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Metro Staff on January 22, 2020
The genius of Mystery Science Theater lies in its simplicity. Essentially, it’s a well-rehearsed trash-talking sesh—the kind of riff-fest that good friends have been enjoying over cold beers and bad movie reruns for decades. The brainchild of actor and comedian Joel Hodgson, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) follows a janitor trapped by…
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Wallace Baine on January 15, 2020
If you love wine and live in the South Bay, 2020 is shaping up to be a very good year. The San Francisco Wine School is bringing its most popular classes to the wine tavern Enoteca La Storia in downtown San Jose. To kick things off, January’s class is titled “Tasting, Chemistry…
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Wallace Baine on January 15, 2020
It’s that time of year again. “Furries” from all corners of the anthropomorphic world come together in San Jose to explore the fuzzy boundaries between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. FurCon, which has been going strong for 20 years now, attracts thousands of people who dig dressing up as…
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Matei Predescu on January 8, 2020
Your knowledge of random fun facts probably increases with the libations you indulge in, right? Looks like Sporcle, the trivia-quiz website, has an answer to this with Sporcle Live, their in-person pub trivia experience that’s made its way to San Jose’s Clandestine Brewing. Hosted by an MC, participants form groups and pit…
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Matei Predescu on January 8, 2020
Tony-award winning playwright and composer William Finn recounts his tribulations with a brain aneurysm in his semi-autobiographical 1998 musical, A New Brain. Protagonist Gordon, a composer, grapples with anxiety and existential angst as he tries to keep his cool before a dangerous brain surgery that threatens his life, and with it, all…
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Wallace Baine on December 30, 2019
Bay Area novelist Tara Sim caught the attention of young adult readers back in 2016 for her historical fantasy set in Victorian London, The Timekeeper—the first of a trilogy of groundbreaking LGBTQ fiction. Now she’s back with a new novel titled Scavenge the Stars, which borrows the general outline of The Count…
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Metro Staff on December 30, 2019
The Circus of Sin, the South Bay’s weirdest burlesque and variety show, has been putting butts in seats, and on stage, for more than three years now. Since its inception, it’s been held at the Caravan Lounge, but it appears that the event’s mastermind, King Patrick Eugenio, has graduated out of his…
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Wallace Baine on December 30, 2019
San Jose’s glorious Museum of Art stays open late one night a month for an evening of live music, night bites and encounters with art. This month’s First Friday celebration, sponsored by Facebook, features music by Guera/April Garcia and DJ Chale Brown. The museum cafe is open, as are all the current…
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Metro Staff on December 30, 2019
First released in 1981 as an obscenely gory, hilariously bad, ultra low-budget horror flick, The Evil Dead has become a cult classic franchise—clawing its way across multiple films, comics, video games, a television series and several stage adaptations. This campy, comedic musical draws elements from the core movie trilogy: The Evil Dead,…
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Metro Staff on December 18, 2019
For those depraved souls whose holiday tradition includes adult beverages and Bad Santa, there is a live theater show just for you. Who’s Holiday is a decidedly raunchy, not-for-kids take on the Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This one-woman show stars Shannon Guggenheim as the all-grown-up Cindy Lou Who—now…
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