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Anne Gelhaus on February 12, 2020
It’s hard to fathom how many “scenes from a hat” Ryan Stiles and Greg Proops have done, given that they’ve been appearing on Whose Line is it Anyway? since its original BBC incarnation in 1989. After more than 30 years of improvising comedy sketches for small screens on either side of the…
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Bill Kopp on January 22, 2020
The name might be a trifle misleading: this Utah-based classical crossover group features a pianist (Jon Schmidt) but he’s just one-fourth of the lineup. The Piano Guys also include Steven Sharp Nelson on cello and two producers, Paul Anderson and Al van der Beek. Like Postmodern Jukebox (another act operating on the…
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Kenny Ngo on December 11, 2019
After years of spinning up remixes and nabbing choice production credits—remember Major Lazer’s ridonkulous 2013 banger, “Bubble Butt?”—Los Angeles DJ Valentino Khan finally has an EP of his own. Khan released House Party on Diplo’s Mad Decent label over the summer. The collection blends trap, dubstep, moombahton and hardstyle together into an…
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Wallace Baine on December 11, 2019
Broadway director Neil Goldberg has assembled a dazzling cast of acrobatic performers, singers and dancers for this theatrical spin on the holiday season. On consecutive nights at the San Jose Civic, Cirque Dreams Holidaze will feature glitzy and colorful penguins, snowmen, toy soldiers, reindeer and other yuletide pomp, along with tons of…
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Bill Kopp on December 11, 2019
Pop stars and genres of popular music come and go. But a select few performers manage to endure floating above the rapidly flowing stream contemporary culture. Johnny Mathis has stayed aloft for more than 60 years now.
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John Flynn on November 20, 2019
These days, Patton Oswalt’s primary job is being a dad. But even after starring in the Pixar hit Ratatouille, shining in indie darlings like Young Adult and regularly stealing scenes on network sitcoms, Oswalt maintains a love of the stage.
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Wallace Baine on November 6, 2019
North of the Rio Grande, even after three decades together, Caifanes is still only well known to a cult-like rock-en-Español audience. But in their native Mexico, the band ranks among alt-rock’s greatest acts, combining ambitious themes of progressive rock and grand U2-style melodies with Latin rhythms and Spanish lyrics. Formed in Mexico…
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Matei Predescu on November 6, 2019
Since its inception in the 1970s, NJPW has dominated the professional wrestling scene in Japan, achieving a level of popularity comparable to America’s favorite Spandex-and-glitter slugfest, the WWE. NJWP’s accompanying trading card game, Kings of Pro Wrestling, has helped transport the franchise to international audiences. New Japan makes its debut in the…
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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…
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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.…
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