Metro's Guide to Cinequest 2014
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- Fri Mar 7
- The Trims
- at The Blank Club (8pm)
- Music
Formed in 2009, The Trims have performed at venues all over Northern California and released their debut album in February 2009, entitled "We Cried For Fun." Soon after, this Indie/Alternative group was picked from among over 150…
- Fri Mar 7
- Disco Doom
- at Cafe Stritch (8pm)
- Music
Numerals, the recently released third album by Swiss noise-pop duo Disco Doom is easily their most accessible record in the band's over decade-long career (and produced by Built To Spill's Jim Roth).
- Sat Mar 8
- Kat Parra
- at Hedley Club (8:30pm)
- Music
Come on down to the Hedley Club as they present an intimate evening with the sultry songstress, Kat Parra. She is an acclaimed vocalist whose music delves into a world of sound, with excursions into Middle-Eastern, Afro-Peruvian and…
- Sat Mar 8
- Motorpool St. Patrick's Day Bash
- at Motorpool Automotive (2pm)
- Music
It may not be St. Paddy's day yet, but Motorpool Automotive will party just like it was March 17 anyway. They'll have live music, a DJ, free food and a car wash. The tunes start at 2pm and feature a really eclectic array of local…
- Sat Mar 8
- Witchdream Mansion
- at San Pedro Square Market (7:30pm)
- Music
A Witchdream Mansion live show is usually just Robert Raymond spinning his soft acoustic guitar and ethereal melodies together all by his lonesome, but for this upcoming show he'll be backed by a seven-piece band.
- Sun Mar 9
- "Fool Moon" with Pete Munoz
- at San Jose Improv (7pm)
- Events
Pete Munoz is one of the hardest working stand up comedians performing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hailing from San Jose, Pete has developed a reputation for his distinctive wit and energetic improv style that is sure to keep you…
- Sun Mar 9
- Maverick Spirit Award
- at California Theatre (1:30pm)
- Events
Often Neil Gaiman's work gets categorized as Dark Fantasy, because we love dividing and subdividing genres. But Neil's work strains against such limitations, starting from his first major work in the U.S., The Sandman.
- 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.
- 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,"…
Photo Gallery
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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
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WWE Live@ SAP Center
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Rockage 3.0@ SJSU Student Union
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Joan and The Rivers@ Caravan Lounge
$50 Shopping Card to Sports Basement
Win a $50 Shopping Card to Sports Basement with five Bay Area locations.
$100 to Streetlight Records
Win a $100 Gift Certificate to Streetlight Records. Locations in San Jose, Santa Cruz and San Francisco.
$25 to Henry's World Famous Hi-Life
Win a $25 Dining Certificate to Henry's World Famous Hi-Life in San Jose.
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Music & Clubs
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
DJ Jazzy Jeff Brings Decades of Experience to Myth Lounge
Seasoned hip-hop fans of a certain age will remember Jazzy Jeff as part of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, a rap duo that began in the late ’80s before Will Smith went solo and became a movie star. The pair had massive hits, performing on the Grammys when rap was… » Read More
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Brings Diverse Style to San Jose Jazz Winter Fest
What do John Williams, John Cale, Flying Lotus, Dr. Dre, Hubert Laws, Billy Higgins, Hall and Oates, Lana Del Rey, Barry Manilow and Ray Charles have in common? They’re just a few of the acts that have called upon the talent of Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. Multi-instrumentalist, arranger, composer, producer, educator, Atwood-Ferguson’s job titles… » Read More
Movies
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
Tim's Vermeer
After a long career of tricks designed to make people doubt their eyes, Penn Jillette and Teller made the sweet and winning Tim's Vermeer. Teller gets the director's credit; Jillette narrates, naturally. It actually fits what the magicians have done both on stage and as debunkers, their mystification in the name of demystification. It offers a solution to the mystery of Vermeer—"a fathomless genius, now a fathomable one," says the rumbustious Penn. » Read More
The Arts
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
Addicted to Creation at Empire Seven Studios
BIEBRACH PARK sits adjacent to the Gardner Community Center, just southwest of the monolithic cement abomination of an interchange where highways 280 and 87 spew off in seemingly every direction. It is not a spectacular 'hood, but I am here, schlepping through the bumpy, waterlogged grass, past the rusty soccer goalposts and straight up to one of the more classic murals in San Jose, a gorgeous Aztec calendar 16 feet high. Local artist Antonio Nava Torres originally spray-painted the mural in 1995 » Read More
Features & Columns
South First Fridays and Cinequest Build Creative Urban Synergy
With Cinequest already bringing thousands of folks to downtown San Jose for numerous films, Maverick Award hoedowns and chic soirees, it seems appropriate that First Fridays will also erupt on March 7. That means, for film buffs in need of downtime diversions this Friday, well, more than enough art shows and hijinks will unfold in a variety of locales around the neighborhood. » 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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