Metro Silicon Valley Articles

In Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino filmed queer desire in shimmering bands of golden sunlight. He filled each pastoral frame with bare male torsos passionately colliding in the Italian countryside and in pools of blue water. Each long …

January

The weekly Club Fox Blues Jam is a can’t-miss for Bay Area blues fans as legends from the local scene and national touring acts take turns as featured artists. Up next is Randy McDonald, best known as the bass player …

Steve Hofstetter is the ultimate DIY comedian who has built an impressive grassroots fan base with earnest and frequent videos on YouTube (boasting over 225 million views), posts on Reddit, and a general social media savviness. He maintains an insane …

There’s still time to celebrate the holidays with a joyous day of music and sing-a-longs with Omar Alejandro. Hailing from Castroville, mariachi singer Alejandro is best known for his robust baritone voice. He is a classically trained singer with a …

Now that the holidays are over and so are those irritating Christmas songs, it’s time to celebrate the new year with a different kind of music. [Sounds Like] You Had to be There ’25 gathers nine singers, bands and DJs—some …

Our Bodies Through Our Eyes, curated by Qualia Gallery cofounder Dacia Xu, exhibits seven women artists using portraiture as a tool of resistance, reclamation and healing. Featured artwork ranges from Huang Hairong’s photo-realistic paintings to flamboyant fairy-tale settings by Wang …

Formed in LA in 1982, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were among the highest-profile music acts of that decade and one of the biggest-selling bands of the rock era. Three-time Grammy winners, the band cut a memorable image with bad-boy …

Contemporary artist Tri Con Dang works with several different media, but his current work is primarily on paper, making use of ballpoint pens and colored pencils. His art often focuses on themes of landscapes and urbanscapes, and his work applies …

Bay Area denizens better get ready to start the new year right with some hometown love. Local rap trio the 3-Headed Dragon (that’s YDMC, MaQ SteeZ and Madman) drops the 1s and 2s with their signature flow for a night …

Many DJs get up, hit a few buttons, and call it a night. A7S, however, brings his music skills to the table and creates stunning, epic, house-hybrid soundscapes. Born Alexander Michael Tidebrink Stomberg, he grew up in Ulricehamn, Sweden, where …

A great indicator of comedy prowess is the ability to work clean. Take Andy Woodhull, an LA-based stand-up comedian who effortlessly weaves through clever human observations without lapsing into explicitness. He has a quality of innocence that makes even well-tread …

Vampire pics are a perennial. Tales of undead blood suckers are probably the sturdiest horror film subgenre—outranking Frankenstein’s monster or, say, zombies—largely because of their morbid sexual component.

My existence led by confusion boatsMutiny from stern to bowAh, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now.

Choosing not to imbibe at a holiday gathering can feel a bit like turning down cake at your best friend’s birthday party.

As pretty much everyone expected last New Year’s Day, 2024 has turned out to be a challenging and in some respects horrendous year for cannabis in California.

By Paul Rosenberg

As I stood on the sidewalk of Bascom Avenue, looking westward at Highway 85, the post-storm darkness of the evening made me think of Double Vision. Then I went down a rabbit hole of research.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Alameda-based group the Sun Kings take the “just like the record” path to the Beatles’ music, presenting the Fab Four’s music in a manner that recreates the original as closely as possible and earning plaudits for its effective capture of …