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Metro Staff on February 4, 2020
Nearly 25 years into the game and it’s clear that Atmosphere will go down as one of the best hip-hop groups ever. The Minnesota duo’s early albums feature a quick-witted Slug using his silver tongue to couple glib remarks with intricate and braggadocious rhymes, all while producer Ant drops some seriously dope…
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Metro Staff on February 4, 2020
Falcon Punch! Get ready to find out if you and your roommates are really as good at Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as you’d like to believe. The competition takes all comers with $5 on it to test their hand-eye coordination and fast-twitch muscle stamina in a three-round Swiss-style tournament. The first bouts…
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Wallace Baine on February 4, 2020
Bon Jovi fans may always be “livin’ on a prayer” that they’ll somehow find their way back to the 1980s—when party-rock ruled the airwaves and mullets were worn unironically. That may never happen, but at least they have this: A triple bill at the Club Fox, featuring Bon Jovi completists Steel Horse,…
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Wallace Baine on February 4, 2020
For four seasons, he played the lovable (but more often unlovable) blowhard parasite Erlich Bachman on HBO’s Silicon Valley. So, there is no more natural environment to get the full-on T.J. treatment than in The Capital of Silicon Valley. Of course, Miller’s public image took a steep dive after he was accused…
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Anne Gelhaus on February 4, 2020
Like any play worthy of the descriptor “farce,” The 39 Steps relies on quick takes and physical humor for laughs. With a cast of four playing dozens of roles in the show, many of the laughs simply come from the quick costume changes the actors must make. While Patrick Barlow’s script is…
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Metro Staff on February 4, 2020
The San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild/Tabia African-American Theatre Ensemble present award-winning Broadway actor Chester Gregory as he channels the iconic Jackie Wilson, a.k.a. “Mr. Excitement,” taking the audience back to Sept. 29, 1975. Featuring hits like “Lonely Teardrops,” “To Be Loved” and “Higher and Higher,” the show promises to be a page…
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Wallace Baine on February 4, 2020
Rhiannon Giddens casts quite a shadow in the realm of bluegrass and Southern folk these days. The singer-songwriter is a banjo and fiddle virtuoso who first garnered critical praise for her work in the North Carolina-based combo the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Recently named the Frank Sinatra Chair in the Performing Arts at…
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Wallace Baine on February 4, 2020
Not since Sherman Alexie’s heyday has there been a Native American novelist with as strong a literary tailwind as Oakland-born writer Tommy Orange. His heartfelt and hilarious 2018 novel There, There won a whole mantlepiece of awards, including the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award (and was a…
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Jeffrey Edalatpour on February 4, 2020
“Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz.” Snap your fingers to the syncopated beat of “Cell Block Tango,” the opening number in Kander and Ebb’s now-immortal musical. The choreography was Bob Fosse’s. But after watching the FX TV series Fosse/Verdon last year, we’ve learned that dancer Gwen Verdon was at his side developing…
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Metro Staff on January 30, 2020
On their first-ever US tour, this all-female Japanese math-rock trio make San Jose their one Bay Area stop, and with good reason. Math rock and J-pop have always had a sizable influence on the sound of San Jose’s underground. Reminiscent of the music of Yvette Young—the South Bay’s own female guitar hero—Paranoid…
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