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Metro Staff on January 23, 2019
The sky is such a persistent presence in our lives, it can be easy to take it for granted. However, it truly is a marvel. The sea of gas swirling above our heads provides us with oxygen and moves nourishing water around the globe. It also helps to deflect harmful radiation and…
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Tad Malone on January 23, 2019
Dinner and a movie—it’s been a go-to date night tradition since the advent of cinema. But at the recently revamped Pruneyard Cinemas and adjoining Cedar Room, it’s taking on a whole new meaning. The local theater is now hosting a monthly series featuring foodie films paired with dinner and drinks. First up,…
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Metro Staff on January 23, 2019
The 1,460-square-mile Gorongosa National Park—which lies in the shadow of the mile-high Mount Gorongosa in the Mozambican portion of East Africa’s Great Rift Valley—is home to many elephants. Bob Poole knows them well. Raised in Kenya, the photographer and cinematographer has been capturing these massive mammals since he was a teen. Piggybacking…
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Nick Veronin on January 16, 2019
The third annual Women’s March San Jose descends on downtown this weekend. The march—one of hundreds planned around the country—began as a manifestation of the #MeToo movement and a rejection of Donald Trump’s outright misogyny. The event begins at San Jose City Hall and ends in a rally at Arena Green near…
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Nick Veronin on January 16, 2019
Three years after his resignation in 1974, Richard Nixon is looking for a way to rehabilitate his public image and legacy. The former president, who resigned from office to avoid impeachment in the wake of the Watergate scandal, agrees to a series of interviews with British journalist David Frost. Though Nixon’s literary…
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Nick Veronin on January 16, 2019
Local event promotion collective The Come Up is teaming with the San Jose Museum of Art and SJMADE to curate this week’s Sound Scaping. The event features food, drinks and live performances by lo-fi hip-hop producer Knowmadic, indie lounge lizard Mild Monk, R&B chanteuse Kamiko and jazz pianist/vocalist Joy Hackett. While at…
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Local community worker and photographer Abraham Menor celebrates the release of Digging Sound Collect—a book of photography focused on vinyl collectors, producers and DJs. Stemming from Menor’s own love of wax, it is a passion project about a passionate pursuit. The photographs capture vinyl junkies digging through dusty crates, in the recording…
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Nick Veronin on January 9, 2019
It’s little wonder that Lowrider Magazine, the world’s authority on bouncy Buicks, chopped Chevy’s and dropped Dodges, came out of San Jose. From Cesar Chavez to freestyle music, the South Bay has long been a hub of Chicano culture. In conjunction with “Story and King: San Jose’s Lowrider Culture”—on display through March…
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Nick Veronin on January 9, 2019
Science. It really is a compelling discipline—if only you can wrap your mind around the concepts. That’s where art comes in. Two exhibits at the intersection of art and science—Primordial Soup, an immersive installation inspired by marine microbiology, and Tender Exchanges, which presents sculptural representations of neural networks and tree roots—are currently…
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Nick Veronin on January 9, 2019
Originally from Mercer Island, Washington, Joel McHale first tasted success as part of Seattle’s Almost Live! sketch comedy group. That led to appearances on network television shows and eventually to The Soup—a satirical pop-culture news show that ran from 2004 to 2015 on E! From The Soup, McHale went on to star…
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