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Mike Huguenor on December 31, 2021
2021, like 2020 before it, is a year that looks best in the rearview mirror. The last twelve months have been filled with all manner of, let’s say, bumps in the road—new COVID variants, pervasive supply chain issues, decreased unemployment benefits and the looming restart of student loan payments. There’s no shortage…
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Jeffrey Edalatpour on December 22, 2021
Giraffes will feel at ease walking through the front doors of La Barrique. Standing up straight, they’ll be at eye level with the tops of two white columns flanking the entryway. What they’d order once inside, however, is anyone’s guess—but the long menus, printed on tabloid paper, are varied enough to accommodate…
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Amani Hamed on December 22, 2021
Set against a concha-pink wall at San Jose’s Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), photographer Diamela Cutiño’s series of black and white paintings pop. The effect is characteristic of the gallery’s kaleidoscopic new exhibit, Beyond the Diaspora, which explores concepts of belonging, exploitation and gentrification through a riot of color…
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Grace Stetson on December 8, 2021
Music makes everything better—and what better way to learn about the first celebration of Chanukah than through a musical? This Sunday, 3Below hosts its final showing of the G-rated musical The MeshugaNutcracker!, a wild family-friendly comedy that provides viewers young and old a history lesson along with delightful orchestration. The masterful story…
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Elliott Sky Case on December 1, 2021
Though she has seven consecutive Emmy nominations under her belt, actress and Selected Shorts host Jane Kaczmarek was starstruck meeting author George Saunders. “It really was one of the proudest moments of my career, to just be on stage and hang out and have my picture with him. I can’t tell you…
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Elliott Sky Case on December 1, 2021
The portrait—especially the nude—holds a crucial space in the artistic canon, but the form is heavy with baggage regarding whose bodies are displayed, how and by whom. SJMA’s Our whole, unruly selves, which runs through June, explores and questions those complications. A cross-disciplinary group show with work ranging from the 1960s to…
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Amani Hamed on November 24, 2021
This Thursday, the Mexican Heritage Plaza holds its 10th annual Native UnThanksgiving Sunrise Ceremony, honoring the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and commemorating the 1969-1971 reclamation of Alcatraz.
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Aaron Carnes on November 17, 2021
Ryan DiBiase was blown away that 225 people showed up to The Ritz in 2017 to see his latest skate video, Toga 4. By then, he’d been doing it for a while, but that one was quite the jump. He premiered his first video, More Like Toga, in 2011 at a friend’s house…
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Mike Huguenor on November 17, 2021
The influence of South Bay drag queen Woo Woo Monroe can be felt all throughout the area’s drag community. As drag mother for the House of Woo, Monroe has put her beauty mark on numerous notable queens, like both Pam Cakes and Lemon Skweezy, who competed for glamorous kitchen supremacy earlier this…
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Grace Stetson on November 10, 2021
Over the last 18 months, a generation of young cooks entered the kitchen as novices and began perfecting skills in bread-making, baking and cooking. For one celebrity chef, the at-home DIY spirit was just the start of what’s to come—and the main reason he’s getting back on the road now.
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