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Mike Huguenor on July 14, 2021
For the lovesick, forlorn, heartbroken and unrequited, there is no music more powerful than mariachi. And in the Bay, there are few mariachi groups as renowned as the intergenerational Mariachi Nueva Generacion. At Frost Theatre, the local ensemble backs up two incredible vocalists in Graciela Beltran and Lupita Infante. A quickly rising…
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Mike Huguenor on July 14, 2021
Long a favorite of Bay Area blues fans, the mighty Tia Carroll comes to Poor House Bistro after releasing an album considered to be her proper American debut: You Gotta Have It! Consisting of both originals and original takes on classics, like the Staples Sisters’ “Why Am I Treated So Bad?” You…
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Jay Edgar on July 14, 2021
As a prelude to the return of South First Fridays, SoFA art museums the Institute of Contemporary Art, Movimento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles are throwing a block party to celebrate their reopening with food, musical performances and plenty of art to…
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Jay Edgar on July 14, 2021
Been itching for some old school Bay Area thrash metal? 40ish years in, the scene pioneered by acts like Exodus, Testament, and yes, Metallica, lives on in bands like Phantom Witch. Razor-sharp riffs layer on top of drummer/bandleader Q Minor’s pounding double-kick bass drums and crashing cymbals, providing the perfect stage for…
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Mike Huguenor on July 14, 2021
Don’t call it the fourth wave. Though it truly never went away, in 2021 ska music is back thanks to a long-awaited critical reappraisal and a generation of new artists and listeners. Here in San Jose, Monkey are an absolute legacy of skankable rhythms and melodies, the Asian Man Records alum having…
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Grace Stetson on July 14, 2021
“Legends never die” rings true for many things in San Jose—In ‘n’ Out animal fries, a Saturday at the Flea Market or a ride on the Grizzly. Yet, the phrase rings most true of all for 1993 cult classic “The Sandlot.” Set in 1962, the rough-around-the-edges family comedy depicts a group of…
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Mike Huguenor on July 14, 2021
As an author, Italo Calvino favored what he called ‘thoughtful lightness,’ his writing playing out like the waft of a particularly poetic breeze. Late Wedding, by San Francisco playwright Christopher Chen, takes Calvino as inspiration to tell a mind-bending tale of love, longing and marriage through a variety of “interconnected fables” spanning…
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Mike Huguenor on July 14, 2021
Held online this year, the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival presents five bold new voices in stage writing. While this week’s arts feature focuses on Tiger Beat (see page 15 for more), the festivals other entries are just as interesting, like Human Museum by Bay Area stage/game writer Miyoko Conley, in which…
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Grace Stetson on July 14, 2021
Disgruntled fast food workers unite—“Bon Qui Qui” is back to share her unfiltered thoughts. That’s right, San Jose native and character comedian Anjelah Johnson returns to her hometown for four nights of jam-packed comedy shows where it all began. Though early video “Nail Salon” has not exactly aged well in the changing…
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Mike Huguenor on July 14, 2021
Pianist Dahveed Behroozi brings an expansive set of influences to the keys. Trained in both jazz and classical, he picks up from the work of masters like Charles Mingus and Keith Jarrett in finding the genres’ overlapping lines. Mixed in, there are elements of fusion, latin-jazz and minimalism, resulting in a style…
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