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Alec Adams on November 10, 2021
Opera, perhaps the most disciplined and harrowing style of musical performance ever invented, has always had a hard time gripping American audiences for a pretty simple reason—most of them aren’t in English. Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, however, has been representing the language in opera for centuries. The story of a queen’s…
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Grace Stetson on November 10, 2021
Jo Koy has over 30 years of comedy under his belt, and he’s hitting the road to elicit chuckles from the big stage this Friday at San Jose’s SAP Center. Known as a panelist on “Chelsea Lately” and for his multiple Netflix specials, the Seattle native has continuously sold out shows and…
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Elliott Sky Case on November 10, 2021
Harry Styles and Jenny Lewis share a few parallels: both entered show business as teenagers and made their names in music as part of a group (One Direction and Rilo Kiley, respectively). Both have a penchant for weaving bygone eras of sound and style into perfect pop fabric, making Styles’ Love On…
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Elliott Sky Case on November 10, 2021
The work of Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri is a testament to literature’s distance-traversing magic. Following the success of her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies and novel The Namesake, which explored the lives and lonelinesses of South Asian immigrant communities, Lahiri moved to Rome and began writing books in Italian. For…
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Kyle Martin on November 10, 2021
Los Angeles comedian Jimmy Shin’s momentous and riveting comedy party “The Shindig Show,” is coming Wednesday to the San Jose Improv—with hella comics showing out. Shin brings with him six other comedians, including some West Coast representation, to roll with the punches throughout the night. Shin has been featured on The Tonight…
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Katie Lauer on November 3, 2021
Propped up at the wooden bar inside Vahl’s Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, regulars sometimes wax poetic about Alviso’s historic heyday—when the hustling and bustling port city at the Santa Clara Valley’s northwestern fringe was like a South Bay version of San Francisco’s Pier 39.
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Mat Weir on November 3, 2021
Remember in the original Matrix when our hero, Neo—played by Keanu Reeves—tells the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar he saw the same black cat walk by twice? His crewmates grow anxious as he describes the experience, telling him: “déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.”
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Johnny Ray Huston on November 3, 2021
“What is it about queer people and horror?” Anthony Hudson asks over the phone from Portland, OR, answering his intriguing question a few moments later. “What I’ve learned is the whole genre is queer. The term subgenre is a misnomer.”
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Jay Edgar on November 3, 2021
Perhaps best known for his famous essay The Santaland Diaries—which chronicles his young adulthood travails as a Christmas Elf at a Macy’s—David Sedaris has earned a reputation as a curmudgeon for the underdog, sardonically taking down the little indignities that the common person faces every day. Sedaris’ latest collection Calypso takes an…
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Grace Stetson on November 3, 2021
Girl power stories have too often been few and far between but, reader, it’s 2021 and things are a-changing. For the Palo Alto Players’ 91st season, the organization hosts The Revolutionists, a female-focused comedy about four women during the French Revolution. The protagonists strive to live free and loud in the city…
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