Here’s how it’s supposed to happen: You make a great album. Your label gives you full support. The critics are enraptured. The audiences are, too. Boom. You’re a rock star. Welcome to immortality.
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Dominoe Ibarra on August 23, 2018
The Palo Alto Festival of the Arts celebrates its 37th year, hosting 300 talented artisans—including painters, photographers, potters, jewelry makers and sculptors. Artists featured at the event come from the Bay Area as well as all over the country. The festival also features street artists, who will bring colorful pastel designs to…
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Dominoe Ibarra on August 23, 2018
Unity. Diversity. Strength. These are the ideals that this year’s Silicon Valley Pride parade and festival aims to highlight in the local LGBTQ+ community. Celebrating its 43rd anniversary, the weekend begins with a Trans and Friends Rally—focused on those who identify as transgender and gender non-binary. Later, the nighttime festival will feature…
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Dominoe Ibarra on August 23, 2018
This year marks the 40th anniversary of longtime San Jose denizen Henry Mollicone’s opera. Based upon a famous poem about a Manhattan urban legend from the 19th century, it’s the story of two love triangles, separated by 100 years and revolving around a cryptic painting on a barroom floor. The entire tale…
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Kaylee Lawler on August 22, 2018
Before the glittery vampire romances of the aughts and the leathery techno terrors of the ’90s, this bloodsucking biker gang from Santa Carla lent a distinctly ’80s vibe to the genre. Local fans know that Santa Cruz served as the backdrop for the fictional California beach town immortalized by this cult classic’s…
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Kaylee Lawler on August 22, 2018
Karen Zacarias’ Native Gardens is the story of Pablo and Tania, a young couple who are are expecting their first child when they move into a highly regarded neighborhood in Washington D.C. When the couple move to replace their aging fence—which their neighbors, Frank and Virginia are happy to see go—it is…
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Julia Baum on August 22, 2018
With many parts of the state reaching 100-and-fuck degrees this summer, chilling out next to the AC with some ice-cold suds is a no-brainer. Several companies have come to the rescue this summer with THC, CBD and terpene-infused beverages so that overheated marijuana enthusiasts can have their weed and drink it, too.
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Nick Veronin on August 15, 2018
For some, classic Chevys, Fords and Studebakers represent the pinnacle of automotive design and power. Others, however, are more interested in compact imports—those European and Asian models known for their hairpin handling, breakneck acceleration and, of course, drifting. Hot Import Nights celebrates tricked-out Hondas, Yotas, Porches, Beamers and so much more. The…
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Kaylee Lawler on August 15, 2018
American silver screen icon John Wayne trades the scrubby, golden expanse of the Wild West for the emerald green hills of the Irish countryside in the John Ford-directed The Quiet Man. Irish-born American Sean Thornton comes home to the Irish village of Innisfree to claim his family home. While there he takes…
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Nick Veronin on August 15, 2018
The first cartoonist to win the National Book Award, Nate Powell is perhaps best known for his work on March. That graphic memoir trilogy chronicled the Civil Rights Movement—with words by Congressman John Lewis and illustrations by Powell. He comes to Wow Cool Alternative Comics on the heels of his latest solo…
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