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Metro Staff on December 18, 2019
The New Ballet returns with its fourth installment of The San Jose Nutcracker, which puts a South Bay spin on the traditional tale of sugar plum fairies and animated toy soldiers. The upstart ballet company has found success by giving local audiences a heaping helping of San Jose history with their Tchaikovsky.…
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Metro Staff on December 18, 2019
Russia has long been recognized as a leader in the world of dance, and the Moscow Ballet’s touring production of the Great Russian Nutcracker aims to uphold the country’s reputation—with a little help from the international community. Featuring a group of world-renowned Russian dancers, massive flying puppets from South Africa and hand-painted…
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Mike Huguenor on December 18, 2019
San Jose could use a Zorro. The timeless tale of rich-man-turned-masked-swashbuckler entertains because of Zorro’s passion for social justice, and his fight for the poor and downtrodden. Around here, where rich men are a dime a dozen, the have-nots are seen as little more than data points and TaskRabbits. Perhaps that’s why…
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Conor Agnew on December 11, 2019
When the Cactus Club closed its doors in 2002, the youth of San Jose lost a vital access point to live music. In the intervening 17 years, numerous churches, community centers and private residences have nobly attempted to reopen that portal. The 3F Gallery is one such venue. Grace Preschool is another;…
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Wallace Baine on December 11, 2019
The Winchester Mystery House is weird enough with the lights on. Imagine taking the grand tour of the Bay Area’s most bizarre house in the dark—like the gang from Scooby-Doo, hunting for ghosts. This Friday—the 13th, natch—the Mystery House opens up for the adventurous to explore the house by flashlight (The $49…
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Conor Agnew on December 11, 2019
Andy Woodhull is proud to be a stepfather. He is also proud of just how lazy his stepdaughters are. “I could only have dreamt of being that lazy when I was their age!” he cracks. The comedian mines his familial relationships for laughs, spinning yarns about the perplexing difficulties of spousal communication,…
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Wallace Baine on December 11, 2019
Broadway director Neil Goldberg has assembled a dazzling cast of acrobatic performers, singers and dancers for this theatrical spin on the holiday season. On consecutive nights at the San Jose Civic, Cirque Dreams Holidaze will feature glitzy and colorful penguins, snowmen, toy soldiers, reindeer and other yuletide pomp, along with tons of…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
For the better part of two years, the San Jose Public Library has elevated local lowriding culture with a free community exhibit, panel discussions and other events. This Saturday, at California Crusin’: A Photographic Tour of West Coast Lowriding, photographer Jesus Flores comes to the King Library to show the slow and…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
’Tis the season of Jane Austen, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is spreading Victorian holiday cheer with the world premiere of Paul Gordon’s musical adaptation of the novel that follows Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett on their fraught road to romance. Gordon is a big fan of Austen’s work; this is the third…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
The annual San Jose tradition is back, with more warm and fuzzy fun than any family could hope to catch in a single night. Fortunately, you can come back any time you want through Jan. 5. Grab a hot cocoa, cotton candy or roasted chestnuts and check out the hundreds of bedecked…
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