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Tad Malone on October 31, 2018
This week’s Thursday Night Football is a Bay Area battle royale, as the Raiders go head-to-head with the Niners at Levi’s Stadium. It hasn’t been a great year for either organization. Both teams have only one win each and are coming off yet another loss. Still, the 49er Faithful and the Raider…
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Bill Kopp on October 31, 2018
High-concept cover bands succeed when they breathe new life into something old and familiar. Dread Zeppelin started doing it in the 1990s, with its Elvis impersonator meets reggae band take on Led Zeppelin’s catalog. Today Mac Sabbath takes the form to its most bizarre extreme: exploring the proto-doom and heavy metal of…
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Estefany Gonzalez on October 25, 2018
Picture the product of a torrid affair between the Top 40 charts and a best of Broadway playlist and you’re likely imagining something close to the poptastic power of Glee co-stars Darren Criss and Lea Michele. While watching Criss make villainous DC comic cameos on CW’s The Flash or Michele murder sassy…
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Wallace Baine on October 25, 2018
German-born pianist Axel Schmitt, a faculty member at Mountain View’s Community School of Music and Arts, has at least one heavy lift on his bucket list: He’s attempting to perform every one of Beethoven’s piano sonatas—that’s 32 total—before the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s birth in 2020. On Sunday, Schmitt presents…
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Nick Veronin on October 25, 2018
As part of a string of local celebrations of El Dia de los Muertos, the School of Arts & Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza presents a walking tour of beautifully arranged altars and other art installations at various locations on the three blocks surrounding the MHP. After taking in the altars and…
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Nick Veronin on October 25, 2018
Traditionally, mariachi as a musical form comes from a specific place. It is played on specific instruments, and its practitioners often limit performances to specific spaces within a specific region. New York-based Mariachi Flor de Toloache maintain a rotating ensemble of all women performers—all from highly diverse backgrounds—and infuse their western Mexican…
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Mike Huguenor on October 25, 2018
Billed as part of this weekend’s TwitchCon, Games Done Quick Express is the latest video game speedrunning event from Games Done Quick, the group that wrote the book on speedrunning. Since 2010, the event has raised many millions of dollars for worthy causes, including more than $2.3 million for Doctors Without Borders…
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Wallace Baine on October 25, 2018
It’s been more than two years now since music fans have had to wake up every morning in a world without The Purple One. The seven-piece tribute band When Doves Cry came together in Sacramento several months before Prince’s death and now stands as one of the best opportunities to still hear…
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Estefany Gonzalez on October 25, 2018
No one reps the Yay Area harder than E-40. But with close to 30 full-length solo releases, myriad collaborative projects and a serious knack for coining lyrical lingo, E-40 is sure to leave a lasting legacy in the hip-hop world far beyond the Bay. In addition to coming up with the likes…
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Wallace Baine on October 25, 2018
For those who prefer their circuses old-school, Zoppé family circus has one number for you: 1842. That’s when this traveling one-ring circus was established in Venice. Led by the multi-talented Nino the Clown—who happens to be part of the Zoppé family dynasty that goes back six generations—Zoppé: An Italian Family Circus features…
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