With guitarist Ray Obiedo at the helm, the group explores the sonic landscapes of jazz, funk and Latin music in a display highlighting the latent music talent emanating from the South Bay Area music scene. Featured prominently in the performance …
Over 80 artists have contributed work to Seeing through Stone, an exhibition that explores the core tenets of abolitionist world-building and imagines a future free of prisons. As part of the UCSC’s ongoing Visualizing Abolition series, the art show includes …
Wait, what? “Rhapsody in Blue,” Gershwin’s most famous composition (NA NA NA NAAAAAA dah dah dah dah dum duuuuum), was originally composed for piano and jazz band! This show features the original composition and the fascinating story of a piece …
CMT’s Rising Stars presents this fun musical based on The Ugly Duckling. The duckling, Ugly, goes on a hero’s journey of self-acceptance as he battles a world that judges him based on his appearance. (Nothing like this world, right?) The …
Here comes the Titan of Metal that is Geoff Tate. Not just a frontman anymore but a fully formed force of nature rampaging through the countryside and scuttling what’s left of the puritanical foundations of America. Once the figurehead of …
Kansas City’s most successful, independent rapper returns to the Bay. That’s right, Tech N9ne, the Caribou Lou-rapping, KTC-loving hip-hop artist, brings his Strange Music empire to the Guild with special guests Mayday and the Bay’s own Kung Fu Vampire. For …
“Cannabis has been used for its healing properties for millennia. The first documented case of its use dates back to 2800 BC, when the father of Chinese medicine, Emperor Shen Nung, listed it in his pharmacopoeia.”
From a French Catholic saint to Kurt Cobain, the ghosts of 417 S. First Street will continue to haunt and bless upcoming neighborhood events in the SoFA District.
This week, Opera San José debuts Florencia en el Amazonas, the final production in its 40th anniversary season—a landmark for the company, but also one for Shawna Lucey, its still-new general director and CEO.
In an op-ed for Marijuana Moment last week, Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML, declared that tens of thousands of workers “are leaving the commercial trucking industry because the federal government refuses to update its antiquated marijuana policies.”
Fish Me Poke in Eastside San Jose stuffs quesadillas with bulgogi beef and adorns sushi burritos in Flamin’ Hot Cheetos dust. The experimental menu draws inspiration from Korean, Mexican, Hawaiian and Japanese cuisine.
Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs in the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.
Writer-director Alex Garland faces a tricky dilemma in shaping his new dystopian actioner, Civil War. Just how true to real life does it need to be?
During his 30 years as singer and primary songwriter in Queensrÿche, Geoff Tate never concerned himself with getting his name recognized. In fact, the names of all of the band members were largely unknown to many music fans.
Though born and raised in New Jersey, Michela Musolino always felt connected to her homeland of Sicily. As the granddaughter of Sicilian émigrés to America, Musolino grew up in two worlds, straddling the contemporary and the ancient. As a singer, …
In this fable musical, a beautiful and clever little fox named Keen Ears is captured by the Forester while she is young. Though she manages to escape, the contrasting paths of her life and the Forester’s tell a larger story …
Jimmy Shin is an LA comedy producer and comedian who’s gathered six comics for this special event. Some are local, like San Jose’s Tyler Stannard and Hayward’s Aivy Cordova. Anna May from New York, former political strategist-turned-comic Mehran Kodabandeh, Hans …
Founded in 1975 in Budapest, the Tákacs classical music string quartet in its current iteration comprises Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes on violins, Richard O’Neill on viola and András Fejér on cello. Julien Labro, a virtuoso on the bandoneon (a …
LA’s friendliest power trio, Force Model, will descend upon the South Bay’s newest and most exciting music venue: Chromatic Coffee. Along for the ride are Oakland’s Facet, Celadon (in support of their latest self-titled EP) and the sonic explosion also …
Stoner rock fans will rejoice, as this night of heavy guitars and heavy pours will surely satisfy. San Francisco’s Bongfather will rattle the walls of San Jose’s favorite bar venue. Their new EP, Kingtide, is equal parts Fu Manchu and …
