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Nick Veronin, Stacy Torres, Melissa Hartman on August 17, 2016
It’s not every week you get the chance to see one of Oakland’s biggest hip-hop exports, one of the world’s biggest porn superstars, the creator of a generation-defining sitom and the anchor of basic cable’s most trusted name in fake news. What’s the deal with that? This week the South Bay has…
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Gazing up from the orchestra section of the California Theatre and observing the ornamental lattice work flanking the stage, you would be forgiven for mistaking the South First Street landmark for The Fox Theatre in Oakland. After all, the theater was built by the very same architects who erected the Fox.
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While it will most certainly dominate the local arts page headlines, San Jose Jazz Summer Fest isn’t the only hot ticket in town this weekend. Sango, a Seattle-bred producer and DJ, performs at The Continental, Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy trade killer licks at The Mountain Winery and Ben Harper is reunited with…
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Nick Veronin on August 4, 2016
Rising above the din of boisterous, drink-fueled conversation and clinking glassware, a saxophone’s squawk snakes through the crowd. Parting the cigarette smoke haze and ambling over sticky tabletops, a wandering double bass, a splashy trap kit and a peppery piano plod on. It’s the kind of place where a private eye might…
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Melissa Hartman, Stacy Torres, Nick Veronin on August 3, 2016
Music in the Park returns this Thursday with the L.A.-spawned cultural melting pot that is Ozomatli. That same night, Barbra Streisand, one of the last true lounge singer legends, looks back on her long and bedazzled career with a performance at SAP Center. Back in town for its 22nd year The Vans…
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Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann—along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti—rolled through their old Grateful Dead stomping grounds, Shoreline Amphitheatre (which Bill Graham allegedly designed to resemble the band’s iconic “Steal Your Face” logo from above. Naturally, Deadheads young and old turned up in force, many without tickets…
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The Major League Soccer All-Star Team fell to Arsenal Football Club yesterday, July 28. The squad, comprising top talent from American and Canadian soccer teams lost 1-2 at Avaya Stadium, the San Jose Earthquakes’ recently completed home field.
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John Flynn, Melissa Hartman, Daphne Morales, Tad Malone, Stacy Torres, Nick Veronin on July 27, 2016
So many heavy-hitters are coming to town this week. In addition to Adele at the Shark Tank, Ziggy Marley at the Mountain Winery, and co-headliners Korn and Rob Zombie descending on Shoreline Amphitheatre, we also have funnymen Jim Jefferies and Joel McHale, the MLS All-Star Game at Avaya Stadium, Mayer Hawthorne at…
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This past weekend marked the beginning of festivities in the run up to Thursday’s big game between the MLS All-Star squad and London’s top-ranked Arsenal Football Club. While the San Pedro Square Market has been hosting a number of events, the marquee pre-party came Monday, as Florida party rapper Flo Rida and Mexican…
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Tad Malone on July 20, 2016
Since its release, first as an album and then a musical, Green Day’s Tony- and Grammy-winning American Idiot—a tale of political and adolescent alienation—has become a part of the contemporary canon. City Lights Theater’s new adaptation adeptly packs the sprawling, Broadway-sized rock opera into an intimate black-box theater, without losing any of…
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