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Metro Staff on June 26, 2019
The local high schools have already thrown their promenade dances—now it’s time for the grownups to get down. This Satori-presented event invites the 21+ crowd to don their ’80s and ’90s best and dance to new wave selections from DJ Bit and DJ 2Nite. While there’s sure to be plenty of goth,…
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Metro Staff on June 26, 2019
Héctor Amienta and his award-winning Opera Cultura bring a Mexican legend to the stage with this live production of La Llorona. Translated as “The Weeping Woman,” La Llorona is a folk tale about identity, colonization and revenge. A young Xochil girl falls for a man of Spanish descent, marrying him and angring…
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Queens native Hari Kondabolu combines poignant social critique with his own witty and engaging remarks, touching on topics such as his identity as a brown man, and his commodious use of cocoa butter. Kondabolu has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan and Jimmy Kimmel Live. In 2011, he starred…
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Nick Veronin on June 20, 2019
From Dungeon Masters to button mashers, gamers of all stripes are invited to come to this swap meet. Hosted by AFKgg—who will soon move in upstairs from the LVL Up video game bar—this event will feature a variety of vendors, buying, selling and trading video games, tabletop games and game-adjacent paraphernalia. Snack…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 12, 2019
This Northside San Jose neighborhood has welcomed global residents for decades—it was predominantly Italian before Black, Filipino, Mexican and Vietnamese families settled in. “It is like a little United States,” the Mercury News wrote in 1966. This summer, the area continues its community-building efforts by inviting locals to Backesto Park for an…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 12, 2019
A new exhibition at the Art Ark Gallery, “Diaspora in Bloom: Assyrians in the 20th Century & Beyond,” illuminates the contemporary experience of an ethnic group with roots stretching back to the so-called “Cradle of Civilization.” At its peak, the Assyrian Empire included territory in what is now northern Iraq, Egypt, Syria,…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 5, 2019
William Shakespeare’s summertime comedy about love and mischief is brought to life by Silicon Valley Shakespeare with an entirely female cast—fitting, given Shakespeare’s loyalty to the heroine and oft-floated theory that Old Bill may have actually been a woman. In one plot line, Titania and Oberon, queen and king of the fairies,…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 5, 2019
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger… sometimes. Five Bay Area comedians improvise bits based on prompts pulled at random from an envelope. The audience gets to choose the winner. Each comic later has the chance to win more laughs with a prepared set. The winner will advance to the finals, an…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 5, 2019
The theme of this shindig, “Aaj Ki Party Meri Taraf Se,” roughly translates to “Today’s party is on me.” That “me” will be DJ Dharak of India, who unites Bollywood and EDM. This Bollywood maestro made music his destiny as a teen, beginning as a choreographer and dancer. Fate took him to…
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Erika Rasmussen on June 5, 2019
Summertime in Silicon Valley means many things, including stepping out—in more ways than one. The same weekend as Los Angeles’ Pride Festival, the Silicon Valley Pride Picnic invites the community to gather in summer reverie and celebration of the LGBTQI+ community. Silicon Valley Pride began with a gay rights rally in 1975…
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