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Yousif Kassab on October 11, 2018
Featuring a mix of performances by local school groups, Bay Area-based professional musicians and national headliners, the Silicon Valley Jazz Festival returns this weekend. Saturday kicks off with a trio of performances by student musician groups from Tierra Linda Middle School, CSM and Stanford before the U.S. Air Force’s Commanders Jazz Ensemble takes the stage. Sunday opens with performances by a slew of school-based groups as well, which will lead into a set by Dizzy Gillespie protégé Jon Faddis. The fest will also feature a beer and wine garden with a little help from Old County Cellars and Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company. Continue reading »
One of the founding fathers of gangsta rap and a West Coast legend, Ice Cube tops the bill of How the West Was Won. Featuring a bevy of ’90s hip-hop heavyweights, including Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Too Short and Warren G, it’s going to be like taking a roll down memory lane in the ’64 Impala. While it’s true that Bone Thugs hail from Cleveland, they too are connected to Los Angeles via Eazy-E, who signed the group to his label, Ruthless Records, and served as a mentor and executive producer on a number of their albums. Bone Thugs are slated to perform E. 1999 Eternal in its entirety. Continue reading »
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Wallace Baine on October 10, 2018
Music is a part of the scenery wherever you go in Ireland, but that’s especially true in Galway. In this beautiful city on Ireland’s craggy west coast, traditional Irish music flourishes in clubs and academies and in the streets. Continue reading »
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Carissa Kauwell on October 10, 2018
Whether you’re looking for a rare pressing by a favorite artist or just hoping to thumb through crates alongside like-minded vinyl lovers, Streetlight Records’ annual Record Swap is the place to be this weekend. Spilling out of the record store and into the parking lot, there is sure to be a healthy selection of rock, jazz, punk, classical, hip-hop and more. The store itself is throwing down by pulling records out of storage and more than a dozen private vendors will also be swapping and selling from their own collections. Continue reading »
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Yousif Kassab on October 10, 2018
Back in October 2016, Dubliner Catherine Barry and Irish Culture Bay Area teamed up to organize the first Irish Arts & Writers Festival in Los Gatos. The city was chosen for its many smaller venues and its 23-year relationship with sister city Listowel, Ireland, where Writers’ Week has been held for the past 40 years. This weekend, the festival returns for its third outing. Fifteen Irish writers and poets will come to the Bay Area to join their local counterparts for a weekend of performances, readings and discussion. Continue reading »
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Nick Veronin on October 10, 2018
The Satori goth club has been keeping South Bay dance floors weird for 12 years now. The first venue to host the recurring dance night was Club Savoy north of downtown San Jose. From there it moved to the Blank Club and now lives at The Ritz. As the creepiest night of the year draws nigh, this Halloween-themed Satori will feature resident selectors DJ Bit and DJ Owen spinning up plenty of goth and industrial tunes from the likes of Ministry, Joy Division, Skinny Puppy, The Cure, Depeche Mode and more. It’s free before 10pm with an RSVP; $10 after. Continue reading »
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Nick Veronin on October 10, 2018
When Charles Dickens gave up the ghost in 1870, he left more than a literary legacy in his wake. He also left an unfinished novel. The Mystery of Edwin Drood tells the story of a suspicious death and the ensuing investigation. But there’s a hitch: Dickens died before he had a chance to write the ending. Several writers have since wrapped up Drood’s mystery. This weekend, 3Below stages one of the most interesting continuations; The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes is a musical comedy in which the audience gets to choose Drood’s killer. It was the first Broadway musical to have multiple endings. Continue reading »
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Jeffrey Edalatpour on October 10, 2018
Girl, and boy, put your records on at MACLA’s Classic Tracks: Migrating Rhythms. Artist Carlos Rolón (whose pseudonym is Dzine) has installed a record player and sound system ready to play your favorite albums. If you happen to be in the neighborhood without a stack of vinyl on hand, he’s also collected dozens of records and displayed them along the wall. You’ll find artists that represent the Bay Area’s diversity—like La Lupe, Ray Barretto and Los Tigres del Norte. Rolón’s trademark floral paintings adorn one side of the gallery. He drew inspiration from the wallpaper in his parents’ bedroom. Thru Nov. 11. Continue reading »
For my whole life, the story our family told about our great uncle’s death was that it was from a car crash. He was 21, a UC Berkeley engineering student at the time. When we’d go to great-grandma’s house, his room was untouched from the year he died. His textbook was still open on his desk; a model airplane sat unfinished beside it. It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that my mom told me what the rest of my family refused to confront. Police killed my great uncle while he was robbing a liquor store to support his heroin habit. This was in the 1960s, decades before I was born, but the family is still too ashamed or in too much denial about it. It makes me wonder what else this family is hiding.
I Saw You is an anonymous “man on the street” column. Email your rants and raves about co-workers or any badly behaving citizens to [email protected], or send to 380 S. First St, San Jose, 95113. Submissions should stick to about 100 words.
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Bill Kopp on October 5, 2018
If Black Sabbath didn’t single-handedly invent a particular kind of heavy rock, the Birmingham, England group certainly refined it. Beginning with the band’s self-titled 1970 debut, Black Sabbath proved itself as an exemplar of a bluesy, doom-laden and melodramatic kind of proto-metal. Continue reading »
