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Erika Rasmussen on April 24, 2019
The human body was meant to move. The art of dance is an affirmation of this imperative. This weekend, sjDANCEco’s annual Spring Dance Festival brings together more than 60 local dance organizations in a mass celebration of our collective kinetic potential. Performers will demonstrate a variety of forms—jazz, modern, tap, hula, hip-hop…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 24, 2019
Decades after the end of World War II, Yoshio Yamamoto, mayor of Toyokawa, Japan, extended a peace offering to the South Bay city of Cupertino. A beautiful sisterhood bloomed, and the seeds of the annual Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival were sown. Since 1983 the festival has honored Toyokawa with a weekend of…
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Nick Veronin on April 24, 2019
It’s never the wrong time for a good wine. Enjoy a stroll through old town Morgan Hill while sipping on some of the finest vintages in the Santa Clara Valley. Fortino Winery, Guglielmo Winery, Morgan Hill Cellars and Clos la Chance are just a few of the vintners pouring this weekend. Local…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 24, 2019
When her father is murdered for daring to oppose Maoist doctrine, Mei-Li has no choice but to flee her native China for an uncertain life in San Francisco. After managing to enter the country without papers, she finds that Chinatown is fraught with intergenerational tension. The Palo Alto Players stage playwright David…
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Nick Veronin on April 24, 2019
The Night King may be descending on Westeros, but in San Jose winter is finally over, and Clandestine Brewing is celebrating the fairer weather at this springtime shindig. There won’t be a Maypole, but there will be a sunny patio and number of traditional German beers, including a range of bocks, on…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 24, 2019
What is that smell? A 20-year drought has led to the abolition of private toilets and the rise of a corporate authoritarian state where everyone has to pay to pee. Those caught relieving themselves outside of sanctioned latrines are exiled to Urinetown. No one is safe in this Tony Award-winning musical satire,…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 24, 2019
A home devoid of art is not a home at all. The Very Very Rare Affordable Art Fair gives a platform to burgeoning artists, placing their art in limelight while art-lovers peruse works from the established and the emerging. With prices ranging from $55 to $5,000, it is a chance for novice…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 17, 2019
Where is AI taking human agency and democracy? It’s not a question for Alexa. Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, will moderate a conversation between Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor of computer science, and Yuval Noah Harari, a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Li, a former vice president for…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 17, 2019
Stanford’s Taiwanese Cultural Society celebrates the Bay Area’s diverse Asian population by indulging visitors with a traditional Taiwanese open-air market. Student associations and vendors will share the cultural and culinary customs of Taiwan and the surrounding region. By virtue of its location—near mainland China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan and Korea—the island state…
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Erika Rasmussen on April 17, 2019
Thirty years in a shoebox. After spending more than a quarter-century in solitary confinement, Jack L. Morris has a lot to say. This play animates Morris’ friendship with Sheila Pinkel, an artist troubled by the rise of incarceration in the United States. Jack’s letters to Sheila come to life in a dynamic…
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