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Rivalry Rescued Two major political adversaries nearly hooked up last week, threatening to disrupt a rivalry in local politics. In its monthly meeting, the labor-dominated Santa Clara County Democratic Party voted on whether to join the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce. While these two organizations broke bread decades ago on infrastructure projects and more recently held hands on homelessness issues, they are usually ideologically opposed—namely on issues such as pension reform and minimum wage and the contentious San Jose mayor’s race between SAM LICCARDO and DAVE CORTESE. A source says there was “lots of tension” in the room last Thursday, and perhaps no one was more agitated than recently vanquished San Jose council candidate TIM OROZCO. The runner-up in the District 4 special election took the proposal as a personal affront after the Chamber PAC—a separate political committee financially supported by the chamber—spent almost $60,000 to support They his opponent, council Did member-elect What? MANH NGUYEN, and another $16,000 on SEND TIPS TO O FLY@ “attack” pieces. While the METRONEWS. WS. WS S. local Democratic Party COM endorsed Orozco, he was considered a weak candidate, and there were apparently a few people in the room whose eyes nearly rolled out the door. But because party members CRAIG DUNKERLEY and HERB ENGSTROM brought the proposal forward, it had to be considered. The two men serve as president and treasurer of the Santa Clara County Democratic Club, respectively, which is already a member of the chamber and has a history of more conservative politics than the Party at large. In the end, a “vigorous” discussion led to the idea being overwhelmingly shot down. Party chair STEVE PREMINGER noted that his organization doesn’t even join groups in which it is ideologically aligned on all issues—BAYMEC, the Sierra Club, the League of Women Voters, etc.—but will consider partnerships with the chamber in the future.
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nd now let us pause to contemplate Richard Blum’s participation in the destruction of the American dream at the hands of a new phenomenon known as the “Wall Street landlord.”
Blum’s wife is U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The California legislator’s latest financial disclosure report, filed with the U.S. Secretary of State on May 15, includes a 2014 Blum Family Partners investment of at least $1 million in Colony American Homes Holdings. Blum is the billionaire founder of the private-equity firm Blum Capital Partners. Colony homes are owned under the umbrella of Colony Capital,
one of the largest investment firms in the world. The senator’s disclosure describes Colony American Homes as a “leading owner and provider of high-quality single-family residences for rental across the United States.” What it doesn’t say is that the rental stock is made up of foreclosed homes purchased by a handful of investor groups and hedge funds in the aftermath of the 2007–08 financial crisis and real estate crash. Blum is often identified as a quintessential Democratic Party insider, with ties that run the gamut from Jimmy Carter to the Dalai Lama. His private-equity firm manages about $500 million in assets, and the bulk of the fund’s portfolio is dominated by holdings in CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm. Though Blum has taken pains to deny it, reports say he’s worth at least $1 billion. According to a recent Roll Call
survey, Feinstein’s net worth is $45.3 million, which puts her in the top tier of wealthy Washington lawmakers. Colony American Homes was one of several investor-owned landlords highlighted in a June report from the anti-poverty advocates at the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC). That study focused on the rise of the Wall Street landlords and impacts on California renters and homebuyers. The verdict from the CRC is that Colony American Homes has not been an especially good landlord: rents are above average, utilities generally aren’t included, and maintenance is poor, at best. Moreover, would-be first-time homeowners in California often find themselves squeezed out by cash-rich corporate buyers like Colony American Homes. Rents are going up, and the landlord is nowhere to be seen. “Neighborhoods are changing, income diversity is changing, the tenure of residents is changing,” says the CRC’s Kevin Stein, an author of the report. The investor grab of housing stock, he says, “is destabilizing neighborhoods and creating a lot of displacement.”
disclosure report, Tenants Together released its study, “The New SingleFamily Home Renters of California.â€? The statewide tenants-rights organization found that renters of singlefamily homes from the three biggest corporate landlords in the state— Blackstone/Invitation Homes, Waypoint Homes and Colony American Homes— “pay higher rents than their neighbors and face challenges getting repairs.â€? Those companies together own about 9,500 properties in California, according to Tenants Together. Doug Henwood, an economics journalist and author of Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom, says investordriven home purchases follow the general model of private-equity deals. “They are in it for the short-term, the medium-term,â€? says Henwood. “They are not in it for the long haul. The incentive is to screw the tenants over completely, minimize repairs and maximize rents.â€? The senator’s disclosure report lists the Colony American Homes investment in the section of Feinstein’s “non-publicly traded assets and unearned income sources,â€? which also includes another Colony distressed-asset fund, Colony American Homes War I, LLC. According to the report, Blum Family Partners has a $50,000–$100,000 investment in Colony American Homes War I and no reported 2014 income from that investment. The disclosure form exempts Feinstein from having to provide any further detail on Colony American Homes, since the investment is held independently by Blum. As such, Feinstein didn’t have to indicate anything beyond that the investment eclipsed $1 million. No surprise there, says Henwood. “This is entirely consistent with the Democrats,â€? he said. “Real estate, and especially urban real estate, is one of the lifebloods of Democratic party ďŹ nancing.â€? The investment in Colony American Homes earned Feinstein and Blum between $50,000 and $100,000 in capital gains and interest in 2014, according to the disclosure report. In response to questions about the investment, Feinstein spokesman Tom Mentzer says that “Sen. Feinstein has no involvement in her husband’s business decisions. Her assets are in a blind trust, which has been the case since she arrived in the Senate, and I have no information on her husband’s assets.â€? A phone call to Blum Capital Partners was not returned.
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The CRC survey found that real estate investment trusts, private equity ďŹ rms and hedge funds have spent $25 billion buying over 150,000 distressed homes around the country since 2012. “This whole situation is only possible because of a ďŹ nancial crisis that was engineered by Wall Street,â€? says Stein. “This is investors proďŹ ting off of foreclosure.â€? Stein says Gov. Jerry Brown could “use his bully pulpit to talk about the importance of neighborhood stability, and to acknowledge that there’s extreme gentriďŹ cation and displacement going on.â€? Or Brown could pay back the $331 million he diverted from foreclosure relief for homeowners in 2012 to solve the state budget crisis. The AP reported last week that lawmakers and community groups have called on Brown to repay the money, after a Sacramento judge ruled that he had illegally funneled the foreclosure monies into the state’s general fund. A May report from the California advocacy group Tenants Together also weighed in on so-called Wall Street landlords. The organization reported that Colony has, to date, purchased more than 2,000 formerly foreclosed properties in California and ipped them into rentals. Banks help investors do this by converting future rental income on properties into securities, which are then turned back to the investors as loans. “Wall Street has also issued over $8 billion in securities tied to almost 60,000 homes,â€? some owned by Colony, reports the CRC. The loans are then used to purchase additional distressed properties, notes CRC. This has conspired to fuel a growing market in investor-purchased single-family homes. The investor-led push to buy distressed single-family homes, says Stein, means individual buyers often get pushed out of the market. NonproďŹ ts and developers who want to build affordable housing are often outbid, and local businesspeople, many of them from communities of color, “feel that they are being circumvented. These deals are going around local businesspeople,â€? says Stein. “There is an issue of the amount that [investors] are bidding and that their offers are in cash.â€? Neighborhood Housing Services of Silicon Valley and the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley were two of 70 signatories to the CRC report. Just days before Feinstein put the ďŹ nishing touches on her May 15 ďŹ nancial
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Ethics Reviews Focuses on Congressman Honda for Alleged Quid-Pro-Quo BY JOSH KOEHN Mike Honda narrowly defeated Ro Khanna last fall for a seventh consecutive term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Both men have already announced their intention to run again in 2016, but the congressman may have to justify his record to more than voters. For the last several months, the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) has been reviewing alleged improper coordination between Honda’s campaign and his official House staff. Whether this review leads to a broader investigation or discipline against the congressman is uncertain, due to the secretive nature and malleable timelines in which the OCE carries out its business. But Honda’s office acknowledged on Tuesday that a review has been taking place. “The congressman and his staff continue to cooperate fully with the OCE’s review of the matter,” said Lauren Smith, a spokesperson in Honda’s office. “Out of respect for the process, we cannot confirm specifics or discuss any details at this time.” In September 2014, San Jose Inside reported emails that showed Honda’s longtime chief of staff, Jennifer Van der Heide, and other House employees coordinated with Honda’s re-election campaign on invitations to an official State Department event. The goal,
according to the emails, was to target influential South Asian donors for campaign contributions. In an email to Honda’s thencampaign manager, Lamar Heystek, as well as House district director Meri Maben, Van der Heide wrote: “Great lists—how are we doing outreach to them for $?” According to the House Ethics Manual, “[A] solicitation for campaign or political contributions may not be linked with an official action taken or to be taken by a House Member or employee, and a Member may not accept any contribution that is linked with an action that the Member has taken or is being asked to take.” In the final weeks of last year’s race, Honda repeatedly dodged interviews on the matter. Instead, he made vague references to being “disappointed” while noting his staff had apologized. Additional emails provided last fall by Ruchit Agrawal, a disgruntled former staffer, suggested that Honda routinely had House staffers carry out personal errands for the congressman on taxpayer time, which is also a violation of House rules. Multiple sources have confirmed that OCE investigative counsel Scott Gast contacted them in the process of the review. Nailing down when any findings will be made public, if ever, is tricky.
ON TO THE NEXT SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi has accepted a new job in his home country.
SJSU Prez Resigns for Job in Afghanistan San Jose State University President Mohammad Qayoumi leaves his post next month for a high-ranking job with the government of his home country, Afghanistan. Qayoumi, 63, stepped in as the 28th president of the university in 2011 after five years as head of Cal State East Bay and decades in the Cal State system. An engineer by training, he holds four master’s degrees and has worked on projects in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. His last day at SJSU will be Aug. 17. In his new role, Qayoumi will serve as advisor to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani. Over the years, Qayoumi has contributed to U.S. cybersecurity policy and advised Afghan leaders. The job offer from his home country came as a natural next step in his career. “Since 2002, I have often been asked to lend my intellectual and operational expertise to many of Afghanistan’s
significant economic, educational and infrastructure challenges,” he wrote in an open letter explaining his departure. “President Ashraf Ghani has asked for my immediate assistance and leadership in numerous infrastructure initiatives.” The soon-to-depart university president has come under fire several times for the way he handled campus crises, including alleged hate crimes against an African American student. California State University Chancellor Timothy White applauded Qayoumi’s focus on science and technical education as a way to elevate the status of San Jose State in STEM-centric Silicon Valley. “Mo is leaving the campus with a solid fiscal foundation and proud legacy of achievements,” White wrote in a statement. SJSU is in the process of finding an interim president until a permanent replacement is found. —Jennifer Wadsworth
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time here. They interviewed former Earthquake Chris Dangerfield, who told them a number of stories. He and Best were teammates, pals and even housemates for a short time. After the interview, the TV crew said it was refreshing to meet a club with so much history, which makes Manchester United’s upcoming visit that much more relevant.
In 1981, no one imagined such a thing would ever happen
United in History FIELD OF DREAMS No one would have expected Avaya Stadium to play host to Manchester United in its first season.
San Jose Earthquakes share ties with world-class club, upcoming opponent Manchester United BY GARY SINGH
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anchester United, ranked by Forbes as the most valuable sports club in the world at $2.23 billion, will make an unprecedented visit next week to San Jose for a game against the Earthquakes. Many European clubs have played here over the last 40 years, including Real Madrid back in the 1980s, but no one as lucrative as ManU.
There is much reason to celebrate, as the two teams share some history. One of the best players ever to play
the sport, and certainly the most famous ManUnited star, George Best, played for the Quakes for two seasons, in 1980-81. His story is more than well documented, but he is inarguably the most famous international sports figure ever to play for any team in San Jose, in any sport, before or since. When he passed away in 2005, I hurried over to the Metro office and jammed out a last-minute obituary on deadline, which later wound up in a UK-based compilation book of memories titled, George Best: A Celebration. His hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland, gave him the equivalent of a state funeral. Everyone took the day off work and 100,000 people jammed the streets to watch the motorcade.
People all over this valley still tell stories of Best’s time here, but his influence on the field especially crossed all boundaries. San Jose’s own Brandi Chastain grew up attending Quakes games and in her 2005 book, It's Not About the Bra, Brandi said George Best was one of her first sports heroes. “When I started playing soccer, I had no role models to inspire me on the field,” she wrote. “No one in my neighborhood, or in my family, played the game. But the very first time I saw the professional team that would become my guiding light, the San Jose Earthquakes, I found my role model. He was George Best, and in my mind, the name fit. Watching him corkscrew bewildered defenders into the ground with his amazing moves and a smile on his face, I said to myself, ‘That's what I want to do.’” Best’s legacy continues around the world. When the crew of Manchester United TV visited San Jose a few months ago, they wanted to know everything about George Best’s
In fact, just as I was contemplating what to write in this column, I bumped into yet another person with a George Best memory. He apparently taught people how to play darts at The Hot Pot, a nondescript bar in a nondescript strip mall on the west side. These encounters happen to me all the time. In some cases, people may not have even heard of Manchester United, but they remember George Best hanging out in San Jose or Los Gatos more than 30 years ago. In other cases, even if people from that era don’t make it to the games now, they still have fond memories of George Best. Of course, Best is not the only Manchester United connection to San Jose. Another former legend, Bill Foulkes, actually coached the Earthquakes for the 1980 season, when Best first arrived. The team was not very good, but Foulkes brought his own history with him. He was a survivor of the tragic 1958 air disaster in Munich, when 23 people died in a plane crash, including eight United players, three members of the club’s staff and eight journalists. After all these decades, it is truly remarkable for San Jose that one of the world’s biggest sports clubs is now playing a match right here at the Quakes’ own intimate stadium. In 1981, no one imagined such a thing would ever happen. Next week, the ghosts of George Best and Bill Foulkes will drift among the steel beams of Avaya Stadium. I think they would like the place.
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BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH LEANING OUT While Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In told women to speak up so men hear, Elissa Shevinsky’s new book, Lean Out, urges women to create their own culture in Silicon Valley.
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S A LATE-NIGHT comedy sketch, the Titstare demo would have come off as a scathing parody of Silicon Valley sexism. Unfortunately, Jethro Batts and David Boulton—hoodie-clad Aussies in their mid-to-late 20s— presented their ill-conceived app at the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
“Titstare is an app where you take photos of yourself staring at tits,” Boulton explained with the keyed-up enthusiasm of an infomercial host. “Why, Dave, why?” Batts prodded. “Well, I’ll tell you, Jethro,” Boulton replied, while a photo of a buxom woman flashed on the projector behind them. “It’s science, my good friend. Science. Did you know that looking at breasts is directly linked to a good, healthy heart?” “Dave, I think this is the ‘breast’ hack ever,” Batts snickered.
“It’s the breast, most titillating fun you cans have,” his partner concurred. The predominantly white, male crowd erupted in applause and laughter. Some women walked out, while more responded with a collective eye-roll, then anger. At the same event, the developer of an app called Circle Shake pretended to masturbate by moaning and vigorously shaking his iPhone. It was the same tired joke, told countless times to other punchlines about dongles, gangbang interviews,
women-as-company perks and brainy ovaries. For Elissa Shevinsky—a startup CEO and veteran coder who watched the livestream of the hackathon on her laptop—that marked the moment she began to feel like an outsider. It didn’t help that her business partner, Glimpse Labs cofounder Pax Dickinson, publicly defended the Titstare duo. “I’m now of the opinion that pervasive bro-ness is enough of a distraction to be worth dismantling,”
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and hiring practices at big tech companies may reinforce the idea that young white male nerds have a natural affinity with computers and with code,” Shevinsky writes. “But the truth is that women—and women who defied their assigned gender roles at great cost—have just as rightful a place among the luminaries of Silicon Valley.” Lean Out, she says, is part of a movement to tell those untold stories. The book also elevates the discussion of intersectional feminism—the idea that women who are anything other than white, cisgender and middle-class experience multiple layers of oppression—by including voices from minority and gender-queer women. Brook Shelley compares the experience of working in tech as a man compared to her experience after transitioning as a woman. New York-based entrepreneur Gesche Haas describes becoming Internet-famous for being sexually harassed by a venture capitalist in Germany. Leanne Pittsford shares the story behind Lesbians Who Tech, and how she grew its membership to more than 9,000 in just a few years since the group’s founding. In her essay “Fictive Ethnicity and Nerds,” trans-feminist Latina gaming critic Katherine Cross traces the gender disparity in tech to the “imaginary homeland” nerds have created for themselves out of a shared sense of childhood rejection. Silicon Valley may view itself as color-blind, sex-blind meritocracy, but the industry has morphed into an entitled, racialized patriarchy. “The triumph of the nerd is a gendered one,” Cross writes. “However many of us as women, LGBT/queer people, or people
We need to fix the root issues in tech, to overhaul the entire culture. Women are smart to not show up to an industry that doesn’t welcome them
of color might have experienced bullying (and actual discrimination atop it), the vision of who gets to be a nerd, a geek, or a gamer, remains defined by a classic image that is now plastered on bus shelters nationwide of the Big Bang Theory-style pretentious, perpetually adolescent, young male nerds.” Sunny Allen, co-founder of robotic sex toy company HUM, cuts through the frothy optimism endemic to the industry in her essay “What We Don’t Say,” a glimpse of a darker side of startup life. In fleeing her exfiancé’s Adderall-induced psychosis, she writes, she became homeless, though armed with a laptop and a patent lawyer. She recounts the three-hour-each-way public transit trips she took from the battered women’s shelter in San Francisco to the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View to “write code, solder connections, talk about control systems and gesticulate wildly at the white board” while developing an opensource bioreactor. “This is Silicon Valley,” she writes. “We do uppers and write code until they have to pull us out of the Dojo on a stretcher, and we glorify it.” The overall tone of Lean Out, however blunt, doesn’t wallow. Instead, the book feels more like a call to action. “Lean Out is a manifesto,” Shevinsky declares at the outset. Leaning out or walking away is by no means an admission of defeat, Krys Freeman writes in her piece about being a second-generation techie who dropped out of corporate life over the incessant bias expressed against her as an African-American lesbian woman. “I don’t fault anyone for choosing to engage, for taking their destiny into their own hands, however clumsy it might look at first, or how unnerving it may become over time,” Freeman writes. “But I do want to celebrate the daring few who disengage.” Shevinsky calls it creative disengagement—using her own entrepreneurial prowess to move beyond entrenched corporate culture and set her own terms. “When someone asks me how to have the best possible experience in tech, I tell them to create their own culture,” she says. “Lead the way.”
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Shevinsky tweeted, joining a chorus of outrage over the TechCrunch scandal. She elaborated on her rekindled feminism in a follow-up blog for Business Insider titled, “That’s it—I’m finished defending sexism in tech.” “I thought that we didn’t need more women in tech,” she wrote in the impassioned manifesto that elevated her to the role of social justice warrior. “I was wrong.” Yet in her new book Lean Out, Shevinsky says her initial response was flawed. Recruiting more women is not the answer, she writes, because women are not the problem. “The solution is to respect the professional environment,” says 36-year-old Shevinsky, an acclaimed designer of female-centric dating apps and cybersecurity software. “Simply having more women in the room doesn’t fix that. We need to fix the root issues in tech, to overhaul the entire culture. Women are smart to not show up to an industry that doesn’t welcome them.” In the 2013 memoir Lean In, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg explained how to get ahead in the existing maledominated tech culture. Leaning in is about how to speak up so that men will hear you. Lean Out—a feminist anthology of 25 stories by 18 writers— takes Sandberg’s point a step further, urging women to build their own cultures and create their own spaces. In effect, to sidestep the patriarchy. “To see a leader of one of the biggest companies saying women in tech are important was really impactful and empowering and meant a great deal to women like me,” Shevinsky says of Sandberg’s widely read work. “On the surface, I have quite a lot in common with Sandberg—I’m an overeducated, arguably privileged, reasonably attractive white woman. But Lean In didn’t speak to me.” Instead of martyring themselves trying to reform a culture run by “brogrammers” who consider breast-ogling apps “disruptive” and workplace breastfeeding stations controversial, Shevinsky advises women to forge their own path. “I’ve had my best experience when I created my own environment,” says Shevinsky, who broke into the industry straight out of college in
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Paul Graham, one of Silicon Valley’s most inuential investors, said in an interview in 2014, “God knows what you would do to get 13-year-old girls interested in computers . . . We can’t make these women look at the world through hacker eyes and start Facebook because they haven’t been hacking for the past 10 years.â€? The idea that tech has a pipeline problem—one that can be solved by teaching ďŹ ve-year-old girls to code— infuriates me. It’s awkward to say so. I need to tread carefully here, lest I be accused of bad feminism. I can see the headline now: “#LADYBOSS Against STEM Education for Girls. Also Secretly Hates Puppies.â€? I am, of course, in favor of teaching girls to code. And it is true that there are more men than women applying for jobs and programs in Silicon Valley. But the reason why we don’t have more women in tech
is not because of a lack of STEM education. It’s because too many high proďŹ le and inuential individuals and subcultures within the tech industry have ignored or outright mistreated women applicants and employees. To be succinct—the problem isn’t women, it’s tech culture. John Doerr, a partner at the Kleiner Perkins venture capital ďŹ rm, sang the praises of the legendary young white male nerd at the National Venture Capital Association’s annual meeting in 2008: “In the early days when you went back in the Amazon shipping area, the books were lined up so you could see what people were buying. Invariably there was a book about programming language like Java, and in the same sales order there was a book like The Joy of Sex. These [customers] were probably very clearly male, nerds who had no social or sex lives trying to get help by using an online service. “That correlates more with any other success factor that I’ve seen in the world’s greatest entrepreneurs.
Elissa Shevinsky will speak at C2SV, which takes place at the California Theatre in San Jose on October 8 and 9. This piece was adapted from Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture, Or Books, 2015.
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CULTURE CLASH Trans Latina activist Katherine Cross writes about the defensive misogyny and male entitlement of nerd culture. If you look at Bezos, or [Netscape Communications Corp. founder] Marc Andreessen, [Yahoo Inc. cofounder] David Filo, the founders of Google, they all seem to be white, male, nerds who’ve dropped out of Harvard or Stanford and they absolutely have no social life. So when I see that pattern coming in— which was true of Google—it was very easy to decide to invest.” The mistake that we have made is taking the narratives at face value. We all know that there is a “Woman in Tech” problem. But the nature of that problem looks very different, depending on your vantage point. It’s worth noting that sexism is not evenly distributed in Silicon Valley. Some companies have healthy work environments and others do not. Companies like Google are quite large, and some departments are more dysfunctional than others. Moreover, things are far better for women in tech than they were even two or three years ago. It’s not my aim to say that sexism is everywhere, or that we are all at fault. The work that I aim to do here is clarifying
the nature of the “Women in Tech” problem, to the extent that we agree that something is wrong. Note that the “pipeline problem” storyline is used not only about women but also about people of color, LGBTQ people and pretty much any minority or group that doesn’t have cultural fit. The women who work in tech agree that the problem is harassment, discrimination and a generally hostile work environment. Many cite difficulties being hired, promoted or getting funding. An overwhelming number of the highest profile technology companies have had a sexual harassment scandal that has made headlines—many within the last year. Whether it’s public companies like Google or Twitter or fast growing startups like Github, Uber, Snapchat and Tinder, a job applicant would have good reasons to believe that she is about to join a fraternity. I’ve been in tech since 2001. I didn’t see the problems clearly because I’d been part of the industry for too long. I also wanted to focus
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REPEATING PATTERN Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr is quoted in Lean Out as saying he invested in Google because its founders were socially awkward white guys like other successful Internet company founders. on getting things done rather than on feminist-inspired activism. So I made the bros-only atmosphere work for me. I overcompensated by picking a frat boy to cofound a company with me (he was MIT & YC). I had the greatest time drinking scotch at Google I/O with some of the best CTOs in the media industry. They treated me like a bro. I didn’t want to lose those moments. And I thought that there was room for other women to have a similarly good experience. I experienced sexism all the time, but I overlooked it because I was too busy working. My year living and working with younger Silicon Valley startup guys in the SoMA district of San Francisco was an onslaught of misogyny, penis jokes, porn references and general lack of common courtesy. The oddest part was the inability to switch gears. What made these guys think that I’d want to hear their masturbation humor? Those guys weren’t able to switch gears out of brogrammer mode. One wonders if they ever switch gears.
Let’s be clear—sexism isn’t owned by startup bros from frats out of MIT. I’ve been hit on by VCs (one messaged me on Gchat to ask if my OKCupid profile was for research) and another introduced himself at the TechCrunch August Capital party by stating that he’d like to make out with me (to be fair, my badge read “CEO of MakeOut Labs,” but that introduction was brazen). I’ve been sympathetic to these bad actors. With so few women around, it’s almost reasonable that they can’t get past seeing me as one of their only romantic prospects. And yet, we find ourselves wondering why more women don’t choose to be part of this world. Companies, and individual actors within companies, could do more to create professional and hospitable work environments. We should not look is to executives at big companies to describe problems of sexism and inequality in Silicon Valley. Executives at companies like Google or Yahoo have a different set of issues. These issues include hiring the most talented people, while using the least
amount of resources to do so. These problems include how best to create shareholder value, and how to do damage control around negative PR. Putting the blame on the pipeline problem is good for PR and shareholder value because it shifts blame away from a tech company’s leadership and HR departments, and onto women. This is a way for big tech companies to avoid hard conversations about fixing broken recruiting practices and fixing work environments that are hostile to women and people of color. I understand this. As a CEO myself. I also optimize for shareholder valuation and reputation. However, I take their descriptions of tech problems with a grain of salt. When I see YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki describing the pipeline problem, I see a representative of YouTube (which is owned by Google). Her problems are not the problems of most women in technology. Her problems are those of shareholders and board directors charged with optimizing quarterly revenues. The “pipeline problem” narrative is a double win for big tech companies. It absolves them of responsibility for their faulty hiring practices and problematic work environments. The “pipeline problem” story also encourages the flow of resources towards training women and minorities to be knowledge workers. Increasing the pool of potential applicants is valuable for these companies. It is a way to hire more people without making any internal changes for recruitment. Efforts to improve the pipeline don’t necessarily come with any obligations by these companies to hire or fairly treat these workers, once they are trained. I worry about training and encouraging women to join an industry that is failing so many of the women who are already here. Maximizing shareholder value is fine (hey, making money is the American way) but it’s not what’s at stake when we talk about Silicon Valley’s sexism problem. On reflection, turning to Google and Twitter executives to suggest solutions for sexism in tech is absurd. In the best cases they are describing someone else’s problem.
In some cases they are themselves the bad actors. Equally troubling are the comments used to support the pipeline narrative. The subtext is that women aren’t qualified to be hired or funded by Google, Twitter or Y Combinator. This paints women as damsels in distress who need extra help to be part of Silicon Valley. When I hear companies say that they cannot find women, I am confused. I’m here. My friends are here. We are even knocking on their doors. We are applying to their conferences and for jobs and internships and funding. We are signing into their headquarters as guests and using their APIs. We are easy to find on LinkedIn and through our social networks. So let’s stop saying that women aren’t here, or that they aren’t skilled. Let’s instead look at why we’re not seeing/ hiring/promoting/funding/respecting the women who are. As Aliya Rahman tweeted at the Lesbians Who Tech conference, “I believe the best way to hire women and people of colors is to hire them.” Sometimes I think it really is that simple. The best way to hire more women is to hire them. We are already here, and we are already awesome. Things were different when I got started in tech. When I got into programming as a teenager, I felt very welcome in Computer Science. It was 1997, and I was taking “CSCI 105: “The Web: Technologies and Techniques,” the Computer Science department’s most introductory class. It seemed like a lightweight way for a humanities major like me to fulfill the college’s science requirement. I had just graduated from a science high school and wanted to take a break from challenging STEM classes. Led by Professor Tom Murtagh, the class covered the architecture of the Internet, along with html and Java programming. My teaching assistants were nerdy white guys (who I totally admired) but the class was mostly gender balanced. In 1997 we didn’t know that programming was for boys. The industry was so new. We didn’t have role models like Zuck or Jobs to create “pattern recognition” for hiring
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[W]hen I hear these companies say that they cannot find women, I am confused. I’m here. My friends are here. protocol and making websites that no one saw. The programmer-nerds became my friends. We would get together on Wednesday nights for hot cocoa spiked with liquor, and play “Magic: The Gathering.” It was a gender balanced group … of wonderful nerdy gamer coders. My boyfriend taught me to write Perl code and pick locks. My college memories are mostly of hanging out with this group of wonderful nerdy gamer coders. I have the fondest early memories of tech culture. I got internship and job offers everywhere that I applied, ultimately working for Ethan Zuckerman’s startup “Geekcorps,” which sent tech geeks to Ghana. I had friends in the industry, I had job offers, I fit into that world. That’s a powerful thing, to feel wanted. Like you belong. Like you know what to do. Like you’re among friends. Safe. Respected. Fast forward to now. Put yourself
in the shoes of a young woman considering career choices, and doing initial research. If she were to research working at a large tech company, what would she find? And if she were to apply, what would she experience? It’s time that we stopped saying that women aren’t interested in tech or in programming or in STEM, and that special education for women is the solution. Women were interested in tech when I was coming of age, and it was a decent place to be. Smart applicants do research before they enter a new field. And it doesn’t take much research to realize that technology has a gender problem. Smart women are making a well-educated decision when they choose a non-STEM field. Upon close examination, a woman researching tech might realize that there are amazing opportunities for those who are willing to navigate the landscape. But not every applicant will get past the initial hesitation, and many do not have mentors or role models to help them find that awesome first job or angel investor. It’s with this in mind that I encourage women to get involved in tech, but to do so by working closely with a trusted mentor. Startups like Glassbreakers offer peer-to-peer mentoring for women in tech. There are definitely paths for women to have awesome experiences developing their skills and becoming successful in technology. The issue is not that women need better or different education. The issue is what women find when they research our industry and what their opportunities and experiences look like once they are here. If we want top candidates to join us in technology, then we need to earn them. Let’s stop blaming women for the failure of big tech companies and VCs to appreciate, respect, hire, fund and promote them. And let’s stop trying to solve an urgent, time-sensitive HR problem—the need for big companies to create genuinely hospitable environments for a diverse set of employees—with unrelated measures like teaching kindergarteners how to code or feel-good conferences that don’t change how women are hired, promoted, funded or respected. Women are not the problem. Let’s fix the thing that is.
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managers or Venture Capitalists. Zuck hadn’t even begun high school in 1997. Jobs had not yet turned Apple into the iconic company it would eventually become. In 1997, before the iPod and iPhone and Macbook Pro, Apple was described as a “damaged brand.” We didn’t have 10 years of white male heroes. We had each other. Nerds against the world! In 1997, this was a battle that us nerds had not yet won. Nerds were so uncool at Williams College that the section of campus where we lived was known as “The Odd Quad.” There were no hackathons or multi-million dollar acquisitions by Facebook. It was just a bunch of us in the “Sun Lab” talking about TCP
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Large leather-cushioned booths and bar chairs with studded upholstery are reminiscent of jazz age grandeur. Meanwhile, wooden tables, a wall covered with wood panels and pewter chandeliers with exposed bulbs go for a rustic earthy
feel. Then the giant metallic letters W and H on the wall adjacent to the front door, and TV screens at the bar, bring a clash of modernity to the previous themes. It seems like a restaurant being pulled in too many different directions. Unfortunately, the food was almost as complicated as the décor. Half the menu lists appetizers, soups and salads. There are two different sections for steak, both separate from entrees. It is the kind of extensive menu expected of a highend steakhouse, but this is a higher mid-range restaurant—casual attire is welcome and beers at the bar are fine, but an expensive bill is still expected. Luckily, our waitress was well-versed in her knowledge of the menu and
salad was a few sprigs of cilantro sprouts. The onion strings were crispy and delicious despite not tasting like sriracha, and they were served in an overwhelming heap atop the steak. The pan roasted scallops with mushroom risotto entrée ($24) fared much better. Three giant scallops with a golden brown sear, served on top of creamy risotto sprinkled with pepita seeds and mushrooms, made for a satisfying and hearty dish. This dish and the cornbread were the best bites of the meal.
explained the difference between the many sections. I wet my whistle with a dry and bubbly Gerard Bertrand Rose ($8), which was served in a skinny cylindrical glass rather than a flute. For appetizers, the iron skillet poblano cornbread ($12) comes highly recommended and for good reason. Moist cornbread with a spicy honey sauce is served in an iron skillet with plenty to share. While the tomatoes in the fried green tomatoes ($9) were fresh and juicy, the dish was bland with little flavor in the cornmeal crust. The bed of baby arugula in a citrusy dressing was the best part of this appetizer. Of the signature steaks, the ginger ponzu bone in ribeye ($44) sounded most promising with its demi glaze and sriracha onion strings. And while the steak was cooked medium rare as requested and the quality of meat was good, the ginger ponzu was absent to my taste buds. What was promised to be a fresh cilantro
At about six months old and owned by veteran restaurateurs who also own the Opa! restaurants, Willard Hicks is no longer in its infancy. It has the potential to bridge the gap between casual restaurants and higher end steakhouses, and it has some standout dishes among a long menu of items that could be amped up. The ingredients look and taste as fresh as they sound, but the dishes lack bold flavor and execution. Most of my meal, particularly the steak, lacked the confidence exuded in the poblano cornbread, which made a statement with its large portion size, sweet and spicy combination, and mix of textures. If Willard Hicks could make steaks with that much personality, it would be required dining. Until then, it would be less price prohibitive and more satisfying to make a meal of the appetizers.
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City Lights Theatre is taking on the classic story of the Jets, the Sharks, and two star-crossed lovers caught on opposite sides of New York City’s best-known fictional street gangs. Based on Romeo and Juliet, a.k.a. the world’s most famous love story, West Side Story was written by Broadway legends Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, and has firmly established itself as a part of the American theatrical canon. Its 1961 silver screen adaptation won 10 Oscars. The play will be directed by Lisa Mallette, City Lights’ executive artistic director, and will run through Aug. 23. (LN)
Many often lament the dearth of arts and culture in San Jose. That’s dumb. A mere month after SubZERO took over the SoFA district, ArtRage is coming to The San Jose Museum of Art. This year outfitted with a sci-fi theme, ArtRage will feature the SJMA’s current exhibition, “Beta Space,” by Diana Thater, some underground video games, and some far-out live bass playing by Jean Baudin. Naturally, costumes are encouraged, and there will be a photo booth to document them. The moral of the story: If you need to know where San Jose's art scene is, it's right here. (JA)
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“Cholo Goth” is about as accurate a descriptor as you’ll find for Prayers. In fact, you can get a pretty clear idea of what they sound like just by looking at them: Their promotional photos show the San Diego-based duo decked out in black denim, leather and Ray-Bans and brooding over some tombstones. Prayers’ doomy, gloomy, synth-heavy songs sound like they were composed on a haunted Casio keyboard. Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is a fan of their weird marriage of early '80s goth, gangster rap and first-wave hardcore. So much so, that he produced and contributed drums to their latest EP, Young Gods. (JA)
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JIM GAFFIGAN July 23 at Mountain Winery
MORRISSEY July 25 at SJSU Event Center
BOSTON July 30 at Mountain Winery
DARIUS RUCKER JJuly 31 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW August 3 at SAP Center
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FIFTH HARMONY August 9 at Mountain Winery
ZZIGGY MARLEY & STEEL PULSE August 13 at Mountain Winery
CHRIS ISAAK August 14 at Mountain Winery
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CAFE PINK HOUSE Thu-Fri, 5:30pm, $12-$20 14577 Big Basin Way, Saratoga Silicon Valley’s newest jazz club, Cafe Pink House (once Studio Pink House), is opening its doors this Thursday in the heart of downtown Saratoga. It is aiming to become what Yoshi’s is to Oakland and Kuumbwa Jazz is to Santa Cruz. The stage features a grand piano, a state-of-the-art sound system and is designed to host large jazz bands. The restaurant will feature classic American staples and Brazilian fusion cuisine. Thursday and Friday will feature internationally acclaimed jazz guitarist Hristo Vitchev and his quartet before they embark on their tour of Asia. (AB)
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Fri, 5:15pm, $10 Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose Veterans of the Bay Area street festival scene, Pa'l Bailador— translation: for the dancer—are pros at bringing crowds to their feet with shuffling salsa rhythms. Nothing too fancy here. Just good, old-fashioned party music. In total, they number around nine, and they sound like it: a tightly-timed blast of brass and percussion that'll make you move, no matter how cool you think you are. Pa'l Bailador makes music that calls for a cold beer and rug to cut. They’re to be joined by Julio Bravo, another salsa king of the Bay Area, and his orquesta. (JA)
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THE ARSONISTS Sat, 7:30pm, $11 Art Boutiki, San Jose These five dudes aren’t the typical stodgy recliners you’ll catch blowing sleepy tunes to a half-attentive crowd. This quintet’s jazz is so hot, it’ll melt your face. They demand your attention with their channeled vigor. The Arsonists incorporate influences from around the world, touching on Caribbean rhythms, Eurasian melodies and the “cool” stylings pioneered in New York City. The last show they played at Art Boutiki turned into an exceptional live EP. Horn solos slalom with breakneck pace around skittering drums and bouncing piano. Yet, the group has exceptional finesse, emerging from scattered improvisations and
August 15 at Mountain Winery
CHRIS HARDWICK landing in swaying slow dances or crescendoing finales. (JF)
STEPHEN PEARCY Sat, 8pm, $20 Rockbar Theatre, San Jose Stephen Pearcy is best known as the raspy frontman of multi-platinum pop-metal band, Ratt. The group’s massive hair, bad boy dreaminess and massive dual-guitars produced a score of hits. “Round and Round” boasts heavy swaggering riffs, an infectious hook and a music video where Pearcy crashes a posh dinner party and corrupts an heiress. They’re a cross between the shrieking dominance of Van Halen and Aerosmith with a little of the new wave metal brought forward by Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Pearcy has been in and out of Ratt over the last few decades, playing brief spells with other bands, recording solo works and sponsoring several drag racing cars. (JF)
August 15 at California Theatre
SHANIA TWAIN August 17 at SAP Center
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD August 18 at Mountain Winery
DIERKS BENTLEY August 21 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
HEART August 26 at Mountain Winery
NEKO CASE September 4 at Mountain Winery
CHAYANNE September 6 at SAP Center
MADONNA October 19 at SAP Center For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com
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Fiery Debut BURNING RNING THROUGH THE YEARS Brian (Ross Lekites) Lekites), a scientist living in 201 2011 shares a moment with Sarah (Megan McGinnis), a former garment worker, who died in the infamous 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
TheatreWorks stages the world premiere of the new musical, ‘Triangle’ BY TAD MALONE
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HE INCINERATION of 123 women and 23 men, in what remains to this day—more than 100 years on—the deadliest industrial disaster in U.S. history, may not seem like fodder for an inspirational musical. But TheatreWorks’ newest production, Triangle, defies expectations, turning a terrible tragedy into a funny and heartwarming study of love.
Directed by Meredith McDonough and written by Curtis Moore and Thomas Mizer, Triangle was originally workshopped in Oklahoma before being fully developed at the TheatreWorks’
2012 New Works Festival. Now it is making its world Premiere at the Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto. The show begins with a mournful prelude—an ensemble song in remembrance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911, a tragic incident that took place in a New York City garment factory. Nearly two-hundred workers, almost all of them women, perished— leading to important legislation regarding workplace safety that we still enjoy today. The set is appropriately minimalist and austere, marked by high ceilings and large windows. The musical opens to doctoral students Brian and Cynthia (played by Ross Lekites and Sharon Rietkerk) at their office discussing work, before being interrupted by a stranger (played by Zachary Prince) to whom Brian becomes immediately attracted. As it happens, the two students work
in the same building—on the same floor where the 1911 fire occurred, in fact—something the stranger is quick to explain. Soon the memory of that tragic event begins to creep into Brian’s psyche—to the point that it begins to transcend the rational thought that has grounded him as a scientist. Haunted by the songs of a long-dead worker from the old shirtwaist factory (Megan McGinnis), Brian is also exposed to the plight of Jewish workers. Moving between relationships and eras, in an office that is somehow a portal between past and present, Brian explores how love transcends time and anguish. And through the support of his insistent new friend and crush, he ultimately discovers what it means to risk it all for the sake of love. Performances by all of the cast are sensitive and incredibly polished, as if the show has been running for years. Lekites plays Brian as an uptight, fastidious scientist—constantly soulsearching while being pestered by his fellow colleague (wittingly portrayed
by Rietkerk). The flashbacks to 1911 also show the range of the other actors, especially Rietkerk and Rolf Saxon, who play their respectively irreverent and serious roles particularly well. The versatility of the Triangle cast is impressive. Nearly all six actors play at least two parts—giving the musical an intimacy and cohesion, even as the plot toggles between 1911 New York and modern day. The standout performance comes from Prince, a Broadway veteran, who brings a witty and diverse range, as well as a top-notch singing voice to two characters—the boss’s son in the past and the mysterious stranger in the present. Moods shift with the production’s score, which includes acoustic ballads, anthems and jazz-pop fusion numbers. Triangle’s music is fresh and innovative, yet familiar. The show’s arrangements are energetic, varied and funny, but also just as quickly reflective and mournful. Many tunes bounce between lamentations and affirmations of the characters' insecurities and acceptances. Importantly, comic relief is always artfully added, and all of the musical’s punchlines never detract from any particular song’s vibe. It is a refreshing departure from the usual musical pomp. Overall, Triangle is a strange show; experimental in subject, composition and design. But even with the irregularity of two opposite romances co-existing for the audiences, the progression of the plot is relatively conventional. This goes for some of the humor as well. Although the focus on a real historical event gives the swirling plot a bit of a tether, it is certainly an odd choice, being one of the more horrifying events in American history. And while Triangle manages to bring both levity and emotional understanding to the tragedy through different perspectives, the event itself seems almost a placeholder. In this sense, the show is less about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire than it is a funny, heartwarming exploration of how people deal with relationships past and present and the interplay between love, history and self-affirmation.
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*stage HOMEWARD BOUND At the turn of the 19th Century, a quarter of a million orphans were sent from New York to new homes. This production blends art with history to tell this little-told story. Sep 18Oct 11. $15-$38. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.
WEST SIDE STORY Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet gets a greasy combover and a leather jacket. The legendary struggle between the Jets and the Sharks set in New York is a timeless classic. Jul 16-Aug 23. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. San Jose.
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Jason Arnold, Beau Roulette. Thru Aug. San Jose.
“Promised Land” Works by Jacob Lawrence. Thru August 3. “Pop Art from the SFMOMA Anderson Collection” featuring works by Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein and others. Thru Oct 26. Stanford.
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Loony inventor Caractacus Potts seeks to save a grand-prix winning car from the scrap heap, only to find that it is imbued with magical flying powers. Soon whimsical hijinx ensue when he seeks to save his magic car from the sinister intentions of Baron Bomburst. July 27- Aug 2. $18$28. Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company.
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At one point, this was the longestrunning Musical in Broadway history. It traces the story of a poor Upper West Side girl who accesses the elite circle of Long Island when hired to tune a piano for a well-to-do man. Thru Jul 25. $33. West Valley Light Opera. Saratoga Civic Theatre.
“Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery,” featuring the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Maasai tribe of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania. “Woodcarvings of Val Gardena, Italy,” featuring handcrafted woodcarving figures.
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“Postdate Photography and Inherited History in India,” Modern artists draw inspiration from the colonial past of India. Thru Aug 2. “Figure Studies” by major Mexican muralist Jose Orozco. Thru Aug 23. “Beta Space” A massive study of the dung beetle’s place in the Galaxy. “Maker Space” thru Jan 17. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon.
The legendarily creepy family is caught by surprise when Wednesday falls in love with a sweet, smart and thoroughly unterrifying boy from a nice family in this fun musical take on “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” Thru July 26. $55-$65. The San Jose Stage.
*concerts DAYDREAM NATION San Pedro Square Market hosts its monthly last Saturday, alternative concert. Free. San Pedro Square Market. 7pm. Free. San Jose.
MUSIC AT THE MARKET A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized by San Jose Jazz. Every Fri, 7-9pm. Free. San Pedro Square Market, San Jose.
“Vistas and Dreams” by Vern Trindade. Thru Sep 13. “Abstractions-Bridges and Echoes” by Barry Masteller. Thru Sep 13. “Through the Lens of Four” Thru Sep 13 Santa Clara.
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“Silicon Valley Bikes! Passion, Innovation, & Politics since 1880” Tracing the history and showing the artifacts from San Jose’s 150-year history on two wheels. Thru Jul 26. “Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printing” The printing press is one of the most important inventions in human history, see the machine that printed the first newspaper in California. Thru Dec 12. San Jose
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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Found/Made” Quilts made from repurposed cloth. Thru Nov 1. “Recycled, Up-Cycled, RePurposed Clothing Design” Fashion created by six local artists in response to overcommercialization and rapid production. Thru Sep 6.
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GALLERY HOUSE Photographs by Vidya Narasimhan, Steve Shpall, Bill Shupp. Thru Jul 25. Palo Alto.
HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE First Fridays feature new artwork, demonstrations, and conversations with artists. San Jose.
KALEID GALLERY “Color Me Free” is an animalfocused new work from Sandi Billingsley. Jay Cee, Nekyua, Theresa Merchant and Al Preciado have collaborated to produce live paintings based on mythology. San Jose.
MACLA “Breaking Point” glass works by award-winners Jaime Guerrero and Vivianna Paredas. Thru Aug 8. San Jose.
MAIN GALLERY “Life Lines” a celebration of the textures of life. “Color Me Woman” a study of femininity. Thru Aug 2. Redwood City.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Metaphoric States” Five bronze works by Stephen de Staebler. Thru Oct 1. Saratoga.
PALO ALTO ART CENTER “Home Grown” is a mid-career exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Walter Robinson. Thru Aug 30. Palo Alto.
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Red Rooms” is a hyperartificial environments playing with light and shadow by Amy M. Ho. Thru Sep 12. “A Fragile Narrative” sculptures address domestic and industrial labor by Cassandra Straubing. Thru Sep 12. “Age of Entanglement” vivid abstract paintings by Naomie Kremer. Thru Sep 19. “Passage” used coffee filters repurposed into natural forms by Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee. Thru Oct 31.
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Stitched Up SIXTY YEARS AGO, artist Robert Rauschenberg blurred the line between visual art and the common comforter. In a piece, aptly titled Bed, he took a quilt and a bedsheet, stuck it on a frame and painted on it. Once attached to a wall in a gallery, the work became one of his most heralded projects. Right now, in a new show at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, “Found/Made,” one can see Joe Cunningham’s response. Bed, after Rauschenberg (2013), is a quilt made from appropriated canvas paintings, all machine-pieced, appliqued and quilted together. Standing back from the work, one wouldn’t even know the material is canvas.
Found/Made Thru Nov 1, $8 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles sjquiltmuseum.org
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“Found/Made” features works that either push the boundaries of traditional quiltmaking or question the medium altogether. Incorporating scraps of old Levi’s, oil paint, leather and torn up rock shirts, these textiles will surely change the way some people think about quilts.
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The show includes works by local quilt artist Therese May. One in particular, Therese (1970), could call itself a retro, split-selfie. Created from recycled thrift-store fabrics and other materials, the quilt’s fragmented presentation conjures the 1970s split-personality film, Sybil. May shows the viewer a cadaver-esqe cross-section glimpse of her face—reminiscent of the Body Human documentary series from the same era. Call it a suburban San Jose thrift store, retro B-film, exposé of the divided self.
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For those who keep used laundry all over the bed, [The American Context #2] Bed Clothes (2010), by Luke Haynes will certainly inspire. Composed of old shirts, pants and shorts quilted together into a bedspread of sorts, the quilt hugs the bottom corner of the wall, up and down, as if covering a dingy old futon. And then there’s the work of Ben Venom. Who’d imagine quilts with Harley Davidson imagery, skeletons, or recycled Shepard Fairey “Obey” shirts? About a third of the show seems dedicated to such influence. Venom’s War Bird West, for example, is an eagle’s head made from heavy metal t-shirts on a black background. Viewers will immediately feel inclined to examine the work up close and see if they can identify any of the bands. “Hail Satan” appears prominently. Just as the many scraps of assorted cloth come together to form a quilt, so too do the multitude of quilts on display in “Found/Made” comprise a larger narrative: The collage method of acquiring found objects that so often emerges in painting, sculpture and installation should not discount quilting. The works in the show more than prove that.—Gary Singh
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Shrinkage MANT Paul Rudd plays Scott Lang, a cat burglar and wearer of an incredible shrinking suit in ‘Ant-Man.’
‘Ant-Man’ mostly manages to honor conventions and avoid clichés BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
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EVER SAW a miniaturization movie I didn’t like, particularly Joe Dante’s neglected, Valley-set Inner Space (1987). Ant-Man doesn’t break the streak, even if it’s a multi-writer, battered blockbuster that praises the importance of “commitment.” Hark at that message and recall the messy way this movie was made, with its firings and rewrites galore.
Set in San Francisco and on Treasure Island, Ant-Man tells of how scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) seeks to keep the shrinking suit he devised back in
the ’60s out of the hands of his former employers, S.H.I.E.L.D. Unfortunately, new management at the company he founded is duplicating the experiments on the “Pym Particle” formula. Pym selects Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) a cat burglar just released from San Quentin, to steal back the new iteration of the Ant-Man suit. It’s the Yellowjacket, a bee-sized carapace equipped with tiny lasers, perfect for stealth assassination and surveillance. It will take a village of ants, led telepathically by a pea-sized hero, to steal back this terrible weapon. Watching Scott’s back are his prison pals, a gang of mixed-ethnic caricatures. Their leader is Michael Pena as Luis, doing the Hispanic motormouth routine. After years of comparison studies involving low comedy, it’s proven that the Slavic accent is the sovereign funny
dialect, beating even German. David Dastmalchian cuts the indefinite articles here and has the single best line in the movie—a Borat-worthy explanation for the power of the ant-suit. Director Peyton Reed sets up Ant-Man as a story of a parallel set of fathers, high and low, levered into action by their daughters—“It’s not about saving our world, it’s about saving theirs,” Pym says. Scott has to turn to crime to pay child-support on his adorable daughter with the two front teeth missing. Pym quarrels with his restless 30-something offspring, Hope (Evangeline Lilly, with a Louise Brooks coiffure). She’s bitter with the full wrath of a would-be superheroine whose father won’t let her wear the amazing Ant-Suit. Dad’s decision—it’s a fairly dumb decision—is made because of backstory, soon to be revealed. Playing defense: Corey Stoll’s Darren Cross is less like Vin Diesel and more like Telly Savales’ Blofeld from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
(1969). After he’s turned a rival into a chewing gum sized blob using a defective shrink ray, Reed gives Stoll a moment—letting him study his reflection in the mirror so Cross can decide if murder has changed his looks. He has “the villain’s haircut,” in the phrase of the late Batman writer Lorenzo Semple Jr. If this evil baldie isn’t as richly wrong as Oscar Isaacs was in Ex Machina, he is surprisingly formidable. What the fired director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, etc.) brought to Ant-Man can be guessed from a pair of sequences where Pena’s Luis describes how word on the street arrived to him. Luis’s slang is dubbed into the mouths of a dozen different people, gossiping to each other. Similar play with flashbacks and flash-forwards—the stuff at which Wright excels—would have sped the storytelling. Speed would have helped; there are many moments in Ant-Man that are floorsweepings from other superhero opuses. Time yet again for another training montage, with Lilly’s Hope savagely beating the hell out of Scott. Ant-Man has to negotiate a narrow path between honoring the conventions and avoiding the clichés. Mostly it does. Ultimately it delivers what was promised, as well as surprises—a one-way fall through the cracks in the floors of a Tenderloin tenement; at one point Scott runs from a mammoth phonograph needle at a DJ’d house party. There’s a mano a bitty mano fight atop a speeding toy train, and an ultimate journey deep into the heart of matter, featuring psychedelic chrome doodads, which pop out of the ether in 3D. And there are multiple in-jokes tying this film into the entire Marvel Studios roster. Hearing of the villain’s plot, Scott says “I think our first task is to call The Avengers!” (Sensible, yet Pym declines.) When one of his pet ants is killed, Scott threatens the villain with a wee fist: “You’re going to regret this!” This movie about shrinkage has a nice sense of proportion.
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(1989) The time-travelling DeLorean of Dr. Brown (Christopher Lloyd) arrives in a future tampered with by the evil Bif, who has turned Hill Valley into a bad little town worse than a dozen Pottersvilles. (Plays Jul 16 at 9:30pm and Jul 18 at 11:55pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)
MRS. SKEFFINGTON/ OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1944/1934) Between the wars in Germany, Fanny (Bette Davis) toughs out a marriage of convenience to a banker named Job (Claude Rains)—the name “Jobâ€? suits him when she’s through with him. She learns her lesson (thanks to an epidemic) but before that happens, Davis emotes the kind of anti-heroic desperation that her audience of housewives would understand only too well. BILLED WITH Of Human Bondage. On loan to RKO, Davis gave her ďŹ rst big performance. She plays Mildred, the mean little rolling-eyed whore who kicks around a striving, clubfooted London medical student (the ever-noble Leslie Howard). In this pre-Code adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's magnum opus—the fastest and the juiciest--Davis does Cockney‌which is slightly risible in the abstract, but she's sensationally tart and lascivious‌and the crueler part of one's heart agrees with her that the young student needed badly to wise up. (Plays July 15-17 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD/ WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1962/1957) With the controversial sequel, Go Set A Watchman, hitting bookshelves this week, the awardwinning ďŹ lm of the novel of the hour. Gregory Peck reached some sort of landmark level of probity as Atticus Finch, liberal lawyer of the South defending a black man (Brock Peters) accused of rape. Robert Duvall made his debut as the soft-witted Boo Radley. BILLED WITH Witness for the Prosecution. The comedy of husband and wife team Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester (him as a renowned English judge, her as his nurse) livens this Agatha Christie adaptation wrought by Billy Wilder. Dietrich is in the dock; Tyrone Power is the wastrel (named Vole, like the rodent) in need of a good alibi. (Plays July 18-21 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
CELTS, COMMIES AND CATHOLICS An Irish community organizer clashes with the church in ‘Jimmy’s Hall.’
Shades Of Green YOU WON’T BE seeing Jimmy’s Hall at your next Catholic Youth Organization meeting. Here Ken Loach celebrates a half-century of ďŹ lmmaking with a compact political romance set in 1930s County Letrim, near the border that cleaves Ireland. Returned from exile after the Civil War, James Grafton (the handsome Barry Ward) is given a little friendly pressure to reopen the small tin hall he once built, dedicated to Irish patriots, James Connolly and Patrick Pearce. It’s a space for education, dancing and a spot of community activism. The locals ock, but the ultra-right-wing local priest, Father Sheridan, thunders against it. (That conservative divine is played by Jim Norton, the ornery bishop on TV’s Father Ted.) There may be 50 shades of green in Ireland, but there are no shades of grey in Jimmy’s Hall: the Communism is de-Stalinized, and everything in the hall is on the up and up. Until greedy landlords spur some community demonstrations, it’s mostly ladies teaching Yeats, “The Gartan Lullabyâ€? in Gaelic, and
some jazz dancing. Loach is circumspect about the man/woman thing; I doubt there’s a hamlet in Ireland that would object to the torrid dance between Jimmy and Oonagh (Simone Kirby), the lady he left behind. (His present Jimmy’s Hall to her from New PG-13; 109 Mins. York: the Camera 3, ďŹ rst nonSan Jose tweed dress seen in the county.) Loach’s frequent collaborator, Paul Laverty, has to work the exposition hard, but the faces are refreshing. They include Aisling Franciosi, charming as a grinning, mischiefmaking colleen, and the non-pro actor, Aileen Henry, as Jimmy’s mother— the mom is always a bit distracted, never directly addressing a crisis but always ďŹ nding the right way out of it. Fr. Sheridan is opposed by a younger priest brandishing the example of the persecuted Christ: he’s played by Andrew Scott—the splendid a brasive Moriarity on the BBC’s Sherlock. — Richard von Busack
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Getaway Music HE’S HOLDING As Vector Hold, local musician Pete Rice channels ‘Vice City,’ ‘Escape From New York,’ and classic Sega Genesis tunes.
Vector Hold’s synthwave tunes make the perfect escape soundtrack BY NICK VERONIN
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OME MUSICIANS seek inspiration in literature. Others find it in love or loss. Still others might listen to music in search of a creative spark. But whenever Pete Rice is looking to get his juices flowing, he usually turns to one of two muses: Sega Genesis games and cult ’80s flicks. “I played a lot of old school sidescrollers and button mashers back
in the day,” says Rice, who makes synthwave music under the moniker Vector Hold. Rice is quite partial to the tones and arrangements found on titles for the classic 16-bit system—which were often darker and more brooding than the heavily compressed sounds used by Sega’s competitor, Nintendo. “There’s definitely a Sega sound,” Rice says. “It’s bit-crunched, lo-fi drums; arpeggiators; saw-tooth, sine form, wave synthesizers. You use very minimal tracking—only about five or six tracks.” In addition to taking inspiration from Sega games, Rice also draws from movies—especially those
featuring synth-heavy scores. He points to the John Carpenter films Halloween and Escape From New York, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, and “terrible, bad love comedy movies that are off the beaten path.”. In fact, Rice says he was spurred to launch Vector Hold after watching the 2011 grindhouse vigilante-justice flick, Hobo With A Shotgun. The film’s score features a song titled “Hunters,” by Power Glove—a buzzing, menacing affair, with thundering synth tom-tom hits and a steady growling pulse. “Wait a minute,” Rice recalls thinking. “That sounds like something I do. My life changed after watching that scene.” Rice, a lifelong musician, who also plays in the local stoner metal act, Forgotten Gods, has always made electronic music. He’s been crafting
tunes on his vintage Commodore Amiga 500 computer since long before the recent explosion in popularity of EDM. But he never knew what to do with his tunes, other than throw them up on SoundCloud and forget about them. After doing some research on Power Glove, however, Rice discovered an entire community of artists producing synthwave. “I found my people,” he says. Since then, his SoundCloud and BandCamp followers have ballooned and he’s been pouring himself into Vector Hold with as much vigor as he gives to Forgotten Gods—which is already a serious band that regularly tours up and down the West Coast. A typical day for Rice begins with his day job at a sheet metal shop. “I go to work,” he says. “I get home from work. I sit down and I work on my electronic music, then I go to band practice for a few hours, and then I get home and work on some Janitors stuff and Vector Hold. Then I do it all over again.” (In addition to playing in Forgotten Gods, Rice is also the only active member of the ska band, Janitors Against Apartheid.) Rice plans to release the latest Vector Hold album, Night Marauder, on July 21—through BandCamp, Spotify, iTunes and other digital platforms. All of the songs on Night Marauder carry a sense of intense urgency and evoke images of car chases and gun fights from campy ’80s action films. It would make the perfect soundtrack to an epic getaway on a palm tree-lined freeway—as the synth patches from Rice’s Amiga streak past, like blurring neon lights. If the album sounds like a specific video game, it’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It’s all hot pink and muggy. Fans of Rice’s previous work as Vector Hold will notice that he has added more sounds to his latest effort—including soaring lead guitars. On Night Marauders, Rice says he was branching out and trying new things. “It’s really all over the map this time,” he says. “There are heavy, rocking tunes; laid back Sonic the Hedgehog-style stuff, and there is some old-school Vector Hold stuff. I’m just throwing everything at it right now. I’m just giving it everything I can.”
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You recently printed a letter from a woman who had decided to stop dating so she could make better choices about men. I also decided to do this, though I haven’t had her trouble in sticking to my plan. The thing is, since I stopped dating, I have been deluged with suitors. Coincidence? Or do men sense when you’ve packed away your desperation?—Crowded Men, like all of us, are most attracted to what’s somewhat out of reach. Had Rapunzel been sitting behind an unlocked window on the first floor, she would have been just another chick with a hairbrush. Value is actually a relative thing. A lack of supply—something being (or seeming) rare and hard to get—tends to increase demand (as in, desirability). Consider the pricing of different sorts of rocks, and why you see Jared ads for expensive diamond rings and not expensive princess-cut gray speckled pebbles: “Just $5,901.76, for this lovely bit of roadside gravel!” Understanding the value of scarcity
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Los Gatos Beauty Bar, 130 N. Santa Cruz Ave., STE E, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Renee Kearney, 3261 Alanda Dr, Santa Clara, CA, 95124. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on 7/6/2015. /s/Renee Kearney This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/06/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606619 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Korean Red Ginseng, 1621 Nobeli Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Sung Han Hong. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Sung Han Hong This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/02/2015. (pub Metro 7/08, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29/2014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606428 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TSC Consulting, 6338 Whaley Dr., San Jose, CA, 95135, Scott Corchero. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. ReďŹ le of previous ďŹ le #597099 with changes. /s/Scott Cochero This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/25/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605439 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. AA Tours Services, 2. Zebra Insurance Services, 4800 Patrick Henry Drive, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Jack Hsu, 2589 Flagstone Drive, San Jose, CA, 95132, Catalina C. Hsu. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on 6/01/2010. ReďŹ le of previous ďŹ le #538564 with changes. /s/Jack Hsu. This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/28/2015. (pub Metro 6/24, 7/01, 7/08, 7/15/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606138 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Triple Crown Transportation, 2. Eagle Eye Limousine, 1655 Hollowcreek Place, San Jose, CA, Ranmindar Singh. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begn transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ranmindar Singh. This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/17/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT#605563 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Stay Vaped, 4470 Pearl Ave., San Jose, CA, 95136, Nham Pham, 2350 Senter Rd., San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on 6/1/15. /s/Nham Pham. This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/01/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606271 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Roy Virtual Design, 13179 Paseo Presada, Saratoga, CA, 95070, Jonathan D. Mohn, Abhra Roy, 3418 Maroun Place, San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jonathan D. Mohn Owner. This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/22/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606286 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lasya Ranjani, 6148 Bollinger Road, San Jose, CA, 95127, Anitha Addagadde, 103 Amber Oak Ridge, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on June 2010. /s/Anitha Addagadde This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/23/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606145 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Chatterbox Speech Therapy, 1118 Dinkel Ct.,
San Jose, CA, 95118, Sharlyn Schweitzerhof. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on 8/4/2010. /s/Sharlyn Schweitzerhof This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/18/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606269 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cooking Crab, 2340 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Hye Ok Kim, 3677 Raycrest Ct., Santa Rosa, CA, 95404. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on 6/22/2015. /s/Hye Ok Kim. This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/22/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605432 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Debonaire Designs, 1430 Proud Dr., San Jose, CA, 95132, Mary Pham, Theresa Trinh. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on May 28, 2015. /s/Mary Pham This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/28/2015 (pub Metro 6/24, 7/01, 7/08, 7/15/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606184 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Quest For Excellence Media, 16010 Jackson Oaks Dr., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Clifford E. Daugherty, Kristine S, Daugherty. This business is conducted by married couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Clifford E. Daugherty This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/18/2015. (pub Metro 6/24, 7/01, 7/08, 7/15/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605942 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bedolla Salon, 74 Race St., Unit A, San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is conducted by a corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on Apr 03-15. /s/Gustavo Bedolla. President #3774182. This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/11/2015. (pub Metro 6/24, 7/01, 7/08, 7/15/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606033 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TMC Solutions, 1255 Mayhew Dr., San Jose, CA, 95121, Toan Mai. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein on 6/15/2015. /s/Toan Mai This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/15/2015. (pub Metro 6/27, 7/01, 7/08, 7/15/2015)
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The poet Mary Ruefle describes reading books as "a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan." Are there other ways to do that? Watching films and plays and TV shows, of course. You can also listen to and empathize with people as they tell you their adventures. Or you can simply use your imagination to visualize what life is like for others. However you pursue this expansive pleasure, Scorpio, I highly recommend it. You are set up to absorb the equivalent of many years' experience in a few short weeks.
that has footnotes, you tend to regard the footnotes as being of secondary importance. Although they may add color to the text's main messages, you can probably skip them without losing much of the meaning. But I don't recommend this approach in the coming days. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, footnotes will carry crucial information that's important for you to know. I mean this in a metaphorical sense as you live your life as well as in the literal act of reading books. Pay close attention to the afterthoughts, the digressions and the asides.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj is not timid about going after what she wants. She told Cosmopolitan magazine that she's "high-maintenance in bed." Every time she's involved in a sexual encounter, she demands to have an orgasm. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to follow her lead—not just during your erotic adventures, but everywhere else, too. Ask for what you want, preferably with enough adroitness to actually obtain what you want. Here's another critical element to keep in mind: To get exactly what you want, you must know exactly what you want.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The English word
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A college basketball
"quiddity" has two contrary definitions. It can refer to a trivial quibble. Or it can mean the essential nature of a thing—the quality that makes it unique. I suspect that in the coming weeks you will get numerous invitations to engage with quiddities of both types. Your first task will be to cultivate an acute ability to know which is which. Your second task: Be relentless in avoiding the trivial quibbles as you hone in on the essential nature of things.
player named Mark Snow once told reporters, "Strength is my biggest weakness." Was he trying to be funny? No. Was he a bit dim-witted? Perhaps. But I'm not really interested in what he meant by his statement. Rather, I want to hijack it for my own purpose, which is to recommend it as a meditation for you in the coming weeks. Can you think of any ways that your strength might at least temporarily be a weakness? I can. I suspect that if you rely too much on the power you already possess and the skills you have previously mastered, you may miss important clues about what you need to learn next. The most valuable lessons of the coming weeks could come to you as you're practicing the virtues of humility and innocence and receptivity.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When you read a book
CANCER (June 21-July 22): "A poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap." That's an English translation of an aphorism written by French author Joseph Joubert. Another way to say it might be, "A smart person isn't drab and plodding as she bridges a gap, but does it with high style and brisk delight." A further alternative: "An imaginative soul isn't predictable as she travels over and around obstacles, but calls on creative magic to fuel her ingenious liberations." Please use these ideas during your adventures in the coming weeks, Cancerian. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): July is barely half over, but your recent scrapes with cosmic law have already earned you the title of "The Most Lyrically Tormented Struggler of the Month." Another few days of this productive mayhem and you may be eligible for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. I could see you being selected as "The Soul Wrangler with the Craziest Wisdom" or "The Mythic Hero with the Most Gorgeous Psychospiritual Wounds." But it's my duty to let you know that you could also just walk away from it all. Even if you're tempted to stick around and see how much more of the entertaining chaos you can overcome, it might be better not to. In my opinion, you have done enough impossible work for now. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "People who have their feet planted too firmly on the ground have difficulty getting their pants off," said author Richard Kehl. That's good advice for you in the coming weeks. To attract the help and resources you need, you can't afford to be overly prim or proper. You should, in fact, be willing to put yourself in situations where it would be easy and natural to remove your pants, throw off your inhibitions, and dare to be surprising. If you're addicted to business-as-usual, you may miss opportunities to engage in therapeutic play and healing pleasure.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "A failure is a person who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience," wrote American author Elbert Hubbard. In light of this formulation, I'm pleased to announce that you are likely to achieve at least one resounding success in the coming weeks. At this juncture in your destiny, you know exactly how to convert a past mistake into a future triumph. A gaffe that once upon a time brought you anguish or woe will soon deliver its fully ripened teaching, enabling you to claim a powerful joy or joyful power.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Stop Making Sense" was originally the name of the film and music soundtrack produced by the Talking Heads in the 1980s, and now it is the central theme of your horoscope. I think your brain would benefit from a thorough washing. That's why I invite you to scour it clean of all the dust and cobwebs and muck that have accumulated there since its last scrub a few months back. One of the best ways to launch this healing purge is, of course, to flood all the neural pathways with a firehose-surge of absurdity, jokes and silliness. As the wise physician of the soul, Dr. Seuss, said, "I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells."
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler delivers the following speech to Scarlett O'Hara: "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived." Your oracle for the near future, Aquarius, is to adopt an approach that is the exact opposite of Rhett Butler's. Patiently gather the broken fragments and glue them together again. I predict that the result will not only be as good as new; it will be better. That's right: The mended version will be superior to the original. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Australian actress Rebel Wilson has appeared in several successful movies, including Bridesmaids, Bachelorette and Pitch Perfect. But she didn't start out to be a film star. Mathematics was her main interest. Then, while serving as a youth ambassador in South Africa at age 18, she contracted malaria. At the height of her sickness, she had hallucinatory visions that she would one day be "a really good actress who also won an Oscar." The visions were so vivid that she decided to shift her career path. I foresee the possibility that you will soon experience a version of her epiphany. During a phase when you're feeling less than spectacular, you may get a glimpse of an intriguing future possibility. Homework: What's the name of the book you may write some day—perhaps your memoir? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com. Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700
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