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Grace Stetson on September 29, 2021
Though the leaves are turning and the weather is getting a little chillier, summer vibes still abound across the Bay. This Saturday, two-time Grammy Award-winning singer Colbie Caillat brings her light and summery touch to the Mountain Winery. The concert will be a great opportunity for listeners of all ages to indulge…
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Mike Huguenor on September 29, 2021
While LVL Up undergoes construction, the newly minted LVL Uproar on First has been an excellent interim host for events like karaoke and live music. This Saturday, they cover it all in a layer of glitter as Drag Arcade takes over the brewery for a night of drag, dancing, performance and gaming…
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Grace Stetson on September 29, 2021
It’s difficult to find one activity for the whole family to enjoy, but San Jose nonprofit Mosaic has brought together the best of visual arts, performance and food to Bay Area natives to enjoy for free. On Saturday, the nonprofit is partnering with organizations from across Silicon Valley to showcase art (including…
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Jay Edgar on September 29, 2021
The demand for “wholesome” entertainment has been higher than ever recently, but sometimes you have to confront the darkness. Set in a future where nearly all insects are extinct—causing untold ecological devastation—Somewhere follows two sibling scientists tracking the last monarch butterflies in the world to the west coast, and run into a…
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Mike Huguenor on September 29, 2021
The 7th annual Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival truly kicks off this Friday with a screening of the 2021 martial arts film The Paper Tigers, along with a Q&A with director Bao Tran. The heartfelt action dramedy follows “the Three Tigers,” three former kung fu prodigies now washed up on the…
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Katie Lauer on September 29, 2021
Fans will have less than 24 hours to soak in the new Brandi Carlile album In These Silent Days before the singer-songwriter takes the stage on Friday, but if lead single “Right on Time” is any proof, it’ll be another country-pop-rock powerhouse of cathartic high notes and comforting lows. A virtuoso at…
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Kyle Martin on September 29, 2021
Opera San Jose starts their 2021-22 season in dramatic fashion with Mozart & Salieri, the 1890s story by Rimsky-Korsakov of a brash young composer, Antonio Salieri, who is rumored to have poisoned rival composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart over musical fame. The legend depicts deadly jealousy, a poisoned chalice and a sitting room…
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Alec Adams on September 29, 2021
iskwē’s star continues to rise as a singer-songwriter, though she’s been on her grind diligently since 2013. In the same way her Cree heritage and Western upbringing defy neat categorization, her music chooses to blend two worlds together in inventive fashion. Often described as electro-pop, her 2021 release The Stars shows her…
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Kyle Martin on September 29, 2021
Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, curator for Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, has put together a decade-spanning collection of pieces from the museum which all use paper as the medium. Prints, drawings, photographs, sketches and more. This new temporary retrospective collection includes more than 100 works from artists all around the world, including American photographer…
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Katie Lauer on September 22, 2021
Four basketball courts in Campbell Park became hallowed ground for Isaac Farfan during the summer of 2020, as the smooth, blue surface—its basketball hoops removed as a precaution in the earliest, panicked days of Covid—was the perfect place to take his roller skates for a spin.
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