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Everybody for Everybody for Mayor M ayor More than a ba More baker’s ker ’s dozen have declar declared ed plans to run ffor orr mayor of San Jose next year,, but no announcement year ann nouncement was mor moree startling than fformer o ormer councilman FORREST FORREST WILLIAMS’. W ILLIAMS’. Out Outt of the spotlight since his county supervisor ffailed ailed 2010 cou nty super visor bid against MIKE WASSERMAN, M IKE W ASSERM MAN, his announcement last out consid-month came ou ut of left-left field consid ering his past ssupporters upporters at the South Bay aree all-in ffor B ay Labor CCouncil ounncil ar or fformer ormer vice mayor and pr present esent county supe D DAVE AVE CCORTESE. ORTESE. Williams Williaams has yet to pull papers, but if he does hhee could peel votes from from CCortese contest ntest that is expected to be ortese in a con tight. g B But ut William Williams ms told Flyy he doesn doesn’t ’t think about taking votes votes away fr from om Cortese. Cortese.. If anything,, he sai said, d, Cortese Cortese could take votes fr om him. W ait, what? Fly isn ’t the only one from Wait, isn’t scr atching its he ead over Williams’ Williams’ kind-of, kind-off, scratching head sort-of run.. He said s SSBLC BLC officials have called to “ask “ask what’s what’s my plan,” which is code ffor or “W TF, For resst?” Ther “WTF, Forrest?” Theree ar aree some theories that 2010 figur e into his new eff es ort.. A look figures effort. at disclosur forrms shows disclosuree forms that Williams and an nd his wife, wife, e They D OROTHY, had to fforgive orgive DOROTHY, Did $116,950 they lloaned oaned What? his super visor campaign. c supervisor Williams insiste ed that insisted SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O FLY@ FL LY Y@ he fforgave orgave onlyy about METR ONEWS. METRONEWS. $50-60K,, thoug gh,, and though, COM CO M isn ’t running to help pay isn’t off old debts.. “That “TThat was a commitment my m wife wife and I made,”” he said. “Ther ’t anybody a else who said they “Theree wasn wasn’t would help rretire etirre [the debt].” Wasserman Wasserman wasn’t Williams’’ def defeat. wasn ’t the onlyy winner in Williams eat. Political consultant P olitical consul t EED tant D MCGOVERN MCGOVERN racked racked from up $31,000 in payments p fr om Williams. P erhaps that money m y, along with tens of Perhaps money, thousands fr om m SState tate A ssemblywoman from Assemblywoman N ora Campos’ Campos’ 2010 2 campaign, allowed Nora M cGovern to ge enerously pr ovide embattled McGovern generously provide councilman XAVIER San Jose counc cilman XA AVIER V CCAMPOS AMPOS with fr ee help duringg his rrace, ace, which ended with free GE ORGE SHIRAKAWA SHIRAK KA AWA JR.’s JR.’s saliva on mailers GEORGE that swung the contest to CCampos. ampos. A sked Asked if he planned too rrehire ehire McGovern McGovern after the costly def eat tw wo years ago, Williams said, defeat two “That’s “That ’s not something som mething I dwell on.”

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DÉJÁ D ÉJÁ VU Gregory Johnson Sr Sr. r. returned r to the campus his lat late te son attended after four whi white ite San Jose State sstudents tudents t were charged with ha hate te crimes against their African n American roommate. roommate

Racial Racial tension tensions ns inﬂamed at S Jose State Univeristy aft San after er hate crime allegati allegations light ions come to li ght BY B Y JENNIFER W WADSWORTH ADSWOR A RTH

REGORY JJohnson REGORY ohnson Sr Sr.. stands in front of the angry crowd and d closes his eyes. eyes. As he he bows b ows his head, the duct tape tap pe co covering overing his mouth nearly to touches ouches his shirt, which is em mblazoned with a picture e emblazoned o off his dead son. The chants k keep eep ccoming: oming: “L “Let et the t st tudents sp eak!” JJohnson, ohnson, unablee to students speak!” ccontain o ain his rage an ont anyy longer longer,, p peels eelss off the th he black ttape—the ape—the ssymbol ymbol of hi his is vvoice o eb oic eing silenc ed—and yyells ells att being silenced—and the th hee top of o his lungs lungs. u gs. Hee joins jo s doz do dozens e s ens

of students who ha have ave rushed the stage st age and holds up bla black-and-white ack-and-white and white photos of his son son’s ’s br broken o en neck ok ffor or o the entir entiree cr crowd owd to t see see.. “U “Uncle ncle Tom!” “Let et tthe T om!” he rroars. o oars. “L he students speak!” sp eak!” On N Nov. ov. 22, 20 2008, 08, JJohnson’s ohnson’s son, Gr Gregory egor y JJr., r., w was as ffound o ound in the basement of a San n JJose ose St State ate University U niversity fraternit fraternityy house h house,, dangling from fr om a no noose ose fashione fashioned ed fr from om an electrical police electric al ccord. ord. SJSU p olice ruled 20-year-old’s death inconclusive, the 20year- old’s deat th inc onclusive, medical while the ccounty ounty med dical eexaminer xaminer deemed it suicide suicide.. JJohnson oh hnson and his wif wife, fe, Denise Denise,, main maintain ntain that the rreports epor ts ccovered overed up a fat ffatal, al, racially hazing.. On Monday, motivated hazing n Monda ay, the ccouple ouple ccame ame back to the t ccollege ollege about ccampus, a pus, but not ampus ot just to t ttalk a ab alk out

fivee yyears their son. Almost fiv ears to the day Gregory new ego da ay Gr ory JJohnson ohnson JJr. r. died, ne w allegationss of discrimination ha have allegation ave tensions on the inflamed racial r downtown n ccampus. ampus. knew happen en “I kne w this would happ says, Denise JJohnson again,”” Denise ohnson say ys, her shaking points hands shak king as she p oints to a child’ss obituar obituary. printout of o her child’ y. “I knew it.”” kne w it. Last week, Attorney’s L ast we eek, the District A ttorney’s officee anno announced offic ounced misdemeanor battery and bat tery an nd hate crime enhancement Logan enhanc em ment charges charges against L ogan Beaschler,, 18; C Colin Warren, Beaschler olin Warr en, 18; and Bomgardner, JJoseph oseph Bo mgardner, 19. A ffourth o ourth was charged, white student stud dent w as later char ged, but his na name me has not b been een rreleased eleased because minor.. The yyoung b ecause hee is a minor oung freshman men allegedly alled their fr allegeedly ccalled eshman African American Afric an Am merican rroommate oommate “Three-Fifths” “Thr ee-Fift fths” or “Fraction,”” slaves U.S. rreferring effeerring to t when sla aves in the U .S. were three-fifths were cconsidered onsiidered thr ee-fifths of a person. They posted p erson. Th hey also p osted sswastikas, wastikas, Confederate word aC onffede e rate Flag and the wor d on white-“nigger” o n a living rroom oom white board; barricaded several b oard; bar rricaded him se veral times

this pictur picturee of div diversity, ersity, but in fact it’s illusion.” it ’s an illusi ion ” ion. In September, mber, students held Septem a mo mock funeral Africananck fun neral ffor or o the Afric Americ American an Studies S depar department, tment, Qayoumi was which Qay youmi said w as cut due to a lack of in interest. nterest. Mimi L LeBreton, eBreton, a work-study work -studyy major in the program, program, d on Monda Monday ay the timing questioned possible of a p ossiblle hate crime ccoinciding oinciding administration’s with the ccampus a ampus administration ’s decision to o rroll oll back such ccourse ourse offerings. off ffeerings. Between 2009 Bet ween n fall 20 09 and this semester,, the number semester he numb er of black th dropped from students att SJSU dr opp ed fr om 1,323 to 1,0 1,020. 020. Black students now makee up ju just percent mak ust 3.26 p ercent of the overall o verall ccampus am mpus p population, opulation, a 1 percent drop p ercent dr o in the past ffour op our yyears. o ears. The dr drop op rreflects eflects a ccountywide ountywide trend. According U.S. tr end. A ccor o ding to the 2010 U .S. Census Bureau, African Americans C ensus Bur reau, Afric an Americ ans made 2.6 percent d up 2 .6 6p ercentt off the th ccounty ountty population, from percent p opulation n, down fr om 3.7 p ercent ‘90s. in the ‘9 0s. Meanwhile, have Mean wh hile, hate crimes hav ve been decline.. A According also b een on o the decline ccording statistics to FBI st atiistics rreleased eleased this week, California C aliffornia o authorities rreported epor ted crimes, 910 hate cr rimes, with 379 of them motivated—a percent racially mo otivated—a 17 p ercent dip from Off the 15 that o occurred fr om 2010.. O ccurred three weree rac racein San JJose osee last yyear, ear, thr ee wer etook place b d and based d ttwo wo to ok k plac l e at San S JJose ose State. St ate. But the t crime that ccame ame to light last week was w w as the first in rrecent ecent memoryy th that garnered level memor hat garner ed this le vel of says Callender, media attention, attention, sa ayys Rick C allender, California/Hawaii NAACP VP of the C aliffornia o a //Haawaii NAA CP state chapters. st ate chapt ters. “We aree ccalling prosecution “W We ar alling ffor or pr o osecution to the fullest eextent law, because xtent of the la aw, b ecause yp affects this is a ttype p e of crime that aff ffeects not just vic victims, ctims, but the ccommunity ommunity as a whole whole,” ,” he sa says. ayys. The D DA, A ffor A, or its par o part, t, has so far rresisted esisted ccalls allls ffor or o the char charges ges against the ffour our o stu students udents to b bee incr increased eased from fr om misde misdemeanors. emeanors. “While we w underst understand and the outrage of those ccalling alling ffor or eeven o ven stiffer stiff ffeer char charges ges in this ccase, ase, the charges char ges ar aree not a rreflection eflection of the degree their DA degr ee of th heir racism,”” D A JJeff eff Rosen said.. “The char charges aree a R osen said o ges ar rreflection eflection of o their criminal cconduct.” onduct.” Callender Monday C allendeer said Monda ay that NAACP petition U.S. the NAA CP plans to p etition U .S. Attorney A ttorney General G Eric Holder and state Attorney st ate A ttorrney General Kamala Harris to in investigate matter. nvestigate the mat ter. offices Both offic e said no decision has yyet es et been made. b een made e.

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in a closet; and plac placed ed a UU-shaped shaped bikee lo lock around neck—twice. bik ck ar ound his neck n —ttwice. All ffour our susp o suspects ects ha have ave b been een suspended from school, susp ended fr om the sc cho ol, and SJSU Pr President esident Moham Mohammad mmad Qayoumi—whose administration Qay youmi—whose adm ministration has b been een cconsistently onsistently criticized c b byy facultyy and students si since facult ince he got the job in 2011—app 2011—appears ears to t b bee ac accepting cepting blame.. the blame “By failing to rrecognize ecognize g the Confederate flag,, meaning of a C onffeederate flag intervene stop abuse,, inter vene earlier to sto op the abuse impose soon or imp ose sanctions ass so on as the gravity behavior became gra avvity of the b ehaavviorr b ecame clear,, we failed him,”” Qa Qayoumi clear Q ayoumi said Monday morning.. “I failed him.”” Monda ay morning fa him. Despite the admissi admission, hundreds eds ion, hundr of students and facult facultyy gather gathered ed day around that da ay on ccampus ampus ar round the statues st atues of Olympic spr sprinters rinters and Tommie SJSU alumni T ommie Smith and Carlos, made JJohn ohn C arlos, who mad de civil rights history byy raising black-gloved hi histor t yb i i their th ir black bl k-glo l ved d power fists as a salute to black kp ower during the medal cceremony eremony of 1968 Mexico City. the 19 6 8 games in Me x o Cit xic y. Members NAACP, wants Memb ers of the NAA CP, who w CP ants DA increase charges the D A to incr ease thee char ges to ffelonies, eelonies, joined them. Minutes after sp speakers eak kers made closing rremarks emarks and the crowd began chanting, cr owd b egan chanting g, students stage ccommandeered ommandeered the st a and age school raised i d signs i i l i the imploring h scho h oll to givee them a vvoice. They giv oice. The ey criticized marginalizing the ccampus ampus ffor o or mar gin nalizing its activee Afric African American small but activ a Americ an an population. p opulation. “Last semester,, whe when weree “L ast semester en we wer protesting pr otesting and rrequesting equestting to were trying meet with yyou, ou, we we re tr ying hardest our har dest to let yyou ou know that was wrong ong something w as terriblyy wr with the eexperience xperience th that hat Afric African an American American students ar aree ha having avving at San JJose ose St State,” ate,” Gar Garyy Daniels D Daniels,, a student and Black U Unity niity Chair Chair,, told Qayoumi Qay youmi fr from om the p podium. odium. “But yyou ou did not w want ant to he hear ear us us.” .” Kenyatta K enyatta Yarn, Yarn, a a first-year firsst-year SJSU student fr from om N North orth C Carolina, arolina, said the scho school ol puts up p ““token token black fac faces” es” on its web website bsite to giv givee appearance diversity the app earance of div e y while ersit offering little support off ffeering lit tle supp or t ffor or minorities o on ccampus. ampus. Only afterr an incident as allegations have ugly as the rrecent ecent alleg gations ha ave been begin administrators b een willing w to b egin about racee on ccampus. a discussion ab out rac ampus. being located Despite b eing lo cated in one of the diverse state, most div erse ccounties ounties in the st ate, discrimination ccomplaints omplaints of discrimi ination tend bee ignor ignored, Yarn says. “Theyy paint to b ed, Y aarn sa ays y . “The

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SStay tay iin n School! Sam Lic Liccardo cardo o sa says ayys kids ar aree ne never ver too 9-to-5 -5 to o young young to get on that 9-to grind. The downtown do owntown San Jose Jose mayoral ccouncilmember ouncilmemb ber and 2014 ma ayoral ccandidate andidate cr created petition etition last week eaated a p school days to pad San JJose o scho ose ol da ayys an hour or ffew ew longerr to match adult work schedules.. schedules The aaverage veragge school school da day ay is 6.7 hours,, according U.S. hours accordiing to the U .S. Dept. of Education, Education,, so it’s it’s not much of a stretch str etch time-wise time-w wise to bump it up to an 8-hour da day. ay. But that extra extra 30 300 0 or so hours a yyear eaar of instruction in each of the cit city’s y’s 19 9 scho school ol districts would boatload moneyy or rrequire equire a b oaatload of grant mone some other ttype y e of fundingg to mak yp makee it work. “Although “A Although h mayors maayors usually don’t don’t have ha ave much to o do with schools, schools, nothing ccan an mak m makee our cit city ty str stronger onger than ensuringg that our public scho schools ols

give opportunity gi ive eevery very child the opp ortunitty to t ac achieve, chieve,” Lic Liccardo cardo ar argues. gues. Eleven ﬁvee other st states Ele ven districts in ﬁv a ates ha have ave alr already eady launched initiativ initiatives es to t school day, eextend x xtend the scho ol da ay, using a mixx of ffederal, eederal,, st state ate and district money. money. Liccardo Lic cardo suggests that longer sc school chool days daays y will at attract tract yyounger, ounger, educated “gamer”-type parents ents ed ducated “gamer”-t ype par w are who are lo looking oking to set settle tle in neighborhoods good schools. ne eighborhoods with go od scho olss. Sa San an JJose ose ccould ould b become ecome an encla enclave ave stressed-out parents trying ffor o or str essed-out par ents tr ying to “j “juggle uggle afternoon afternoon work and famil family ly adds.. rresponsibilities, e onsibilities,” he adds esp Lik Likee a b boss, oss, Lic Liccardo cardo pack packages ages the t id atio idea dea as a w way ay to impr improve p ove educ education on rresults e esults and pr promote omote public saf safety. feety. A After all, kids ccan’t an’t ttag ag yyour our housee if th they’re hey’re still in study hall. —J Jennifer eenniffeer W Wadsworth aadsworth

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‘While I respect (District Attorney Jeff) Rosen and appl applaud laud his leadership of the DA's office, officce, I believe that the filing of mis misdemeanor sdemeanor charges men sends the against these young y wrong message e to the community, to the victim and, an nd as importantly, nd, importantly to the accused.’’

LaDoris Cordell — Judge and Independ Independent dent P Police olice Auditor LaDoris Cor Cordell, dell,, who wrote wrote an op-ed ar arguing guing ffor or ffelony elony char charges ges against ffour our San Jose S State tate Univer University rsity students accused of hate crimes against their African Ame American erican rroommate oommate (see page 8).

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ROSIE THE PIVOTER PIIVOTER Councilwoman Rose Herrera was noncommital on her plans to run r for mayor of San Jose until Tuesday, y, when she ﬁled papers. Tuesday

It’s Councilwoman Rose It t’s official: C ouncilwoman R ose o Herrera’s mayor, bringing H Herr eraa’s running i ffor o or ma ayo or, bring b i ging i the potential headcount race th he p otential headc ount in the rac ce to o rreplace eplace Chuck R Reed eeed up to 14. A member m memb er of the Cit Cityy Clerk’ Clerk’ss offic officee cconfirmed o onfirmed that Herrera Herrera filed a not notice tice off intent to run ffor o or ma mayor ayor o T Tuesday. uesdaay. While she didn didn’t n’t ’ immediately rreturn etturn a ccall all ffor or ccomment, o omment, Herr Herrera era said in

an inter interview view with San JJose ose Inside last month h that h she h would ld only l run if she h failed to see a qualiﬁed ccandidate. andidate a . “I think the ne next xt ma m mayor ayor needs to bee someone who heal b heals, ls, someone who ccan an k keep eep the ccommunity om mmunity to together gether and ccan an solv solve ve pr problems,” oblems,” Herrera Herr era said. “If I don’t don n’t hear that vision fr from om the otherr candidates, candidates, I

am likely likely to t jump in and run.” run.” Th fact The f t that h she h ﬁled ﬁl d a notice notic i e off intent to run r perhaps perhaps speaks speaks to her opinion off the other contenders. contenders. ““After After se A seven ven e yyears eears of a str strong ong ma mayor ayo or and going thr tthrough ough ec economic onomic har hardship, dship, we don don’t n’’t w want ant a the ne next exxt p person erson in line to b bee a p political Machiavellian, aveellian,” she said. olitical Machia —J Jennifer ennif e feer W Wadsworth aadsworth

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One issue Berg B Berg hopes to solve is making soil soil production production more more efﬁcient.

TTrademark rademark Symbol Symbol San Jose scor scored ed a big win w last week when the U.S.. Patent Patent and an nd Trademark Trademark Office announced plans to open its permanent West West Coast headquarters Hall. at City Hall The agency is slated to move into 40,000 square square feet feet on tthe second and 14th floors by the end of o next year— rrent-free ent-free through through 2016 and at a steep discount through through 2020. The new office will house about 60 patent pattent examiners and 20 judges the first year it opens. Mayor Chuck Reed and Silicon Valley Valley a business groups groups welcomed welcom med the move, because which was held up for for months m of budget cuts from from thee federal federal sequester.. Housing the new satellite sequester office will make City Hall Hall a destination ffor or aspiring patent-holders patent-hold ders from from across acr oss the western states. states. Placing it in the tech capital capital of the country also allows local locaal start-ups to attend patent hearings hearings in person. sp Placing it in San Jose,, specifically, pecificallyy, gives the city a stronger strongerr reason reason to tout “Capital Valley,” it lf as the itself th “C apital it l off Silicon Sili Vaalley ll y,,”” previously pr eviously a dubious claim claaim considering Apple, Google and Facebook Faceb book maintain headquarters in other cities. cities. —Jennifer nifer Wadsworth Wadsworth —Jenn

“One “One of thee things I proposed proposed decades ago ag go is what if you could build a sensor sensor to measure measure soil erosion erosion and d farmers farmers were were [given] incentives to t help?”” Berg Berg said.. “Let’s “Let’s create create ways ways to ‘incentivize’ ‘incentivize’ soil protection.” protection.”” Danielle Gould, Go ould, founder founder of Food + Tech Teech Connect, Conneect, said another solution is promoting promoting local farmers farmers with online local food food marketplaces. m . She uses the th example exampllle off a New N York Yorkk company called FreshDirect, Fresh hDirect, a delivery business that th hat tackles the scalability of transporting transporrting food food to local neighborhoods—or neighborho oods—or as she called it, ”The Last-Mile Last-Mile Problem.” Problem.” “Webvan “Webvan iss one of the biggest dot-com busts bu usts of all time so people are scared are still scar ed of going into that industry,” industtryy,” ,” she said.. “It took [FreshDirect] [FreshDirecct] 10 years to go to another city.” city..” Gould says farmers farmers need to become familiar witth the e-commerce familiar with e-commerce marketplace. marketplacce. Panelists Panelists also also discussed their small business busin ness model struggles, following following up u with encouragement encouragement for for entrepreneurs entrepreneurs and consumers alike to hack thee culture culture obsessed with fast-food fast-food chains. c Sprig CEO Gagan Biyani said industry G people need neeed to “ﬁgure “ﬁgure out how to kill companies like McDonalds.”

Tech T ech e and ffood ood industryy experts for came together g for the second Futuree of Food Hackathon annual Futur Francisco Tagged in San Fr ancisco at T aag gged Inc.. to issues, discuss a variety of issu ues, including agriculture agricul ture processes, processes, renewable renewable energy ener gy and scalability of o big-picture big-picture ffood ood production production ideas.

The Hackathon Hackatthon ended with live demos thatt included pitches from from a Google Glass Glass app that acts as a personal chef ch hef directing directing real-time real-time cooking and and nutrition-inspired nutrition-inspired mobile apps for for kids. kid ds.. Airbnb’s chef, cheff, Sam Lippman, even even made an appearance, appearance, rapping rapping about abo out food food to Biggie Smalls’ Smalls’ “Juicy.” “JJuicyy.” .” But, Butt, the ultimate ultimate hacking title went to Food Food Forest, Forest, a mobile app that lets people peeople form form communities and pool their th heir resources resources to grow grow food food and share share the t harvests. harvests.

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PLAY P L AY TIME TIME The F/X Players were known for their debaucherous month monthly hly dance performances performances..

Club reunion reunion’s ’s sixth h edition revisits infamous revisi ts the infamou us F/X Players BY B Y GARY GARY SINGH

HE SIXTH ANNUAL ANNUAL Black Blac ck Friday reunion reun nion of San Jose's Jose's pioneering pion neering F/X nightclub will w unfold the day after Than Thanksgiving, ksgiving, as usual. However, year promises H oweverr, this t to be quite e a bit different, thanks to a glittering reunion performance performan nce by some of the original F/X F/X Players, Players, who presented debaucherous live dance performances on stage at F/X. F/X. Once again, the will reunion w ill go down at Brix Street. on South First F

Now, N ow, some nec necessary essary histor history: y: D ke During an era that now seems lik like th he vanishing W iild W est est, e , F/ /X w ass the Wild West, F/X was pa art of the original SoF A District part SoFA al lternative music sc ene, when lo cal alternative scene, local an nd national touring bands gigge d and gigged m man ng a chestratin manyy nights a week, or orchestrating Bo ohemian substratum lik o ose Bohemian likee San JJose ha ad ne ver seen b effo ore. L ocated in n had never before. Located th he fformer o ormer Puss ycat Theatr i irst the Pussycat Theatree at F First an nd San Salvador str eets fr om 19 89 and streets from 1989 to o 1995, 1995, F/ X unleashed a visionar F/X visionaryy m mixtur mixturee of liv livee alternativ alternativee music an nd danc ventss, and dancee nights nights,, plus film eevents, ccostumed o ostumed affairs er nights cret affairs,, bik biker nights,, sec secret ga ay nights and a wide variet gay varietyy of m mixed-up p erfo ormance mishmash h. performance mishmash. O ccould One ould simply go down to tha at that ccorner o orner an ny giv en night and jus st on any given just fin nd bands pla ayying some where. A find playing somewhere. th hen-unknown Gwen Stefani, ffor or or then-unknown

example, would hang out on the example, side walk b effo ore N o Doubt D went on sidewalk before No st age. This w as back when w not much stage. was nightlif fe eexisted xisted down ntown eexcept xcept nightlife downtown ffor o or a ffew ew embarrassin et embarrassingg meatmark meatmarket clubs Xw as one of ffour our o rrocking ocking clubs.. F/ F/X was sp ots at that ccorner, orner, th he others b eing spots the being C actus Club Marsugi' 'ss and Ajax, Ajax all Cactus Club,, Marsugi Marsugi's ovided alte ernatives to the of which pr provided alternatives ccologne-soaked ologne-soaked fraudss at plac es lik places likee D .B. C ooper's or P aradise Beach. D.B. Cooper's Paradise These da ayys, a sle w of o dubious days, slew characters that origina ally fr equented originally frequented F/ X reunite reunite eevery very Blac ck Frida ay to F/X Black Friday danc e, drink and temp porarily rrevisit evisit dance, temporarily that par ticular era. Bu ut this time particular But ar ound, eeverything verything is turned up around, a notch,, thanks to thee ﬁrst - ever ﬁrst-ever rreunion eunion i off the h F/ /X Pla layers, an ini F/X Players, house danc oupe o ts that dancee tr troupe off sor sorts rregularly egularly p erfo ormed at a F/ /X back in performed F/X the da ay. Original own er F il Mar esca, day. owner Fil Maresca, who sp earheaded all these t rreunions eunions spearheaded on Fac ebook as early as 20 08,, said Facebook 2008, the pr esence of the F/ X Pla ayers will presence F/X Players ratchet up the silliness silliness eeven ven mor e. more.

F//X Pla ayers were were a big par “The F/X Players partt ntity,” Mar esca said. “Onc Once of our iden identity,” Maresca “Once w put on a show and a month we'd there w as music ostumes and there was music,, ccostumes rehearsals and lighting and sp ecial rehearsals special eff ffeects. W w, we made it effects. Wee made it snow snow, oncepts.” rain men,, we had fun with cconcepts.” There wer w There weree usually themed shows around eevery very holida ay, a Theater of around holiday, aampiire show on Halloween, the V Vampire anti-Valentine's a Da ay show in an anti-Valentine's Day February, et ccetera. etera. The Pla ayers February, Players became pa art of the club club'ss o verall became part overall No other club in San JJose ose shtick. No was doing an ything rremotely emotely similar was anything timee. Many Many of the players plaayers at the time. ob ecome pr offessional e went on to become professional performer o rs or DJ performers DJss and now the theyy are getting gettingg back to gether and will are together perform o aatt this yyear's ear's rreunion. eunion. perform “They wer w “They weree par partt of what made place a lit tttle weir d and a lit tle the place little weird little special,”” sa aid Mar esca. special,” said Maresca. n ttap ap will b Also on bee an ingenious re- creation n of the notorious “fr ont re-creation “front F//X X. This also rrequires equires a quick bar” at F/X. history les sson. The old Puss ycat history lesson. Pussycat eeatured a ccandy andy ccounter ounter Theater ffeatured greeteed customers up on arrival, that greeted upon e. Y ou o ccan an just insidee the entranc entrance. You w yyou ou w alk b still see it when walk byy the place, if you you o look look thr ough the fr ont place, through front windows. The T rrest est of the building windows. was a p orn no theater onc ou got was porno oncee yyou around th he ccorners orners and into the around the space. When F/ /X to ok it o ver, main space. F/X took over, the facilit facilityy blossomed into a liv livee en nue with bands pla ayying music vvenue playing stagge at the back of the on the stage venue, as well w as a mid-le vel bar in venue, mid-level enterr of the vvenue. enue. The ccandy andy the ccenter counter w as cconverted onverted into ““the the counter was front bar ,” ccatering atering to har dcores who front bar,” hardcores an nt to deal with the danc didn't w want dancee crowd insi ide and just w anted to get crowd inside wanted hammered d, m d, yself included. included N ow, hammered, myself Now, Fridaay, a core core gr oup of original this Friday, group bartenderss fr om the fr ont bar bartenders from front bar,, as theeir original customers well as their customers,, reunitte ffor o or the sixth Black will reunite Fridaay. At At Brix, the patio bar will b Friday. bee rechristened as the F/ /X Fr ont Bar rechristened F/X Front from 8-10p pm. If someone actually from 8-10pm. om all the bar drinks thee spillage fr from 2aam and urinates all o ver mats at 2am over sidewalk a in fr ont of the plac e, the sidewalk front place, th I shal h ll l deem d it an authentic th ti then shall reunion. reunion.

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NYONE considering writing a novel about Silicon Valley or a spy thriller set in the computer industry should forget about it. Why? Because the truth is often more entertaining, especially in the case of Fred Vogelstein’s new book, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution. The story contains many elements of an epic saga, with all the betrayal and egojockeying one finds in mainstream fiction. 17

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You Y o ou can can’t ’t imagine one without the t other, otherr, and an nd it is y the precisely interactiion interaction th hat of both that g the changed ld world. new the rise of mobile as a ne ew de facto platform, leaving Microsoft plat tform, o , essentially lea avving Micr osoft behind. b ehind. That much is essenti essentially ially known byy nearly eeveryone b veryo one in Silic S Silicon on V Valley. aalley. But what V Vogelstein ogelstein rreveals eveals in Do Dogfight og fi fightt ar aree the unsungg her heroes, oes, the politics politics and the p personality erson nality conflicts conflicts that p percolated ercolated b behind ehind d the sc scenes, enes, beginning beginning with the de development velopment of the first iPhone. iPhone. He illuminates i several se veral ffolks olks o who toiled d aaway way working on various par parts rts of the device, device, straight up unti until il minutes before beffo ore launch. In harr harrowing o owing det detail, ail,, he documents documents the dramat dramatic tic p personality ersonalitty wars wars b between ettw ween Sc Scott ott Forstall Forrstall and T Tony o on ny Fadell at Apple Apple,, all whi while ile Ste Steve ve JJobs obs intentionally played plaayed them th hem off each other, other, in pur puree Machiavellian Machiaavellian fashion. On the Go Google ogle side side,, V Vogelstein ogelstein det details ails the degr degree ee to which Andy An ndy R Rubin’s u ubin’s Android Android team, at first,, worked w ed in near work

secrecy, secrecyy, a veritable verit e able stealth st startup artup operation Google, operation within w Go ogle, ccompletely ompletely unbeknownst unbeknown nst to the rrest est of the Googlers—not way Go oglers— —not the w ay the ccompany ompan ny normally fu functioned. unctioned. At At the same time Google was secretly developing Googlle w as secr etly de veloping Android, Android, it was was also scheming with Apple to ge get Google’s products et Go ogle’s pr oducts on the new ne w iPhone. iPhone. In the book, book, hostile meetings previously kept aree previously i l k eeptt off ff the th rrecord ecord ar now rrevealed. evealed. Secrecy, Secrecyy, leaks and backbiting within b both oth ccompanies ompanies are brought surface. are now br ought to the sur face. Vogelstein Vogelstein eeventually ventually ttakes akes the narrative wheree he should narrative right riight wher take take it—toward it—tow ward what many man ny have haave predicted degrees predicted with w various degr ees of accuracy accuracy ffor o or 20 yyears eears now—that the cultures Valley cultures e of Silicon Silicon V aalley and Hollywood Hollywood are are merging. merging. Dogfight D gfight Do fi htt published p bli h d earlier li this hi month. I played pllaayeed with a prototype—it protottyp y e—it felt leaked felt e like like an advanc aadvancee iPhone leak keed to the pr press, ess, orr something similar—so, similar—so, without spoiling ending,, I’ll spoiling o the ending reveal reveal whatt underpins most of this soap opera. Basically, opera.. Basic allyy, Apple and Google, book Google, during durring the era this b ook documents, documents, were were two two w vvery ery different diff ffeerent companies. companies. Apple prided itself on absolute sec secrecy, crecyy, strict hierarchies hierarchies and control made, controll off eeverything verything hi it i made d , along l with eevery surrounding very sc sscenario enario surr ounding how its products products are are unleashed on the masses. masses. Google Google was was more more openopenended,, more bent toward informal morre b ent tow ard inf fo ormal sharing, sharing, more mo ore accepting accepting of chaos and goofiness: goofiness: “Throw “ “Thr ow yyour o our products products out there, there, don’t don’tt worry worry what’s what’s finished and what’s what’s not finished, fi , which ones will be be hits or not, n , just roll roll with it.” Turns Turns out it w was aas precisely pr p ecisely this p polarity, olarity, that combination combinatio on of opp opposite osite appr approaches, oaches, that alchemically alchem mically fused to together gether in borderline borderline m mystical yystical fashion to up upend end every eveery otherr high-tech industr industryy and revolutionize revolutionize eeverything. veerything. The ttwo w wo companies companies wer weree both both friends and enemies at the same time time.. Just Just like like the black and an nd white of the yin and yang ssymbol, ymbol, o , there there was was a little littttle bit of one in the other o other—a r—a — little littttle bit of Apple in Google Google and a vic vice-versa. e-versa. Y You o ou can’t can n’t ’ imagine one on ne without the other other,, and it is pr precisely eciselly the interaction of b both oth that changed changeed the world — and will continue continue to o change the world — and should finally finaally do aaway way with both both Micr Microsoft osoft and a cable cable television. television.

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Vogelstein V ogelstein has ccovered over e ed d the PC and mobile industries ffor o or many maan ny years years e now. now w. Do Dogfight ogfight fi t is the rresult esult of building b a network over net tw work of sources sources o veerr the ccourse ourse of half his adult lif life, fe, perhaps. perhap ps. It ccould ould only have been written byy someone ha ave b een writ ttten b so omeone with deep insider cconnections, onnection ns, both both on and precisely off the rrecord, ecord,, which is pr p ecisely why wh hy like it rreads eads lik ke a spy sp py thriller. thrillerr. As As the story story goes, Google weree once go es, Apple and Go ogle wer once buddies. Ass V Vogelstein ti ht buddies tight b ddi . A ogelst l tein t i eexplains xxplains l i it, it theyy planned on a long and prosperous the prosperous marriage.. The They enemy: marriage ey had a ccommon o ommon enem my: Microsoft. Micr osoft. But in just a ffew ew short short years, yeears, bonds unraveled. Secrets weree k kept, the b onds unra aveled. Se ecrets wer eept, promises weree br broken, betrayed pr omises wer ok keen,, friends f b etraayed each other and the ttwo w wo ccompanies ompanies war, shaped went to w aar, just as they theey both both shap ed

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Device D evic i e LLords orrds d Can the iP iPhone Phone and And Android droid peacefully y coexist? Dogfi fight Dogfight author Fred Fre ed V ogelstein o s sizes Vogelstein up the h pla layers BBYY GAR players GARY Y SI SINGH NGH

ired ma magazine agazine contributing contrib buting editor Fred Vogelstein Vogelstein o delves into i the smarttphone war war start of the smartphone with Dogﬁght: How How o Apple Went to War War and Google Went Rev volution, and Started a Revolution, published earlier this month. Metro’s Gary Singh Sing gh sat down Metro’s with Vogelstein Vogelstein recently, recently y, who weighed in on o Silicon Valley’s Valley’s perfectionist perfectionist streak and whether the iPhone iPhone and Android can co-exist. co-ex xist. METRO: One reason why w Dogﬁght

reads like a novel is that t there are so many differentt layers and subplots involved. On n the surface you've got the war be between etween Android e C-level folks and Apple, and all the whom you didn't even n have access to. to. But you went bene beneath eath the surface to speak with h all the unsung heroes—engineers and an nd designers— who never get credit for f anything. How processs unfold Ho ow did that p f when writing the book? Vogelstein: Vogelstein: I have haave disc discovered overed that it is tempting ffor journalist o or a journ nalist to think the b best est inf information fo ormation ffor o or a stor storyy will come from people top.. come fr om the p eoplee at the top And that's rarely rarely true true. e. ... Sometimes Sometimes,, good story, have to get a go od stor y, yyou o ha ou ave to go talk talk to the guys who actually a did all the work. In man manyy ccases, ases, when you you only ttalk alk to p people eop ple at the top top,, they the h y don't d ' eeven ven know k know. w. ... One thing hi I also ccame ame to underst understand, tand,, esp especially ecially ertains to Apple e, but eeven ven at as it p pertains Apple, Google Google as well, is thatt ther theree ar aree a lot eople who ffeel eeel lik ke the of p people like theyy wer weree involved projects, weree involved in these pr ojjects, and wer involved in changing the world,, that involved haven't gotten any credit haaven't yyet et got ttten an ny cr edit ffor o or it.

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lo ok at those tho ose ffour our eexamples o xamples and not look me thing her e. see the sam same here. The 64-tho 64-thousand-bit usand-bit question: Will W ill i Apple still be able to regularly change c the world Steve without St teve Jobs? from One of the things I learned fr om book, hopee I'm writing thee b ook, and I hop proven wrong this,, is that in pr oven wr o on this ong order products likee the iP iPod, or der to do o pr oducts lik od, d likee the iPhone, likee the iP iPad, lik iPh hone, lik ad,, is theree rreally bee someone that ther eally has to b the he ccompany ompan ny who has the running th authority, authorit y, eexplicit xplicit and implicit, to bet Steve essentially b et the ccompany. ompany. Ste ve Apple,, JJobs, obs, because becau use he ccofounded offo ounded Apple authorityy to essentially had the authorit bet b et the ccompany om mpany on building the iPhone.. And iPhone An nd if yyou ou dig into what it took iPhone,, it's pr pretty to ok to build buiild the iPhone etty obvious that bet ob vious tha at he did. did He b et the ccompany. ompany. IIff the iPhone had failed, would have been Apple wou uld ha ave b een in a world Tim Cook of hurt. hurt. I don't d know if T im C ook or anybody authorityy an ybody att Apple has that authorit now. hopee I'm wr wrong. right now w. But I hop ong. writing When writ ting the book, how juxtapose did you ju xtapose writing for audience a tech aud dience of insiders as Valley opposed to o a non-Silicon V alley a readership? story, readership p? Some of this story y, lawsuits, especially y the lawsuits s, has just evolved ju ust since the book came ago.. out a few weeks w ago this was I thought th his w as a rreally eally important important vvehicle t a bunch of rreally eally ehicle to tell important stories,, but,, also also,, one of imp ortant stories have the things yyou ou rreally eally ha ave to do when writing book likee this is to yyou're ou're writ ting a b ook lik makee sure mak sure you you tell it at an altitude gives life. that giv es itt some shelf lif fe. Because Because change.. yyou ou know that t shit's shit s going to change Themes have haave to be be relevant relevant on a daydaayto-day basis. was hoping,, w was to -daay basis s. What I w as hoping as people aree not in Silic Silicon that p eoplee who ar on Valley bee inter interested V aalley would wou uld b ested eeven ven if theyy wer weren't paying attention the en n't pa ayying at tttention to this basis—people stuff on a daily d basis—p eople who heard just hear d ab aabout out this out of their left bee accessible. ears would still ﬁnd it to b accessible. hoped theree w was And I hop e that ther ed as enough new about was ne w information inffo orm mation ab out who w as behind doing whatt to whom b ehind the scenes Silicon sc enes that insiders in Silic on Valley Valle a y bee off offended myy vvery would not b ffeended at m er ey way trying simple w ay of tr ying to eexplain xplain it.

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perpetual peace. W Will iill it i ever end? Can Apple and Android d coexist, or must one of them ultimately u and obliterate the other an nd take the majority overwhelming majorit ty of the You know, market share? Y ou o kno ow w, sort of like starting Android is already sta arting to do?

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A Ph Phone hone is Born The messy messy, y, improbable path p to the iPhone BBYY FRED VOGELSTEIN VOGELSTEIN N

HE iPhone iPhone didn’t didn’t start out as Apple’s Apple’s “next big thing.” Steve Jobs Jobs had to be talked t into building a phone.. It had been a topic of conversation co onversation among his inner circle c almost from the momentt Apple launched the iPod iPod d in 2001. The conceptual reasoning re easoning w as obvious: Why y would was consumers carry two t or three devices for email,, phone calls and music when they t could carry one? But eevery very time JJobs obss and his the eexecutives xecutives eexamined xamined th he idea in detail, det ail, it seemed lik likee a suicide mission. Phone chips and a bandwidth weree to too anyone want wer o slow ffor or o an nyone o to w ant surff the Internet an and to sur nd download over music or video o ver a ccell ell phone cconnection. onnection. Email w was aass a fine function phone.. Butt R Research to add to a phone eesearch in Motion’s BlackBerryy w was locking Motion ’s BlackBerr as a fast lo cking up that mark market. et. Worst wanted W orst o of all,, if Applee w aanted to makee and sell a phonee in the U mak United nited States, St ates, it would be be at the t b beck eck and U.S. wireless ccall all of the U .S S. wir elesss ccarriers. arriers. Back then,, phone manufact manufacturers turers such as Motorola Motor ola wer weree the ser serfs rfs of high tech in the U United nited St States. ates. They T y dep The depended ended on ccarriers’ arriers’’ marketing marketing dollars to get cconsumers onsumers into stor stores, es, and then the theyy depended dep ended on ccarriers arriers to t mak makee the phones aff affordable ffo ordable b byy subsidizing s their pur purchase chase pric price. e. That T made manufacturers manufactur ers powerless powerlless to rresist esist ccarriers’ arriers’’ meddling in how h each phone should b bee built. JJobs obs w was aas personally personally off offended ffeended b ay of doing business bu usiness and byy this w way w anted no par “W We’re not the wanted partt of it. “We’re greatest gr eatest at selling to th the he F Fortune ortune 50 500, 0, and ther ndred of them— theree ar aree fiv fivee hun hundred fiv ed CIOs [ch hief inf fo ormation fivee hundr hundred [chief information offic ers] that ar es yyou ou ha ave to officers] aree orific orifices have

go thr ough h to get through get”” that business business.. “In phone theree ar aree fiv five. the ccell ell ph hone business ther e. W ’t eeven ven lik Wee don don’t likee dealing with fiv fivee hundr ed ccompanies. o ompanies .W e’d rather run hundred We’d an ad ffor o or millions m and let eeveryone veryone makee up th their You mak heir own mind. Y ou ccan o an about out imagine what w we thought ab with five, dealing wit th fiv e,” he said during an onstage interview onst age int terview at the All Things D May 2003. cconference onffeerence in Ma ay 20 03. sounded That sou unded tough and byy the end of principled.. But b 2003, the iPod became Apple’s 20 03,, as th he iP od b ecame Apple ’s important most imp o tant product or product since since the Macintosh, was starting look Macintosh h,, it w as also st arting to lo ok misguided. Cell makers weree misguided d. C ell phone mak keers wer putting music-listening applications put ting mu usic-listening applic ations phones. in their ph hones. And ccompanies ompanies such Amazon, Walmartt and Y Yahoo! as Amazon n,, Walmar aahoo! weree b beginning wer egin nning to sell downloadable music ecutives such as iP od b oss music.. Exe Executives iPod boss T o ony Fade ll worried that if cconsumers onsumers Tony Fadell suddenly ga ggave ave up their iP ods ffor o or iPods music pho ones, Apple ’s business— only phones, Apple’s business—only fiv ears rremoved emoved fr om its flir fivee yyears from flirtt with bankruptc cyy— —would b We bankruptcy—would bee crushed. “W “We didn ’t really reallly have haave a hit on our hands didn’t 2003, [with the iP iiPod] od] until late 20 03,, early 2004, weree sa saying maybe 20 04, so we w wer ayying ma ayybe we don ’t ha ave the mark et domination— don’t have market the rretail etail channels—to c eexpand xpand the iP od d’s busi iness pr operlyy,” Fadell said. said iPod’s business properly, It ’s har d to imagine a time when It’s hard iPod wasn’t iconic product, the iP od w asn’t an ic onic pr oduct, selling mo re than 50 million units a more yyear; ear; but back b then Apple had sold only 1.3 mi illion de vices in ttwo wo yyears ears million devices and w aas sti ill ha avving tr ouble get ting was still having trouble getting such rretailers etailers su uch as Best Buy to ccarry arry it. By summer summ mer 20 04 sales eexploded. xploded. 2004 quarter It sold 2 million m during the quar ter that ended d Septemb September er 30,, 2004, 2004, and anothe er 4.5 million in the final another ter of the yyear. quarter quar ear. By the end of the yyear, ear, Applee building its own phone no longer seem seemed likee such a bad idea. By med lik then it lo looked ok ked like like most homes and ccell ell phoness would so soon on ha have ave W Wi-Fi, ii-Fi, would provide which wou uld pr ovvide high,, reliable reliable bandwidth ho over ver e the homeowner’ homeowner’ss

21 of one hund hundred dred times times,, and blah blah blah…’’ Jobs Jobss cuts him off and sa says, ayys, ‘I just w want ant to o know if yyou ou o are are going to make mak ke the fucking fu ucking thing work.’” Theree w was good Ther a a go as od rreason eason the executive was executive argued argued with JJobs. obs. This w as September 2006. September 20 06. The iPhone would be be unveiled unveiled d in ffour o our months. months. And JJobs obs wanted phone’s wanted to rrethink ethink the phone ’s most prominent pr ominent ccomponent. omponent. Through Th ough Thr h his hi friend f i d JJohn ohn h Seely S l Brown, Wendell Brown,, Jobs Job bs rreached eached out to W eendell Weeks, glassmaker Weeeks, the CEO of glassmak er Corning upstate New York, invited Corning in upst ate N ew Y ork, o , in nvvited him to Cupertino, Cup pertino, and told him he needed the har hardest dest glass eever ver made for iPhone.. W Weeks fo or the screen screen e of the iPhone eeks e told him about developed ab bout a process process de veloped for fo or fighter-jet fighter-jet j ccockpits ockpits in the 1960s. Weeks Defense 1960s. But W eeeks said the Def feense Department never Departmen nt ne ver ended up using the as gorilla h material, materia ial, l, known k ill glass, glass l , so it had ne never ever ffound o ound a market. market. He said C Corning stopped ornin ng had stopp ed making it decades Weeks decades ago aago.. Jobs Jobs wanted wanted W eeeks to start immediately, start production production immediately y, convincing Weeks con nvvincing W eeeks that he could could in fact get JJobs ob bs the glass he needed in six months. months. “We “W We produced produced glass that had never made.. W Wee put our b best never been been made est scientists and an nd engineers on it and we just made it said. i work,” Weeks Weeks e On top of of all ll that, h , Jobs’s Jobs’ b ’s obsession b i with secrecy secreccy meant that despite being from 80 being eexhausted xhau usted fr om working 8 0 hours a week, weeek,, the ffew ew hundred hundred engineers and a designers working on the project about project ccouldn’t ouldn’t talk talk ab out the project project to an aanyone nyone else. else. If Apple ffound o ound out you’d bar,, or you’d told to old a friend in a bar even bee fir fired. even your your sp sspouse, ouse, yyou ou ccould ould b ed. Before Beffo ore a manager maanager ccould ould ask yyou o ou to join the project, project, o , yyou ou had to sign a nondisclosure agreement office. nondisclosu ure agr eement in his offic e. Then,, after he told yyou o ou what the project was, project w ass, yyou ou had to sign another document document cconfirming onfirming that yyou ou had indeed sign signed NDA ned the ND A and would tell no one one.. “My favorite part, faavorite o par t,” said one of the early iPhone engineers,, “was iPhon ne engineers “w waas what all the vendors day vend dors said the da ay after the unveiling. un nveiling.” Big B ccompanies ompanies such as Marvell Marveell Electronics, Eleectronics, which made the Wi-Fi Wii-Fi radio chip, chip, and CSR,, which provided the Bluetooth chip,, provided th he Blueto oth radio chip hadn’t theyy were hadn’t been been n told the were going to be new theyy be in a ne w phone. phone. They They thought the weree going to b bee in a ne new wer w iPod. iPod. “We “W We actually had fake d fak ke schematics and fake fake

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DSL or ccable able cconnection. onnection n. And outside outside-the-home the -home ccell ell phone ba bandwidth andwidth looked lo ok keed lik like ke it would so soon o b on bee fast stream enough to str eam video o and run a Internet browser. fully functioning Intern net br owser. processor weree finally fast Phone pr ocessor chips wer w enough to run ccool-looking ool-look king phone software. important, softw are. Most imp ortant, a , doing was business with the ccarriers arrieers w aas starting starting onerous. to seem less oner ous. prototype was Th first The fi t iPhone iPh pr ottot t tyype w as ambitious.. Ste Steve not ambitious ve Jobs Jobs o hoped hoped bee able to develop that he would b t de velop a touchscreen running touchscr een iPhone ru nning OS X. 2005 But in 20 05 he had no idea how long prototype that would ttake. ake. The pr rotottyype was was iPod an iP od with a phone radio r that used iPod dialer.. the iP od click wheel as a dialer second prototype The sec ond iPhone pr p otottyype 2006 was much in early 20 06 w as muc ch closer to ultimately unveil. what JJobs obs would ultim mately un nveil. touchscreen I inc It iincorporated orporated d a touch h een and hscr d OS X,, but it was was made entir eentirely ely of Ivee brushed aluminum. Jobs Job bs and Iv weree eexceedingly proud wer xceedingly pr oud d of it. But sincee neither of them wer weree experts sinc w experts in physics waves, theyy hadn hadn’t the ph hysics y of radio w aves, the ’t they’d beautiful rrealized ealized the y’d created created a b eautiful waves don’t brick. Radio w avees don n’t travel traavel through metal thr ough met al well. iPhone project It all made the iPhon ne pr oject occasionally so ccomplex omplex that it o ccasionally threatened entire thr h eatened d to d derail il the he entir ie Manyy of tthe ccorporation. orporation. Man he top weree engineers in the ccompany ompaan ny wer being sucked project, b eing suck ed into the pr p oject,, fforcing orcing o timetables slowdowns in the time tables of other projects. iPhone been pr ojects. Had the iPhon ne b een a dud gotten ground or not got ten off the gr round at all, have Apple would ha ave had no other big products announce pr oducts rready eady to anno ounce ffor o or a time.. W Worse, top engineers,, long time orse o , its to op engineers byy the failur failure, frustrated b e, would have haave jobs. left Apple ffor or o other job bs. Even Ev en Apple’s Apple’s eexperience xperien nce designing screens iPods didn’t scr eens ffor or o iP ods didn ’t help the screen. ccompany ompan ny design the iPhone iPh hone scr een. After much debate debate,, Jobs Jobs decided the screen bee made of iPhone scr een needed tto ob hard har d Plexiglas. Plexiglas. He and his h eexecutives xecutivvees screen shatter thought a glass scr een would w shat ttter dropped—until saw when dr opped—until JJobs obs sa aw how prototype scratched a plastic pr oto otype had gotten around got ttten when he carried carried it ar ound in pocket keys. “Jobs goes, his p ock keet with his k eyss. “J obs go es, ‘Look this.. L Look ‘L ook at this ook at this. th his. What’s What’s screen?’” with the scr een?’” said an a eexecutive xecutivve who witnessed the eexchange. xxch hange. “And “A And the midlevel guy [a midle vel eexecutive] xecutivvee] takes takes the prototype says, ‘Well, Steve, pr otottyp y e and sa ayys, ‘W Weell,, Ste ve, we have prototype, ha ave a glass pr otottyype, but b it fails the one-meter drop hundred one -meter dr op test onee hundr ed out

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Good thing tthe he next day’s a holiday.. The eighth holiday e annual Give Thankss rrave Thank ave ffestival estival is bringing Dutch trance big time Dut ch tr ance DJ Dash Berlin to San n Jose. He was recently recently named the number n 10 DJ in the Magazine.. Okay, world by DJ Magazine M Okay, so the moree of list is mor o a popularity contest ofﬁcial than an ofﬁc cial “Best DJ”” ranking, ranking, Berlin but Dash Ber rlin is popular ffor or a rreason: eason: big hook hhookss and big drops— drops— aree alw always which ar ways complementary sweaty to a sea of sw weaty EDM ffans. ans. electroo house DJ Also on tap: LA L electr Morgan Page, Beltek, Mor gan P agee, plus Bel tek, Topher Toopher Alexx Jones and Al exx Adam. (SL)

There’s Ther e’s ddinner inner and live music to Friday,, be had in Redwood City this Friday Sareena with SSwiss wisss folk-singer folk-singer Sar eena Overwater Over wateer providing providing the tunes, and American Amerrican bistro bistro Angelica’s Angelica’s providing Accompanied pr oviding the ffood. ood. A ccompanied Overwater by a full band, b Over water is on a Area small Bayy Ar ea tour behind her most rrecent eceent album Over Overwater water. She plays straight-ahead straight-ahead a ffolk olk pop, in the vein of Sarah o Sar ah McLachlan and Joan Osborne, Osboorne, but she has a splash of countryy twang in her voice. (SL)

CHU CHURCH URCH OF MIS SERY MISERY Blank Club, San Jose 9p Fri, 9pm, pm, $15 brave Many a br ave soul have joined bassistt Tatsu bassis Taatsu Mikami and his Japanese Japane ese doom metal outﬁt, Church Misery, Chur ch h of Misery y, since he started the band baand in 1995. He’s He’s gone through moree members than thr ouggh mor picks, guitar pick s, but the sound has rremained emain ned constant: slow, slow, powerful metal. Plus the vision of the band hasn’t sharee hasn ’t changed—their lyrics shar dark tales taales of serial killers and mass murderers. mur deerers. ers Compared Compared to some doom metal bands, Church Church of pretty traditional, Miseryy keeps it pr etty tr aditional, as in heavily h inﬂuenced by old Sabbath Sabba th rrecords. ecords. However, However, the (current) moree aggr aggressive (cur rennt) singer is mor essive there aree some psychedelic and th here ar elements, it’s eleme nts, but it ’s still primarily (AC) just heavy, heeavy, deep metal riffs. (A C)

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STA STARRY ARRY STARRY STA ARRY NIGHT N IGHT San n Jose W Woman’s oman’s Club, San Jose Sat, Sat t, 7pm, $15 adv/$20 door LLocal occal ffashion ashion collective “Les CCatwalkers atw walkers SSJ” JJ”” team up with some Area Bayy Ar ea artists and musicians ffor or Roaring a Ro oaring ’20s style party that has center.r. The ffashion, ashhion,, music and art at its center ffashion ashhion designers of LLCSJ CSSJ will unveil original created orig ginal designs cr eated speciﬁcally traditional ffor or the evening. evening. Instead of a tr aditional catwalk show, catw walk show w, models will mingle order offer with h the audience in or der to off er closer a cl oser look at their outﬁts.. Along with h the ffashion ashion segments,, local jazz artists Brooke arti sts Jackie Gage,, Br ooke D.. and the Zach perform. Zac ch Hash Band will perf orm.. LLocal ocal painters Barajas, Beltran, pain nters Joe Bar ajas, Rob Bel tran, Erek CCandice anndice Meyers, Er ek Daves,, Amanda

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Dec 4 at San Jose Civic

JJAY AY Z Dec 11 at SSAP AP Center

BLIND D BO BOYS OYS OF ALAB ALABAMA AMA Dec 12 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

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

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

A CHARL CHARLIE LIE BR BROWN OWN XMA XMASS W W// DAVID D AV VID BENOIT Dec 15 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

MON MONTGOMERY NTGOMER RY GENTRY/ GENTR RY/ CHA CHARLIE ARLIE D DANIELS ANIELS B BAND AND D 15 at San Jose Civic Dec

WILD JJAM AM Dec 15 at SSAP AP Center

THE TERRA TERRACOTTA T COTT TA PRINCE Dec De ec 1818-22 22 at Flint Center

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

THE T HE R ROADSHOW OADSHOW 2 2014 014 Jan 16 at SSAP AP Center

JJUSTIN JUS TIN TIMBERLAKE Jan 19 at SSAP AP Center

Payne and Bryan LLopez Payne opez will have haave their Blackbirdd Tavern own exhibits,, as well. Blackbir Taavern serves guests. ser ves up a full bar ffor or 21+ gu ests. attiree is rrequested. (AD) Cocktail attir equested.. (A AD)

CRASHFASTER CRA SHFFASTEER Homestead Bowl & the X Bar Sat, 8pm, $10 genree seems like The chiptune genr likke something too niche ffor or a lot of people to even consider getting into:: a bunch of dudes making music with their t old genree Nintendo Gameboys? But thee genr has evolved so ffar ar past that.. San S Francisco Crashfaster aree one Fr ancisco quartet Cr ashfasterr ar wholly of the bands taking it into wh olly new territory. ter ritoryy. Their latest album, album Fu Further, urtherr, incorporates alt-rock incorporates industrial music,, al t-rock and electr electro-dance, o-dance,, and they make m some quite serious,, emotiona emotional al songs in the pr process. Morgan ocess. Singer Mor gan n TTucker uucker has become the de ffacto leader acto lead der of the West West Coast scene,, and holds monthly m chip events at the DNA LLounge. oungge.. In addition to Furtherr, Cr Crashfaster ashfasteer just

incredible video rreleased eleased an incr edible vide eo ffor or their “Beacon.”It’s song “Beacon.”It ’s a mesmerizing, mesm merizing, surreal that sur real sci-ﬁ short ﬁlm tha at masquerades (AC) masquer ades as a music video. v (A C)

*sun n THE PALACE PALACEE BALLROOM B ALLROOM Caravan, San Jose Caravan, Sun, 8pm, free free

plays This San Diego quintet pla ays soft alternative al ternative rock rock that borders bordeers on coffee coffee singer-songwriter shop,, acoustic singer-song gwriter gruff, huskyy material. The singer’s singer’s gruf ff, husk calm voice complements the ca alm rrock ock songs on their album Thiss Is The Plan. While most of the album stays s true to style,, there aree a ffew exceptions. there ar ew ex xceptions. “Competition” “Competition” is a slightly ffolky olky tune with a trance-like tambourine trance-like tambou urine beat

progression and slow vocal pr ogresssion while Plan”” has a rroots-rock “This is the Plan oots-rock ffeel, eel, groove three-part with a nice gr oove andd thr ee-part “Occidental” harmonies.. And “Occid dental”” starts off quiet,, but builds to up to an anthemrrock ock ballad byy the end.. (AD)

EASON EA SON CHAN CHAN San Jose Event Cen Center nter Sun, 7pm, $58-$138 8 One of the leaders in the CCantopop antopop scene, Eason Chan is known just as much ffor or his voice as ffor or his musical innovations. No wonder wondder he’s he’s referred referred to as a ““god god of song”” in China—his gorgeous voice is smooth, gor geous and operatic. oper atic He typically sings over soft atic. piano arrangements, arrangements, which have easy-soul, traditional elements of easy-sou ul, tr aditional Chinese music and rradio-pop a adio-pop songs. transcend Some singers tr ansceend language barriers, perfect bar riers, and Chan is the t perf ect emotions example: the emotion ns he conveys aree eas easily with his voice ar sily understood, tongue. rregardless egardless of native to ongue. (NR)

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SAP Center SAP Center,r, San Jose Mon, 8pm, $275+ + career In the beginning of her solo car eer Beyoncé mostly stuck s closely to R&B a hip-hop and R& &B sound. Her “Crazy debut single “Cr azy In LLove,” ove,”” ffor or instance, has an ener eenergetic getic hip-hop ffeel eel rreminiscent eminiscent oof ’90s R&B rradio. adio. album, On her ffourth ourth alb um, 4, she she’s ’s rreally eally moved in to the modern era.“Run m er a.“Run The World World (Girls)”” has a heavy, heavyy, electronic-loop marching electronic-loop onic loop and and mar ching snare snare beat, a sample sam mple from from electro-weirdo electro-weirdo DJJ collective Major Laze.“Countdown” Laze.“Countdownn” mixes heavy dance beats and jazz shufﬂe into a truly experimental experimenntal pop-song. Beyoncé stops att the SSAP AP Center for for her Mrs. Carter Carteer Show world tour. tour. (AD)

DAVID D AV VID GARRETT J 21 at San Jose Civic Jan

GEORGE GE ORGE SSTRAIT TRAIT Jan 30 at SSAP AP Center

SSTYX TYX Feb 6 at San Jose Civic

DEMI LLOVATO OVATO Feb 11 at SSAP AP Center

SPYRO SP YRO GGYRA YRA Feb 13 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

PIXIESS PIXIE FFeb eb 22 at San Jose Civic

THE SE SECOND COND CITY Feb 22 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

NUCLEAR CCOWBOYZ OWBOYZ March Mar c 29ch 29-30 30 at SAP SAP Center

ANTHONY BOURDAIN ANTHONYBOU URDAIN&ERICRIPER & ERIC RIPERT RT April 13 at SSJJ Center Ceenter for for P Performing erforming Arts

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In the Flesh

SHADOW S HADOW ART AR RT The ‘Flesh and M Metal’ etal’ exhi exhibition ibition explores many differen different nt takes on the fusion of man machine. gelatin among works.. and machin e. This untitled 1923 silver gela atin print by El Lissitzky is am mong the featured works

Stanford Stan nford studentss helped curate e show with big big names from SFMOMA’s collection m SFMOMA ’s co ollection BY B Y GARY GARY SINGH

S THE TH HE San Francisco Francisco Museum Modern Mu useum of M odern Art (SFMOMA) (SFM MOMA) goes on the road roa ad during its own inner-reconstruction, phase of in nner-reconstruction, collections its collectio ons are appearing various at v arious partner p institutions throughoutt the Bay Area. throughou One such ccollaboration ollaboration emerged has emerge ed at Stanford University's University' 's Cantor Arts Center, where Center r, wh ere students helped curate “ﬂesh cur ate “ﬂes sh and metal.”

Co-orrgganizeed b Co-organized byy SFMOMA, “Flesh and Met al: Body Bo ody and Machine in Early Metal: 20thCentury A rt” pr esents mor 20th-Century Art” presents moree than artw works th hat eexplore xplore a ccentral entral 70 artworks that

dyynamic of ar dynamic art-making t--making in Eur Europe ope and Americas half an nd the Americ as during the ﬁrst ha alf off the 20th ccentury. entury. Culled entirely entirelyy from fr rom SFMOMA's ccollection, ollection,, the show sho ow artists Constantin ffeatures e eatur es ar tists i that h iinclude l d C onstan ntin Brancusi, B rancusi,, Giorgio Giorrggio de Chirico, Chirico, Salvador Salvad dor Dalí, Duchamp,, Germaine D , Marcel Marcel Duchamp K , Fernand Krull, Fernand Léger, Léger, Wyndham Wyndham y Lewis, László Moholy-Nagy, L ewis, L ászló Moholy y--Naggy, Piet Ray others,, all M Mondrian, , Man Ra ay and others different rrevealing eveealing diff ffeerent ttakes—utopian ak kees—utopian and a dystopian—on and dy ystopian—on the fusion of man an nd machine.. m machine unfolds The eexhibit xhibit unf fo olds in ffour o our sections across se ections acr oss ttwo w wo galleries in the Cantor Center. Body: C antor C enterr. “The Bo dyy: Human Concretion” dynamism C oncretion” ffocuses ocuses on the dynami ism industry, off machines and industr y, and how they especially th heey esp ecially rrelate elate to the human body. Kooning b odyy. A famous de K ooning quote heads was he eads the whole section: “Flesh w aass the was invented. Wee th he rreason eason oil paint w as a in nvented.” W then several Léger's plus th hen see se veral e of L éger's works plu us

Moholy y--Naggy photos of o br ok ken e dolls Moholy-Nagy broken and dW eerner R o ohde's hd ' interpretations in interpretations i off Werner Rohde's disc arded displa ay mannequins. mann nequins. discarded display The ne ext x section, “Th he U rrban next “The Urban L andscape: Studies in F orm m,,” Landscape: Form,” cconcentrates oncentrates mor t metr opolis moree on the metropolis as cr eativve inspiration. Some S ar tists creative artists champion the ne w age of sk kyyscrapers, new skyscrapers, bridges and fast t-past citty lif fe, while fast-past city life, others ar keptic e al of the t incr easing aree sk skeptical increasing mechanization of the mo m dern world at modern that time time.. Cubist works b Braaque and Pic asso byy Braque Picasso highlight the thir d secti ion n,, “The Object: third section, Suitcase,” where wherre we also see Box in a Suitcase, Raayy's “rayographs” “raayographss”” as well as Man Ray's Foounttaain. Lastly, Lastlyy, Duchamp's notorious Fountain. Un nssatisﬁed Desires” Desires” “The Imagination: Unsatisﬁed featur e es yet yet e another stylistically sttyylistically diverse divveerse features collection of works, works, including inclluding a Dali collection gaave the section s title. painting that gave its title. seection is a Calder Calder Also included in this section sculpture as well as paintings pain ntings by by Max sculpture Surrealist troublemaker troubleemak ker e Andre Andre Ernst. Surrealist Breton's famous quote heads up the Breton's imaginary is what tends section: “The imaginary become real. real.” to become Un nffo ortunatelyy, whatt the show Unfortunately, rep presentation lacks is an adequate representation Italian Futurists, Futurists, who most of the Italian the industrial adamantly heralded the

dissaavo owed all previous previous forms, fo orms, age and disavowed maaniffeestos beginning beginning g g in writingg manifestos 1909,, and whose w art as 1909, techniques of art propagand da influenced influenced almost all of propaganda centur e y's troublemakers troublemak keers that the 20th century's triumphan ntly followed. fo ollowed. When it comes comes triumphantly celebratiing the beauty beautty of technology, technology, to celebrating noise, lust and a machinic violence, violence, those noise, started it all,, in my my opinion,, and guys started theey only get g a passing few few mentions in they show w, sad s to say. saay. this show, b perhaps the Which brings me to perhaps best aspect aspectt of this exhibit: exhibit: that Stanford Stanffo ord best eveen got to learn about about students even Futurism,, Dadaism D Surrealism at Futurism, and Surrealism thaat they theey actually played plaayed e a role role all,, and that curaatorial process. process. Last Last spring, spring, in the curatorial fivve students studen nts took took a class from from Cantor Cantor five Center curator currator Hilarie Faberman, Faberman, Center arround curating “Flesh and designed around Metal.” In the t course course the students Metal. ou ut” exhibition exxhibition themes, themes, label label “fleshed out” teexxts and installation in nstallation design. After texts Can ntor Center Center is located located on all,, the Cantor world-ren nowned campus, caampus, so why wh hy a world-renowned t art art students get to learn shouldn't the about the process? p ocess? Makes pr Mak kees sense to me. me. about Tw wentty years yeears ago, ago, no one taught taught Twenty n college. college. There There were were no this stuff in course syllabi syllaabi on the merits of Futurist Futurist course propagand da and Dadaist nihilism. propaganda Wo orld d Wide Wiide Web Weeb was waas just in The World couldn't simply its infancy and one couldn't Google those tho ose movements. mo oveements. One had Google search out o cantankerous cantank ker e ous old artists, artists, to search completelyy outside of academia, academia,, that completely knew the material. m knew Either that or dig through tattered tat atttered library library copies copies of The through Fu uturist Manifestos Maaniffeesttos o or Memoirs Memoirrs of a Dada Futurist Drummerr. Drummer. Now alll of that has changed. Asia Asia s Now Chiao, onee of the Stanford Stanffo ord students Chiao, particcipated in the curatorial who participated process, says saays y it was was a a rocking rocking experience. experience. process, “As an undergraduate, u under graduate, even eveen if you yo ou “As cu urate an exhibition, exhibition, xhibition, typically typic y ally do get to curate smalleer exhibition exxhibition with student it's a smaller cetera, e work,, et cetera, ” Chiao said. “But being able to work with curators from from being exhibition SFMOMA and work on an exhibition includ des Picasso Picasso and Duchamp's that includes Foounttain a , and an nd all these spectacular spectacular Fountain, works, it's just j really really a once-in-a-lifetime once-in-a-liffeetime works, experience. Even Evveen most [professional] [proffeessional] experience. ou ut there there don't get to work curators out ob bjects we did.” with the objects

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FLESH AND MET METAL TAL A CCantor antor Arts Center Center,, SStanford tanford Free Fr ee Admission

SoFA District (and beyond) on the First Friday of the month.

Avery Palmer

Yolanda Guerra

DECEMBER 6th ART WALK 7–11pm

KALEID Gallery

MACLA

88 So. Fourth St.

510 So. First St.

HARK! 12th Annual Holiday Sale & Artists’ Party It's that wonderful time of year when 60+ artists offer their signature works of art at especially affordable prices for holiday gift giving! Participating artists include resident KALEID artists as well as an invited group of talented regional artists. Wear your UGLY holiday sweater for photo opps & a chance at prizes!

“MAIZE Y MAS: From Mother to Monster?”This group exhibition explores the unique heritage of maize in the Americas and illustrates this crop’s journey from pre-Columbian times to today: once a sacred staple associated with a mother/virgin figure, today an engineered product which many compare to a monster. Work by Yvonne Escalante,Yolanda Guerra, Fernando Mastrangelo, Viva Paredes, and Jorge Rojas.

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Seeing Things Gallery

WORKS San José

520 So. First St.

30 No.Third St.

Fiberart International Internationally renowned exhibition features 40 works from a diverse group of 37 national and international artists. Translucence: Southern California artist Cathy Breslaw’s recent work. Interpretations features fourteen cloth panels created by members of the Art Cloth Network.

Lay Low by Frances Marin The body of work is a peek into Frances’ brain; the dreamt-up hideaways, corners and nooks she has sought out since childhood. Living in a world of incessant chatter, amongst urban sprawl and the unrelenting hum of activity, she’s strived to create the antithesis.

Eat, Drink, Be Merry Works presents the annual exhibition of art from its membership, a survey of work from around our region and across the spectrum. Eat, Drink, Be Merry coincides with "Around the Table" exhibitions and includes some of our community's most respected artists along side new and emerging talents.

365 So. Market St.

Artwork by Ruby Rutledge

Additional Participating Venues: Zero1 Garage 439 So. First Street Café Stritch 372 So. First Street Caffé Frascati 315 So. First Street Discover San Jose 150 So. First Street Downtown Yoga Shala 450 So. First Street Pho69 Restaurant 321 So. First Street Psycho Donuts 288 So. Second Street South First Billiards 420 So. First Street The Studio Climbing Gym 396 So. First Street TechShop San Jose 300 So. Second Street

Art Ark Gallery

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Closing Reception: The More the Merrier IV: Salon-Style Art Exhibition & Sale. This year's exhibition will showcase the work of 51 bay area artists working in variety of mediums and styles. In the tradition of the French salon-stye exhibition design, participating artists are encouraged to install as much art as they can within their allocated space. Live Music by: Dirty Cello

DOTMOV is a digital film festival organized by Japan's online magazine "SHIFT", aiming to discover unknown talented creators and provide an opportunity to show their works. A total of 206 works from 18 countries were submitted this year, and of those submitted, these excellent 20 works were selected for the festival by prominent guest judges.

at Good Karma Cafe 37 So. First Street The Lucidity of Travel photography by Gary Singh. One can “travel” just as much in one's own neighborhood as he can anywhere else. The images in this show are from home and abroad. Gary Singh is an award-winning journalist and a Pushcart-nominated poet.

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City Lights Theate Theater er Company presents Margulies’ pr esents Donald Mar M gulies’ play girl about a Jewish gi rl cast as the school’s lead in her school ’s Christmas pageant.. Thu-Sat,, 8pm.. Thru Dec 22. $25-$30.. San Jose.

FIDDLERONTHE FIDDLER ON THEEER R ROOF OOF The classic musica musical al about a community Jewish communit ty in turn-ofthe-20th-century rural the20th-centuryy rur al Russia. Presented Pr esented by West Wesst Valley Vaalley Light Opera. Oper a. Thru Nov 30. 30.. Fri,, 8pm, Sat-Sun, 2:30pm. $18-$33. Saratoga Sar atoga Civic Theater. Theeater.

LITTLE WOMEN LITTLEW OMEN TheatreWorks pr TheatreWorks presents e esents a musical rretelling etelling of o LLouisa ouisa May Alcott’s Alcott ’s classic novel. noovel. Dec 4-Jan 4-Jan Wed, Thu-Fri, 4. W ed,, 7:30pm, Th hu-Fri, hu Fri, 8pm, Sun, Sat,, 2 and 8pm, Su un, 2 and 7pm, $28-$55. TTue, uue, 7:30pm. $28-$55.. LLucie ucie Theatre, Palo Alto. SStern tern Theatr e, P alo Al to.

NOVEMBER NO VEMBER David Mamet exp explores lores politics, the state of the Union and Thanksgiving Thanksgiving in this presented Dragon esented byy Dr play pr agon Productions. Pr oductions. Thu-Sat, Thu--Sat, 8pm, Sun,, 2pm. Thru Dec Deec 15.. $25opening/$15-$30 egular $35 opening/$15 5-$30 rregular performances. pperf ormances.. Redwood Redwood City. Cityy.

SHE KILL KILLSS MON MONSTERS NSTERS Renegade Theatr Theatree Experiment presents pr esents a story about a a woman who learns about the hidden sister side of her late sis ster when she sister’s discovers her siste er ’s Dungeons Dragons notebook. & Dr agons notebo ook. Fri-Sat, Thru 8pm,, Sun, 7pm. Th hru Dec 77.. $10$25.. San Jose.

MUSEUMS ART AR RT TMUSEUMOFL MUSEUM OF LOS OSSGA GATOS ATOS "Backward is Forward: "Backward Forward: Layer and Printmaking.” Impact in Printmaking. .”” Ends 11am-5pm. Jan 12. Wed-Sun, Wed-Sun, 11am -5pm. LLos os Gatos.

DE SAISSET DES AISSETMUSEUM MUSEUM M “Reduce,, Reuse,, Re-im Re-imagine,” agine,” workss cr created from om objects objjects work eated fr wastee rrescued escued from from the wast stream—items disposed str eam—items dispos sed of as trash tr ash rrather ather than recyclables recycclables by businesses. local rresidents esidents and bus sinesses. 11am-4pm. Ends Feb.. 2. TTue-Sun, uue-Sun, 11 1am-4pm. Clara. Santa Clar a.

EUPHRAT EUPHRA AT TMUSEUM MUSEUM “Making Space,”” a gr group ouup show cultural, exploring physical,, cul t al, tur and historic space. Thruu Dec.. 5. Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm. Mon-TThu,, 10am3pm. De D Anza College, CCupertino. upertino.

SSAN ANJOSEMUSEUMO JOSE MUSEUM OFAR OF ART RT ““Around A Around the TTable aable SStage tage One— Jitish KKallat: allat:: Epilogue.”” Ends April 20,, 2014. “Swans, “Swans, SSwine wine Sirens.” and Sir ens.”” Artists inﬂuenced inﬂuenced Greek mythology. Ends by Gr eek mythology y. En nds Dec Food, 1 “Around 1. “Ar A ound the TTable: aable: Fo ood ood, Creativity, Cr eativityy, Community,” Communityy,” ,” an exhibition that delves iinto nto how ffood ood has shaped local cul cculture. ture. 27. Thru April 27 7. TTue-Sun, uue-Sun, 11am5pm,, closed Mon. San Jose. J

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San Jose Repertor Repertory ry Theatre Theatre presents pr esents a world premiere p emiere pr rretelling etelling of a ffairy airyy tale with a Wed, steampunk twist. W ed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri,, 8pm (no show Nov 28), Sun, Sat,, 3 and 8pm,, Su un,, 2pm, Tue, Tue, u $10-$69. 7:30pm.. $10-$69 9.. Montgomery Theatre, Theatr e, San Jose. Jose.

“Fiberart International.” “Fiberart International..”” W West est premiere exhibition, Coast pr emiere exhibit ion, ffeaturing eaturing works works by 37 national n artists, and international artist ts,, both emerging, established and emer gging, and ging, exploring a wide spectrum spectrrum of practices. "Translucence: textile pr actices.. "T Transslucence: Breslaw, CCathy athy Br eslaw w," works works cr ccreated eated in mesh. a unique industrial me sh. Shows Wed-Sun, ed-SSun, 10amrun thru Jan 19. W 5pm.. San Jose.

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The LLos os Al Altos tos Stage Stagge Company presents pr esents a Neil Simon Sim mon comedy about the rreunion eunionn of two nowVaudeville rretired etired members of o aV audeville 8pm, act.t Thu-Sat, Th S t, 8pm 8 m,, Sun, S , 3pm. 3 $18-$32. Altos. Thru Dec 15. $18$32. LLos os Al tos.

YYori oori Seeger, Seeger, sculpture. sculpture. Thru T Dec 1. TTue-Wed uue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, 1 Thu, 11am11am-9pm. Clara. 9pm.. Santa Clar a.

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“Suicide,”” mixed-mediaa by Barron Wind Bar ron SStorey. toreyy. “The Win nd Whips Palm Fronds,” workss by the P alm Fr onds,” new work Megan Diddie. Thu-Fri,, noon7pm,, Sat, noon-5pm. SSan an Jose.

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BRUNI BR UNIGALLER GALLERY RY Jazz-related art by Bruni Sa Jazz-related Sablan. ablan. Mon-Sat, 1-6pm.. San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC AND AR RTS “Connecting Thr Threads... eads... Quil Quilts tss Worker Made at Day W orker Center of View.” Mountain View .” Thru Nov 330. 0. 9am-7pm, 9amMon-Fri,, 9am-7pm, 7 , Sat,, 9am mGallery, Center, 3pm. Mohr Gallery y, Finn Cen terr, View.. Mountain View

EMPIRE SE SEVEN VEN SSTUDIOS T TUDIOS "A Dr "A Dream eam Def Deferred" erred" new wo works orks Alexy. by Ben Alexy y. Thru Nov 29.. San S Sat,t, Jose. TTue-Fri, ue-Fri, u noon-6pm, Sa appointment. noon-4pm or by appointme ent. San Jose.

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

MACLA MA CLA “MAIZE Y MÁ MÁS: S: From From Mother Mother to Monster?”” an exhibition explores corn that explor es the rrole ole of cor n current in our cur rent ffood ood system and a culture in Latino cul ture and uncovers uncoveers linkss between ffood, cultural the link ood, cul tural health. identity and heal th. Works Works by b Yvonne Yvonne Escalante, YYolanda oolanda Guerra, Mastrangelo, Guer ra, Fernando Mastr angeelo, Paredes, Jorge Rojas. Viva P aredes,, and Jor ge Roja as. Jose.. Thru Feb.. 15,, 2014.. San Jose

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

MONTALVO MONT ALVO ARTS ARTS CENT CENTER ER “Mountains in My Spoon,” celebrating Artists celebr ating the Lucas Lucas Artist ts Program Residency Pr ogram (LAP) exploration alumni’s explor ation of food. foodd. Thru Feb 9. “Come Healing.”” A about new show by six artists abo out Ongoing. healing and wholeness. Ong going.

SANJOSEINS SAN JOSE INSTITUTE STITUTEOF T OF ART CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORAR RY AR RT “Erased Loop “Erased Loop Random W Walk,” alkk,” sculptures Berlier. kinetic sculptur es by Terry Ter e ry B erlier. Thru Feb 15. ““Around Around the TTable: A aabble: Works W orks by Robin Lasser and Christopher Reynolds.”” Thru Dec 21. TTue-Fri, uue-Fri, 10am-5pm,, Sat, S noon-5pm.. San Jose.

*events *e eveents ARTISAN AR RT TISANHOLID HOLIDAY AY YMARKE MARKET ET Handcrafted gifts ffor Handcrafted or the kiln-formed holidays,, including kiln-f orm med ornaments, glass,, blown glass ornamen ts, ceramics, cer amics, jewelry, jewelryy, potted plants plaants and ﬁne art. Nov 30-Dec 1, 10am-3pm. Gallery, 10am3pm.. Art Object Galle ryy, San Jose.

SHIRLEY YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS The casting of Shirley (Roneet Aliza Rahamim) as Jesus for the Christmas pageant understandably raises concerns for her Jewish family, including her papa (Michael Rhone).

Casting Doubt AMID THE GLUT of holiday-themed productions, City Lights Theater is distinguishing itself with Coney Island Christmas, a “Jewish Christmas play” adapted from Grace Paley's wonderful short story “The Loudest Voice.” Written by Donald Margulies (Dinner with Friends, Time Stands Still) and directed by Kit Wilder, Coney Island Christmas tells the story of Shirley Abramowitz, a young Jewish girl who is cast as Jesus in her school's Christmas play, much to the dismay of her parents. Lillian Bogovich, as an elderly version of Shirley, narrates the story with a kind of warm nostalgia that invites comparisons with Truman Capote's “A Christmas Memory.” Instead of Capote's Coney Island Christmas countryside, we get Shirley's childhood amid the bustling immigrant community of 1930s Brooklyn. Thru Dec 22 City Lights Theater Many in the community deem Shirley too loud, but her Company, San Jose voice soon turns out to be an asset. After stealing the show as a gobbling turkey in her school's Thanksgiving $17-$32 play, she is recruited by the drama teacher (James Kopp) 408.295.4200 to play Jesus in an upcoming Christmas performance. or cltc.org Shirley's mother (Maria Marquis) is adamantly against her daughter taking on this role, seeing it as an attempt by a goyim to erode her family's Jewishness, although papa (Michael Rhone) is more sanguine about it. This conflict is where Margulies' play diverges from Paley's story. Shirley's desire to play Jesus against the wishes of her parents (faintly echoing the way Al Jolson's character in The Jazz Singer is torn between his Jewish heritage and his love of raucous American music) adds needed dramatic effect. It also provides a reflection on the Jewish-American relationship with Christmas, and by extension, perhaps, the relationship between non-WASPy people and American culture. Though its ruminations on the American melting pot threaten to slide into platitude, the play does a mostly serviceable job of articulating the dual identities that many immigrant and minority groups must negotiate. The real draw, however, is the acting. I particularly enjoyed Rhone and Marquis as Shirley's often stern, but completely lovable parents. Roneet Aliza Rahamim gives a positively sparkling performance as young Shirley, and the ensemble of actors playing her bewildered schoolmates are also quite charming, especially during the silly Thanksgiving and Christmas play sequences. Whether or not this play will endure as a holiday classic remains to be seen, and some Grinch-like viewers are likely to balk at its sentimentality, but I suspect that most people will find it to be delightful and heartwarming holiday fare. —Sean Conwell

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POUND P OU N D F FOR OR P POUND OUND After 20 years of imp imprisonment, prisonment, Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) looks to do some captor—did ﬁght’? some damage to his captor—di id someone say ‘hammer ﬁght t’?

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(PG; 93 min.) Dir Director ecctor KKasi asi Lemmon adapted an origina original libretto al libr etto by Langston Hughes into this musical spending tale of a teen spen nding the Christmas grandparents (Forest holiday with his gr andparents (For est Whitaker,, Angela Bassett) from Whitaker B fr om he’s whom he ’s been eestranged. stranged. With Jennifer Jennif er Hudson.(O (Opens Opens W Wed.) eed.)

(PG--13; (PG-13; 1 ; 146 min.)) The rushed,, jostling sequel Hunger Games: G : CCatching aatching Fir Fire re has a severe severe case of middle-child syndrome; syndrome; it’s it’s only there there as a conduit to the two part sequel. The military-industrialentertainment complex coomplex of futuristic Panem Panem celebrates celebratees the 75th anniversary Games of the Hunger Ga ames by staging a moree than a dozen pit-match with mor m badly-introduced previous badly-intr oducedd pr evious winners. The traumatized Everdeen tr aumatized KKatniss atn niss Ever deen (Jennifer (Jennifer Lawrence, Lawr ence,, still solid soolid and enigmatic;; an heroine action her oine too reckon reckon with) must ﬁght boy alongside the bo oy whose life life she saved in the last ﬁlm. Thee most dangerous dangerous game tropical thunderdome, commences in a tr opical thunder dome, mustardd gas,, annoying bir birds beset by mustar ds and purple-assed purple-asseed baboons. We We don’t don’t get Panem here, e, a better idea of how h P anem exists her proles except as twittery twitterry partygoers and pr oles around standing ar oundd giving the Boy Scout salute.. (RvB)

THE BOOK THIEF ( 13;; 125 min.)) Inn Nazi Germany, (PG-13; (PGGermanyy, develops interest orphan Liesl devel ops an inter est bookss aatt the home of in banned book parents, her ffoster oster par ents,, Hans and Rosa (Geoffrey Watson). Ass (Geoffr ey Rush andd Emily W atson). A searches she sear ches ffor or bbooks ooks to rread, ead, Liesl Hans aree discovers that Han ns and Rosa ar Jewish safe, keeping a young Je ewish rrefugee efugee saf e, house. hidden in the hous se. (Opens W Wed.) eed.)

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ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA ‘Betas’ mines valley stereotypes for its cast of characters.

Beta Testing WHILE WE’RE WAITING for HBO’s upcoming Silicon Valley by Mike Judge, we have the beta version, conveniently titled “Betas” (downloadable weekly on Amazon Prime, where the first episode is free). Some woodshedding must have gone into creating this show about a gang of lovable misfits in San Francisco’s SOMA and Mountain View, but it doesn’t show: there aren’t the serious inside jabs that really connect. Director and exec producer Michael Lehmann (Heathers) once demonstrated a flair for slang that's missing here. The three 16ish-minute episodes available now are removed from ghastly painful sitcom-ism only by the absences of a laugh track, dank language and by more lingerie than you’d get on network TV. Blame the unstoppability of The Big Bang Theory as a model: in Betas, as there, geeks spit out a series of inside jokes, among hot girls who somehow have the patience to listen. Meet: the normal if colorless Trey (Joe Dinicol). There’s “Nash” (Karan Soni) as the Indian-American who dropped out of Stanford, who tries hard to escape mascot status. There’s Jon Daly as Hobbes, the bearded old man of the group: “I’m 35—that’s 95 in valley years.” There’s the suspiciously Clark Dukelike Charlie Saxton as the kid-brother type Mitch, and lastly, Maya Erskine as

hawt-AZN Mikki. (“I’m Japanese, not Chinese.” “Same difference.”) Glam but geeky, Mikki—you’ll howl when she says she never uses the word “damp” when she’s sexting because “it makes my vadge sound like Dagobah.” The group is Betas perfecting BRB, a social media app First episode free online based on hacked at Amazon.com Facebook algorithms: Subsequent episodes this in-development require Amazon Prime product gets the membership attention of gnarly ($79 per year) Marin VC George Murchison (Ed Begley, Jr.) and “Valleysmash” (i.e. Valleywag). What Begley thinks of this writing is up to him, but his first utterance “I thought I told you to fuck off” has rather a harsh ring, even by the standards of that particular line. The other big laugh-getter in the first episode was the moment special guest star Moby claim that he fucked an octopus. Fucking is funny, octopi are funny and even Moby’s slightly funny, and yet you put it all together… Exterior shots of digerati flytraps such as Bi-Rite Ice Cream may be a mitigating factor. What you won’t find in Betas is an argument against the widely held prejudice that the latest stage of the digital revolution is being achieved by dick-obsessed racist grinds.—Richard von Busack

(PG; 108 min.) A Di Disney isney animated musical tale aboutt two princesses— one of whom has the t power to conjuree up blizzar blizzards. conjur d She goes into ds. loses control hiding after she lo ses contr ol of her traps aps the powers and tr t land in an winter,, andd her sibling must eternal winter crew gather a cr ew to bbrave rave the weather track down. and tr ack her down n. With the voices Idina of Kristen Bell, Idin na Menzel. (Opens Wed.) Weed.)

THE GREA GREAT AT BEA BEAUTY UTY (Unrated; (Unr ated; 142 min.)) Jep, a bor bored ed lifee in intellectual, jaded with his lif inspiration Rome, ﬁnds some inspir ation when he meets Ramona,, a witty young stripper.. Dir Directed Paolo Sorrentino. stripper ected by b P aolo Sor rentino. (Opens Fri.)

HOMEFRONT HOMEFR ONT (R; 100 min.) Jason n SStatham tatham is a ormer DEA agent fforced fformer orced to go into rural hiding in the rur al South. A local (James Franco) meth dealer (Jame es Fr anco) susses cop’s out the cop ’s rreal eal identity i and tries to advantage. use it to his advan tage. Also, Winona Ryder plays a methh addict. (Opens Wed.) Weed.)

NEBRASKA NEBRA SKA (R; 115 min.) Bruce Dern and Will aree a ffather Forte ar ather and a son who Nebraska journey to Nebr askka to collect prize money. way, money y. But along the t way y, they encounter friends and rrelatives elatives to whom dad seems to be in debt. Directed Alexander Payne ected by Alexan Dir nder P ayne (The Descendants, Sidew Sideways). ways). (Opens Wed.) Weed.)

OLDBOY OLDBO OY (R; 104 min.) min ) See rreview e eview on page 38. 38 (Opens W Wed.) eed.)

PHIL PHILOMENA OMENA (PG-13; 195 min.) An (PG-13; A unemployed (Steve teve Co Coogan) journalist (S oogan) tries to help Dench) track Philomena (Judi D ench) tr ack down the son she was fforced o ced to give up ffor or or convent adoption at a conv vent 50 years ago. (Opens W Wed.) eed.) The Hunger Games:

Revivals R Re viv i als al THE LAD LADY Y EVE/MONKEY EVE/MONKEY BUSINESS BUSINE SS (19441/1931) (1941/1931) 1 Thee acme of the screwball scr ewball comedy, comeedyy, and one of the ffour our or five best films made system. in the studio sy ystem. Tragedy Tragedy is what happens to James SStewart tewart in V Vertigo, ertigo, e gazing gaziing at a double of his long-lost lo love. ove. Comedy is what happens to Henry Hennry Fonda as “Hopsy” Pike, Pik the th virginal, vir i gin i al,l snake-studying k t d i heir to Pike’s Won Pike’s Ale, A “The Ale that W on for for Yale.” Yaale.” He returns retturns from from a long trip to the Amazon only to encounter danger in the fform orm of a lady cardcardsharp (a glorious gloriouus Barbara Barbara Stanwyck, Stanwyck, sabotaged a bit bit by her shoulderpad-loving clot clothes thes designer Edith Head). When hee discovers her shameful past, he urges urges her to vanish. But then then a year or so later, later, Pike encounters aristocrat encounterrs a British aristocr at who looks looks like positively the same dame. A comedy d comedddy off wordplay, wordplay d l y, gross gross slapstick and deathless deathless exchanges (“Where from, (“Where I comee fr om, we get up early in the morning.” “Yes, wheree morning.”” “Y Yees, and wher has it gotten you?”). yoou?”). BILLED WITH WITH Monkey Business. Busineess. The ocean liner these theme links links the ese two films. SStowed towed away in ffour our separate seeparate barrels barrels of kippered kipper ed herring herrinng are are a mustachioed slouch, a mute blond harpist, a dubious Italian and a jaunty young nullity.. A Att New YYork harbor,, all Marx nullity oork harbor Brothers disguise Br others disgu ise themselves as Chevalier; Groucho Maurice Cheva lier; Gr oucho flees to court a married marriedd lady hitched to an bootlegger: you’ree unsavory bootl egger: “I know you’r a woman who’s who’ss gotten some dirty breaks. Wee cann clean and tighten br eaks. W breaks, those br eaks, but b you’ll have to stay in the garage garage overnight.” o (Plays Nov 28-Dec 1 in P Palo Alto aallo Al to at the Stanford Stanffoord Theatre.) Theatre.) (RvB)

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ROCKING R OCKING ON ON On their newest album, Ca Careless reless H Hearts earts have shifted pop.. their sound from f country to roots-rock and d power pop

Carel Careless less H Hearts earts mov move ve further away y from Americana A with h new album BY B Y AAR AARON ON N CARNE CARNESS

VEN NOW, NOW, four years afterr the fact, the members mem mbers of Careless Hearts H earrts are still amazed that they played with p Stooges’ guitarist gu uitarist James James Williamson n at the Blank Club. Club. For F or W Williamson iilliam mson it w was aas a w warm-up aarm-up gig. gigg. dropped out He dr opped ou ut of the music business decades earlier, prepare dec ades earlier r, and needed to pr reepare Iggy himself ffor o or touring tou uring with Igg gy and The Stooges. For Careless Hearts was Sto oges. F or C areless Hear ts it w aas an unexpected, life-changing une exp x ected,, lif fe-changing eevent. vent. e They spent Williamson, The ey sp ent months m with W iilliamson, songs,, but also hanging rrehearsing ehearsing the songs out with him and a listening to his stories about Iggy, David icons ab out Igg gy, Da avvid Bowie and other ic cons o from ’70s.. fr om the earlyy ’70s The eexperience xp x erien nce had a much bigger they impact on the band than eeven veen the ey have They ccould ould ha ave eexpected. xxp pected. The ey had just broken all,, lea leaving behind brok keen fform, orm, o , after a aving v b ehind

th their heir Americ Americana ana rroots oots to pla play ay an ent entire tire se et of The Sto oges’’ songs—the bluep print set Stooges’ blueprint they eallyy ffor o punk rrock—and or ock k— —and the ey did it rreally w well. “I w was as a rat rattled. tttled. How do I mak make ke sen sense nse of this? th his? Pla Playing ayying rrock ock is so fun,” sa says ays y singe singer/ er/ gu uittaarist P aul Kimball. ““After A After we pla ayeed guitarist Paul played w JJames with ames it w was aas hanging right out there th here in fr front ont of me: W Wee need to pla play ay m mor ock. That ’s the shit I ccame ame up on.” moree rrock. That’s Now N ow C Careless areless Hear Hearts ts ar aree rreleasing eleasingg their th heir thir third d LP P, Alum R Rock—their ockk— —their ﬁrst full-length fu ull-lenggtth album sinc sincee pla playing ayying with Williamson. W iilliamson. They’ll Theeyy’ll celebrate celebrate its rrelease eleaase on n Frida Friday, ay, N Nov. ov. 29 at the Blackbir Blackbird d Annex. A Anne ex. x This album is ccompletely ompletely different di iff ffeerrent e than their last,, 20 2008’s 08’s Heart Heart’s t’s Delight,, which was D Delight waas a country-rock co ountry--rrock album. Rock traces al l lb lbum. Al R Alum ockk has h trac es off ccountry, ounttry, but bu ut it’s it’s mostly a ccollection o ollection of rroots-rock oots-rock and power-pop songs.. Plus the band an nd p owerr--pop songs heavier, looser is hea avvierr, lo oser and louder than eever ver e before. b efore. Playing Williamson isn’t Pla ayying with W iilliamson isn n’’t the only on nly big change the band eexperienced xp x erienced e since They sin nce Heart’s Heart’s Delight. Delight. The ey also lost

guitarist Derek See,, who now original guit arist Der ek See local the Bang.. See is a leads lo cal a soul rrevue, evue, th he Bang genree purist,, as iss eevident skilled genr vvident in his Bang.. work with the Bang weree looking “When he left,, we alll wer looking at other, each other r, like lik ke we don’t don n’’tt have haave to play plaay it a way, Powers says. ccertain ertain w ayy, y”” P owers sa ayys. wasn’t simple It w asn a n’’t quite as simp ple as just playing differently. They pla aying y the songs diff ffeerently e y. The ey had they wanted no idea what the ey w aantted to do or how theyy should do it,, but it ffelt like the eelt lik ke a change was they just started waas in order. orderr. So the ey jus st st arted writing songs,, and demoing a whole bunch b of songs many man ny of which were were scrapped—some scrrapped— —ssome before getting rreworked ew work keed several seveeral times b effo ore get ttting thrown thr own out. have ethic wheree if I ccan’t “I ha ave this work ethi ic wher an n’’t problem, intellectually work out a pr oblem,, I better next b etttter just work on the ne exxt song. songg. The themselves That’s ideas will work themselv vees out. That ’s totally happened, tot ally what happ ened,” Kimball says. saayys. Shortly quit, they Shor tly after See quit t,, the ey also lost guitar player, Clarke, their steel guit taar pla ayeerr, JJody ody Clark ke, distancing ffurther fur ther h dist di i them h m fr ffrom om their hi ancing original ccountry ountry sound. Their bass player, took See’s placee pla ayer e , Brian Michael,, to ook See ’s plac guitar they on the guit ar and the ey rrecruited ecruited Brian bass.. In that Dupras to rreplace eplacce him on o bass time,, the they moree time ey ccontinued ontinued to write mor trying discover material,, tr ying to disc oveer what this band w was th aas now. now w. When they heey wrote wrote “The

Road, Righteous R o oad,” the ninth song on Rock, was transformative Alum R ock, it w aas transf fo ormativve and eeye-opening. ye-openin ngg. wrote song,, I ccould “When I wr ote that song ould o whole see the who ole album,” Kimball says. saayys. “There’s “Ther e’s rreally eeaally no ccountry ountry in it,, just an earnestnesss to it. Sometimes yyou o ou write a wheree it’s song wher it’s eexactly xactly x what yyou o ou meant be, it to b e, and d it ffelt eelt like lik ke the path fforward. o orwaard.” Replacements-esque The songg is R eeplacceements-esque powerful in the p oweerful riffs and in its subtle marriage off rroots-rock oots-rock and punk. from album’s opening Right fr o the album om ’s op ening World” it’s obvious track, “Push h the W o orld”” it ’s ob bvvious different this is a diff ffeerent band. The song is a ff straightforward power-pop straight tfor o waard p owerr--pop rrocker, ock keer, punctuated d with a ccatchy atch hy anthemic chorus.. In fact, chorus f , even even e the lyrics go into newer, more ne werr, mor re direct direct territory. territory. tryy to write “I tr w as honestly and as myy ccourage me,,” clearly as m ourage will allow me says. look Kimball sa ays y . “If I lo ok at the stuff on Heart’s Delight, there’s Heart ’s Delig ght, I think ther e’s a lot of rreal eal stuff, filtered through For stuff ff,, but fil ltered thr ough fiction. F or myself more this rrecord, ecord,, I allowed m yyself mor re times things didn’t to write thi ings I didn n’t ’ understand understand on have before. this rrecord ecord than t I eever veer ha ave b effo ore.” new The ne w album includes some stories,, but on “Come fictionalized d stories “Come Back Home”” Kim Kimball shares, from parental Home mball shar es, fr om a par ental perspective, p erspectivve, what he thinks familial love lo ove bee and should b a the album closer, closerr, “The Last Orchard Town, L ast Or charrd in T o own,” is basically basiccaally a entry. myy bike journal ent try. (“I pull m bik ke through through open the last op e gate/that holds our last en bay/surprised byy ccentury's entury's hunger hu at ba ayy/surprised b keeps ”) how much h chain link ffence enc e ce k eeps e aaway. wayy. y””) several occasions, On se eveerral o ccasions a , Kimball the city discusses th he cit ty of San Jose—no Jose—no given title,, surprise giv veen that the album’s album m’s title Rock, shares local Alum R ock, shar es a name with a lo caal neighborhood. Ave” neighb orho ood. “Bascom “Bascco om A ve” references reffer e ences well-known the well-kn nown San JJose ose street, street,, but it’s it’s World” “Push the W o orld”” that rreally eally delves delvvees into character the charact ter of San JJose. ose. (“The tenth largest city nation/we lar rggest cit ty iin the nation n//we got a long way go..”) ”) w ay to go thing,, “San JJose osee is a ccomplicated omplicated thing troubled place, kind of a tr o oubled place, a place place with personality disorder, says. ap ersonalitty disor derr,” Kimball sa ayys. “There’s lot great people here “Ther e’s a lo ot of rreally eally gr eat p eople her re doing rreally eallyy ccool ool things. things. There’s There’s a lot of of anxiety insecuritiess and ffeelings eelings e anxietty and isn’t. rresentment esentmentt on what it isn n’’t. And all are of those ccontradictions on ntradictions ar re fascinating me.. I relate have to me relaate to them. I ha ave all these me,, too. cconflicts onflicts in me too.”

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Sat,, 8pm: Audible Smoke Signal. Mon, 8pm:: Sean Blak San Jose. Thur:: DJ Mist. Fri:: Aki KKumar umar Corey Blues Band. Sat:: Cor ey Clifton. All shows 9:30pm, $5. Fremont. Fremont.

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BRIT BRITANNIA TANNIA A ARMS DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Every Fri & Sat:: Live DJ DJ.. San Jose Jose. e.

CAFE SSTRITCH TRIT T CH Fri,, 8pm: TTim im Lin Gr Group. oup.. San Jos Jose. se.

C&J’S SPOR SPORTS TS B BAR AR Live music Fri & Sat. Sat. Call Call for for info. Clara. inf o.. Santa Clar a.

Wed,, 7pm: Willie Rolland Blues Wed, Blues. s. Fri,, 8:30pm:: Johnny Neri and Friends. Sat,, 8:30pm:: Maneck Ferrara. 7pm: Sun, 6pm:: Joe Fer rara. TTue, uue, 7pm m: M Maneck. k LLos os G Gatos t

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Wed,, 9pm: Suska. Thu, 9pm: Wed, Melted Mike Osborn.. Fri,, 7pm:: Mel ted Horses. 9pm:: Jake Nielsen TTrio. rrio. Sat, 7pm:: Special Guest. Sat, Guest. 9pm: Dave Gonzales.. $10 Sun, Mon: info. CCall all ffor or inf o. San Jose.

LITTLE LLOU’S OU’S BBQ Wed, W ed,, 7:30: Fr Fred ed McC McCarty arty TTrio. rio. r Fri, 8pm:Dolce Muisca.. Sat, 8pm:: LLonesome onesome LLocomotive. ocomotive. CCampbell. ampbell.

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LLOFT OFTB BAR ARANDBIS AND BISTRO ST TRO Every Thu:: Live jazz in the evening. San Jose.

AGENDA A GENDALLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, 8pm:: Salsa. Thu,, 9pm: Wed, Vybez. Banda.. Sun:: Reggae V ybez. Sun: Reggae Night San Jose.

ANGELICA’S ANGELICA A’’S BIS BISTRO ST TRO Wed, 7:45pm:: KKavanaugh Wed, avanaugh Brothers Celtic Br others Cel tic Experience. $13-$26. Sareena $13 -$26.. Fri,, 8:30pm:: Sar eena Overwater. Over water. $16-$29.. Sun, 7pm: Watkins. Cheri Anderson,, Mary W atkins. $16-$21.. Redwood City. Cityy.

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THE W WOODSHED OODSHED Every ďŹ rst and thir thirdd W Wed, ed, 7pm 7pm: m: Johnny-Cat. Blues jam with Johnny-C at. TTue: u ue: Acoustic Gatos. A coustic Slow Jam. Jam LLos os Gatos s s.

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CAFFE FRASCATI CAFFEFRA SCA AT TI TTue, uue,, 7pm:: Open mic. San Jose.

CAMERA 3 Fri,, 9pm,, Sat, 7pm:: Comedy Sportz. Sportz.. San Jose.

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ALEXâ€™S ALEX Xâ€™S â€™ 4 49ER 9ER INN Nightlyy, 9pm-2am: Nightly, 9pm-2am:: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

AZĂšCAR LA LATIN AT TIN B BAR AR Wed:: 8pm-midnight: KKaraoke Wed: araoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish). San Jose.

THE BEARSS THEBEAR Fri,, 9pm:: Darryl. Darryl. San Jose.

BENNIGANâ€™S GRILL BENNIGANâ€™SGRILL Sat, 9pm:: August.. Santa Clara. Clara.

Fri,, 7pm:: Open mic. San Jose.

IMPROV IMPR OV Wed:: Renegades of Comedy w/ Wed: Garrett Gar rett Gonzales.. Thu:: The Future Future Comedy, of Comedy y, w/mystery headliner. headliner. Fri-Sun: Arnez J. J. San Jose.

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Wed:: Poetic Wed: Poetic Justice.. Free. Free. San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 7pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.. Sunnyvale.

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Sun,, 9:30pm:: Comedy. Comedyy. San Jose.

TTue, uue,, 7pm:: SSteve teve Tiger. Tiger. Cupertino. Cupertino.

Sat, 8pm:Live Jazz. CCasino asino M8trix, San Jose.

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C&W/Folk C&W W//FFoolk ANGELICA'S ANGELICA A''S BIS BISTRO ST TRO Wed, 7:45pm:: KKavanaugh Wed, avanaugh Brothers Celtic Br others Cel tic Experience. $13-$26. Sareena $13 -$26. Fri,, 8:30pm:: Sar eenaa Overwater. 7pm: Over water. $16-$29. $16 $29 Sun, Sun 7pm m: Watkins. Cheri Anderson,, Mary W atkinss. City. $16-$21. Redwood City y.

CLUB CL UBFFOX OX Wed, 7pm:: Mike Schermer Wed, Schermer.. $55 Pattison, Sat, 8pm:: Davey P attison, Thee TTrouble rouble with Monkeys.. $20. City. Redwood City y.

THE SADDLE THES ADDLERA RACK ACCK Wed, 9pm:: CCalifornia Wed, alifornia Cowboys Cowboys. s. 9pm: Thu,, 9pm: Diablo Road. Fri, 9p pm: Diablo Road. Road. Sat Sat, 7:15pm: Wildd West W est Show. Show w. 10:15pm:: Diablo Fremont. Road. Fr emont.

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Wed:: Downtown Comedy Night Wed: w/Marcc Yaffee, w/Mar Yaaffee, Mike Betancourt, Bryce Druzin.. $10-$12. Gilroy. Gilroyy.

Wed, Fri & Sun,, 9pmWed, 9pm-1am: -11am: KKaraoke. araoke.. Sunnyvale.

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TTue: uue:: DJ Davey K.. Campbell. Campbell.

Mon, 7pm: Open mic.. Free. Free. Downtown San Jose.

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POOR HOUSE BISTRO POORHOUSEBIS ST TRO TTue, uue, ue, 6pm:: Open mic. mic San Jose. Jose

QUARTER QU AR RT TERNO NOTE OT TE Mon: Comedy. Comedyy. No cover cover.. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK REDR OCKCCOFFEE OFFEECCO. O. Fri,, 7pm:: My Teen Teeen Open Mic. Mon, 7pm:: Cavin Cavin and Kingâ€™s Open Mic. Mountain View. View.

ROOSTER R OOSST TER T T.. FEATHERS FEA ATHER T S Wed:: New Talent Wed: Talent a Showcase.. FriSun:: Nate Bar gatze. Sunnyvale. Bargatze.

THREE FLAMESSRE THREEFLAME RESTAURANT STAURANT Wed, 8pm:: Open-mic night with Wed, Anita.. Willow Glen.

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ADVENTURE CLUB Montreal dubstep duo currently taking the internet and club scene by storm. Nov 30 at Regency Ballroom.

Every Thir Thirdd Fri: SStrictly trictly Freestyle. Fuz. Fr eestyle.. Every ffourth ourth Fri:: Fuz z. San Jose.

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Like Bruce Cockburn once sang: You pay your money and you take your chance. Dec. 1 at Regency Ballroom. Jazz drummer leads Cannonball Legacy Band in ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy’ and other favorites. Dec 3-4 at Yoshi’s Oakland.

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PUBLIC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #585324

County on 11/13/13. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #585278

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ransom Press, 6369 Didion Court, San Jose, CA, 95123, MaryLu Tyndall. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on 10/30/2013. /s/MaryLu Tyndall. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/21/2013. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2013)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kidport, 19121 Portos Drive, Saratoga, CA, 95070, Bryan Knysh. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/1998. Refile of previous file #517156 /s/Bryan Knysh This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/20/2013. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #585323

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #585018

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Gold And Silver Exchange, 14961 Joanne Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95127, Steven Bumb. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Steven Bumb This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/21/2013. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584557

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Inner Poise Studio, 2. Dolce Bodywear, 3. Dolce B, 4. DolceB, 5. Dolce Body, 1629 Foxworthy Avenue, Angela L. Han Lai. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #578682, with changes /s/Angela L Han Lai This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/01/2013. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584914

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Studio Glam, 311 Stockton Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Elizabeth Damron, 307 Stockton Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2009. Refile of previous file #518055 with changes. /s/Elizabeth Damron. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584748

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Trendy Hair And Nail, 575 West Alma Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Jenny Lu, 1058 N. Capitol Ave., San Jose, CA, 95133. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on Nov 2, 2013. /s/Jenny Lu This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2013. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2013)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #584658

The following person(s) The following person(s) is / entity (ies) has / have (are) doing business as: Brigadeiros Margarida, 3190 abandoned the use of the Golf Dr., San Jose, CA, 95127, fictitious business name(s): Underground Smoke, 120 Maria Margarida Moniz. E. Santa Clara St., San Jose, This business is conducted CA, 95112, Ara Deyland, by a individual. Registrant 452 Safari Dr., San Jose, has not yet begun transacting business under CA, 95123, Saam Shahidi, the fictitious business name 21220 McKean Rd., San Jose, CA, 95120. This or names listed herein. business was conducted by /s/Maria Margarida Moniz an general partnership. This statement was filed Filed in Santa Clara county with the County Clerk of on 3/09/2011. Under file Santa Clara County on no. 548796. /s/Ara Deyland 11/15/2013. (pub Metro This statement was filed 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, with the County Clerk of 12/18/2013) Santa Clara County on FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 11/06/2013. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, NAME STATEMENT 12/11/2013)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Movie Times, 2. MovieTimes, Boulevards New Media Inc, 550 South First Street, San Jose, CA, 95113. 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 04/16/2004. /s/Dan Pulcrano CEO #C1960417 This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/19/2013. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584782

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TLT Construction, 3120 White Ct., San Jose, CA, 95127, Frank Kha. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on 11/11/2013. /s/Frank Kha This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2013. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT “I,Karthik Raj Saanthalingam #584594 son of T K S Saanthalingam, The following person(s) is NAME CHANGE

holder of Indian Passport No G4402763, issued at Chennai on Aug 11, 2007, permanent resident of 29/11, Munusamy garden 3rd lane, Old Washermenpet, Chennai 600021 and presently residing at 1875 Masuda Landing, San Jose, CA 95132 do hereby change my name from Karthik Raj Saanthalingam to Karthik Raj, with immediate effect.”

(are) doing business as: Open Circle Closed Loop OCCL, 510 S. 6th St., #C, San Jose, CA, 95112, Anthony Martinez. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Anthony Martinez This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on

11/04/2013. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584862

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Medi Script, 165 Blossom Hill Rd., SPC 30, San Jose, CA, 95123, Osborne Gumbs, Cydney Aperto. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/01/1994. Refile of previous file #516513 with changes /s/Cydney E. Aperto. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/12/2013. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584764

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cinee Productions, 1220 N. Bascom, San Jose, CA, 95128, Renee BartlettWebber. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Renee BartlettWebber. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2013. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584814

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Bob Moreno Group, 841 Blossom Hill Road, #112, San Jose, CA, 95123, Robert W. Sears Corporation. 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 6/19/2013. Refile of previous file #580044 with changes /s/Linda Jane Sears Vice President #C1527081. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/12/2013. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584813

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Frangos Team, 841 Blossom Hill Road, #112, San Jose, CA, 95123, Robert W. Sears Corporation. 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 6/14/2013. Refile of previous file #580004 with changes /s/Linda Jane Sears Vice President #C1527081. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/12/2013. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584745

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Yummy Tummy Farms, 5611 Doorrn Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Yummy Tummy Farms LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2013. /s/ Donald W. Sturman CEO #201312210221. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/07/2013. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584664

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Synapse Rehab Services, 20982 Alves Drive, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Judy Aslor. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Judy Aslor This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/06/2013. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #583816

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dong Em, 2645 Senter Rd., San Jose, CA, 95111, Ha Nguyen 458 Archcove, San Jose, CA, 95111, Huyen Tran, 2510 Toy Lane, San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is conducted by a Copartners. Registrant began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on 10/11/13. /s/Ha Nguyen/ Huyen Tran. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/15/2013. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 1/27, 12/04/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584661

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CTS International, Inc., CTS Inc., 2432 Lacey Drive, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Contract Technical Services International. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Rathin Neogy President #2001259 This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/06/2013. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584428 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ProClean Building Services, 3365 Farthing Way., San Jose,CA, 95132, Natkarn

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584371

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kustom Motorsports LLC, 85 Rio Robles East, Unit 3405, San Jose, CA, 95134. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jinu Herring Managing Member #201320810232. This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/29/2013. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #584317

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wendy’s Salon, 564 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Nguyen Phan, 858 Gateview Ct., San Jose, CA, 95133. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herein on 10/25/13. /s/Nguyen Phan This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/25/2013. (pub Metro

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sovereign Wellness Center, 2530 Berryessa Road, #210, San Jose, CA, 95132, Sunshine Holistic A California Non Profit Mutual Benefit Corporation. 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 4/01/2013. /s/Jennifer Rath Secretary #3532229 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/29/2013. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2013)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hillview Dental Group, 991 Saratoga Ave., #220, San Jose, CA, 95129, Adam Askari DDS, Corp, 2881 Hemlock Ave., Suite A, San Jose, CA, 95128. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has began transacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed herei on 10/28/2013. /s/Adam Askari President #3238745 This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/28/2013. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2013)

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THE STRAIGHT DOPE

By CECIL ADAMS

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In detective fiction, a common plot device is the broken clock or watch that tells the time of the murder. Does this ever happen? Has a broken clock or watch ever been admitted as evidence in a murder trial to show the time of the crime? —Oscar Colombo, Maryland This is one of those tropes future consumers of vintage whodunits are going to find unintelligible. It’s not like we don’t use timekeeping devices anymore. However, the day will surely come when someone reading Agatha Christie’s 1963 novel The Clocks (the murder victim is found surrounded by clocks stopped at 4:13) is going to say: A clock with stopped hands? What the hell is that? Be that as it may, we found many real-life murder cases where a stopped timepiece had been used to determine the time of death: In 1867 Joseph Humphrey was found dead near Yuba City, California, having been attacked by an unknown assailant with a hammer. The time of death was fixed by a silver watch with a broken crystal in the victim’s pocket, showing about 11 PM. In 1919 taxi driver Dosylva Cote was waylaid and beaten to death while en route between Worcester and Clinton, Massachusetts. Although his automobile was taken, his money and watch were not. The watch had stopped at 3:30 AM and restarted when shaken, thus likely indicating the time of death. In 1935 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Coleman of Spotsylvania, Virginia, were murdered. One clue left behind by the killers was an antique eight-day pendulum clock stopped at 8:20, apparently when the cabinet door was opened to search for money. In other instances, a stopped watch figured in a murder trial: In 1857, Charles Littles of Rochester, New York, was murdered by his brotherin-law Ira Stout for allegedly mistreating his wife, Stout’s sister Sarah. Sarah and Ira lured Charles to a nearby riverbank one night, where Ira bludgeoned him with an iron mallet and shoved his body into the water. When Ira was tried for the murder, a piece of evidence against him was Charles’s broken watch— stopped at 8:40 PM, the time of the killing. In 1954 not one but two damaged watches were involved in one of the most famous murder cases of the 20th century: that of Dr. Sam Sheppard, accused of beating his wife, Marilyn, to death. Watch one, which belonged to Marilyn, was initially reported to have

stopped at 3:12, presumably indicating the time of death; later, though, one investigating officer said it had read 11:30, and a police evidence photo showed it reading 8:05. Watch two, belonging to Sam, was covered with blood and found in a green bag on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie, near the Sheppard home. This watch had stopped at 4:15, apparently when water got into it. Sheppard claimed this had happened innocently prior to the murder, and that he then got blood on the watch while checking his wife’s pulse. The alternative theory seems to be that after killing his wife, Sheppard threw the bloody watch into the lake, then thought better of it. Sheppard was convicted and imprisoned but acquitted years later after a second trial. In 2004 Ivan Camacho was found dead in a remote part of southern California with multiple stab wounds and other injuries, wearing a smashed and bloody wristwatch stopped at 3:19 AM, which investigators took to be the time of death. Camacho had last been seen alive at 2:45 AM with his friend Ricardo Machuca, and Machuca was next seen at about 4 with a fresh cut on his finger. Machuca was found guilty of firstdegree murder. In the aforementioned cases, the broken timepiece wasn’t pivotal in convicting a criminal. But we found one where it was: In 1941 Merrill Joss was tried in Maine for the bludgeoning death of his wife, Luverne. Witnesses testified that Merrill said he’d left the house at 8 PM and returned at most 12 minutes later to find Luverne dead. But her watch, broken and bloodied, was stopped at 8:16. What’s more, Merrill didn’t call the police until 9:03, 47 minutes after the watch had stopped. He was convicted and sentenced to prison. Despite advancing technology, dramatists still resort to the stoppedwatch gambit. In a recent episode of the TV series Criminal Minds, for example, a serial killer places a watch stopped at 6:22 on victims’ wrists. This seems a bit musty. Surely in an era of ubiquitous metadata and mobile devices with accelerometers, a modern Poirot might determine not just the time and place of a victim’s death, but the force of the fatal blow.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Thinking inside the box will be a crime against your nature in the coming weeks. The last place you want to be is in a pigeonhole. I advise you to stay far away from tight squeezes, claustrophobic “sanctuaries,” and “convenient” confinements. If you’re in a one-size-fits-all situation, you simply won’t be able to access your highest intelligence. So then where should you be? I am rooting for you to wander into the wild frontiers where unsanctioned wonders and marvels await you. I’d love for you to find virgin terrain and uncharted territories where the boring old rules don’t apply. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Mike Finnigan is

a veteran keyboardist and blues vocalist who has toured with more than 20 major acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Etta James, Leonard Cohen, and Los Lonely Boys. There’s a primal quality to his singing. It’s gritty and ﬂuid and tempestuous, almost feral at times. I understand perfectly why Bonnie Raitt has called him a “tall drink of bacon.” The sound he makes with his voice is that lush and tasty. Can you guess his astrological sign? It’s Taurus, of course. I’m naming him your patron saint this week because you yourself are as close as you have ever come to being a tall drink of bacon.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): French painter Henri

Matisse thought highly of his own work. He tended to ignore critics because he didn’t think they understood his art well enough to produce intelligent critiques. There was one person whose opinion he was willing to heed, though; a single colleague who he said had earned to right to evaluate and assess his art: Pablo Picasso. I encourage you, Gemini, to come up with your own short list of people whose judgment you totally trust and respect. It’s a good time to seek out their feedback on how you’re doing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): How is it possible that

you have come so far and worked so diligently only to be resigned now to hanging out in limbo, waiting around for the lucky break that may or may not ever arrive? I’m here today to escort you out of this infernal place. If you resist, my assignment is to drag you out. Why am I so adamant? Because I am sure it’s a mistake for you to be passive and hope for the best. You need to resume working diligently, focused for now on what’s right in front of you without worrying too much about the big picture. In my opinion, that approach will lead you to unforeseen help -- and a clariﬁcation of the big picture.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your levels of personal magic are high. The radiance beaming out of your eyes is extra sparkly. There’s an artistry to the way you are expressing yourself. Without even trying, you’re exuding natural charisma and animal magnetism. In light of all these advantages, I suspect you will have an elevated capacity for both giving and receiving pleasure. In fact, I predict that your ability to feel really good and make other people feel really good will be at a peak. I hereby designate this the Week of Supreme Bliss. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The BBC reported on an

expert who combs Switzerland’s Risoud Forest to ﬁnd the spruce trees whose wood can be made into the highest quality violins. After years of experience, Lorenzo Pellegrini knows which few trees will produce instruments with the most resonant tones. They grow slowly and have few knots. They need to have had enough water to grow strong, but not so much water that they’re mushy. Your task in the coming weeks, Virgo, has a certain resemblance to the master treepicker’s work. It’s time for you to start selecting and gathering the raw materials you will use to craft your own lyrical story in 2014.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s the bad news: For all of us, including you, there is a gap between our intentions and our actual effects. Here’s the good news: Now is your special time to narrow that gap. More bad news: All of us, you included, are periodically guilty of sending out mixed messages. We confuse people with our ambivalence; what we say is sometimes different from what we feel. More good news: Now is your special time to reduce your mixed messages to as close to zero as possible. One more taste of bad news: Like all of us, you are a bit hypocritical. You engage in behavior that you criticize in others. You don’t practice what you preach. One last piece of good news: Now is

By ROB BREZSNY week of November 27

your special time to work on being forthright, genuine, and consistent.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I am very fond of

strawberries and cream,” said author Dale Carnegie, “but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn’t bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish.” That’s a good teaching story for you, Scorpio. In order to get your desires fulfilled by the people who have the power to do that, you should give them what they actually long for—not what you long for, nor what you wish they would long for. This is always true, of course, but it’s especially applicable to what’s going on in your life right now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Touted as a prime source of “kick-@ss spirituality,” author Danielle LaPorte has advice that’s good for you to hear. “You will always be too much of something for someone,” she says, “too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy.” But that’s exactly as it should be, she adds. It would be a mistake to “round out your edges,” because then you would “lose your edge.” And I’m here to tell you that you need all of your edge right now, Sagittarius. It’s time to ignore people’s mediocre expectations and push past their limits. To be true to yourself, you will probably have to be too much of something for several someones. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Going into my spiritual mentoring session with the priestess, I had the intention of discovering truths about myself I didn’t know before. That meant stirring up revelations about my ignorance as well as my potentials. I wanted assistance in facing my flaws as well as in tapping into my dormant powers. It worked. Her guidance was a potent catalyst. I was able to shed the debilitating nonsense stories I’d been telling myself about who I am. I awakened strengths that had been asleep. What I wish for you, Capricorn—indeed, what I predict for you—is a comparable experience. To expedite matters, go out in search of a person, adventure, or breakthrough that can help provide you with the kind of prod I received. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I bet people will be gossiping about you more than usual. Is there anything you can do to ensure that it’s mostly benevolent gossip? Yes, there is. First, make sure that when you gossip about others, you are unfailingly positive in your comments. If you don’t have anything good to say about someone, don’t say it. Second, be on your best behavior. Communicate clearly and don’t even think about taking unethical shortcuts. Finally, contribute more inspirational energy than usual to every group you’re part of. Be an effervescent team player. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Maybe your ego isn’t big enough. I’m serious. Is it possible that you could benefit from being more proud of yourself? Would it be healthy for you to give yourself more credit for the struggles you have weathered and the skills you have mastered and the beauty you have managed to forge out of the chaotic raw materials that life has given you? I’ve got a good feeling about this, Pisces. I can imagine you summoning the playful courage you will need to express more confidence. I can even picture you beginning to fantasize about embarking on certain stirring adventures you’ve never believed you were strong enough to try before now. Homework: What part of you is too tame? How can you inspire it to seek wilder ways of knowing? Write Freewillastrology.com.

Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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