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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Poet Susan Howe describes poetry as an “amorous search under the sign of love for a remembered time at the pitch-dark fringes of evening when we gathered together to bless and believe.” I’d like to use that lyrical assessment to describe your life in the coming days—or at least what I […]
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Let’s be frank. Do we really need another retelling of the Marilyn Monroe story? Really, is there anyone even remotely interested in learning the details of Norma Jeane Mortensen’s life and career who doesn’t already know it pretty much by heart? That’s what filmmaker Andrew Dominik, and the rest of us, are up against with […]
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Stanford’s Cecil H. Green Library exudes an Ivy League elegance. Art-deco pendulum chandeliers hang from vaulted ceilings, casting spotlights. Lacquered wood-paneled bookcases line the perimeter of the great room, which is so large that it never seems like anyone else is there but you. The guarded space is home to a plethora of rare documents, […]
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Gov. Gavin Newsom had some catching up to do when he returned to California after three days in New York City spent touting his administration’s climate policy achievements at Climate Week NYC. On his desk: a stack of roughly 650 bills awaited his signature or veto before a Sept. 30 deadline. Among the bills he […]
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Last Sunday at the posh Silicon Valley Capital Club, the San Jose Chamber Orchestra threw a fundraising party for its upcoming season, which includes Paul Davies’ opera, OURLAND: A Dystopian State. Erupting October 22 and 23 at the intimate 3Below Theaters, OURLAND will include a 10-piece orchestra, with sets, costumes and staging, all to address […]
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From a young age, a deep love of music was instilled in singer Samara Joy. Hailing from the Bronx, NY, and raised in a musical family, Joy grew up around her gospel-singing father, Antonio Charles McLendon, and her grandparents, who led Philadelphia-based gospel group the Savettes. However, it wouldn’t be until her time in college […]
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Win tickets to Elton John at Levi's Stadium on October 8. Drawing October 3, 2022.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Even when your courage has a touch of foolhardiness, even when your quest for adventure makes you a bit reckless, you can be resourceful enough to avoid dicey consequences. Maybe more than any other sign of the zodiac, you periodically outfox karma. But in the coming weeks, I will nevertheless counsel […]
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On the day that I spoke with Katherine Blunt, the author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—And What It Means for America’s Power Grid, firefighters attacked a 1.1-acre blaze that had broken out the day before north of Boulder Creek, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Hartman Fire devoured a single […]
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On any given day, the Avanti Shopping Center at Camden and Kooser is gritty and glorious, a definitive crumbling suburban complex. The property sprawls along Camden, with multiple parcels owned by multiple landlords going back generations. What’s left of a CVS store anchors one portion of the complex. Another piece of the center contains the […]
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On a surface level, death metal can seem monotonous, but upon deeper investigation this musical genre opens up into a labyrinth of sound and style. One of the bands leading the charge to evolve the death metal sound is Mortuous. Combining technical prowess, true death metal ferocity and a sense of sonic imagination too often […]
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Cromwell Schubarth grew up “with fixer in his nostrils.” The son of a photographer who worked for Polaroid as a photo engineer, Schubarth himself became a photographer, photojournalist and instant photography advocate. Now the man at the helm of the 12:12 Project, which challenges 12 artists to submit one instant photography piece a month for […]
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Sunny War’s current homebase in Venice Beach represents a hard-won battle. Originally from Nashville, this tenacious and skilled musician fought through substance abuse, homelessness and the often-thankless grind of the music industry to find a supportive artistic community in LA, where she also founded a chapter of Food Not Bombs. Her most recent album, Simple […]
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): My reader, Monica Ballard, has this advice for you Aries folks: “If you don’t vividly ask for and eagerly welcome the gifts the Universe has in store for you, you may have to settle for trinkets and baubles. So never settle.” That’s always useful counsel for you Rams. And in the […]
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South Bay jazz keyboardist Joy Dawn Hackett recently went through a metamorphosis, emerging on the other side as JOY., the pop singer. “It’s not jazz,” Hackett says. “It’s high energy. It’s a lot of fucking fun. It’s good for the indoor house party, indoor club season coming up.” JOY.’s first single, “Uptown Hood,” was released […]
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Last week, the 2022 San Jose Poetry Festival added to a long downtown San Jose tradition, re-establishing poetry’s place in the urban landscape. Rather than putting the entire festival out at History Park in all its splendid rurality, organizers from Poetry Center San Jose booked poets in a gallery, a coffee shop, a music venue […]
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote about the intersection of poetry and painting by saying: “It chose me, I didn’t choose it.” Becoming a poet, he said, happens “almost against one’s will, certainly against one’s better judgment. I wanted to be a painter but from the age of ten onward these damn poems kept coming. Perhaps one […]
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Hundreds of people rallied against the proposed Sargent Mine project on Sept. 10 at an event co-sponsored by 70 area organizations that advocate for human rights and environmental protection. The rally took place at McEntee Plaza in San Jose, in front of the Santa Clara County Government Building. More than two dozen people spoke, representing […]
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There is perhaps nothing more American than professional wrestling. More so than baseball or even apple pie, professional wrestling encapsulates the often subtle but equally pervasive elements of pageantry, tongue-in-cheek melodrama and competitive athleticism that define so much of American culture. No one better combines those elements into raucous entertainment than America’s premier and longest-running […]
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There’s excitement in the air at California’s Great America on this mild July afternoon. The Orbit, one of a handful of original attractions from the Santa Clara theme park’s 1976 opening season that still remain, is back in action after three years, and it hasn’t looked this good since the Ford administration. Gone is the […]
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There are many joys in life to keep in mind when the going gets tough: a cool summer breeze, a new book, coffee with an old friend. In City Lights’s forthcoming Every Brilliant Thing, the company aims to bring all of those small tidbits to life, following the seven-year-old protagonist as family drama festers underneath. […]
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries-born Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of the greatest basketball players ever. He excelled at most aspects of the game. Some experts say his rebounding was only average for a player his size—seven feet, two inches. But he is still the third-best rebounder in National Basketball Association history. And he played for […]
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On a surface level, Matt Mahan’s image coincides with trappings of wealth and influence. He went to elite schools like San Jose’s Bellarmine College Preparatory and Harvard University and has ties to technology industry luminaries like Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker, as well as the support of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. His political adversaries […]
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Luke Abranches started performing comedy in April of 2021 when his brother (also a comedian) took him to an open mic in New York City. Luke was 12 years old. Now 14, the young performer has already made a big impression on judges and audience members at the San Jose Improv. At a recent Open […]
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San Jose musician Natasha Sandworms says the quarantine of 2020 was a time for her to get in touch with “the material world.” “I used to be very affected by mystical and new age thinking,” she explains. “I believed that positive thoughts directed positive effects and negative thoughts directed negative effects. It ended up causing […]
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Jonas Kleiner still remembers the dark days, after the world turned on ska music. They were, after all, not so long ago. “It was tough,” the Buck-O-Nine guitarist recalls. “You get people telling you you’re a sellout and throwing shit at you. You have to believe in yourself at the end of the day.” Buck-O-Nine […]
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In an effort to minimize impacts on wildlife and tribal resources, as well as to satisfy critics of the proposed Sargent Mine in southern Santa Clara County, the project’s applicant recently offered to scale back their original plans for the property. However, some of those critics—including representatives of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—say the offer […]
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On Forest Avenue behind Valley Fair, the glorious Burger Barn is one of the last San Jose structures remaining from the celebrated Red Barn fast-food chain. Outside, a nondescript wooden sign hanging over the patio says “outcasts,” a reference to the car club that meets at the restaurant, but as I plowed through a pastrami […]
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his poem “Autobiographia Literaria,” Aries-born Frank O’Hara wrote, “When I was a child, I played in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. If anyone was looking for me, I hid behind a tree and cried out, ‘I am an orphan.’” Over the years, though, O’Hara underwent a marvelous transformation. […]
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Two years ago, Jed York and the San Francisco 49ers jolted local electoral politics by spending nearly $3 million to back a slate of Santa Clara City Council candidates and a measure to replace at-large council voting with district representation. Both efforts were successful—three of four council candidates were upset winners and council districts were […]
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In the 1990s, historian Stephen Pitti set out to write a centuries-long counterhistory of the so-called Silicon Valley. A Chicano scholar with Northern California roots, the author then bristled at a mounting and troublesome narrative: that San Jose’s contributions to history began with the advent of the tech industry. The patterns of inequality in the […]
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An old bookstore receipt from San Jose’s Town & Country Village inspired me to raise the ghosts of Ray Bradbury and Henry Miller. I recently went to my bookshelf and flipped through a copy of Miller’s masterpiece of travel literature, The Colossus of Maroussi, a copy I’d purchased from a used bookstore years ago. It […]
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The United States is clearly in a political and constitutional crisis. In Timothy Shenk’s new book, Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy, he tells the story of American “democratic elites,” people like Martin Van Buren, Mark Hanna, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter Lippmann and Bayard Rustin—and how they responded to and […]
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In July, the Los Gatan, a still-new sister paper to Metro Silicon Valley, began following the travails of property owner Sidney French. It’s a long story, but the short of it is that French—who moved to the Call of the Wild area of Los Gatos right before the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake struck—has once again […]
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I urge you to flee from stale and rigid certainty. Rebel against dogmatic attitudes and arrogant opinions. Be skeptical of unequivocal answers to nuanced questions. Instead, dear Aries, give your amused reverence to all that’s mysterious and enigmatic. Bask in the glimmer of intriguing paradoxes. Draw inspiration […]
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Look up synonyms for “stress,” and you might well find “remodel.” The two young co-founders of Allstar Construction Innovations, Christian Avalos and Victor Perez, are well aware of people’s negative experiences when making major changes to their homes.
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Art shows, chamber music, club events, concerts, dramatic productions, musical comedies, stand-up acts, symphonic extravaganzas and even some world premieres—it’s all coming up on South Bay stages. Events handpicked by Chris Corona, Mike Huguenor, Addie Mahmassani and Sharan Street. Art Kelly Akashi: Formations Sep 3, 2022-April 23-2023 | San Jose Museum of Art sjmusart.org Los […]
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In 2022, San Jose is known for many things—being the 10th largest city in the country, a tech capital and one of the country’s most expensive housing markets—but live theater may not always be one of them. Yet, in tandem with the tech metropolis of San Jose are its vibrant theater and performing arts scenes. […]
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Vincent Price had never used headphones before he recorded his spoken-word segment for the Thriller LP in 1982. Thanks to Cinequest, you can relive the story in Sonic Fantasy, a documentary about recording engineer Bruce Swedien, whose magical conjuring helped save the Thriller project when it was on the brink of failure. The U.S. premiere […]
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Growing up in east San Jose in the 1970s, Steve Caballero didn’t hear much rock music. “It was mainly like R&B, soul and disco back then,” says the guitarist and professional skateboarder. It wasn’t until he started spending his days at skateparks on the west side of town that he began to encounter rock. Then […]
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Until recently, Ruth Asawa, the Japanese-American artist best known for her intricately looped wire sculptures, has been largely underrepresented outside the Bay Area. Things began to change in 2020, when the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a series of stamps featuring her designs. This year, Asawa’s work has been included in both the Venice Biennale and […]
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Growing up in east San Jose in the 1970s, Steve Caballero didn’t hear much rock music. “It was mainly like R&B, soul and disco back then,” says the guitarist and professional skateboarder. It wasn’t until he started spending his days at skateparks on the west side of town that he began to encounter rock. Then […]
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “All my life, I’ve been going around waiting for something—as if I were waiting in a railway station. And I’ve always felt as if the living I’ve done so far hasn’t actually been real life but a long wait for it—a long wait for something real.” […]
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Win a $50 gift card for Manresa Bread at their Campbell location. Drawing September 28, 2022.
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Win a $25 gift certificate to 71 Saint Peter in downtown San Jose. Drawing Ocober 12, 2022.
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Win a $50 to Scott's Seafood in San Jose. Drawing October 26, 2022.
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Win a $25 gift certificate for Celia's Mexican Restaurant in Palo Alto. Drawing November 9, 2022.
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On Tuesday, some familiar names in heavy metal like Megadeth and Five Finger Death Punch rock the Shoreline Amphitheatre. With them is a relatively new and very different band: from landlocked Mongolia, one of metal’s unlikeliest groups, The HU. Combining the musical folklore of their native country with the fury, volume and intensity of heavy […]
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The 2022 San Jose Jazz Summerfest erupted last weekend, turning the neighborhood into an urban party with theaters, bars, restaurants and streets all hosting coordinated gigs. The weekend proved that people wanted, needed, to re-emerge for a full-blown festival again. Normally on opening night, one chooses from the main stage and maybe a couple other […]
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Two summers ago, artist Houyee Chow-Jiménez responded to an open call on Instagram. Project MORE—a nonprofit serving LGBTQ+ people in Northern California—sought muralists to brighten a downtown San Jose alleyway. Funded by the city of San Jose and private business owners, the murals were part of an ongoing effort to redevelop and rebrand the corridor […]
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