This year’s Not So Silent Night—Alt 105.3’s long-running winter music festival—is headlined by two of alternative rock’s most reliable draws: Mumford & Sons and Twenty-One Pilots. Direct support comes in the form of Jack White’s other band, The Raconteurs, along with The 1975 and Mumford’s female-fronted mirror image, Of Monsters & Men. They’re all great, but those looking for the real party would do well to get to their seats early, as show openers White Reaper aim to excite with their bombastic blend of sneering punk sensibility and glam-inflected Thin Lizzy guitarmonies. They might just be the world’s best American band. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
The Community School of Music and Arts hosts “An Evening with John Daversa.” The Grammy-winning composer and jazz trumpeter has worked with Fiona Apple, Burt Bacharach, Joe Cocker and Herbie Hancock, among other well-known musical artists. He regularly performs with his groups—the Progressive Big Band and the Small Band—and as a conductor and soloist. He will be performing cuts and sharing stories from his album American Dreamers: Voice of Hope, Music of Freedom, which prominently features artists who are also beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The show is free and open to the public. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
For the better part of two years, the San Jose Public Library has elevated local lowriding culture with a free community exhibit, panel discussions and other events. This Saturday, at California Crusin’: A Photographic Tour of West Coast Lowriding, photographer Jesus Flores comes to the King Library to show the slow and low images he captured between 1974 and 1983 while traveling all over the West Coast. At this event he will discuss the car builders, car clubs and car artists he met on his journey. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
For more than three decades the Italian American Heritage Foundation of San Jose has thrown this annual party to expose local audiences to classical Italian opera. This collaboration between Opera San Jose and the IAHFSJ opens with a cocktail hour, followed by dinner catered by Elegant Events SJ and a program of some of the opera world’s greatest hits—by Italian, as well as French, Russian and English composers. The night will conclude with group Christmas carols. Tickets are $45 for IAHF members and $50 for guests of members. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
Baritone Russell Braun and pianist Serouj Kradjian perform a “dramatic recital” about the life of Hanns Eisler, who fled Nazi Germany to score films in Hollywood, winning Oscar nominations before being blacklisted and deported for his communist beliefs. Braun portrays Eisler while performing the composer’s Hollywood Songbook, which the baritone describes as “private, intimate texts” about Hollywood as experienced by someone who “never let go of his connection to Germany.” The performance repeats on Saturday. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
’Tis the season of Jane Austen, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is spreading Victorian holiday cheer with the world premiere of Paul Gordon’s musical adaptation of the novel that follows Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett on their fraught road to romance. Gordon is a big fan of Austen’s work; this is the third of her novels that he’s adapted for the stage. Pride and Prejudice, which runs through Jan. 4, is directed by TheatreWorks’ founding artistic director Robert Kelley, who is stepping down at the end of the company’s current 50th season. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
The annual San Jose tradition is back, with more warm and fuzzy fun than any family could hope to catch in a single night. Fortunately, you can come back any time you want through Jan. 5. Grab a hot cocoa, cotton candy or roasted chestnuts and check out the hundreds of bedecked trees and holiday-themed dioramas. The bulk of the attractions are free, though there are some ticketed events and rides. On Dec. 7 and Dec. 14, attendees are encouraged to bring their dogs and on Dec. 31, guests can ring in the New Year. Continue reading »
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Mike Huguenor on December 4, 2019
From the 17th floor of the KQED building downtown, San Jose is an impressive sight. The city of more than a million sprawls, unfurling against mountain ranges to the east and south and against an equally sublime range of suburbs to the north. Continue reading »
I was out for my Saturday morning run when I came to a big intersection on Meridian and stopped to wait for the light. Then I felt strange, short of breath, heart pumping. Next thing I knew you were honking at me because I had run into the street with cars going by on both sides. Instead of fainting, I had inexplicably jogged into moving traffic. But you were there, shaking me awake with your horn. Once I safely got back to the curb, you asked if I was OK, offered to call someone for me, and made sure I was safe. Before I realized that you saved me, you were gone.
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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Metro Staff on December 2, 2019
The Beerwalk returns with a holiday-themed stroll in downtown Campbell. Both ugly and pretty sweaters are encouraged this time around as more than a dozen breweries will be pouring at storefronts up and down Campbell Avenue. Taste local pours from the likes of Golden State Brewing and Strike, as well as the latest from the bigger craft brewers—including Coronado and Anchor. There will be hard cider and kombucha tastings as well. Tickets get tipplers access to pours, a custom glass and a brew passport. Kids, dogs and designated drivers get in for free. The event benefits the Downtown Campbell Business Association and the Bay Area Brewers Guild. Continue reading »
