Nama-stay a while and unwind at San Jose’s annual Yoga, Culture and Compassion Festival. The day’s activities are aimed at helping people achieve physical wellness and peace of mind through a series of classes. Yoga may be in the name of the festival, but the selection of classes includes varying forms of movement—such as Capoeira and QiGong—as well as an assortment of sound healing workshops. Admission is free, and those who wish to participate will pay per class or purchase a $30 all-access-pass. Proceeds and donations will go toward providing resources to the city’s homeless population.

Conscious San Jose
Sat, 9am, $19.50+
St. James Park, San Jose

Since 2008, the Pro Wrestling Revolution has endeavored to return the art of acrobatic battle back to a simpler time. Namely, their revolución resurrects truly freestyle wrestling—the definition of lucha libre. The group tours throughout California with shows that are high-flying and fuerte. It’s been referred to by one of the collective’s luchadores as “the cheapest therapy that exists,” and their undertaking may strike even deeper for the Mexican-American community: Some matches feature heels dressed as US Border Patrol agents. Spectators can also throw back some brew in the beer garden, enjoy Mexican favorites and participate in family-friendly games.

Luchadores 
Tue, 6pm, Free
St. James Park, San Jose

Hey, rooster! If you love dancing and Sriracha, this was the weekend for you. On Saturday, Aug. 30, a crowd of hungry, electronic music fans descended on St. James Park in San Jose for the inaugural Electronic Sriracha Festival, hosted by South Bay-based food event organizer, Moveable Feast.

Local and national DJs spun various electronic sounds, vendors served more than 120 dishes—all of them infused with the hot sauce of the moment, Sriracha. And judging by the pictures, captured by Metro photographer Geoffrey Smith II, people ate it up. Check out the gallery below.

If there’s an unofficial theme that dominates this year’s Metro Fountain Blues Festival, it’s the power of the Chicago blues sound. And indeed, the Chicago sound did literally bring power to the blues, turning the acoustic Delta tradition up to 11 with amps and electric guitars.

But to headliner Fountain Blues headliner Elvin Bishop, Chicago blues represents an even greater power. It’s an electrical force of nature, and he remembers the first time it struck.

“I heard some by accident one night, driving from Memphis, Tennessee,” says the Oklahoma-raised Bishop. “I heard it on the radio, and it went through me like lightning. I don’t know, I just went crazy for it.”

The man he heard on the radio that night was Jimmy Reed, who released his first album in 1958, when Bishop was 16 years old. Though less well known than fellow Chicago bluesmen like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, Reed had as much lasting influence as any of them, influencing Elvis, Van Morrison, the Yardbirds, and many more. He was practically an obsession to the Rolling Stones, who have covered many of his songs.

He hooked Bishop, too, and after that, Chicago was like a beacon. He was a National Merit Scholar finalist in high school, and went to the University of Chicago on a full scholarship to study physics. Now, however, the truth can be told.

“It was kind of my cover story,” admits Bishop of his esteemed academic career. “It was my ticket to Chicago. Gradually the music just crowded it out.”

How could it not, considering that within three years Bishop had met up with fellow student Paul Butterfield, and begun meeting blues heavyweights like Waters and Wolf. For five years, Bishop played guitar in the Butterfield Blues Band, whose 1965 debut record would decades later be named one of the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone. He released two more albums—and played the Monterey International Pop Festival—with the band, before beginning a legendary solo career that has lasted almost half a century.