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Metro Staff on February 18, 2020
“Ten Japanese-American Concentration Camps,” featuring photos by photographer, teacher and mixed media artist, Renee Billingslea. The exhibit revisits F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which authorized Japanese Relocation in 1942. Billingslea contrasts current day images of the camps with photographs from 75 years ago. The artist wants viewers to remember this chapter in our…
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Anne Gelhaus on February 12, 2020
While next month is the fifth anniversary of Drink & Draw at Art Boutiki, this week marks two years since Carlos Velazquez and Alca Ulsan began co-hosting the monthly, all-ages event. To celebrate that milestone—and their engagement—the couple invited Sonido Clash–cofounder Fernando Julian Perez (a.k.a. DJ Tlacoyo), Chulita Vinyl Club–founder Claudia Saenz…
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Metro Staff on February 4, 2020
Falcon Punch! Get ready to find out if you and your roommates are really as good at Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as you’d like to believe. The competition takes all comers with $5 on it to test their hand-eye coordination and fast-twitch muscle stamina in a three-round Swiss-style tournament. The first bouts…
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Anne Gelhaus on February 4, 2020
Like any play worthy of the descriptor “farce,” The 39 Steps relies on quick takes and physical humor for laughs. With a cast of four playing dozens of roles in the show, many of the laughs simply come from the quick costume changes the actors must make. While Patrick Barlow’s script is…
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Metro Staff on February 4, 2020
The San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild/Tabia African-American Theatre Ensemble present award-winning Broadway actor Chester Gregory as he channels the iconic Jackie Wilson, a.k.a. “Mr. Excitement,” taking the audience back to Sept. 29, 1975. Featuring hits like “Lonely Teardrops,” “To Be Loved” and “Higher and Higher,” the show promises to be a page…
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Wallace Baine on February 4, 2020
Not since Sherman Alexie’s heyday has there been a Native American novelist with as strong a literary tailwind as Oakland-born writer Tommy Orange. His heartfelt and hilarious 2018 novel There, There won a whole mantlepiece of awards, including the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award (and was a…
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Jeffrey Edalatpour on February 4, 2020
“Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz.” Snap your fingers to the syncopated beat of “Cell Block Tango,” the opening number in Kander and Ebb’s now-immortal musical. The choreography was Bob Fosse’s. But after watching the FX TV series Fosse/Verdon last year, we’ve learned that dancer Gwen Verdon was at his side developing…
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Metro Staff on January 30, 2020
The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs are headed to the Big Game, and Niners fans are liking their chances. It’s the first time the Red & Gold have gone to the Super Bowl since the devastating “Harbowl” of 2013, when then head-coach Jim Harbaugh’s squad narrowly lost to his brother’s…
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Matei Predescu on January 30, 2020
Kooky, boozy, mad-scientist grandpa Rick Sanchez and mild-mannered Morty form one hell of a dysfunctional, dimension-hopping duo as they traverse the multiverse in the Adult Swim animated sitcom Rick and Morty. Now pushing its fourth season, the show boasts a loyal fanbase—so loyal, in fact, that a Rick and Morty-themed trivia pub…
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With music and lyrics by Tom Jones and a book by Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks holds the distinction of being the longest-running Broadway musical. The musical fable puts a quirky twist on the narratives of Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story. Loosely based on the play The Romancers, it’s centered around…
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