JJeff eff ff R o osen to ok Santaa Clara C County Rosen took pains to eexplain xplain in def feending the fe defending decision not to pr osecu ute C ampos, prosecute Campos, who has steadfastly de clined media declined questions ab out the mat m ter. about matter. In 2012, 16 da ays y afte ro days afterr Met Metro ďŹ rst rreported eported signs of Sup S ervisor Supervisor Shirak awaâ€™â€™s ccampaign ampaign la aw Shirakawaâ€™s law violations he failur violations,, including th the failuree to ďŹ le st atements of hi is p olitical statements his political ccontributions ontributions and the use of funds ffor o or gambling and pa ayym ments to family payments memb ers, C ampos scra ambled to members, Campos scrambled clean up his own pap e trail. er paper Though Delgado rreceived ecceived a pa aycheck as tr easurer to t b oth paycheck treasurer both

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â€œâ€œAre A Are yyou ou in invoking voking yyour our F Fifth ifth Amendment Right Right?â€? ?â€? â€œOn the instructionss of m myy attorney, assertt m myy ri right at torney, I asser ght not to testify.â€? testif fy.â€? A quick cconsultation onsultation n with a prompted Xavier Campos judge pr ompted Xa avvierr C ampos to invoke ccorrectly orrectly in voke his cconstitutional on nstitutional self-incrimination. right against self f-incrim mination. This isnâ€™t time,, how however, isn â€™t the ďŹ rst time wever, that Campos C ampos has h rrefused efused f d tto o eexplain xplain l i his hi activity, rrole ole in criminal activit ty, which seems surround wherever goes. to surr ound him wher rever he go es.

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NORA N OR A THE THE E EXPLORER XPLOR ER State Assemblywoman N Nora o Campos was accused ora of making threats to political opponents in grand ju jury ury testimony last month.

Assembly sp eaker pr oT eempore N Assembly speaker pro Tempore Nora ora Campos, Campos, and others to told old the grand jury enough to indict Shirak awa,, and jury Shirakawa, more charges chargges ccould ould b omingg. more bee ccoming.

The P Prelude reludee Magdalena C Carrasco’s arrasco’s entr entryy into the 2010 ccouncil ouncil rac racee ffor or o East E San JJose’s ose’s District 5 seat w was as nott well rreceived eceived byy the district b district’s ’s rulingg clique clique.. Grand juryy st jur statements atements show that no one was w as mor moree upset than Shirak S Shirakawa, awa, Xavier Xa avvier C Campos’ ampos’’ b boss oss at a the time time,, and Nora N ora C Campos. amp pos. Carrasco C arrasco plac placed ed a ccall a to Shirak all Shirakawa awa before b effo ore fformally o ormally annou announcing uncing her ccandidacy, andidacyy, “out of ccourtesy,” ou urtesy,” she told the grand jur jury. y. Th The he pair agr agreed eed to meet at a St Starbucks arbuckss to discuss her chanc chances. es. She quick quickly kly rrealized ealized the meeting w was as an anything nyyth hing but

business—it was personal. business— —it w as p ersonal. stated, ‘You “He st atted, ‘Y Yo ou will not get endorsement labor the endors sement of lab or and it is highly g y im improbable mpr p obable that yyou ou will get [Cham [Chamber mber of C Commerce]’s ommerce]’s endorsement, endorseme ent, which means that yyou ou win,’” Carrasco will not win,’ w ’” C arrasco said. ““‘And ‘A And winning,, yyour as a rresult esult of yyou ou not winning our futuree in San bee o over.’” futur S JJose ose will b ver.’” jokee The cconversation on nversation struck her as jok Shirakawa wasn’t smiling.. at ﬁrst, butt Shirak awa w aasn’t smiling “Because have never been “Bec ause I ha ave ne ver b een spoken likee that b before, sp oken to lik effo ore, I laughed,”” Carrasco told jury. C arrasco to old the grand jur y. “I was being punked, likee thought g Iw as b eingg punk p ed,, lik the show [Punk’ [[Punk’d]. d]. And so I kind of started around st arted looking looking o ar ound ffor o or a ccamera amera because was funny, b ecause I thought t it w as funn ny, and then I rrealized ealized it w wasn’t asn’t a jok joke, e, and I quick quickly kly rrealized ealized I w was as b being eing threatened. thr eatened d.

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This fraudulent mail piece had traces of George Shirakawa’s Shirakawa ’s DNA D NA on the stamp.. The stamp piece served to enrage Vietnamese V ietnamese i voters in East San Jose during the 2010 City Council race between Magdalena M agdalena Carrasco and Xavier Campos.. X avier Campos

I kind of st started tarted looking ar around round for a came camera era because I thought itt was funny funny, y, and d then I real realized lized it wasn wasn’t ’t a joke, and I quickly rea realized alized I was bein being ng threatened threatened. d. — MAGDALENA MAGDALENA CA CARRASCO RRAS CO O ON NAC CONVERSATION ONVERSA ATION WITH G GEORGE EORGE S SHIRAKAWA HIIRAKAWA JR.

ahead and ttaken aken your your steps steps,, yyou ou ha have ave decided this is what yyou o ar ou aree going to do,, ther do theree is no going b back ack now now, w, yyou ou know,, but ther know theree is a lott at st stake.’” ake.’” Meanwhile, Mean while, N Nora ora C Campos a os w amp was as flexing fle xing her own p political oliticcal muscle muscle,, meeting with C Carrasco’s arrasco’s thenccampaign ampaign manager manager,, Lis Lisa sa JJensen. ensen. Having Ha avving ser served ved on the planning p ccommission ommission with Xa Xavier avvieer C Campos ampos and a ccommunity ommunity ccommittee om mmittttee with Campos’ C ampos’ mother mother,, JJensen enseen figur figured ed the meeting would b bee a mostly ccordial ordial affair affair.. But JJensen, enseen, who at the time had her own p political olitical aspirations,, told the gr aspirations grand rand jur juryy that Nora N ora C Campos ampos thr threatened eaten ned her and Carrasco. C arrasco.

“Nora “N ora did d not suggest that I discourage from running,,” disc ourage Magdalena M fr om running JJensen ensen said.. “She did suggest that as a friend of lab llabor, or, as a friend of other friends of o ours, urs, that what I was was doing was wrong, myy ccandidate was w as wr ong, that m andidate w as a horrible human h b being eing who didn didn’t n’’t deserve have office, deser ve to ha h ave that offic e, that her brother was br other w ass far and aaway way the best best and the brightest bee there. brightesst and needed to b there. And threatening A d I rreferred effeerrred d to t it as thr th eatening t i in part part due to the tone of vvoice o oice she used with me partt due to an m and in par understanding strength understand ding of the str ength of the political Campos has.. political allies alliies that C ampos family has “It w was negative,” as very very negativ e,” JJensen ensen also told the jury. th he grand jur y. ““And And if A I had thought about great thougght ab out it at gr eat length, length, I w would ould ha have ave ffelt eelt as though it was threatening. was slightly sligh htly thr eatening. And I understand, know, understand d, yyou ou know w, she is ttalking alking about baby brother, right? ab bout her h b bab by br b other h , right i h ? She Sh doesn’t somebody doesn’t want wan nt someb ody who is friends of friends f of hers to work ffor or o opponent babyy br brother’s. an opp onent of her bab other’s. I just chalked protective chalk ked it up to pr otective older sisterr get getting little overly ttting a lit tle o verly aggressive.” aggr essive.” The rreal aggression later,, eal aggr ession ccame ame later in the fform secret orm o m of a secr et mailer that depicted C Carrasco a arrasc o as a ccommunist ommunist to Vietnamese Vietnam i mese vvoters oters in East San Jose. Jose. In statements stattements to the h grand d jur jjury, y, prosecutors Nora Campos prosecutors allege that N ora C ampos used money from State moneey fr om her 2010 St ate Assembly Assembly rac rracee to fund that illegal attack. attack.

The Bi Big ig P Payoff ayoff The ttwo-lane w wo-lan ne high highway hway of p political olitical ccontributions ontribution ns is a value eexchange xxchange all makee lit little its own. It would w mak ttle t sense give ffor or friends to o t giv ve one another equal money shortt span amounts off mone ey within a shor time,, butt ccampaign of time aampaign ccontributions ontributions bee ssymbolic, ccan an at timess b ymbolic, shows of support that supp ort tha at eeven ven out down the rroad. oad. But in the ssummer ummer and fall of 2010, money ﬂowed mone ey ﬂow wed in and out of ccampaign aampaign accounts ac counts in an unusual fashion ffor o or Shirakawa Campos siblings.. Shirak kawa and a the C ampos siblings Shirakawa’s Shirak awa’’s mone moneyy tr troubles oubles began b egan well b before effor o e his 20 2008 08 ccounty ounty supervisor sup ervisor ccampaign, ampaign, but the theyy grew race, gr ew worsee during the rac e, as he increasingly incr easinglyy raided the ccoffers off ffeers to fund Nora Campos trips to ccasinos. asiinos. N ora C ampos told jury Shirakawa—more the grand ju ury that Shirak awa—mor a e $100,000 byy the end than $10 0,0 000 in the rred ed b

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“I said to him, ‘I am sorr sorryy yyou ou hopee that if I ffeel eeel that way. way. I would hop h win that we ha have ave an op opportunity pportunity to together, theree iss a lot of work work to gether, ther to b bee done done.. On the Eas East st Side of San theree is a lot of ne needs.’ JJose ose ther eeds.’ I went on, yyou ou know know,, to tr tryy and app aappease ease him a little wasn’t lit tle bit. He w asn’t vvery erry pleased with He,, yyou know,, w was that cconversation. onversation. He ou know as ‘You know,, these vvery ery stoic and said, ‘Y You o know aren’t games,, M Magdalena. Theree is ar en’t games Magdalen d l na. Ther Th i a stake know, ou kn lot at st ake and, yyou now, we will happens. You have see what happ ens. Y ou o u ha ave gone

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SENTENCED S EN TENCED P Prosecutors roseccutors argued that George Shir Shirakawa rakawa Jr Jr. r. demonstrated sophistication in set setting tting up bank accounts to cond conduct duct secret transactions transactions..

of his ccampaign—called ampaign— calleed her to solicit $5,000 $5,0 00 to help rretire etire his h debt in the summer of 2010. Without Wiith hout asking him ffor o or mor moree inf information, fo ormaation,, she told prosecutors, pr osecutors, her ccampaign ampaaign sent o over ver a check on JJune une 24. Thee timing of that donation is curious ffor or or a ffew ew rreasons. easons. First, prosecutors believe F irst, pr osecutors b e ve the elie fraudulent mailers cconnected on nnected to Shirakawa—lab Shirak hi kawa—lab l b techn technicians hnicians i i testiﬁed iﬁ d that his DNA w was as cconclusively on nclusively matched to a st stamp amp on o one of the attack at tack piec pieces—went es—went out o sometime in or ar around ound Ma May ay 1, 20 2010, 010, and JJune une 8, 2010. Sec Second, ond, Shira Shirakawa akawa and Xavier Xa avvier C Campos ampos fr frequently equeently lunched, sometimes at ccounty ounty eexpense, xpense, and it’s it ’s unknown what th they ey discussed. Third, Thir d,, N Nora ora C Campos ampos ccontributed ontributed no moneyy to her own lit mone little t br tle brother’s other’s ccampaign. ampaign. makes $5,000—a “She mak kes e a $5,0 00—a 0 vvery eery large [Shirakawa] lar ge ccontribution ontribution to [S Shirak kawa] a shortly [Xavier’s] shor tly after [Xa avvier’s] primary p primar y win,” prosecutor Chase,, head of the pr osecutor JJohn ohn Chase DA’s government integrity D A’s go oveernment integ gritty unit,, told jury. strong the grand jur y. “And “A And that thaat is str ong circumstantial was cir cumstantial eevidence vvidence that this w aas

mor ontribution,, that this w aas moree than a ccontribution, was some sor sortt of o an aaward waard or something to Geor ge Shirak S kawa ffor or something he o George Shirakawa did. And what w he did w was aas participate participate in this fly yeer that’s th hat’s illegal.” flyer It’s It ’s unkn unknown nown how man manyy mailers,, ffeaturing fraudulentt mailers eaturing e Carrasco bold C arrasco next n xt to a b ne old rred ed star, ccommunist ommunisst flag with a yyellow ellow st ar, Vietnamese went out to t V iietnamese vvoters oters in i Carrasco East San JJose, o , but C ose arrasco and juryy that a JJensen ensen told d the grand jur flood angry days flo od of an ngry ccalls alls ccame ame in just da ays y before polls opened. b effo ore thee p olls op ened. first was “The firs st phone ccall all w as a vvery ery nicee V Vietnamese was nic iietnamese gentleman who w as desperately trying desp eratelly tr ying to eexplain xplain to me whyy I shou should never, wh uld ne ver, eever, ver, eever, ver, eever ver Carrasco send this out,” o ”C arrasco said. ““And And A I was trying didn’t w as tr yingg to eexplain xplain that that didn ’t me,, and wouldn’t ccome ome fr ffrom om m me d he h just j wouldn ld ’t have it.”” ha ave it. allergic flag,” “I am al llergic to that flag ,” Phong Tan T aan Huynh Huynh, h, who turned over over a mailer to the t D DA’s A’s offic office, e, told the grand jur jury. y. Xavier Xa avvier C Campos ampos won the primar primaryy election o over ver C Carrasco arrasco b byy just 20

[W]e wou would uld know like to kn now why h we are a not trying to indict Xavier. X avier a r. Is there enough not enoug gh evidence?? —GRAND —GRA ND JURY JUR RY MEMBER

I emailed someone on the editorial board,” don’t b oard,”” he said. “But I don d ’t think theree w was anyy rresponse.” ther as an esponsee.” moneyy trail fr from Nora The mone om mN ora Campos’ C ampos’’ ccampaign ampaign to iillegally llegally fund little brother’s her lit ttle t br other’s candidacy cand didacy ccould ould be be greater much gr eater than $5,000, $5,0 000,, though. Ass she at attempted transition A tttempted to tra ansition out of seat spot the District 5 ccouncil ouncil se eat to a sp ot State Assembly, in the St ate A ssemblyy, her h ccampaign ampaign employed political emplo oyed a team of p o olitic al McGovern cconsultants—Ed onsultants—Ed McGo overn (for (ffo or $45,089) Ryan $45,0 89) and the duo R yan y Ford Ford and Rolando (for R olando Bonilla (f o fo or $20,639)—at $2 20,639)—at a total three tot al ccost ost of $65,728. These Th hese thr ee also worked Xavier Campos’ work ed on Xa avvier C am mpos’’ council council ccampaign, ampaign, but free free of charge. charge. Torres, worked Omar T o orres, who work w ed on the sincee ccouncilman’s ouncilman’s ccampaign ampaign n but has sinc favor Campos fallen out of fa avor with h the C ampos testimonyy clan, said in his grand jur jjuryy testimon that the cconsultants—especially onsultants— — especially Ford F ord and Bonilla—were Bonilla—werre a cconsistent onsistent presence race pr esence during the ra ace against Carrasco. C arrasco. particular The timing of one p articular payment Nora Campos pa ayyment N ora C ampos o made to

Ford Ford and Bonilla B app appears ears esp especially ecially conspicuous. conspicuou us. Xa Xavier avier v C Campos ampos w was as unemployed unemployed e and shor shortt on funds late in the fall f runoff against Carrasco, and according Torres, Carrasco, an nd ac cording to T orres, o many staff many within with hin the ccouncilman’s ouncilman’s st aff thought “h “he was he w as going to lose the campaign.” campaign.” But on Oct. O 25, 25, 2010,, just a week before beffor o e the election, e , he loaned himself $10,000—roughly moneyy $10 000—r $10,0 0 roughly hl the th same mone he would later laater fforgive o orgive when his delinquent ccampaign ampaign fforms o orms ccame ame to light. Less Less than t a week after the 2010 runoff elect election, Campos tion, which Xavier Xaavvier C ampos won b byy fewer 400 Nora fewer w than 40 0 vvotes, otes, N ora Campos made one-time payment Campos ma ade a one -time pa ayyment of $10,150 to F Ford ord and Bonilla. Torres was partt of the C Campos To orres w as not par ampos campaign’s circle, campaign’s inner cir cle, but in a conversation con nversatio on after the election, he told Carrasco ld C arrassco he h rregretted egretted d his hi rrole ole l in i the race. don’t theyy race. “I said I don ’t know if the did it, I don don’t happened,” n’t know what happ ened,”” Torres jurors, To orres told d grand jur ors, “but that the ccampaign was pretty slimy.” ampaiign w as pr ettty slim y.” Three Later Three Years Years e L ater Last Friday, day Last Frid daay, the same da ay his close friend and p political olitical mentor went to jail, Xavier Campos Xaavier v C ampos filed rre-election e- election papers cityy clerk’ clerk’ss papers with h the San JJose ose cit office, officee ffor office, seeking seekiing to rremain emain in offic o or another Through staffer h ffour ou o ur yyears. ears. Thr h ough h a st aff ffer ffe he declined d rrequests equests to ccomment omment ffor o or this story. story. the investigation While th he FPPC in nvestigation into his 20 2010 likely 10 ccampaign ampaign will lik ely be byy the time vvoters be complete complette b oters go to the p polls Shirakawa’s ollss in JJune, une, Shirak awa’s mail fraud trial ccould bee ould vvery ery well b ongoing. Nora ongoing. At At the same time, time, N ora Campos will bee ccampaigning Campos wi ill also b ampaigning ffor o or another term State Assembly. terrm in the St ate A ssemblyy. Her office office also a declined ccomment omment ffor o or this story. story. As As prosecutors prosecutors eexplained xplained to the grand jur jury, one’s y, eexercising xercising one ’s right to not self-incriminate selff--iincriminate should not infer juror say: inffeer guilt. This led one jur or to sa ay: “Are likee “A Are we allowed—we alllowed—we would lik to know why aree not tr trying wh hy we ar ying to indict Xavier. theree not enough Xaavvier. Is ther evidence?” evidence?” Anotherr jur juror “You or jumped jumped in: “Y Yo ou can’t that.” can’t ask th hat.”” So, So, the questions q rremain, emain,, with Campos himself unwilling Campos him mself un willing to discuss what knowledge, any, know wledge, if an y, he had about mailers,, lick licked stamps, about fforged orgeed mailers o ed st amps, filings, odd payments missed filin ngs, o dd pa ayyments and the stealing of the 2010 election fr from om Magdalenaa C Carrasco. arrasco.

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votes, well within a slid votes, sliding ding sc scale ale of opinion. A similar at attack ttack piec piece ce went out in Shirakawa’s supervisor race, Shirak awa’’s 2008 2008 sup e visor rac er e, opponent, Richard depicting his opp onen nt, Richar d Hobbs,, as a ccommunist. “[W]hen Hobbs ommunisst. “[ W]hen theyy rreceive piecee of this natur nature, the eceive a hit piec e, it’s practically impossible it ’s practic ally imp ossib ble to rrespond espond lie,” Hobbs and debunk the lie ,” H obbs told the jury. didn’t grand jur y. He added that t he didn ’t police ccall all ll the th p olic li e but b t did email il the th Mercury News editorial board tryy Mer cury N ews editoria al b oard to tr and eexplain xplain to vvoters oters that t the mailer didn’t from didn ’t ccome ome fr om him.. ““As As I rrecall, ecall,

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Thanksgiving Break BITES

F THERE’S any holiday that would seem to celebrate home-cooking, it’s Thanksgiving. But going out for the meal has plenty of attractions, not least for those who might have otherwise hosted this high-pressure holiday meal. Going out to eat for Thanksgiving dinner is already a XXXXXXfor xxxsome xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx tradition families, and a number of Silicon Valley restaurants have Thanksgiving menus at the ready, giving everyone a pass this year on eating turkey sandwiches for a week and a half after the holiday. Here’s a sampling of local eateries serving Thanksgiving dinner:

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BISTRO VIDA Park) Chefs scene de Cuisine Aly El Safy Andreas Cisnero HE(Menlo BETTER-BEER continues itsand ascent will offerin a three-course of Thanksgiving classics with French the South menu Bay with Steins Beer Garden & cooking techniques. $39.95 per person.

Restaurant in downtown Mountain View set to open March 28. There will be wine and cocktails, but GRAVITY (Palo Alto) REPOSADO (Palo Alto) SCRATCH (Mountain View) The the primary focus willand beScratch on high-quality Steins chefs from Reposado, Gravity, are creating a beers. three-course will feature 30 taps and a menu of modern American Thanksgiving menu with bits and pieces of each other's style in each dish. comfort food crated byMexican-inspired executive chef and Area bar, the Between Thanksgiving turkey, dishes andBay an oyster native Colby Reade. combination of styles offers tradition as well as variety. All three restaurants will be serving same menu forTed $47-$52, choice of he entree. Owner andthe South Bay native Kim isbased a beeron enthusiast; tells me

that Steins is a salute to the traditional German beer halls and gardens, MACARTHUR PARK (Palo Alto) Variety is key for MacArthur's Thanksgiving which he experienced during his travels throughout Europe’s premier menu, whichDesigned offers a by meat carving station, chilledSteins seafood display and a beer cities. architect Marc Dimalanta, features a 300salad station. MacArthur's house specialties will be served as well. Adults seat, 8,000-square-foot domed interior room and a 4,000-square-foot $45, kids 6-12 $24, and kids under six are free. outdoor patio. Ted, with his contagious positive energy, says that he can’t wait LB STEAK (Menlo Park) LEFT BANK (Santana Row) Chef Roland Passot's fourfor folks to check out the “in-your-face, custom-made walk-in cooler” course menu will offer turkeycan forgaze $50.50 as the main entree. However, it next to the main bar. Guests at the unique direct-draw draft wouldn't be a classic American steakhouse without a beef offering, so a rib system—the tap handles are connected to the kegs, eliminating draft roast entree option is also available for $58.75. lines and helping to keep the beer at the highest quality and freshness levels. Having 30 draft beers is a manageable number for staff, Ted says: FAZ (Sunnyvale) Faz will offer a buffet for brunch, lunch and dinner, which “I want them to know exactly what we’re serving. I want to be able to will highlight Poursohi's distinctive Mediterranean-style cuisine, give genuinechef beerFaz recommendations, so ongoing beer education will be as well as Thanksgiving favorites. Children 12 and under $17.95, adults $38.95. important. ” The food will have a local, farm-to-table emphasis according to chef IL FORNAIO (Palo Alto) IL FORNAIO (San Jose) The restaurants offer both a Reade, and everything will be made in-house, including breads and prix-ﬁxe andofathe la carte fare.kitchen Butternut squash turkey pretzels.menu Because generous space, there soup, will also be in-with gravy and pumpkin pie will be served along with the restaurant’s usual house charcuterie, butchery and pickling programs. “We want to make Italian cuisine. Adults $39, children under 12 $18. food as fresh as the beer is,” says Reade, who embraces beer’s versatility in food pairing. MAGGIANO'S (San Jose) Maggiano's isn't straying far from the traditional Some examples from the tidy menu of 25 items include pork belly turkey with gravy, ham with sweet potatoes, and mashed potatoes with garlic, but the restaurant gives Thanksgiving an Italian spin, also throwing in pasta with meatballs, gnocchi with sausage and ravioli with mushrooms as options. Adults $36.95, children 5 -12 $17.95. MCCORMICK AND SCHMICKS (San Jose) This traditional American surf n' turf restaurant serves Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and all the trimmings. The restaurant specializes in seasonally available items as well fresh seafood. $24.99-$28.99. Child's plates are available, as well. RISTORANTE DON GIOVANNI (Mountain View) Every year, Ristorante Don Giovanni offers a free Thanksgiving dinner to say thanks to the community of Mountain View. Last year, more than 1,500 people came to eat.

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Fry Time

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Sharon “Shay” Nasol and her husband, Rico, were on a train ride back from San Francisco when hunger hit. “I couldn’t stop talking about how hungry I was and how I loved Rico’s French fries, especially his truffle parmesan fries,” she says. “The hungrier we got, the more topping ideas we came up with.” Following that afternoon of cravings, the Nasols were inspired to start the Small Fry food truck, which specializes in French fry-based dishes. Thicker cut Belgian-style French fries are the vehicle for sauces and toppings that expand upon the poutine trend. And Small Fry does serve the traditional poutine combo: French fries topped with brown gravy and cheese curds, though here it’s called the Montreal Fry, a nod to poutine’s Quebec origins. Each dish on the menu interprets the city that it is named after. The Seoul Fry, for instance, tops fries with Korean style spicy pork, homemade kimchee, grated cheddar cheese and a drizzle of red pepper sauce. The Hilo Fry riffs on the popular Hawaiian breakfast Loco Moco with a ground beef patty, brown gravy and a fried egg. Closer to home, the Berkeley Fry tops fries with tofu and vegan curry, and the comparatively minimalist San Jose Fry combines truffle oil, kosher salt and grated Parmesan cheese. Small Fry also serves plain fries—regular or sweet potato—with house-made dipping sauces such as garlic rosemary mayo, curry ketchup mayo, honey mustard and, of course, ranch. Orders of plain fries are $4 (choice of one dipping sauce included) while Signature and Specialty Fries (all the dishes named for cities) run $6 to $8. According to a post on their Facebook page, Small Fry is planning to organize a food truck event to raise funds for the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, which recently devastated areas of the Philippines. For Small Fry’s whereabouts, visit @eatsmallfry on Twitter or facebook.com/ eatsmallfry—Kristine Bautista

Drink Up

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Dishcrawl is starting a war that should be far from hell. Cocktail Wars comes to San Jose Dec. 10, pitting South Bay mixologists against each other for a spot in a national cocktail competition. Downtown San Jose’s Blackbird Tavern will be the scene of the throwdown. Many may enter, but only ﬁve bartenders will leave victorious, bound for a bout in the North American Spirits Championship against the top Cocktail Wars competitors from nine other cities around the U.S. On the line? Bragging rights for Best Cocktail, Most Creative, Best Tasting and Best Presentation. Guests at the Dec. 10 event will vote in these categories, aided by a tasting menu that showcases each competitor’s specialty. Celebrity judges will be on hand to weigh in as well. Admission is $10, with cocktails priced at $8 each. And all this sipping will not only determine which bartenders should be sent to defend local pride, but it’s also for a good cause. The event raises money for Silicon Valley Creates (formerly Arts Council Silicon Valley), which supports the local arts scene with artist grants and arts education programs. Later this month, Dishcrawl will announce the San Jose Cocktail Wars competitors at dishcrawl.com/cocktailwars. —Heather Zimmerman Share tips about the latest in food news with kbautista@metronews.com

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ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD

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HEIGHT AND AL LLOVER OVEER

Johnny V’s, V’s, San n Jose Wed, free before W ed, 9pm, fr ee bef ore 10pm/$3 after 10pm Wednesday V’s Every W ednesday Johnny V ’s impressive CCypher ypher series bbrings rings impr essive from names fr om thee national underground under ground hip-hop hip-hop scene to San Jose. This week w they have headliner: Baltimore a double headli ner: Bal timore rrapper apper Height ((from from “Height Friends”) and Friends ”)) and and San Francisco Francisco producer pr oducer Al LLover. ovver. Height is an eccentric offbeat, eccentr ric rrapper apper with owes a flow that owe es a major debt first to hip-hop’s hip-hop’s firs st wave (Sugar Hill Gang, Kurtis Kurtiss Blow). He’s He’s the been touring th he country the past decade with witth such diverse

names as th thee Animal Collective, Grand Buffet. Dan Deacon and Gr and Buff et. Al Lover, Lover, on the other hand, produces some way-out-theree pr oduces so me way-out-ther psychedelic, experimental beats. garageHe rrecently ecently produced produced a gar agerrock ockk rremix emix i aalbum, lb lbum, t ki songs by taking b TTyy Segall andd Thee Oh Sees and transforming weirdo tr ansformingg them into weir do instrumental instrumenta al hip-hop dance tracks. tr acks. (AC) (AC)

THE SHOW SH HOW MUST MUS T GO ON Stanford Me Stanford Memorial emorial Auditorium, P alo Al to Palo Alto Wed, W ed 7pm, ed, 7pm $10-$50 $10 $50 $ Acclaimed A cclaimed French French choreographer choreographer conceptual Jérôme and concept tual artist Jér ôme Bel has an eegalitarian galitarian way with castingg ffor or his work, The Show Must Go G On. Newbies get equal time on o stage with the pros—and pr os—and since s the show is

dropping dr opping by SStanford, tanford, Bel has included SStanford tanford students, and professional ffaculty, aculty, residents residents e professional dancers ffor or this latest edition piece. it’s of the pie ece. For Bel it ’s much moree inte interesting mor eresting to juxtapose all sorts t off diff ddifferent erentt ddancing i styles t l at once. IIt’s t’s not so much about the skill of o the movement, as it dancer’s is about each e of the dancer ’s self-expression, that’s self-expr ession, something that ’s underlined underline ed by the ffact act that each performer different perf ormeer is dancing to diff erent music on their headsets— that tunes tha at the audience cannot hear.. The piece, at least to the hear audience’s audience e’s ears, is set to pop and music, an nd songs like David Bowie’s ’s Dance" set the Bowie ""Let’s ’s "Let (AD) mood. (A D)

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““Acoustic” Acoustic” isn’t isn’t often synonymous with ““energetic,” e getic,”” but acoustic duo ener Andrew Andr ew w Jackson Jackson Jihad is the exception. Musically, aree borderline Musica allyy, the songs ar borderline campfire campfi fire sing-alongs,, and guaranteed, guarraanteed, will be filledwall filled wall to wall with the rroom ooomwill towallwith ffans ans singing sin nging every single word word at the interviewed topp of their t lungs. g When I inter viewed singer Sean S Bonette a couple years ago,, hee described their sound as ““sad sad s in happy,” the keyy of happy y,,”” because their lyrics aree dark ar darrk and uncomfortably uncomfortably honest. precisely This is pr ecisely whyy everyone sings along so loudly. s loudly y. ItIt’s ’s cathartic—almost celebratory—to just vent such truths celebrratory—to a within the context of happy music.. (AC) (AC)

RAIJU R AIJU

Netto’s Neto’s N t ’ Market M k t and d Grill, G ill Santa S t Clar Clara Cl ra Fri,, 8pm, $10. Berkeley’s Ber rkeley’s up and coming progressive pr o essive rrock ogr ock band Raiju catch that perfect tha at perf ect balance among melodic thrashing me lodic pop songwriting, thr ashing guitars gui tars and technical wizardry, wizardry, sort cross of llike ike a cr oss between Mastodon Theater.. They ar aree still andd Dream Dream Theater young, you ung, having just fformed ormed in March. hey, Ma rch. But hey y, metal is a young man’s ma n’ss sport, sport though they have the chops cho ops of musicians 10 years their senior. What’s sen nior. What ’s most impressive impressive is ttheir heir ability to go heavy then bring brin ng it down to gentle sweeping ballads—sometimes bal lads—sometimes within the same sam me song. (AD)

oncerts * cconcerts SO OY YOU OU TH THINK INK Y YOU OU CAN D DANCE ANCE Nov 23 at 7:30pm, 7 San Jose Civic

ZAC BROWN BAND

BEYONCÉ BE YONCÉ Dec 2 at SSAP AP Center

WYNONNA WYNON NA & THE BIG NOISE D 4 at San Jose Civic Dec

CRYSTAL CR RYSTAL BO BOWERSOX WERSOX Dec 6 (sold out) at a Montalvo Arts Center

JJAY AY Z Dec 11 at SSAP AP Center

THE TH HE LE LEGEND GEND OF ZELD ZELDA A Dec 14 at 7:30pm, 7 San Jose Civic

GREAT GREA AT T RUSSIAN RUSSSIAN NUT NUTCRACKER CRACKER Dec 14 at Flint Center

A CHARL CHARLIE LIE BR BROWN OWN XMA XMASS W W// D DAVID AVID V BENOIT Dec 15 att Montalvo Arts Center

MONTGOMERY NTGOMER RY GENTRY/CHARLIE GENTR RY/CHARLIE D DANIELS ANIELS B BAND AND Dec De ec 15 at San Jose Civic

TOWER T OWER W OF PO POWER/WAR WER/WAR Dec De ec 28 at San Jose Civic

JUSTIN JU USTIN TIMBERLAKE Jan 19 at SSAP AP Center

GEORGE GE ORGE SSTRAIT TRAIT Jan 30 at SSAP AP Center

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SNOWAPPLE SNO WAPPLE Artt B A Boutiki, tiki San S Jose J Sat, 7:30pm, $10

In one of SnowApple’s SnowApple’s YYouTube oouTTub ube videos, Amsterdam trio walkss the all-girl Amster dam ffolk olk tri io walk around cowboy ar ound TTexas, eexas,, gawking at cow wboy boots,, riding ar around tractors ound on tr actoors and old-timey plucking an assortment of old d-timey stringed instruments. They seem seeem like aliens in a strange strange new land. land. The they’ree playing should fit music they’r fi right South—some in with the American South— —some good honest Appalachian ffolk olkk tunes. tunes But in their hands, such ffamiliar amiliiar music changes.. SnowApple plays joy joyous, yous, sure, simple ffolk olk songs ffor or sur e,, butt they surreal also have a downright sur reall quality: Theree ar aree moments wher wheree th thee songs Ther morph sound less Americana and mo orph into sweeping,, calculated 1940s Hollywood H scores. (AC) C) film scor es.. (A

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Homestead Bowl & Thee X Bar Bar,r, C upertino Cupertino Sat 9pm, Sat, 9pm $10

SAP Center, SAP Centerr, San Jos Jose se Sat, 7pm, $40-$70

Unlike a lot of their contemporaries, contempor aries, local metalcore metalcor m e Firee Upp ar aree not sextet SStart tart the Fir out to play as ffast ast and loud as possible—well loud, yes, yees, but not ffast. ast. They do have som some me earthshatteringly ffast moments ast mome ents in their songs, but they pl play lay deep, heavy gr grooves ooves at a tempo tem mpo that most people can headhead-bang -bang to without getting g g whiplash. whipla p sh. As As intense as the songs ar are—and re—and the singer gr growls owls and screams scr s eams like a madman—the addition addition of keyboards keyboards adds a New Neew Wave Wave vibe to their otherwise otherwise heavy pummeling, aggressive aggressivee sound. But, make no mistake, this is deﬁnitely not pop music. musiic. (AC) (AC)

jammers Big time country jamm mers the Zac Brown aree comi coming Br own Band ar ing to San strength Jose off the str ength of their Best Grammy-winner Country Album Gr amm my-winner Uncaged. It continuess a string of gold and platinum cha chart art toppers that the quick picking picking, oot stomping g, ffoot seven-piece rips thr through ough during their mar marathon shows. athon live sh hows. This latest album sees thee band exploring new territory, some territoryy, with som me fforays orays into Caribbean Caribbean music and R&B. As As always, the band sounds s like they're blast,t, and their high they're having a blast energy sure energy live show is su ure to include everything fr from om their ﬁrst single, the thoroughly track thoroughly American country tr ack “Chicken Fried,”” to “S “Sweet w Annie,” weet their latest ode aboutt settling down with The One. (SL)

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GEORGE GE ORGE KAHUMOKU KAHUMOKU JR, LLEDWARD LED WARD KAAP KAAPANA PA ANA Jan 30 att Montalvo Arts Center

DAN D AN HICK HICKSS AND THE HO HOT T LICK LICKSS Feb 1 att Montalvo Arts Center

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SCREAM ING SCREAMING FEMALE FEMALESS

F 6 at San Jose Civic Feb

The Blank Club, San S Jose Mon, 8pm, $8-$10 $8-$110

PAUL P AUL SIMON & SSTING TING

For seven years,, Jersey Jerrsey rrock ock trio Screaming Scr eaming Femaless have been the underground making waves in th he under ground Their indie rrock ock scene. Th heir songs have an Weezer moree early W eezer vibe but b with way mor garage Vocalist frontwoman gar age grit. V ocalist and fr ontwoman Paternoster Marissa P aternosteer howls like a yyoungg Siouxsie Sioux, Siouux,, ggivingg their edgy, power.. songs an added ed gyy, rraw aw power aree an art-punk They ar art-punk band that leans punk heavier into the pu nk camp,, but on the bizarre art side there’s there’s no shortage s of bizar re their aree melodies driving th heir songs. They ar garage-pop joined by Upset, a new n gar age-pop group members gr oup ffeaturing eaturing me embers of Best Vivian Coast, Hole and Viv vian Girls.. (AD)

DEMI LLOVATO OVATO Feb 11 at SSAP AP Center

Feb 17 at SSAP AP Center

PIXIESS PIXIE Feb Fe eb 22 at San Jose Civic

THE SE SECOND COND CITY Feb 22 att Montalvo Arts Center

ANTHONY AN NTHONY BOURDAIN BOURDAIN & ERIC RIPER RIPERT T April 13 at SSJJ Center for for Performing Performing Arts

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The Claim Game

RAIN R AIN MAKERS MAKERS V Visitors isitors i to the ZERO1 Garage experiment with ‘T ‘Text Text e R Rain,’ ain,’ a work w created by Camille Utterback k and R Romy omy Achituv. piece’s Achituv v. The artists a hold a patent on the piece e’s interface, which allows users to t interact with falling letters on a video screen.

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IITH PATENT PAT TENT ISSUES becoming q quickly t foundation of the t entire arena the in which corporations c corpor ations go to war other, w ar with each e otherr, it makes sense for a garage garage in Silicon Valley V alley to showcase showcase the very creativity and innovation innovation patents were we ere supposed to encour age in the ﬁrst place. encourage The vvenue enue e in question is the ZER RO1 O Garage Garagge in downtown San JJose, ose, ZERO1 curr ently eexhibiting xhiibiting a handful of ar currently artt inst allations under u the title of Pat teent installations Patent P eending. Featuring Featu uring ar tists who've who've Pending. artists either patente ed ccomponents omponents of their patented

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cconductive onductivve te xtile elect trode ccomprises omprises textile electrode a cconductive onductivve p ompom m.” pompom. Sincee man Sinc many ny ffolks o olks ten tend nd to submer submerge ge themselves obsolete themselv es in an obsol lete notion that artt practic practice, technological innovation giical inno ar e, technolo vation process-oriented creativity aree and pr ocess-oriented cr reativitty ar entirely independent entir ely separate and in ndependent from other,, ZER ZERO1 fr om each other RO1 O curator JJaime aime Austin says devised A ustin sa ayys she de vised d the show as way issues.. aw ay of ccontemplating ontemplating those issues having After ha avving cconversations on nversattions with numerous ZERO1, numer ous visitors to ZER Z RO O1,, whether theyy wer weree ar artt p people theree the eople or o not,, ther bee a gen general still seemed to b neral a sense of artists being surprise at the thoughtt of ar tists b eing inventors, artist may have in nveentors, or that an ar rtist ma ay ha ave a something.. patent on something was always wondering why “I w aas alw wayys wond dering wh hy theree w was surprise, Austin ther as such a surpri ise,” A ustin “Because artists have always said. “Bec ause ar tists ha ave alw ays y new technologies, traditionally used ne w technolo gies, was whether that w aas tied to t paint,, or architecture, things,, ar chitecture, or all these thesse other things wanted showcase so I w anted to showc asse some studies artists have invented of how ar tists ha ave in nvented things have beyond arts. that ccould ould ha ave a use b eyo ond the ar ts. patents weree one And so I thought paten nts wer interesting starting inter esting aavenue veenue to use u as a st arting point. p oint.”

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ARTS TS metroactive metr oactive AR THE DUKE, T THE THE HE COUNT COUNT AN D ME ME AND TTabard aabard Theatr Theatree Company pr esents world pr emiere of a presents premiere songs builtt around musical buil around the songs of Duke Ellington, Ellington, Count B asiee Basie eats. Thru and other jazz gr greats. Nov 23. Fri Fri-Sat, Sat, 8pm, Sun,, 2pm pm m. 2pm. edro $10-$35. Theatr Theatree on San P Pedro Squar e,, San Jose. Square,

EEVITA VITA Broadway San Jose pr Broadway presents esents Andr Andrew ew Lloyd W Webber’s ebber ’s ode too EEva va P Peron. eron. Nov 1919-24. 24. TTue-Wed, uue-Wedd, $24-$79. 7:30pm. $2 4-$79.. San Jose Performing Center ffor or P erforming Arts.

FIDDLER FI DDLER ON THE ROOF ROOF The classic musical about a Jewish community in turn-of-the-20th-century the-20th-century rur rural al R Russia. ussiaa. Presented Presented by W West est V Valley alley Ligh Light ht Opera. O pera. Thru Nov 30.. Fri,, 8pm, Sat-Sun, 2:30pm.. $18-$33. Saratoga Sar atoga Civic Theater Theater..

GOD GO DO OFF CCARNAGE ARNAGE Palo Al Palo Alto to Players present present comedy about two sets of parents par ents meeting up to discusss an al altercation tercation between their children; childr en;; the conversation quickly heads south. Thu-Sat, 8 8pm, S 2:30pm. Sun, 2 30 Thru Th Nov N 17 17. 7. $23-$45. Theatre, $23 -$45. LLucie ucie SStern tern Theatr e, Palo P alo Al Alto. to.

GUYSS AN GUY AND D DOLL DOLLSS Broadway by the B Broadway Bay ay pr presents esentss the tale of a str streetwise eetwise gambl gambler ler rreformed eformed by love, with music by LLoesser oesser and SSwerling, werling, Sat, 2 17. & 8pm, Sun,, 2pm. Thru Nov 17 7. $35-$55. Fox Theatr Theatre, e, Redwood R edwood City City..

AK KING’S ING’SS LLEGACY EGACY Pear A Pear Avenue venue Theatr Theatree Compan Companyy pr esents a true tale of James I presents of EEngland, ngland, who had a tough act a ollow—Elizabeth I. Thu-Sa at, to ffollow—Elizabeth Thu-Sat, 4. 8pm, Sun,, 2pm. Thru Nov 224. ear A venue Theatr e e, $15-$30.. P Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain V iew w. View.

SSHE HE K KILLS ILLS M MONSTERS ONSTERS Renegade R enegade Theatr Theatree Experiment Experiment pr esents a story about a presents woman who learns about the hidden side of her late sister when she discovers her sister ’s sister’s Dungeons & Dr agons noteboo ok. Dragons notebook. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun,, 7pm. Nov 16 616Dec 77.. $10-$25.. San Jose.

THE T HE WIZAR WIZARD DO OFF O OZZ Children’s Childr en’s Musical Theater Theater’s ’s Rising Rising SStars tars ffollow ollow the YYellow eellow Brick Brick Road, Road, Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 andd

7pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. Nov 1515-24. 24. $14 -$18. San Jose. $14-$18.

*dancee *danc ABHINAYA A BHINA AYA FFALL ALL CCONCERT ONCERT Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose presents presents a pr ogram program of South Indian classical dance, with Mythili KKumar umar and Rasika Rasika KKumar. umar. With special i l guestt Dominique Delorme of Fr ance. France. Nov 17 7, 4pm. $15-$30. Mexican 17, Heritage Plaza, San Jose.

*concerts *concerts SAN JOSE CCHAMBER SAN HAMBER M MUSIC USIC SSOCIETY OCIETY Morgenstern Mor genstern Piano TTrio rrio performs Haydn, Mendelssohn, performs R avel and B loch. Nov 16, 8pm. Ravel Bloch. $27 -$42. $42. Le P etit TTrianon, rianon rianon, r San $27-$42. Petit Jose.

*art MUSEUMS MU SEUMS ART AR T MUSEUM OF OF LOS LOS GATOS GATOS ""Backward Backward is Forward: Forward: Layer and Impact in Printmaking.” EEnds nds Jan 12. Wed-Sun, Wed-Sun,, 11am-5pm. LLos os Gatos.

CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS TS CENTER “Carrie Mae Weems: “Carrie Weems: Three Three Decades of Photogr Photography aphy and V Video.” ideo.”” Show runs O Oct ct 16–Jan 5. “Faith Embodied: Embodied:: Saints From Fr om the Renaissance Renaissance to the EEnlightenment.” nlightenment.”” A show of 17. prints. EEnds nds Nov 17 7. “Manet Graphic and the Gr aphic Arts in France, France, 1860-1880.” 17. 18601880.” EEnds nds Nov 17 7. WedWedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. SStanford. tanford.

CCHILDREN’S HILDREN’S DISC DISCOVERY OVERY MUSEUM M USEUM “Curious Geor “Curious George.” ge.”” Also interactive interactive exhibits.. Closed Mondays. San Jose.

DEE N D NOVO OVO New work fr from om A Atelier telier Zobel. O ct 2526 and 28,, 10am-6pm; Oct 25-26 O ct 27 7, noon-5pm.. P alo Al to. Oct 27, Palo Alto.

DEE SSAISSET D AISSET MUSEUM ““Reduce, Reduce, d R Reuse, euse, R Re-imagine,” e-imagine,” i i ” work workss cr created eated fr from om objects rrescued escued from from the waste stream—items stream—items disposed of as trash trash rather rather than rrecyclables ecyclables by local rresidents esidents and businesses. 11am-4pm. EEnds nds Feb.. 2. Tue-Sun, Tue-Sun, u Santa Clara. Clara.

EUPHRAT EU PHRA AT MUSEUM “Making Space,”” a gr group oup show exploring physical, cul cultural, tural, and historic space. Thru Dec. 5. Mon-Thu, Mon-TThu,, 10am-3pm. 10am-3pm. Also open Sat, Nov Nov. v. 2, 10am-1pm, 10am--1pm, with a community art station. De Anza College, CCupertino. upertino.

HISTORY HIS TORY P PARK ARK A SAN SAN JJOSE OSE “Shaped by W Water: ater:: P Past, ast, Pr Present esent & Futur Future,” e,”” the story of water in this rregion, egion,, fr from om the indigenous O Ohlone hlone people to pr present esent day. dayy. ““Bear Bear in Mind: The Story Story of the CCalifornia alifornia Grizzly Grizzly.” y..”” A show of historical materials rrelated elated to the ursine symbol of the state. O Ongoing. ngoing.. McK McKay ay Gallery Gallery. y. History P Park ark San Jose.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE MUSEUM O OFF AR ART T ““Around Ar A ound the Table Table a SStage tage O One— ne— Jitish Kallat: Kallat: EEpilogue.” pilogue.” EEnds nds A il 20. April 20. “S “Swans, wans, Swine Swine i andd Sirens.” Sir ens.”” Artists inﬂuenced by Greek mythology. Gr eek mythology y. EEnds nds Dec 1. TTue-Sun, uue-Sun,, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JJOSE SAN OSE MUSEUM O OFF QUILTS QUILTS & TE TEXTILES XTILES “Fiberart International.”” West “Fiberart West Coast pr premiere emiere exhibition, ffeaturing eaturing work workss by 37 national and international artists, both emerging, established and emer ging, and exploring l i a wide id spectrum t off textile practices. practices. "T "Translucence: Translucence: Breslaw," workss cr created CCathy athy B reslaw w," work eated in a unique industrial mesh. Shows run thru Jan 19. Wed-Sun, Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm.. San Jose.

TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM O OFF AR ART T YYori oori Seeger Seeger,, sculptur sculpture. e. Thru Dec 1. “Spir “Spiral: al:: Art of the SStreet,” treet,” str street eet art fr from om B Berlin, erlin,, LLondon, ondon, Barcelona, B arcelona,, New YYork, oork, LLos os Francisco. Angeles and San Fr ancisco. Thru Nov 17 17. 7. “Consuelo Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Welcome U nderwood: W elcome to FlowerLandia.””Thru Nov 224. 4. TTue-Wed uue-Wed and Fri-Sun,, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Clara. 11am9pm. Santa Clar a.

GALLERIES G ALLERIES ANNO D DOMINI OMINI “Suicide,”” mixed-media by Barron B arron SStorey. toreyy. “The Wind Whips Palm Fronds,” workss the P alm Fr onds,” new work by Megan Diddie. Thu-Fri, noon7pm Sat, 7pm, Sat noon noon-5pm. noon-5pm 5pm. San Jose. Jose

ART AR T ARK GGALLERY ALLERY The Mor Moree the Merrier Merrier IIV: V: SalonSStyle tyle Art EExhibition xhibition & Sale Area ffeaturing eaturing pieces by 51 Bay Bay Ar ea artists working in variety of mediums and styles. San Jose.

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Jazz-related art by B Jazz-related Bruni runi Sab Sablan. blan. Mon-Sat, M on-Sat, 1-6pm. San Jose.

CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH “No W Walls alls B Between etween Us,”” portr portraits a aits of jazz musicians by KKathy athy Sloane. San Jose.

THE T HE CCITADEL ITADEL “Connected,” works works by TTulio uulio Flores. Flor es.. Nov 16,, 7pm. San Jose. Josee.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY AND ARTS MUSIC AN D AR TS “Connecting Thr Threads... eads... Quil Quilts ts Made M ade at Day W Worker orker Center of o Mountain M ountain View.” View.” Thru Nov 30. 30 0. Mon-Fri, M on-Fri,, 9am9am-7pm, -77pm, Sat, 9am9am3pm. M Mohr ohr Gallery, Galleryy, Finn Cente Center, er, Mountain M ountain View. View.

CUKUI CUK UI “Face V Value,” alue,” works works by KKamea ameaa Hadar.. San Jose. Hadar

DOWNTOWN D OWNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SHAL SHALA LA “Paths and P “Paths Portals” ortals” photogr photography apphy exhibition. Thru Dec 27. 277. San Jose. Jose.

EMPIRE SE SEVEN VEN STUDIOS STUDIOSS ""A A Dr Dream eam Def Deferred" erred" new work works ks by B Ben en Alexy Alexy. y. Thru Nov 29. Sa San an Jose. TTue-Fri, uue-Fri, noon-6pm, Sat, noon-4pm or by appointmen appointment. nt. San Jose.

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Wall art and functional Wall ttableware tablewar bl e by b EElaine l i Pinkerne laine Pi Pinkernell; k ell; ll new por porcelain celain work by Chi Wong; W ong;; and a pit-ﬁring exhibi exhibitt from Orchard Valley Ceramic fr om the O rchard V alley Cer amic Arts Guild. San Jose.

KALEID KALEI D GALLER GALLERY RY “Flowers,”” sculptur sculpturee and collaborative collabor ative paintings by Al Preciado Pr eciado and Andr Andrew ew Hart. San S Jose.

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““MAIZE MAIZE Y M MÁS: ÁS:: From From Mother Mother to to Monster?”: M onster?”:: An exhibition that that explores explor es the rrole ole of corn in current our cur rent ffood ood system and culture in Latino cul ture and uncovers uncovers the link linkss between ffood, ood, cul cultural tu ural identity and heal health. th. Works Works byy YYvonne vonne Escalante, Escalante,, Yolanda Yoolanda Guer ra, Fernando M astrangelo, Guerra, Mastrangelo, Viva V iva P Paredes, aredes, and Jor Jorge ge R Rojas. ojas. Thru Feb. 15,, 2014.. San Jose.

METRO METR O LLOBBY OBBY "Nature Unr "Nature Unraveled," aveled," photogr photography aphy by Dharmesh Desai.. San Jose e. Jose.

MEZCAL MEZ CAL Art by JJ.. Danniel. Mezcal Mezcal Restaurant, Restaurant, San Jose.

MONTALVO MONT ALVO AR ARTS TS CENTER R ““Mountains Mountains in M Myy Spoon,” celebr ating the LLucas ucas Artists celebrating

Residency Program R esidency Pr ogram (LAP) alumni’s exploration exploration of ffood. ood. Thru Feb 9. “Come Healing.” A new show by six artists about healing and wholeness. Ongoing. Ongoing. Thu-Sun,, 11am3pm. 11am-3pm. Saratoga. Sar atoga.

PHANTOM P HANTOM GGALLERIES ALLERIES “Heritage of R Rural ural Lif Lifee in India” India” by YYasala aasala Balaiah. B alaiah. 95 S. Market Market SSt.t. "Dysfunctional, "Dysfunctional,"" Andrew canvases by Andr ew Agutos. 37 376 6 S. Market Market St, St, San Jose.

PHO69 PHO6 9 ““Rocks, Roocks, Waves Waves a & Clouds Clouds”” by Matthew Matthew Seigel. San Jose.

PSYCHO P SYCHO D DONUTS ONUTS Works byy John R Works Renzel, enzel,, Lacey B ryant,, Nicolas Bryant, Caesar, M urphy Adams, Caesar, Murphy enjamin, Christine B Benjamin, M ichael Foley y, M ichael Michael Foley, Michael B orja, V alery Milovic, Milovic, Borja, Valery Carlos V illez, Eric Eric Joyner, Joyner, Carlos Villez, Laur allin B ennett, Lauraa CCallin Bennett, John Hageman and R obert M cColleyy. San Robert McColley. Jose.

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SHADOW SH ADOW DANCER DANCER N New ew York Yo ork City y Ballet P Principal rincipal p dancer Ana Sophia Scheller will join fellow fello ow NY NYCB YCB C P Principal rincipal Gonzalo Garccia in a performance at Garcia Balle et San Jose ’s gala on N ov Ballet Jose’s Nov T event previews the 16. The company’s comp pany’’s season, its ﬁrst with h new artistic director José M Manuel anuel Carreño Carreño.. The gala takes take es place at the San Jose Center Centter for P Performing erforming Arts Arts.. Tickets Tick i ets are $50-$100.

“For the B Birds,” irds,” work workss by KKatherine atherine Levin-Lau and KKelly elly Detweiler Detweiler.. Thru Nov 26. 11am-7pm, TTue-Fri, uue-Fri, 11am-7pm, 7 Sat, noon6pm. 30 N. Third Third St, St, San Jose.

SSOUTH OUTH FFIRST IRST B BILLIARDS ILLIARDS ““All All A in O One,” ne,”” a collabor collaborative ative art exhibition between artists and ffamily amily members Cristina V Velazquez, elazquez, P Pedro edro A. Alvar AlvarezezVelazquez Alvarez. V elazquez and EEfren fren Alvar ez. San Jose.

TECH T ECH SSHOP HOP SSAN AN JJOSE OSE Works W orks by Eleanor Eleanor Lawson, created created using Autodesk Inventor and 3D printing, as well as interactive mixed media and inter active interactive inter active sculpture. sculpture. San Jose.

WORKS W ORKS SAN SAN JOSE JOSE ““Outside Outside Inside O Out”: ut”:: Force129 Force129 and Niftyvee cr eate a site-speciﬁc create installation with rrecent ecent mixedmedia artwork that demonstr demonstrates ates th conver the convergence, gence, clash l h andd collaborative collabor ative inﬂuences between contemporary contempor ary and str street eet art in and ar around ound their domestic envir environment. onment. Thru Nov 23. San Jose.

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exhibition that uses patents as a starting point to investigate the rrelationship elationship among artists, ownership and invention. San Jose.

*e *events vents ART A RT IN CCLAY LA AY SSALE ALE Works W orks by mor moree than 70 B Bay ay Area ceramic Ar ea cer amic artists featured featured presented at this annual show pr esented Orchard Valley Ceramic by the O rchard V alley Cer amic Art Guild.. Nov 16-17, 16--177, 10am-5pm. LLucie ucie SStern tern Theatr Theatre, e, P Palo alo Al Alto. to.

SSALON ALON ANNIVERSARY ANNIVERSARY ART &A RT SSHOW HOW Limón Salon celebr celebrates ates its fifth anniversary with a party benefiting Next Door Door,, a nonprofit nonprofit to support those affected affected by domestic violence. Art sale, plus live and DJ music. Beer, B eer, wine, wine champagne and hors d’oeuvres. d’oeuvr es. Nov 16, 8pm.. Limón Salon,, San Jose.

SSAN AN JOSE JOSE HOLIDAY HOLIDAY ART M ART MARKET ARKET Arts, crafts crafts and design ffair. air. Nov 16-177, 11am-4pm. Historic Reed 16-17, Reed House, 328 N. Sixth SSt,t, San Jose.

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CONSUMING TOPIC â€™Fat Boyâ€™ brings together spoken word, dance, performance and ancient rituals to explore issues of consumption.

â€™Fatâ€™ of the Land Starvation and over-consumption are explored in abstract form in Fat Boy, the latest work by Miami playwright Teo Castellanos, which comes to MACLA on Nov 15-17. Castellanos uses multiple art forms to explore the contrast between what he sees as the â€œfat nationsâ€? (like the U.S.) and the â€œstarving onesâ€? (like India). Even though there are starving people in the U.S., Fat Boy contends, most people are shielded from the extreme starvation and suffering that exist in other countries.

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CHARACTER SKETCH James Creer stars as the ﬁctional jazz musician Sketch Hopkins in ‘The Duke, the Count and Me.’

Music Lesson If VH1 can do it, why not a theater company? Tabard Theatre Company’s latest offering, the world premiere The Duke, the Count and Me goes “behind the music” to offer personal glimpses of some of the key musicians who shaped American jazz. The show, which runs through Nov. 23 in downtown San Jose, builds upon two real assets for Tabard: the company’s longtime relationships with actor James Creer and the jazz musician Gus Kambeitz. Creer stars as Sketch Hopkins, a ﬁctional jazz musician, in this one-man show. The setting is after hours at a 1950s L.A. jazz club owned by Sketch. He sits at the piano and begins reminiscing. Kambeitz served as the music director for The Duke, the Count and Me and also plays in the small behindthe-scenes jazz combo that provides backing music for Sketch’s stories. Sketch’s recollections not only include meeting and playing with greats like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, but also passing along their own personal histories: stories of how Armstrong ended up playing trumpet, how Basie got his name or how Fitzgerald got her start. The tales are punctuated by these legends’ songs, or snippets from them.

The Duke, The Count and Me at Tabard Theatre Company Thru Nov 23 $10-$35 tabardtheatre.org

The play meanders in its storytelling—sometimes tales overlap confusingly or it’s not clear whether Sketch is discussing his own life or another musician’s. Overall, The Duke, the Count and Me wants some tightening up and some balancing out. Creer must carry the show, and he has the talent, the charisma and the pipes to do it, but the chaotic organization of the material lets him down sometimes. Having the onstage band stashed behind a curtain ended up causing, for me, a frustrating disconnect. I wanted to see Sketch—who, after all, talks about performing with so many great jazz musicians—interact with someone. The show is about more than big jazz personalities, it’s about relationships— many of Sketch’s stories describe how jazz musicians supported their fellow musicians and lent a hand in building each others’ careers. Sketch may be left alone with his memories, but those memories seem too vivid to see him made to perform alone. —Heather Zimmerman

Cowboy Up BUSINESS BUS INESS CASUAL C A S UA L R Ron on W Woodroof oodroof o (M (Matthew atthew M McConaughey) cCo onaughey) and R Rayon ayon (Jared L Leto) eto) AIDS drugs. form a partnership to o procure hard-to-get A IDS dru ugs.

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HE RISE of a brave brave new something actor is som mething to second see, but seco ond to that is the sight of o an actor who had begun his career as a slouch, good-looking slouch h, starting things.. to stir himself and do d things Now, celebrated N ow w, after his celeb brated role in Mud as a mysteriou us str angerr, mysterious stranger, Matthew M cConaug ghey has a McConaughey big-star performanc ce in Dallas performance Buyers Club, Club, as Ron n Woodroof, Woodroof, a wiry, wiry y, dying rebel, emaciated with AIDS AIDS to the point po oint where his rodeo belt buckle bucklle seems heavier than he is. is.

Director Dir ectorr JJean-Marc ean-Marc V Vallée’s aallée’s ﬁlm 1986 is set in 19 86 during the worst of Woodroof, the AIDS epidemic eepidemic.. W oo drooff, a trailer-dwelling trailer - dweelling oilpatch electrician, develops won’t de velops a ccough ough that won ’t go aaway way and a headache that lingers likee a bad hango hangover. lik h ver. After he during workplacee ccollapses ollapses d uring a workplac accident, hospital, ac cident, he h ccomes omes to in a hospit al, wheree he he’s byy a pair of wher ’s informed inffo ormed b germ-masked doctors he’s germ-mask ked do ctors that he ’s got AIDS.. “F “Fuck ain’t faggot!” AIDS ucck yyou, ou, I ain ’t no faggot !” protests. he pr otestss. (When (When he thinks on it hard, scene h har d Ron d, Ron o dimly di l rrecalls d ecalls ll a sc ene with ih prostitute; that’s some kind of pr ostitute; that ’s the best b est clue he h has to how he got the disease.) won’t save disease .) Heterosexuality H Heter osexuality won ’t sa ave he’s T-cell him: he ’s got g aT - cell count count in the digits single digit ts and a diagnosis of death within a month. m learns murderously He learn ns of the mur derously

eexpensive xpensive drug AZT and buys it from hospital in the parking lot fr om a hosp ital orderly, before or derlyy, b effor o e the supply runss out. Mexican clinic Then he heads to a Me xican cl inic wheree he builds up his str strength wher ength t vitamins aloee vera. with vit amins and alo vera. Through partnership Thr ough a business par tnershiip pinkly-powdered with a pinkly -p powdered drag Rayon Leto) queen named Ra ayon ( JJared ared L e eto) Ron R on hustles up some serious o moneyy distributing the nutriti nutritional mone ional supplements to the AIDS ccases asess in Dallas.. A Ass he go goes international Dallas es internationa al search moree serious in sear ch of mor pharmaceuticals—flying pharmac euticals—flying to JJapan ap pan search and Israel in sear ch of Interferon— Inter feeron— he’s byy one wattles-shaking he ’s harassed b wattles-sh haking FDA keeps up,, FD A agent who k eeps turningg up way particular the h same w ay that h one par ticu ular l policeman (Steve Dallas p oliceman (Ste ve Zahn,, squandered) keeps eeps turningg up squander ed) also k save Rob from misdeeds. to sa ave R ob fr o om his own misd deeds. It’s merged messily It ’s ttwo wo films mer ged messi ily one.. One cconcerns into one oncerns the cco-ops o - ops people that p eople with AIDS fformed o ormed d FDA to get the drugs the FD A and

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Big Pharma dawdled over, daaw wdleed o ver, a story better story told in a far b etter film, the documentary Too Sur Survive do cumentary How T vive a Plague.. The other, movie Plague other, lesser l movie is about Texan about a homophobic homophob bic T exan who slowly learns to tol tolerate got-lerate got damn queers. queers. This second second movie movie congratulates congratulates yyou ou for for o your your own tolerance. tolerance. Dallas Buyers Buyerrs Club Clu ub eludes rrealism ealism in the character JJennifer en nniffeer Garner plays—she’s playys—she’s supposed suppossed to be be a physician, she’s physician, ysician but she ’s such a fountain fount o ain of unadulterated ccompassion that, o ompassion in an older vversion movie, ersion n of this mo vie, she would have haave been beeen a nun. All the realism realism falls on Rayon; Raayon; he’s he’s shot to look lo ok as much like like a Diane Arbus photo as possible, possible, only o with an oddly oddly quiet Mrs. Mrs. Doubtfire Doubtfire voice. voice. He always alwayys has a few few runs in his stocking, scars from sto cking, and sc ars fr om the drugs he shoots Rayon sho ots up in hiss rump; Ra ayon is always least-always y photographed photograph hed in the least alluring light as R Ron o on scalds scalds with insults—I think we’re wee’re supposed supp osed to think it’s way it’s cute the w ay they they play plaay together. together. Dallas Buyer Buyers Club rs Clu ub is made ffor or o distracted home vie viewing. ewing. It makes makes its points points and rremakes emaakes them, so much that it it’s ’s easy easy to stop noticing when it contradicts itself. contradictss itself f. It’s It’s not clear when R Ron o on leaves leaaves his skeevy skeevy motel headquar headquarters terrs and ttakes akes up residence residence in a donated donated office, office, because bee doing b ecause he seems to to b business in b both. local bar,, oth. At At his lo cal bar Ron Ro on gets treated treated ass a diseased pariah, and he nearly nearrly ccauses auses a bar fight. A few few scenes scenes later he’s he’s right back at that same bar bar,, as if nothing b happened. happ ened. Still, McConaughey’s McConaugh hey’s hard-edged hard- edged cowboy cowb oy charm rreminds em minds us that in a time of discrimin discrimination nation and inept response crisis—just response to a crisis— —jjust as in times of wartime wartime occupation—it’s o ccupattion—it’s the criminally-minded criminally-minded pains in the ass that survive. sur vive. He’ll He’ll be b e at the awards awards shows this winter, winter, and a he’ll he’ll deserve deser ve to be be there, there, not just jusst for for o the stunt of starving gaunt part, star ving himself ga aunt ffor o or the par t, but for movie fo or making thiss mo vie live live as well as it does. do es.

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New N ew THE ARMS ARMSTRONG TRONG O LIE (R; 122 min.) A do documentary ocumentary about all of the rise and ffall o cycling star Lance Armstrong. Armstr ong. (Open (Opens ns Fri.)

THE BE BEST ST MAN N HOLID HOLIDAY AY (R; 12 1244 min.) A gr group roup of old college eunite over buddies rreunite o the holidays andd fi findd th thatt old ld flames fl andd old ld aree easily rreignited. beefs ar eignited. The film is a ffollowup ollowup to The T Best Man, a 1999 film about a writer (T (Taye Taaye Diggs) whose first nove novell was just bit too inspired friends inspired by his fr riends and fformer ormer loves. (Opens Fri. Fri.).)

DALLAS D ALLAS BUYER BUYERS RS CL CLUB UB (R; 117 min.) See rreview eview on page 37 37. 7. (Opens Fri.)

SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ASIAN INTERNA AT TIONA AL SOUTH A SIAN FESTIVAL FILM FE STIV VA ALL Includes: Withou Without ut Shepher Shepherds, ds, a documentary about aboout the rise of new-wave politicians Pakistan. politiccians in P akistan. Film maker Nishtha introduces Nishttha Jain intr oduces Gulabi Gang, abo about out a gr group oup of women or organizing ganizing to ﬁght their second clas class ss status. The celebrated alternative celebrated al ternnative Indian ﬁlm Ship of Theseus connects c a trio of stories about live lives organ es linked by or gan transplantation. transplantation. (Plays Nov 16 in P Palo alo Alto Al to at the Aquarius Aquarius Theater.) Theaterr..)) (RvB)

Revivals Re vivvals a DIE HARD (1988) One of thee best Bond movies that isn’t isn’t a Bond movie, with newly divorced John ced cop Joh divor hn McClane (Bruce some Willis) doing som me ffamilial amilial bonding as he takes on a German master criminal holding a particularly skyscraper ugly L.A. sk yscraper hostage. eraa I Insanely l hyperm hhypermacho acho h Reagan R er testosterone pump; testoster one pum mp; Alan Rickman is ffey ey and sly as the head of the terrorists. ter rorists. (Nov 144 at 9:30 in San Jose at CCamera amer a a 3 and Nov 16 at 11:55 at CCamera amer a a 3.) (RvB)

THE GREA GREAT AT MC MCGINTY/THE G GINTY /THE COCOANUTS CO COANUTS (1929/1940) 42 42-year-old -yyear-old Pr Preston eston SSturges, turges, a rising playwright and doctor,, hea headed or auteur script doctor aded ffor status t t in i a ﬁlm ﬁl of of how h honesty h t proves or a Chicago-style pr oves the ruin ffor organizer political or ganizeer (Brian Donlevy). The devilishness is in the details: Demerest, Sultan esst, the Sul William Demer tan of sidekick, training Snarl, as sidekick k, tr aining ffor or the splenetic parts SSturges turges had in storee ffor Plus veteran transstor or him. Plu us veter an tr answeirdo Danubian weir doo Akim TTamiroff aamiroff as

the political Boss. B BILLED W WITH ITH The Cocoanuts. A highly catchy Ir Irving ving Berlin fox fox trot trot introduces introduces the screen screen debut of a motley brothers. mootley band of br others. The roster: double-talking roster: do ouble-talking Florida realtor realtor Groucho, Groucho, busily vending swampland (“Do (““Do you rrealize ealize that property values property valu es have gone up 1929 since 1000 pe percent?”). ercent?”). Also: mute lecher Harpo,, conniving ethnic Chico, varsity schmuck schmuuck Zeppo. Due to the primitive acoustics acoustics of the sound ﬁlm, ﬁlm the cast has to speechify.. t stand and speechify Yet Groucho's Yeet speeches like Gr oucho's verbal nosegays to the well-upholstered t well-upholster ed widow Margaret aree worth Margaaret Dumont ar halting halting for: for: “An “An A empty bungalow just for for you and and me, where where we could bill and coo—no, coo— —no, we could bull and cow…” cow…” (Playss Nov 14 14-17 -17 in P Palo alo Al Alto to at the Stanford Stanffor o d Theatre.) Theatre.)) (RvB)

Ongoing Ongoi ing 12 YEAR YEARSS A SLA SLAVE VE (R; 133 min.) Dir D Director ector SSteve teve McQueen’s third McQueen ’s th hird and best film sources narrative, sour ces a rreal-life eal-life nar rative, a bestfree seller of the 1850s. 1 A fr ee man of New YYork oork named nam med Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) Ejioofor) was knocked out with a Mickeyy Finn and shanghaied Orleans, to New Orlea ns, where where he was sold. During his enslavement, ennslavement, Northrup traded back orth among was tr aded ba ack and fforth cotton, pine and a sugar planters. elatively masters weree rrelatively Some master rs wer civilized (Benedict (Benedict CCumberbatch umberbatch Others weree cor corroded plays one). Ot thers wer roded utterly by what what slave-mastering does to a person. person. As As Master Epps, latter, one of the lat tter, Michael Fassbender embodies a soul soul caught in a chasm sadistic of evil: sadist ic yet silly with his selective rreligion. eliggion. The movie is alive with knockout character knockou ut char acter acting, psycho (Paul including a ps sycho overseer (P aul Epps’’ dead-eyed, vicious Dano), Epps wifee (Sarah Paulson) Brad wif (Sarah P aulson) and Br ad Pitt graceful, in a gr aceful, one-scene rrole ole as a self-amused CCanadian anadian carpenter. carpenter. Ejiofor’s moral Ejiof or ’s mor a firmness, compassion al perfect and natural natural nobility n is perf ect ffor or conveying wh what hat the institution people devoured. did to the peo ople it devour ed. The Shakesperean Ejiofor Shakesper eann in Ejiof or is easy with era; the dialogue of another er a; the painter in McQueen MccQueen is expert with the ordeal, visualizing th he or deal, as when the extinguishingg of hope is visualized by the golden n embers of a slowly dying fire yielding fire yiel lding to total blackout. (RvB)

ABOUT TIMEE (R; 123 min.) Upon U learning that hiss ffamily the men in hi amily have the travel, ability to timee tr avel, TTim im (Domhnall perfect Gleeson) usess the ability to perf ect his rromancing omancingg skills, giving himself a do-over ffor or aanything nything that goes amiss

in his attempts atteempts to woo Mary (Rachel McAdams). McAdams). From From the creators creators of LLove, ove, A Actually ctuuallyy and Notting Hill.

ALL IS LLOST O T OS Mature in tone, in title, and ffeaturing Mature eaturing maturee star of age 776, a matur 6, this adventuree showcases a rigor rigorous adventur ous physical perf pperformance ormance by Robert Redford, Redf ord, at a his best. He’s He’s a man of no ffew ew rregrets, eggrets, on a long solo voyage through the thr ough th he ocean in the yacht Virginia Vir rgginia Je Jeanne eannee out of P Portland; ortland; as he sleeps,, a freak destroys freak accident destr oys his communications communications equipment and puts a hole through hole thr ough the boat. This old man of survival o the sea uses his sur vival skills—and aree limited—to skills—annd they ar keep himself himsself aﬂoat and look ffor or rescue rescue in the Madagascar shipping lanes. Thee impressive director impressive dir ector JJ.. C. Chando Chandorr (Mar Margin rgin g CCall all a ) never quite makes makkes this deep-sea ordeal ordeal gripping—great gripping— —great movies like Gr Gravity avity and CCaptain aaptaain Phillipss ar aree the enemies of a very good one, and the third g third act doesn’t quite Theree are doesn’t qu uite convince. Ther are startling instances danger,, though, instances of danger and moments momeents of indomitability: the nameless captain, br bracing acing himself to some bad weather weather,, takes the time to shave before before the storm hits. (Plays valleywide) valleywidee) (RvB)

BLUE BL UE IS THE T W WARMEST ARMEST CCOLOR OLOR (NC-17; 179 (NC-17; 9 min.) Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) French Exar chopooulos) is a northern Fr ench girl in her second year in high school in the t suburbs of Lille, close enough too Belgium that locals go nightclubbing across border. nightclubb bing acr oss the bor der. The fleshy, movie hass the fleshy y, worldly style of glamour.. Adèle Flemish aart, rt, stripping glamour praiseworthy eats with pr aiseworthy gusto, and it’s it ’s gone to t her butt a little. There’ll There’ll contrast be contr asst enough later when she meetss the woman who will be and moree cool, her one an nd only—the mor cultured (Léa Seydoux) with cul tured Emma E blue-dyed hair.. This little blueher blue-d dyed hair haired girll obsesses the hapless hair ed gir Adèle the way the little rred-haired ed-haired obsessed Brown. girl obses sed Charlie Br own. They lovers, front become lo overs, in fr ont of us—it leads to aan n ecstatic, summery thee gay pride par parade, liaison, th ade, an anti-austerity march anti-auste erity mar ch and kissing on Main SStreet. treet. Adèle poses and paints, Emma pai ints, and Adèle hides the affair from crosses aff air fr om m her ffamily. amily. Adèle cr osses threshold the thr esh hold of the 18th birthday birthday.. She doesn’t doesn n’t want to go further in school—she school—sshe can’t can’t see doing 10 years of aacademia cademia just to land no job. Emma’s careerism Emmaa’s car eerism firms up, and she startss to insist that her partner Adèle has unrealized unrealized ambitions as a writer. writer. There’s There’s equality between Emma andd Adèle when desire desire strikes them. theem. But the proprietary proprietary way Emma Emma slaps Adèle’s Adèle’s ass isn’t isn’t a good sign. siggn. The heartbreak, heartbreak, which

waxes and wanes through through the next hour, hour, only o sometimes slacks slacks our interest— interesst— Kechiche Kechiche is procedural, procedural, noting the way a young woman works works at her job when she’s she’s aching inside or has a mind elsewhere. elsewhere. A slight recovery, recoveryy, a bigger relapse, relapse, and we seee the way pain clears Adèle’s Adèle’s vision—it ultimately vision— —it becomes ul timately clear that that Emma is neither a worldbeating beating painter, painter, nor the world’s most uncompromising uncom mpromising person. person Here, Here, e the faces faces tell t us more more than the subtitles, telling us of the keenness of this couple’s couplee’s appetite ffor or each other and when whhen it stales, telling us of the way the th he heart wants what it wants until it, itt, suddenly, suddenlyy, bafﬂingly, bafﬂinglyy, wants something somethhing else. (RvB)

ENDERS ENDER RS GAME (Pg-13: (Pg13: 114 min.) The international militar military seekss a leader to help ry seek prepare pr epare the human rrace ace ffor or ffending ending from off an attack fr om alien invaders. invaders With Harrison H rison Ford, Har Ford, Asa Asa Butterﬁeld Hailee and Ha ailee SSteinfeld. teinfeld.

EESCAPE SCAP PE PLAN On a sc scale cale fr from om Fortr Fortress ess to The Great Escape Plan barely Great Escape, E barely manages managges to break break out of the bottom quartile. quartile. It's dragged dragged down mostly by a bored-looking tallone, boredd-looking SSylvester ylvester SStallone, with his his trademark trademark weary/mopey expression expresssion ﬁrmly plastered plastered to a face face that now noow strongly strongly resembles resembles halfrisen br Schwarzenegger bbread ead dough. dough Schwar zenegger is the real real reason reason to see this movie—he’s movie— —he’s obviously enjoying a return returrn to acting, charming and funny in a role role that plays somewhat against againsst his political type. He brings something somethhing enjoyable to job while the rest tickss off the tr tropes rest of the movie tick opes of the heist/escape movie— the “rules” “rules” of the plan, how it all goes wrong, wrong,, the inevitable betrayal betrayal by a trustedd partner—with only minor thrills and a no particular creativity. creativity. Escapee Plan wants to say something about extraordinary endition, extraordinary rrendition, privatization privatizzation of the prison system and corporate trapped apped coorporate greed, greed, but it's tr by action actiion movie histrionics and smirking villainy.. “Y “You smirkinng villainy You o don't look that sm smart,” Schwarzenegger’s mart,”” as Schwar zenegger ’s character characcter says to Stallone’s. Stallone’s. Nope. (John Briere) B e) Brier

GREAT GREA AT EXPE EXPECTATIONS CTATIONS T (PG-133; 128 min.) This story of (PG-13; moneyy changing everything seems peculiarly cinematic. it’s Maybee it ’s because the best single Dickens Dicken ns adaptation on ﬁlm was David the Da vid Lean version of Gr Great eat Expectations Expecttations—and of course, the material maaterial is forgiving, forgiving, and it ultimately ultimately it doesn’t doesn’t matter what kind off sheath this sword sword of a book wears. w In the early marsh scenes, sceness, Mike Newell seems to be

approaching appproaching an environmental environmental take on the material, as per the rrecent ecent film m versions of W Wuthering uuthering Heights andd Jane Eyre Eyre. Then it gets mor moree conventional, connventional, rumbustious and guest-star-studded. Here: gueest-star-studded. Her e: Robbie Coltrane’s coifed Coltrane’s Jaggers, coif ed like King King Louis-Philippe Louis-Philippe and washing his milk-white hands like Pilate. Helena Helena Bonham Carter Carter never evokes thee true poignancy of literature’s literature’s ultimate ultimate Bridezilla, Bridezilla Miss Havisham. Havisham However, How wever, she’s she’s still our rreigning eigning specialist speecialist of Gothic parts, and shee rustles up a minor chill with thee line ““sharper sharper teeth than mice have havve gnawed at me.” The older director, viewer,, only director e , like the older viewer hass eyes for for poor Magwitch and his agony of filial ingratitude. ingratitude. In thiss uber rrags ags to riches part, Ralph Fiennes Fiennes is magnificent as always: he compr comprehends ehends the dark joke of Magwitch’s Magwitch’s ffate, ate, to be rich enough to have money to burn. h burn (RvB)

THOR: TH OR: THE D DARK ARK W WORLD ORLD (PG (PG-13; G-13; 112 min.) The droll droll and confident provide con nfident Thor movies pr ovide such rravishing avishing heroism heroism that even the co-star Portman co-star Natalie P ortman seems to be b taken by it. She may have made Braff ma de spaniel-eyes at Zack Br aff in Gar Garden G den SState tate, but I can’t can’t rrecall ecall herr gazing at any other leading mann besides Chris Hemsworth ma with wit th such full-on rrapture. apture. In Thor: Thee Dark World World o d, the actors seem to be b enjoying themselves; this gives givees the movie its calm during severe sevvere mood shifts, and the transit transit to other o planets, sometimes without witthout warning. One is named “Vanaheim”—in Vorange “Vanaheim a ”—in the V orange Vcounty Vcoounty nebula? “We “We are are not Gods,” Anthony Antthony Hopkins’ Hopkins ’ Odin intones from from m his gilded Emerald Emerald City palace, andd the mortality hanging over thee royal royal family family as the nine realms realms align, aliggn, with Earth itself just one more more realm realm in the cross-hairs cross-hairs oss hairs of a Dark D Elf (Christopher Eccleston); fortunately he’s moree intimidating forttunately he ’s mor than thaan he sounds. Tom Toom Hiddleston’s Hiddleston’s grim m shape-shifter LLoki oki is the key to their theeir defeat. defeat. He’s He’s a self-described stranger to satisfaction, stranger a satisfaction, and if he’s needler,, he he’s accurate he’s a needler ’s as accur ate as an a acupuncturist. Hiddleston hass successfully pr promoted omoted himself him mself from from comic book villain to antagonist. anttagonist. Idris Elba (a specialist at mightiness) migghtiness) holds the line, and Rene Russo Russso is quite queenly in the part Julie Juliie Christie had in the first Thor. Kat Katt Dennings’ Dennings’ acidic sidekicking, andd Chris O’Dowd as the everhopeful hoppeful date Portman’s Portman’s Jane left behind, behhind, provides provides comedy relief relief that actually actually is a relief. relief. Overlooking the boring borring aerial dogfights, the final combat com mbat is rousing. rousing. (RvB)

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DOUBLE D OUBLE TIME TIME Jane Janett W Weiss eiss and Sam Coomes builtt Quasi Quasi’s ’s sound from the limita limitations ations of playing as a duo duo..

Q Quasi uasi re returns eturns to its ori original iginal twolineup—and looser person lin eup and its lo eup—and ooser sound—with City’ sound— —with ‘Mole ‘Mole Cit ty’ BY B Y AARON AARON CARN CARNES NES

EFORE THE White EFORE Stripes and the Black Keys, K eys, there was was a time in indie-rock k when bands two-piece rock ban nds were anomaly.. And n now an anomaly ow with tracks backing tr acks and d loop pedals,, most rock duos these pedals d days can create a sound sound that Not suggests a bigger outﬁt. o Not so Portland’s Quasi. with P ortland’s Qu asi. When the duo started 20 years ago, ago o, not only yw as their pared-down p was lineup rrare, are, but the ey very they consciously worke d within the worked constr aints of havi ing only two constraints having people in the band d. band. “Limitations “Limit ations ar aree good good a lot of times times,,” says Weiss. sa ayys drummer JJanet anet W eeiss. “Because “Because aree a ttwo-piece, ways we ar wo w -piece, we had h to ﬁnd w ayys

to ﬁll out th the he sound. Sam de developed veeloped the sound of o his k eyyboard. He has this keyboard. big ragged sound s and I pla ay a lot mor play moree notes than most m drummers e’s just drummers.. Ther There’s a lot of spac ce to ﬁll up and I think it ’s space it’s molded us into i who we ar e.” are. The band d cconsists onsists of eex-husband xx-husband husband and wif fe Sam mC oomes (k keyboards/ wife Coomes (keyboards/ vvocals) ocals) and W eiss e (drums/v vocals), Weiss (drums/vocals), who is also the t drummer ffor or o Sleater rSleaterKinne ey. Qua asi has rreleased eleased nine albums Kinney. Quasi albums,, ttypically yypically wit th dark lyrics with lyrics,, left-leaning p olitics and or gan-driven p owerr--pop politics organ-driven power-pop melo dies. Th heir 19 98 album F eaturing e melodies. Their 1998 Featuring “Bir rdds” is a par p ticular gem. The songs “Birds” particular describ oomes and W eeiss’’ failing describee C Coomes Weiss’ marriage an nd the har dships of working and hardships meaningless i l s, low-pa llow-paying ayying i jobs—all j b ll meaningless, pack aged in n inf feectious p op tunes packaged infectious pop tunes.. Quasi is known k ffor o or lo ose loose arrangemen nts and a pr opensitty arrangements propensity ffor or impr o ovvissation. Even Evven e on their improvisation. albums t middle of other wise albums,, in the otherwise straight tfo orwaard p op songs straightforward pop songs,, the duo br eaks into k eyboard and drum breaks keyboard

jams. opener, “Our jams. Featuring Feeaturing “Birds” “Birrdds” op ener, “O Our Happiness is Guaranteed,” begins begins with noisy before i h a nois isy drum-organ d drumorgan jam j b effo ore launching into what is an ultraultra-catchy catch a hy but dark anthem on life modern day liffe in mo dern da ay America. between America. In b ettw ween the vverses, eerses, the th he duo rreturns freeform bouts noise.. eturns to fr eeffo orm b outs of noise However, between 2007 However e ,b ettw ween 20 07 and 2011, 2 Quasi p performed erfo ormed as a trio, trio, addingg bassist JJoanna oanna Bolme to the mix. This lineup rrecorded 2010’s ecorded one album,, 2010 0’s American Gongg and it it’s ’s glaringly different diff ffeerent than the rrest est of Quasi’s Quasi’s catalog. catalog. The songs are are serious and d focused, barely focused,, with bar ely a jam or playful plaayful y moment to b bee heard. heard. Although tthe songs ar aree strong, strong, the album ffeels eeels lik llikee listening to another band. For For Mole City—their Citty— —ttheir ﬁrst rrelease eleasse since Gong—Quasi since American Gong— Quasi rreturned eturrned to playing City plaayying as a ttwo-piece. wo w -piece. Mole Cit ty is a double album that ccame ame out earlier eaarlier this yyear eear “There wasn’t epiphany “There w aasn’t an epiphan ny moment,, where where we said, ‘Let’s ‘Let’s be be a two-piece two w -piece again,,’ but I think that we w wanted to get back to that intimate wanted a intimaate way way of making music. music. We We wanted waanted d to streamline moree streamline ideas a little littttle more. more. Thee mor people people yyou o ou add,, the more more structured structu ured things get,” Weiss Weiss e says. saays y. Mole City like Quasi’s Citty sounds a lot lik ke Qua asi’s

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first ccouple ouple albums. albums. It’s I ’s a turbulent, It jarring j g ccollection ollection of songs ssongs, g , but it’s it’s where best where Quasi seem b e suited. In est addition to their mor more re ttypical yypical ’70s power-pop powerr--pop influenced influenced e songs, songs, there there is a one-minute ditty one-minute ccountry ountrry dit tty (“One & Done”), Done”),, noise-pop noise-pop (“Chrome (“C Chrome Duck”), experimental (“Clap experimental jams (“ “Clap Track”) and blues bluesy sy boogie-woogie boogie-wo oogie (“Bedbug Town”). like To own n””). Mole City, Citty, lik ke their vvery eery first album,, was Coomes’ waas recorded recorded in C oomes’ basement in their spa spare are time. time. “No make “N No one’s one’s forcing for o cing us u to mak ke a record, Weiss says. “Certainly one’s record,” W eiss e sa ayys. “C Certainly no one ’s forcing fo orcing us to make mak ke a double rrecord. ecord. People have People probably probably would wou uld ha ave advised us not to. freedom to. There’s There’s a ccertain e tain fr er eedom to being that’s being Quasi and th hat’s how we like lik ke it. We We want waant our band b to rreflect eflect how we w want lives be. aant our liv vees to b e. We We feel feeel like freedom lik ke fr eedom of eexpression xxpression e is a rreally eally valuable thing. thing.” Mole City was written Citty w aas writ tten t and rrecorded ecorded over over the ccourse ourse of ttwo w yyears. wo eears. Weiss Weiss e showed up at C Coomes’ oomees’’ house when they theey had time and they’d th heeyy’d write, write, record, record, retool way, retool and rre-record e-record all a along the w ay, with the goal of rrecording ecorrding enough songs to fill their dr dream eaam double album. The album ccontains total. ontains 24 2 songs in tot al. “We bee precious “W We really really tried not no ot to b precious with what we were wasn’t were making. m making . If it w aasn n’t ’ working, working, we’d we’d throw throw it out. We We wanted waanted to work lo loose not over ose and no ot agonize o veer sounds, sounds, and mic placement. placement. eement We We just wanted Weiss says. waanted it to be be fun,” W eeiss sa ayys. ““After After A all these yyears, eears, my my conclusion con nclusion is that this stuff doesn’t doesn n’t ’ matter matttter as much as material. Some of m myy favorite faavo orite records records were were made on 8-tracks. 8-track ks.” The songs on the rrecord, ecord,, like lik ke their early rrecordings, ecordings, do have ha have bass, bass, but Coomes overdubs Coomes o veerdubs it. But there’s there’s no one on the album eexcept Coomes xxcept ffor or C o oomes and Weiss, Weeiss, so it really really ccaptures apttures just what people people have haave always alw wayys loved lo oved about about the duo, duo, warts waarts and all. “I w want personality aant to hear their theeir p ersonalitty in the music music.. I want want a to t hear who that player have plaayeer is. is. My favorite faavorite drummers ha ave a personality. hear Keith Moon personalitty. You You o he ar K eith e Mo on playing pla ayying on the radio and yyou o ou say saay ‘that’s Keith ‘that’s K eith Moon, Moon,’” Weiss Weeiss says. saayys. “It’s “It’s so distinct. These people aree unique unique.. That peoplee ar to me is the best way best w ay to make mak ke music. music. That’s That’s what I’m interested interrested in.”

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Wed, 7:45: Caliban. Wed, Caliban. $13-$26. $13-$26. Rancourt. Fri, 6:30pm: Susan Rancour t. $13-$21. GroWiser $13 -$21. 8pm: The Gr oWiserr 8:30pm: Band. $21-$29. Sat, 8:30pm m: Jr.. Sam Cooke Will Russ Jr TTribute. rribute. Sun, 7pm: Mike Galisatus Big Band. $21-29. $21-29. City.. Redwood City

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THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, 9pm: Speaking in Wed, Rounds. Fri, 9pm: Quasi. $13$133Adultt Club. $15. Sat, 9pm: Adul Screaming eaming $5. Mon, 8pm: Scr Females. $8-$10. San Jose.

BOSWELLâ€™S BOS WELLâ€™S Wed: Jack Ripoff Wed: Ripoff.. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: The Peelers. Peelers. Sat: Dynamite. SStompbox. tompbox. Sun: Kid Dynami te. CCampbell. ampbell.

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JOHNNY Vâ€™S Wed, 8pm: P Wed, Paulie aulie Think. Fri, 8pm: Proper Proper NONsense. Sat, Effect. 9pm: LLyrics yrics in Full Eff ect. Mon, 8pm: Sean Blak. San Jose.

Thur: DJ Mist. Fri: Night TTrain. rain. Sat: The Honey Wilders. All Fremont. shows 9:30pm, $5. Fr emont.

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SSTAFFORD TAFF A ORD P PARK A ARK CCall all ffor or inf info. o. Redwood City. City.

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Wed, 9pm: Andr Wed, Andrew ew Jack Jackson son Gunshy, Jihad, The Gunshy y, Blackbird Blackbird Raum. Thu, Fri, Sat 8pm: Ferrante Russell Fer rante TTrio. rrio. rio San Jose.

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Wed: New Amigos Jam. Thu: Wed: PaciďŹ c Kid Dynamite. Fri: P aciďŹ c SStandard tandard TTime. ime. Sat: Juke Box Heros. Her os. All shows 9:30pm. LLos os Gatos.

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Thu, 9pm: Jimmy Dewr Dewrance. ance. Fri 7pm: Ruckus. Fri, Ruckus 9pm: Riley.. Sat, 7pm: Doghouse Riley Special Guest. 9pm: Mike Osborn. Sun, 5:30pm: Micheal Desiree TTurner. uurner. Mon, 9pm: Desir ee and Diamond 99. San Jose.

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Wed, 6Wed, 6-9pm: 9pm: Ron Thompson. 6-9pm: Thu, 69pm: Howell Devine 6-10pm: Blues Band. Fri, 610pm: Shane Dwight Blues Band. Band 6-10pm: Jeffrey Halford Sat, 610pm: Jeffr ey Half ord and the Healers. Sun, 11am2pm: Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. San Jose.

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TRAIL DUS DUST T BBQ Fri, 6-9pm: 6-9pm: Live blues, rroots oots Morgan and Americana. Mor gan Hill.

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Fri, 9:30pm, Sat, 9pm: Rotating lineup. View.. Mountain View

Wed, 7:30Wed, 7:30-10pm: 10pm: P Paulo aulo Renslow.. San Jose. Renslow

THE W WOODSHED OODSHED Every ﬁrst and thir thirdd W Wed, ed, 7pm: Bl Blues j with jam ith Johnny-C JJohnny-Cat. h Cat. t TTue: uue: Ukulele Club. Sat, 7:30pm: Coulter, William Coul ter, Aria DiSalvia, Weed. John W eed. LLos os Gatos.

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Fri-Sat, 66-9pm: 9pm: Jazz ffor or dinner.. San Jose. dinner

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FFAIRMONT AIRMONT HO HOTEL TEL Wed, 8:30pm: Wed, p Jazz or P Pop opp Dance Hits. Thu, 8:30pm: Grand Dueling Gr and Pianos. Fri and Sat, 9pm: Rotating local cover.. San Jose bands. No cover

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MOROCCO’S MOR OCCO’S Wed and Sat, 5pm: Belly Wed View.. dancing. g Mountain View

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O’FLAHERTY’S O’FLAHER TY’S Thu, 9pm: Live Music. Sun, 5pm: Reggae music. TTue, uue, 6:30pm: Live Irish Music. San Jose.

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Every second and ffourth ourth Thu, Balistreri. 77-9pm: -9pm: Don Balistr eri. Every Sat, 77-9:30pm: -9:30pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

CCall all ffor or inf info. o. CCupertino. upertino. Wed, 9pm: Andr Wed, Andrew ew Jack Jackson son Gunshy, Blackbirdd Jihad, The Gunshy y, Blackbir Raum. Thu, Fri, Sat 8pm: Ferrante Russell Fer rante TTrio. rrio. San Jose..

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RAISING THE BAR The Back Bar, a new venture from the founder of San Jose Rock Shop, will host regular live shows.

Taking It Back When the club boom shook San Jose in the early 2000s, new venues opened downtown, but live music fell by the wayside, with DJs the focus at the new clubs. David Nevin, 32, who opened the music repair and rock & roll venue The Rock Shop ﬁve years ago, wants to help bring live music back with a new SoFA District venue in a space that has a long history hosting live music. Come Nov. 27, the musical entrepreneur will debut his latest project, a new rock club called Back Bar. The 130-person venue will occupy the back portion of what used to be the Cactus Club, which left a void in the local rock scene when it shuttered its doors more than a decade ago. Back Bar Grand The new club will be a separate venture from the Rock Shop, Opening which will continue to host all-ages shows periodically. The Back Bar will hold 21+ shows. Nov 27, 5pm “We’re really excited to start bringing back live music to San Jose,” says Back Bar manager Nick Schuneman. “We’re doing everything from rock, punk, metal, new wave, ’80s nights.”

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backbarsj.com The South Market Street club will open its doors Sunday through Friday every week and retain a resident DJ, though the focus will always be on live entertainment, says Schuneman, who plays bass for the Forgotten. He’s thinking of pulling together a comedy night, too. “There’s something about live music that really pumps people up—it seems to inspire people having fun,” he says. “That’s what this is about.”

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Downtown business leaders and the city have been especially supportive of encouraging live entertainment in downtown in recent years, Schuneman says, and the SoFA District was particularly appealing with its cluster of other venues and arts spaces. “That’s a big reason why we’re excited to move into this area,” Schuneman says. “You’re seeing a lot more incentive to create live entertainment.” Eventually, Nevin and Schuneman would like to see multiple live shows at various venues on any given night in San Jose. It’s already getting there, with consistent shows at the Blank Club, Caravan, Johnny V’s and now Café Stritch and Blackbird Tavern. “We’re excited to add something to the mix,” Nevin says. “The more, the merrier. The overall goal is to kind of reﬂect the community that we know—the music culture that’s been here—and give them another outlet to go hang out and hear some awesome music. In a city this size, there should be somewhere to go every night.” The Thanksgiving-eve grand opening art and music show will double as a homecoming for the self-described “comedic goon-core shit punk degenerates” Trashkannon. Like most of the shows planned for Back Bar, it’s free to get in.——Jennifer Wadsworth

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THE HUDDLE Wed--Thu Wed-Thu T and Sun, 9pm: Wil Wildd Fremont. Nights KKaraoke. araoke. Fr emont.

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POINCIANA LOUNGE LOUNGE Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No Wed, cover.. Sun, 9pm: Joe. cover Clara. Santa Clar a.

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Thank you Based God! Twitter champ and proliﬁc avant-garde rapper plays rare show. Nov 15 at Regency Ballroom.

CHVRCHES Scotland’s top synth-heavy pop group is like an IV injection of cotton candy. Nov 17 at the Fox Theater.

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Two hours of ‘Girl, I sent that text, but let me explain, you make me forget all about her.’ Nov 19 at Oracle Arena.

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CECIL@METRONEWS.COM Has anyone ever made cheese out of human breast milk? I live in southern Italy, where they make cheese out of everything else. Additionally, has there ever been a culture that thought of breast milk as a delicacy? I'm not speaking of fetishists or babies; I'm looking at something akin to a chilled glass of latte di mama with one's meal. It's not something I'd do personally, but then again I think guacamole's pretty disgusting, too. —C.J. Casey To be honest, C.J., my first thought was: this is what comes of giving Internet access to neckbeards. However, being the scientist of the human condition that I am, I had Una conduct a quick reconnaissance. Reviewing the result, all I can say is: merde sainte. So here you go. You think guacamole’s disgusting? Ha. Human cheese can and has been done. In 2010, for example, New York chef and restaurateur Daniel Angerer infamously created small amounts of cheese from excess breast milk produced by his wife until the health department ordered him to cease and desist. One food critic described it as “quite bland, slightly sweet. . . . It’s the unexpected texture that’s so off-putting. Strangely soft, bouncy, like [the puddinglike Italian dessert] panna cotta.” The milk donor herself thought the cheese wasn’t bad, claiming it paired well with a Riesling. But why stop at cheese? Breast milk has abundant uses. To start with the obvious, you can drink it. The ancient legend known as “The Roman Charity” tells of a man named Cimon, sentenced to die of starvation in prison but kept alive by his daughter Pero, who breastfeeds him during visits. After they’re caught in the act, the father is released in tribute to the daughter’s selflessness. The same trope appears at the end of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, when Joad daughter Rose of Sharon, her baby stillborn, offers her breast to a starving stranger. This past July, the BBC ran reports from China about wealthy deves paying wet nurses $2,500 a month to supply them with fresh product, either via pumping or straight from the tap. An online breast-milk exchange called Only the Breast, we find more than 100 classifieds under “Men buying breast milk.” Sample: “Attractive professional male 35/m looking for VERY fresh warm milk on demand in western Mass area for health benefits and stress relief.” Bid price: $100 a session. My advice: hold out for two grand a month. In 2011 the Icecreamists, a determinedly in-your-face London ice cream parlor (typical offerings: a “Sex

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sakamoto Pen and Ink, 2437 Booksin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Paul S. Sakamoto. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Paul Sakamoto This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2013. (pub Metro 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #583706 The following person(s) is

(are) doing business as: 1. Nails & Hair City, 2. Nail & Hair City, 1680 Berryessa Road, San Jose, CA, 95136, John Nguyen, 838 Candas Creek Circle, San Jose, CA, 95136. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refil;e of previous file #583564 with changes /s/John Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/10/2013. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2013)

Decline-in-Value, Inc, 1277 Poplar Ave., #110, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086. 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 11/07/2001. Refile of previous file #515663 with changes /s/Kurt I. Goff President #C2324470 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2013. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2013)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #583096

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tacos al Pastor #3, 428 Toyon Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127, Guillermo Robles Cervantes, 2033 Flintcrest Ct., San Jose, CA, 95127, Maria Teresa Robles. 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/Maria T. Robles This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/15/2013. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584032 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Decline in Value, 19975 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 100, Cupertino, CA, 95014,

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Inks Unlimited, 463 War Admiral Ave., San Jose, CA, 95111, Ricardo Herrera, Natali Linares Herrera. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on 9/23/2013. /s/Ricardo Herrera This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/23/2013. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #583483 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Anima, 3157 Millbrook Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148, A Struggle Divided, LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): There’s something resembling a big red snake slithering around in your mind these days. I don’t mean that literally, of course. I’m talking about a big red imaginary snake. But it’s still quite potent. While it’s not poisonous, neither is it a pure embodiment of sweetness and light. Whether it ends up having a disorienting or benevolent inﬂuence on your life all depends on how you handle your relationship with it. I suggest you treat it with respect but also let it know that you’re the boss. Give it guidelines and a clear mandate so that it serves your noble ambitions and not your chaotic desires. If you do that, your big red snake will heal and uplift you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my astrological

opinion, almost nothing can keep you from getting the love you need in the coming days. Here’s the only potential problem: You might have a mistaken or incomplete understanding about the love you need, and that could interfere with you recognizing and welcoming the real thing. So here’s my prescription: Keep an open mind about the true nature of the love that you actually need most, and stay alert for the perhaps unexpected ways it might make itself available.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind,” asserts novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Your assignment, Gemini, is to work your ass off to fall out of love with your pain. As if you were talking to a child, explain to your subconscious mind that the suffering it has gotten so accustomed to has outlived its usefulness. Tell your deep self that you no longer want the ancient ache to be a cornerstone of your identity. To aid the banishment, I recommend that you conduct a ritual of severing. Tie one side of a ribbon to a symbol of your pain and tie the other side around your waist. Then cut the ribbon in half and bury the symbol in the dirt. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again,” said painter Joan Miró. “You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life,” he added. The coming days are likely to bring you none of the former kind of experiences and several of the latter, Cancerian. It’s a numinous time in your long-term cycle: a phase when you’re likely to encounter beauty that enchants you and mysteries that titillate your sense of wonder for a long time. In other words, the eternal is coming to visit you in very concrete ways. How do you like your epiphanies? Hot and wild? Cool and soaring? Comical and lyrical? Hot and soaring and comical and wild and cool and lyrical?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a new genre of erotic literature: dinosaur porn. E-books like In the Velociraptor’s Nest and Ravished by the Triceratops tell tall tales about encounters between people and prehistoric reptiles. I don’t recommend you read this stuff, though. While I do believe that now is a good time to add new twists to your sexual repertoire and explore the frontiers of pleasure, I think you should remain rooted in the real world, even in your fantasy life. It’s also important to be safe as you experiment. You really don’t want to explore the frontiers of pleasure with cold-blooded beasts. Either travel alone or else round up a warm-blooded compassion specialist who has a few skills in the arts of intimacy. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The saxifrage is a

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re not being swept along in a ﬂood of meaningless distractions and irrelevant information and trivial wishes, right? I’m hoping that you have a sixth sense about which few stimuli are useful and meaningful to you, and which thousands of stimuli are not. But if you are experiencing a bit of trouble staying well-grounded

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in the midst of the frenzied babble, now would be a good time to take strenuous action. The universe will conspire to help you become extra stable and secure if you resolve to eliminate as much nonsense from your life as you can.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sweetness is good. Sweetness is desirable. To be healthy, you need to give and receive sweetness on a regular basis. But you can’t ﬂourish on sweetness alone. In fact, too much of it may be oppressive or numbing. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically: To be balanced you need all of the other tastes, including saltiness, sourness, bitterness, and savoriness. From what I understand, you are headed into a phase when you’ll thrive on more bitterness and savoriness than usual. To get an idea of what I mean, meditate on what the emotional equivalents might be for bitter tastes like coffee, beer, and olives, and for savory tastes like mushrooms, cheese, spinach, and green tea. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When you procrastinate, you avoid doing an important task. Instead, you goof off, doing something fun or simply puttering around wasting time. But what if there were a higher form of procrastination? What if you could avoid an important task by doing other tasks that were somewhat less important but still quite valuable? Here’s what that might look like for you right now: You could postpone your search for the key to everything by throwing yourself into a project that will give you the key to one small part of everything. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his utopian

novel Looking Backward, American author Edward Bellamy wrote a passage that I suspect applies to you right now: “It is under what may be called unnatural, in the sense of extraordinary, circumstances that people behave most naturally, for the reason that such circumstances banish artiﬁciality.” Think of the relief and release that await you, Capricorn: an end to pretending, a dissolution of deception, the fall of fakery. As you weave your way through extraordinary circumstances, you will be moved to act with brave authenticity. Take full advantage.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I have your back” is an American expression that could also be rendered as “I’m right behind you, ready to help and defend you” or “I’m ready to support you whenever you’ve got a problem.” Is there anyone in the world who feels that way about you? If not, now would be an excellent time to work on getting such an ally. Cosmic conditions are ripe for bringing greater levels of assistance and collaboration into your life. And if you already do have confederates of that caliber, I suggest you take this opportunity to deepen your symbiotic connection even further. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Over a hundred countries around the world celebrate a holiday called Independence Day, memorializing a time when they broke away from another nation and formed a separate state. I encourage you to create your own personal version of this festival. It could commemorate a breakthrough moment in the past when you escaped an oppressive situation, a turning point when you achieved a higher level of autonomy, or a taboo-busting transition when you started expressing your own thoughts and making your own decisions with more authority. By the way, a fresh opportunity to take this kind of action is available to you. Any day now might be a good time to declare a new Independence Day. Homework: At what moment in your life were you closest to being perfectly content? Recreate the conditions that prevailed then. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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