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Social IImpedia mpedia At this point, anyone At a inter interested ested in running ffor or elected eleected office should be rrequired equired to tak ke a cr ash course in social take crash media. For som me basic—and rrecent— ecent— some rules of thumb b: Never hire hire a spokesman thumb: who sends outt sexist tweets (county Super visor andd San Jose mayor al Supervisor mayoral candidate D AVE CCORTESE); ORTESE); never go DAVE cebook rrant ant against “the on an epic Fac Facebook gays” while lea aving no doubt of your gays” leaving bia (f ormer Congr essman ugly homopho homophobia (former Congressman ONNYU U); and ERNIE K KONNYU); he city They never accuse tthe Did you’re running to you’re What? represent as mayor m of represent y dog assassinating your SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O (S t Clar Cl a N IMBY (Santa Clara NIMBY FLY@ FL Y@ SS). But DEBORAH BRE BRESS). METRONEWS. METRONEWS. COM COM osting what about po posting pictures of cup pcakes pictures cupcakes decorated in th he shape of vaginas? decorated the surely uncharted u ter ritoryy, but This is surely territory, eman and downtown San Jose police policeman UL PERALEZ ndidate RA City Council ca candidate RAUL at on his public Pinter est did exactly tha that Pinterest As pa rt of a “Manly Men” Men” account. As part board on his ppage age dedicated to bachelor board Peralezz, who is engaged, parties, Peralez, pinned a photoo of 35 anatomically iced “EA ATTING cupcakes with the caption:: “EATING TAST S ED sO GOOD.”” He also OUT nEVER TASTED posted a photoo of a cake in the shape voluptuously thonged der rière. This of a voluptuously derrière. appears to be some harmless good fun, ’s the kind kin nd of thing that probably probably but it it’s wouldn’tt play so s well if he’s he’ss elected wouldn’t There ar erent rules ffor or in office. There aree diff different officialls—look no further than elected officials—look oup of LLatino atino legislators, including the gr group LUIS ALEJO (D-Watsonville), who posed LUIS (D-Watsonville), for a photo while whhile getting bombed after for tate CCapitol. apitol. It was idiotic hours at the sstate or Lorena Lorena Gonzalez (D-San enough ffor Twitter— Diego) to sendd the pic out on Twitter— it’s since beenn deleted—but later that it’s Dieggo Assemblyman Assemblyman Ben night San Diego sted ffor or DUI. Peralez Peralez is Hueso got bus busted probably smar rt enough to avoid most probably smart oremeentioned mistakes, but of the af aforementioned word to the wise: wise: ditch all camer as/ word cameras/ w the bachelor party social media when s. comes to pass pass.
Cowgirl Up SADDLE S ADDLE READY READY TTeri e eri N Nguyen, guyen, Cain R g Ramirez, amirezz, Seth R Reis eis and Amanda A Muehlbauer (left to ri right) ght) launched region’s la aunched the region ’s only bike e courier service.
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HE BICYCLISTS BICYCLISTS arrive e in half-hour successionss to Roy’s Roy’s Coffee Station Statio on in Japantown. Japantown. Strapped Strapp ped w helmets and messenger with g r bags, b agss, 18 of them are here to prove p rove they can patch a flat, m maneuver through city traffic traffi fic and an nd follow orders under duress. duress. O by one, they sit down att a One table ta able for a quick interview and a briefing. b riefing. Their first assignment: assignme ent: deliver d eliver a note to San Pedro Pedro Square Sq quare Market, fifth booth to o the th he right from B2 coffee. A quar quarter ter of them go to the wr wrong on ng pllace. T place. Two wo w w walk alk a thr through ough another entrance en ntrance at the public mark market keet and abandon ab bandon the ffolded-up olded-up pap o paper er on a ccounter. o ounter . A ffew ew ask ffor o or dir directions. ections. On One ne w went back to R Roy’s, oyy’s, ask asked keed if that w was aass the th he end of the drill and b booked ook ked e it ba back ack
to B2 up upon on learning tha that at the p point oint ask w as a to find a sec ond set of of the ttask was second interviewers. inter viewers. “P oor thing flo ored it i back fr om “Poor floored from JJapantown apantown to rre-deliver e-delivveerr the let letter, ttterr,” sa says ayys C ain Ramir ez, one of th he inter viewers Cain Ramirez, the interviewers ccamped amped out at B2 that w warm aarm A August ugust u da ay. “She showed up dri ipping in ssweat. weat.” day. dripping ot, Ramirez Ramir ez hir hired ed her on o the sp spot, one of eight messenger messengers—most rs—most of them women— women—enlisted enlisteed to work ffor or o the just just-launched -launched and cr crowd-funded owd-funded Cowgirl C owgirl Bik Bikee C Courier, ourier, which w he ffounded ounded o with thr three ee oth other her business partners. par tners. A According ccording to lo local cal cy cycling cling groups, gr oups, it it’s ’s the only bik bike ke ccourier ourier out outfit fit in Silic Silicon on V Valley. aalley. “We “W We w wanted aanted to see ho how ow the theyy handle pressure, pr essure,” sa says ays y Ramir Ramirez, ez, 2 25, 5, a music major at San JJose ose St State ate and erst erstwhile twhile w political p olitical activist. “How ar aaree the they ey going to rreact eact if someone is ha having avving a str stressful essful day? da ayy? C Can an the theyy think on their ffeet? eet e ? How do the they ey pr present esent themse themselves elvvees to a client client?” ?” T Technology eechnology w was aas supp supposed posed to sp spell ell the end ffor or o bik bike ke messen messengers, ngers, with its promise pr omise of same same-day, -daay, sa same-hour ame-hour and— maybe ma ayybe someday—drone somedaay—dron ne deliveries. delivveeries.
industryy Instead, it spurr sspurred ed a ccottage otttage industr After rrevival. evvival. Aft fter yyears eears of plummeting ourriers ranks, have started make ranks k , ccouriers i ha h ave st arted d to mak ke albeit a ccomeback, omeback k, alb eit a small one and mostly in denser like d cities lik ke San Francisco—partly because Francisc o—par — tly b ecause of the appeal patronizing local, sustainable app eal of patr p onizing lo caal, sust ainable partly because businesses and a par tly b eccaause in a traffic-jammed city, it’s quicker traffic -jjamm med cit ty, it ’s quick keer to dart dart around bike. ar ound on a bik ke. services Some ccourier o ourier ser vices managed to make on-demand mak ke technology, nology, and the ondemand techn lifestyle means.. lif feesttyle y it engenders eengenders,, their means Postmates, P ostmates, GrubHub and other delivery apps bike deliv ery ap pps rrecruited ecruited bik ke ccouriers ouriers transport goods mile,,” to transp orrt go ods that “last mile from storee to cconsumer. fr om stor onsumer. Although, unlike days before DocuSign unlik ke the da d ays y b effor o e Do cuSign and DropBox, documents weree Dr opBox, when w legal do cuments wer from officee to another b byy rushed fr om m one offic speed demons,, the ffocus ttwo-wheeled wo-wheeleed sp w eed demons ocus days business-to-business these da ays y is i less business-to -business moree dir direct-to-consumer. Couriers and mor d ectt--to-consumer. C ouriers today aree busier delivering flowers,, to daay ar b deliv veering flowers wine and ffood ood than ccontracts. ontracts. Still, Ramirez hopes woo from area Ramir ez ho opes to wo o clients fr om ar ea law offices. la aw offic es. Silicon Valley, however, presents Silic on V aalley, howe veer, pr esents at challenge from least one ch hallenge unique fr om San Francisco: aree longer Francisc o: spra ssprawl. awl. w The trips ar and the rroads clearer, oaads wider and clear err, making more make it often mo ore cconvenient on nveenient to mak ke a
in general,” Ramir Ramirez ez sa says. ayys. W Women omen o account percent account ffor or o just 24 p ercent of annual bicycle bicyyccle tripss in the U United nited St States, ates, according League American an according to o the L eague of Americ Bicyclists. Bicyycclists. The T decision to sp spotlight otlight the discrepancy discrepancyy elicited some criticism that the ccompany was ompan ny w as eexploiting xploiting women. Ramirez shrugs off. Ramirez shr rugs it off ff. “We’re opportunity “W We’re aan n equal opp ortunity employer,” says. “We wanted employer,” he sa ayys. “W We just w anted to encourage stronger onger rrepresentation epresentation encourage str of women in male-i another male dominated field.”” d field. field After fine fine-tuning e-tuning the message to focus sustainability, professionalism focus on sus stainabilitty, pr offeessionalism and ffemale empowerment, Ramirez eemale emp owerment, Ramir ez posted fundraising posted a fun ndraising page on IndieGoGo. asked $20,000—a IndieGoGo. He ask ked e ffor or $20,0 o 00—a “best scenario” amount—and “best ccase ase sc cenario” amount t— —and raised $4,0 $4,000. 00. The ffounders ounders then built o a website an and nd set rates: $10 to $30, depending location speed, depending on o lo cation and sp eed, with discounted rates.. disc ounted subscription s rates Couriers, C ouriers i , as indep iindependent d endent d t contractors, percent from contractors, get a 50 p ercent cut fr om each sale sale—much —m much higher than the industryy st standard percent. industr a andar d of 30 p ercent. Still, to make worthwhile, they’ll have mak ke it wor rth hwhile w , the ey’ll y ha ave to line up a series of dispatches,, ideally at least a o dispatches few hour. few an hour r. With Google, eBay Wiith Go ogle, eBa ay and Amazon gearing up their same-day delivery t same -daay deliv veery vans, bound om vans, the ccompetition mpetition is b ound to get tougher ffor Cowgirl’s cyclists. or C o owgirl’s fleet of cy yclists c . Uber bikee ccourier Uber rrecently ecenttly l launched l h d a bik ourier i outfit New York City, outtfi fit in N ew Y ork Cit o ty, which ccould ould one da day branch Bay Area. ay bra anch out to the Ba ay Ar ea. But Ramir Ramirez ez is banking on the South Bay’s cycling thrivin Baayy’s thriving ng cy ycling c ccommunity, ommunitty, and its p penchant local encchant ffor or backing lo o cal businesses, up.. businesses, to t back him up “A person delivers “A p erson n deliv ers this to yyou, ou, o someone wh who lay ho knows the la ay of the land and is rreally about eally passionate ab out cycling, “There’s appeal cyycling c g,” he sa ssays. ayys. “Ther e’s an app eal there people want support ther h e ffor or p o eople l who h w aant to supp ort a sustainable, emissions-free business,, and sustainable, emissions-fr ee business connect with local connect wit th other lo cal ccompanies, ompanies, or discover people offer locally discover e p eo ople who off ffeer lo caally made products. products.” Corinne Winter, Silicon Corinne W iinterr, head of the Silic on Valley Bicycle Coalition, says she’s Vaalley Bicy yccle C oalition, sa ayys she ’s thrilled to welc welcome new bike-centric w ome a ne w bik ke-centric business to the t rregion. egion. “It’s overdue “It’s long o veerdue that the South Bay have bike service Baay ha ave a bik b ke ccourier ourier ser vice and I’m happy someone happy some eone finally had the vision to mak makee it happ happen, says. “We hopee h en,” she sa ays y . “W We hop this is somet something thing the ccommunity ommunitty will support thrive. support and d help thriv ve.” Not Ramirez adds,, N ot to mention, m Ramir ez adds “there’s something about “there’s som mething rreally eally ccool ool ab out racing ar around oun nd town on the back of a bike. People aree into that.” bik ke. P eoplee ar
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delivver delivery e yb byy ccar. ar. Ramir Ramirez ez is lo looking oking to services the handful of ccourier ourier se ervices in San Francisc Francisco o ffor or o guidanc guidance, e, while w put putting ttting things.. his own spin on things “We “W We ha have ave a vvery eery diff different ffeerrent mark market, keet,” says Ramirez, sa ayys Ramir ez, who gets ar aaround ound on sky-blue Bay Area Bikee San JJose’s ose’s sk ky--blue Ba ay Ar A ea Bik Sharee bik bikes. “Even way present Shar kees. “Ev veen the w ay we pr esent ourselves bee diff different. Silicon ourselv vees has to b ffeerrent. Silic on Valley cleaner,, mor more professional V aalleey has a cleaner re pr offeessional aesthetic.. W Wee w want aesthetic aant our ccouriers ouriers to rreflect eflect that.” Bay suburbia doesn’t Though South Ba ay su uburbia do esn’tt industry, Ramirez lend well to the industr y, Ramir ez believes there b elieves e the demand is th here and the temperate temp erate weather cconducive ond ducivve to yyearearrservice. rround ound ser vice. While vvolunteering o ollunteering last summer as a so social media cial medi ia manager ffor o or the San JJose Bike Clinic,, a p pop-up ose Bik ke Clinic op-up rrepair epair shop,, he p posted promotional omo shop osted a pr otional video ffor or o Francisco-based TCB Courier San Francisc o-based T CB BC ourier on group’s Facebook page. the gr oup’s Fac ebook pa age. interesting “I thought, this is inter resting that aree b becoming ccouriers ouriers i ar ecoming i a rreal eall tr ttrend, end, d an actual alternativ alternative, Ramirez says. ve,” Ra amirez sa ayys. “I shared people shar ed it online thinkingg that p eople will Bike ccome ome to [the San JJose ose Bik ke Clinic] page because it’s interesting b ecause it ’s just an inter esting cconcept. oncept.” People loved Theyy st started P eople lo oveed the idea.. The arted messaging ccommenting ommenting and messa aging him, wondering when Silic Silicon Valley on nV aalleey would bike service get a bik ke ccourier ourier ser vice of its own. By the end of the da day, several people ay, se vera e al p eople had asked they hiree a lo local ask keed him how the ey ccould uld hir cal ou bikee ccourier. those bik ourier i . One O off thos h se messages from Rodolphe Verhaegen, ccame ame fr om R odolphe V e erhaegen, a director eBay. business dir ector at eBa ay. “Rod spoke said he’d bee vvery “R Rod sp ok ke up and sa aid he ’d b ery interested project oject inter ested in working on n this pr wanted if someone w anted a to ttake ake the lead,” ak Ramirez figured Ramir ez rrecalls. ecalls. “I figur e it ccouldn’t ed ouldn’t hurtt to meet the guy guy. hur y.” Theyy met at his eBa eBay officee in Sant Santaa The ay offic Verhaegen Clara. V eerhaegen told them t he used service to run a ccourier ourier ser vice in Brussels he’d bring and d that h he h ’d lo llove ve to br b ring one to his hi new home.. ne w home promised, myy rresources “He pr omised, ‘‘All All A of m esources open Ramirez says. will op en up to yyou, o ou,’” Ra amirez sa ayys. Ramirez Verhaegen Ramir ez and V eerhaeggen rrecruited ecruited Teri Nguyen, Reis T eeri Nguy yen, e Seth R eeis and a Amanda Muehlbauer—making male,, Muehlbauer r— —making ffor or o a half male ownership—to half ffemale eemale ccompany ompan ny ow wnership—to together Theyy put to gether a business plan. p The Cowgirl decided to name the vventure een nture C owgirl Bikee C Courier, the Bik ourier, a spin on th he name of the bikee valet ser service they ran bik vice the ey ra an ttwo wo w yyears ears ago SubZERO arts at the SubZER RO ar ts and d music ffestival estival e Also,, Ramir Ramirez in downtown San JJose. ose. Also A ez adds,, the gender gendered draws attention adds ed title dra d aw ws at tttention dearth cyclists. to the dear th of women cy ycclists. “We looked numbers “W We lo oked at the nu umbers theree ar and rrealized ealized that ther aaree so ffew ew bicycling women in the industry industry and bicy cling
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SSJPD JPD Returns Huge Armor Armored ed Truck Trrucck Fearing F earing ba backlash acklash fr from om the public public,, San JJose ose p police oliice decided to ditch a 15-ton armored armorred truck. The 10-f 10-foot-tall foot o -tall mine mine-proof -proof vvehicle ehicle w was as a milit military ar y hand-me hand-me-down, one off hundr hundreds eds divvied out to la llaw aw enf enforcement fo orcement agencies i in i the h past yyear ear thr through rough the P Pentagon. entagon. The San JJose o P ose Police olice Depar Department, tment, already alr eady unde under er the micr microscope oscop e after quietly buyin buying ng a dr drone, one, b began egan ttalking alking ab about ou ut get getting ting rid of the ccombat ombat b behemoth eheemoth eeven ven b before effor o e riots in F Ferguson erguson got eeveryone veryone ttalking alking ab about out the ssweeping w weeping milit militarization arization of lo local cal p police, olicce, ac according cording to SJPD spokeswoman sp okeswomaan Sg Sgt. t. Heather Randol. San JJose ose ccops opss sa say ay the theyy don don’t ’t w want ant the ttank-like ank-like truck’ truck’ss pr presence esence to breach br each the p public’s ublic’s trust. Randol adm admitted mitted that the agency should ha have ave b been een mor moree fforthcoming orthcoming o about ab out ac accepting cepting the w war ar (monster) truck fr from om th the he Depar Department tment of Defense Def fense e earli earlier ier this yyear. ear. “We “W We ma maybe ayyb be ccould ould ha have ave done it a lit little tle bit differently,” diff ffeerentlyy,” Randol told ff San JJose ose Insi Inside. ide. “It w was as ne never ver our intent to sur surreptitiously rreptitiously ac acquire quire anything.” an ything.” The origina original al intent, she said, w was as to lend the vvehicle ehiicle to the SJPD b bomb omb squad, a team m that works regionally, regionallyy, and to deplo deployy it infr infrequently, equentlyy, “only when absolutely absoluttely nec necessary. essary.” “We “W We thought thougght ab about out this a lot,””
Randol said. “W R “We We thought ab about out w ways ayys to change the app appearance, earance, to o mak makee it lo look ok less lik likee a milit military arry vvehicle. e ehicle .W Wee did some outr outreach each to o o our ur citizen advisor advisoryy b board. oard. W Wee to took ook into ac account count some of the ne news ews ccoverage overage acr across oss the h ccountry, ountry, the h p public’s ublic’s ffears ears e of p police olice milit militarization. arizattion. W Wee had to weigh the cconsequences. onsequencces. T Ther There’s e’s a lot to cconsider.” onsider.” A rrecords ecords rrequest equest b byy San JJose ose In Inside nside shows that sinc sincee 20 2006 0 6 San Santa nta C Clara C County ounty la law aw enf enforcement for o cement ag agencies, gencies, including SJPD SJPD,, ha have ave rreceived e eived fr ec from om the P Pentagon: entagon: 31 5.56 5 m millimeter rifles rifles,, a 77.63 .63 millimet millimeter er ri rifle, ifle, 24 ccamouflage amouflage scr screens, eens, a $4 $44,722 4 4,722 utilit utilityy truck and the $7 $733,000 733,0 00 mine mine-resistant -resistant vvehicle, ehicle, am amongst mongst man manyy other items items.. Civil rights gr groups oups ccommended ommendeed Sa San an JJose ose ffor or o deciding to rreturn eturn th the he D DOD’s OD’s ccombat ombat truck. But th they hey al also lso suggested that the cit cityy rrevise evisse p policies olicies that allowed SJPD to ac accept ccept milit military ar y gear with so lit little tle p public ublic notic notice. e. ((The The motion w was as b buried uried on an agenda with no op open pen d discussion). iscussion). W With iith San JJose ose rrelinquishing elinquishing th the he ar armored rmored truck, it will now go to o th the he ne next xt agency that applied ffor o orr it. R Randol said San JJose ose ccould ould b borrow orrow o th the he same vvehicle ehicle as needed fr from om m ot other ther Ba Bay ay Ar Area ea cities cities.. — —Jennifer Jeenniffeer W Wadsworth aadsworth
Dog-Kicking Dog-Kick g ingg CEO For Forced ced to Resign g Levi’s L evi’s St Stadium adium cconcessionaire oncessionaire ecame a the Desmond Hague b became object of univ universal ersal sc scorn o after a orn video sur faced of him m kicking his surfaced dogg in an ele do elevator. vator. On nT Tuesday, uesdaay, he w as ousted as CEO off C enterplate, was Centerplate, the ccatering atering giant tha that at sells ffood ood scores across North at sc ores of vvenues enues ac cross N orth America, the new Americ a, including th he 49ers’ ne w Santaa Clara. digs in Sant promised Hague had h d pr omise i ed d to get help h l problem ffor or o his anger pr oblem m after video byy an elevator ffootage, ootage, rrecorded ecorded b a ele vator securityy ccamera securit amera in a downtown d Vancouver high-rise,, showed V anc a ouver high-rise s him rrepeatedly epeatedly booting bo oting his hiis 1-year-old 1-year- old Doberman pinscher,, Sade Sade,, and Dob erman pinscher hoisting her off the ground g ound by gr by a leash to choke choke her. her. An n appalled employee emplo yee of the luxury luxu ur y hotel last rreleased eleased the video las st week to animal control control and the th he media. Centerplate ordered admitted C enterplate or dered the admit ted puppy-kicker 1,000 pupp y-kicker to put in i 1,0 00 hours of ccommunity ommunity service ser vice and donate $100,000 $100,000 to charit ccharity, y, but, apparently, wasn’t appar entlyy, that w asn n’t enough to satisfy satisffy outraged viewers vieewers of the video.. video
Thousands Thousan nds fo otballl fans of football amon were were among ng the 19 0,0 00 people people 190,000 who signed signeed a p etition urging u ging ur petition Centerplate, Centerplatte, which does does e business with w Desmond Hague several several other oth her NFL teams, team ms, to fire fire Hague Haggue immediately or risk losing their theiir patronage. patronage. “Animal placee “A Animal abuse has no plac in our society,” so ciety,” the Change.org Change.org petition p etition stated, sttated, “and I hope hope this helps deter cruelty, deteer future future acts of cruelt y, because manyy terrible acts b ecause there th here are are man which are are not ccaught aught on ccamera.” amera.” Hague said he was s was “deeply ashamed.” ashamed.” The SPCA SPCA in British Columbia Columbia took took custody custody of Sade and put her up p for for o adoption. An animal expert dog’s exp ert said d that the do g’s previously previously experienced exp erienced e abuse, abuse, based on her behavior. behaavior v . Canadian Canadiaan authorities have haave also launched a criminal probe prob e into the incident.—Jennifer incident.— —Jennif e feer Wadsworth Waadsworth
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HE TECH Museum of Innovation Inn ovation will invade invade Santana San ntana Row this Thursday Thu ursday for a grand grand route of “Tech “T Tech + Tasting.” Tasting.” The wine-and-shine wine-a and-shine soiree is destined d to showcase not only y remnants remnants from recent museum shows, sh hows, like REBOOT: REBOOT: Music,, butt also some brand Music brand high-ttech phenomena new high-tech exhibits.. from upcoming upcoming exhibits Different Diff ffeerent sp spots pots along the wine walk Tech w alk will present pressent visitors with T eech displays, Museum disp plaayys, all to help ratchet
up the museum's outr u outreach each into th he ccommunity ommunitty at lar ge. Meaning, Meaningg, the large. at ttendees ccan an sample a smok ky attendees smoky C abernet with a Minimasher jam box, Cabernet jambox, p erhaps an Alsatian Pinot Blanc with w perhaps so ome fr eehand plastic cr eation,, orr some freehand creation, eeven ven a C aliffornia o char donnaay with ha California chardonnay S omaxis muscle sensor Somaxis sensor.. In one inst ance, “Y Yo our Lif fe in instance, “Your Life D Dat a,”” will pr ovide visitors a snea ak Data,” provide sneak p eek into The T eech’s up coming peek Tech’s upcoming h health and wellness ellness eexhibit, xhibit, hibit whic hicch which o pens later this yyear. ear. A ttendees ccan a an opens Attendees eexperience x erience the latest in wearable xp d dat eady b een told dataa gathering gathering.. I'v I'vee alr already been th his is going to b ocking eexplosive osive xplo this bee a rrocking sh how, ffeaturing eeaturing not just wearablee show, d de vices, mobile medic ogies, al technolo devices, medical technologies, o ayys a Smar tphone ccan an track orr w ways Smartphone
your blood ways your blo od sugar, sugar, butt also w ayys that de devices vices ccan an track k the b behaviors ehaavviors esponses of thos se surr ounding and rresponses those surrounding you in or der to determine determ mine yyour our you order do on't know emotional health. I don't about you, you,, but I ccould ould d definitely ttake ake about advantage of that one e. advantage one. At the “Y Your o Lif fe in n Dat a,”” At “Your Life Data,” component off the h eevent, vent, e par ticipants i i component participants fitttted with h devices devices to will get out outfitted they can can learn learrn ab out see what they about themselves thr ough dat d a. A ccording themselves through data. According “Brrain nwaves, to the liner notes notes,, “Brainwaves, pulse, light le vels, muscle tension,, pulse, levels, colors, faces, faces, speech speech an nd vvoice oice le vels colors, and levels gged and displa ayed back will all b bee lo logged displayed you.”” After a few few gl lasses of wine to you.” glasses wine,, ould b Weearable de vices that ccould bee fun. Wearable devices currently on the market, mark ket, such as currently Google Glass, Glass, Somaxi is EXG itbit, Google Somaxis EXG,, F Fitbit, Zamzee, and Narrativ ve Clip Zamzee, Narrative Clip,, will be available available v ffor or all o o enophiles who be oenophiles participate. You You o don'tt need to b participate. bee a any sort. sort. tech sommelier of any Lath C arlson,, VP off Exhibits at Lath Carlson, Teech, gave gaave me thee lowdown on The Tech, x erience at xp what visitors might eexperience
upcom ming health and wellness the upcoming exhibit. xhibit Featuring Featuring e both commercial commercial exhibit. both technology and research research not yet yet technology avvailable to t the public, public, the show available focus on all the data data streams streams will focus by the human experience. experience. generated by ealized early “One off the things we rrealized w really important important on is that what's also really yo our physical ph hyysical health and is not onlyy your wellness, but b also your your mental mental and wellness, state and how closely emotionall state your physical ph hyysical health that's tied to your d also l your your o social social i l relationships, relationships l ti hi ,” and Carlson told told me, me, explaining explaining that the Carlson exhibition will explore explore how mobile exhibition digital technologies tech hnologies can can track such digital things. Visitors Viisiitors will take take away away insights things. o behaavviors and learn into their own behaviors behaavviors are are changeable. changeable. how those behaviors yo ou're awkward, awk wkward,, socially socially inept and If you're can't communicate comm municate freely freely whenever whenever can't you want want to, t , and it affects to aff ffeects how you around you, you, then certain certain others act around technolo h l giies i can can track k their h i behavior beha havvior i technologies you u know how to improve improve and let you yourselff. Not Not that I'm speaking speaking yourself. personallyy, of course. course. personally, can change things “[Exhibitt visitors] can about theirr physiological ph hyysiologiccal a state state and about circumstan nces and get feedback feeedback as they theey circumstances Carlson a exxhibition do that,” Carlson said. “In the exhibition be using usiing a variety varietty of digital digital tools tools we'll be data mining and to do that,, and then data data visualization, visualiization,, and how having haavving data smartphon h nes and d these h things hi i your your o smartphones in pocket gives givvees you yo ou an incredible incredible amount pocket in nto your your o own behavior. behaavvior.” of insight into Since thee Tech Teech Museum will open open Since sh how next next year, yeear, this one another show exploring privacy p securitty issues, issues, exploring and security pieece of Tech Teech + Tasting Taasting will another piece showccase technologies technologies similar to also showcase a ear in that particular app particular what will appear exhibit. Armed Arm med with nothing but a exhibit. vintage Riesling, Rieesling, Santana Santana Rowers Ro owers can can vintage t hack keers challenge their friends to a hackers can break break into a safe saffe first duel. Who can t prize? What’s What’s the b est and claim the best way in,, pick k the lock, lock,, crack the code, code, or way r wires? Carlson Carlson says saayys the jump the right wires? d security securitty exhibit, exhibit,, slotted slottted t for fo or privacy and next spring, springg, will explore explore cybersecurity cybersecuritty next ph hyysical security securitty issues. issues. and physical beeen fascinating to see the “It's been interest,”” Carlson Carlson said. “[It was was interest,” originally]] one of the lowest things people were weere interested interested in, when we people visittors. I think it was was one step tested visitors. above patent pateent law, laaw, in our original above research. But B after Snowden and all research. breaaches that have haave happened happened these breaches Taarget and a eBay eBaay and other places, places, at Target interest in the topic has the public interest skyrock c eted.” just skyrocketed.”
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GEETO OFFA FA AMY YCLO YC OUD Before this weekend’s J-Law privacy invasion, Silicon Valley’s collection of personal data took a back seat to outrage over the NSA’s mass surveillance
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Technologies T echnolo e h l gies i champ championed h pioned i db byy privacy gr groups oups such as the Electr Electronic onic Frontier Fr ontier F Foundation oundation off o offer ffeer lit little tle protection. pr otection. F For or eexample, xample, the anonymizing network Tor byy anon ymizing net work T o or used b pedophiles, dealers, cheats,, p edophiles, drug deale ers, ttax ax cheats porn jihadis and eeveryday verydaay p orn cconsumers onsumers may bee a go ma ay turn out to b ggovernmentvernmentsponsored honeyy p pot, inadvertent sp onsored hone ot, an a inadv ertent need cconsequence onsequence of the nee ed to cloak its spying activities.. own sp ying activities interdependence The inter dependence between bettw ween Silicon Valley’s server farms Silic on V alle a y’s ser veer far rms and individual privacy ccame ame into clear ffocus ocus Ass st starlets spin-controlled this week. A arlets spin n-controlled anonymous hacker’s an anon nyymous hack keer’s posts posts of their naked vacation and bathroom nak keed vac ation rromps omps an nd bathr oom mirror shaming mirr or selďŹ es with sham ming ttweets w weets and threats, Apple’s legal thr eats, Apple ’s public pub blic rrelations elations took advantage holiday team to ok advant age off the holida ay weekend measured week kend e to fformulate o ormulate a measur ed Even best written laws rresponse. esponse. Ev veen the b est writ w ttten la aw ws dataa security and dat securitty precautions, precau utions, however, howeever, have stopped inevitable ccouldn’t ouldn’t ha ave stopp ed the th he ine vitable Too crack in the dam. T oo much m private information too inf fo ormation on to o many man ny servers serveers breach fforeshadowed oreshadowed a br o each that t would attention, shift at tttention,, at least ffor o or a moment, from governmental surveillance fr om go overnment e al mass masss sur veeillance sector’ss monetization to the private sector’ m of stored personal data. ccollected, ollected,, stor ed p ersonaal dat a.
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16 nodes nodes doesn’t doessn’t seem lik likee it would b bee too anyy of the world’ world’ss too difficult difficullt ffor o or an intelligence intelligence agencies—whether American, Russian, American, German, British, R ussian, u Chinese or Iranian. Hell, if yyou’re ou’re an intelligence agency, there’s intelligence agency y, ther e’s no rreason eason not to run a T Tor o or node. node. In 2012, Dingledine rrevealed evealed that the T Tor o or Network Network is cconfigured onfigured to prioritize sp speed peed and rroute oute traffic through through servers/ thr h ough h th h hrough h the h ffastest ser vers// nodes was nodes aavailable. vvaillable. Dingledine w as criticized b byy the T Tor or ccommunity o ommunity ffor or o the obvious eason that funneling obviou us rreason traffic through through o a handful of fast nodes surveilling nodes made m sur veilling and subverting Tor easier.. In 2013, subverting T or much easier o the Washington Post Washin ngton P ost rrevealed evealed that the NSA had figured NSA ha ad figur ed out various ways penetrating wayys of unmasking unm masking and p enetrating the anonymity Tor Network. anon nyym mity of the T or N o etwork.
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parties interested or other par ties inter essted in Tor listening in on T or o ccommunication. om mmunication. Egerstad Egerst ad had managed d to ccapture apture trove passwords and a tr ove of pass words an nd other sensitivee inf information byy monitoring sensitiv formation o b Tor fivee ser servers T or o traffic on fiv vers e he had installed. speculate inst alled. He ccan’t an’t help p but sp eculate who’s behind Tor servers. who ’s b ehind other T o or ser vers. “If look wheree these yyou ou actually lo ok into wher Tor nodes aree hosted and T or o no des ar a how big theyy ar are, nodes the e, some of thesee no des ccost ost each thousands of dollars ea ach month just because they’re to host b ecause the y’re using lots of bandwidth, they’re they’re heavy-duty h avvyy- duty hea servers Egerstad says. ser vers and so on,”” Ege erstad sa ayys. pay this bee “Who would pa ay ffor or o th his and b anonymous? For fivee of six anon ymous? F or eexample, xam mple, fiv of them are are in Washington Washin ngton D.C.” D.C.” Edward Snowden’s Edw ard Snowden ’s leaks l clearly NSA showed the NS A and GCHQ G run Tor nodes, aree inte interested T or o no des, and ar erested in more. running Tor running mor e. And ru unning 50 T o or
In 20 2009, 09, JJacob a ob App ac Appelbaum elbaum ccame ame board fivee salaried on b oard as a one of fiv employees emplo yees of the T Tor o or N Network, etwork, earning a ssalary alary of $9 $96,000 6,000 as a developer. About 90 percent de veloper. Ab A out 9 0p ercent of Tor’s from T or’s fundss that yyear o ear ccame ame fr om grants, from State ffederal eederal gran nts, mostly fr om the St ate Department Depar tmen nt and the CIA CIA-spinoff -spinoff International Broadcasting Bureau Internation nal Br oadcasting Bur eau Tor (IBB). Appelbaum’s Appelbaum’s T or gig has o ccontinued ontinued uninterrupted eever ver sinc since, e, netting somewhere around ound a net ttting him m some where ar half-million dollars.. N Not half f--million n dollars ot a bad haul. Yet Y eet in 2010, 20 010,, right in the midst of him b being ein ng funded b byy intel grants,, Appelbaum grants App pelbaum emer emerged ged as an important Wikileaks imp ortant W iikileaks vvolunteer. olunteer. He status hacker used his ccelebrity ellebrity st atus in the hack er world to pr promote romote the or organization, ganization ganization, helped secure Wikileaks’ servers help ed secu ure W ikileaks’ i ’ ser vers Tor technology with T o or te echnology and eeven ven bailed Assange out speaking A ssange ou ut of public sp eaking gigs when the heat h fr from om US authorities too hot. got to o hot t.
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understood b understood byy cconsumers, onsumers, but the industryy got its st industr start art back in th the he 1970s.. The early op 1970s operations erations pul pulled lled information from anyy sour source theyy in inf fo ormation fr om an ce the ccould ould get their hands on—voter on—voteer credit transactions, rregistration, egistration, cr edit ccard ard transac ctions, product warranty information, pr oduct w arranty inf fo ormation,, political donations to p olitical ccampaigns ampaign ns non-profits, and non-pr ofits, ccourt ourt rrecords— ecords— — databases storing it in master dat abases and a analyzing sorts th analy then l zing i it iin all ll sor t off ts ways bee useful to dir directw ays y that ccould ould b recttelemarketing outfits. mailing and telemark eting out tfits fi . wasn’t before dataa br brokers It w asn’t long b effor o e dat okers e information rrealized ealized that this inf fo ormation ccould ould bee used b beyond telemarketing, b eyond telemark eting, global and quickly eevolved volved into a glob bal intelligencee business that ffor-profit o or-profit intelligenc t serves dataa an and ser ves eevery very cconceivable onceivable dat nd intelligencee need. intelligenc Today, T odaay, the industry industry churns up u somewhere around $200 billion some wher h e ar ound d$ $20 0 billio billi on in i annually. Theree ar aree up rrevenue evenue annually y. Ther p to 4,000 dataa br broker 4,0 00 dat oker ccompanies—some ompanies— —some aree publicly trade traded— of the biggest ar ed— together, theyy ha have detailed and to gether, the ave det ailed d information about inf fo ormation on just ab out eevery verry adult in the western world. No source information sacred: N o sour ce of inf fo ormation is sa acred: transaction rrecords ecords are are bought bought in n bulk from stores, merchants; fr om stor es, rretailers etailers and mer chaants; aree rrecorded; magazine subscriptions ar ecorrded; preferences ffood ood and d rrestaurant estaurant pr effeerences aree noted; public rrecords social ar ecords and so c cial networks aree sc scoured scraped. net tw works ar oured and scrap e ed. prescription What kind of pr escription drugs did are yyou o ou buy? What kind of books books ar re you yo ou interested Aree yyou inter ested in? Ar ou a rregistered egistered e To non-profits vvoter? o oter? T o what non-pr ofits do yyou o ou movies watch? donate? What mo vies do yyou o ou w aatch? Political documentaries? Hunting P olitical do cumentaries? Huntin ng rreality eality TV shows? info kept That inf fo is ccombined ombined and k e ept address, payroll up to date with addr ess, pa ayyrolll information, numbers, inf fo ormation, phone numb ers, email e accounts, social security numbers, ac counts, so cial securit ty numb e , ers financial vvehicle ehicle rregistration egistration and financi ial history. sliced, histor y. And all that is slic ed, analyzed isolated, analy yzzed and mined ffor o or dataa ab about dat out yyou ou and yyour our habitss in a different ways. million diff ffeerent w ayys. aree not rrestricted The dossiers ar estricted market to generic mark et segmenting likee “Y “Young ccategories ategories lik Young o Literati” or “Shotguns Pickups” “Kids “Shot guns and Pick ups” or “Kid ds Cul-de-Sacs,” & Culde-Sacs,” but often ccontain ontain a the most private and intimate details about person’s life, details ab out a p erson’s lif fe, all of packaged over over it pack aged and sold o ver and o ver anyone pay. again to an yone willing to pa ay.
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government ccan’t government an’t simp simply ply run an anonymity anon ymity ssystem ystem ffor o or eeverybody verybody and then use it themselv themselves es only only. y. Bec Because ause then eevery very time a cconnection onn nection ccame ame from people it’s fr om it p eople would sa ssay, ay, ‘Oh, it ’s aree the another CIA agent.’’ If those t ar people network.” only p eople using the net n work.” In 2007, 20077, 22-year-old 22-year- old Swedish hacker/researcher Egerstad hack er/researcher Dan n Egerst ad told Sydney Sydne ey Morning Herald that he thinks many Tor nodes aree man ny off th the major j T orr no o d ar des being byy intelligen intelligence b eing run b nce agencies
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Take T ak a e MEDbase20 MEDbase200, 0,, a b boutique outique fforo orprofit outfit specializes pr ofit intel out fit thatt sp ecializes in selling health-r health-related elated cconsumer onsumer dat data. a. W eell,, until rrecently, ecentlyy, th he ccompany ompan ny Well, the off ffeered its clients a listt of rap offered rapee victims (or “rap ffeer e ers,” as the “rapee suff sufferers,” ccompany ompany ccalls alls them) at a the low pric pricee of $79 p er thousand. The T ccompany ompany per claims to ha ave segmented nted this segmen have dat eds of diff ffeerent dataa set into hundr hundreds different ccategories, ategories t i , including i l di stuff st ff lik th likee the ailments the ffeer, pr p escription theyy suff suffer, prescription drugs the ake and th heir ethnicit y: theyy ttake their ethnicity: These rap ffeerers ar rapee suff sufferers aree family memb ers who ha ave rreported, ep ported,, or ha ave members have have b een identified as indiv viduals aff ffeected been individuals affected b ecific illnesses on nditions or byy sp specific illnesses,, cconditions ailments rrelating elating to rap pe. Medbase20 0 rape. Medbase200 is the owner of this list t. Select fr om list. from families aff ffeected b over e 500 500 diff ffeerent affected byy over different ailments aaree cconsumers onsumers ailments,, and/or who ar off o ver 20 0 diff ffeerent Rx R medic di ations i . over 200 different medications. Lists ccan an b ther sele ected on the bee fur further selected basis of lif fest e tyle y , ethnicity, ethniccitty, geo, geo, gender lifestyle, and much mor e. Inqui ire to daay ffor or o more. Inquire today mor fo ormation. moree inf information. MEDbase pr omptlyy to ok its promptly took “rap ffeerers”” list off ff line after its “rapee suff sufferers” eexistence xistence w as rrevealed evealed d in a Senate was in vestigation into the activities investigation of the dat a-broker ind dustry. The data-broker industry. ccompany ompany pr etended li ike the list pretended like w as a huge h mist i ak ke. A MEDbase b was mistake. rrep ep tried cconvincing on nvincing v aW aall St reet Wall Street J ournal o rreporter eporter that its i rap Journal rapee dossiers wer ypothetiical list of weree just a “h “hypothetical health cconditions/ailments.” onditions/ailm ments.” The omised it w as n rrep ep pr ever sold to promised was never an yone. Y ep e , it w as a big b mist ake. anyone. Yep, was mistake. W can all rrest est eas ow. Thankfully y, Wee can easyy no now. Thankfully, MEDbase has hundr ed ds of other hundreds similar dossier ccollections, ollectiions, ha aw wking hawking the most private and sensitiv ssensitivee medic al inf fo ormation. medical information. F or inst ance, if lists of o rap For instance, rapee victims ar en’t yyour our thing o Dbase ccan an aren’t thing,, MED MEDbase sell dossiers on p eople suff ffeering people suffering fr om anor exia,, subst an nce abuse from anorexia, substance abuse,, AIDS and HIV V, Alzheim mer’s disease HIV, Alzheimer’s disease,, A sperger’s ssyndrome, yndrome, Attention Atttention Deficit Asperger’s Hyp eractivity Disor derr, b edwetttting Hyperactivity Disorder, bedwetting (Enur esis),, binge eating g, depression, depression, (Enuresis), eating, F etal Alc ohol Syndr om me, Genit al Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Genital Herp es, Genit al War ts, Gonorrhea, Herpes, Genital Warts, Homelessness Inffeertilitty, Syphilis… Syphilis… Homelessness,, Infertility, the list go es on and on n and on and on. goes N ormallyy, such det aiiled health Normally, detailed inf fo ormation would falll under ffederal ederal e information la aw and ccould ould not b d or sold law bee disclosed without cconsent. onsent. But b ecause these because dat vesters rrely ely on indir ect sour ces dataa har harvesters indirect sources of inf fo ormation instead of medic al information medical
records, the records, they’re ey’re able to sidestep rregulations egulationss put in plac otect the placee to pr protect privacy of p eople’s health dat a. people’s data. MEDbas se isn ’t the only ccompany ompany MEDbase isn’t eexploiting xploiting these lo opholes. By the loopholes. industr y’s own estimates industry’s estimates,, ther theree ar aree somethingg lik 00 ffor-profit o or-profit likee 4,0 4,000 intel ccompanies omp panies op erating in the operating U nited St a . Man ates United States. Manyy of them sell inf fo ormatio on that would normally information b restricte t i ted d under d ffederal ederal ed l lla aw. The Th bee restricted law. Theyy off ffeer all so orts of ttargeted argeted dossier offer sorts ccollections ollectionss on eevery very p opulation population segments of o our so ciety, fr om the society, from affluent to o the eextremely xtremely vulnerable: © ODNOKD VHSG CQTF @CCHBSHNMR ODNOKD VHSG V CQTF @CCHBSHNMR ©© CDS@HKDC ODQRNM@K HMEN NM ONKHBD CDS@HKDC C ODQRNM@K HMEEN NM ONKHBD offic ers and other go vernment officers government emplo yees e employees ©© ODNOKD VHSG A@C BQDCHS¢ ODNOKD VHSG V A@C BQDCHSS¢ bankrup ptcies bankruptcies © LHMNQHSHDR VGN UD TRDC O@XC@X LHMNQHSHDR VGN UD TRDC O@@XC@@X loan ser vices services © CNLDRSHB UHNKDMBD RGDKSDQ KNB@SHNMR CNLDRSHHB UHNKDMBD RGDKSDQ KNB@SHNMR (normal lly these addr esses would (normally addresses b ded b aw) w bee shield shielded byy la law) © DKCDQKX F@LAKDQR DKCDQKX F@LAKDQR F If yyou ou w ant to see how this kind want of pr ofile dat d an b am profile dataa ccan bee used to sc scam unsusp ectiing i individuals iindividuals, di id l , lo llook ok k no unsuspecting fur ther tha an a Richar d Guthrie further than Richard Guthrie,, an Iow retiree e who had his lif fe sa avings v Iowaa retiree life savings siphoned out o of his bank ac count. account. Their weap pon of choic e: dat abases weapon choice: databases b ought fr o lar om ge ffor-profit or o -profit dat bought from large dataa br okers lis ting rretirees etirees who enter ed brokers listing entered ssweepstakes weepstakes e and b ought lot tttery bought lottery tick ets. tickets. Her e’s a 2007 2007 Ne wY oork T iimes Here’s New York Times stor ribing the rack et: storyy descr describing racket: Mr thrie h i , who h liv li es in Iow a, Mr.. Gut Guthrie, lives Iowa, had enter e a ffew ed ew ssweepstakes weepstakes that entered ccaused aused his name to app ear in a appear dat abase adv aadvertised ertised b fo oUSA,, one database byy inf infoUSA, of the lar g ccompilers gest ompilers of cconsumer onsumer largest inf fo ormatio on. Inf fo oUSA sold his name information. InfoUSA name,, and dat o sc ores of other elderly dataa on scores Americ anss, to known la awbr w eakers, Americans, lawbreakers, rregulators egulators sa ay. say. Inf fo oUSA adv ertised lists of InfoUSA advertised “Elderly Opp O ortunity Seek ers,” 3.3 Opportunity Seekers,” million old der p eople “lo oking ffor o or older people “looking w ayys to make make mone y,” and “Suff ffeering ways money,” “Suffering Seniors ,” 4 4.7 million p eople with Seniors,” people ccancer ancer or Alzheimer’ A Alzheimer’ss disease disease.. “Oldies but Go odiies”” ccontained ontained 50 0,000 Goodies” 500,000 gamblers o ver 55 yyears ears old,, ffor or o 8.5 over ccents ents apiec ce. One list said: “These apiece. p eople ar ant to people aree gullible gullible.. The Theyy w want
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Large employers are turning to for-profit intelligence to mine and monitor the lifestyles and habits of their workers outside the workplace. offered byy the industr industryy seem ttailored off ffeered b ailored specifically use. sp ecific ifi ally ll to fraud f d us e. Ass R Royal Canadian A oyal C anadian Mounted M Police Yves Leblanc P olice Sergeant Sergeant Y ves L e eblanc told New York Times: the N ew Y o ork T imes: “Only “ one wants kind of customer w antts to buy lists interested lotteries of seniors inter ested in n lot teries and criminals.. If someone ssweepstakes: weepstakes: criminals advertises byy sa saying adv ertises a list b ayying it ccontains ontains people, it’s likee gullible or elderly p eop ple, it ’s lik putting saying ‘Thieves put tting t out a sign sa ayyin ng ‘Thie ves welcome here.’” welc ome her e.’” InfoUSA, So what is Inf fo oUSA,, eexactly? xactly? create What kind of ccompany ompan ny would cr eate customized byy and sell lists customize ed ffor o or use b scammers sc ammers and ccons? ons? Ass it turns out, Inf InfoUSA A fo oU USA is not outfit, some fringe or shady out o fit, but profitable politically a hugely pr ofitable p ollitically InfoUSA was cconnected onnected ccompany. ompany. In nffo oUSA w as started byy V Vin Guptaa in st arted b iin Gupt n the 1970s operation hawking as a basement op eratio on ha aw wking detailed det ailed lists of RV and d mobile dealers.. The ccompany home dealers om mpany quickly areas began eexpanded xpanded into other ar reas and b egan providing intel services pr oviding business inte el ser vices businesses. to thousands of busine esses. By the 2000s, early 20 00s, the ccompany ompany raised moree than $30 million mor n in vventure enture funding,, includ including ccapital apital funding ding $10 from Palo Alto’s million fr om P alo Alto o’s Trident
Capital, Capital,, $10 0 million fr from om Drap Draper er Fisher Fisher JJurvetson’s urvetson’s MeV MeVC C fund and a strategic investment in nvestment from from Yahoo, Yaahoo, Inc. Inc. By then, InfoUSA Inffo oUSA boasted boasted of having haavving information inffo ormation on 230 million consumers. later,, InfoUSA consumers. A few few years years later Inffo oUSA counted thee biggest valle valleyy ccompanies counted th ompanies as its clients clients, Yahoo, s, including Google, Google, Y aahoo, Microsoft AOL. Microsoft and a A OL. It got involved in nvolved not only in raw dossiers,, n ra aw data data and dossiers but moved payroll b t mo ved d into i t pa ayyroll ll and d financial, fi i l conducted polling conducted p olling and opinion research, CNN,, vvetted research,, partnered paartnered with CNN etttted employees provided employees and pr ovided customized services law enforcement services ffor o or la aw enf fo orcement and all sorts sorts of ffederal eederal and government government agencies: pr processing government rocessing go vernment payments, states paayyments, helping h st ates locate locate ttax ax cheats and eeven ven administrating President Clinton’s President Bill B Clinton ’s “Welfare “W Weelfare to Work” Work” o ” program. p ogram. Which is not pr surprising, Vin Gupta surprising i i , as a V iin G Gupta is i a major j and close p political olitical supporter supporter of Bill and Hillar Hillaryy Clinton. In 2008, 2008,, Gupta Gupta was waas sued by by InfoUSA Inffo oUSA shareholders shareholderrs ffor or o inappropriately inappropriately using ccorporate funds. orporate o funds. Shareholders Shareholders accused Guptaa of using ccorporate accused of Gupt G orporate money moneey to fund fu und an eextravagant xxtraavvagant lifestyle liffest e tyyle that included personal includeed a yacht,, a p ersonal jet, 20 automobiles, automob biles, homes around around the country Africa, Italy country and d trips to South Afric caa,, It aly and Cancun. dC ancun n. The h la llawsuit aw wsuit i questioned i d why wh hy Gupta Gupta used private ccorporate orporate jets to fly the personal th he Clintons on p ersonal and ccampaign trips,, and wh why Guptaa ampaiign trips hy Gupt awarded Bill awaarded Bil ll Clinton a $3.3 million consulting settled consulting gig ggig. g. He set tttled a related related case Securities case with Se ecurities and Exchange Commission Commission n ffor o or $7.4 $77..4 million. As scandal, InfoUSA As a rresult esu ult of the sc andal, Inf foUS o A was from was threatened threateened with delisting fr om Nasdaq,, Gu Gupta was upta w as fforced or o ced out and the ccompany was snapped ompan ny w as snapp ed up ffor o or $460 byy a private equit equityy $460 million millio on b firm. Today, Todaay, InfoUSA InffoUS o A continues continues to do business under Infogroup, un nder the name Inf fogroup, and has nea nearly 4,000 employees arly 4,0 00 emplo yees working in n nine ccountries. ountries. As Infogroup is,, there As big as Inf fogroup is there are are dozens of other otther ffor-profit o or-profit intelligence intelligence businesses that aree even t ar eveen bigger: massive massivve multi-national multi-nation nal intel cconglomerates onglomerates with rrevenues dollars.. evenu ues in the billions of dollars Some of the them, like LexisNexis em,, lik ke L exisNexis and Experian, Experian,, are arre well known,, but mostly these are are outfits ou uttfi fits that ffew ew Americans Americans have haave heard heard of, off, with names like lik ke Epsilon, Altegrity Acxiom. Altegritty and an nd A cxiom. These ffor-profit behemoths o orr-pr - ofit intel b ehemoths
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believe b elieve that their luck ccan an change change.” .” Dataa br Dat brokers okers ar argue gue that t ccases ases lik likee Guthrie are are an anomaly—a anomaly—a onc once-ine-ina-blue-moon industryy a-blue -moon tragedy in n an industr that ttakes akes privacy and legal cconduct onduct seriously. thieves seriously y. But ccases ases of identit iidentityy thie ves sophistical obtaining and sophistic al ccon-rings on-rin ngs obt aining dataa fr from intel dat om ffor-profit or o -profit int tel businesses abound. Scammers aree a lucrativ lucrativee ab ound. Sc ammers ar source Their moneyy is sour ce of rrevenue. evenue. The eir mone good anyone else’s. j t as go just od as an yone else l ’s. And A d profile “products” some of the pr ofile “pr roducts”
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are in are involved nvolvved e in eeverything veeryth hing fr from om debt ccollection ollection to credit crediit rreports eports to cconsumer onsumer tracking to healthc h healthcare are analysis ovvide al ll manner analysis,, and pr provide all of ttailored ailored ser vices to go ggovernment veernment services and la aw enf fo orcement ar aaround ound the law enforcement world. F or inst ance, Acxiom Acxiom c has done For instance, business with most ma ajor ccorporations orporations major and b oasts of intel on “50 0 million boasts “500 activ onsumers world dwide, with activee cconsumers worldwide, ab boutt 1,50 11,500 500 d dat ta p oint i ts t p er p erson. about data points per person. That includes a majorit ty of adults in majority the U nited St ates,” according accor o ding to the United States, Ne wY oork T iimes. New York Times. This dat zed and slic ed dataa is analy analyzed sliced easingly sophist in incr ticated and increasingly sophisticated intrusiv ays y to pr ofi file and pr edict intrusivee w ways profile predict b ehaavvior. Mer chants ar aaree using it to behavior. Merchants customize shopping eexperience— xperience— T ar a get launched a program program to Target figur n shopp er w as figuree out if a woman shopper was pr egnant and d when h th h he bab b by would ld pregnant the baby b orn, “e ven if she didn d ’t w ant us bee b born, “even didn’t want to know .” Lif fe insuran nce ccompanies ompanies know.” Life insurance ar xperimenting wit th pr edictive aree eexperimenting with predictive cconsumer onsumer intel to esti imate estimate lif fe eexpectancy xpectancy and de etermine life determine eligibilit o or lif fe insur rance p olicies. eligibilityy ffor life insurance policies. Mean nw while, health ins surance Meanwhile, insurance ccompanies ompanies ar ver this dat aree raking o over dataa in or der to den ny and challenge c the order deny medic al claims of thei ir p olicyholders. medical their policyholders. Ev en mor l ing, lar llarge ge Even moree alarmin alarming, emplo yers ar o or-profit employers aree turningg to ffor-profit intelligenc a monitor the intelligencee to mine and lif fest e yles and habits off their work ers lifestyles workers outside the workplac e. Earlier this workplace. yyear, ear, the W aall St reet J oournal describ ed Wall Street Journal described how emplo yers ha ave par p tnered employers have partnered ompanies to with health insuranc insurancee ccompanies monitor work ers ffor o or “health-adv ““health-adverse” erse” workers b ehaavvior that ccould ould le ead to higher behavior lead medic al eexpenses xpenses dow wn the line: medical down Y our ccompany o ompany alr eaady knows Your already whether yyou ou ha ave b eeen ttaking aking yyour our have been meds ting yyour our tee eth cleaned and meds,, get getting teeth going ffor o or rregular egular med dical check ups. medical checkups. N ow some emplo yers or their Now employers insuranc ompanies ar aaree tracking insurancee ccompanies what st aff ffeers eat, whe re the staffers where theyy shop and how much weigh ht the weight theyy ar aree put ting on — and ttaking ak king action to putting k eep them in line keep line.. But ccompanies ompanies also ha h ave st arted have started scrutinizing emplo oyees’ e ’ other behavior behaavior v employees’ mor eetlyy. Blue Cross Crross and Blue moree discr discreetly. Shield of N orth C arolin na rrecently ecently North Carolina b egan buying sp endingg dat began spending dataa on mor moree than 3 million p eople in n its emplo oyer e people employer gr oup plans someonee, say, saay, purchases purchases group plans.. If someone, plussize clothing, clothing, the health h could plus-size plan could flag him ffor or o p otential ob o esitty— —and potential obesity—and
then ccall all orr send mailings off offering ffeering weight-loss solutions.. weight t--losss solutions …”Everybody … ”Everyb y ody is using these dat abases to t sell yyou ou stuff ff,,” sa ayys databases stuff,” says Dar yl Wan nsink,, dir ector of health Daryl Wansink, director ec onomicss ffor o or the Blue Cr oss unit. economics Cross “W We happ en to b ying to sell “We happen bee tr trying yyou ou somet thing that ccan an get yyou ou something healthier .” healthier.” ““As As an em mplo oyer, I want want a you yo ou on that employer, medic di ation ti n that th t yyou o ou need d to t b medication bee on,” sa ays y JJulie ulie Stone S xpert at T o owers says Stone,, a HR eexpert Towers Watson to old the Wall Str eet JJournal. ournal. told Street C ompan nies might tr Companies tryy to frame it as a heal lth issue health issue.. I mean, what kind of ass shole ccould ould b asshole bee against emplo yerss ccaring aring ab out the employers about wellb eing of their work ers? But wellbeing workers? their ultim mate cconcern oncern has nothing ultimate to do with h the emplo yee health. It ’s employee It’s all ab out the t brut al b ottom line: about brutal bottom k eeping i ccosts o down. osts d keeping An emp ployer monitoring and employer ccontrolling ontrollingg yyour our activit activityy outside of work? Y ou ou don ’t ha ave to b You don’t have bee a union agit ator to o see the pr oblems with agitator problems this kind of o mindset and wher wheree it ccould ould lead d. Bec ause ther lead. Because theree ar aree lots of things thatt some emplo yers might employers ersonal w ant to kn now ab out yyour our p want know about personal lif fe, and no ot only to “k eep ccosts osts life, not “keep down. could b nyything: to weed down.”” It could bee an anything: out p eople le based b d on undesirable d i bl people habits or discriminate d against work ers ba ased on se xual orient ation, workers based sexual orientation, rregulation egulation n and p olitical b eliefs. political beliefs. It ’s not difficult d to imagine that It’s a large large ccorporation orrporation facing lab or labor unr est or a unionization driv unrest drivee would b iinterested ested in pr oactively bee inter proactively flagging p o otential tr oublemakers b potential troublemakers byy pinp ointin ng emplo yees that might pinpointing employees b sympatthetic to the ccause. ause. But bee sympathetic the techno ology and dat eady technology dataa is alr already her o or wide w and eas ation: heree ffor easyy applic application: did a work ker w atch ccertain ertain worker watch p olitical do ocumentaries, donate political documentaries, to en viron nmental non-pr ofits, join environmental non-profits, an animal rights Fac ebook gr oup, Facebook group, ttweet weet out supp ort ffor or o Oc cupy Wall support Occupy Str eet,, sub bscribe to the Nation Street, subscribe or Jacobin, Jacobin n, buy Naomi Klein ’s Klein’s The Sho ck k Do ctrine? Or ma ayybe Shock Doctrine? maybe the work er simply rrented ented one of worker Michael Mo M ore’s films? R u un yyour our Moore’s Run pa ayyroll thr rough one of the massiv payroll through massivee cconsumer onsumer intel dat abases and lo ok if databases look ther ny matchup theree is an any matchup.. P am Dix xon, eexecutive xecutive dir ector Pam Dixon, director of the Priv vacy W o orld F orum, Privacy World Forum, fr equentlyy testifies on C apitol Hill to frequently Capitol w arn ab ou ut the gr owing danger to warn about growing
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Getting P Personal ersonal For the past yyear, For ear e r, Chairm Chairman man JJohn ohn D.. ((Jay) D Jay) y R Rockefeller ock keeffeeller IV ha has as b been een cconducting onducting a Senate C Commerce om mmerrce Committee C ommitttee t in investigation nveestigation n of the dat dataa broker br ok keer industr industryy and how w it aff affects ffeects cconsumers. onsumers. The ccommittee ommittttee finished its investigation in nveestigation last week without w rreaching eaching any an ny rreal eal cconclusions, onclusions o , butt issued a rreport eport warning w arning a ab about out the dange dangers gers p posed osed b byy the ffor-profit orr--profit intel industry o industry and a the need ffor or fur o further ther action b byy lawmakers. laawmak w keers. The rreport eport noted with cconcern oncerrn that man many ny of these firms failed to ccooperate ooperate with the in investigation nvestigation e into the their eir business practices: practic es: Dataa br Dat brokers okers op operate eratte b behind ehind a vveil eil of secr secrecy. ecyy. Thr Three ee o off the lar largest gest ccompanies–Acxiom, ompanies–Acxiom, Ex Experian, xperian, and Epsilon–to date ha have ave b been een similarly secretive secr etive with the C Committee om mmittee with rrespect espect to their practic practices, ces, rrefusing efusing to identif identify fy the sp specific ecific sour sources ces of their dat dataa or the custo customers mers who purchase pur chase it. … The rrefusal efu usal b byy se several veral major dat dataa br broker oker ccompanies om mpanies to provide pr ovide the C Committee ommitteee ccomplete omplete rresponses esponses rregarding egarding da data ata sour sources ces and customers only rreinforces einffo orrces the aura of secrecy secr ecy surr surrounding ounding th the he industr industry. y. Rockefeller’s R ockeffeeller’s in investigation nvestiggation w was as an imp important ortant first step p br breaking eaking open op en this secr secretive etive ind industry, dustry, but it was w as missing one not notable ab ble element. Despite its ffocus ocus on ccompanies o ompanies that ffeed eeed on p people’s eople’s p personal erson nal dat data, a,, the investigation in nvestigation did not in include nclude Go Google ogle or the other big Sur Surveillance veiillance V Valley alle a y
data munchers. munch hers. And that ’s to o bad. data that’s too Because if an aanything, ything, the in nvestigation Because investigation data br b okers only highlighted into data brokers osed b onsumerthe danger p posed byy the cconsumerdata ccompanies ompanies lik ogle, facing data likee Go Google, Facebook,, Y aahoo and Apple Facebook, Yahoo Apple.. As intrusive intrussive as dat okers ar e, As dataa br brokers are, vel e off det ail in the inf fo ormation the le level detail information they ccompile ompiile on Americ ans pales they Americans an nb to what ccan bee vacuumed up b byy a compan ny like liike Google. G ogle Go l .T o ccompile ompile il company To dossieers, traditional data data br okers their dossiers, brokers rely on mostly mosstly indir ect intel: what rely indirect people buy y, where where they they vacation, vacation, people buy, ites the ogle, on what websi websites theyy visit. Go Google, h , has access access to the raw raaw the other hand, uncensored d ccontents ontents of yyour o our inner uncensored liffee: personal person nal emails chats, the diary diary life: emails,, chats, d medic al rrecords ecords that entries and medical store in the cloud, our personal personal we store communication a doctors, la aw wyyers e , communication with doctors, lawyers, psycholo h l gis ists, friends. f i d . Data friends D a brokers Dat b ok br kers psychologists, th hrough our sp ending know us through spending habits. Google Google ac cesses the unfilter ed habits. accesses unfiltered details of our ou ur p ersonal liv es. details personal lives. recent study showed that A recent Americans are are overwhelmingly oveerwhelmingly Americans opposed to ha avving their online activity activitty opposed having track keed and d analy yzzed. Se veentty--three tracked analyzed. Seventy-three percent of p eople p olled ffor o or the P ew percent people polled Pew an Life Liffe Project Project Internet & Americ American vie wed the tracking of their sear ch viewed search hi histor y as an n in iinvasion nvvasion i off privacy, privacy i y, while hil history 68 percent percent wer w argeted 68 weree against ttargeted advveertising, replying: replying: “I don’t don n’’t like like advertising, haavving my my online o b ehaavvior tracked track keed having behavior analyyze zed.” and analyzed. ’tt news news to ccompanies ompanies lik This isn isn’t likee Google, wh hich last yyear ear w arned Google, which warned shareholdeers: “Privacy cconcerns oncerns shareholders: relating to our technolo gy ccould ould relating technology ur rreputation eputation and deter damage ou our current and dp otential users fr om current potential from p oducts and ser vices.” using our pr products services.” Littttle wonder wo onder then that Go ogle, Little Google, estt of Surveillance Surveeillance Valley, Vaalleey, is and the rrest at the cconversation on nversation about about terrified tha that surveillanc e e could could soon soon broaden broaden surveillance n only go overnment to include not government espionage, but b ffor-profit o or-profit spying spying as well. espionage, Yasha Y asha a L Levine eviine is returning from a vacation iin n the Ukraine war zone appear and will ap ppear at a C2SV event ZERO1 at the ZER RO1 Garage on Sept. 11. Portions P ortions of o this story appeared on PandoDaily.com. P andoDailly y.com.
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privacy and civil lib liberties erties t p posed osed b byy big dat dataa and ffor-profit or o -profit intelligenc intelligence. e. In C Congressional ongressional testim testimony mon ny back 2009, growing in 20 09, Dixon ccalled alled this t gr owing mountain dataa the “mo mount ain of dat ““modern dern permanent p ermanent rrecord” ecord”” and d eexplained xplained new that users of these ne w intel inevitably ccapabilities apabilities will ine vitably a eexpand xpand marketers to include not just ma rketers and law enforcement, la aw enf for o cement, but insuranc iinsurancee employers, ccompanies, ompanies i , emplo l yers, landlor llandlords, dl ds d, schools, parents, scammers scho ols, par ents, sc amm mers and stalkers. information–like st alkers. “The inf fo ormattion–like credit bee used makee cr edit rreports–will eports–will b u to mak about abilityy of basic decisions ab out the t abilit travel, participate individual to tra avel, pa articipate in economy, opportunities, the ec onomy, find opp ortunities, places live, purchase goods find plac es to liv e, pur c chase go ods services, makee judgments and ser vices, and mak about importance, worthiness, ab out the imp ortance, wor thiness, interests individuals.” and inter ests of individ duals.”
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CREAM OF THE CROP Oak & Rye gets the most out of late-summer heirloom tomatoes with a seasonal small plate that pairs them with creamy burrata and fried capers.
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AK & RYE sets itself apart as colorfully different. This relative newcomer to Los Gatos’ N. Santa Cruz Avenue serves a menu of wood-fired pizzas, tasty small plates and an inviting selection of cocktails, wine and draft beer.
On a weeknight visit, communal tables inside and on the patio were my only option for seating in the packed restaurant. Like their pizzas, the restaurant’s decor and vibe enjoy an off-center touch, like a pizza oven mosaicked with pennies, an awesome soundtrack of classic hip-hop or the trippy bathrooms with fluorescent painted walls and a compact television/ VCR unit constantly showing ’90s hits like Die Hard. Whether you enjoy a cold beer or a nice glass of wine with your pizza, you’ll find a good selection of Italian wines as well as craft beer by draft or in bottle. The cocktail menu features deep-flavored concoctions such as the Italian Manhattan (known other places as a Negroni). In A Catcher In The Rye, made with rye, mint and Grand Marnier, the spiciness of rye and sweet tinge of orange liqueur played off one another nicely. From the menu of small plates, a heirloom tomato salad with burrata, basil oil, balsamic and fried capers offered a taste of the last stretch of summer. Not only was the dish plated beautifully but the salty, crunchy fried capers amplified the flavors of creamy burrata cheese and juicy tomato. Equally tasty were the lighter-than-air gnocchis with pork sausage and kale. The dish was incredibly rich and flavorful, so just a couple bites proved enough. For the main attraction, Oak & Rye cooks wood-fired pizzas in a blistering-hot oven. Each pizza arrives sliced into sixths and is sharable between two or perfect for one, if you’re really hungry. Browse over the pizza names and you'll see Oak & Rye threw in a bit of the quirky there too with names such as TMNT (for those pizza-munching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and the vegetarian CeeLo Greens. The TMNT is an elevated version of the best pepperoni pizza you’ve ever had. A perfectly crisp, slightly charred crust is topped with tomato, mozzarella, oregano, chili flakes, caciocavallo (an Italian cow milk cheese, similar to a pungent mozzarella), parmigiano and salametto piccante which is most like a dry, slightly smoked Spanish chorizo. While the TMNT may be a good intro, the must-try pizza here is the Scotty 2 Hottie with tomato, basil, mozzarella, sopressata and with the incredible sweet and spicy combination of Tim’s honey and pepperoncini oil. —Jeff Cianci OAK & RYE 303 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos. 408.395.4441 or oakandryepizza.com.
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ARVEST TIME is on the horizon and a new South County event celebrates this most bountiful time of year. The first Taste of Santa Clara Valley dinner, which takes place Sept. 14, features a menu sourced from local farmers—and it also helps small, local farms by raising money for Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
The nonprofit CAFF advocates for California family farms and sustainable growing practices. Chef Nicolai Tuban of Bon Appetit Management Company will prepare a menu highlighting local veggies and meat. The Palo Alto-based Bon Appetit, though it now caters for cafes in 32 states, has plenty of experience cooking for the Silicon Valley palate, with clients who include Google, Oracle and eBay. This “farm-to-fork” meal, as organizers have dubbed it, offers dishes such as heirloom tomatoes three ways, roasted South Valley mushrooms with white beans, roasted chicken with sweet corn pudding and zinfandel-braised grass-fed beef from Morris Ranch. The dinner will be accompanied by wine from Guglielmo Winery, which hosts the dinner, as well as beer from Gordon Biersch. Organizers plan to make the dinner an annual event. A TASTE OF SILICON VALLEY Sept. 14, 5-9pm. Guglielmo Winery, 1480 E. Main Ave., Morgan Hill. Tickets are $125. guglielmowinery.com.
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NEW MARKET opening in San Jose’s SoFA district takes inspiration from the San Pedro Square Market’s successful model of offering an array of eateries serving a diverse selection of cuisine. The SoFA market’s first tenant, Falafel Bar, opened late last month. The focus of their straightforward menu is, obviously, falafel and here it’s served two ways: in a pita (like a sandwich and with a choice of white or wheat pita) or in a bowl (the gluten-free option). Diners can customize their pita or bowl with sides, sauces and pickles—everything from more traditional toppings like hummus, tabouleh or harissa to unusual choices like cilantro-jalapeño pesto, quinoa, spinach, cabbage or seasonal pickled vegetables. (Another unorthodox addition: ketchup.) The menu also includes a traditional Middle Eastern roasted eggplant dish playfully renamed Baba Good News. The pita is priced at $6.50 and the bowl is priced by weight, at $8.75 per pound (and a smaller pita with two falafel balls is available for $4.). Falafel Bar also serves French fries and agave sodas. —Heather Zimmerman FALAFEL BAR 387 S. First St., San Jose. falafelbar.com.
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Chromatic Coff Chromatic C Coffee, ee, Santa Clar Claraa Thu, 6:30pm, 6:30pm m, Free Free CCaffeinated affeinated black b bean juice is Chromatic Coffee what Chr omaatic Coff ee is most The known ffor. or. Th he other thing is their frequent punk thirdd frequent pun nk rrock ock shows. A thir are thing they ar re hoping people associate will also asso ociate with them is art. For the past p couple months, devoted they’ve devo oted first Thursdays showcasing to showcasin ng local artwork. The artists they work w with (similar there) to the bandss that play ther e) are are political, DIY and proudly proudly flout mainstream mainstr eam tastes. This Thursday Chromatic’s group is Chr omatic ’s first gr oup show. show. They will be showcasing the
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DELIRIUM DELI RIUM Back Bar SoF SoFA, FA, A San Jose 9pm, Thu, 9pm m, free free Nightlifee pr produced Alchemy Nightlif oduced a good ffew ew parties a couple years bar,, SJBG. back overr at SSJSU JSU party bar SJBG. Now they’re theyy’re back, with a lineup KSJS of KS JS electronic ellectronic DJ alums, over Back SoFA. Or,, in other at the Bac ck Bar SoF A. Or words: KSJS AWOL wor ds: SJSU’s SJSSU’s KS JS DJs go A WOL from SoFA. fr om SJBG SJBG G ffor or SoF A. Fun! DJs Wurly, CCurly urly W urrlyy, White Rice, Oons and will be spinning at this Badcat will free event, fr ee even t, which appears to skew toward heavily to oward electro electro house and trance. tr ance. (SL) (SL)
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PAL P A GRAND AL OPENING O PENING CELEBRATION CE ELEBRA AT TION Paccific Art League, P Pacific Palo alo Al Alto to Free Fri, 5:30pm-8pm, Fri, 5:30pm 8pm Fr ee Founded Palo Alto Fou unded in 1921 as the P alo A lto providing Art Club with the goal of pr oviding an avenue ave enue ffor or artists to come together Pacific andd share share work, the P acific Art League (PAL) (P PA AL) has long worked to show there’s there’s an artist a inside all of us. With a newly rrenovated enovated space in a historic building Palo on Ramona R SStreet treet in downtown P alo Alto, Al too, PAL PAL A is celebrating celebrating with both an opening ope ening rreception, eception,, Sept.. 5,, and an open ope en house,, Sept.. 13. The Art League eague made ma de a big splash in early August when embraced whe en they embr aced digital media withh their Mobile Digital Arts and Creativity PAL Cr eaativity Summit. P AL A continues that momentum integrating iPad/ mo mentum by integr ating an iP ad/ mobile curriculum mo bile art class into their cur riculum thiss ffall. all. The League will be exhibiting select sele ect artist submissions in their
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THE ODD ODDBALL DBALL CCOMEDY OMEDY T TOUR OUR Sep 12 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre
DRAKE/LIL W WAYNE AYNE Y Sep 16 at Shoreline Shoreline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre
HEART HEAR T Sep 16 att The Mountain Winery
ROB R OB ZZOMBIE OMBIE Sep 119 9 at City National Civic
CROSBY, CR O Y, SSTILLS OSB TILLS & NA NASH SH Sep 19 19 at City National Civic
SSYMPHONY YMPHO ONY SILIC SILICON ON V VALLEY: A ALLEY: MUSIC MUS SIC OF LED ZEPPELIN Sep 20 20 at City National Civic
BEYOND BE YOND W WONDERLAND ONDERLAND Sep 20-21 20-21 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatr Amphitheatree
KATY KA AT TY PERRY PERR RY Sep Se ep 22 22-23 -23 at SAP SAP Center
DIANA R ROSS OSS Sept 25 25 at City National Civic
AD DAY AY T TO O REMEMBER, R CHIODOS Sept 26 6 at SSJSU JSU Event Center
THIEVERY THIE V RY CORPORATION VER CORPORA AT TION Oct 1 at City Na National ational Civic Sep 22/23
gallery thr through ough the end of thee month, with selections juried ffor or prizes. prizees.. (BR)
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THE FFACTION ACTION N Blank Club, San Jose Sat, 8pm, $25 Faction San Jose-based band The Fac ction weren’t skatewer en’t just one of the first sk kateemerge punk bands to emer ge in the early ’80s. They count SSteve teve CCaballero, aballeero, proo skaters off all one the biggest pr member.r. SSteve time,, as a member teve CCaballero. abaallero. toured The band tour ed the states a couple from times during their initial run— — fr om 1982-85—to 1982 -85—to the delight of sskaters katers everywhere. everywher e. Their tune “Skatee skateand Destroy” Destroy”” is a rrebellious ebellious sk katerrock ock anthem,, and the rrest est of their t hardcore-tinged skate-themed) har dcore-tinged (often skate-themed) chordd with punk tunes struck a chor witth the growing skateboarding gr owing skateboar ding culture. culturre. Before Before
this year, The Faction hadn’t played a moree than a deca decade. (AC) show ffor or mor ade.. (A C)
SOUR MA MASH SH H HUG BAND BAND The Blackbir Blackbird dT Tavern, aavern, San S Jose Sat, 8pm, free free Here’s music Her e’s the thing about mu usic in 2014: around half the bands ar ound are are playing obscuree conglomer conglomeration some obscur a ation of genres couple genr es that rrequire equire a coup ple trips to Wikipedia to understand. TTake aake the According Sour Mash Hug Band.. A ccoording to they the group’s group’s official bio, the ey “have cabaret developed a unique cabar et style drawing dr awing on New Orleans jjazz, azz, oldlautareasca, time fiddle music,, muzica lautar easca, andd Yiddish Yiddi h theatre.” th t e.”” But theatr B t there’s th ther t e’s ’ an easier way to say it. TTake aake ssome ome Rain Dogs-er -eraa TTom om o W Waits, aaits, add a heal healthy thy serving Bottom ser ving of the Soggy Botto om Boys, and picturee them joining fforces then pictur orces to horaa dance tune at a tr traditional play a hor aditional could ignoree Jewish wedding. Or you co ould ignor us.. Go to the all of this and just trust us show. aree fun. (SL) show w. These guys ar
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Miami Beach Club, San S Jose Sun, 7:30pm, $12 Mötley Crüe and Guns Gunns N’ Roses weree probably biggest wer probably the bi iggest names to come out of the LA L glam metal scene, but there there were werre a ton of other bands scoring rrecord ecord deals alongside them. Onee of them, Faster Pussycat, hadd all the successful cock-rock elements of a succes ssful cock-r ock outfit: sleazy, sleazyy, heavy rrock ock & roll roll riffs, harmonies, lush vocal harmonies s, feathered feathered tight hair and pants so tig ght they’d put today’s hipsters to sshame. hame. It was, however,, a ballad tha that however at they were were most known ffor: or: 1989’s 1989’s “House Pain.” group oke up in of P ain.” The gr oup br bbroke ’93, but have been oon n the rreunion eunion circuit cir cuit since 2001. (AC) (A AC)
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ELTON EL LTON JOHN Oct 2 at SAP SAP Center
TOM T OM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS HEAR TBREAKERS Oct 5 at SAP SAP Center
SNOOP DOG,, ICE CUBE, THE GAME Oct 10 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre
San Jose Museu Museum m of Art Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, T ue-Sun, ue u Sun, 11am 11am-5 5 5pm, $5 $5-$8 $8
ENRIQUEE IGLE IGLESIAS/PITBULL SIAS/PITBULL
Drawing childhood Dr awing on childho ood memories of playing with toy soldiers s in his bedroom, Palo Alto bedr oom,, P alo Al to native David turnedd plastic figurines Levinthal has turne celebrated into a hallmark of hhis is celebr ated photography career. photogr raphy a car eerr. Focusing in on his diorama constructed dior am ma scenes and toy deepp ffocus, subjects with a dee ocus,, Levinthal brings an intensity to t each tableau.. In doing so,, he questions questioons the line between artifice and rreality eality with w his shots, which American culture ffocus ocus on classic Am merican pop cul ture baseball, themes including ba aseball,, Barbie,, the West pornography. Wild W est and porn nographyy.The 39 photographs photogr raphs a in thiss exhibition span extensive, career Levinthal’s extensiv ve,, acclaimed car eer and include 28 rrecent eceent acquisitions on view ffor or the first time. tim me.The show runs through Nov.v. 30.. (BR (BR) thr ough Nov R)
ELE ELECTRONIC CTRONIC O BOUNCE HOUSE
Oct 14 at SSAP AP Center
Oct 29 at SSAP AP Center
JJACK ACK Y YO O LANTERN: FL FLOSSTRADAMUS, OSSTRAD T AMUS, MADE MADEON ON Oct 31 3 at SSJSU JSU Event Center
HERB ALPER ALPERT T Nov 7-8 7-8 at thee Montalvo Arts Center
JUDAS JUD AS PRIE PRIEST ST Nov 16 6 at Civic National Civic
MYTHBUS MYTHBUSTERS: TERS: BEHIND THE MYTHS Dec 118 8 at City National Civic music ic updates and contest For musi giveaways, giveaway ys, like us on Facebook metrofb.com at metr ofb.com
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Where Everybody Kno Where Knows ows YYour our o Name: A History of LLocal ocal Watering W atering Holes, May 31-Oct 31.
TheatreWorks pr TheatreWorks presents e esents this Pulitzer-winning Pulit zer-winning drama, drama, about strangers share secrets str angers who sh are secr ets in troubled a chat rroom oom for for tr roubled souls, a safee haven ffor lives saf or live es in rrecovery. ecoveryy. Performing Center ffor or the P errforming Arts, View.. Mountain View
COMEDYSPORTZ COMEDYSPORTZT IMPROV IMPR OV COMEDY COMED DY Laugh until your st stomach tomach hurts improved battle at this impr oved ba attle of wits,, all audience-sourced audience-sour ced and suitable entiree ffamily. $12-ffor or the entir amilyy. Ongoing.. $12 $15.. CCamera amera 4,, Sann Jose.
*concerts *c oncerts e CCOGSWELL OGSWELL CCONCERTS ON NCERTS Spend your lunch lunchtime htime in P Palo alo Alto Al to with some lively, liivelyy, toeJul tapping music. Ju ul 17 ffeatures eatures funky, funk y, fusion R&B R&B band Every Thursday, Spangalang. Eve ry Thursday y, 12-1pm. Sept 12 -1pm. Thru Sep pt 11.
*operaa *oper CAFFE FRA FRASCATI SCA AT TI Opera Night. Firs Opera First st Friday of every month. San n Jose.
*art MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM OF ART O GATOS LLOS OS GA ATOS “Hot Spot: Bay Ar Area e SStudio ea tudio Glass,” artworkss by various artists, glass artwork workss fr from including work rom Bonny Holy Doon Art Glass,, Ho oly City Art Glass and LLundberg undberg SStudios. tudios.. Jun Gatos. 8 Oct 5. 8-Oct 5 LLos os Gatos s s.
CANTOR CANT OR ARTS ARTS CENTER “Mapping Edo,” ar aarchival chival maps, paintings prints and painti ngs of Edo(1615-1868). period Japan (16 15-1868). 17. “Fatal al Laughs: Thru Sep 17 7. “Fat Robert The Art of Rober rt Arneson,”” an creation. “Pop exhibit of clay cr eation. “P op from SFMOMA’s Art fr om SFMOM MA A’’s Anderson Oldenburg, Collection,” Claess Oldenbur g, Warhol Andy W arhol andd other pop art pioneers. SStanford. tanforrd.
CHILDREN’S DI DISCOVERY ISCOVERY MUSEUM “Storyland: A TTrip “Storyland: rip r p Thr Through ough Favorites,” Childhood Favori ites,” a exhibit summertime exh hibit that children adults brings childr en and a adul ts into seven the world of seve en beloved picturee book books. Thru pictur s. Th hru Sep 12. San Jose.
HISTORY HIS TORY P PARK ARK SSAN AN N JOSE “Shirlie Montgomery: Picturing San Jose Since 1938,”” April 14-Dec 14 -Dec 14.
LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS CCOMPANY OMPAN NY “Zulugrass Jewelry Ga “Zulugrass Gallery,” alleryy,,” ffeaturing eaturing the colorful clothing adorned and ornaments adorn ned by the Great Maasai tribe of the Gr reat Rift Valley V alley of KKenya enya and Ta TTanzania. anzania. a
SSAN AN JOSE MUSEUM M OF AR ART T “David Levinthal:: Makee Believe,” workss by photogr photographer work apheer David Levinthal.. May 8-Nov 30. 3 Fisher “Legacy: The Emily Fish her Landau Collection,”” Junn 5-Sepp 11am-5pm, 15. TTue-Sun, uue-Sun, 11am-5pm m, closed Mon.. San Jose.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM SAN M OF QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL TS & TEXTILE “International TTECHstyle ECHstyyle 26-Nov Art Biennial 3,”July 26-Nov 9.. Returning ffor or its third thirrd ITAB juried incarnation, IT TA AB is a ju uried exhibition of work by artists a merging mer ging fiber media with w new information communication inf ormation and comm munication technologies in their aartistic rtistic processes, pr ocesses, as a medium m of expression, and/or artistic expr ession,, and d/or in the content of their work. “Forming “ Our Lives,”” July 26-Sepp 14. The created artwork they have cr eaated askss the qu question, continually ask uestion, situations “Why do certain situat tions happen in our lives andd how do overcome we over come them?”” and a gives three insight into how thr ee women answered hardd have answer ed those hhar questions.. San Jose.
media works works on paper by Erin Goodwin-Guerrero. Goodwin-Guerrero. Mountain View. View.
DISCOVER DISC OVER SAN SAN JOSE “YYester “Yesterday” e day” and “T “Today, Toodayy, wo works orks “Wiree Roots Roots,” by Ben Leone. “Wir s,” Oliver’s one-of-a-kind Jason Oliver ’s one-of-a-ki ind trees from wiree usin using tr ees made fr om wir ng organic materials. rrecycled ecycled and or ganic mate erials. Special Guest vocalist Christopher Michael, the Fridays “Sober Junkie.”” First Friday ys only. only y. San Jose.
DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SHA SHALA ALA “San Shui,” paintings by Altice Russell Al tice Case. Case. San Jose. Joose.
EMPIRE SE SEVEN VEN SSTUDIOS TUDIO OS “Ex P Post ost Facto,” a solo sho show ow of Francisco local artist Fr ancisco Graciano. Graciiano. San Jose.
FILOLI FIL OLI “Sculpture in the Garden,” “Sculpture Garden,”” a sculptures collection of sculptur es by local artists will be on display display throughout thr oughout the beautiful Garden. Thru setting of Filoli’s Gar den. Th hru Woodside. Sep 77.. W oodside.
GALLERY GALLER Y HOUSE “Random,” work workss by Geor George g ge Perazzo P erazzo and Charlotte Coqui. Coqqui. Palo Alto. Aug 26-Sep 20. P alo Al to.
HIGHER FIRE CLA CLAYSPACE AYSPACE C “Czway W Wayz” ayz” ceramic ceramic works works by Mattie Leeds. San Jose..
MACLA MA CLA “Unmasked.”The Latino arti artists sts explore ffeatured eatured in Unmasked explo ore cultural cul tural and social issues of through identity and otherness thr ouugh the visual language of comicc books, book s, science fiction and superheroes. 27-Nov superher oes. Thru Aug 27 -Nov 15. San Jose.
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“Celebration of CCalligraphy,” “Celebration alliggraphyy,,” texturee ffeaturing eaturing the blend of o textur calligraphy sacred and calligr aphy on sa acred Novv 16. texts. Aug 16 thru No “The Civilization Code,” Codee,” abstract Aug abstr act paintings. Au ug 23 Clara. thru Nov 23. Santa Cl ara.
“Fun & Games:: Six Artists Wellbeing,” ellbeingg,” Consider Play and W workss by local and internat international work ional play, artists that invite visitors too play y, explore, create. explor e,, participate and cr eaate. Thru Oct 31. Saratoga. Saratoga.
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“Wet P “Wet Paint,” aint,” work workss by Palo Alto. contributing artists. P alo Al A to.
ANNO DOMINI ““A A Human Race,” wor works ks by Israeli-based street Zeroo Isr aeli based str aeli-based eet artist artist Zer Cents. Thru Sept 13. SSan an Jose.
BR BRUNI UNI GALLER GALLERY Y Jazz-related art by Bru Jazz-related Bruni ni Sablan. Jose. Mon-Sat, 1-6pm.. San Jo ose.
COMMUNITY SCHO COMMUNITY SCHOOL OL OF ARTS MUSIC AND AR TS “Decline and Renewa Renewal,” l,” mixed
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PALO P ALO AL ALTO TO AR ART T CENTER R “Between “B t D Dr Dreams eams andd Nightmares,” Nightmar es,” mixed-mediaa drawings Harel. dr awings by Dana Har el. Jun 13-Sep 13-Sep 77.. “Containers Community,” ceramic of Community y,,”” cer amic Ehren installation by Ehr en TTool oool and a local al contributors, honoring loc veterans. Palo Alto. veter ans. Jul 1-Sep 77.. P alo Al to.
‘THE CO COUPLE’ UPLE’ One of o many paintings by artist Zero Cents in the ‘‘A A Human R Race’ ace’ contemplates meanss to be human, collection, which conte emplates race and what it mean Domini and is on at Anno Dom mini through Sept. 13. PHO69 PHO6 9
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Watercolors by Made’ Watercolors Made’ Suker Sukerti rti Berg. Ber g. San Jose.
"Art Lif "Art Lifer" er" by Alfr Alfredo edo Reyes and Debbie Doherty with music from from DJ Mystik Mike. ““Assemble!” Assemble!” a MESHcollective show.. W Works show orks by various artists. San Jose. Jose
PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUT DONUTSS Works by John Renzel, Lace Works Lacey ey Murphy Bryant Nicolas CCaesar, Bryant, aesar, Murp phy Adams, Christine Benjamin,, Foley, Borja, Michael Foley y, Michael Borja a, Valery V alery Milovic, CCarlos arlos Villez, Joyner,, Laur Lauraa CCallin Eric Joyner allin Bennett, John Hageman andd McColley.. San Jose. Robert McColley
SAN JOSE INS SAN INSTITUTE TITUTE OFF ART CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY AR T “Poetic Codings,” installatio “Poetic installations ons by various artists. Thru Sep 6. “Iterations “Iterations & Assertions,” Assertions,” workss by Amy Ellingson. Thru work Ellingson Th ru Sep 13. TTue-Fri, uue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
SLIDING DOOR CCOMPANY OMPANY “One Thousand Thousand Project,” workss by Jason Pr oject,” work McHenry.. San Jose. McHenry
STUDIO R STUDIO ROCK OCK CLIMBING GGYM YM “Petrified,” work “Petrified,” workss by Andy Wallace. W allace. San Jose.
TECHSHOP TE CHSHOP SAN SAN JOSE “Steve Haman,” works “Steve works about his inspiration nature, inspir ation from from natur e,, holistic healing,, and metaphysical properties pr operties of life. life. “TechGYRLS, “TTeechGYRLS, Women W omen of the Future” Future” works works by TTechGYRLS eechGYRLS of Willow Glen and Hoover Middle Schools. San Jose.
ZERO ZER O 1 GARA GARAGE GE “The Operature” Operature” by Anatomical Theatres (ATOM-r) Theatr es of Mixed Reality (A ATO OM-r) presents performance pr esents innovative perf ormance aree pushing the artists who ar culture. boundaries of digital cul ture.. First only, Fridays only y, San Jose.
*events *e vents SOUTH FIR FIRST ST FRID FRIDAY AY ARTWALK AR TWALK A self-guided evening tour through th thr oughh galleries, ll i museums and independent businesses eaturing exhibitions and ffeaturing performances, special perf ormances, including SStreet treet Eats & Live Parque Beats at P arque De LLos os Pobladores. P obladores. First Friday of the Month. Venues Venues along S. street throughout First str eet and thr oughout downtown San Jose.
SILICON V SILICON VALLEY A ALLEY FESTIVAL MUSIC FE STIV VAL A IIn conjunction j ti with ith SSouth th Fi Firstt Fridays, the SVMF presents presents Anna Maria Mendieta. Ms.. Mendieta, the principal harpist with the Sacramento Sacr amento Philharmonic,, has performed perf ormed as a soloist and as a member with many symphony orchestras or chestras and chamber music groups across gr oups acr oss the country. countryy.
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is hosting a group exhibition of works created by local artists using only pencil and paper.
Pencils Down IT HAS BECOME an annual tradition at The Arsenal, the San Jose art shop, studio and gallery space. Each year, a mixture of graffiti artists, tattoo artists, fine artists, illustrators and designers come together to showcase their work in a particular medium. This year the artists have been limited to pencil and paper for the “Graphite Show,” which opens this weekend. “When certain parameters are set, you have to be more creative”, says Sean Boyles, co-owner of The Arsenal. The show will feature more than 20 different artists, including such notable San Jose artists as Mitzy Avila Ovalles and Joe To. Other artists include Mr. Wim, Brian Canio, and Nancy Ahn.
Graphite Show The Arsenal, San Jose Sep 6, Mon-Fri: 11am-8pm, Sat: 11am-6pm, Free thearsenalsj.com
In spite of its narrowly defined medium, the exhibition space seems to know no bounds. Boyles and fellow artist and co-owner Roan Victor have transformed the unassuming shop on The Alameda into a key player in the South Bay art scene. With a keen eye for art outside the mainstream and a passion for enlivening the local art scene, The Arsenal has become a place where artists can buy supplies and exhibit their work, as well as a space where they may hone their craft and teach aspiring artists in regular drawing and painting classes. The result is an environment that feels like a perpetual art opening. “Since we carry all these materials, we have relationships with all types of artists”, Boyles says. In fact, Victor and Boyles, both working artists, are also featured in the upcoming show. Victor's piece is an astoundingly detailed, a wild mishmash of flowers and faces. It is symbolic of the varied and eclectic talent in the Graphite Show. Usually The Arsenal completely transforms its gallery space to meet the needs of a given artist. This time, however, they are keeping things simple—painting the gallery walls a stark white to give further contrast to the monochromatic drawings. One of the artists featured in show, illustrator and concept artist Tony Nguyen, is a San Jose local and longtime friend of the owners. “I was failing in all my college classes and somebody suggested an art class, a life-drawing class," he recalls. "So I just went full force with that." He ended up with a degree in animation and illustration before plying his trade making concept art in the video game industry. Nguyen, whose work is inspired by “anything that has a lot of life and energy” has designed art for popular companies like Zynga, and now works for a game startup in Miami. Whenever Nguyen returns home to San Jose, he finds himself hanging out at The Arsenal. “I miss the Bay Area”, Nguyen says, “Any time I come back, I come by [The Arsenal]. This is where the roots are at.”— Tad Malone
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The MayDecemberists
STARRY S TA R RY EYED EY ED Under-age actress Beverly Aadland A (Dakota F Fanning) anning) fou found und herself in a relationship with the mu much (Kevin ch older star Errol Flynn (K eviin Kline).
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ONALD O NALD GLA GLATZER AT TZER and Wash Westmoreland’s W assh W estmoreland’s Last Robin The eL ast of R obin Hood enjoyable H oo od is an enj oyable specimen of o the low-budget Hollywood Flynn’s Hollywood biopic. Errol Flynn ’s movies hav have badly, ve aged badly y, but we can stilll remember the purpose forr a rogue with a muse, demonstr ating talent to am amuse, demonstrating invalua able function of the invaluable wastrels. Fl lynn w as a courtly y, wastrels. Flynn was courtly, lazy y, irresis stible char acter; lazy, irresistible character; nostic about the such an agn agnostic od behavior that gods of goo good q mark his he made a question m am. personal monogr monogram.
It b begins egins with death of Flynn (K Kevin Kline), who went out b effo orre (Kevin before hi is last sc andal. He w as ccarrying arrying his scandal. was on n with a minor: Be verly Aadland Beverly (D Dakota Fanning) a 15 yyear ear old p ossing (Dakota posing ass a 20 yyear ear old. Be veerly had b een a Beverly been ch horus girl on an unnamed studio lot, chorus he ere set up for fo or a supposed supposed audition: audition n: here th his turned into a night of pink this ch hampagne and a quick, harsh losss champagne off vir ginity on the pr overbial casting castin ng virginity proverbial ccouch, o ouch, ’s p ersonal assist a ant with Flynn Flynn’s personal assistant ttaking a aking tears. Beverly Beveerly her home in tears. as ssumes she ’s been been used and dr ped opp assumes she’s dropped b h fading f di star, star, but b he h returns returns to o byy the de eclare his lo ove and to mak nds. declare love makee amen amends. n’s wick ed lif fe will w Students of Flynn Flynn’s wicked life rrecall e all that he ec ’d alr eady b een in thee he’d already been do ock ffor o or a double -helping of statutory statuttory dock double-helping ra ape char ges (allegedly the LA distr rict rape charges district at tttorney dr essed the defendants deffendants e p up attorney dressed w braids and pinaf with fo ores). The op en pinafores). open
aast off R obin o Ho od is question in The LLast Robin Hood how much Beverly’s Beveerly’s mother m connived connived in the affair affair.. n) w as a Flo (Susan Sarando Sarandon) was st age-mother, a danc err whose stage-mother, dancer ccareer areer ended after a dr runken auto drunken ac cident; Sarandon, he er big eeyes yes accident; her magnified b at’s- eye sp ecs, pla ayys byy ccat’s-eye specs, plays a half f-bright, -bright shr ewd p erson who half-bright, shrewd person w anted her daughter to go to the big wanted ough time ’t thou ght thr time,, but hadn hadn’t thought through p ossible cconsequences. onsequencess. Flo ne ver possible never ccomes omes off as completely completeely ridiculous ridiculous.. In a par ticularly go od sc ene, Flynn, particularly good scene, listening to the sad sto ory of her story lif fe, shows clouded, di plomatic life, diplomatic ssympathy—fuzzy ympath hy—fuzzy fr om m drink, he ’s from he’s p osed. “Be a go od liste ener,” Flo tells posed. good listener, Be verly when she sa ayyss she ’s going out Beverly says she’s ffor or the o h “audition”; “ di i ”; “audition ” Fly Fl ynn is i a go od Flynn good listener in that barb ed d sense of the barbed term. oden leg, leg, and so do es Flo has a wo wooden does this mo vie. Some where along the line movie. Somewhere Glat zer and W eestmoreland e en nvisioned v Glatzer Westmoreland envisioned this as a L olita stor y, on n the gr ounds Lolita story, grounds anley K ubrick (p plaayeed her that St Stanley Kubrick (played heree b byy
Casella) had thought of casting casting Max Casella) y as Humbert H Humb ert Humbert. Humbert. The Last Last Flynn Roobin Ho od is mor ke K ubrick’s of Robin Hood moree lik like Kubrick’s film-to-be, and less lik ke the no veel film-to-be, like novel n. (K ubrick do esn’t w ant in question question. (Kubrick doesn’t want to ccast ast Aad dland: “She ’s to o old ffor or o Aadland: “She’s too part,” he h says, saayys, sensibly.) sensiblyy..) Showy the part, reffer e ences persist—Flynn persistt— —Flynn calling calling references Beveerly “Light “Light of my my life, liffe, fire fire of my my Beverly party, for fo or instance. instance. For For loins” at a party, reaso on Beverly Beverly doesn’t doesn’t mind some reason even though she finds Flynn’s Flynn’s that, even Shak keespeaare quotes ccorny. orn ny. Shakespeare Last of R oobin Ho od is The Last Robin Hood by ccopyrights opyrights and straightjaccketed by straightjacketed a low budg get. Flynn ’s work ccan’t an’t budget. Flynn’s be discusse ed eexcept xxcept in terms of the be discussed public-dom main her o of Sher wood public-domain hero Sherwood Forest; thee film is stitched together together Forest; tablo oid front front pages and bum with tabloid li, you’re you’re a lawyer…” laaw wyer…” Flynn lines: “Bell “Belli, Melviin Belli. Over-narration tells Melvin Overr-narration feeeling, though fleshes outt what Flo is feeling, waas, the more more the vaguerr that was, interestingg the film was. was. Pity Pitty then interesting theey couldn’t couldn’t contrast contrast the Flynn/ Flynn n/ that they romanc o e with 1958’s 1958’s hit, Gigi, Aadland romance sttory of a girlish ingénue with the story ingénue,, a charming older man, and the kind of th hey used to ccall all a pr ocuress. woman they procuress. With i Ch hristine V achon a as With Christine Vachon producer and a T odd Ha ayynes as producer Todd Haynes exec pr odu ucer, this mo vie honors exec producer, movie melodram ma as a metho d ffor or o melodrama method broadenin ng minds ab out fforbidden orbidden o broadening about love. Somee would pr effer e Flynn love. prefer presented as slim ey, though presented slimyy and rap rapey, Aadland ne n ver ac cused Flynn of never accused er life. liffe. She told P eeople ruining he her People magazine “I think I st arted out b eing started being ayythin ng, but in 24 hours I no a pla plaything, as…If he wer daay, I longer w was…If weree aliv alivee to today, be with him. “ would stil stilll be as the glimmer of the rreal eal Kline ha has Flynn; he arranges himself lik likee an star, favoring faavoring his profile, profile, old time star, sitting with witth the sunlight behind behind him, sitting restrainingg his wattles wattttles with an ascot. ascot. restraining tained Those old enough to b bee enter entertained by Flynn in i a sswashbuckler waashbuckler ma ay by may feel e Kline honors the memor y. The feel memory. Dak kota Fanning is p earl-pink, 20ish Dakota pearl-pink, very pale ou ccould ould ccall all very pale,, with what yyou a blonde Bet B tie P age cut; she has a Bettie Page cool, laz h f-smile that softens this cool, lazyy half half-smile movie’s rough rough o patches. movie’s patches.
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New N ew Three days of parties and fi Three film lm by the Center for for Asian-American Asian-Americcan Francisco. Media in San Fr ancisco. It documentary commences with a docume ntary rregarding egarding the late activist Yuri Yuri KKochiyama. ochiyama. September 4, screening sccreening at the Japanese American Museum: M YYuri uuri KKochiyama: oochiyama:: A P Passion assion for for o Justice (1994) profiles profiles a life-long life-long seeker of equal rights ffor or all all American minorities; interned interned in Jerome, Jerome, Arkansas during the war, war, she moved to Harlem and a became involved in the Civill Rights movement. Malcolm X died in her arms; she sought rreparations eparationns for for Japanese-Americans impris imprisoned soned in concentration concentration camps. A launch laaunch party ffollows ollows at Nomikai. Meet M the Patels Paatels Geeta is a filmmaker; filmmaaker; actor,, and in this comic Ravi is an actor documentary the LLos os AngelesAngelesbased siblings seek a wife wife for for arranged Ravi who considers an ar Ravi, ranged marriage mar riage (Sep 5 at 7pm). After After party at the San Jose Museum of Art. September 6: SStories tories from from Tohoku Toohoku recalls recalls the Japanese tsunami, tsunam mi, with a foreign foreign delegation touring toouring the damage—the delegation delegatioon includes the South Bay’s own ow wn Kristi Yamaguchi (12:30pm).. Thien Yamaguchi a Do’s Do’s set in Vietnam Funny Money M (2013) follows follows the adventures adventures of some bogus currency currency intended intendded for for a funeral funeral (2:30pm). Peter Peter Chan’s Chhan’s American Dr Dreams eams in China is i the story of a startup that burnt burnt out: Chinese students try to start starrt a English language academy and end up getting hit by a copyright copyyright infringement suit. Based onn a true story. story. A Awesome wesome Asian Asian Bad Guys G (8:30) is a rreprise eprise scr screening eeningg of the Dypiangco/Patrick SStephen tephen Dypiangco/P atrickk Epino typecast comedy about a trio of type ecast actors in the bag labeled ““Asian Asian villain”; their villain ”; they unite, using the eir powers ffor or good. After partyy at CCafé afé SStritch, tritch 10pm. tritch, 10pm September 7: Br Brahmin ahmin Bulls Roshan Seth and Maryy SSteenbergen teenbergen star in a story of an estranged estr anged son mending ffences ences with his ffather. ather. (2:30pm) CCambodianSon aamboddianSon A profile profile of American-Cambodian American-Cambbodian poet and “criminal Khosal “criminal alien” alien” Kh hosal Kiev, Kievv, deported to a Phnom Penh Penh he never knew. knew. (4:45pm) 27 27.C 7.C LLoaf oaf Rocks Rocks TTaiwanese aaiwanese baker TTaiwanese aaiw wanese Wu Pao-chun baker W uP ao-chun won thee Bakery World Paris W orld CCup up in P aris in 2010, and a this is the biopic that explains how h he did it. it (Plays Sep 44-7 -7 in San Jose J in various locations in San Jose. caamedia.org/caamfest-san-jose.) caamedia.org/caamffeest-saan-jose.) (RvB)
THE IDENTICAL (PG; 107 min.) Inspir Inspired ed by Elvis Ellvis Pr esley’s story (particularly the ffact act Presley’s brother that his twin br other died aatt birth),
THE NO NOTEBOOK TEBOOK (R; 112 min.) Taken Taaken to thee countryside to keep them safee m saf from twin brothers fr om air raids, raids, young twi in br others can’t can ’t escape the mental anguish of World War abuse W orld W ar II—or the ab use of their grandmother. alcoholic gr andmother. (Opens ( Fri.)
Revivals R Re vivals l ANDY HARD ANDY HARDY Y GET GETSS SPR SPRING RING FEVER/EVERYBODY FE VER/EVER RY YBODY SING SING (1939/1938) The rrascal ascal (Mickey ( drama Rooney) has a passion ffor o his dr or ama teacher (Helen Gilbert.) BILLED B WITH W ITH Everybody Sing. Sc Scenes cenes fr from om the class struggle on Br Broadway: a o oadway: family family of stage legends (Reginald ( Owen, Billie Burke) are are shocked shocked to discover their servants servants (Allan ((A Allan Jones, Fanny Brice) are are planning planninng to put on a musical revue revue with thee connivance of the stage legends' da daughter, ughter, Judy Garland. (Plays Sep 88-99 in P Palo alo Al Alto to at the Stanford Stanffoord Theatre.) Theatre.)) (RvB)
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(1956) David Niven ass Phileas Fogg, Englishman the phlegmatic Englis shman who wagers to circle circle the globe g in under three thr ee months. Mexican Mexicaan cinema's ffavorite avorite comedian CCantinflas a antinflas plays Passepartout, Passepartout, and a the trusty character Robert char acter actor Robe rt Newton— taught pirates he's the actor who ta aught pir ates to say "harr-r-r-r"—plays "harr-r-r-r"—plaays the dogged detective but misguided detect tive Fix. Shirley first on-screen MacLaine has her firs st on-scr een princess lines as an Indian pri ncess rrescued escued from Very eryy longg but a genuine fr om sutee. V g widescreen spectacle, particularlyy in widescr een TTodd-AO, oodd-AO, and the cast casst has a rrecord ecord celebrated number of celebr atedd cameos, invaluable making it an invaluab ble wild card card in a game of “Six Degrees Deggrees of Kevin Kevin Bacon.” S.J. S.J. Perelman Perelmann got the coscreenwriting Oscar,, an awardd he scr eenwriting Oscar a awar didn't deign to pick up u in person. (Plays Sep 66-77 in P Palo aloo Al Alto to at the Stanford Stanffoord Theatre.) Theatre.) (Rv (RvB) vB)
EEVE’S VE’S LEA LEAVES AV VES (1926) Gender-bende Gender-bender er about a Joy) cabin boy (Leatrice Jo oy) who isn’t looks, isn ’t as boyish as shee look s, thus passenger confusing a passenge er (William Cecil “Hopalong CCassidy” assidy” Boyd); B produced B. DeMille pr oduced this t rrecently ecently
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preserved comedy. pr eserved comedy y. Dennis James Wurlitzer. at the SStanford’s tanford’s W urlitzer. (Plays Sep 10 in P Palo Alto alo Al to at the Stanford Stanford Theatre.) Theatre.) (RvB)
THE SPIDER W WOMAN/CHARLIE OM MAN/CHARLIE SHANGHAI CHAN IN SHANGH HAI (1944/1935) Anot Another her hoursomething-long B-movie, B with influential, rich wi ith detail and suspense, by producer/director prodducer/director Roy William Neill. And another argument making or mak ar gument ffor king Neill an auteur—the vulgar vulgar kind, at the very least. “The Pajama Pajamaa Murders” Murders ” are are scandalizing LLondon. onddon. Some seven wealthy weal thy victims have haave committed locked-room motiveless, locked d-room suicides. Holmes? And where where is Holm mes? Dead in a fishing accident in Scotland… bluffer Once again the bl uffer has faked faked “Sherlock his demise. “Sherl ock ‘Olmes, no, ain’t cries disinterested he ain ’t dead,” crie es a disinter ested vendorr who has had to newspaper vendo sell this headline once too often. Posing P osing as a Sikh called c Rajni Singh, Rathbone) Holmes (Basil Rat hbone) baits a “female possible culprit, a sleek “f emale Sondregaard, Moriarty” (Gale So ondregaard, a
moree malign ve version mor ersion of Gloria Holmes SSwanson). wanson). Hol lmes and his bearof-little-brain of-little-br ain housemate (Nigel enduree death tr traps Bruce) endur aps later ripped off in Dr Dr.r. No and the 1966 D season of Batm Batman man—the gratifying gratifying mystery also includes inncludes mutilated baby dolls, poison poisson gas, and a LLycoso ycoso CCarnivora arnivor a a spide spider er from from the Obongo River. River. Noel Coward-worthy Cow ward-worthy chat in the interim: asking asking a scientist about said spider, spider, Holmes Holmes says, “Tell “TTell e me something of its its manners and its morals.” morals.” BILLED BILLED WITH WITH Charlie Chan in Shanghai. Before Beefore he’s he’s left the boat, Chan (W (Warner a arner Oland) rreceives eceives an anonymouss note: “Shanghai is an unhealthy for unhealthy place p for you.” It turns out to be unhealthier unheealthier for for the opium smugglers hun hunting nting the American detective. (Play (Plays ys Sep 44-5 -5 in Palo Palo Alto Alto at the Stanford Staanford Theatre.) Theatre.) (RvB)
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AROUND THE W AROUND WORLD ORLLD DAYS IN EIGHTY D AYS
this film ffollows ollows the stor stories ries of twin brothers separated birth, br others separ ated at bi rth, one of whom becomes a rrock ock sstar tar and the other,, who struggles to balance other b his love of music with ffollowing ollow wing a path that pleases his ffather. ather. (Opens ( Fri.)
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Rockabilly Road Warriors ‘‘WORKING WOR KING MU MUSICIANS’ SICI A NS’ The secret to Th The he Chop T Tops’ ops’ success is a good good, d, old-fashioned American wor work rk ethic.
The Chop C T Tops ops hav o have ve been keeping g pedal metal the pe edal to the met tal for 20 years BY B Y NICK V VERONIN VERONIN
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OO ONE NE in The Chop Tops T o op ps has a day jjob. ob. It’ss been that w way It’ ay for the e Santa Cruz-based “revved-up rockabilly” outfit sometime since some etime in 2007. But though even thoug gh they’ve been doing little e else besides playing and writing g music for the better half of a decade, you ’ll you’ll never hear Gary “Sinner” Marsh, the band’ band’ss sole founding member m r, describe member, himself—o or anyone else in The himself—or Chop T o ops— —as “rock stars .” Tops—as stars.”
Rock R ock st stars, ars, Sinner eexplains, xplains, ar aree flown around flo own ar ound the ccountry, ountr y, or elsee dr riven in cush ter buses nd driven cushyy char charter buses,, an and are otherwise “pampered ar re other wise “pamp ered out of the gate.” ga ate.” musician’’ is how I ““‘Working ‘W Wo orking musician like lik ke to sayy it,”” Sinner ccontinues. ontinues. “It’s “I It’s a serious living. living. It’s It’s not ffor o or the t squeamish.” sq queamish.” Ever sincee the singer and Ev er sinc drummer took group pro, they dr rummer to ok his gr oup pr o, the ey haven’t up—even they’ve y’ve llost ha avven’t let up — even as the ost members new ones. m memb b ers and d ttaken ak ken on ne w ones s. The Tops’ tour,, Th he Chop T o ops’ upcoming upcoming tour Friday w which kicks off this Frida ay at Thee Blank Club,, will hit 2 255 st states Bl lank Club ates in around days. ar round 40 da ayys. Sinner estimatess the th he band will play plaay just shy shy of 40 gigs done.. w when all is said and done That’s third That ’s rroughly oughly a thir d of the
numb er of shows the number they ey pla play ay on a says, light yyear, ear, Sinner say yss, eexplaining xplaining Tops keep ops k that The Chop T eep up a rigorous between rigor ous schedule of b etween 150 200 and 20 0 shows a yyear. earr. “If you’ve you’ve momentum, whyy built up the moment tum, wh throw thr ow it aaway?” wayy? y?” Sinner’ss work ethicc ccertainly Sinner’ ertainly jibes aesthetic jib es well with the ae sthetic he has worked the de-facto work ed to curate as th he de -facto started leader of the band hee st arted 20 ago.. W With well-groomed yyears ears ago iith their well-gr oomed pompadours, cuffed boots, p ompadours, cuff ffeed jjeans eans and b oots, affinityy ffor and affinit or o hot rrods, ods, The Chop Tops T ops radiate a tough, individualist, o working-class American vibe. workingclass Americ can vib e. may whyy The Which ma ay eexplain xplain n wh Tops Ch T Chop o ops and d other h rrockabilly ock kabilly bill and d psychobilly have ps ychobilly acts ha ave cconsistently onsistently done well in San JJose. ose. band’ss guit guitarist, Shelbyy The band’ arist, Shelb Legnon, says isn’t L egnon, sa ayys he isn ’t sur ssuree eexactly xactly kept scene what has k ept the rrockabilly o ck c abilly sc ene strong so str ong in San JJose, ose, eeven ven as other Bay Area scenes have gravitated Ba ay Ar ea sc enes ha ave gra avvitated
toward other sounds.. tow ard oth her sounds “Growing “Gr owin ngg up p in San JJose, ose, I would have never theree would ha ave ne verr guessed ther have been scene ha ave b een n a big rrockabilly ockabilly sc ene there,” Legnon says. However, ther e,” L eggnon sa ayys. Howe ver, he Rockabilly is cconvinced onvinced e one eexists. xists. R ockabilly psychobilly have always drawn and ps ychobilly ha ave alw ayys dra aw wn crowds, notes.. ““And sizeable cr rowds, he notes A And it over day.” still ccarries arries o ver to this da ay.” newest The ne w addition to The Chop west Tops, upright T ops, upri ght bassist JJosh osh Liem, has theory. because a theor y. “Ma ““Maybe ayb y eb ecause San JJose ose always been pretty has alw ayyss b een p pr etty deep p rrooted o oted scene,” in the ccar ar club and ccar ar show sc ene,” says, he sa ayys, rrecalling ecalling stories his dad and dad’ss friends about his dad’ fr used to tell ab out the streets cruising th he str eets of San JJose ose in their hot rrods. ods. speculates He sp ecculates that eeven ven as vibee in the vib n San JJose ose has shifted from Valley Heart’s fr om The V alle a y of the Hear t’s Silicon Valley, Delight to o Silic on V aalley, much of Americana that Amer ricana pastoralism and culture—and byy eextension, ccar ar cultur e—and and b xtension, rrockabilly—has ockabilly—has rremained emained dear to manyy in th the area. man he ar ea. Off ccourse, may bee so O ourse, it ma ay not b ccomplex omplex as a all of that. After all, The Tops have been playing Chop T ops ha ave b een pla ayying San decades have JJose ose ffor o or ttwo w dec wo ades and ha ave built well-deserved a welldeseerved ffollowing. ollowing. o “We’ve played “W We’ve pla ayed The Blank Club sincee it w was Fuel sinc a a club ccalled as alled F uel 44 mid-’90s,” says. 4 4 in the mid-’9 m 0s,” Sinner sa ays y. he’s And cconsidering onsiidering he ’s modeled modeled his rroutines outines on o rrockabilly ockabilly and early giants likee Hank W Williams ccountry ountr y gi iants lik illiams i Elvis,, it it’s little and Elvis ’s lit tle wonder The Tops have picked Chop T ops ha ave pick ed up a ffew ew way. fans alongg the w ay. bee rreally “Their craft c had to b eally good,” Sinner says idols.. “It go od,”” Sin ner sa ayys of his idols wasn’t pyro w asn’t a huge h p yro and tech show to distractt yyou. ou. It was was all about about the music.” music .” day, it’s And at the end of the da And, ay, it ’s the keeps Tops music thatt k eeps The Chop T o ops grinding aaway way at their grueling schedule new touring sc chedule and writing ne w music.. music always been me,” “Music has alw ayys b een with me ,” says. love love playing Sinner sa ayys. “I lo ve it. I lo ve pla ayying We’ve been it. W e’ve b een rreally eally blessed and weirdo rreally eally ffortunate o ortunate that our weir do this ttake ake on th his rroots-based oots-based music has stuck.”” stuck.
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BLACKBIRD BLA CKBIRD T TAVERN AV VERN Sat, Sep 6, 8pm: Sour Mash Hug Band. San Jose.
THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, Sep 3, 8pm: The Dave Wed, Sepp Baisa Acoustic Acoustic Bash. Fri, Se 5, 8pm: The Chop TTops. oops. $10. Faction. Sat, Sep 6, 8pm: The Faction n. San Jose.
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Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music. Every TTue, uue, 7pm: TTuesday uuesday Bluesday w/ live Blues music. Fri, Sep 5, 7:30pm: TTinman. inman. Sat, Sep 6, 2am: Houserockers. Houser ockers. LLos os Gatos.
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C&J’S SPOR SPORTS TS B BAR AR EEvery Thu, Th 10pm: 10 KKaraoke. araoke. k Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ.. Santa Clara. DJ Clara.
NUMBER ONE BR BROADWAY OADWAY Every Wed: Wed: Musician’s Musician’s Jam. Wed, W ed, Sep 3, 9pm: JJ.C. .C. Smith Jam. Fri, Sep 5, 9:30pm: TTony ony o “Spang-A-Lindsay Band - “Spang-A Lang.” Sat, Sep 6, 9:30pm: D t h Uncle. Dutch U l LLos os Gatos. G t
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CITY NA NATIONAL AT TIONAL CIVIC Wed, Sep 10, 7:30pm: Hell Wed, Hath No Fury Like a Woman Woman Scorned. $49.50. San Jose.
Fri, Sep 5: Red Rock Residency - Zen Zenith. Atlas. Sat, Sep 6, 8pm: TTim im A tlas. View.. Mountain View
SAN PEDR SAN PEDRO O SQU SQUARE ARE MARKET Fri, Sep 5, 7pm: Times Times 4 Band. San Jose.
SHERWOOD SHER WOOD INN Wed: W ed: Live music. San Jose.
SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE AMPHITHEA AT TRE Sat,, Sep 6,, 7pm:: KKeith eith Urban Raise View. ‘Em Up TTour. oour. Mountain View w.
CLUB CL UB FFOX OX Every W Wed, ed 8pm: Club Fox ed, Blues Jam. $5. Every Fri, 8pm: Salsa Spot. $15. Sat, Sep 6, 7pm: An Evening with Abel Prophets. & The Pr ophets. $25-$30. Redwood City. City.
SONOMA CHICKEN CCOOP OOP DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Thu,, 7pm-10pm: 7pm--110pm:: Fr Fred ed McC McCarty. artyy. Fri, 8pm-11:30pm: 8pm-111:30pm:: Joint Chiefs Band. 8pm-11:30pm: Sat,, 8pm-111:30pm:: CCadillac adillac a Jack.
BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Every Fri & Sat, 10pm: Live music including The Spazmatics, Superbad, 10 Peelers more. TIL 2, 2 The P eelers and mor e e. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS BRITANNIA DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Every W Wed: ed: DJ 512. Every Th Thu: u: Neeber.. Every Fri: DJ Nico & Neeber Clay.. Every DJ Benofficial & Clay Jose. Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jos se.
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JOHNNY V’S Every W Wed: ed:: Geology w/ Benny Medicina, Rock & Roll KKaraoke. araoke. Thu: TTraffic raffic w/ House Music. Friday: Shallow CCuts, uts, The Runs, Sorority, The Sor orityy, Nasty Christmas. Sat:: The TTrims, rims, r Kiwi Time, Time, The Hundred Hundr ed Days.. Every Sun: Sundaze w/ DJ $pen Money and Bartender Heidi.
Every W Wed, ed, 9pm: W Wax ax Wednesdays. 7pm: W ednesdays. Every Sun, 7pm m: The Eulipions p Jazz Jam. Fri,, Orenda Sep 26, 8pm: Or enda Fink Azuree Ray Ray, of Azur y, SStarover tarover Blue.. San Jose.
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Fri, Sep 5, 6pm: Havana Night Project. ft. Mission Varrio Varrio Pr oject. Saratoga. $20-$25. Sar atoga.
THREE DE DEGREES GREES Every Thu 6:30-9:30pm 6:30-9:30pm & Fri, 7:30-10:30pm: 7:3010:30pm: Live music. All Ages. Free. Free. Los Los Gatos
THE X B BAR AR Every Thu: No Cover night. Saturday Every Sat: Satur day Nite Live Show.. CCupertino. upertino. Music Show
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JJazz/Blues/ /Bl / World W orld o ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Thu,, Sep 4,, 7:30pm: Will Russ Jr Jr.. Force & The For ce of Will Band.. $10.
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Every W Wed, ed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, Sep 4, 6pm: Varela Sammy V arela Band. Fri, Sep 5, 6pm: “Guitar Get Down.” Sat, Sep 6, 10am: 2nd Annual Backyard Party. Lil’ Easy Back yard P arty. Sun, Sep 77,, 3pm: PHB Employee Appreciation Appr eciation Dance Party. Partyy. Mon, Sep 8, 5pm: King Amps Beginners Blues Jam.
Every Wed, Wed, 8pm:: Club Fox Blues Jam.. $5.. Every Fri, 8pm: Salsa Spot. $15. Sat,, Sep 6, 7pm:: An Evening with Abel Prophets. & The Pr ophets. $25-$30. City. Redwood City y.
CASCAL CA SCAL Every Sat, 9pm-midnight: Group. Every James Robinson Gr oup. Eve ery Sun, 1-4pm: TTans ans a Gauntlett,, Flamenco Guitar Soloist. View.. Mountain View
CHARLEY'S CHARLE Y'S LLGG Every Mon:: Jazz Jam.. LLos os Gat Gatos. os.
DA D A KINE CAFE Thu, Sep 4, 6pm: Geor George ge Klingelhofer. 6pm: Klingelhof er. Fri, Sep 5, 6pm m: Kristina Sablan. Sablan Sunnyvale. Sunnyvale
SSAM'S AM'S BBQ Wed, Sep 3, 6pm: Sidesaddle Wed, & Co. TTue, uue, Sep 9, 6pm: CCarolina arolina Special. Wed, Wed, Sep 10, Hollow.. San Jose. 6pm: Dark Hollow
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LITTLE LLOU’S OU’S BBQ Wed, Sep 3, 7pm:: Mr Wed, Mr.. P Patrick atrick T. T. McCauley. McC auleyy. Every Thu,, 7:30pm:: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri, Sep 5, Greene 8pm:: Alastair Gr eene Band.. Sat, Sat, Sep 6, 8pm:: Macy Blackman & Wright. 7pm: Nancyy W right. g Mon,, Sepp 8,, 7p pm: A Night with Chris CCain. ain. TTue, uue,, Sep S 9, 7pm:: Songwriters Showcas Showcase. se. Wed, Songwriters W ed, Sep 10, 7pm:: Songwriter rs Showcase.. CCampbell. ampbell.
SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Sep 5, 9pm: TTebo ebo e Sings Howlin Wolf. Wolf. Sat, Sep 6, 9pm: Burnin’’ V Vernon Burnin ernon Davis and Fremont. Aftermath. Fr emont.
SST. T. SSTEPHENS TEPHENS GREEN EEvery Thu, Th 10:30pm: 10 30 R Reggae Thursdays. Every Tue, Tuue, 7:30pm: Irish music. Fri-Sat, Sep 5-6, 11/10pm:: DJ TTony. oony. View.. Mountain View
TRAIL DUS DUST T BBQ Fri, 6-9pm: 6-9pm: Live blues, rroots oots Morgan and Americana. Mor gan Hill.
UNWINED LLOFT OFT B BAR AR AND BIS BISTRO TRO Every Thu: Live jazz in the evening. San Jose.
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Every W Wed ed and Sat, 5pm: 4pm: Belly dancing. Every TTue, uue, 4p pm: Live Jazz Music w/ Johnny View.. Williams. Mountain View
MOSAIC MOS AIC Fri-Sat, 6-9pm: 6-9pm: Jazz for for dinner.. San Jose. dinner
NUMBER ONE BR BROADWAY OADWAY Every Wed: Wed: Musician’s Musician’s Jam.. Wed, W ed, Sep 3, 9pm: JJ.C. .C. Smith Jam. Fri, Sep 5, 9:30pm: TTony on ony “Spang-A-Lindsay Band - “Spang-A
Thu:: Country music. Los Los Gatos.
MISSION MIS SION PIZZA Thu,, Sep 4,, 7pm: Mill Creek Creek Ramblers.. Fri, Sep 5, 7pm: Cimarron Cimar ron Rose Band. Sat,, Sep 6,, 7pm: Mill Creek Creek Ramblers. Fremont. Fr emont.
RED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE Fri, Sep 5:: Red Rock Residency - Zen Zenith. Zenith Sat, Sat, Sep 6, 6, 8pm: TTim im Atlas. Atlas. Mountain View. View.
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Every 1st and 3rd 3rd W Wed: ed: Jazzz Jam. San Jose.
HAPPY HOUR All night $5 Craft Beer $6 House Wine $6 W Well ell Cocktails $7 Martinis $7 Bites
Showcase. Every Sat: Live Featured Show.. Every Sun: Featur ed Show Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga. Saratoga.
Sun,, Sep 77, 7pm:: Mike Galisatu Galisatuss $12-$17. Big Band.. $12 -$177. Redwood City CCity. y. Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase. Every Sat: Live Featured Show.. Every Sun: Featur ed Show Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.. Saratogaa..
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Every 2nd and 4th Thu,, 7-9pm: 7-9pm: Balistreri. Don Balistr eri. Every Sat, 77-9:30pm: -9:30pm:: Live jazz. jazz Every 3rdd Sat, 9pm:: Randy 1st and 3r Whiting and “@Jazz.”” San Jose.
THE W WOODSHED OODSHED Every 1st and 3r 3rdd Wed, Wed, 7pm: Blues Jam with Johnny CCat. at. Sun, Sep 77,, 7:30pm: Doug Acoustic YYoung’s ooung’s A coustic Guitar Night. $10. LLos os Gatos.
C&W/Folk C&W W/F /Foolk ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BISTRO BISTRO Wed, Sep 3, 7pm: Whiskey Wed, Pass. Wed, P ass. $6-$12. W ed, Sep 10, 7:30pm: Philip Claypool & guest Jimmy Dillon. $21-$26. City.. Redwood City
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Every Wed, Wed, 7:30pm:: Country Dance Lessons.. Every Thu, 7:30: Att The Rack Dance SSwingin’ wingin’ A Lessons.. Every Fri, 9pm:: Diablo Road.. Every Sat, 9pm: Wild At At Heart, Diablo Road.. Fremont. Fremont.
SSAM’S AM’S BBQ Wed, Sep 3, 6pm: Sidesaddle Wed, & Co. Tue, Tuue, Sep 9, 6pm: CCarolina arolina Special. Wed, Wed, Sep 10, 6pm: Dark Hollow. Hollow. San Jose.
THE W WOODSHED OODSHED Sun,, Sep 7,7, 7:30:: Doug Young’s Young’s o Acoustic A coustic Guitar Night.. Los Los Gatos.
Open p Mic/ d CComedy omedy ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’SS BISTRO BISTRO TTue, uue, 7pm: Open Mic hosted by Pete City.. P ete Sommer. Sommer. Redwood City
AGAVE A GAVE TTue, uue, 7pm: Melanie Bega Comedy Showcase. San Jose.
BAMBOO B AMBOO LOUNGE LOUNGE Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic ffor or singer/songwriters. Sign Free. up at 7pm. Fr ee. San Jose.
BLUE BLUE ROCK ROCK SHOO SHOOT T Thu, 7pm: Th 7 M i l open mic. Musical i San Jose.
CAFFE FRASCATI FRASCA AT TI TTue, uue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.
CAMERA 3 Fri, 9pm,, Sat, 7pm and 9:15pm: Sportz. Comedy Sport z. San Jose.
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Wed, W ed, 9pm: Comedy CCaravan. aravan.
Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KKOR OR KKaraoke. araoke. View.. Mountain View
CITY EESPRESSO SPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose..
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Wed, 8pm: American Me Wed, Comedy, Comedy y, $15. Thu, 8pm: Full Throttle Comedy, Fri-Sun, Thr ottle Comedy y, $15. Fri-Sun n, various times: Orny Adams, $17. $17 7. San Jose.
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Mon: Comedy Comedy.. No cover cover.. Sunnyvale.
Wed, W ed, 7pm: KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell. Thu: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.
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OASIS O ASIS Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Wed Doug. Sunnyvale.
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Wed, 8pm:: New Talent Wed, Taalent Showcase. $10. Thu-Sat,, Sep 44-6, -6, 8pm: Iliza Shlesinger. Shlesinger. $10.. Sun, Sep 77,, 8pm: Joe Klocek. $13. w/ two-item minimum per person. person Sunnyvale. Sunnyvale
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AZÚCAR LA LATIN ATIN T B BAR AR Thu, 9pm: DJ party party.. Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am: DJs, 9pm2am: Live music & DJs s, more. salsa, house, hip-hop & mo re. Mon: Salsa. San Jose.
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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #594954 #594 954 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing d business as: San Jo Jose ose Nephrology, Nephr ology, 2 2360 360 McKee McK ee R Road, oad, Suitee 110, 0, San Jose, CA, CA, 95116, 95116, San Jose Nephr Nephrology ology Medical Practice. Practice. This business is conducted by by a Corporation. Corpor raation. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the statee of California Registrant R egistrraant began transacting tr ransacting a busine business ess under the fictitiouss business name or names listed her herein ein on 8/1/2014. 8/1/2014. /s/Maggie Chen, M MD D MD, M D, CEO
President President #3686359 #3686 359 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 8/20/201 8/20/2014. 4. (pub Metr Metroo 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/0 9/03, 3, 9/10, 9/1 0, 9/1 9/17/2014) 7/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595284 The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: Neal Flynn V Voice oice o Overs, O Ov ers, 5093 5093 Tiberan Tiber ib ran a Way, W aay, San Jose, CCA, A, 95130, 9 5130, Neal Flynn. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant has not Registrant yyet et begun tr ansacting transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. herein. /s/Neal Flynn This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 8/1 3/2014. 4 8/13/2014. (pub Metr 7, 9/0 3, Metroo 8/2 8/27, 9/03, 9/1 0, 9/1 7/2014) 9/10, 9/17/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595606
This statement wa wass filed with the Coun County nty Clerk of Santa Clar Clara raa County on 8/05/2 8/05/20149. 0149. (pub Metr Metro ro 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/0 9 9/03, 3, 9/10, 9/1 9/ 0,, 9/1 9/ 9/17/2014) 7/2014) 7/
The following following person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: M MLS LS Ser Services, vices, 1640 1640 Rucker R ucker Ave., Ave., Gilroy, Gilroy, CCA, A, 95020, 95020, Matthew Lawrence Lawr ence Skaggs. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant has not yyet et begun tr transacting ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. her ein. /s/Matt Skaggs This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 8/20/2014. 8/20/2014. (pub Metr Metroo 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/0 9/03, 3, 9/10, 9/1 0, 9/1 9/17/2014) 7/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #595597
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #594823
The follo following wing pers person(s) on(s) is (ar (are) e) doing busin business ness as: 3355 King of San Jose, 5541 41 W West est Julian, Sa San an Jose, CA, CA, 95110, 95110, San Saan Collective. Jose #1 Collectiv e. This business is conducted by by a lim limited mited company. liabilityy company p y. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the statee of California Registrant R egistrraant has not yyet et begun tr transacting ansactting business under thee fictitious business name or names list listed ted herein. her ein. /s/Marcus /s/Mar cus Sosa
The following following person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: Diamond TTransportation, ransportation, 11346 346 The Alameda, Suite 77-204, -204, San Jose, CCA, A, 95126, 9 5126, Diamond Car Detail Inc. This business is conducted by by a corpor ation. corporation. The abo ve entity was above formed in the state of California R egistrant has not Registrant yyet et begun tr ansacting transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed
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heerein. herein. /s/Bonnie /s /Bonnie K Kallel allel Vice V icce President President C3426135 C3 3426135 This Th his statement was filed file ed with the County Clerk Cle erk of Santa Clar Claraa County Co ounty on 7/31/201 7/31/2014. 4. (pub (p ub Metr Metroo 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/0 9/03, 3, 9/10, 9/ /10, 9/1 9/17/2014) 7/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #595438 # 595438 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) i (ar is ((are) e)) doing d i business b i as: as s: Sparkle Accents, 2888 2 8 Riedel Ct., San 888 Jose, Jos se, CA, CA, 95135, 95135, Lupe Lupe PPereida-Wojcik, e eida-W er Wojcik, Carmen PPereida, e eida, 3099 Linkfield er Way, W aay, San Jose, CCA, A, 95135. 9 5135. This Th his business is conducted by by copartners. co opartners. Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names herein na ames listed her ein on 8/15/14. 8/ /15/14. /s/Lupe /s /Lupe PPereida-Wojcik ereida-W Wojcik o This Th his statement was filed file ed with the County Clerk Claraa Cle erk of Santa Clar County 8/15/2014. Co ounty on 8/1 5/2014. (pub Metroo 8/2 8/27, 9/03, (p ub Metr 7, 9/0 3, 9/10, 9/17/2014) 9/ /10, 9/1 7/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #595578 # 595578 The Th he following following person(s) pe erson(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business bu usiness as: Gelateria Bella Be ella Roma, Roma, 119479 9479 Rosemarie R o osemarie Pl, #3 #3,, Cupertino, Cu upertino, CA, CA, 95014, 95014, DOABA, DO OABA, LL LLC. C. This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a limited liability lia ability company company. y. Above Ab bove entity was formed for rmed in the state of California. Ca alifornia. Registrant R e ant has not egistr yyet e begun tr et transacting ansacting business bu usiness under the fictitious fic ctitious business name na ame or names listed herein. he erein. /s/Satnam /s /Satnam Bola Manager Ma anager #201421310171 #2 201421310171 This Th his statement was filed file ed with the County Clerk Cle erk of Santa Clar Claraa County Co ounty on 8/1 8/19/2014. 9/2014. (pub (p ub Metr Metroo 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/0 9/03, 3, 9/10, 9/ /10, 9/1 9/17/2014) 7/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #595386 # 595386 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) is (ar e) doing business (are) as s: 1. Innovative Innovative Cost as: Ma anagement Ser vice, Management Service, Inc c., 2. Inno vative Cost Inc., Innovative Ma anagement Insur ance Management Insurance Se ervices, Inc, 33.. ICMS, 2 Services,
N Market S St., t., #4 #420, 20 0, San Jose, CA, CA, 95113. 95113. This business is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ation. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the statee of California Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting busine business ess under the fictitiouss business name or names listed her herein eiin on July 11986. 986. Refile R efile of pr previous evious file fi #450319 #4 50319 with chan changes. nges. /s/Michael PP.. Finne Finnerty erty PPresident/CEO resident/CEO #1535634 #1 535634 This statement wa was as filed with the Coun County nty Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra County on 8/1 8/15/2014. 5/20 014. (pub Metr Metro ro 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/0 9 9/03, 3, 9/10, 9/1 0, 9/1 9/17/2014) 7/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #595408 The follo following wing pers person(s) son(s) is (ar (are) e) doing busin business ness as: Euro Eurro G Garage, arage, 2 2068 068 Winchester W inchester Blv Blvd., d., San S Jose, CA, CA, 95008, 95008, A Ajdin jdin j Krajnic, Kr rajnic, a 966 Zarickk Dr Dr., r.., San Jose, CA, CA, 95129. 95129 2. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting busine business ess under the fictitiouss business name or names listed her herein eiin on 8/15/14. 8/1 5/14. Refile R efile of pr previous evious file fi #594990 #59 4990 with changes. chaanges. /s/Ajdin /s/A jdin Kr Krajnic ajnic This statement wa was as filed with the Coun County nty Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra County on 8/1 8/15/2014. 5/20 014. (pub Metr Metro ro 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/0 9 9/03, 3, 9/10, 9/1 0, 9/1 9/17/2014) 7/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #595486 The follo following wing pers person(s) son(s) is (ar (are) e) doing busin business ness as: R Radicle adicle Seed Company,, 4860 Company Monterey Monter ey R Road, oad, Gi Gilroy, ilroy, Ca, 95020, 95020, T and C Supplies, Inc. This business is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ation. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the statee California. Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting busine business ess under the fictitiouss business name or names listed her herein eiin on 8/01/2014. 8/01/201 4. Refile R efile of pr previous evious file fi #591539 #591 539 with chan changes nges /s/Steven /s/S teven H. Costaa PPresident resident #1292368 #1 292368 This statement wa was as filed with the Coun County nty
Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra County on 8/1 8/18/2014. 8/2014. (pub Metr Metro ro 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/0 9/03, 3, 9/10, 9/1 0, 9/1 9/17/2014) 7/2014)
Coounty on 8/1 County 8/13/2014. 3/2014. (pub (p ub Metr Metroo 8/20, 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/03, 9/ /03, 9/1 9/10/2014) 0/2014)
Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 8/1 8/11/2014. 1/2014. (pub Metr Metroo 8/ 8/20, /20 8/2 /20, 8/27, 7, 9/03, 9/0 3, 9/10/2014) 9/10/20 014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595306
FIICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595137 # #595 5137
FICTITIOUSS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #594704 #594 704
The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Custom Pools, Pools, 11957 957 Curtner Curtner Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95124, 95124, Harry Kiriakopoulos. This business is conducted d t d by by a individual. Registrant R egistrrant a has not yyet et begun tr transacting ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. her ein. /s/Harry Kiriakopoulos This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra County on 8/1 8/13/2014. 3/2014. Metro 8/27, (pub Metr ro 8/20, 8/2 7, 9/03, 9/10/2014) 9/0 3, 9/1 0/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595290 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: GT GTO O Auto R Repair, epairr, 11771 771 Smith Ave., Ave., Unit B, San Jose, CA, CA, 95112, 95112, Victor V ictor Nav Nava. a. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrrant a began transacting tr ransacting a business under the fictitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 7/2/14. 7/2/1 4. /s/Victor /s/V ictor Nav Navaa This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra
Thhe follo The following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: as s: Maxpr Maxproo Security Security, y, 990 99 90 V Venus enus e W Way., aay., Milpitas, M ilpitas, CA, CA, 95035, 95035, Dr rew D. Harris, Linda Drew Michele M ichele Harris. This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a gener general al partnership. pa artnership. Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names na ames listed her herein. ein. /s s/Linda M. Harris /s/Linda This Th his statement was filed file ed with the County Cle erk of Santa Clar Clerk Claraa Co ounty on 8/08/201 4. County 8/08/2014. (pub (p ub Metr Metroo 8/20, 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/ /03, 9/1 0/2014) 9/03, 9/10/2014)
FIICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS B U NESS USI BUSINESS NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT NAME # #595 5176 #595176 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: as s: R Rodriges odriges Janitorial Maintenance, M aintenance, 9 941 41 TTamarack a raack Ln., amar Sunnyvale, Su unnyvale, CCA, A, 9 94086, 4086, Jose Jos se Antonio R Rodriguez. odriguez. This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a individual. ind dividual. Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names na ames listed her herein ein on 8/11/14. 8/ /11/14. /s/Jose /s s/Jose A R Rodriguez odriguez This Th his statement was filed file ed with the County
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The follo following wing person(s) p is (ar (are) e) doing business b as: Counselingg and More, Mor e, 15951 15951 Los Los o Gatos Gatos Blvd., Blv d., Suite 118, 8, LLos os o Gatos, G atos, CA, CA, 95032, 950 032, Carrie Lin, 6237 6237 C h l Ave., Cahalan Ave., San S Jose, J CCA, A, 95123. 95123. This business is i conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant beg began gan transacting tr ansacting bu business siness under the fictit fictitious tious business namee or names listed her hherein ein on 7/1/14. 7/1/1 4. /s/Carrie Lin This statementt was filed with the County C Claraa Clerk of Santa Clar 7/29/2014. County on 7/2 9/2014. 4 Metroo 8/ 8/20, 8/27, (pub Metr /20, 8/2 7, 9/03, 9/0 3, 9/10/2014) 9/10/20 014)
FICTITIOUSS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595128 #595 128 The follo following wing person(s) p is (ar (are) e) doing business b as: A ATR TTR Landscape, Landsccape, 5805 Comanch Comanche he Dr Dr., r.., San Jose, CA, CA, 95123, 95123, PPedro edro Carr Carrasco. ascoo. This business is i conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant hass not yyet et begun tr transacting annsacting business under undeer the fictitious business businness name or name names es listed herein. her ein.
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Refile of pr Refile previous evious file #5058411 after 40 days #50584 of expir expiration ation date. date /s/Pedro /s/P edrro Carr Carrasco asco This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 8/08/201 8/08/2014. 4. (pub Metr Metroo 8/20, 8/2 8/27, 7, 9/03, 9/0 3, 9/1 9/10/2014) 0/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #594953 #594 953 The follo following wing person(s) i (ar is (are) ( e)) ddoing i business b i as: R Rods ods & Racing, Racing, 3164 31 64 Meridian Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95124, 95124, Monolito Jimenez. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant has not yyet et begun tr transacting raansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. her ein. /s/Monolito Jimenez This statement was filed with the County Claraa Clerk of Santa Clar 8/05/2014. County on 8/05/201 4. Metroo 8/20, 8/2 8/27, (pub Metr 7, 9/03, 9/10/2014) 9/0 3, 9/1 0/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #594054 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: V Vista ista V Verde er e de Home Health 11 Health, 1193 93 High School W Way., aay., Mountain View, V iew, CCA, A, 9 94041, 4041, V Vista ista Verde V er e de Home Health LL LLC. LCC. This business is conducted by by a limited liability company company.. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state of
FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #594638 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Platinum G Galaxy alaxy Cable, 33580 580 McK McKee ee Rd., San Jose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, Hai Dang Nguyen. Nguyen. This business is conducted by by a individual. R egistrraant has not Registrant yyet et begun tr ansacting transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein. herein. /s/Hai Dang Nguyen Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar ra Clara County on 7/2 8/2014. 7/28/2014. (pub Metr ro 8/1 3, 8/20, Metro 8/13, 8/2 7, 9/0 3/2014) 8/27, 9/03/2014)
FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595034 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: D & E R Residential esidential Home, 304 3044 4 FFenwick enwick Way., W aay., San Jose, CA, CA, 95148, 9 5148, Debbie R. Aguilar,r, 55457 Aguilar 457 Century PPark ark W Way., aayy.., San Jose, CCA, A,
95111. 95111. 1 Thiss business is Thi conducted con nducted by by a individual. ind ividual. Registrant R eggistrant began transacting tr annsacting business under und der the fictitious business bus siness name or names herein nam mes listed her ein on 6/1/2011. 6/1 1/2011. Refile previous R efifile of pr evious file #552627 #5 52627 with changes. /s/Debbie /s/ /Debbie R. Aguilar Thiss statement was Thi filed file ed with the County Clerk Claraa Cle erk of Santa Clar County 8/06/2014. Cou unty on 8/06/201 4. (pub Metroo 8/1 8/13, (pu ub Metr 3, 8/20, 8/27, 9/03/2014) 8/2 27, 9/0 3/2014)
FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #594707 #5 594707 Thee follo following wing person(s) is ((are) are) doing business as: Thanh Huong Sandwiches, ndwiches, 2 2589 589 San Senter Sen nter R Road, oad, San Jose, CCA, A,, 95148, 95148, David Vu, Vu, Nan ncy PP.. V u, 309 Nancy Vu, 30977 Bal lardo W ay ay, San Jose Jose, Balardo Way, CCA, A,, 95148. 95148. Thi Thiss business is con nducted by by a married conducted cou uple. couple. R eggistrant began Registrant tr annsacting business transacting und der the fictitious under bus siness name or business nam mes listed her ein on names herein 112/05/1997. 2//05/1997. R efifile of pr evious file Refile previous #58 88679 after 40 days #588679 of expir eexpiration ation date. /s/ /Daveid V /s/Daveid Vuu Thi Thiss statement was file ed with the County filed Cle erk of Santa Clar Clerk Claraa Cou unty on 7/29/201 4. County 7/29/2014. (pu ub Metr 3, 8/20, (pub Metroo 8/1 8/13, 8/2 27, 9/0 3/2014) 8/27, 9/03/2014)
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California Registrant R egistrraant began transacting tr ransacting a business under the fictitious business name or herein names listed her ein on 7/01/2014. 7/01/201 4. /s/Nguyen, /s/Nguyen, Dieu-Qui H. Director Dir ector #201418410142 #201 418410142 This statement was filed with the County Clara Clerk of Santa Clar ra 7/09/2014. County on 7/09/201 4. Metro 8/13, (pub Metr ro 8/06, 8/1 3, 8/27/2014) 8/20, 8/2 7/2014)
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CECIL@METR CECIL METRONEWS.COM ONEWS.COM Are scarecrows scarecrow ws effective? They've been around arou und for a long time, but has anyone ever done a study to see if they work work? Paquin aquin k? —Claude P Let answer L et me ans sw wer yyour our questions in rreverse everse e order: orrder: d Yes. 1. Y ees. 2.. N No. 2 o. Don’t bee silly silly. End of ccolumn? olum o mn? Don n’t ’ b y. You’ve You o ’vve just framed your you ur query querry too too narrowly. narrro owlyy. What you you o really reall e ly want waant to know about about is progress pr rogrress e in bird-scaring birrdd sccaaring technology. technology. This is a more morre interesting interresting e subject than one Ass evidence might suppose. suppose. A evidenc v ce I submit some headings from from an avian-control avvian-control monograph mono graph dug du ug up by by my my assistant assisttant a Una: U na: n “Shotguns “Shottgun g ns and Rifles with Live Livve Ammunition”; Ammunition n””;; “Pyrotechnics”; “Pyrro otechnics”; “Rockets “R Rockets and Mortars”; Mortars”; a “Lasers. “ asers.” “L There’s Ther re’s also a section entitled “Scarecrows, speaks “Sc car a ecrro ows,” which w speaks disparagingly of traditional devices devic de v cees but more morre warmly waarmly of scarecrow “a human-like human like sc human-lik caarreecrro ow that popped popped up from cannon fr ro om a double propane propane pr o caannon [which] was w aas vvery er e y suc successful ccesssful in keeping keeeping blackbirds blackbirds from over fr ro om feeding feeding e over 4-6 acres acrres e of sunflowers. sunflowers.” And her re wee slicks thought farming w aas here was dull. Who knew? knew? w The facts: There have been several Ther re ha ave b een se everal e studies of scarecrows, more sc car areecrro ows, mo ore ccommonly ommonly termed technical “mannequins” or “effigies” in the technic caal literature, presumably because literatur re, pr esu umably b eccause a it sounds more scientific.. A Ass one might deduc deduce mor re scientific ce given scarcity giv ven e the sc car a ciitty of actual working scarecrows, opposed sc car areecrro ows, as opp o osed to the showbiz variety, variet ty, the old-fashioned stuff ffeed dummy dumm my old--fashioned stuffed doesn’t doesn n’’t accomplish acccomp plish much. One series of tests with ma mannequins annequins protecting protecting a simulated so soybean oyb ybean field from frro om doves do oves e found found o each scarecrow between sccar a ecrro ow w could could protect prrotect o bettween w 0.03 to 0.06 0.06 acres. accrres e . You’d Yo ou’d need at least 16 scarecrows sccar areecrro ows per per acre, acre, or more morre than 10,000 10,000 per per square square mile, milee, and even even e then they’d theey’ y d lose effectiveness once eff ffeectivveness e on ncce the birds birrds d got g used to them. improve Some claim yyou ou o ccan aan impr rove yyour our o scarecrows' effectiveness byy ttarting sccar areecrro ows' eff ffeectiv e veness e b arrtting them up with rreflective streamers pinwheels, eflecti e ivve str reamers e or pin nw wheels, though lit little payoff been documented ttle t pa ayoff o has b een do cumented for this.. Get Getting more ambitious,, yyou for o this tting t g mor re ambitious ou o ccan aan rig them to mo move, makee noise noise,, or b both. ove, mak oth. Lest propane-powered Lest you you o think the pr ropane o -powered vversion ersion e rreferred ef eferr e ed d to ab above ove solv solves ves e yyour our bird once bee aaware bir rd issues onc ce and ffor o or all, b waarre that blackbirds particular, may some species, species, blackbir b rds d in par ticularr, ma ay display maddening tenacity. displa ay a madd dening tenacit ty. In one set of scarecrows tests artillery-backed arrtiller t y-ba - ack keed sc car a ecrro ows rreduced educ e ceed bird percent, bir rd damage 84 4p ercent, e but in another it was w aas just 8 p percent. ercent. e In the discus ssion of liv discussion livee ammunition rreferred ef efeerred to ab ove, we learn that sho oting above, shooting ling un nwanted a bir ds is a at and thus killi killing unwanted birds ccommon ommon o contrrol strateg gy but “is done control strategy
m ainly to rreinforce einffo orce the eff ffeectivveness e off mainly effectiveness no on-lethal bir d sc caaring de evic v es that ar re also non-lethal bird scaring devices are in use rds: d bir rd terr rorism. o The use..” In other wor words: bird terrorism. hope) bee pleased to no note, eexperts, xp x erts, yyou’ll ou o ’ll (I hop e) b ote, ent don’t plan’s deterrent do on n’t ’ think much of this plan n’s deterr value, partt b because live va alue, in par eccause a with liv ve ammo the noise no oise is loudest at the gun. Other bird-scaring options include O ther bir d-sccaring a aircraft noise,, horns and air air-raid air rcraft engine noise r-raid - d sirens, electronic noisemakers various sir reens, electr onic noisemak keers of variou us kinds, broadcast predator hawk kin nds, br roadc o cast a pr redator e ccalls, alls a , ha awk w kites balloons, stuffed predators, kit tes and ballo ons, stuff ffeed pr edators, rreal e eal predators (falcons), radio-controlled model pr reedators (falc ons), radio -co ontrro olled mo m del aircraft, air rcraft, dy dyes, es, smok smoke, e, chemic chemical cal a rrepellents, epellen nts, magnets, water spray, and— m agnets, w aater spra ay, microwaves, micrro ow waves, and d— one—tall grass.. rremember em emember this one —ttall a grass The question of imp importance, orrtancce, of ccourse, our o rse, is: what works? A study cconducted onducted o ffor or o the A eerrodrome Saf fet ety Branch of Transp orrt Aerodrome Safety Transport C a anada avis v , 19 98)—whiich Canada (Harris and Da Davis, 1998)—which I cite c par tly ffor or o its thor roughness o and partly thoroughness pa arrtly t b eccaause in 40-plus yyears ears e of ccolumns olum mns partly because th his is m xcuse x to use the wor rd this myy first eexcuse word aer rodrroomee—sa sayys the following following o ques techniq aerodrome—says techniques ar re highly recommended: recommended: are Habittat a modification. modificcation. a An example example x Habitat de escribed at length lenggtth is the above-mentioned above-mentio oned described ttall al all grass, grass, which many man ny (though not all)) bird bir rd species species avoid avoid o because beccaause it hides both both h ffood ood (worms and such) and predators. predators. One cconcedes o cedes onc e that in suburbia tall tall a grass around arro ound the isn’t th he homestead isn n’’t going to endear you you o to th he neighbors. neighbors. the Ph hyysiccaal barriers verhead grid of o Physical barriers.. An o overhead m onofilament line spaced spacceed at intervals interrvals v of monofilament an nyywherre from frro om 1.5 to 12 meters. meters. Although Althou ugh anywhere th he gaps are arre wide enough for for o birds birds to pass p the th hrough, the grid’s grid’s “deterrent “deterrent effect eff ffeect . . . is through, qu uite pronounced, pronounced,” we read. read. e What’s Whatt’s more, m re, mor quite it st sstays tayys pr onouncceed—that is birds pronounced—that is,, the birds do on n’t ’ become beccome o blasé ab out the grid—for ggrid—ffor o a don’t about rreason ea eason that a moment’s moment’s thought will make m e mak obvious: ob bvious: “The unexpected uneexp x ected encounter encounter of o a bird bir rd with a thin, difficult-to-see difficultt-to - -see line has haas a startling effect. st tar a tling eff ffeect.” Too Too cruel? Another recommendation rec ecommendatio o on from fr ro om Harris and Davis Daavis v is bird bird balls, balls, the pr ractice of cconcealing onc o cealing e bodies of w aater with w practice bodies water a surface s facce layer sur laayer e of four-inch four o r-inch spheres, plastic spheres, which wh hich might be be a great grreat e idea at aerodromes aerrodromes o but aestheticswise bu ut aesthetics sw wise does does a real real e number number on the th he koi ko oi pond. pond. Good Good old shock shock and awe, aw we, including pyrotechnics p yyrro otechnics and shooting. shootingg. Falcons Falcco ons and d broadcast br roadc o caast distress distrreess calls caalls also get high marks marrks but—you'll notice bu utt—you'll o notic ce a theme here—tend here—tend — d association. to freak frreak e out the homeowners’ asso on. ciatio Thus Th hus the dilemma eevident vvident to strategistss since Machiavelli’s day: politically acceptable sin ncce Machia avelli’ e s da ay: p oliticcaally ac cceepttaable but bu ut ineffective ineff ffeectivve vs. vs. drastic but does does the job. jo ob.
FREE W WILL ILLL ASTROLOGY A STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): I ddon't on't usually do this kind of thing, but I'm going to sugges suggest st that you monitor the number six. My hypothesis iiss that six has been trying to gr ab your attention, pe erhaps even in askew grab perhaps or inconvenient ways. Its purpos se? TToo nudge you to purpose? tune in to beneficial influences that you have been ignoring. I furthermor furthermoree suspect that six is angling to show you clues about what iss both the cause of your unscr atchable itch and the cur or that itch. unscratchable curee ffor So lighten up and have fun with this absur y, absurdd mystery mystery, Aries. Without taking it too serio ously, allow six to be seriously, your weir rick your intuition with weirdd little teacher teacher.. Let it pprick quirk peculations. If nothing quirkyy notions and outlandish sp speculations. comes of it, ther m done. If it leads you theree will be no harm to helpful discoveries, hallelujah h. hallelujah. TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): In In English, the rare rare
wordd “tr “trouvaille” luckyy find or an unexpected wor ouvaille” means a luck windf all. In Fr ench, “tr ouvaille” can c rrefer efer to the same windfall. French, “trouvaille” thing and even mor more: e: somethingg inter interesting esting or exceptional that is discovered discovered fortuitously; fortuitously; o a fun or enlightening blessing that's gen generated nerated through through the efforts eff orts of a vigor vigorous ous imagination imagination. n. Of course I can't guarantee guar antee that you will experien experience nce a tr trouvaille ouvaille or two (or even thr three) ee) in the coming cominng days, Taurus. Taurus. a But the conditions ar aree as ripe as the they ey can be ffor or such a possibility possibility..
GEMINI (May 2121-June June 20): Th Thee Dutch word word epibr epibreren eren means that even though you ar aree goofing off off,, you ar aree eate the impr ession that t you ar trying to cr create impression aree har hardd at work. I wouldn't be totally oppos opposed sed to you indulging epibreren erreen in the coming c days. Mor Moree in some major epibr importantly, importantlyy, the cosmos won't exact e any karmic repercussions repercussions ffor or it. I suspect, inn ffact, act, that the cosmos etly conspiring ffor or you to enjoy mor is secr secretly moree slack and spaciousness that usual. YYou're ou'r o e over overdue due to rrecharge echarge your spiritual and emotional bat batteries, tteries, and that will require extr epose and quietud de. If you have to require extraa rrepose quietude. ade to t get the ease you engage in a bit of masquer masquerade need, so be it. CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): When W James Fr Franco anco began to learn his cr craft aft as an ac actor, ctorr, he was young and poor or his acting lessons poor.. A gig at McDonald's paid ffor and allowed him to earn a living g. He also used his time living. on the job as an opportunity to build his skills as a perf ormer. While ser ving custom mers bur gers and fries, performer. serving customers burgers he pr acticed speaking to them iin n a variety of diff erent practiced different accents. Now would be an excel lent time ffor or you to excellent adopt a similar str ategyy, CCancerian. anceriian. Even if you ar strategy, aree not doing what you love to do full-ti ime, you can and should full-time, take str onger measur es to pr epaare yourself ffor or that day stronger measures prepare when you will be doing mor moree of what you love to do. LLEO EO (July 23 23-Aug. -Aug. 22): Her Heree ar aree a ffew ew of the major companies that got their starts in home gar garages: ages: Apple, Google, Micr osoft, Mattel Microsoft, Mattel,, Amazon, and Disney Disney.. Even if you'r you'ree not in full supportt of their business pr practices, actices, you've got to admit th that hat their humble origins didn't limit their ability to to become rich and powerful. A ong-term astr ological Ass I meditate on the lo long-term astrological omens I surmise you ar omens, aree now inn a position to launch a pr project oject that could follow follow a similar sim milar arc. arc. It would be mor oresee you ul timately moree modest, of course. I don't fforesee ultimately becoming an international corpo oration worth billions corporation of dollars. But the success wouldd be bigger than I think you can imagine. VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23 23-Sept. -Sept. 22): “I hhave ave a hypothesis that everyone is born with the same amount of luck,” says cartoonist Scott Adams. “But luc luck ck doesn't appear to be spr spread ead evenly acr across oss a perso person's n's lif life. e. Some people use up all of their luck early in lilife. fe. Others start out in bad cir cumstances and finish st rong.” How would you circumstances strong.” assess your own distribution of luck, Virgo? Virgo? According According to my pr ojections, you are are in a phase p projections, when luck is flowing str onger and deeper tha an usual. And I bet it stronger than will intensifyy in the comingg weeks. weeks. I suggest gg you y use it wisely—which is to say, say, with flair and aplomb and gener osity. generosity. LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): Whe When en my daughter Zoe was
seven years old, she took horseback horsebback riding lessons with a gr group oup of other young aspir aspirants. antts. On the thir thirdd lesson, their instructor assigned them the t task of car carrying rying an egg in a spoon that they claspedd in their mouths as backwards they sat ffacing acing backwar ds on a trotting trotting horse. That seemingly impr improbable obable task rreminds emiinds me of what you'r you'ree working on right now now,, Libr Libra. a. YYour oour balancing act isn't
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demanding, you'ree quite as demand ding, but it is testing you in ways you'r prognosis: not accustomed to. My pr ognosis: YYou oou will master what's rrequired equired of you ffaster aster than the kids at Zoe's horse camp. Eve Every ry one of them br broke oke at least eight before succeeding. three eggs bef ore succ ceeding. I suspect that thr ee or ffour our attempts will be enough for for you.
SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oct. (Occt. 23-Nov. 23-Nov. 21): P Peter eter the Gr Great eat was the
TTsar ssar of Russia from from o 1682 until 1725. Under his rule, his nation became a major empir empire. e. He also led a cul cultural tural rrevolution evolution that br bbrought ought modern Eur European-style opean-style influences ideas and influe nces to Russia. But ffor or our purposes right now now,, I wantt to call attention to one of his other accomplishments: All-Joking, accomplishment ts: The All AllJoking All Joking, All-Drunken Drunken Council of Fools and Jes Jesters. ters. It was a club he or organized ganized with his allies too ensur ensuree ther theree would always be an parties enjoy.. I don't think you abundance of pa arties ffor or him to enjoy need alcohol as an essential part of your own eff efforts orts weeks, to sustain maximum maxim mum rrevelry evelry in the coming week s, Scorpio. But I do suggest you convene a similar brain brain trust.
SSAGITTARIUS AGITTARIU US (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): In Roald Dahl's
kids' story James Jamees and the Giant Peach Peach, 501 seagulls ar aree carry from needed to car ry the giant peach fr om a spot near the Azores way across Atlantic Azor es all the wa ay acr oss the A tlantic Ocean to New City.. But phy physics U.K.'s YYork ork City ysics students at the U.K. 's University of Leicester havee determined that such a modest contingent woul dn't be nearly enough to achieve a wouldn't successful airlift airlift. t. By their calculations, ther there'd e'd have to b a minimum be i i of 2,425,907 of 2 425 907 seagulls ll involved. i l d I ur urge ge you to consider the possibility that you, too, will rrequire equire mor n you have estimated to accomplish moree power tha than your own magic ffeat. eat. Certainly not almost 5,000 times mor e, as in the case c of the seagulls. Fifteen per cent more, percent mor P..S. I'm almost positive you moree should be enough. (P (P.S. can rustle up that thaat extra extra 15 percent.) percent.)
CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): So ffar, arr, 53 toys have been inducted into in nto the Toy Toy o Hall of Fame. They include crayons, jumpp rrope, Mr.. P Potato cr ayons, the jum ope, Mr otato Head, the yo-yo, the rubber duckie, and annd dominoes. My favorite favorite inductee— and the toy that is most symbolically useful to you right now—is the pla plain ain old car cardboard dboard box. Of all the world's playthings, it is perhaps p the one that rrequires equires and most activates the mo ost imagination. It can become a fort, fort, a spaceship a washing spaceship, wasshing machine, machine a cave, cave a submarine, submarine and many other exotic exottic things. I think you need to be ar around ound influences akin to t the cardboard cardboard box because they are are likely to unleash your dormant cr creativity. eativity. AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb. 18): I'm not opposed to you fighting a go good ood fight. It's quite possible you would wrangling become smarterr and stronger stronger by wr angling with a worthy adversaryy or struggling against a bad influence. The passion you summon to outwit an obstacle could bestow blessingss not only on you but on other people, here's as well. But her e's a big caveat: I hope you will not get embr embroiled oiled in a showdown shhowdown with an imaginary foe. foe. I pr pray ay that you will rrefrain efrrain fr from om a futile combat with a slippery carefully, delusion. Choosee your battles car efullyy, Aquarius. PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 19-March ch 20): During the next six weeks, week s I suggestt you rregard s, egard symbiosis as one of your key themes. Be alert a ffor or ways you can cul tivate mor cultivate moree interesting inter esting and intense i fforms orms of intimacy intimacy.. Magnetize yourself to the jo joys oys of teamwork and collabor collaboration. ation. skills aree most useful to Which of your sk kills and talents ar aree most likely to inspir inspiree your other people? Which W ar allies to off offer er yo you u their best skills and talents? I suggest you high highlight hlight everything about yourself that is most likely to wi win n you love, appr appreciation, eciation, and help. Homework: Make M a playful eff effort ort to change some something ething you've always as as-sumed you co could ould never change. T Testify estify e at Truthrooster@gmail.com. T ruthrooster@ @gmail.com.
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