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Grace Stetson on August 4, 2021
We all want to know what’s to come in the future, but for local musician and artist Lucidbeaming and photographer Joshua Curry, the future is now, right here in San Jose. This Friday, the pair team up for a three-hour long public art experience focusing on the psychedelic and intergalactic of the…
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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 August 4, 2021
A local institution in the art of photography, David Pace is known throughout the Bay Area as a passionate professor of the great medium, exhibiting and publishing a wide variety of work with a global focus. For a decade he visited a village in Burkina Faso to take biographical and loving photos…
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Steve Kettmann on July 28, 2021
For more than 20 years, my friend Pedro Gomez and I had been saying that even in our 70s we’d be laughing over stories of our time together as Oakland A’s beat writers in the ‘90s. Now, I can’t stop thinking about how when I’m in my 70s, I’ll still be hearing…
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Mike Huguenor on July 28, 2021
After months of planning, urban farmers Veggielution unveil their new downtown demonstration garden at Pocket Park this Sunday. There, visitors can find a variety of artfully arranged planter beds growing crops well-suited to the Valley, and learn how to grow their own at home. To help ring in the occasion, they’re throwing…
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Jay Edgar on July 28, 2021
Mark Haddon’s inventive and profound mystery novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” reached a whole new audience when it was adapted into a Tony-award winning play. Following an Aspergian teenager trying to solve the mystery of a neighbor dog’s death, the audience must see the world through…
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Mike Huguenor on July 21, 2021
San Jose and lowriding go together like drop tops and switches. Not only was Story & King once the West Coast mecca of lowriding, the chainwheel was created here, along with Lowrider magazine and the Homies toys. This Sunday, San Jose’s own StreetLow Magazine invites the community to celebrate its proud history…
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Mike Huguenor on July 21, 2021
The annual Gilroy Garlic Festival returns in modified form this year with three separate events centering around the highly aromatic herb. First is the famous Gourmet Alley, where hungry non-vampires can consume a cornucopia of garlicky classics. This year’s Alley is more alley-like than ever in that it is a drive-thru event.…
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Mike Huguenor on July 21, 2021
Oenophiles be on alert: many great vineyards and wine distributors will be gathering in Cupertino this Thursday. Though Campbell’s limited-capacity Wine Walk sold out well in advance, Cupertino’s Food & Wine Stroll offers South Bay denizens another chance to sup on the move this week. Taking place at Main Street by the…
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Dan Mitchell on July 14, 2021
When California cannabis companies prepare to go to market with a new product, they often run their label designs past a lawyer. And if they don’t, they should. The laws and regulations governing product labels in the state are so numerous and so byzantine that Griffen Thorne, an attorney with the cannabis…
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