Bootsy Collins to Headline San Jose Jazz Summer Fest

April 24, 2013 by Matt Crawford

Joining Collins at the festival, August 8-10, is classic Bay Area funk and R&B act Con Funk Shun
and New York Latin Jazz group Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band. Read More

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The story about Kriss Kross goes that Jermaine Dupri found them hanging around in a shopping mall and gave them a record contract. The world seems to have forgiven him; he's gone on to discover Xscape, Destiny's Child and Lil' Bow Wow.

LateNite@theCoop is all about having a casual, fun packed, adult-like atmosphre with live bands, booze and dance. Looking to provide a quality Friday night place for all 21 and over to enjoy. We ask that you respect the casual genre…

A born and bred New Yorker, Colin Kane has been laying the comedy smackdown on packed houses since 2002, forging his career on the New York comedy circuit. Playing to audiences in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, D.C., Chicago, Mexico…

The Jim Jones Revue is a throwback in the best way possible, taking the rare ore of old-school rock & roll and fashioning it into something modern and relevant. The band's sets are less like the somnambulist exercises that pass for…

Anya Kvitka performs her first local show with the Get Down since releasing four free EPs in March. I wanted to make more of a body of work that resembled a side of me. I wanted to organize it a little better.

DJ/producer duo Project 46 made an undeniable impact on the progressive house scene in 2012, when their breakthrough Monstercat release, "Reasons" featuring vocals by Andrew Allen went straight past Tiesto to the #1 overall spot on…

The San Jose Giants are a professional baseball team in the Class A Advanced California League. The team has been affiliated with the San Francisco Giants since 1988 and has boasted one of the best records in the minor leagues after…

Tyga and Problem, two of biggest names in the latest crop of rappers from LA, join forces for a show in San Jose. Tyga is currently signed to Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Universal Republic Records.

Come Together: The Beatles is a live music concert that authentically recreates the live Beatles experience, bringing to life the songs and the symbolic image of the Fab Four. The show features a number of legendary hits from the 60s…

Team Giselle is excited to bring you a day of music, food, art and shopping! We will have live bands on the patio, DJs inside, gourmet food goodness, drinks on special, a raffle, auction and live art. 100% of the proceeds go to the…

Saharan desert-blues band Terakaft play some of the most peaceful songs on the planet-with gentle percussion, trance-like African call-and-response vocals, noodling bluesy guitar work and steady pulsing bass grooves.

Unique Lives continues with its ninth season with a lively discussion featuring Mia Farrow. Mia Farrow is the daughter of film star Maureen O'Sullivan and director John Farrow. She is a remarkable humanitarian that very few can…

Hosted by Gabriel Black, Beat Culture's mission is to keep a home for underground house music in the South Bay. Each week Black spins house music, along with at least one guest DJ.

Martin Moreno is a "freaky" 80's party animal, who believes 40 is the new 20. His comedy touches on his personal life, his insecurities, and is a funny, intelligent, analytical view of life in the 80's and in the new millennium.

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Music & Clubs

Bootsy Collins to Headline San Jose Jazz Summer Fest

Apr 24, 2014 by Matt Crawford
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San Jose Jazz Summer Fest will return this summer with iconic funk bassist Bootsy Collins headlining the festival. Collins, known for rubbery baselines, outlandish style and signature voice (literally and musically) got his start working with James Brown before moving on to the acid funk of Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s and a… » Read More

Tyga’s Show in San Jose Highlights the Return of Mainstream West Coast Hip-hop

Apr 22, 2014 by Matt Crawford
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Finally, the hip-hop pendulum is swinging back to the West Coast. After roughly a decade of Southern rappers dominating the charts, the rise of Kendrick Lamar and a handful of other rappers in LA, and the burgeoning success of the Bay Area’s own Iamsu and Sage the Gemini, are creating momentum that… » Read More

Foster the People, MIA to Headline BFD at Shoreline

Apr 21, 2014 by Matt Crawford
MIA at Treasure Island Music Festival in 2007. Photo by Matt Crawford.

With a little more than a month before the June 1 festival at Shoreline Amphiteatre, Live 105 announced today the lineup for its annual BFD Festival with Foster the People and MIA topping the bill. The festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with four stages of music. Other highlights include Phantogram,… » Read More

Movies

'Only Lovers Left Alive'

Apr 24, 2014 - by Richard Von Busack

Jim Jarmusch's first film in three years taps a commercial vein-vampires always sell, even given an all-mood, little-plot film, however lambently shot by Yorick Le Saux. Only Lovers Left Alive is an ultimately enrapturing love story, set on the border of gentility and decadence. The lovers are introduced in a matched set of circling shots from the ceiling: one black-clad male Adam (Tom Hiddleston) with black peekaboo hair; the other, Eve, a nigh-albino (Tilda Swinton) laid out pale and fair in a Slavic caftan. » Read More

On My Way

Apr 22, 2014 - by Richard Von Busack

If there's such a thing as a French heimat movie-like the German genre that seeks that nation's heartland—Emmanuelle Bercot's On My Way (Elle S'en va) is it. The star is Catherine Deneuve, but her half-century career in films isn't treated as stuffy material to be honored. It's a playful, loose film with no queening allowed. Deneuve is a prime center for such an examination of France. She once had a government job modeling for the French Republic's Marianne emblem, which is as if the U.S. State Department had hired Bruce Willis to pose as a bald eagle. » Read More

The Arts

Deadbeat Club: Field Trip Opens at Seeing Things Gallery

Apr 23, 2014 - by Tad Malone

Weathered billboard proclaiming the Fountain of Youth Spa stands alone in a stark desert landscape. Seen from the outside, a couple dines, framed by the bright-red outlines of a Chinese restaurant's windows. A woman in a bikini smiles and makes "sand angels" on the beach. The translucent iridescence of a massive bubble shines as it's stretched on a wand by a person garbed in gold-lame pants. A girl nearly hiding in her mass of dark locks and wearing a Cannibal Corpse T-shirt stares back, not exactly challenging, perhaps more quizzical. » Read More

The Art/Life Forum Comes to the Mexican Heritage Plaza

Apr 16, 2014 - by Jennifer Wadsworth

When Demone Carter broadened his job description from rapper to rapper/youth arts mentor a decade ago, he was struck by the alarming lack of multicultural leadership in the nonprofit world. A few years later, a study confirmed that observation: fewer than 10 percent of nonprofits are led by people of color. The statistics look worse for boards of directors. » Read More

Features & Columns

Poetic Exchange: Dublin & San Jose

Apr 23, 2014 - by Gary Singh

Once a year, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, a UNESCO City of Literature, shows up in downtown San Jose, along with an entourage of colleagues. This time around, he informed yours truly about a Dublin initiative, "One City, One Book," that unfolds every April, when the entire city is encouraged to read the same book over the course of one month. The book is either written by a Dublin author or connected to Dublin in some way. » Read More

Is Social Media Ruining the Lives of Young Women

Apr 16, 2014 - by Sady Doyle

Every few months or so, I take a moment to pause and reflect on one of the few things in my life that causes me profound and unshakable gratitude. Thank God, or whatever benevolent force there may be in this universe, I think to myself, that Twitter did not exist when I was in high school. Of course, this introspection isn't without cause. Every few months, there seems to arise a new chunk of evidence—or at least a new wave of think pieces—about how the Internet is ruining the lives of young women. » Read More

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