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Elliott Sky Case on December 1, 2021
The portrait—especially the nude—holds a crucial space in the artistic canon, but the form is heavy with baggage regarding whose bodies are displayed, how and by whom. SJMA’s Our whole, unruly selves, which runs through June, explores and questions those complications. A cross-disciplinary group show with work ranging from the 1960s to…
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Alec Adams on December 1, 2021
Lubelski has been on his grind as an electronic musician for years, but he’s now in the middle of a push to break out and carve his place in the ecosystem. He’s dropping albums, he’s collaborating, he’s doing Twitch streams with thousands of viewers, and it’s all yielding results as his popularity…
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Kyle Martin on November 17, 2021
Lucas James Millan only has room for wolves in his crew. The east side San Jose rapper also known as LJame$ says anybody else just isn’t up to snuff; it’s leaders and lobos over all else. “If you’re about the Lobo way, it’s all leaders, one pack,” says the 25 year old…
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Aaron Carnes on November 17, 2021
Ryan DiBiase was blown away that 225 people showed up to The Ritz in 2017 to see his latest skate video, Toga 4. By then, he’d been doing it for a while, but that one was quite the jump. He premiered his first video, More Like Toga, in 2011 at a friend’s house…
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Kyle Martin on November 17, 2021
Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Farruko—AKA Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado—is going to rock out the SAP Center this Wednesday. This heavy hitting artist has collaborated with many Latin music legends such as Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, J Balvin and more. The energetic and electronic beats of Farruko’s music can be heard playing loud…
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Kyle Martin on November 17, 2021
Columbian pop rock star Camilo Echeverry will be filling up the San Jose Civic Sunday for a Latin music party. After soaring to the top of Latin pop music through the pandemic, Camilo is finally looking to take some of his top hits on the road and show people what this music…
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Mike Huguenor on November 17, 2021
The influence of South Bay drag queen Woo Woo Monroe can be felt all throughout the area’s drag community. As drag mother for the House of Woo, Monroe has put her beauty mark on numerous notable queens, like both Pam Cakes and Lemon Skweezy, who competed for glamorous kitchen supremacy earlier this…
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Jay Edgar on November 17, 2021
Belgian classical guitar virtuoso Jerome Mouffe has dedicated his life to the optimization of the instrument’s abilities, and holds the unique distinction of being the first guitarist to receive a Doctoral of Music Arts degree from the New England Conservatory of Boston. Boasting an extensive career as a chamber performer, instructor, and…
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Mike Huguenor on November 17, 2021
Barbara Manning is an indie rocker’s indie rocker. The Bay Area musician first made a splash back in the mid-80s in the Chico based indie pop group 28th Day, before becoming a darling of fanzines and underground press for her work with the band World of Pooh. The Land of Thirst, World…
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Jay Edgar on November 17, 2021
Of all the petty dramatics of suburban American life, nothing seems to offer a window into the soul of a people more than the yard dispute (remember when Rand Paul got beaten up by a neighbor over a pile of branches on their lawns?). Native Gardens plums the fraught realm of Homeowner…
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