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Jamie Soja on November 10, 2014
Deadheads, scholars, and Deadhead scholars convened at San Jose State University’s King Library over the weekend for So Many Roads: The World in The Grateful Dead, a symposium to wrap up a four-day conference on the seminal jam band. Memorabilia, including posters, handbills, paintings, T-shirts and other items were displayed and on sale at the symposium,…
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Mark your calendars. December 11 is shaping up to be a nice day for a white wedding. Or for dancing with yourself… Or maybe you’re more into “Rebel Yell. Point is, whoever you are, you’ve likely caught yourself belting out one Billy Idol’s monster hits—in the shower, in the car, that one time you had…
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Tad Malone on November 5, 2014
Comedian Phil Johnson never expected to earn a living making people laugh. As an established guitarist with a degree in music, he had a very different vision of the path his career would take. “I had rockstar dreams like anybody else”, Johnson says. He inadvertently stumbled into comedy songwriting when he penned a…
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Children, teens and adults of all ages and backgrounds came to the San Jose Museum of Art on Nov. 1, for Community Day: El dia de los Muertos—a celebration of the traditional Mexican holiday honoring family, friends and loved ones who have passed on. The celebration featured mariachi music, traditional dances, the…
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You did it again. You put off getting your Halloween costume together to the last minute and you sure as hell don’t know what you’re going to do come Friday. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered. Whether you’re looking for innovative costume ideas or want to make sure you don’t make an ass…
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Pomplamoose owe a great debt to Nymphomaniac director Lars von Trier, whose revolutionary mid-’90s filmmaking movement, Dogme 95—which called upon filmmakers to adhere to strict rules and limitations—inspired Jack Conte, one half of the indie-pop duo, to make music videos bound by his own rigid dogma. When making his “videosongs,” as Conte…
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Walking into Rockbar Theater you get the sense that you are being taken back to a simpler time—when larger-than-life rock stars roamed the earth, jumping from stadium to stadium, slaying entire stadiums full of screaming fans with epic guitar solos and thrashing hotel rooms. That feeling, according to Susan Cramer and Robert…
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It’s not quite Halloween, but that didn’t stop the revelers from showing up Oct. 25 in their best—and skimpiest—costumes for a night of drinks, dancing and judgment. No… not the “Can you believe what she’s wearing!?” type of judgement. Party-goers were competing for the “Sexiest Costume” prize, and at $500, the competition…
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Much like the Aesop of antiquity, it isn’t particularly easy to get a bead on Aesop, the emcee of the Bay Area and Los Angeles hip-hop crew, Living Legends. A Wikipedia search of the Aesop of Aesop’s Fables will inform you that scholars are undecided as to whether Aesop ever really existed or…
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Prost! The sun was shining and the hefeweizen was sweet in downtown Campbell on Saturday for the city’s annual Oktoberfest celebration, and we were there to catch all the fun. Check out these shots from our photographer, Greg Ramar, and see if you can spy yourself or your friends:
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