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Jay Edgar on January 19, 2022
At any age, Friday night is time to party and DJ Frappugino, “your girl’s favorite DJ,” knows how to keep the party going. This Friday, Frappugino kicks off the weekend at FUZE Night Club in San Jose’s SoFA district, spinning his combination of steamy R&B, high energy hip hop and (if you’re…
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Metro Staff on December 31, 2021
Look at this past year with 2020 hindsight and things now don’t seem so bad. Lest we forget, last December marked COVID-19’s one-year anniversary—and the virus was going strong. Santa Clara County was stuck in the purple tier and under a stay-at-home order. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines had been granted emergency…
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Metro Staff on July 29, 2021
More than a month after California’s reopening, nearly all of the South Bay’s nightlife spots are now either opening back up, opening for the first time, or preparing to open soon—and we’ve got your guide to the night’s happenings. But before you head out, remember to charge your phone ahead of time—you…
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Grace Stetson on June 30, 2021
Downtown Mountain View may seem stiff in the daylight—but on Saturday night, the Opal Event Center and Social Club is the place to be. Come Saturday, the club will host its third weekend of “Lit Saturdays,” a hip-hop and reggaeton dance party for fans from across the Bay to get their groove…
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Dan Mitchell on August 5, 2020
For all the struggles the cannabis industry is facing—slim or nonexistent margins, illicit sales, the enormous costs of running a dispensary—the industry has nevertheless exploded. One can only wonder how huge it would be if the federal government were to legalize weed. There are now more cannabis industry workers than there are…
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Dan Mitchell on June 24, 2020
A few weeks ago, the racial inequities of cannabis (both the illegal and legal kind) blew up amid the protests and riots following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Large groups of looters broke into nearly every dispensary in Oakland. Debby Goldsberry of Magnolia Wellness, a dispensary that was hit…
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Dan Mitchell on June 10, 2020
People are finding all kinds of things to do while they’re stuck at home: binge-watching Netflix, playing board games, doing jigsaw puzzles, learning a new instrument. And many are growing pot, often for the first time. So many, that the companies that supply home-growers are having a hard time keeping up.
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Dan Mitchell on June 3, 2020
Over the weekend, one or more large groups of armed men targeted and robbed a long list of Bay Area cannabis dispensaries in what appears to be a long-planned spree. Remarkably, most of the dispensaries in Berkeley, San Francisco and Oakland seem to have been hit, reportedly along with some manufacturing and…
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Metro Staff on March 4, 2020
Last weekend, LVL Up Respawn became the second arcade bar to open its doors in downtown San Jose. A spinoff of Campbell’s original LVL Up, the new bar and eatery features pinball, cabinet games and ski ball. It’s a reactivation of the former Bo Town Seafood Restaurant, which had been vacant since…
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Metro Staff on December 11, 2019
Would you look at that! In between all the margarita pitchers, bottles of Corona and shots of Patron, we somehow lost track of the time. Tres Gringos Cabo Cantina, one of downtown San Jose’s most reliably turnt bars, is hanging up its sombrero after 16 years on South Second Street. ¡Que lastima!…
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