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Metro Staff on September 25, 2019
This year’s fall installment of the SoFA Street Fair marks a number of milestones. It’s the 10th edition since the festival returned in 2014 after a 10-year hiatus. Interestingly enough, the original SoFA Street Fair ran from 1994 to 2004. You can do the math there. The free live music runs until…
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Jeffrey Edalatpour on September 25, 2019
The Mozart family was blessed with more than one musical prodigy. But Amadeus’ sister Nannerl, a.k.a. Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia, got lost in the history books. Sylvia Milo, an actress and violinist, wrote and stars in this one-woman play that brings her back to life. Milo performs the play in and on…
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Nick Veronin on September 25, 2019
It’s rumored that Redwood City earned its slogan, “Climate Best by Government Test,” after a joint survey conducted by the US and German governments. Whatever the case, this mid-Peninsula city is sure to be an epicenter of great beer this weekend. The first day of fall has officially fallen (even if it…
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Wallace Baine on September 25, 2019
If the recent influx of taprooms opening all over Silicon Valley proves anything, it’s that hackers love beer just as much as anyone, and that many of them have taken a scientific approach to their sudsing. Enter Geektoberfest, wherein The Tech Interactive aims to put beer under the microscope. The event features…
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Steve Palopoli on September 25, 2019
My parents took me to some concerts when I was a kid, but Oingo Boingo was the first concert I cared enough about to get to myself—which is saying something, since I wasn’t even old enough to drive back in 1988. But at least one of my high school friends was.
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C.J. Prusi on September 18, 2019
A joint effort between the Project MORE Foundation and the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health, the Post Street Jubilee Wellness Festival aims to have fun while increasing the sexual health of the Bay Area’s LGBTQ community. In addition to DJs, dancers and drag queens, the festival will feature free and…
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C.J. Prusi on September 18, 2019
Marimba, folklorico and a stitch-your-selfie community crafting session are all included in this free event, which revolves around the quilt museum’s current exhibit on Guatemalan textile art, Mayan Traje: A Tradition in Transition. Members of The Fábrica, a Santa Cruz community textile workspace, will be on hand to show their craft and…
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Wallace Baine on September 18, 2019
Redwood City’s annual celebration of dance and picante sauce returns. Eleven blocks of downtown Redwood City transforms into a salsa-dancing playground on Saturday with three stages of live salsa, Latin jazz and reggae. And then of course there is the salsa. From mild to medium and hot to “what hath God wrought?!”—there’s…
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Kael Austria on September 18, 2019
Nama-stay a while and unwind at San Jose’s annual Yoga, Culture and Compassion Festival. The day’s activities are aimed at helping people achieve physical wellness and peace of mind through a series of classes. Yoga may be in the name of the festival, but the selection of classes includes varying forms of…
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Gary Singh on September 18, 2019
The Center for Literary Arts at SJSU opens its 2019-20 season with Santa Cruz-based author and National Book Award winner Jonathan Franzen. The event celebrates the launch of Reed Magazine: Issue 152, the university’s acclaimed literary journal, and will feature readings by several contributors before Franzen takes the stage. Franzen is the…
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