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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…
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).
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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,"…
Cafe Stritch One Year Anniversary@ Cafe Stritch
SJ Jazz Winterfest: La Santa Cecilia@ San Pedro Sq. Market
SJ Jazz Winterfest: Thundercat & Kim Nalley@ Theatre on San Pedro Sq.
Dalai Lama@ Santa Clara University
Pixies + Best Coast@ City National Civic
Cupid's Undie Run@ The Britannia Arms
A Yawn Worth Yelling@ San Pedro Square Market
5th Annual Meet the Brewers@ Hermitage Brewery
Imagine Dragons@ SAP Center
WWE Live@ SAP Center
Rockage 3.0@ SJSU Student Union
Joan and The Rivers@ Caravan Lounge
Win a $50 Shopping Card to Sports Basement with five Bay Area locations.
Win a $100 Gift Certificate to Streetlight Records. Locations in San Jose, Santa Cruz and San Francisco.
Win a $25 Dining Certificate to Henry's World Famous Hi-Life in San Jose.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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