'The Tag Project' Honors Japanese Americans
A multi-gallery exhibition explores the stories of Japanese Americans forced into internment camps. Read More
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Browse Events
- Fri Mar 14
- Complaint Box
- at The Blank Club (8pm)
- Music
Some of San Jose's old-school heavy hitters have united to form the new power-punk band, Complaint Box. The members include Dover (Joe Q Citizen, Whiskey Sunday), Dave Miller (Odd Numbers, Talky Tina), Julian Ostrow (Joe Q Citizen),…
- Fri Mar 14
- Retrospective - A Photo Series Collection
- at Cukui Clothing Company (7pm)
- Events
Bay Area photographer Leo Docuyanan is skilled at taking stunning portraits. His specialty is in capturing hip-hop and tattoo art cultures-his work has been published in a variety of music magazines.
- Fri Mar 14 - Sun Mar 16
- Steve Trevino
- at San Jose Improv (varies)
- Events
Steve Trevino been a stand up comedian in some form or another since he was in second grade, and he has not quit the game yet. His first big break came when he met established comedian Carlos Mencia, who then invited Steve to open up…
- Sat Mar 15
- Hit and Run 5k
- at Santa Clara County Fairgrounds (9am)
- Events
Hit and Run 5K is the hilariously humongous obstacle course; it will hit you, bounce you, splash you, flip you, flop you, and catapult you where no 5K participant has ever been hurled.
- Sat Mar 15
- Silent Pictures
- at Cafe Stritch (9pm)
- Music
Alexander Mann started playing music in 1989 and has played a lot since then. He's been in Mellow Drunk, Boyskout, Your Precious You and, more recently, Silent Pictures, which is his project.
- Sat Mar 15
- Sour Mash Hug Band
- at Blackbird Tavern (8pm)
- Music
The Sour Mash Hug Band have been touring throughout the highways and byways of North America for over a decade now. They started out as a group of friends performing at farmer's markets, dive-bars, and street corners before ending up…
- Sun Mar 16
- The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session
- at Cafe Stritch (6:30pm-10pm)
- Music
Come on down to the Cafe Stritch as they present an open jazz session with their house band The Eulipions. Held every Sunday evening, this session is open to intermediate to advanced musicians, as well as to those who just want to…
- Through Sun Mar 16
- Shrek the Musical
- at Montgomery Theater (varies)
- Events
Shrek the Musical is a family-friendly romp based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks film that started it all. In a faraway kingdom turned upside down, things get ugly when an unseemly ogre- not a handsome prince- shows up to rescue a…
- Through Sun Mar 16
- Cinequest
- at various locations (varies)
- Events
Cinequest, San Jose's annual film festival, brings 188 films with 80 world and U.S. premiers and more than 600 visiting film artists to Silicon Valley.
- Mon Mar 17
- Kumbia Queers
- at Blackbird Tavern (8pm-11pm)
- Music
Kumbia Queers is led by vocalist and guitarist Ali Gua Gua, who has made a name for herself in the Mexican punk scene, and features Pila Zombie on guitar; Inesphektor on drums and percussion; and Pat Combat Rocker on bass; Juana Chang…
- Tue Mar 18
- Caffe Frascati Open Mic
- at Caffe Frascati (7pm)
- Music
Every Tuesday night in the intimate Caffe Frascati, local performers are encouraged to participate in Open Mic Night. Musical styles of all kinds are welcome, from soulful blues to high-energy rock to catchy pop.
- Wed Mar 19
- Six Mile Station
- at The Blank Club (8pm)
- Music
What is a genre? In true Americana form, Six Mile Station can be categorized in a number of genres including folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, bluegrass and punk. This five piece band from Reno plays instruments…
- Through Thu March 23
- 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,"…
- Fri Mar 21 - Sun Mar 23
- Ari Shaffir
- at San Jose Improv (varies)
- Events
Ari Shaffir describes his comedy as a puppet show, but way filthier and without the puppets. An established actor and standup comedian, Ari Shaffir has been seen on the HBO comedy series Down and Dirty with Jim Norton.
- Sat Mar 22
- The Bang
- at The Blank Club (8pm)
- Music
San Jose's The Bang is a modern take on the classic girl group that hearkens back to the glory days of the Ronettes and Martha and the Vandellas. Angeline King and Rachel Mae Havens are the "girl" contingent, recreating the look and…
Photo Gallery
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Cinequest Neil Gaiman Maverick Spirit Award@ California Theater
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The Residency: The Jurassic@ Blackbird Tavern
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Cinequest 2014 Opening Night@ California Theater
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Cafe Stritch One Year Anniversary@ Cafe Stritch
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SJ Jazz Winterfest: La Santa Cecilia@ San Pedro Sq. Market
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SJ Jazz Winterfest: Thundercat & Kim Nalley@ Theatre on San Pedro Sq.
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Dalai Lama@ Santa Clara University
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Pixies + Best Coast@ City National Civic
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Cupid's Undie Run@ The Britannia Arms
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A Yawn Worth Yelling@ San Pedro Square Market
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5th Annual Meet the Brewers@ Hermitage Brewery
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Imagine Dragons@ SAP Center
Tickets to see Jennifer Nettles
Win tickets to see Jennifer Nettles at the City National Civic (formerly the San Jose Civic) on March 27.
Tickets to Ballet San Jose
Win tickets to tickets to see Ballet San Jose's Popular Music, Transcendent Dancing on March 23.
$100 to Streetlight Records
Win a $100 Gift Certificate to Streetlight Records. Locations in San Jose, Santa Cruz and San Francisco.
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Music & Clubs
Anya Kvitka Releases Four EPs This Month
While everyone’s been waiting for local eclectic soul singer-songwriter Anya Kvitka to record a debut full length, she decided to switch gears and instead put out a four EPs, released each week this month, and one song at a time. Last week she released the first EP, Ruby Rhod, and this week… » Read More
Argentina’s Las Kumbia Queers bring a raw edge to romantic cumbia
The members of Las Kumbia Queers didn’t start off liking cumbia—punk was their first love. Maybe that’s why this all-female six-piece band from Argentina approaches cumbia as if it were punk rock. Their instrumentation is raw, the energy is intense and they’re totally irreverent, playing covers of Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Madonna… » Read More
Andrew Bigelow’s ‘Gold Out West’ West Shines on Inequality in Silicon Valley
Growing up with five siblings in San Jose’s working-class east side gave Andrew Bigelow personal insight into Silicon Valley’s yawning gap between rich and poor. Especially once his parents scrimped enough to send him to Archbishop Mitty High, the expensive parochial academy known for its football team and schooling the offspring of… » Read More
Movies
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Approaching Wes Anderson's mostly delightful The Grand Budapest Hotel can give you the foreboding you feel when encountering the word "artisanal." It's seriously under-femaled, and it pauses to congratulate itself for its cleverness. At worst, Anderson is a director of ducky films, but this nested story of Central European skullduggery seems to have more of a spine than anything he's made since Fantastic Mr. Fox. » Read More
Like Father, Like Son
The switched-baby melodrama has been dormant for some time now. One of cinema's great living kid-wranglers, Hirokazu Kore-eda, brings the once popular genre to life in the overlong, occasionally poignant Like Father, Like Son. As always, Kore-eda is capable of subtle, tender moments, but the too-stark contrast between the victimized families oversimplifies his story. » Read More
The Arts
Katherine Levin-Lau Combines the Beautiful and Dreadful in New Show
A subject no less than life in all of its complexity is the focus of a new exhibition by Katherine Levin-Lau, at artist-owned and -operated art store/gallery The Arsenal. "I want it to be curious," Levin-Lau says, referring to her intensely colorful, collage-like interpretations of the detritus of the natural world. A native of upstate New York, Levin-Lau moved to Santa Barbara as a child. She gleaned early inspiration from local Westmont College, peeking around unlocked science buildings, taking in the vast array of natural oddities on display. » Read More
Beverly Rayner: Museum of Mesmerism & Psychic Art
Inside the Triton Museum, the lights will be dimmed for Beverly Rayner's art reception. Seemingly a hundred antique artifacts-conjuring and spell-casting devices, mesmeric and illusionist tools, spirit photos, divination equipment, levitation and witchcraft gear, plus items related to alchemy, mystical matters and seances-now occupy one of the galleries at the Triton. The exhibition, titled "Beverly Rayner: Museum of Mesmerism & Psychic Art," opens this weekend. » Read More
Features & Columns
Kiwi Gardner of the Santa Cruz Warriors Blows Up YouTube
It's standing-room-only at the Kaiser Permanente Arena, and the atmosphere inside is decidedly high-voltage. The hometown Santa Cruz Warriors are taking it to the visiting Reno Bighorns in an NBA-Development League battle, up by 15 points in the final minutes of the third period. The "D-League," as it's popularly referred to, has quickly become the best bang-for-your-buck ticket in professional Bay Area basketball. » Read More
'The Tag Project' Honors Japanese Americans
Identification tags tend to hang when they're attached to human beings. A piece of string runs through an eyelet, so that a piece of paper stamped with a number can simply hang off the person's clothing, limbs, luggage or whatever it's tied to. One usually sees such tags attached to dead corpses in morgues. However, in the case of 120,000 American citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry who were forced to live in internment camps after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, they were forced to wear identification tags. » Read More
Cinequest Guide 2014
Dinner and wine with friends. Snow-and sledding. Stark, wide-angle winter landscapes. As Uneasy Lies the Mind opens, it's a string of familiar moments: snapshots that could have turned up on Facebook, posted by a friend who's in Tahoe for a few days. The saturated colors, darkened edges of frames and washes of overly warm or cold tones blend into a blown-out, lo-fi look that confers a patina of instant nostalgia, like Instagram shots come to life. And that's not far from the truth. » Read More
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