• Mon Dec 9
• Bluegrass Jam
• at The Woodshed at Keith Holland Guitars (7pm)
• Music

Every Monday night, The Woodshed hosts a Bluegrass Jam session with Sonia Shell. This the perfect opportunity for local pickers to work on such skills as chord changing, improvisation, soloing, jam etiquette, transposing, and even…

• Tue Dec 10
• Lee Ranaldo and The Dust
• at The Blank Club (8pm)
• Music

The core songs of Last Night on Earth, the new album by Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and his band The Dust, were written in the wake of hurricane Sandy, in a week without electricity or water, but with mercifully little human…

• Wed Dec 11
• Wax Wednesday
• at Cafe Stritch (9pm)
• Music

Many DJs have transitioned out of spinning actual vinyl records and are using purely digital platforms to "spin" music, though every once and a while a DJ somewhere will get old school and whip out a stack of wax.

• Thu Dec 12
• The Residency
• at Blackbird Tavern (9pm)
• Music

Blackbird Tavern's weekly Thursday Jazz series welcomes a variety of styles and local musicians. The Residency. The Vanguard of the Creative Jazz Front.

• Fri Dec 13
• Friday the 13th Metal Mayhem
• at Back Bar (10pm)
• Music

Plague Phalanx (SJ Black Metal). Necrogenic (SC Mountain Grindcore). Slag (SJ Grindviolence). (SJ Black Metal Assault). 10pm. 21+ No Cover

• Sat Dec 14
• Social Saturdays
• at Myth Taverna Lounge (10pm)
• Clubs

Every week, Myth Lounge brings Social Saturdays, a non-stop evening of thumping house music, to downtown San Jose. It tends to pack the place, so be prepared to do a little socializing. The house can get a little loud, but that…

• Through Tue Dec 31
• SJ Made Holiday Popup Shop
• at Westfield Valley Fair (10am-9:30pm)
• Events

SJ Made, a vendor platform for Bay Area makers, labels, brands, small businesses, and artists, is putting a temporary holiday pop up shop in Westfield Valley Fair. The shop will be selling "Best of SJ Made" items throughout its run,…

• Through Sun Jan 12
• Downtown Ice
• at Circle of Palms (varies)
• Events

Make sure that Downtown Ice is part of your visit to downtown San Jose this holiday season. Visit Christmas in the Park directly across the way, watch a holiday stage production, or shop the new international marketplace, plus dining…

• Through Thu Feb 13, 2014
• Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
• at The Tech Museum of Innovation (10am-5pm)
• Events

These are the droids Star Wars fans are looking for, or at least some of the props and other ephemera-including robot costumes for C-3PO and R2D2-from all six of the Star Wars films. "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination,"…