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Wallace Baine on September 20, 2018
Good news, fashionistas: You can now justify the expense for that hot dress or cool jacket you bought this summer. The San Jose Museum of Art is throwing a scintillating party. The Mirror Ball is the hip after-party for the Wonder Ball gala and fundraiser earlier in the evening. The after-party will feature cocktails, food, live music, dancing and intimate late-night access to all the museum’s current exhibitions, not to mention plenty of potentially well-dressed and attractive art lovers. What better way to meet an intriguing new someone than in front of a beautiful painting? SJMA members get in for just $75. Continue reading »
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Yousif Kassab on September 20, 2018
Few things strike a chord like being confronted with something that is at once vaguely familiar and undeniably new. When executed well, this potent combination has the power to evoke a sense of powerful nostalgia while simultaneously conjuring a sense of rejuvenation. It’s within this emotional lexicon that beatmakers like Madlib, Knxwledge and the New Jersey-based producer Aaron Velasquez operate. Continue reading »
The buzz at the Sharks Fan Fest this year is likely to be all about newly acquired stud defenseman Erik Karlsson, who is already conjuring visions of the Stanley Cup coming to San Jose. In the meantime, hockey fans jonesing for some action on the ice can gather at the SAP Center to get photos with players and watch the Sharks Legends game, featuring an array of former Sharks, including Bryan Marchmont, Mike Ricci, Jeff Friesen and many more. Free parking is available at several SAP Center lots. All this is prologue to the new season, which kicks off Oct. 3 against Anaheim. Continue reading »
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Nick Veronin on September 20, 2018
Just as sounds of bicycles roaming the streets of downtown San Jose begin to mellow, the SoFA District is poised to come alive with the sound of music. This year’s Viva Calle runs until 3pm, but the fall edition of the SoFA Street Fair keeps rocking with free live music until 9pm. With stages all over South First Street—inside Haberdasher and Uproar, among other venues—and a whole slew of performers, including Steely Nash, Israel Sanchez, The Odd Numbers, Sweet HayaH, Ato Walker and Drawing Heaven, it’s sure to be good time. In between sets, grab a cold brew and a bite. Continue reading »
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Wallace Baine on September 20, 2018
Close your eyes and imagine a major American city without cars. Imagine the streets filled only with pedestrians, skaters, cyclists and kids who wear Heelys. On Sunday, you can open your eyes and see it for yourself when six miles of city streets in downtown San Jose will be closed to cars and trucks from First Street down Monterey Road, with activity hubs on both ends and the middle—at the County Fairgrounds. The idea is to get friends and neighbors out of their expensive rolling planet-destroyers and into the streets to explore them by other means and maybe even to boldly envision a carless future. Continue reading »
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Wallace Baine on September 20, 2018
The great family norteño band from San Jose known as Los Tigres Del Norte are combining forces with Mexican superstar Alejandro Fernandez on a groundbreaking tour called Rompiendo Fronteras (Breaking Borders). Los Tigres is among the most popular Latino bands in the world with a real-world focus on struggle and pride in their work, often taking on subjects such as the drug trade and immigration in their music. Fernandez, son of the legendary Vicente Fernandez, has strong roots in ranchera and mariachi styles and has become a pop phenom in his own right. Together, they’ve sold more than 65 million records worldwide. Continue reading »
Spanning borders and electronic subgenres, Boombox Cartel—the production duo of Jorge Medina and Americo Garcia—got its start in Monterrey, Mexico. Over the course of their time working together, Medina and Garcia bounded between electro, dubstep, trap and hip-hop. Now based out of Los Angeles, Garcia is the sole face of Boombox Cartel. It’s unclear why (or even if) the pair have split, but Boombox Cartel’s fanbase is only growing. Currently signed to Diplo’s tastemaking Mad Decent label, Garcia comes to Sunnyvale pushing the project’s latest single, “People I Know,” featuring a vocal by Australian singer Panama. Continue reading »
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Wallace Baine on September 20, 2018
It’s been more than 16 years since Norah Jones briefly took over the world with her slinky and sleepy jazz-pop album Come Away With Me. Since then, pianist and vocalist—and daughter of sitar great Ravi Shankar—has released a half dozen albums and built a dazzling career not only as a solo artist but with various side-project bands (including The Willies and Puss n Boots) and collaborations with Keith Richards, Seth MacFarlane and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. The fabulous Ms. Norah never stops moving or evolving. Continue reading »
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Mike Huguenor on September 19, 2018
It’s hard to imagine the last 20 years of music without the era-defining The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Winning five Grammy awards the year it was released, the first solo album by the ex-Fugees singer laid the groundwork for pan-African American albums like Kamasi Washington’s The Epic and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, as well as the neo-soul movement of Amy Winehouse and the Dap-Kings. It’s a modern classic, and the reason why Ms. Hill remains one of the most respected and feared musicians on Earth. Continue reading »
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Anne Gelhaus on September 19, 2018
While the playa dust is still settling on this year’s Burning Man, the South Bay Regional Burners group will formally congratulate this year’s “virgins,” who survived their first year among the sparkle ponies and shirt cockers of Black Rock City. The noobs are sure to have plenty of tales to tell. These “virgins no more” will receive “official diplomas” at the South Bay Burners’ Third Thursday Meet & Greet, where practicing and non-practicing Burners alike can swap stories over cocktails—kinda like being at a playa bar, but with less dust and more clothing. Continue reading »
