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Nick Veronin on August 9, 2018
As awesome as the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest is sure to be, many locals will surely be heading to San Francisco this weekend for the annual Outside Lands event. This year certainly boasts a litany of great acts, including The Weeknd, Florence + The Machine, Janet Jackson, Future, Portugal. The Man…
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Mike Huguenor on August 9, 2018
Whether it’s Fortnight or Metroid, Pokemon or Snatcher, MagWest has your back for all things video game-related. The West Coast spinoff of MagFest (the longrunning DC-area video game festival) is now in its second year in Santa Clara. The festival is returning with a huge arcade, bands—including San Jose-based Continuum Kingdom (pictured)—and…
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Mike Huguenor on August 9, 2018
For thousands of years, humans have been watching the Perseids meteor showers. The ancient stellar event happens annually around this time when dust from the Swift-Tuttle Comet lights up the night sky. Montalvo Arts Center is opening up its lawn for a stargazing event to coincide with the peak of year’s shower.…
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Wallace Baine on August 9, 2018
Forget Jagger. Forget Morrison. Forget Plant. For millions of boomers, the voice of thunderous, pissed-off, rock & roll rage is Roger Daltrey—the blonde-tressed front man of The Who. Daltrey had to be a big voice to compete on stage with Pete “Bleeding Fingers” Townshend and the madman drummer Keith Moon. At 74,…
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Wallace Baine on August 8, 2018
There’s a little bit of something for everyone at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. Here are some of the highlights—from hot Latin rhythms to laid back licks, genre-defying new artists old standard bearers.
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Winona Rajamohan on August 8, 2018
San Jose Youth Shakespeare is celebrating Christmas early with one of Shakespeare’s most gender-bent comedies. Originally performed on the final evening of Christmastide, Twelfth Night features plenty of cross-dressing and a bit of what historians have identified as metatheatre—that is, playing with the concept of acting in a play on stage. This…
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Bill Kopp on August 8, 2018
IT’S ONLY A slight overstatement to call trumpeter Herb Alpert the king of 1960s easy listening music. Alpert, of course, led the staggeringly successful Tijuana Brass; if you’ve ever been in a thrift shop, you’ve seen Whipped Cream and Other Delights, the record with that famously racy cover photo. Alpert is the…
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Gary Singh on August 8, 2018
Hanging with trumpeter Eddie Gale tends to unearth a different version of San Jose history than what you’ll hear from anyone else bouncing around the periphery of the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. First of all, he is the only person alive in San Jose to have recorded with John Coltrane. He…
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Dominoe Ibarra on August 4, 2018
Picture this: Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, Biggie Smalls, Prince—basically every great soul, hip-hop and R&B artist of the past 50 years—coming together in a single concert. SoulfulofNoise aims to make that dream a reality. By continually recruiting the best Southern Californian musicians to perform at their events, SoulfulofNoise shows are always stacked…
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Wallace Baine on August 4, 2018
It’s a been a long and often bizarre journey from the crunchy power pop of “Buddy Holly” to the perplexing, Twitter-prompted take on Toto’s “Africa”—but after 25 years of flying their dork flags high, Weezer is still belting out gooey vocal harmonies over cranked guitars. What’s more, this summer Rivers Cuomo and…
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