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Conor Agnew on October 30, 2019
After three months of extensive renovation, downtown’s landmark Jose Theater is finally ready to reopen its doors. In addition to some cosmetic upgrades, the longtime home of the San Jose Improv Comedy Club now features state of the art sound and lighting, and a revamped menu to tickle your taste buds. To celebrate, this weekend the Improv welcomes the observational comedy of Mind of Mencia alumnus Brad Williams. Though diminutive in stature, Williams delivers his provocative views on sex, pop culture and identity politics at a volume that should really showcase the quality of the new speakers. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on October 30, 2019
As a forensic psychologist with experience working on homicide, sexual assault and battery cases, author Frank Weber has a keen understanding of dark and violent human impulses. Drawing on his experience in the field, Weber has penned three novels—Murder Book, The I-94 Murders and Last Call. Together they form the Minnesota Murder Trilogy. This Friday, Weber visits the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library to discuss the latest in the series, 2019’s Last Call, as well as the process of writing in the true crime genre. The discussion is to be held in room 255. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on October 30, 2019
After 12 years at its 88 S. 4th St. location, Kaleid Gallery is moving to new digs in the SoFA District. The gallery will now be neighbors with Local Color, which moved into the Valley Title building at 320 S. 1st St., across from Original Joe’s, earlier this year. With two new feature exhibitions by Masha Noir and Jemal Diamond—and work from more than 60 Kaleid’s resident artists on display—Kaleid celebrates its new home by opening its doors for the South First Friday Art Walk on Nov. 1. Continue reading »
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Kenny Ngo on October 30, 2019
Hailing from Australia’s Gold Coast, house music DJ and producer Fisher performs at the San Jose Civic on Halloween this Thursday. A professional surfer before he switched career paths in 2017, Fisher has produced a number of top-ranking club bangers, including “Ya Kidding,” “Crowd Control” and the international smash, “Losing It,” took the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart in 2018. The spare track, which pulsates with gritty synth horns and a shuffling disco drum machine beat, was also recognized at this year’s International Dance Music Awards, where it was named “Best Electronic Song.” Continue reading »
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Nick Veronin on October 30, 2019
Episode 91 of Dad Bod Rap Pod, opens with co-host Demone Carter lamenting the state of rap-oriented academia. “I like legit hip-hop books,” he tells his fellow podcasting crew—David Ma and Nate LeBlanc. “There’s a lot of shitty ones.” Continue reading »
It’s crowded in this trendy bar, filled with trendy millennials that Lime scootered in droves from their tech campuses for the warm social climate and happy hour prices. Tech money is what you need to buy drinks around here, I suppose? Sixteen bucks for an old-fashioned? No, thanks. I’ll just have a Sierra Nevada, and even that’s $9! But some of the interactions you witness might be priceless. “Yes! I’m from Boston,” said this young blond man with indignation, “and we don’t pronounce it ‘re-TAW-ded!’ In fact, I don’t say that word at all because I’m progressive.” “Lighten up, Kristin. I was just joking,” said her coworker, who just blew his chance with Kristin. “Well, it’s not funny, Jacob,“ Kristin replied. Enter Jacob’s engineer friend from a different tech company. “Hey, Jacob! What’s up, man?!” “Hey, Riaz. This is my coworker Kristin,” introduced Jacob. “Nice to meet you!” Kristin said excitedly. “Has anyone ever told you that you look exactly like Aziz Ansari?! I think it’s your skin tone and eyebrows!” “Actually, no,” replied Riaz. “Because I look nothing like Aziz Ansari. I’m not even Indian. I’m Pakistani.” Sometimes you’re not really woke like you claim to be.
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 October 23, 2019
“This is what I saw,” says National Geographic photojournalist David Guttenfelder. The veteran photographer, who has worked for the venerable globetrotting magazine for more than two decades, is one of the only Westerners to capture modern images of the cloistered and insulated countries of Cuba and North Korea, where he helped open the country’s first Associated Press news bureau in 2011. In this installment of National Geographic Live, titled “A Rare Look—North Korea and Cuba,” Guttenfelder presents a slide show like no other, contrasting the grandeur of state-coordinated propaganda shoots with revealing slices of everyday life in two of the world’s least understood nations. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
The accomplished Ukranian-American pianist Anna Dmytrenko takes the stage for the second concert of the Steinway Society’s 25th season. The Juilliard-trained Dmytrenko plays works by Medtner Rachmaninoff and Barber on her recently released debut album. She has performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center and the Salle Cortot in Paris. In this performance, she will take on Rachmaninoff’s “Variations on a Theme of Corelli” as well as Beethoven’s Andante Favori in F Major and Sonata No. 32 in C minor. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
Marshall Mathers was still going by MC Double M in 1991. That was the year Nathan Feuerstein was born into a broken home in the small town of Gladwin, Michigan—about 150 miles north of Detroit. But by the time Feuerstein was a pre-teen, Mathers had firmly cemented his fast-rapping, maniacal alter-ego, Eminem. Slim Shady was a huge influence on the younger Michigander, who is now better known by his stage name NF. Like Eminiem, NF spits at a breakneck clip and uses his music to vent about his own psychological and physical traumas. NF dropped his fourth full-length album, The Search, in June. Continue reading »
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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
The Sacramento-based production and party promotion outfit It’s Relative PR hosts the recurring ’90s Nite party at The Ritz. The event features DJs spinning hits by the likes of Sugar Ray, C&C Music Factory and ’N Sync. It’s Relative is also behind the Emo Night Tour—where a live band covers songs by the likes of My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy. Raise a pint to the angst of the mid-aughts, take a shot to forget about all those unfortunate swooping bangs and scream along to every single word with the rest of the scene kids. You are OK, after all. Continue reading »
