Metro's Guide to Cinequest 2014

March 10, 2013 by Metro Staff

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Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, Erykah Badu. Some of the best artists in the past fifty years were on Motown Records. Even more important than their roster of artists, was the "Motown Sound" they created, which melded soul…

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.

Emblem3 competed on the hit show The X Factor in 2012. They made it all the way to fourth place, but they didn't stop there. The trio released their debut album, Nothing to Lose, on July 30, 2013.

Moment Entertainment is excited to announce Moment Thursdays at LGBG! With the recent crackdown on SJSU Student night life, we wanted to create a new and unique experience that can't be shut down!

Arceneaux & Loveless with Entertainment & Events: BUCKCHERRY. With Special Guests: The Virgin Marys And SpiralArms

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),…

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.

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,"…

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Music & Clubs

Andrew Bigelow’s ‘Gold Out West’ West Shines on Inequality in Silicon Valley

Mar 5, 2014 by janderson
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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

DJ Jazzy Jeff Brings Decades of Experience to Myth Lounge

Mar 5, 2014 by Matt Crawford
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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

Feb 25, 2014 by Matt Crawford
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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

Feb 26, 2014 - by Richard Von Busack

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

Feb 19, 2014 - by Richard Von Busack

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

Feb 19, 2014 - by Gary Singh

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

Feb 12, 2014 - by Gary Singh

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

Mar 5, 2014 - by Gary Singh

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

Mar 5, 2014 - by Metro Staff

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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