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Amani Hamed on December 22, 2021
Set against a concha-pink wall at San Jose’s Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), photographer Diamela Cutiño’s series of black and white paintings pop. The effect is characteristic of the gallery’s kaleidoscopic new exhibit, Beyond the Diaspora, which explores concepts of belonging, exploitation and gentrification through a riot of color…
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Kyle Martin on August 4, 2021
This week, South First Fridays art walk and street market are back with artists showing their paintings, ceramics, photographs, music and more all along the SoFA District. Exhibitions include young musicians slangin’ tunes for San Jose Jazz on the corner of First and San Carlos, and a film/art show with live musical…
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Jay Edgar on July 14, 2021
As a prelude to the return of South First Fridays, SoFA art museums the Institute of Contemporary Art, Movimento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles are throwing a block party to celebrate their reopening with food, musical performances and plenty of art to…
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Mike Huguenor on December 18, 2019
San Jose could use a Zorro. The timeless tale of rich-man-turned-masked-swashbuckler entertains because of Zorro’s passion for social justice, and his fight for the poor and downtrodden. Around here, where rich men are a dime a dozen, the have-nots are seen as little more than data points and TaskRabbits. Perhaps that’s why…
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Matei Predescu on July 31, 2019
Caffe Frascati’s Tuesday open mic nights and Cafe Stritch’s Wax Wednesdays draw crowds of young artists, musicians and poets who convene to jam, freestyle and share ideas. The vibrant community of local creatives is all there. What’s lacking, however, is a larger network of performance spaces, accessible and all-ages, to sustain this…
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Mike Huguenor on December 5, 2018
In the binary universe of the Santería religion, Iré (blessing) is the opposite of Osogbo (curse). However, like true binaries, neither could exist without the other. Written by playwright, author, poet and professor Paul S. Flores, We Have Iré is a new theater project that uses the cosmology of Santería to explore…
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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…
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Jaleny Reyes on February 1, 2018
Performance group Maracatu Pacifico bring their Afro-Brazilian maracatu music and dance to San Jose. Maracatu is a folkloric tradition that can be traced back to the colonial era of Brazil. The music and dancing represent Brazil in a vivid, joyful way. Founded in 2012, Maracatu Pacifico focuses on community and personal development…
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André Jaquez on September 20, 2017
One might say that Gustavo Arellano, editor of the OC Weekly, is a Mexican’s Mexican. Through his satirical column, “¡Ask a Mexican!,” Arellano addresses cultural and social issues unique to the Mexican-American experience—often using humor as a wedge to work his way into more serious topics. This Friday, playwright Anthony Garcia will…
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