Guitar Heroine Yvette Young Leads Her Band Covet With
Face-Melting Riffs and Catchy Songwriting

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Come watch the best comedians in the Bay Area battle it out for work at one of the msot presitgues Comedy Clubs in the Country and fight to be crowned the 2017 San Jose Improv Stand Up Comedy Competition Winner!

A tribute to one of rock's greatest legends, celebrate David Bowie's life with Miss London. Dress in your best Ziggy Stardust and rock out to Bowie's hits. An annual event to commemorate Bowie's birthday join in the fun or risk having…

Whether you're in the market for a heavy-duty truck, a sporty speed demon, a luxury automobile or a forward-thinking, alternative-fuel vehicle, the Silicon Valley Auto Show promises to have it all. With more than 350 cars on display…

South First Fridays is an ecletic evening of arts a culture in downtown San Jose's SoFA district every first friday of the month, excluding January and July. The art walk is self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and…

Don't let his coiffed blond hair and Mormon-next-door look fool you. Kurt Braunohler is one messed up dude. According to his 2013 stand-up spot on Conan, he breast fed until his was 5, started smoking at age 10 and takes a sick…

This beloved classic returns in time-honored form. Directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin and choreographed by Liza Gennaro. Enjoy favorites like "It's the Hard Knock Life" and "I Don't Need Anything But You."

With a career spanning three decades, Arsenio Hall needs no introduction. The comedian is best known for hosting The Arsenio Hall Show, which ran from 1989-1994--and was reprised from 2013-2014. The Cleveland-born comic got his start…

After meeting a woman with the words "Love is Louder" tattooed across one of her arms, Canadian singer and songwriter Craig Cardiff found himself compelled to ask for the meaning behind the inscription. That was the beginning of his…

It was a hard year for music fans. From David Bowie, through Prince and Leonard Cohen, and onto George Michael--we lost so many greats in 2016. But these are all English language artists. The Spanish-speaking world also lost icons…

DENIAL (Daniel Bombardier) is a Canadian artist whose work critiques consumerism and the human condition. Though based in Windsor Ontario, DENIAL spends much of the year traveling and exhibiting throughout Canada and USA, with solo…

Nick Dong's On Models of Contemplation includes three new dynamic sculptures that will create an experiential environment in the Off Center Gallery. Considering the Big Bang theory and the creation of the universe as a point of…

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Music & Clubs

Guitar Heroine Yvette Young Leads Her Band Covet With Face-Melting Riffs and Catchy Songwriting

THIS GUITAR BLOWS MINDS: Yvette Young's technique is truly something to behold. Photo: Harry Who.

Her fingers fly up and down the guitar frets. Both hands strike at chords, hammering on and pulling off, hitting notes high and low, occasionally triggering a shimmering harmonic and allowing it to ring. Leaning in close, the careful observer notices that the pinkie finger on her left hand flares out at… » Read More

Pokemon Punks Aurora Beam Play BackBar

GO TIME: Shane Luevano and Mario Sanchez decided to start their Watsonville jazz-punk outfit Aurora Beam while playing Pokémon Go.

The pair of musicians behind Watsonville-based instrumental “jazz-noise” duo Aurora Beam first bonded over their favorite records back in senior year of high school. Drummer Shane Luevano and guitarist Mario Sanchez swapped playlists while working in a video production class they were both taking. Both are fans of other heavy, mathy instrumental… » Read More

Hit List: Best Music, Art & Culture Jan 5-8

ALADDIN SANE: The Caravan celebrate's David Bowie's 70th birthday this week.

David Bowie died a year ago this week—on his 69th birthday. Celebrate the legacy of this pop legend at The Caravan’s Bowie Ball or yuck it up with “This American Life” contributor and comedian Kurt Braunohler at Rooster T. Feathers. Check out new artwork from one of the South Bay’s most prolific… » Read More

Movies

Review: 'Things to Come'

An acute portrait of a woman of a certain age, Things To Come towers over Isabelle Huppert's much-vaunted performance in Elle. Huppert plays Nathalie, an aging philosophy teacher who needs all the consolation her discipline can provide. Her neurotic mother (Edith Scob, of the horror classic Yeux Sans Visage) is prone to suicide threats and anxiety attacks. Nathalie's husband, Heinz (Andre Marcon), is a stout and humorless old pedant, who is secretly seeing someone on the side. And Nathalie's reputation as a scholar isn't enough to save her from the bottom-line obsessed executives at her publishing house. Though she's renowned in her field, her textbooks aren't selling. » Read More

Review: 'Hidden Figures'

It's clear that Hidden Figures is a story that demands to be told, and it's a pity it wasn't told better. It honors the essential work that three African-American number-crunchers did at Langley, Virginia, in 1961-62, shortly before NASA moved to Texas. Room-sized IBM 7090s were being used to figure out how to bring home Col. John Glenn (Glen Powell) after his orbit around the earth. In this version, it's unsung human calculators that save the mission. Taraji P. Henson is Kathryn Johnson, a mathlete with oversized spectacles that keep sliding down her nose. Janelle Monae is her colleague Mary Jackson; and Octavia Spencer plays Dorothy Vaughan, the supervisor in everything but job title in the Colored Computing Section. Director Theodore » Read More

The Arts

Byrne On The Brain

Despite the freshly painted walls, the building looked like it was suffering from suburban abandonment, the parking lot emptied of travelers. But the big white letters along the tar black roofline spelled out exactly what a visitor was looking for-The Institute Presents: NEUROSOCIETY. Just below this signage, a large black circle contained a logo: the reversed out profile of a head, the neck stopping and starting again only to end as a dot. The back of the skull remained undrawn and wide open, the white outline suggesting a question mark-a shadow self also asking a question. This was merely the introduction, though, a subtle nudge to the psyche, suggesting that upon stepping through the front door one would be participating in a series of » Read More

Surrealism Exhibit Dives Deep

Nearly 100 years after the French writer Andre Breton published his Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924, "The Conjured Life: The Legacy of Surrealism" successfully rehabilitates the movement's significance and enduring influence. Expanding on an exhibit that closed earlier this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the exhibit polishes up the tarnished image of Surrealists by omitting the most famous, endlessly reproduced hits like Dali's melting clocks and Magritte's bowlers hats. By juxtaposing the old with the new, the careful, coherent curation at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center confers a recherche quality on works that might otherwise be gathering a coating of dust. Cindy Sherman is represented by Untitled #188 1989, a lurid » Read More

Q&A: Val Kilmer at the San Jose Stage

In the filmed version of his one man show, Citizen Twain, Kilmer channels Mark Twain. The actor is scheduled to introduce two screenings of the film at the end of the month at San Jose Stage. Metro traded emails with Kilmer to pick the brain of one of cinema's greatest contemporary shape-shifters. Why do you admire Mark Twain? His compassion for his fellow man. He is chronically addicted to the connection with the audience and the fact that he just knows he is connecting to them, that he represents them because he has taken the time to view Americans from all angles and without judgement. And that he choses to laugh instead of cry. » Read More

Features & Columns

Vegan Chef Miyoko Schinner to Cater SJ Woman's Club Meetup

Mt. Vesuvius Black Ash might be coming to 11th and Santa Clara streets in downtown San Jose. On Jan. 26, the San Jose Woman's Club, in partnership with South Bay Vegan Drinks, will stage a rip-roaring fundraiser for the Rancho Compasion animal sanctuary. Unfolding at the club's historic building at 75 S. 11th St., the event will feature a menu of food and drinks prepared by renowned vegan chef Miyoko Schinner, along with a silent auction to bid on food, dinner, local gifts and theater packages. The menu will feature Miyoko's award-winning cheeses (including her Mt. Vesuvius Black Ash) and several other dishes. Everything will be 100 percent vegan. » Read More

Reminiscences on a Rough 2016 and Good Times to Come

At least in the crowds I infiltrate, 2016 was considered a miserable year. I don't mean politics. I mean in terms of death and destruction. We lost too many heroes-Bowie, Prince and Leonard Cohen, just to name but a few, and lesser-known heroes seemingly expiring every other day throughout the year. All in all, it makes me realize how lucky I am to still be writing this column, which has now reached approximately 613 installments in a row. Over the past year, yet another zonked bouillabaisse of material spilled into this space. » Read More

A.D.M. Cooper: San Jose's First Bohemian Rock Star

In 1909, East San Jose was a separate town from San Jose proper. What's now the intersection of 21st and San Antonio was the intersection of Jones and Franklin, just a few blocks east of Coyote Creek. At this corner, the Egyptian-style studio of San Jose's most famous painter, Astley D.M. Cooper, came to life. Born in St. Louis in 1856, Cooper arrived in East San Jose in 1886, and then spent the rest of his life here, before dying in 1924 at the age of 68. Throughout nearly four decades in San Jose, Cooper blossomed into the young town's bon vivant and possibly its first-ever bohemian rock-star artist, working with a variety of subjects. His heroic portrayals of indigenous peoples, frontier life and the diminishing buffalo population » Read More

Remembering the Punk Ingenuity that Made SoFA District Great

This is also my view of downtown San Jose, where, in the SoFA District, decades of creation and destruction reverberate to the current day. Businesses or buildings die right alongside others just beginning, seemingly merging the district's physical and temporal aspects. Djinns are a city's ghosts and when I see the brick building at 399 S. First St. gearing up to serve fish taco plates, I cannot help but recall when that building was Marsugi's, the best corner rock & roll dive San Jose ever had. At Marsugi's, one watched bands like Nirvana or Faith no More in front of 30 people, back when those bands were relatively unknown. However, on one particular night at Marsugi's, things got a little fishy. At the time, we were a group of four SJSU » Read More

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