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Kyle Martin on August 25, 2021
Dutch DJ Full Crate was way ahead of the Crate Challenge, mixing crates of styles together into a perfectly balanced, lowkey vibe that’s easy to sway to and never falls down. This is the kind of music that can be a getaway to peace from your troubles, or a lesson in how…
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Li Patron on August 18, 2021
In late 2019, San Jose artist Melina Alexa Ramirez created what she imagined as a one-off illustration based on a tarot card: local photographer Justin Brown rendered as the Fool.
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Elliott Sky Case on August 18, 2021
A good drag husband is like a good sous chef: fast, able to take commands under high pressure and patient with the dramatics of creative/culinary genius. All these skills will be put to the test Monday, when South Bay queens Pam Cakes and Lemon Skweezy compete in SV Pride’s Drag Queen Cooking…
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Grace Stetson on August 18, 2021
Two of the funniest amigos in comedy are together again. This Monday, Steve Martin and Martin Short bring their newest tour, “Now You See Them, Soon You Won’t,” to the idyllic Mountain Winery, where they’re sure to sing, laugh, riff and improvise about their years of friendship and endless well of comedic…
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Mike Huguenor on August 18, 2021
Freestyle music is an undeniable part of the culture of San Jose, long soundtracking dance nights and lowrider cruises alike (between the golden oldies). At the new Q102.1’s “Freestyle Explosion,” many of the late ‘80s genre’s biggest and boldest names come together under one roof, artists like Expose (“Point of No Return”),…
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Jay Edgar on August 18, 2021
Perhaps best known for the mid-aughts mega club hit “Changes” featuring the consummate British dance singer Laura V, Chris Lake has proven adept at churning out absolute club bangers and elevating up-and-coming musical talent. Spinning a breezy, highly accessible vision of house music, Lake has several charting club hits and a Grammy-nominated…
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Kyle Martin on August 18, 2021
Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson’s stunning solo mixed-media exhibition has been on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art since March, but its run ends soon. This Saturday, as the exhibit enters its final weeks, ICA holds a curator-led tour of the exhibit, inviting people to indulge their imagination in Patterson’s florid…
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Mike Huguenor on August 18, 2021
Campbell’s annual Boogie festival has gone through many names over the years, from “the Prune Festival,” to “Boogie on the Avenue,” to the geographically-misleading “Boogie on the Bayou.” But a Boogie festival under any other name would be just as funky, and this year’s “Boogie Music Festival Remixed” is no exception. With…
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Kyle Martin on August 18, 2021
It’s all about the three S’s, folks: sneakers, sneakers, sneakers. This weekend sneakerheads, hype fiends and style mavens alike can lace up and step out together at Sneaker Con. Best of all: it’s not in San Francisco, and it’s not in the Town: this two-day event—the first since May’s Sneaker Con Dallas—is…
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Mike Huguenor on August 18, 2021
Pete Lee wishes he could be a bad boy, but he’s still only been in one fight: “I got into a tussle with one of those motion sensor sinks,” the Wisconsinite comedian jokes. Self-described as tall, dark and pleasant, Lee’s comedy is hilariously harmless, making his own midwestern geniality the butt of…
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