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Doo Y D You oou Swear? Swear? Inaugurations have a way of oscillating Inaugurations solemn between solem mn occasions and celebrations. celebr ations. And And then there’s there’s the absurd—a specialty. slightly absur d—a San JJose ose special ty. night’s TTuesday uesday night ’s swearing-in of Mayor SSAM AM LLICCARDO ICCARDO and ffour our new council thee Center ffor Performing members at th or P erforming Arts Aztec A rts kicked off with an A ztec ffever ever dream dream dance that hadd people bouncing back although and fforth, orth, al thoough they could have from been coughing fr om the incense smoke. TALBERT, Then JON T ALBERT, a “humanitarian entrepreneur”—that’s entrepreneur ”— —that’s a new one—got one—ggot They things rrolling olling with w a Did JESUS-inspired JESUS-inspiredd blessing, What? which was sligh slightly htly less SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O awkward awkward than the poet FLY@ FL Y@ who ffollowed ollowed with w an METR ONEWS. METRONEWS. ode to the hom homeless meless COM CO M women of SSt.t. James James a Park Park and their “P ““Pall all Mall smiles” “liberated Safeway smiles” and “lib berated Saf eway shopping carts.”” Incomingg council members rrestored estored some semblanc semblance order ce of or der while being sworn in,, as CCHAPPIE JONESS of District H HAPPIE JONE 1 rrepeated epeated his oath and RAUL RAUL PERALEZ, PERALEZ, councilman ffor orr downtown and the rrest est had of District 3, ha ad his mother swear him MAGDALENA into office. M AGDALENA CCARRASCO, ARRASCO, East Side’s council member,, went even Side ’s new cou uncil member harder har der on the heart strings when her daughter rread ead the oath and began to break dressed br eak down in tears. A sharply dr essed TAM NGUYEN T AM N GUYEN shared s ed the stage with shar previously state Sen. JIM BEALL, BEALL, who pr eviously repped repped Districtt 77.. Liccardo Liccardo had planned to have former mayor,, congr congressman formerr mayor essman and U.S. U.S. Secretary Secretary of Transportation Transportation NORM MINETA NORM M INETA swear him in to office, but weather wouldn’t Liccardo, wouldn’t permit. Liccar do, who was joine joinedd on stage by his wife wife and par parents, settled ents, se ettled instead ffor or police watchdog and Judge Judge LADORIS LADORIS CCORDELL, ORDELL, who gave him a high-five bef before ore chants of “Sam’s man” from crowd. “Sam’s the man n” rrang ang out fr om the cr owd. He offered offered thanks thannks and joked that he didn’t didn’t expect to deliver deliveer a speech, speech, before before quoting playwright Luis Luis Valdez, Vaaldez, who was in the house:: “To “TTo whom whom does the future future belong? It belongs to those thhose who can imagine it,” Liccardo Liccardo said. And And then he invited the entire entire audiencee to “join me in reimagining reimagining San Jose.” Jose.”
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damaging his move h neck in a mo ove ccalled alled a the Fisherman Fisherman Buster. B Buster . UGWA, UGW WA A, however, h howe veerr, has ffought ought on. o Trevino new Trevino recruited recruited e ne ew fighters into his ffold. Portillo old. P o ortillo t ccontinued ontinued filming the bouts, enough bouts, eventually event e tually ccompiling ompiling o footage make soon-to-release, foottaage to mak m ke a so on-to-release, feature-length documentary. 2006, feeature-lenggtth do cumentary. In 20 06, they wrestling ring, theey found found o a legit wr estling ring g, fixed it up and set itt in Tr Trevino’s backyard. evvino’s back kyyarrd d. Equipped Equipped d with a ring and a de facto training facility—Trevino faciilitty—T Trevino rents rents the house mostly wrestlers—the h mostl tlly l to t other th wr estlers—the tl th UGWA began UGW WA faithful faith hful b egan ccourting ourting a wider audien audience. Initially, ncce. Initially y, he rrelied elied on bikini-clad draw crowd bikini-clad girls g to dra aw a cr ro owd with oil wr wrestling estlingg and lingerie pillow fights before That’s beffor o e rrolling ollin ng out the main eevent. veent. That ’s where Patrick, short, wherre King P atrick, or KP ffor or shor o t, got his st start, art, vvolunteering olu o unteering to don a ttwo-piece wo-piece w bathing suitt and writhe ar around ound with oiled-up women pool. He’s wo omen in a kiddie p ool. He ’s now UGWA’s gender-bending UGW WA’s rresident esident gender r--bending mind i d melt. l “From there, was word “From th here, it w aas all wor d of mouth,” boasts Maverick, boaasts Ma aveerick, known to the rest Alberto Palomino, rest of the world w as Alb erto P alomino, a 29-year-old byy da day 29--yeearr-old d builder of cubicles b ay and under underground people’s byy rggrround p eople’s champ b night. “The wr wrestlers started developing w estlers st arted de veeloping their own ffollowing. People started o ollowing g. P eople st arted learning ourr stor storylines ylines and rrooting ooting ffor o or their fa favorites. They avorit o tes. The ey got into it.” A ffew wrestlers ew wr e estlers went on to fight in paid leagu leagues, says, they ues, he sa ays y , though the ey could about could never neeveer ttalk alk a ab out their rroots oots because backyarders aree often lo looked beccause a back kyyarders ar ok keed down up upon byy the rrest wrestling on nb est of the wr estling industry. Trevino about industry. Tr evino has no qualms ab out admitting placee in the ffood admitttting his h plac ood chain— below by below ground, groun nd, reviled reviled v by pay-to-play paay--to-plaay schools salaryy earning fighters fighters.. schools and salar He sa says league ayys his le eague is the last of the underground. underrggroun nd. “We don’t about becoming “W We don n’t ’ ccare aare ab out b ecoming big stars, says Paul stars,” sa ayys P a Holguin, 29, whose aul mild-mannered belies mild-manneered demeanor b elies his menacing al alter ego,, Hollywo Hollywood. Wee lter ego od. “ W want keep underground waant to k eeep p the whole under rgground thing. want become thingg. But we w w aant to b ecome known.” In the ear early days, Trevino rly da ays y , Tr evvino and his cadre yarders dreamed pro. cadrre of yar d dr ders eamed of going pr o. Now, aspiration securee a rregular Now w, the asp piration is to secur egular venue. veenue. Something Someething rroomy oom my enough ffor o or a ring and a thr throng several hundred ro ong of se veeral hundr ed onlookers, something onlook keers, so omething high enough ffor o or the lights an and nd the high-flying leaps and drops drro ops from from the t top rropes. opes. “Because watered “Because WWE is so w aatered down and cr creatively stagnant, wrestling eativveely st taagnant, wr estling fans want options,,” Tr Trevino says. waant other options o evino sa ays y. “San JJose bee known ffor ose ccan aan nb or that, ffor o or o giving wr wrestling want, esttling fans what tthey hey w ant, something mor moree ra raw. aw.”
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write AJR ((Assembly Assembly JJoint o R oint Resolution) eesolution) 39 to change the rules aven e ’t rules,, which ha haven’t b een rrevisited evisited in 30 yyears. eaars. Cr eaTV been CreaTV Dir ector Suzanne St. JJohn-Crane o Crane eeven ohnveen Director to ok a cr ew to Sacrame ento to testif fy took crew Sacramento testify in fa avor of the bill,, whi ich eeventually ventually e favor which passed in JJune. une. As As a result, ressult,, Hernandez Hernandez will ill rreceive eceiv ive the h main i aaward waard this hi Satur daay. Bra avo! Saturday. Bravo! Ev en with those rrestrictions esttrictions on Even use of its funding CreaaTV has done funding,, CreaTV some amazing things or eexample, xample, things.. F For it cr eated the Media A ccess Pr oject created Access Project (MAP) grants ovidin v ng mor grants,, pr providing moree than a dozen scho ols with digit d al media schools digital equipment,, har dw war a e and a softw war a e ffor or o hardware software ttwo w wo yyears. ears. In eexchange xchange x ffor o or the dough, the scho ols pr oduced TV T shows schools produced eevery very month that air ed d on Cr eaTV’s aired CreaTV’s channels channels.. In addition,, CreaTV CreaTV supplied equipment to se veral A dobe Y outh o several Adobe Youth V o oices programs, programs, enabling enablling at t--risk Voices at-risk yyouth outh to cr o eate individ dual digit al create individual digital pr ojects dealing with so ocial issues projects social the ortan nt. Meaning theyy deemed imp important. Meaning,, if
a student w aas rrepeatedly epeatedly bullied on was the pla ayyground, o ound , he or she w aas able to playground, was cr eate a mu usic video or some sor create music sortt of digit al pr ojject that addr essed bullying digital project addressed issues in or rder to raise aawareness. war a eness. order Thanks to Cr eaTV’s equipment,, kids CreaTV’s ar oing this avo! aree now do doing this.. Double bra bravo! Ev en b ettter, some students et Even better, mo veed on to other aawards war a ds and moved ac complish hments. One student, accomplishments. Osc ar C and delas, w aas rrecognized ecognized Oscar Candelas, was b nitted Nations byy the U United Nations.. The Mt. Pleasant High H Scho ol MAP graduate School rreceived eceived an n aaward war a d fr om the Global from Blo ck F oun ndation ffor o or his video on Block Foundation immigratio on,, “Trans veersing Walls immigration, “Transversing Walls..” Along with h other videomak kers e fr om videomakers from ar ound thee world,, C andelas w as around Candelas was honor ed Dec D URAL + honored Dec.. 4 at the PL PLURAL Y outh o V iideeo F estival,, a U nited Nations Youth Video Festival, United Allianc ve, in Alliancee off Civilizations’’ initiativ initiative, N ew Y ork o Cit ty. New York City. Anotherr MAP graduate fr om Mt. from Pl Pleasant, t, Dantorie D t i R eeevees, won a Reeves, $6 0,000 A dobe scholarship ffor o or videos $60,000 Adobe he pr oduced e with Cr eaTV equipment. produced CreaTV R ee e vees is no ow a fr eshman at Clark Reeves now freshman A tlant t aU n ersitty in Geor niv gia. The Atlanta University Georgia. MAP grantt equipment also made its w ay to Kiraa Brashers and Emily Dahl, way b oth of wh hom o ccupy the media ar ts both whom occupy arts pr ogram att Linc oln High Scho ol. Both program Lincoln School. ccontributed ontributed d to pr oductions that wound productions up at the 2014 2 A ustin F ilm F estival. Austin Film Festival. S So ll this hi rrepresents epresents what h ’s So,, if all what’s p ossible un nder the curr ent limit ations, possible under current limitations, imagine wh hat ccould ould b what bee done if public ac cess op errations lik ke Cr eaTV ccould ould access operations like CreaTV use their fu unding ffor o or pr oduction funding production training off eeven ven mor t--risk kids? moree at at-risk W ith i b elliggerent telec om mer gers With belligerent telecom mergers seemingly alw wayys on the ttable able and always ccommunity ommunitty ac cess TV channels access shut tting t do own left and right,, San JJose ose shutting down is uniquelyy p ositioned to pa ave a ne w positioned pave new rroad—exactly oad—exacctly what I’ d eexpect xpect fr om I’d from Silic on V aalley. Silicon Valley. And wh en it ccomes omes to enabling when yyouth outh to o veercome obst acles via overcome obstacles cr eativitty, par p don m ench,, but this creativity, pardon myy Fr French, shit is dearr to me ew up when me.. I gr grew music and ar ts wer egular par arts weree still a rregular partt of element tary scho ol. Music and ar ts elementary school. arts educ ation wer w education weree the only tolerable par ts of hig gh scho ol and only rreasons easons parts high school I eeven veen wen nt to ccollege ollege and st ayeed in went stayed ccollege ollege to get g ttwo w wo degr ees. It sa aved degrees. saved me fr om mor m otentially criminal from moree p potentially paths nyything to help put mor paths,, so an anything moree infrastructu ure in plac eturn the infrastructure placee to rreturn ar ts to thei ir right tful f mandator oles arts their rightful mandatoryy rroles in yyouth outh o ed ducation is at the top of m education myy list. And th hat’s what Cr eaTV is helping that’s CreaTV to do le Bra avo. do.. Tripl Triple Bravo.
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nside a Milpitas elementary school’s multi-purpose room, splashed with swaths of green, blue and yellow, Rey Resurreccion teaches a chess class for youngsters. Fifteen students surround him in a semi-circle, squirming with pentup energy. Once settled, “Chessmaster Rey,” as the kids call him, points to the hanging chess board and explains the gambit: sacrificing a piece for a more advantageous position on the board.
He recounts a game from memory, rattling off each move at a breakneck pace, but the kids stay with him. When he runs into a teachable moment, he asks the students to suggest moves before proceeding. Condensing a game that might have lasted hours into less than five minutes, there is soon a victor, and before the students break out into individual games, he delivers his key point for the day: “Make sure every move you make counts.” At this point in his career, Rey Res knows well the importance of thinking things through. Arguably San Jose’s best-known rapper, he’s built considerable buzz since
dropping his Sleeping ng Giants mixt mixtape ape in collaboration with ith CL CLOUT OUT Magazine in late 2010. 010 But he realizes 010. realizes he’s reached a crossroads. sroads. Fifteen years into o his ccareer areer as a rapper and he is poised oised to rrelease elease Heart of the City, hiss thir third full-length d full-leng th LP, on Jan 27, and he hop hopes es this is the move that will grant nt him a national spotlight. Building a name in a cut cutthroat ttthroat music industry, especially pecially in a genre as saturated as hip hip-hop, -hop, off offers ffeers little room for error. Breaking or. Br eaking out involves love from the blo blogosphere, gosphere, commercial placement, iTunes ment, iT unes listings, vinyl pressings—in ings—in other words, visibility. And move nd eevery very mo ve must count. “The way I equate myy ccareer te m areer right now is I feel like I’m m the kid that was a high school sports ports st star ar [who was] really known and rrespected espected ve in my hometown, but now II’v I’ve graduated and I’m amongst all the other guys that were re rreally eally go good od in their hometowns,” he eexplains xplains while sitting in his black A Acura cura Integra one sunny weekday afternoon. ernoon. Rey is quick to pad ad the analo analogy gy with some confidence: likee I’m nce: “I ffeel eel e lik really close.”
‘The Hometown’ etown wn’ Growing up with div divorced orced par parents, ents, Resurreccion (his actual ctual name) sp spent ent his weekends on San an JJose’s ose’s south side near Blossom Hill R Road o oad at his mom mom’s ’s
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house. During the week,, he liv house. lived ed on Drivee in San JJose’s Great Snow Driv ose’s Gr eat Oaks neighborhood neighb orhood near Mon Monterey nterey R Road oad o dad’s. didn’t think at his dad’ s. He didn ’t th hink much of his surr surroundings oundings back k then, but now he rrealizes ealizes how his eexperiences xperiences weren’t wer en’t like like those of oth other her lo locals. cals. Att 8,, a go A good od friend men mentioned ntioned at scho ol that his father had db een killed. school been A gang memb member er who w was ass in and out of jail,, he w as murdered murdered outside o a bar was bar.. It w was aas the first time a p person ersson R Rey ey knew knew p ersonally had died. personally “Y Yo ou had to gr ow up fa ast, because ast, because “You grow fast, theree wer ther weree a lot of teenag teenagers gers in the neighb orhood that p eer-p pressured neighborhood peer-pressured a lot of m myy friends to go in n ccertain ertain directions, dir ections,” he says. saays y . “I was waas in the middle of all that.” Ass he notes on “The Hometown,” A H ” Resurreccion grew the R eesurreccion gr ew up th he only Filipino F ilipino on his str street. eet. O Other t ther kids “Chino”” would often rrefer effeer to him m as “Chino when he he’d ’d bik bikee b by, y, mist mistaking a aking him Chinese.. ffor or Chi o Chinese they weren’t “I just think the ey just wer w en n’’t educated Pacific educ ated on the other ttypes yyp pes of P acific Islanders and A Asians sians that ther theree were, were,” he sa says. ays y. Many neighborhood Man ny neighb orhood friends f gangs.. The Theyy rrolled deep.. joined gangs olled d deep Theyy had girls The girls.. He sa saw aw th the he allur alluree of that lif fe, but R ey chos se to steer life, Rey chose clear h father clear,, thanks in par partt to his father,, who joined a F ilipino ga ang when he Filipino gang fi arriv first i ed d in i Daly l Cit Ci y. While hil R ey arrived City. Rey didn’t father’s checkered didn ’t learn of his father r’s check ered past until later ely pla p ayed a later,, it lik likely played par poke of the partt in how his father sp spoke dangers of falling into th he lif feestyle. the lifestyle.
Rey managed d to skir Rey skirtt assimilation emainiing chill with the while rremaining n his neighb orhood. d various sets in neighborhood. don’t know kno ow how I did it,, but I “I don’t found o cool balanc b e, to be be able to found a cool balance, be around around the em but not join them,” be them saayys. he says.
Sun Goe Goes es D Down own “Y “You Yo ou know you’re you o ’re in the ho hood od when yyou ou see stray straay do dogs gs eeverywhere,” verywhere,” R Rey ey says, sa ays y , eyeing eyeing a Chihuahua w walking alking down the side ewalk as he driv sidewalk drives es through thr ough his old o neighb neighborhood—a orhood—a placee he hasn’t plac hasn’t rreturned eturned to in yyears. ears. From Fr emembers, Gr Great eat om whatt he rremembers, looks oncee Oaks lo oks a lot l cleaner than it onc did. Stoppingg to ttake ake in the ne new w skate sk ate park, th the he cconcrete oncrete just ab about out ccovered overed in gra graffiti, affiti, he tells how in his day, da ay, the slide slide,, sswings wings and eeven ven tr trees ees wer plastered d with gang insignias weree plastered insignias.. It was w as in this pa park ark and nearb nearbyy scho schools ols wheree he firstt st started wher arted ttagging. agging. asked about When ask keed d ab out the ccontrast ontrast of upbringing his rrough ough upbr ringing in what,, at the time,, w was labeled safest city time as a lab elled the saf feest big cit ty says being in America, America,, hee sa ayys that a lot is b eing San being safe, made about about Sa an JJose ose b eing less saf fe, but not much has changed in his mind. “Off ccourse news “O ourse in i the ne ws and media, theyy w the want ant to ttalk alk ab about out how go good od things are are get ttting and all that, but getting th you then you see mur m murders d eevery ders very week, k”” he h says. sa ayys. “P “People eople wonder w why wh hy and people people aree sa ar saying ayying ‘Oh ‘Oh, h,, San JJose ose is get getting ting so bad.’ T To o me me,, fr from rom how and wher wheree I grew it’s been way. gr ew up, up, it ’s b een that w ay.”
Rey Rey witnessed San JJose’s ose’s dark sidee while City wh hile rrecording ecording Heart of the Cit ty inside floor officee insside an eighth flo or corner corner offic along North First Street. between alo ong N orth F irst Str eet. In b ettw weeen sessions, find sessions, he says, saayys, he’s he’s ccome ome out to fin nd a man being rushed m b eing rresuscitated esuscitated and rushe ed into ambulance. police intto an ambulanc e. He’s He’s seen p olice drive lying driive without pause past a man lyin ng face Second facce down on a curb near Sec ond Street. break Strreet. He hears fights br eak out eevery ver ey night, doesn’t nigght,, so much so that he do esn’t even bother anyy even e b other to check them out an more. It’s addresses mo ore. It ’s an issue he addr esses on “Sun Goes how “Su un Go es Down, Down”” an allusion to ho ow thee str streets grow markedly eets gr ow mark edly darker darker after standout, th after sunset. An album st andout,, the he Audible Doctor-produced Audible u Do ctor-produced song has a style Nas,, fu full sttyle y rreminiscent eminiscent of I Am-era Am-era Nas ull of cinematic orchestration. c or chestration. As As he plays plaayys the track through through hiss studio sp speakers eakers one night, Resurreccion says Res esurreccion sa ayys that he didn’t didn’t make maake thee song to disparage San JJose. ose. He simply sim mply w wanted aanted to weave weaave a narrative narrative that tha hat authentic authentically h i ally ll rrepresents epresents all ll off his hi h experiences growing exp periences gr owing up and living in his cityy where h hometown—a cit where thee poverty poverty and despair ffound o ound in St. James Park juxtaposed Jam mes P ark is sharply juxt aposed with upscale Pedro witth the upsc ale San P edro Square Square restaurants resstaurants and bars just ttwo wo blo blocks ck ks southwest. sou uth hw west. Driving Caroline D past C aroline Davis Daavvis Intermediate School, Inttermediate Scho ol, his fformer o ormer junior jun nior high,, he rremembers emembers seeing kids snortt cocaine bathrooms. kid d snor ds cocaine i in i the h b bathr h oom ms. They been age,, but to Th hey may maay have haave b een his age o him m the theyy might as well have haave b been een fully grown. fullly gr own. A block block aaway, way, he rrecalls ecallls how w a friend’ friend’ss house w was as busted in a
drug raid in eighth grade grade. e. Similar to the much-publicized much-p publicized homeless enc encampment ampment The T JJungle, ungle, which b before police cleared effo ore p olice clea ared it in December was bee the biggest December w as said to b in the nation, nonnon-success success e stories in Silicon Valley likee fabric fabrications Silicon V aalley seem lik ations to those who weren’t raised here. weren’t ra aised her e.
Rhymes, Beat Rhymes, Beats, ts, Brotherhood Br otherhood When R Rey ey rreached eached Oak Gr Grove ove High School Scho ol in 19 1998, 98, kids fr from om m all sides of town cconverged onverged ar around ound d hip hip-hop. -hop. “I had a lot of friends that wer weree in the gangster rap sc scene, ene, and a lot of friends that wer weree in th the he hip hip-hop -hop scene, sc ene, so we all got to together getther and would rap rap,” ,” he sa says. ayys. The cconnection onnection also pr provided ovided a cr creative eative bridge ffor or o him to st stay ay in ccontact ontact with w older friends,, even friends even as the theyy do dove ve deep deeper er into gang lif life. fe. His sophomor sophomoree yyear ear of o high school, scho ol, R Rey’s ey’s dad b bought ough ht him a Boss DR-5, DR R--5, his first drum mac machine. chine. While making b beats eats to today daay ccan an b bee as simple as torr torrenting enting the ccomputer-based ompu uter-based production production pr program ogram Fru Fruity uity L Loops, oops, back in the late ’9 ’90s, 0s, cr creating e eating rap music rrequired equired an in investment vestment in equipment. W With ith i his firs first st building block blo ck in place, place, R Rey ey to took ok k off off. ff.. “II w was as obsessed with rapping r and making b beats,” eats,” he rrecalls. e alls. So ec Soon, on, he w was as spending spending practic practically ally all his free fr ee time with an older gr group oup of
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KEYS K EYS TO TO SUCCESS S UCC E S S R Rey ey R Res es plots his career with an a eye on the long term.
friends that fformed o ormed th the he rap clique Powered. Rey began Solar P owered. R ey eeven ven b egan cutting cut ting scho school ol to sp spend en nd time in the makeshift eshift studio ccollective’s ollective’s mak sstudio.. “When yyou’re ou’re gr growing ow wing up and about Studio,’,’ yyou ou yyou ou hear ab out ‘The Studio S think of what yyou ou see in the videos videos.. For was little F or us, us, it w as a closet and a lit tle ffour-track, our o -track, a lit little tle ghet ghetto tto machine in myy hom homie’s bedroom,” the ccorner orner of m mie’s b edroom,”” he sa says. ayys. “But it w was as th the he studio! That kept too, rreally eally k ept me out of tr ttrouble, ouble, to o, because b ecause I didn didn’t ’t w want ant to b bee out. I wanted w anted to mak makee musi music.” ic.” Taking T aking a cues fr from om th the he lo local cal gangster rap sc scene ene and db boom-bap oom-bap hip-hop hip -hop ic icons ons lik likee Out Outkast tkast and Wu-Tang W u-Tang u a Clan, R Rey ey R Res’ ees’’ sound soon so on b became ecame a fusion of the ttwo. wo. It rremains emains a hallmark off his st style yle and a testament test ament to how San n JJose’s ose’s div diversity ersity ccan an cr create eate fascinating rresults. esults. “The ccool ool thing ab about o b out being eing fr from om San JJose ose is yyou’ve ou’ve got a cholo that ccan an do a kick flip flip,” ,” he sa ssays, ayys, w watching atching kids sk skate ate ar around ound Gr Great e Oaks P eat Park. ark. “That w was as a fine balan balance nce ffor o or me me,, to figur figuree out how to still s do what I lo love, ve, which is the ba backpacker, ckpacker, underground under ground stuff stuff, ff,, bu but ut to mak makee it knock.” kno ck.” R Resurreccion eesurreccion w walks alks that line deftly on Heart of the Cit C City. t y.
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Heart of thee Cit City t y is the b best est album R Rey ey has eever ver made m made—a —a culmination of all he’s he ’s learned d and all the cconnections onnections he’s he ’s ac accumulated cum mulated o over ver the past dec decade ade and a half half.f. It’s It’s mor moree rrefined, efined,, ccalculated alculated and though thoughtful httfful than his past work. deliberate flow, it’s In addition n to his delib erate flow w, it ’s there’s been plenty eevident vident the ere’s also b een plent ty of thought pu put ut into just how the low end rresonates esonates on o these songs songs.. Myriad, subtle electr electronic onic te textures xtures permeate p ermeate the t album— album—stemming album stemming from fr om p personal erso onal influenc influences es lik likee Bjork (he cites he her er fformer o ormer pr producer, oducer, the late Mark Bell, B , as a k key ey influenc influencee to his mus musical ical appr approach) oach) as well as ccontributions ontribu utions fr from om frequent frequent ccollaborators ollaborato ors lik likee the Bangerz (members (memb ers Cutso Cutso,, Goldench Goldenchyld hyyld and Squareweezy, Squar eweeezy, thr through ough individual ccontributions, ontributio ons, pr produce oduce se seven ven of the album’s album ’s 15 tracks). Other O th cr ther credits redits dit include i l d Che Ch Chexmex, xmex, Dublin, A Audible u udible Do Doctor ctor and N Noah oah Luna, L una,, a fformer orrmer De Anza classmate o who’s who ’s now w a working arranger and ccomposer. omposer. L Luna una wr wrote, ote, arranged and directed dir ected a saxophone quar quartet tet on album clos closer ser “Quar “Quarter ter Lif Life, fe,” initially rreleased eleased ass a quick-strike, quick k-strike, one verse verse
15 his family iiss still w waiting aiting to hear back from from the ccoroner o oner as to the ccause or ause of her death. Rey already Rey and his h team had alr eady been been stressing stressing ou out ut ab about out ha having avving a thor thorough ough plan to accommodate November accommo o date a N ovember release. release. Thee ne news ws w was aas the ccatalyst atalyst ffor o or Rey Rey to push h the album to 2015. “I was waas still stiill ccoming oming [to the studio] because helped crazy, because it help h ed me to not go craz y, but deďŹ nitely b Id deďŹ ni ďŹ iitely l needed d d to ttake ak ke some time just to disappear o disapp ear ffor o or a little littttle bit and be be with h the family and all that,â€? he says. took saayys. “I fe ffeel eeel like like that time I to ok gave strength gaave me a lot l of str ength to get into this next next wind wiind of eeverything verything I’m working on now. n right now w.â€? He now has management/label h management t/ label support support fr from o Ineffable Music Gr om Group oup (Hieroglyphics, (Hieroglyph hics, Souls of Mischief), Mischief ), with PR handled byy A Audible Treats haandled b udible Tr eats (Lyrics (Lyrics Born, Born n,, Zion I). The h expanded expanded d d team has cr created reated the eexpectation xpectation that this will b bee R Rey’s largest ey’s lar gest rrelease elease yyet. et. They’ve been They’ve also ob een a welcome welcome rrelief elief ffor o or someone who who’s w ’s grown grown ccomfortable omffo ortable handling rrecording, mastering,, videos e ording, mastering ec and promo largely promo o lar gely on his own.
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video, which R video, Rey ey later chose c to What’s ccomplete. omplete. What ’s surprising surprrising is that Resurreccion R eesurreccion w was as a set to o scrap the song altogether, choosing and video alto gether, before beffo ore cho osing instead to dr drop op it on a whim. w It proves bee one of thee most p potent pr oves to b otent snapshots on the album album. m. City project Heart of the Cit t y is thee ďŹ rst pr oject he’s been he ’s b een able to rrelease elease after ttaking aking worked note of what work ed and an nd what didn’t fans.. He did didn ’ with ’t i h hi his ffans He rrealized li d that h ealized approach album—being his appr oach to this alb bum—being himself—seemed himself f—seemed to go o perfectly perfeectly with wanted. what fans w anted. a “Ultimately, people weree “Ultimately y, I think p eople wer was just digging when I w ass being being me,,â€? he notes notes.. It It’s mentality me ’s a men ntalitty he’s he’s admired about hip-hop admir ed ab out rrecent ecent hip h -hop success suc cess stories lik likee Kendrick Kend drick L Lamar amar Macklemore, and Macklemor e, both both h of whom spent nobodies sp ent yyears ears as nob odiess on the underground circuit before under d ground d cir i cuit i b efo ef ore blowing bl i mainstream. up in the mainstr eam. “What I rreally eally wanted w anted to do with this album is ignoree the h hype what’s ignor yype and wh hat’s hot and bee cr creative. fully b eative.â€? City may bear Rey’s Heart of the Cit t y ma ay b ear R ey’s artist, but name as a lead ar tist, bu ut it should bee ttaken wheree also b aken as an eexample xam mple wher both b oth he and his ccollaborators ollaborators o bar.. ccollectively ollectively raised the bar b It’s details, It ’s eevident vident in the det tails, the nuance—how beat doesn’t drop nuanc e—how the b eatt do esn’t dr op until the chorus on “Mainey, “M Mainey,â€? or Rey chooses over how R ey cho oses to rap po ver just the Upâ€? further sample on “Hands U pâ€? to fur ther choices build tension. These ch hoices rreveal eveal artists make a set of ar tists who mak ke more more than dopee b beats. Theyy recognize just dop eats. The rec e ognize the promise inherent ccomplexity omplexity and pr omisse inher ent in tension a song and utilize tensi ion and rrelease elease ffor or maximum effect. o eff ffeect. Lyrically, L yyricallyy, “R “Roachesâ€? Ro oachesâ€? ccaptures aptures his ment mentality alitty mid-albu mid-album. m. On the chorus,, he raps: “Empt chorus “Emptyy bottles, bottles, blunt rroaches, oaches, cups of coffee, coff ffeee, piz pizza za b boxes oxes / Hella laundr laundry, y, went an and nd b bought ought some ne new w socks socks and b boxers o oxers / Hella missed ccalls, alls, pr probably, obablyy, but b I ain’t ain’t even even bothered b othered / Bec Because ause yyou ou u know wher wheree I be—baby, b e—baby, I’v I’vee b been een wo working orking / And I’ll get back with yyou ou promptly, prom mptlyy, because because life lif fe happens. happens.â€? Those wor words ds proved proved telling in October, Octob er, when he rreceived eceiived wor word d of his sister’ sister’ss m mysterious ysterious passing p passing.. A Att ďŹ rst, he let the phone ccalls alls fr from rom family go to vvoicemail oicemail b because ecause hee w was as at work. When the theyy didn didn’t ’t stop, stop, he knew knew something serious had happ happened. ened. Resurreccion R eesurreccion sa says ays y his si sister’s ister’s passing was w as ccompletely ompletely une unexpected xpected e and that
Grand Gr and D Designs esigns Rey’s R ey’s relentless relenttless hustle has inspir inspired ed Bangerz me member ember Cutso eever ver sinc sincee the ttwo wo met. Ye Years Y e b ears before effo ore ccontributing ontributing “Preludeâ€? “Pr eludeâ€? to o Heart of the Cit City, t y, the theyy ďŹ rst link linked ed up while working on Sleeping Gia Giants. ants. Lit Little tle did the theyy know how a fun div d diversion ersion would ha have ave such a lasting im impact. mpact. Cutso’s Cutso ’s b beat eat on that pr project, oject, the heralde heralded ed album closer “The Hometown, Resurreccion’s Hometown n,â€? is now R eesurreccion’s signaturee song, signatur so ong, a triumphant ode ode to that Rey San JJose ose th at ffeatures eatur e es R ey rreminiscing eminiscing about ab out his eearly arly yyears ears over, over, of all things, sample.. things, a banda baanda sample crafted beat Cutso cra afted the b eat on a lark— lark k— minutes,, according in just 10 minutes m according to the producer—after pr oducer—after — a friend loaded a bunch of ba banda anda and rromantica omantica music on his iPod iPod and he happened happened to ďŹ nd worthwhile sample.. A few a wor th hw while horn sample few months late later, er, Cutso pla played ayeed the track in the studi studio io and R Rey ey jjumped jump ped to attention. at tention. As As the emc emcee ee eexplains, xplains, he heard and Cutso hear h d loud banda in their neighborhoods growing neighb orho oods all the time gr owing up.. What b better way pay up ettter t w ay to pa ay homage upbringings? to their upb bringings? entered loree The songg enter ed San JJose ose lor
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in the summer of 2011 2011, 1,, when the opened the group Bangerz op ened ffor or o th he rreggae eggae gr oup Natural V Vibrations iibrations at Music in the P ark. T o close their set, sett,, the nvvited Park. To theyy in invited R ey to p erform o “The Hometown. H ” Rey perform R ey’s father printed up shir ts Rey’s shirts and handed them out to friends and family to mark th he o ccasion. the occasion. It w as a moment of vin ndication ffor o or was vindication R esurr e eccion, who use ed to ttake ake light Resurreccion, used rail eevery very Thursda ay to hang out in Thursday Plaza de C esar Chavez. Chaavez. “It’s “It’s definitely Cesar one of the highlights of o m career, to myy career, b om San JJose ose p erforming o on that bee fr from performing st age,” he sa ayys. stage, says. It was was a triumphantt moment ffor or o R ey and the Bangerz,, both both of whom Rey toiled ffor o or yyears ears to gain n notoriet notorietyy while rar ely b eing ccelebrated eleebrated as rarely being her oes in their hometo own. heroes hometown. Sinc oodoo L ounge Sincee the closur closuree of V Voodoo Lounge on South Sec ond Street, Streeet,, rregional egional Second and national hip -hop acts a ha ave b een hip-hop have been without a cconsistent onsistent lo ocal st age, local stage, ac cording to R eesurrecciion. W iithout according Resurreccion. Without such a spac e, lo cal hip -h hop fans ar space, local hip-hop aree left with lit tttle chanc o see nationally little chancee tto rrecognized ecognized acts in San JJose. ose. In turn, ar tists lik Rey lose an opp o ortunitty to artists likee Rey opportunity hop on a big show w, earn n ne w lo cal fans show, new local or cconnect onnect with other ar aartists. tists. R esurr e eccion now mak m es the tr ek Resurreccion makes trek o ver High hway 17 to sup pport ar tists over Highway support artists p erfo orming at Sant C mainst ay performing Santaa Cruz mainstay the C atalyst. That’s That’s hiss closest touch Catalyst. oader world p oint to the br w of hip point broader hip-hop ayys that he’s he’s hit h a cceiling eiling hop.. He sa says ws it as a challenge lo callyy, but he vie locally, views challenge.. One k ey question he ’s ask ed himself key he’s asked lately is how he ccan an travel traavel and spr ead spread the wor d ab out San JJose. o . ose word about “I w ant to get m car a eer to a p oint want myy career point wher g e in the t hip p -hop p wheree I’m a figur figure hip-hop cultur tial [enough to] culturee that is influent influential eeventually ventually ccome ome back and join other p eople in tr ying to op e a venue, en venue,” he people trying open sa ays y . “It’s “It’s so hard hard for fo or these th hese up -andsays. up-andccomers omers right now to figur fi way figuree out a way b esides the Internet to o get out. That’s That’s besides huge esn’t huge,, but at the same time it do doesn’t ccover over the gr ound lik ou need to ground likee yyou to..” Sp eaking with R eesu urreccion Speaking Resurreccion ab out his futur s, it is clear about futuree plans plans, that Chessmaster R ey and R ey R ees Rey Rey Res ar aree one and the same same.. His vision transc ends 2015 and Heart H of the Cit t y, transcends City, eexposing xposing instead a bur rning desir burning desiree ffor or o the whole of his ccommunity o ommunit y to disc over itself thr ou ugh ar t, discover through art, something ffor o or which he h ’s a living he’s living,, br eathing eexample. xample. breathing
The N Next ext Move Moove Somewherre near the inter Somewhere interchange change b etween high h hwayys 8 80 and 101, between highways 880 someone dr d ew a hand holding a spra ay drew spray ccan. an. It w as that piec e, in par ticular, was piece, particular, that inspir red R esurr e eccion’s lo ve ffor o or inspired Resurreccion’s love graffiti. Gr rowing up, up, he only got to Growing see it onc est oncee a week, so he did his b best to ttake ak ke me ental notes ’d ccall all up on mental notes.. He He’d upon them h later l r when h at tempting i to d dra aw attempting draw the image at home home.. That sam me appr oach ma ay eexplain xplain same approach may how R ey iss churning out sk etches Rey sketches of pa awns w eff eeffortlessly ffo ortlessly with his rred ed pawns ccolored olored p e encil tow ard the end of his pencil toward chess class ’s just another piec class.. It It’s piecee of pap er to him, h , but to his students paper students,, it ma ay b way to disc overing may bee a gate gateway discovering str eet ar t. street art. When he h hands the sk etch o ver to sketch over a student who w asks if she ma ay have haave it, may wor d spr eaads fast. So on,, he’s he’s drawing draaw wing word spreads Soon, identic al pa aw wns ffor o or a handful of others. others. identical pawns “I’m nott eeven ven an amazing ar tist, artist, but to a ki id,, me dra aw wing those kid, drawing things is rreally e eally gr eat,”” he later sa ays y. great,” says. “I just w an nt to inspir want inspiree them to b bee cr eative.” Whether W it ’s thr ough a creative.” it’s through chessb oard or a fr ee-hand dra awing w , chessboard free-hand drawing, he do es hi est to mak does hiss b best makee the one hour a we ek with his students ccount. ount. week The juxt taposition of sharp juxtaposition sharp-tongued, str sstreetwise eetwise rapp er and a rapper brain ny che ess teacher isn ’t lost on R ey. brainy chess isn’t Rey. He do esn’tt tell his students he raps doesn’t raps,, and he ’s the th he first to sa ay his ccontent ontent he’s say isn ’t meant mean nt ffor or o such yyoung oung ears isn’t ears.. A ffew ew par entts ha ave rrecognized ecognized him, parents have and an offi ffice aide onc ed if he office oncee ask asked w as a rapp per in fr ont of his students was rapper front students.. Thanks to some quick thinking thinking,, he ccountered ounterred b byy telling them he wrapp ed gifts g at the mall. wrapped “It ’s a w eird situation ffor o or me to “It’s weird b eep it separate as bee in, but I tr tryy to k keep much as I ccan, an,” he admits admits.. A deepart,, R eesurreccion slings Ass we depart, Resurreccion his ccamo amo duffle d o ver his shoulder over shoulder.. Man ny wou uldn’t eexpect xpect the bag to Many wouldn’t b c b oards, yyet et def fyying bee full of chess boards, defying eexpectations xpectation ns has b ecome R ey’s become Rey’s trademark k. trademark. He mad de it out of Gr eat Oaks made Great Oaks.. He made on-stage on-sttage with Hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics. W iith a full l-length album that ’s his With full-length that’s str ongest to t date eady to hit shelv es strongest date,, rready shelves at the end of this month,, he ’s set to he’s finally rreveal eveal e his ne xt mo ve: spr ead next move: spread wor d of hi is hometown fur ther than word his further he eever ver tho ought p ossible. thought possible.
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guessing guessin ng as his scatterbrained sscatterbrained trap trap tunes ping-pong off the walls.. He first p got attention atteention in 2013 for for his remix remix of “Tsunami,” “TTssunami,”” by DVBBS and Borgeous. Borgeous. It’s It’s all been b uphill since then.. (AC) (AC)
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everything eveerything from from funk, pop, p, folk, folk, rock rock andd reggae, reggae, but her music generally generally falls falls into the categories of blues and soul, souul, usually someplace smack in the middle midddle of those two genres. genres.. (AC) (AC)
W B WET BANDITS ANDITS Bacck Bar SoFa, San Jose Back Sat, Sat t, 9pm, $5 Wet aree a mel melting Thee W et Bandits ar ting pot of music. m . Lead vocals are are infused with wit th turn-of-the-century angst. The bass, guitar,r, and drums ar aree ener energetic, bas ss, guitar getic, growling and har hardcore. gr o owling dcore. A piano that would sleepy, wo uld be at home in a sleepy y, smokefilled fille ed lounge,, chimes in occasionally andd soulful saxophone riffs pepper some tracks som me tr acks with swirling solos andd jazzy compliments. The band leaps from genree to genr genre, lea ps fr om genr e,, boasting a ddiscography iscography with both the wild, hedonistic “Party hed donistic “P arty Song”” and a tender acoustic “Grow They’ree aco oustic cover of “Gr ow Old.”They’r a local loocal San Jose collective ffounded ounded in 2010 201 10 that will give you ““aa little bit of this, this s, a little bit of that.”” (JF)
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FFATHER AT THER JOHN MIS MISTY TY Jan 16 at B Bret ret Harte Hall in Fel Felton ton
HARLEM HARLE EM GL GLOBETROTTERS OBETROTTERS Jan 9, 9 16 & 17 at SSAP AP Center
LLOVE OVE DIS DISTRICT TRICT J 9 at The Blank Club Jan
CHRIS BR BROWN OWN Jan 10 at RockBar Theater
VOICES V O S OF LA OICE LATIN AT TIN R ROCK OCK AUTISM A UTISM BENEFIT Jan 15 1 at Bimbo’s Bimbo’s 365 Club
SSTRANGELOVE TRA ANGELOVE (DEPE (DEPECHE CHE MODE TRIBUTE) Jan Ja an 16 at The Blank Club
THE MO MOTHER THER HIP HIPSS Jan 16 at Moe’s Moe’s Alley
TESS TE SS DUNN Jan 177 at Streetlight Streetlight Records Records
RY Y BRADLEY, BRADLEEY, POL POLYSONIC YSONIC SOUL, DOUG AN AND ND THE CARNIV CARNIVAL VA AL OF SOULSS RE SOUL REVUE VUE Jan 17 at Art Boutiki
TOTAL TOT TAL BADASS BADASS Jan Ja an 23 at The Blank Club
CHRIS BROWN BROW N CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN BASH BASH RockBar Theater, Theaterr, San Josee Sat, 9pm, $40-$110 Brown Chris Br own burst onto thee scene precocious upstart as a pr ecocious R&B upsta art with “Run It,” and since then hiss image has been bleached, tattooed tattooeed and tarnished with legal troubles. troubles. He’s He’s not your first pick to run a charity event, but this tall, dark and and crooner nimble handsome cr ooner with nim mble perfect ffeet eet is a perf ect choice to guide g party.. Blac Marc your turnt up party Marc and KMEL’s Von providing KMEL L’s ’ Big V on will be pr ovviding soundtrack the soundtr ack to your night night and theree ar aree a varietyy of packa ther ppackages ages g ffor or ballers of all budgets. Come C to the RockBar to party with TTeam eam e Breezy offer Br eezy or perhaps to off er some prevention conflict pr evention tips ffor orr his on-again-off-again rrelationship elatioonship interest, with his demi-god love int erest, Rihanna. (JF)
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RockBar Theater, Theaterr, San Jose’s Josee’s newest venue and the center of aallll things rrock ock in the South Bay, Bayy, is hostingg a ffashion ashion show—and naturally, naturallyy, it’s it’s going to … well … rrock. ock. Chloe TTrujillo rujillo r iss not only married married to one of metal’s best-known bassists (Robert Trujillo of Metallica, Trujillo r Suicidal Tendencies and In Infectious Tendencies e nfectious Grooves), musician Grooves),, she is also a mus sician and fashion Sunday, fashion designer. designerr. This Sun dayy, Chloe will bring her rrock ock & rroll-inspired oll-in nspired designs to the RockBar RockBar.. He Her er collection includes shirts,, shoes and ffoulards, oulards, but this show will ffocus ocus mainly m on her scarves handbags. scarves and handbags s.. Her style falls falls somewhere somewhere betweenn punk rrock ock
THIS TH HIS CHARMING B BAND AND (SMITHS TRIBUTE) Jan Ja an 2244 at The Blank Club
and Summer of Love. Love.. Chloe’s C ’s gr Chloe group, oup, (AC) Descend, will open the event.. (A C)
SOMETHIN SOMETHING NG LIKE SEDUCTION SEDUCTIO ON Caravan C aravan LLounge, ounge San ounge, Saan Jose Sun, 9pm, Free Free Reggae-rock been Reggae-r ock has bee en popular skanked ever since Sublime sk kanked onto airwaves the air waves two decades deccades ago. Arizona’s Arizona ’s Something Like Seduction grooves have the rreggae eggae gr oooves and the towardd rrock ock guitars, but skew w towar spectrum—a the pop end of the sp pectrum—a spacier Magic!-type vibe. v There’s There’s also a bit of ffeel-good eel-good soul in the mix,, particularly p y with lead singer g Shea’s soulful, Connor Shea ’s soulfu ul, pop-friendly voice. The ffour-piece our-piece keep the stripped music rraw aw and stripp ped down. They fformed ormed only a couplee of years ago, and plan to rrelease elease their th heir first LP in 2015. This San Jose sshow how is part of outsidee of Arizona. their first tour outsid (AC) Godspeed. (A C)
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pretty 100 Dead is a pr e brutal name, etty compare but it doesn’t doesn’t com mpare to what group weree ooriginally the gr oup wer riginally called: 100DEADRABBITS. 100DEADRABBITS S. However, However, have they may not hav ve intended the extreme moniker to soundd as extr eme as it does. After all, a the band is deeply entrenched entrencheed in video-game/ culture. it’s geek cul ture. In their thheir heads it ’s probably dead pr obably 100 dea ad anime rrabbits, abbits, which is sort of ccute. ute. This thin line separating separating dark daark and silly present is ever pr esent in the band’s growling owling music. Imagine a deep, gr singer death metal singe er and intense metalcoree instrum instrumentation, metalcor mentation, all polished off with goofy, goofy, old-school bloops video game bloop ps and bleeps. Nintendocore. They call it Ninte ndocore. There There isn’t better isn ’t rreally eally a bette er description (AC) than that. (A C)
PATTI P AT TTI SMITH SSTYX TYX Jan 28 2 at City National Civic
MONKEY MONKE Y Jan Ja an 30 at The Blank Club
CHERRY CHERR RY POPPIN’ D DADDIES ADDIES Jan 31 aatt Montalvo Arts Center
EXCISION, EX XCISION, MINNE MINNESOTA SOTA AND PR PROTOHYPE OTOHYPE Feb 6 at City National Civic
BLUE BL UE ÖY ÖYSTER STER CUL CULT LT March Mar ch h 13 at RockBar Theater
THE MOOD MOODY Y BL BLUES UES April 28 2 at City National Civic
LANA DEL RE REY Y & CCOURTNEY OURTNEY LLOVE OVE May 20 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre For mus music ic updates and contest giveawayys, like us on Facebook giveaways, at metr metrofb.com ofb.com
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Forgotten Soldiers WOUNDED W OU N D E D W WARRIOR A R R IOR Sen. Daniel K. Ino Inouye, uye, who rose to the rank of ca captain aptain in the U.S. Army Italy. U..S. Ar rmy y and lost p part off his right g arm a fighting fig g in Italy y.
Photo exhibit highligh highlights hts Japanese American Ameri ican veterans who w served despite internment desp pite the internm ment BY B Y RICHARD RICHA ARD VON VON BUS BUSACK ACK
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T’S T’S ONE ONE E of the keenest ironies of the Second World War. W orld W ar. In the 1940s the American-born Ame erican-born sons of Japanese immigrants— Japanese e immigr ants— the Nisei—were Nisei— —were soldiers at some of the e worst fighting in Europe. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, their families languished lan nguished in a series of prison camps, ca amps, all over the wastelands wastelandss of America. Califfo Californians ornians assume that the rrest est of knows about this,, b because the nation kn ows ab out this ecause storyy is so well known her here. Don’t the stor e. Don n’’t bet Francisco’s Tom Graves, b et on it. San Francisc o’s T om Gra o aves, photographer Twice author and ph hotographer of T w wice
Herroes: America’s Heroes: H America’’s Nisei V Veterans eetteerans of Korea, during W WWII and K oorea, has learned durin ng his travels internment hi iss ttra aveelss that t at the t e mass ass internmen te ent is from the a topic that ffew ew study aaway way fr om th he West Coast. W eest C oast. Graves was university Gra aves w aas lecturing at a univ erssitty Texas. asked many in nT exas. “I ask keed how man ny of the 70 people heard p e eople in the rroom oom had hear d of what w happened h appened to the JJapanese-Americans, apanese-Americans a ,” Graves says. people raised G Gra aves sa ays y . “Only ttwo wo p eople raise ed their was th heir hands. hands. One of the ttwo w wo w as the th he professor. pr roffeessor.” Opening soon Op ening so on at the JJapanese apanese American A Americ i an Museum M off S San JJose ose is i a show Graves’ portraits sh how of Gra aves’’ p ortraits of these old soldiers,, including se several new ol ld soldiers veral ne w unpublished ones.. The show is titled: un npublished ones titleed: “Twice Heroes More. “T Tw wice Her oes and Mor e.” became myy mission “It rreally eally b ecame m people moree about to o teach p eople mor about it,” Graves says. book 98 G Gra aves sa ays y . His original b ook has 9 8
photographs photo graphs of Nisei men m and women served who ser veed in the milit tary, with military, p ersonal histories avees notes that personal histories.. Gra Graves his subjects “ma ay ttalk alk ab aabout out ccombat, ombat, “may childho od,, the internm ment ccamps… amps… childhood, internment Ther are others fr tle, Or egon, om Seat Theree are from Seattle, Oregon, Washing ton D C. I tried d not mak Washington DC. makee it a Ba ay Ar ea b ook,, but ffor o orr this eexhibit xhibit I Bay Area book, sp ecifically inter viewed d lo cal vveterans eterans e specifically interviewed local of W orld War II or K o orrea. ea”” World Korea. During the w aar yyears, earrs, some 115,0 00 war 115,000 JJapanese apanese Americ ans we ere k ept in Americans were kept sto ck kaades, b etween thee P acific and the stockades, between Pacific Mississippi. P erhaps ttwo-thirds w wo-thirds of the Perhaps cconfined onfined wer a orn citizens an-b weree Americ American-born citizens.. Despite the the humili iation of seized humiliation homes ortation a transportation to the homes,, and transp desert or the prairie he sons of the desert prairie,, th the olunteered to o t fight in W o orld interned vvolunteered World s egated War II,, in the racially segr segregated 442nd R eegiment. Their Theirr mot ttto w as 442nd Regiment. motto was o or Broke’—a Brok ke’—a Hawaiian Haawaaiian expression expression ‘Go ffor ver e ything. And meaning to gamble eeverything. o orean War br ok ke out, when the K Korean broke read dyy. Nisei soldiers wer weree ready. Graavees previously previously photographed ph hotographed Graves Morgan Hill’s Hill’s Lawson Law wson Sakai, Sak S ai,, who Morgan received four fo our Purple Hear H ts and a received Hearts
Bronze star starr for for o his soldiering in the Bronze Vo osges g . Sakai Sak kai took took part part in the rescue p rescue Vosges. famo ous “Lost “Lost Battalion, Batttalion,” whose of the famous survival is one o of the legends of the survival war. The newer newer p ortraits include war. portraits “K Kats”” Hikido of Campbell, Campbell, Katsumi “Kats” injured from from o a landmine while serving serving injured 442nd. 4 part of the with the 442nd. Also part exhibit: T aak k Ota Ota of Gilroy, Gilroy, whose uncle exhibit: Tak was killed in i Hiroshima Hiroshima even eveen as Ota Ota was was doing intelligence intelligence work ffor o or the was Arm my. Army. quarteet of San JJose ose vets vets e posed posed ffor o or A quartet Graavees: Buster Bu uster Ichikawa Ichik kawa was was wounded, Graves: i back aliv from the bitter bitttter but made it alivee from alyy. Leo Leo Oyama ffought o ought in fighting in It Italy. France and d It aly with K C ompan ny of France Italy Company 442nd.. Frank Shimada w as in the the 442nd. was enade. Hiroshi Hiroshi blast rangee of an Axis gr grenade. “T Teerry”” Terakawa Teerrakawa was was a corporal corporal in the “Terry” Korean war. war a. Korean Graaves says sayys that all these old Graves warriors have haave something in ccommon: ommon: warriors “The Theyy’rre vvery e y quiet,, vvery er ery humble “They’re humble.. o ou sit with them,, mor But if yyou moree things about what whaat happ ened in the w ar about happened war come out. ‘I’m ‘ not a her o,’ the ay come hero, theyy sa say off ff. ‘I didn d ’t do an nyything an nyo one first off. didn’t anything anyone didn’t do. do. We We were were just [ther e] else didn’t [there] prove we w wer to prove weree citizens citizens,, hoping ould help h our families in the we ccould internmen nt ccamp. amp.’” internment Graaves started started his pr oject in 20 01, Graves project 2001, as a inter viewing vveterans. eterans. when he w was interviewing When I le earned the stor “When learned storyy of how poorly the nation tr eated the families poorly treated Niseei,, and how bra ave these of the Nisei, brave weere in ccombat, ombat,, it b ecame m soldiers were became myy e,” he sa ayys. mission to find out mor more, says. th he w aar w as o veer, antiWhen the war was over, Japanese se entiment ccontinued. ontinued. Gra aves e Japanese sentiment Graves arm my captain captain and tells a stor storyy of an army .S. Senator, Senator, Daniel Inouye, Inouyye, later a U U.S. o. This 4 42nd arriving in San Francisc Francisco. 442nd vet,, who lost lo ost an arm in It alyy, walked walk a ed vet, Italy, rket Street Street barber barber shop with into a Mar Market a chest fulll of medals medals,, including the Distinguish hed Ser vice Cr oss. Inouy ye Distinguished Service Cross. Inouye was denied d a seat and told, “We “W We don ’t was don’t ap hai ir her e.” cut JJap hair here. “A After the th he w aarr, these p eople wer re not “After war, people were ent or buy houses avees allowed to rrent houses..” Gra Graves saayys. “Thesee guys ffought o ought ffor o or this ccountry o ountry says. treatment e theey wer ttting. It after the treatment they weree get getting. a one of the gr eatest lessons struck me as greatest American a histor y. And it ’s lar gely not in American history. it’s largely being ttaught. augh ht” ht. .””no noon being noon
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T W ICE HEROES TWICE AND MORE Japanese American Museum
TUESDAYS TUE SDAYS WITH MORRIEE The autobiogr autobiographical aphical story from of a one-time visit fr om an accomplished journalist to an professor eccentric fformer ormer college pr ofessor that turns into a weekly masterr life. course on the meaning of lif e. Theatre $15-$38.. Jan 30-Feb 22. Theatr re Pedro on SSan P edr d o Squar SSquare. e.. San S Jose. J
BUILD A Ferrari-driving Ferrari-driving workaholic grounded and a widowed, but gr oundeed aree working on a sequ sequel artist ar el to their smash-hit video game gam me intelligent nt when an artificially intellige interest est complicates love inter process. 22-- Feb 22. the pr ocess. Jan 22 $17-$32. $17 -$32. City Lights Theater Company.. San Jose. Company
EURYDICE EUR YDICE The classic myth of Orpheuss and Eurydice is rreimagined eimagined through thr ough the eyes of the heroine her oine as she navigates thee Underworld, Under world, rreunites eunites with hher er the beloved ffather, ather, and learns th he unbending rreality eality of death. Jan J 17-- Feb 224. $17-$42. Palo Alto 17 4. $17 -$42. P alo Al t to Palo Alto Players. P alo Al to
COMEDYSPORTZ COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV IMPR OV CCOMEDY OMEDY An impr improvised ovised battle of wits wits, s s, audience-sourced all audience-sour ced and entiree ffamily. suitable ffor or the entir amilyy. $12-$15. Ongoing. $12 -$15. CCamera amera 4,, San Jose.
MAPLE AND VINE Exhausted by the rigors of life, modern lif e, KKatha atha and Ryu aree convinced by a gr gregarious ar egariouus 1950s rreenactor eenactor to give up ““sushi sushi and cellphones ffor or cigarettes cigar ettes and TTupperware uupperware pparties.”” Jan 29-Feb 22. $18$ Theater.. LLos Altos $28 Bus Barn Theater os Al tos Company. Altos. SStage tage Company y. LLos os Al tos.
2 PIANOS 4 HANDS TTwo w wo aspiring piano savants play p from everything fr om Beethoven ttoo helicopter Joplin while handling helicop pter parents, quirkyy teachers, and par ents, quirk their the trials and triumphs of the eir supremacy. dual journey to supr emacyy. TheatreWorks. 14-- Feb Theatr eWorks. Jan 14 8. $25-$68. Mountain View Performing Center ffor or P erformingg Arts.
*concerts *c oncerts MUSIC A AT T THE MARKET A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized or ganized by San Jose Jazz. Pedro Every Fri, 77-9pm. -9pm. San P edro Squaree Market, San Jose. Squar
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A weekly showcase of Bay Area’s Ar ea’s budding music scene across acr oss all genres. genres. Most TTuesdays, uesdays, u 7pm. Thru Dec. Theatree on San P Pedro Square, Theatr edro Squar e, San Jose.
Various art and photogr Various photography aphy created cr eated by students at De Anza College. CCupertino. upertino.
*operaa *oper WHERE ANGEL ANGELSS TO FEAR T O TREAD A tense collision of cultures cul tures occurs when a rich Englishwoman goes against her proper desires pr oper family’s family’s desir es and ffalls alls ffor or a broke broke but dashing Italian. World premiere. W orld pr emiere. $50-$120. Feb Operaa San Jose.. CCalifornia 77-22. -22. Oper alifornia Theatre, Theatr e,, San Jose.
LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS CCOMPANY OMPANY “Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery”,, “Zulugrass ffeaturing eaturing the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Great Maasai tribe of the Gr eat Rift Valley V alley of KKenya enya and TTanzania. aanzania. “Woodcarvings Val Gardena, “W Woodcarvings of V al Gar dena dena, Italy,” handcrafted Italy y,,” ffeaturing eaturing handcr afted woodcarving figures. woodcar ving figur es.
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Oper Operaa Night. First Friday of every month. San Jose.
“Momentum,” Thru Feb 22.. “Post “Post Portrait” P ortrait” Thru Jan 16.. “Robert Portraits: Henri’s CCalifornia alifornia P ortraits: 1914-Realism, Race and Region,, 1914 25.” Thru Jan. “Sleight of Hand” Painting P ainting and Illusion. Thu Feb 22. “City Limits, City Life” Life” Thru Jun 14. Tue-Sun, Tuue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose. Mon. Jose
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MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM ART GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS “The Manr Manresa esa Seasons: Exhibition of Santa Cruz Sculptor David Kimball Anderson.” An exhibition workss inspir inspired displaying work ed by Zen philosophies and natural al phenomenon that natur provide provoke pr ovide peace and pr ovoke contemplation. Nov 6- Jan 31. LLos os Gatos.
CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS TS CENTER “Loose in Some Real TTropics” “Loose ropics” Rauschenberg’s by Robert Rauschenber g’s “Stoned projects from “S toned Moon” Moon” pr ojects fr om 1969-70. “Pop 196970. Thru Mar 16. “P op Art from fr om the SFMOMA Anderson Collection”” ffeaturing workss by Collection eaturing work Warhol, W arhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and others. Thru Oct 26. SStanford. tanford.
CHILDREN’S DISC DISCOVERY OVERY MUSEUM “Broken? Fix It.” Fr “Broken? From om the wheel to the laptop, this exhibit shows how to fix it. San Jose.
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““Antique Antique Ohio Amish Quil A Quilts ts from Darwin fr om the Dar win D. Bearley Collection”” show the br breadth Collection eadth creativity quiltof cr eativity in the quil tmaking tradition tradition from from 18801940. Bearley popularized the quilts quil ts when he took them out of the community and sold broader them to the br oader American Mar.. 1. public. Thru Mar “Two Wonders” “T Tw wo Color W onders” demonstrate demonstr ate how limiting a color pallette to only two create colors can cr eate stark contrasts contr asts and complimentary dynamics. San Jose.
TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T “Holly V Van aan Hart:: P Possibilities ossibilities Large Abound”” Lar ge paintings exploring the concept of Clara. potential. Thru Feb 14.. Santa Clar a.
WEIRD SCIENCE SCIENCE V Video ideo i gam game me creators Kip (George P Psarras, sarrass, left) and Will (Max Tachis) (Morgan Voellger) W ill i (M ax T achis) are troubled a d by the insightful A.I. (M organ V oellger) o created “Build”” by Michael Golam Golamco, whom Kip has secretly create ed in “Build mco o, Theater opening at City Lights Theate er this month. Cor ral & John Haag. Thru Jan Corral Palo Alto. 29. P alo Al to.
GALLERY GALLER Y HOUSE
“Heaar This.”” discovers the “Hear artistic artis stic potential of sound. Palo Alto. Thruu Apr 12. P alo Al to.
WORKS W ORKS SSAN AN JOSE
“New YYeareare New Beginnings.” Palo Alto. Thru Jan 31. P alo Al to.
HIGHER FIRE CLA CLAYSPACE AYSPACE
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First Fridays ffeature eature new demonstrations, artwork, demonstr ations, and conversations with artists. San Jose.
Watercolors W attercolors by Made’ Made’ Sukerti Berg. Ber g San Jose. g.
"Origins Origins Of Lif Life" ee" by Adam Brown own an and Br nd Robert Root Berenstein Ber ensteein combines art and science iin n an investigation of some infl influential fluential U of Chicago experiments experime ents in the 1950s. Thru 27. Mar 27 7. San S Jose.
KALEID GALLER GALLERY Y “Hark” work by over 60 artists. Thru Jan 16. San Jose.
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“5th Chicano/a Biennial” rreflects eflects on the critical edge interventions and aesthetic inter ventions contemporary within contempor p aryy Chicano art. Dec 5- Mar 14. San Jose.
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“Preview Exhibit,” ffeaturing “Preview eaturing the original work of over 30 artists. Thru Feb 6. San Jose.
“Merry Art “Merry Art”” local artists display their work in this seasonal showcase. Thru Jan 4. Redwood City. City.
BRUNI BR UNI GALLER GALLERY Y Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan. Mon-Sat, 1-6pm. San Jose.
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DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SHALA
“Creative in Common” “Creative Common” ffeatures eatures work by artists like Francis Sam Fr ancis and Fletcher Benton and the work of their artistic rrelatives. elatives. “Keep “Keep Calm Calm and Collect On” On” ffeatures eatures the museum’s museum ’s rrecent ecent acquisitions including prints by Andy Warhol Wayne W arhol and W ayne Thiebaud. Mar.. Santa Clar Clara. Thru Mar a.
“San Shui,” paintings by Altice Russell Al tice Case. Case. ase San Jose. Jose
EMPIRE SE SEVEN VEN SSTUDIOS TUDIOS “Broad Spectrum” “Broad Spectrum” Ladies Group Show.. Thru Jan 31. Gr oup Show San Jose.
FIRST T FIRST TO O MARKET RESTAURANT RE STAURANT “Photography,” “Photogr aphyy,,” work workss by
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Patrick Lyons. Patrick Lyons. Mixed-media workss by Colin Jar Jaramillo, work amillo, thru Aug 30. San Jose.
MEZCAL MEZ CAL Art by JJ.. Danniel. Mezcal Restaurant, Restaur ant, San Jose.
MONTALVO MONT ALVO ARTS ARTS CENTER “P “Perceptual” Perceptual ceptual” LLucas ucas Artist Fraser Fellows Chris Fr aser and exploree Justin LLowman owman explor the rrelationship elationship between perception, per ception, light, space, and Saratoga. place. Thru Feb 1. Sar atoga.
PACIFIC P ACIFIC AR ART T LEA LEAGUE GUE “Member’s “Member ’s Exhibits Exhibits”” by Sal
PALO P ALLO AL ALTO TO AR ART T CENTER
PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUTS DONUTS Worrks by John Renzel, Lacey Works Bryant, Brya ant, Nicolas CCaesar, aesar, Murphy Adams, Ada ms, Christine Benjamin, Michael Michhael Foley, Foleyy, Michael Borja, Valery V aleery Milovic, Carlos Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Joyner, Laura Laura Callin Callin Bennett, Ben nett, John Hageman and Robert McColley. Rob ert McColley y. San Jose.
SAN SAN N JOSE INS INSTITUTE TITUTE OF ART CCONTEMPORARY ON NTEMPORARY AR T “Rellics” explores “Relics” explores what technology embraces tech hnology embr aces and makes mak kes obsolete. Thru Jan 24. 24. San Jose.
SEEING SEE EING THING THINGSS GALLERY GALLERY “Moove” Photogr “Move” Photography aphy show curated ffeaturing eaturing over 30 artists cur ated by Rich R Jacobs.. San Jose
SOUTH SOU UTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS "Art Lif "Art Lifer" er" by Alfredo Alfredo Reyes and Debbie from Deb bie Doherty with music fr om DJ Mystik M Mike. “Assemble!” “Assemble!” a MESHcollective show.. Works MES SHcollective show Works by various vario ous artists. San Jose.
STU STUDIO UDIO R ROCK OCK CLIMBING CLIM MBING GGYM YM “Pettrified,” works “Petrified,” works by Andy Wallace. W allace. San Jose.
Daily Cla Classes sses off offered ered on Art and TTechnology. eechnology. San Jose. Pieces fr from om Benefit Art Auction. San Jose.
*events *e vents CREATIVE CREA AT TIV VE A AWARDS WARDS GALA This annual annual event is a salute Area to Bay Ar rea video video-makers makers Mulcahy.. hosted by b Michael Mulcahy Sat, Jan 10, 1 7pm. $25-$50. City National Civic. Redwood City. City.
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Portrait of the Artist DIESEL D IESEL AND A ND DUST DUST T Timothy i imothy h Spall ll portray portrays ys JJ.M.W. .M.W. T Turner, urnerr, who h captured d the smoggy harbors of Industrial R Revolution Turner.’ h evolutiion England, in ‘‘Mr. M Mrr. T urnerr..’
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HER HERE’S RE’S A SCENE in Skyfall Sky yfall where Daniel Craig’s Craiig’s James James Bond is meeting with his m quartermaster quartermas ster (Ben Whishaw) at National Gallery.. Our the British N ational Gallery seated hero is seat ted in front of JJ.M.W. .M.W. Turner’s 1838 T urner’s 183 38 painting The Fighting Temeraire Te emerra aire. It depicts a ship, ship p, once part p of the victorious fleett at T Trafalgar, British flee rafalgarr, being the wrecker’ss yard towed to th he wrecker’ yard salvage. for salv age.. The young Q has chosen the rendezvous carefully way and cruelly y as a w ay to infer 007’ss obsole obsolescence. 007’ escence.
The question of obsolesc obsolescence ence partt of Mik Mikee L Leigh’s is a par eigh’s toweringg study artist st tudy of the ar tist in question, question Mr. Turner. Mikee L Leigh, likely M Mr r. T urnerr. Mik u eigh, lik ely England’s En ngland’s most eminent director, directorr, may bee demonstrating his own m ma ay b perplexity p e erple xity at changing ttastes, astes, and d the makes th he changing ideas of what mak e es movie. biography odd, a mo vie. This bio graph hy of an o d dd, man’s ccompartmentalizing o ompar tmentalizing man ’s last quarter qu uar ter ccentury entury is as fascinating as lovable. It’s incidents, itt is lo vable. It ’s a series of incide nts, m most of them quiet, illustrating an a off-beat life. off ff--b ff beat lif fe. Turner was the T urner ((Timothy Timoth hy Spall) w as th he painter turbulence, pa ainter of seaside turbulenc e, of smoke brume.. In some rrespects, sm moke and brume esp ects e , painters hee anticipated the action painter rs of the 1950s,, using his fingernails an and th he 1950s nd spittle may bee sp pittle on his ccanvases. anvases. Spall ma ay b best from Harryy P Potter b e known fr est om the Harr otter t
wererat, but squinting,, films as a wer erat, bu ut his squinting Turner more likee a b bear ambling T urner is mo ore lik ear half-out hibernation. growls half f- out of hib ernatio on. He gr owls displeasure and rumbles his displ leasure at from pricee eeverything ver ything fr om the rising r pric less-than-acute of pigments to the les ss-than-acute way. criticism ccoming oming his w ay. shows B Spall But S ll also l show h ws us a ccordial, ordial, di l good humored figure. Turner go o d humor ed figur e. T urner is Dickensian depicted as a Dick enssian character in some rrespects—a espects—a self sself-made f--made man, free speak mind. Even Leigh fr ee to sp eak his mind d. Ev en if L eigh keeps famously k eeps his work w unscripted, periods intense after p eriods of inten nse rrehearsal, ehearsal, language is essential to t this film. Mr. Turner’s texture both Mr r. T urner’’s fine te u xtu ure is b oth in understand, the lines we underst a and, and the don’t once. ones we don ’t quite pick p up at onc e. and oll to the Spall brings a burr an nd rroll dialogue vintage dialo gue rrecalling ecalling vin ntage actors Fields such as W.C. W..C. F ields and an nd Charles Laughton. Encouraging nervous L aughton. Enc ouraging a ner vous playing yyoung oung woman pla ayyin ng her spinet, says, possess rare he sa ayys, “I p are ffondness o ondness ffor o or ossess a ra Purcell.” Pur cell.” Likee Orson W Welles lookingLik elles e in his lo oking-
backward Leigh eigh seems to back ward films, fi films ,L have was good ha ave faith that it w as a ggo o d life liffe However back then. Howe ver he doesn’t do esn’t overlook little doctors o verlook how h lit tle do ctors ccould ould do ffor o or the ill. Mortality Mor tality dogs dogs the does painter as he do es his work. Both Turner beloved T urner and d his b eloved father (Paul suffer from (P aul JJesson) esso on) suff ffeer fr om lung ailments.. Many people ailments M y of the p Man eople Mr. Turner who will hate h M r. T urner will hate u life—the it ffor or o the ar aartist’s tist’s home lif fe—the scenes the artist’s sc enes of th he ar tist’s brutish use neglect servant and neglec g ct of his adoringg ser vant (Dorothy Hannah (D Dorothy Atkinson) Attkinson) who was crippled psoriasis.. Yet Mr. w as cripple ed with psoriasis Yeet M r. Turner shows T u urner sho ows the true satisfaction domesticity Turner of domesti icity when T urner meets finally mee ets his soul mate: Sophia Bailey) bright-eyed (Marion B ailey) a bright - eyed Margate innkeeper Mar gate in nnkeeper with a ssweet weet Kentish accent. Theree was K entish ac cent. Ther was a time word when the wor w d “homely” wasn’t wasn’t insult—when person an insult — —when it meant a p erson want or thing yyou’d o ’d w ou ant to ccome ome to.. Baile Bailey’s warmth home to B y’s w armth and merriness in the rrole ole shows a kind attractiveness tractivveness that is eexactly of at xactly the opposite opp osite of o the brand sold at eevery very magazine st sstand. and. Ass V Victorian society A iicto orian so ciety got duller,, the national wealthier and a duller artt became loftier.. The Pr Prear becamee loftier eRaphaelites Raphaelite es ccame ame into fashion, flattering aristocrats flat tering the t aristo crats who liked themselves lik ed to seee themselv es as the descendants Arthur. desc endants of King Ar thur. Turner snickering T urner is seen s snick ering at a galleryy fulll of lily lily-fair galler -fair maids and armor.. (I rrecalled knights in armor ecalled Spall from Sullivan’s singing fr o Gilbert om Gilb ert and Sullivan ’s Princess Leigh’s Topsy Princ ess Idaa in L eigh’s T ops o sy Turvy: T u urvy: ““A A man m is but an ass/who cuirass.”) fights in a cuirass .”) The British snickered public snic ckered also, also, as Turner’s Turner’s became moree abstract. A Ass ccanvases anvases b ecame mor happened later,, happ ened to Whistler yyears ears later Turner was throwing T urner w a accused as accused of thr owing a pot paint public’ss fac face. p ot of pain nt in the public’ e. Theree may Ther may be ma be more more than one way storyy of a firm w ay to rread ead this stor artist, but affablee ar tist, who made a gesturee when rremarkable emarkable altruistic gestur faced payoff. fac ed with a final pa ayoff ff.. Leigh Leigh the physicality rrevels evels in th he ph hyysicality of this long between lines,, gone era. But B b etween the lines provides keeping he pr ovidees a lesson in k eeping the guarded soul guar d and seeking what ded
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Stoned Immaculate LAZY STORY STRUCTURE and arcless arc compliment, rather than injure, Inherent Vice. P.T. Anderson’s ingratiating version of sometimes-Aptos-based author Thomas Pynchon’s homage to detective fiction. The mood is far more important than the case. It’s a threnody for the end of the 1960s, as the best defective-detective since Dude Lebowski tries to determine who is responsible for what. Narration by a female psychic named Sortilege (Joanna Newsom) provides a frame for the adventures of Doc Sportello. He’s played by Joaquin Phoenix, muttonchopped and straw-hatted like the young Neil Young. He’s sort of-kind of on the trail of a vanished developer called Wolfmann (Eric Roberts). The detective learns the real estate bigwig has connections to Shasta (Katherine Waterston) the lovely who Doc said farewell to years before. For a time, Doc’s nemesis seems to be the furious yet telegenic “Renaissance cop” Bigfoot Bjornsen (Josh Brolin, beautifully channeling the blocked rage of Sterling Hayden). The way Anderson reveals a friendship between the hippie-hating flattop and the passive stoner is one of the film’s surprises. Inherent Vice isn’t a lavish recreation of
1970 LA; it takes place in cars, offices and other interiors where the walls barely keep out the ambient paranoia. TV sets act as informants, reluctantly doling out clues. Understanding the way Inherent Vice this time-honored genre makes its own R; 148 Min. gravy, Anderson has Plays Doc knocked cold to Valleywide wake up somewhere else, and sends strangers into the room holding weapons. Many exotic women turn up to turn Doc around. These include the bad-girl Shasta, who whips up a memorable sex scene—in the end, what’s more erotic than a woman describing exactly what she wants? The very kinky half-pint porn star Belladonna has a cameo, as does Serena Scott-Thomas as the scantily clad Mrs. Wolfmann. The film teems with Southern California eccentrics—Martin Short as a horndog dentist, Owen Wilson as a legally dead saxophonist. A malign influence on all is a mysterious organization called “The Golden Fang,” perhaps still at large. Inherent Vice is a light film, but it leaves an impression that the heavy films can’t. The vanishings, the bad vibes and the smoggy seaside light creates its own keen melancholy.—Richard von Busack
SELMA (PG-13;; 127 min.) Ava (PG-13; Ava v DuV DuVernay’s ernay’s stiff brave account of the br avve stand of Martin LLuther uther King (David Oyelowo) O against the police, Alabama state polic ce, and the vigilante thugs who tried to block b King’s peaceful march ch to Montgomery. Monntgomeryy. Filming 1965 mar DuVernay impresses on location,, DuV ernnay impr esses with a sense of history being b made,, as well as a sense of how lilittle ittle has changed yesterday’s since those days;; ye esterday’s poll taxes gave way to today’ss caged voters. The difference King’s ailings—his diff erence is that Ki ng’s ffailings—his quarrels wife, Coretta (Carmen quar rels with his wi fe,, Cor etta (C armen Ejogo)—can finallyy be mentioned in a biopic.. Oyelowoo plays King with dignity, DuVernay understated dignity y, and DuV Vernay e is trying hard hard not to make m a plaster saint it’s out of the man.. Butt it ’s a tensionbreaker spreads br eaker when the dir ddirector ector spr eads the story wider to the offices o of LLyndon yyndon
Ongoing Ongoin ng THE HOBBIT HOBBIT: T: B BATTLE AT TTLE OF ARMIES THE FIVE ARM MIES (PG-13;; 145 min. (PG-13; min.).) With CGI thick as groaning mayonnaise andd a stage gr oaning with characters characters in search search of a stopping point, point The Hobb Hobbit: bit: The Battle of The Five Armiess is the keystone in the arch arch between betweeen the two trilogies. Unfortunately, Unfortunatelyy, the the masonry is shaky. shaky. This wrap-up wrap-up exemplifies exxemplifies what critic Jonathan Rosenbaum Rosen nbaum called “Chicken McNuggets” McNuggets” action acttion cinema—tasty bits unconnected byy any or organic ganic matter. matter. The tasty bits ar are re few, few w, but there there are are moments in thee scrimmage where where it seems as if director director Peter Peter Jackson Jackson didn’t yarn However,r, didn’t get his ya arn tangled.. However the bland, connective conneective tissue is overly abundant, abundant and fight fi scenes drag drag on for for tens of minutess on end, without ever resolving resolving into any anny kind of meaningful catharsis. (RvB)
ANNIE (PG;; 119 min.) In this remake remake of the Quvenzhané musical, Quvenz zhané Wallis Wallis stars as the titular orphan who w escapes her mean ffoster oster mom (Cameron (Cam meron Diaz) and goes tycoon who’s to live with a tyc coon (Jamie Foxx) who ’s campaigning mayor.. (RvB) also campaignin ng to be mayor
EXODUS: EX ODUS: GOD GODS DS AND KING KINGSS It’s It ’s a Biblical epic epiic done the George George Bernardd Shaw way—thr way—throw Bernar w ow the bone, agnostics a bon ne,, and suggest that aree a thr threat rreligious eligious zealotss ar eat to an orderly functioning society. or derly function ning society y. Exodus: Gods and Kingss is rich,, gilded,, crisply digitalized paga pagan an spectacle in sharp 3D.. Haters ar aree blind humor,r, b to the humor which was ffar thinner ar th hinner in Cecil B.. De Mille’s Joel Mille’s Egypt. Jo el Edgerton’s Edgerton’s Ramses comes out as a ruler in full,, a victim of both history and a an unthinkable and frightening entity. g g entity y. Christian Bale handles thee role role of Moses with satisfying, commanding comm manding style.. It’s It’s often not a sane movie, moviie,, but the wit and opinion in it make make something like Noah look as pr precooked ecooked as V Veggie eggie e TTales aales. (RvB)
NATIONAL NA AT TIONAL GA GALLERY ALLER RY (Not rated; rated;; 180 min.) m A documentary that goes behind behind the scenes at National Gallery, LLondon’s ondon’s Nation nal Gallery y, one of the world’s most rrenowned en nowned museums. (RvB)
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THE DUDE REDUX Joaquin Phoenix plays Doc Sportello, ‘the best defective-detective since Dude Lebowski.’
(PG;; 125 min.) Highl Highlyy satisf satisfactory actory film adaptation of James J Lapine and SSteven teven Sondheim’s Sondheim’s 1986 rrevisionist evisionist ffairy airy tale musical about abbout the uses of disenchantment—as disenchantment— —as the line goes, “It’s “It’s always ‘or’ ‘or’ and never neveer ‘‘and.’” and.’”The show has a lot of ““and”—it and”— —it wanders and extraa innings. goes into extr innings.. But director director Rob Marshall (Chicago,, Nine N ) hasn’t hasn’t adapted material this choicee before. before. Maybe the transition transition to screen scrreen was helped by how cinematic this music is already. alreadyy. Sondheim’s Sondheim’s ffondness ondneess ffor or Hitchcock’s favorite favorite composer, composerr, Bernard B Bernar d Herrmann, Herrmann, and Herrmann’s own Herrmann’s ow wn ffondness ondness for for Charles Ives, makes the sound fit the soulfully overcast overcast scenery. scceneryy. Into the Woods’ Wooods’ look could be b called “New Albion,”” trans trans UK/Northern UK/N Northern California: California: Locations the Queen’s Locations include th he Queen ’s fforest orest at Windsor (the film has credits has two cr edits for for “environmental stewards”). “environmental stew wards”). The richly wooded stage inter interiors aree like Sonoma riors ar forests, volcanic forests, ests with volcani ic boulders and live oaks. oaks. The plot is a sstory tory of collision and criss-crossed The roster criss-crossed quests. q roster includes a rreluctant eluctantt Cinderella Cinderella (Anna Kendrick, Kendrick,, a little outt of her depth),, a blue-haired blue-haired hag (Meryl (Meryl SStreep, treep, going big),, a dallying Prince Princce Charming (Chris Pine,, in good voice and a looking a lot like Peter Peter O’Toole), O’TToole), o , and a a barren barren baker’s baker’s wife wife (Emily Blunt). Performing Performing the rrole ole of the lascivious wolf, woolff, Johnny Depp doesn’t show—Depp doesn’t stop the sho ow—Depp seems to be channeling Terry-Thomas, and he Terry--Thomas, T basically sends you back to rrewatch ewatch Tim Tim Burton’s Burton’s SSweeney weeney TTodd oodd. SStill, till,, the cast is like New Englandd weather—if you don’t you’re don’t like what you’ ’re seeing, wait ffor or a few few minutes.. (RvB)
Johnson (T (Tom Toom Wilkinson) W and Governor George great Geor ge Wallace Wallace (Tim (Tim Roth):: both gr eat actors,, both wrong wrong o for for their parts.. It’s It’s a needed movie that need ded to be made,, a movie great of gr eat merit but but of little pulse.. (RvB)
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(R;; 115 min min.) n.) Based on the Opr Oprahahhonored ed book book that so many serious honor backpackers backpacke ers hurled against the wall, Wildd may also a rraise aise hackles outside the community, hiking com mmunityy, in spite of the ffact act it’s that it ’s Da Dallas allas Buyers Club-dir -director ector Jean-Marc Jean-Marc Vallée’s Vaallée’s best movie to date. Wildd’’ss auth author, horr, Cheryl Strayed, Strayed,, told all extra-marital affairs about her extr a-marital aff airs and heroin. dabbling with w her oin. Wildd integr integrates ates Strayed's Strayed's troubled t oubled past with her lonely tr journey upp the Pacific j Pacific Crest Crest Trail, Trail,, thanks thanks to lapidaryy editing and the aid of Nick Hornby’s fine fi script.. Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) Witherspoon) is a noob hiker who never gave enough enough thought to the equipment and discipline disciplline she would need ffor or the journey. j journey y.. She Shhe adapts, learning from from walkers, product helpful wa lkers,, and a little pr oduct placementt courtesy of REI.. But as she gets betterr as a hiker, hikerr, she’s she’s still an outsider:: sussed suussed out as a harlot by a motel owner ownner and gently persuaded to leave a boutique bouutique when she’s she’s too rrank ank from from the trail. trrail. The vistas are are there, there,, but so are yokels and unhelpful are threatening threatening e forest forest rangers ranggers (pissy martinets, horndogs,, or both). (RvB)
NIGHT A AT T THE MUSEUM: SECRET TOMB SE CRET OF O THE T OMB (PG;; 97 min min.) n.) This sequel finds Lar Larry ry tillerr) bringing together old (Ben SStiller) museum’s friends andd new to keep the museum ’s alive. magic alive e. With Robin Williams and Wilson. Owen Wils son. (RvB)
INTERSTELLAR INTER ST TEELLAR (PG-13;; 169 (PG-13; 9 min.) Matthew McConaughey Cooper,, an exMcConaug ghey is Cooper astronaut astr onaut and a dirt ffarmer armer of the not circumstances t distant too di t t futur ffuture. t e.. U Under d cir i cumstances t moree embar embarrassing that wouldd be even mor rassing weree to watch, to describee than they wer Cooper andd his cherished daughter (Mackenziee Foy) stumble into a secr secret (Mackenzi et NASA left of NA NASA NA SA lab. What's W SA is trying to ark the dying d human rrace ace through through convenient a convenie ent wormhole parked near Saturn. Inte Interstellar terstellarr surprises you with
a high rratio atio of scenes of people sitting around oundd tables to moments of flight or ar danger.r. The innovations,, such as scenes danger cameraa mounted caught g t byy an IMAX camer in the nose n of a Learjet, portion out slices Don’t thin sli ces of excitement.. Don ’t expect rromance omance with Anne Hathaway;; she’s she’s austeree HitlerHitler-Youth got an auster Yoouth haircut haircut she’s to show w she ’s all about business. The back aand nd fforth orth between deep space dusty and du usty cornfields worked in Ray Bradbury’s Br adbuury’s stories.. Here, Here, the rrelentless elentless seriousness serious sness and Hans Zimmer going Bach soundtrack’s organ, full Bac ch on the soundtr ack’s or gan, leachess the pleasur pleasuree of explor exploration leache ation from this barren om th fr his high, wide and bar ren film. ((RvB))
THE GAMBLER G (R;; 11i min.) m Shiny and ridiculous rremake emake of the 1974 197 1 74 Karel Karel Reisz/James Reisz/James TToback/ ooback/ drama. James CCaan aan dr ama. Jim Bennett Wahlberg), distracting (Mark W ahlberg), with a distr acting fright-wig hair,r, is an adjunct dyed fr right-wig of hair professor lit pr ofessor by day and a degenerate degenerate gambler gamble er by night.. One of his students squandered (a squa andered Brie Larson) has a thing ffor or him:: could it be the way he front called her h a genius in fr ont of the rest rest stickss by his side as of the class? c She stick loses borrowed he lose es bor rowed ffortunes ortunes on the card. turn off the wheel or the flick of a car d. Monaghan’s ’s script has some William m Monaghan sharp retorts retorts in it,, and Rupert Wyatt’s Wyatt’s nighttown aree alluring.. But nightto own cityscapes ar movie breaking the mo ovie keeps br eaking down into a character sum off the char acter actor parts:: first, Jessicaa Lange,, trying to keep her dignity as Bennett’s Bennnett’s mom (the part practically practically comes with subtitles:: “She made him this this way”), then,, a sometimesshirtless shirtles ss John Goodman’s Goodman’s imitation of Jabba Jabbba the Hutt includes an almost quotable quotab ble tirade tirade about the importance of fuck-you fuckk-you money. moneyy. If Wahlberg Wahlberg fails fails at this all-things-to-all-people part, who could coould have succeeded in it? Black gangsters gangstters and Korean Korean money-lenders alike marvel m vel at Bennett’s mar Bennett’s resolve. resolve. The burden film is all about the white man’s man’s bur den to school schoool the other races races in nerves nerves and bravery. br averyy. (RvB)
THEE PENGUINS OF MAD TH MADAGASCAR AGASCAR (PG (PG; G;; 92 min.) The titular penguins from fr om m Madagascar—Skipper —Skipper,, Kowalski, Kowalski, Ricoo and Private—join j forces forces with an undercover unddercover organization organization known as “The North Norrth Wind”” to stop the evil Dr. Dr. Octavius Brine Brinne from from destroying destroying the world as we know knoow it. (RvB)
THEE THE TH THEORY OR RY OF EEVERYTHING VER RY YTHING Edddie Redmayne’s Eddie Redmayne’s perf performance ormance as Dr.. Stephen Dr Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything Eveerythingg is as endearing to watch perform. as iitt was no doubt painful to perf orm. LLoose-jawed, ooose-jawed,, curled up in a wheelchair, wheelchair, Redmayne Red dmayne evinces both the humor tortured andd the tortur ed humanity of the great gr eat man (and Simpsonss guest star). Paralyzed Paralyzed and speechless, given two years yeaars to live by his doctors, the British astrophysicist astrrophysicist survived survived to a great great age to compose a best-seller explaining c his theories to ordinary ordinary readers. readers. The Theory The eory of Everything’ss sitcomish title accurately acccurately foretells foretells a mainstreaming; mainstreaming; it’s it’s based on the memoir by Hawking’s wife, wife, e Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones), whose piety pietty still allowed an unusual domestic life. life.. Prepare Prepare to be shocked if you don’t don’t know knoow the plot of Lady Chatterley’s LLover ovverr. Director Director James Marsh, who has shown tremendous sho own tr emendous grit in series of documentaries, doc cumentaries, takes us to the clinic in scenes trachea sce nes of lumbar punching and tr achea tubee insertion;; by contr contrast tub ast he takes a strangely str a angely pastel approach approach to the near past. pas st.. CCambridge ambridge in the early 1960s is a blue, blue e,, blurry blurry Camelot; Camelot;; Marsh uses rreddish eddish orange or moments of Hawking or ange tints ffor alone, alon ne, considering his ffate. ate. Jones’ Jones’ Jane Mainstreamer, is aaboard board to be Head Mainstr eamer, people’s worries to ssoothe religious religious people ’s wor ries of whether whe ether studying y g the origin g of time puts put ts God “on “on the Endangered Endangered Species List.” List t.” We We can envision black holes and neutron neu utron stars. Yet Yeet an honest, left-wing atheist ath eist academic is too much ffor or a moviegoing mov viegoing public to swallow, swallow w, without buttered him m being butter ed and sweetened first.t.. (RvB) firs
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indie-punk indie-punk k with emotionally ra raw, aw, sar donic, li iterary lyrics sardonic, literary lyrics.. It's nothi ing that Huguenor and nothing ccompany ompan ny eever ver e eexpected xp x ected or ccould ould ha ave have anticipated ayys, recalling recalling the past anticipated,, he sa says, dec m ade or mor ent decade moree that his band sp spent slo gging aaway way and pla ayying shows with slogging playing p oor turno uts. poor turnouts. "F or the first se veen yyears, eears, we wer "For seven weree kind of grin nding and going on tour grinding and not get ttting rreviewed evie v wed at all," the getting singer sa ayys of o his band,, which fformed o ormed in says 20 02 and rremained emained highly activ ve until 2002 active mid-20 09. mid-2009. D i th During h he yyears eears Shinobu Shi b wer the weree most activ e, Hugu guenor rrecalls ecalls that “scr eamo active, Huguenor “screamo w aas rreally eally big”—as b wer op was weree other p pop punk gr oup ps (who wer eled groups weree often lab labeled "emo") ma aking the rrounds ounds on the making V aans Warp ed T our o . Then ther Vans Warped Tour. theree wer weree the “bands that t wer ying to do the weree tr trying ap ocaalypticc, fun danc e-rock music apocalyptic, dance-rock music,,”
like The Raptur e. And then ther like Rapture. theree was a Death C ab F or Cutie ayyingg the was Cab For Cutie,, pla playing “really ttwee” w wee” stuff ff. “really stuff. "W We didn't rreally eally fit in anywhere," an nyywheere," "We saayys. At At the time, time, somee of Huguenor says. es were were Built T o his biggest influenc influences To avement,, and d the Spill,, Sebadoh and P Pavement, aas proud proud to be be making music m singer w was an ny of the other o that didn't sound lik likee any cal cir cuitt— —musicc that bands on the lo local circuit—music was a har d to b oil down to a neat, neat, oneo one was hard boil word genr e. "I always alw wayys thought that th hat if word genre. you'r o e going to b c, it has you're bee making music music, be a lit tttle bit danger ous." to be little dangerous." ollicking, nervous, nervo ous, Shinobu craft rrollicking, punk tunes roll fforward o orwaard tunes,, which roll es ass with what Huguenor describ describes ed ener gy.." Guitar Guitar liness a "fractur "fractured energy." tangle as they theey twist twist w seem to clash and tangle through chugging bass lines and lo lloose ose through drumming. Huguenor's vvoice o oice breaks breaks e drumming. thr h ough h in i yyelps elps el and d cracks k and d often oft through sounds flat or sharp never e theeless sharp,, but nevertheless feels e lik ke it b elongs. feels like belongs. evvailing tastes tastess of And while the pr prevailing middle-aughts might not have haave the middle-aughts graavvitated Shinobu's w ay, things gravitated way, haave changed in rrecent ecent yyears. eears. Bands Ban nds have like Joyce Joyce Manor and The W o orld is like World
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a Beautiful Plac oL onger Placee & I am N No Longer Afraid to Die ar ach hievingg critic al and aree achieving critical mass app eal. And in San JJose, ose, young yo oung appeal. bands lik ke Br ead Clu ub and Kill the like Bread Club Bats ar plaayying ffor o or la arge, enthusiastic aree playing large, audienc es. audiences. “Ther o or the sound now “Theree is an ear ffor which w aasn't ther beffo ore,” Huguenor wasn't theree before, sa ayys. “It's the first tim me eever veer that I've I'vve felt feelt says. time that w ay. It's gr eat.” way. great. It is into this ne wlyy energized energized newly en nvvironmentt— —with its rrekindled ekindled ttaste aste environment—with ffor or o Shinobu's brand of gguit ar-driven guitar-driven rrock—that ock k— —that the band ar releasing a aree releasing ne w album, Thermido or. It's b een a long new Thermidor. been time ccoming. omingg. “W We kinda had thi is album in us and “We this we basic ally just ffound oun o nd the time to basically get to gether and rrecord ecor o d it,” Huguenor together sa ayys, eexplaining xplaining that Shinobu S hasn't says, b een able to play plaay music mu usic to gether, as it's been together, various members members ar ead ar ound aree spr spread around the ccountry ountry and the world (guit arist (guitarist Mat tt K eegan e g now liv vees in A ustralia). ) Matt Keegan lives Australia). A ayys, fans of Ass such Huguenorr sa says, Shinobu shouldn't eexpect x ect to see a xp pr oper rreunion eunion an nyti y ime so on. “W Wee're proper anytime soon. “We're just going to b ayyiing whene ver e we bee pla playing whenever ccan. an.” Shinobu will be be playing plaayying at their rrecord ecord rrelease elease par ty on o JJan. an. 9 at The party Bot ttom t of the Hill in n San Francisc o. Bottom Francisco. While Shinobu is holding h their album rrelease elease show in i San Francisc o, Francisco, Huguenor sa ayys he rremains em mains firmly says ccommitted ommitttted to San JJose, o , and is adamant ose ab out making sur h other band, about suree his Har d Girls—who wil ll b ayying Hard will bee pla playing later this month at th he Billy DeFrank the C enterr—pr — oudly pr oclaims that the Center—proudly proclaims South Ba ay is their ho ome. Bay home. If rremaining emaining true to his hometown has any an ny impact on bringing brringing the cy ycle c cycle back ar ound ffor o or the San S JJose ose ar t’s scene, scene, around art’s Huguenor is all ffor or o it t. it. “F or a long time S JJose ose has had so “For time,, San much p otential but b een so primarily potential been inter ested in the mai in ec onomic interested main economic factors ayys. “F or how multicultural factors,,” he sa says. “For it is eally do esn n’t ’ have have much of ha is,, it rreally doesn’t actual cultur e. It ffeels eels e s lik ts ar culture. likee the ar arts aree rreally eally not enc ouraged. encouraged. “San JJose ose is a plac placee that needs to b fo ostered,” he continues. contiinues. “W We could could bee fostered, “We easily sa ay we are are from from m San Francisco Francisco say or Oakland,, but thatt wouldn't b bee true and it would b ke st atementt— —a bee a fak fake statement—a hasht ag—and I think k that that'ss kind of hashtag—and bullshit. W om m San JJose. ose.” Wee ar aree fr from
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numerous items in their closet th numerous that hat they never wear wear.. Is that true ffor or you? Why? Do youu think you will eventually come to like them aga again, ain, even though you don’t don ’t now? Ar Aree you hoping that by keeping them around ar ound you can avoid feeling feeling remorse rem morse about having wasted money? Do you fantasize fantasizee that the uncool stuff will come back into fashion? fashion? In accordance a accor dance with the astrological astr ological omens, Gemini, I invite inviite you to stage an all-out purge. purge. Admit the truth to yourself about what clothes no longer work for for you, and a get rid of them. While you’re you’re at it, why not carry carry out o a similar cleanup in other areas areas of your life? life?
CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): “No “Nothing othing was ever
cr eated by two men, men ote Johnn SSteinbeck teinbeck in his created men,”” wr wrote “Theree ar aree noo good collabor collaborations, ations, novel East of Eden. “Ther whether in music, in art, in poetr ryy, in mathematics, poetry, in philosophy acle of o cr eation has taken philosophy.. Once the mir miracle creation place, the gr oup can build and ex xtend it, but the gr oup group extend group never invents anything. The pr eciousness lies in the preciousness lonely mind of a man.” In my view w, this statement is view, delusional nonsense. And it ’s especially esppecially inapt for for you it’s in the coming week weeks. s. In ffact, act, the only success that will have any lasting impact will be the kind that you instigate in tandem with an ally or allies you rrespect. espect.
LLEO EO (July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 22): I live in Northern N CCalifornia, alifornia, where an extended dr ought led to t water-r ationing ffor or where drought water-rationing much of 2014. But in December December,r, a series of downpours arrived to rreplenish eplenish the par ched landscape. Now bursts arrived parched ed along my ffavorite avorite of white wildflowers have erupte erupted ails. They’r herd’s purse. Herbalists hiking tr trails. They’ree called sheph shepherd’s de into an ointment say this useful weed can be mad made ds. I’d like to give you that eases pain and heals wound wounds. ood stuff oou could a metaphorical version of this go good stuff.. YYou t psychic aches and use some support in alleviating the eeling. Any ideas about a how to get it? pangs you’r you’ree ffeeling. Brainstorm. Ask Ask questions. Seek help. Brainstorm. VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23-Sept. 23-Sept. 22): A Actress ctrress Uzo Aduba Aduba’s ’s
formal formal first name is Uzoamaka. She S tells the story about how she wanted to chang changee it when she was a kid. One day she came home andd said, “Mommy “Mommy, y, can you call me Zoe?” Her mother as asked sked her why why, y, and she said, “Because no one can say Uz Uzoamaka.” zoamaka.” Mom was quick to rrespond: espond: “If they can lea learn arn to say TTchaikovsky, cchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky, and Michelangelo, th they hey can learn to say Uzoamaka.” The mor moral al of the sto story, oryy, as ffar ar as you’r you’ree concerned: This is no time to sup suppress ppress your quirk quirkss and idiosyncrasies. That’s idiosyncrasies. That ’s rarely rarely a good goood idea, but especially now. moree generic. now. Say NO to making yourself mor m
LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): Dougg V Von on KKoss oss leads gr groups oups of people in sing-alongs. You Yoou don’t donn’t have to be an accomplished vocalist to be part of his events, nor is it crucial that you know the lyrics and a melodies to a large large rrepertoire epertoire of songs. He strives too foster foster a “perfection“perfectionfr ee zone.” I encourage encourage you to dwell dw well in the midst of free
al perf ection-free zone everywher your own person personal perfection-free everywheree k, Libr a. YYou oou need a br eak fr om the you go this week week, Libra. break from pressure to be sm mooth, sleek, and savvy ou o have a pressure smooth, savvy.. YYou poetic license to be innocent, loose, and a bit messy messy.. A Att temporarilyy, allow yourself the deep pleasure pleasure of least temporarily, ignoring everyone’s everyone’s expectations and demands.
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express some of what we vocabularies thatt might express w ote Jack Gilbert in his poem “The no longer can,” wr wrote For gotten Dialects Dialectts of the Heart.” Judging fr om the Forgotten from current astrological astrologiccal omens, I’d say that you are are close to current o those lost vocabularies. YYou’re ou’r o e mor accessing some of moree sual YYou sual. ou have an enhanced power to eloquent than us usual. find the right wo words rds to describe mysterious ffeelings eelings thougghts. As As a rresult esult of your expanded and subtle thoughts. facility with language, langu uage, you may be able to gr asp truths facility grasp out of rreach each bef ore now that have been out before now..
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CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): Songwriter RB Mor ris wr ote a fanciful fanciful a Morris wrote poem in which he imagines a smart mocking bird hearing rrock ock & rroll oll music ffor or mockingbird the first time. “When “W When Mockingbir rock / Mockingbirdd first hear heardd rock He cocked his he ad and cr apped / What in the hell is head crapped that? / It sounde ain wr eck / Someone was soundedd like a tr train wreck scr eaming / Someone’s Som meone’s banging on garbage cans.” screaming Despite his initia couldn’t initiall alienation, Mockingbir Mockingbirdd couldn’t dr ag himself awa ay. He stayed to listen. Soon he was drag away. spellbound. “His blood pounded and rolled.” rolled.” Next thing you know know,, Mockin Mockingbird ngbird and his friends ar aree making rraucous aucous music th hemselves—”all ffor or the love of that themselves—”all joyful noise.” I fforesee orresee a compar able pr ogression ffor or comparable progression you in the comin comingg week weeks, s, CCapricorn. apricorn. What initially disturbs you mayy ul ultimately timately excite you—maybe even fulfill you. AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (J(Jan. Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you rrecall ecall ne of Lewis Carroll’s Carroll’s story Alice the opening scen scene Alice’s ’s Adventur es in W o onderland d? Alice is sitting outside on Adventures Wonderland y, ffeeling eelingg bor ed, when a White Rabbit scur ries a hot day day, bored, scurries by. He ’s wearing a coat and consul ting a watch as he by. He’s consulting talks to himself. himself. She S follows follows him, even when he jumps talks ground. Her descent takes a long into a hole in thee ground. ds and time. On the way down, she passes cupboar cupboards bookshelves and other odd sights. Not once does she bookshelves feel ffear. ear. Instead,, she makes car eful observations observations and feel careful thinks reasonably reasonablyy about her unexpected trip. Finally thinks she lands safely. safely. As As you do your personal equivalent of falling falling down the th he rabbit rabbit hole, Aquarius, be as poised e. Think of it as an adventur e, not a and calm as Alice Alice. adventure, advventure it will be. crisis, and an adventure PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 119-March ch 20): YYou ou o ar aree positively oceanic these da days. ys. YYou ou o ar aree vast and deep, rrestless estless and boundless, uunruly nruly and unstoppable. A Ass much as it’s it ’s possible for for a human being to be, you are are ageless and ffantastical. antastical. I wouldn wouldn’t ’t be surprised if you could communicate tel telepathically epathically and rremember emember your past lives and ob observe serve the invisible world in gr great eat detail. I’m tempte tempted ed to think of you as omnidir omnidirectional ectional and omniscient, as a well as polyrhythmic and perverse. Dream crazy polymorphously per verse. Dr eam big, you cr azy wise dreamer. dr eamer. Homework: W Homework: Write rite a summary of the gr great eat task you plan to accomplish in 2015. T Tell eell me about it at T Truthrooster@gmail.com. rru uthrooster@gmail com Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700
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ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): In his h novel Br Breakfast eakffaast urt V Vonnegut onnegut describes describes a character, characterr, of Champions, KKurt Ned Lingamon, who “had a peniss eight hundred hundred miles hundred in diameter, long and two hundr ed and ten miles m diameterr, but practically pr actically all of it was in the fourth fourth dimension.” If theree is any part of you that metaphorically ther mettaphorically resembles resembles Lingamon, Aries, the coming months months will be a favorable favorable problem. time to fix the pr oblem. You Yoou finally finally have sufficient power and wisdom and feistiness feistiness to start expressing expressing your latent capacities in practical practicaal ways . . . to manifest manifest your hidden beauty in a tangible form form . . . to bring your purely pur ely ffourth-dimensional ourth-dimensional aspects aspeccts all the way into the thirdd dimension. thir
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SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T OF A ABANDONMENT BANDONMENT O OF USE OF FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME #599757 The ffollowing ollowing pperson(s) erson(s) / en entity ntity (ie (ies) s) has / ha have ve abandoned ab andoned the us usee of the fic fictitious ctitious busine business ss name(s): Eastside TTechnology, eechnology, 22005 005 El Ser Sereno reeno Ave., A ve., Los Los Altos, Altos, CA, 940 94024, 24, Se Sereno ereno CCapital apital LLLC. LC. Filed in Santa Clar Clara ra CCounty ounty on o 99/10/2014 /10/2014 under file #596299 This business business was was conducted conductedd bbyy an ggeneral enerral a partnership /s/J /s/Joseph oseph Larkin Larkins ns This stat statement ement w was as filed wit with th the CCounty ounty Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra CCounty ounty on 112/30/2014. 2//30/2014. (pub Metro Metrro 1/07, 1/07, 1/14, 1/14, 1/21, 1/21, 1/28/2015) 1/228/2015)
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FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #59931 #5993199 The ffollowing oollowing pperson(s) erson(s) is (ar (are) e) doin doingg busine business ss as: Chand Chand Mobile Mobile o Services, Services, 1681 1681 The Alameda, Alameda, #21,, San JJose, #21 ose,, CA, 95 95126, 126, JJames ames CChand. hand. This business business is conducted conducted bbyy a individual individual.. R egistrrant a be egan tr ransactin a g busine ss under Registrant began transacting business the fictitious busine bbusiness ss name or name ed namess list listed her rein e on 11/23/2013. 11/223/2013. herein R efile of previous prrevious v #585395 due to to Refile file #585395 publication rrequirement eequirreement not met of pr revious previous filin g. /s/J ames CChand hand filing. /s/James This stat emennt w as filed with the CCounty ounty Clerk statement was of Santa Clara Clarra County County on 12/15/14. 12/15/14. (pub Metro Metro 12/17, 12/17 2 7, 12/24, 12/24, 12/31, 12/31, 1/07/2015) 1/07/2 / 015)
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The ffollowing ollo o wing pperson(s) erson(s) is (ar (are) ree) doin doingg busine business ss as: Stella Stella McCartney, McCartney, 660 Stanford Stannford Ctr Ste Ste 153, 153, Palo P alo a Alto, Alto, St Stella ella M McCartney cCartney A America merica Inc., A Attn ttn : TTax ax a Dept 50 H Hartz artz W Way, ay, Secau Secaucus, ucus, NJ, 007094. 7094. This business business is conducted conducted by by a corporation. corporration. a Above Ab ove entity w was as fformed ormed in tthe he stat statee of Delaware De lawarre Registrant R egistrraant be began gan tr transacting raansacting busine business ss under the fictitious busine business ss name or o name namess list listed ed herein her ein on 11/17/2014. 11/177//2014. /s/Patrick /s/P Paatrick DeVime DeVimess Vicee P Vic President resident #2492146 #249 4921446 This stat statement ement w was as filed withh the CCounty ounty Clerk of Santa Clara Clarra County County on 11/17/2014. 11/177/2 / 014. (pub Metro Metrro 12/17, 12/177, 12/24, 12/24, 12/31, 12/31, 1/07/2015) 1/07/2 / 015)
The ffollowing ollowing pperson(s) erson(s) is (ar (are) e) doin doingg busine business ss as: Envirocrete, Envirroocrete, e 111 111 Hillsd Hillsdale ale A Ave., ve., San JJose, ose, CA, 95136, 95 136, Concrete Concrette Ready Ready Mix Inc., 33 Hillsdale Hillsdale Ave, Ave, San JJose, ose, CA, 95 995136. 136. 3 This business business is conducted conducted by by a corporation. corporration. a Above Ab ove entity w was as fformed oormed in the stat statee of CCalifornia aliffoornia Registrant R egistrraant hass not yyet et be begun gun tr transacting ransactin a g business busine ss unde under er the fictitious busine business ss name or namess list name listed ed her hherein. ein. /s/R /s/Ronald onald W W.. Minnis President P resident This stat statement emennt w was as filed with the CCounty ounty Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra CCounty ounty on 112/12/2014. 2/12/2014. (pub Metro Metro 12/17, 12//177, 12/24, 12/24, 12/31, 12/31, 1/07/2015) 1/07/2 / 015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #599098 NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #5990 098 The following following pperson(s) erson(s) is (a (are) are) doin doingg business Knifee & Sp Spork Public Relations. busine ss as: Knif ork P ublic R elations. Drive, 95148, Niyaz 2903 Mitton Mitton Driv e, San JJose, ose, CA, 95 148, Niy az Pirani, Road, #291,1, Lak Lakee Nasir Pir rani, a 220702 0702 El TToro or o oR oad, #29 FForest, orest, CA, 992630. 2630. individual.. This business business is conducted conductted bbyy a individual Registrant begun transacting R egistrraant has not yyet et be gun tr ransactin a g business busine ss under the fictitiouss business business name listed herein. or names names list ed her ein. /s/Niyaz N.. Pir Pirani /s/Niy az N ani This statement with statement was was filed wi th the CCounty ounty Clara Clerk of Santa Clar ra CCounty ounty on 112/09/2014. 2/09/2014. (pub Metro Metro 12/17, 12/177, 12/24, 12/24, 12/31, 12/311, 1/07/2015) 1/07//2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #5993 #599309 309 The ffollowing ollo o wing pperson(s) erson(s) is (ar (are) ree) doin doingg busine business ss as: 1844CalNote.com, 1844CalNote.com, 11999 999 S. Basc Bascom om A Ave., ve., St Stee 7700, 00, CCampbell, ampbell, CA, 95008, Be Benjamin enjamin H Harry arry Beryll Sley, Sley, 1590 1590 Fr Fremont remont e St St,,,,, Santa Clar Clara, raa, CA, CA 95050. This business business is conducted conducted bbyy a individual individual.. Registrant R egistrraant has not yyet et be begun gun tr transacting raansacting business busine ss under the fictitious busine business ss name or namess list name listed ed her herein. rein. e /s/Benjamin H Harry arry Beryll Sle Sley ey This stat statement ement w was as filed withh the CCounty ounty Clerk of Santa Clara Clarra County County on 12/15/2014. 12/15/2014. (pub Metro Metrro 12/17, 12/177, 12/24, 12/24, 12/31, 12/31, 1/07/2015) 1/07/2 / 015)
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATE TEMENT #598837 The ffollowing ollowing pperson(s) erson(s) is (ar (are) e) doin doingg business busine ss as: 42 4200 Smok Smokee Shop, 428 E. Santa Claraa St., Clar St., Sann Jose, Jose, CA, 95113, 95113, , Manuel Manuel A. CCardona, ardona, 11060 060 S. 3rd St St.,., San JJose, ose, CA, 95112, 95 112, Oneid Oneidaa E. CCardona, ardona, 4455 Hobs Hobson on St., St., San Jose, Jose, CA,, 95110. 95110. This business business is conducted conducted bbyy a ggeneral eneral partnership. R egistrant be egan tr ansacting busine ss un Registrant began transacting business un-der the fictiti ious busine ss name or name fictitious business namess list ed her ein on 2/2 5/2009. listed herein 2/25/2009. R efile of pr evious v file #5 86127 with Refile previous #586127 cchanges. hanges. /s/Oneida /s/Oneida E CCardona ardona This stat emeent w as filed with the CCounty ounty statement was Clerk of Sant ta Clar ounty on 112/01/2014. 2/01/2014. Santa Claraa CCounty (pub Metro Metro 12/17, 12/177, 12/24, 12/24, 12/31, 12/31, 1/07/2015) 1/07/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATE TEMENT #599111 #599111 The ffollowing ollowing pperson(s) erson(s) is (ar (are) e) doin doingg business Knoxx Ave., busine ss as: My My Car Car Autosport, Autosport, 1011 1011 Kno Ave., 95122, Andrews San JJose, ose, e CA CA, 95 122, 2 JJoe oe Ma Ma, 11855 855 Andr ews Ave., 95124, Nguyen, A ve., San JJose, ose, e CA, 95 124, Quoc Anh Ng uyen, 11908 908 Senter Senter Rd., R #251, #251, San Jose, Jose, CA, 95112. 95112. This business business is conducted conducted bbyy a ggeneral eneral began transacting partnership. Registrant Registrraant be gan tr ransactin a g business under busine ss und er the fictitious business business name namess list listed herein /s/Joe or name e her ed ein on 112/09/14. 2/09/14. /s/J oe Ma This statement statemennt was was filed with the CCounty ounty Clerk of Santaa Clara Clara CCounty ounty on 112/09/2014. 2/09/2014. (pub Metro Metro 12/17, 12/17 2 7, 12/24, 12/24, 12/31, 12/31, 1/07/2015) 1/07//2015)
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Did the oil spill in the Gulf of M Mexico exico really cause any lasting environmental environment stride?—Jim damage? Or did the environme ent just kind of take it in stride? ?—Jim Huff You saying: Don’t cryy o over You o know the old sa aying: y Don n’’t cr veer spilled oil—at least not if yyou’re getting o ou’rre get tting t make billions in damages to mak ke up ffor or it. o i These aree b bound happen, right? things ar ound to happ en, right t? A fired, president shakes ccouple ouple CEOs get fir ed, the pr resident e t shak kes e disappointedly, we’re little his head disapp ointedlyy, and we ’rre a lit tttle shortt on Ba Bayou so.. But shor ayo ou shrimp ffor or o a yyear eear orr so before drops bomb omb b effo orre long someone dr ops a b b on else,, or someone ne new turns someone else w turn ns up naked nak ked e on the cover cover of something. somethingg. TwentyTwent w tylater eight billion-plus in clean-up ccosts o osts la ater and moree we ccan’t an an’t ’ help but turn our eeyes yees to mor m pressing matters. pr essing mat tters t . Two hundred Tw wo hundr reed million gallons of crude c oil gushed out into the Gulf of Me Mexico over exxicco o veer three the thr ee months ffollowing ollowing o the Deepwater Deeepwatter e Horizon explosion exxplosion in April 2010—19 9 times figure th official the ffi i l vvolume olume ol fi figur re ffor o or the th Exxon Exxon Exx Valdez 1989—and another V alde a ez spill of 19 89—and then anoth her ttwo wo w chemical dispersants million gallons of chemic cal a disp ersaants weree pump pumped break slicks. wer ed in to br reak e up the slic cks. President “potentially Pr resident e Obama ccalled alled it a “p otenttially unprecedented environmental disaster. unpr rec e edented en nvir v onmental disa asterr.” this,, the sur surface-level answer Despite all this facce-leevel e ans swer w are better is that things ar re b etttter than one might m have humans,, sea cr creatures, ha ave ffeared: ear e reed: humans reatur e es, and BP alike have alik ke ha ave all seemingly rrecovered. eccovered. But B the aren’t entirely dismissible, cconsequences onsequenccees ar ren en’’t entir ely dismiss sible, hardest and the worst damage is often the har h rdest d quantify. It’s been to quantif fy. It t’s only b een ffour our and a half o effects yyears, eears, after all; some eff ffeects might not n decades. show up ffor or dec o cades a . Part look Paart of the rreason eason things lo ok so peachy p each hy is that the spill originated 50 0 miles offshore—oil didn’t penetrate much offshor re—oil didn n’’t p enetrate muc ch moree than a ffew yards shoreline. mor ew yar ds past the shor reline. was What oil did manage to get that farr w aas eextensively xtensiv x ely weathered, weatherred, e meaning it had h lost organic hydrocarbons, most of its vvolatile olatile or o rgganic h yd drocar arbons, damage.. and with them a lot of ccapacity apacit a ty ffor or damage o d Ass a rresult, life shore fared A esult, marine lif fe closer to shor re far red e weree surprisingly well. Crab and shrimp wer w have three many ffound ound to ha o ave thr ee times as man ny deep d before they have lesions as b effor o e the spill, but the ey ha h ave an admirable rreproductive eprroductive instinct and d their numbers pre-spill levels numb ers rrebounded eb e ounded to pr re-spill le evels e vvery erry quickly. Fish were discovered similar quickly y. F ish wer re disc oveerred e with si imilar lesions,, but these decr decreased byy mor moree than lesions eased b half after ttwo wo w yyears. eears. But just b because isn’t ecause the damage isn n’’tt front doesn’t isn’t fr ont and ccenter enter do esn n’t ’ mean it isn n’’t there. Promising population totals ther re. Pr romising o p opulation tot als notwithstanding, there’s plenty not tw withstandingg, ther e’s plent ty of eevidence vvidencce keep both environmentalists to k eep e b oth the en nvir v ro onmenttaalistss and the fishing industr industryy aawake wak ake at night. Various heavy metals Vaarious hea avvy met als ccontained o onttaained in i oil from have been accumulating fr om the spill ha ave b een ac ccumulat c ting in the flesh of the gulf gulf’s sperm ’s sp erm whales eever veer since. these,, nick nickel chromium sinc ce. Among these kel e and chr romium o
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in par particular are ticular ar re ccarcinogenic ar a cin nogenic (some dispersant ingredients may bee to too), dispersant ingr redients e ma ay b o), which could mutations co ould lead to mut ation ns and rresulting esulting e long-term impact on th the ecosystem. Fish he ec co ossyystem. F ish near the site ha have shown ave show wn eevidence vvidencce of DNA damage, suggest damage, and studies su uggest eexposure xxposure to oil-spill likely oil-spill hydrocarbons hyd drrocarbons would w lik kely e cause cause a heart defects developing large predator hearrt def feects in de eveelop ping lar rgge pr redator e fish, limiting their abili ability itty to hunt ffor o or ffood. ood. Something lik like 200,000 700,000 birds ds ke 20 0,000 to 70 0,000 bir have haave died thus far ffollowing ollo o owing ccontact o onttact a with oil; it it’ll probably being ’ll pr ro obably wind up b eing a million eventually. Dispersant chemicals weree eveentuallyy. Disp ersant chemic cals a wer found pelican Minnesotaa (wher (wheree fo ound in p eliccaan eggs in n Minnesot the bir birds ds migrate to) ttwo w yyears wo eears after the spill. And finally finally, y, the mammals: m while only around 100 arround o 10 0 whale and d dolphin ccarcasses ar a casses a were months were ffound o ound d in i the th mon nths th immediately i di t l following estimated historical fo ollowing the spill, estim mated historic cal a carcass-to-death car a cass-to a -death ratios suggest s that 50 many may actually have times as man ny ma ay act tually ha ave died. Dolphins in the ar areas hardest reas e hit h har dest with oil showed numer numerous health problems, rous o hea alth pr oblems, with nearly half eexpected die.. xxpected to o die The impact on hum human isn’t man mammals isn n’t ’ so clear either either. Leaving eleven r. L eaavvingg aside the ele eveen oil-rig work workers day kers e killed on n the da ay of the explosion, people involved exxplosion, a study of 1177 p eople in nvolv o ved e in the cleanup ffound changes blood o ound cha anges in their blo od chemistryy and le levels liver enzymes; chemistr eveels off liv veer enz zymes; y they variety chronic theey also rreported ep e orrtted a va arietty of chr onic conditions like headaches, rashes,, and co onditions lik ke headach hes, rashes shortness breath. Health surveys shortness of br eath. He ealth sur veyys showed that alcohol increased alcohol and illegall drug use incr eased among rresidents affected esidents e in aff ffeected ccounties, o ounties, with the most ps psychological stress sychologiccal al str ess on fishers and coastal dwellers.. Ov Overall, however, co oasttal a dwellers eraall, howe everr, spillspecific weree diffi difficult specific rresults esults e wer fficult to distinguish from traumatic effects frro om the lingering trau umatic eff ffeects of hurricanes Rita. It’s been hurriccanes a Katrina and d Rit taa. It ’s b een a tough dec decade Coast. cade a on the Gulf G C oast. If yyou’re o ou u’’re still inclined d to cconclude onclude that Obama’s dirty environment’s Obamaa’s a dir rty liar ((The T Th he en nvir v ronment o t’s fine! And these shrimp aree terrific!), yyou p ar o ou should cconsider the was o onsider this: th he 2010 spill w as a enormous, percent total enormous, but only 8 p erceent of the tot al oil making its w way North American ay into oN orth Americ can a oceans from pipeline oceans each yyear ear ccomes omees fr ro om pip eline spills. environment spills. The fact the en nvir v ro onment rrecovered ecovered to the eextent impressive, xtent x that it did d is impr ressiv e ve, but this spill was one many, many p w as a jjust on ne of man ny, man ny factors contributing co ontributing to o to the ongoing damage of the marine habit habitat. Maybe at. Ma ayybe in 20 yyears waters bee full of eears our w aters a will b three-eyed mutant fish, maybe Wee thrree e -eyeed mut tant a fish h, ma ayybe not. W can predict can a pr edict with some cconfidence onfidencce that however apocalyptic the future scenario, howeeveer ap ocalyptic a he futur re sc enario, th the Deepw Deepwater was probably atter e Horizon spill w aas pr robably o a contributor. co ontributorr.
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