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Erika Rasmussen on May 2, 2019
People crave beautiful things, and appetites—for food, for music, for art—are amplified as the sun sinks low in the sky. As the evenings grow warmer and dusk lingers longer, the Taylor Street Night Market returns. The community is invited to gather around and sample tasty offerings from food trucks, such as Capelo’s…
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Kaylee Lawler on July 19, 2018
Life is not like a Thomas Kinkade painting. The universe is vast, cold and indifferent. But that doesn’t stop Mr. Harada from seeking out the beauty within a turbulent sea of bummers. This San Jose visual artist (and Metro contributor) deploys sarcasm, nihilism and good, old-fashioned brutal honesty to get to the…
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Jaleny Reyes on March 1, 2018
Artist co-op, performance space and craft market Local Color strives to create economic opportunities for artists throughout the community. The crown jewel of their studio is a professional screen printing setup which helps artists with the production of art prints and custom apparel. Generating Heat aims to raise money for a professional…
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All the world’s information (and plenty of misinformation) is at our fingertips. It’s enough to drive old curmudgeons like us to pine for the good old days. You know, back before squiggly red lines alerted us to our grammatical faux pas and our handsets auto-corrected our text messages—when you either knew how…
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