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Mike Huguenor on June 12, 2019
To understand the music of Tony Molina, we should first talk about bonsai.
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Erika Rasmussen on June 12, 2019
This Northside San Jose neighborhood has welcomed global residents for decades—it was predominantly Italian before Black, Filipino, Mexican and Vietnamese families settled in. “It is like a little United States,” the Mercury News wrote in 1966. This summer, the area continues its community-building efforts by inviting locals to Backesto Park for an…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 12, 2019
A new exhibition at the Art Ark Gallery, “Diaspora in Bloom: Assyrians in the 20th Century & Beyond,” illuminates the contemporary experience of an ethnic group with roots stretching back to the so-called “Cradle of Civilization.” At its peak, the Assyrian Empire included territory in what is now northern Iraq, Egypt, Syria,…
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Metro Staff on June 12, 2019
Since her breakout role in 1997’s Selena, Jennifer Lopez has remained relevant as both an actress and a performing artist. On screen she’s starred in cult classics, like The Cell and Out of Sight, and sappy-but-beloved rom-coms, like The Wedding Planner. On wax, she’s scored some of the biggest hits of the…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 12, 2019
Homegrown musical acts Socorra and Adira Sharkey are headed to the Pacific Northwest with new tunes in tow, just a few months after Socorra’s release of a socioeconomic fight song. “Believe” is an indie-rock offering of hope in the face of a dream-crushing cycle of poverty so many local artists know too…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 5, 2019
William Shakespeare’s summertime comedy about love and mischief is brought to life by Silicon Valley Shakespeare with an entirely female cast—fitting, given Shakespeare’s loyalty to the heroine and oft-floated theory that Old Bill may have actually been a woman. In one plot line, Titania and Oberon, queen and king of the fairies,…
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Magician and apparitionist Aiden Sinclair, who has wowed national audiences with his appearances on America’s Got Talent and Penn & Teller Fool Us, brings his show to San Jose’s eeriest estate. Illusions of the Passed—A Theatrical Séance is a mix of illusion, history and ghost stories, all modeled after a Victorian-era séance.…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 5, 2019
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger… sometimes. Five Bay Area comedians improvise bits based on prompts pulled at random from an envelope. The audience gets to choose the winner. Each comic later has the chance to win more laughs with a prepared set. The winner will advance to the finals, an…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 5, 2019
The theme of this shindig, “Aaj Ki Party Meri Taraf Se,” roughly translates to “Today’s party is on me.” That “me” will be DJ Dharak of India, who unites Bollywood and EDM. This Bollywood maestro made music his destiny as a teen, beginning as a choreographer and dancer. Fate took him to…
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Conor Agnew on June 5, 2019
The Trims have been playing melancholic post-punk with pop ambitions for nearly a decade now, and if you’ve ever seen one of their high energy live performances, you know they’ve got the chops. While frontman Gabe Maciel’s confessional poetry has always been concerned with loss, regret and heartbreak, sonically the band’s latest…
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