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Jay Edgar on November 10, 2021
For the second time ever, New Japan Pro Wrestling is drop-kicking into San Jose. Long a cult sensation in the US, NJPW has brought some of the best talent in the world. American wrestling superstars like the Young Bucks and AJ Styles cut their teeth first in the promotion, and homegrown stars…
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Elliott Sky Case on November 10, 2021
The work of Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri is a testament to literature’s distance-traversing magic. Following the success of her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies and novel The Namesake, which explored the lives and lonelinesses of South Asian immigrant communities, Lahiri moved to Rome and began writing books in Italian. For…
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Katie Lauer on November 3, 2021
Propped up at the wooden bar inside Vahl’s Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, regulars sometimes wax poetic about Alviso’s historic heyday—when the hustling and bustling port city at the Santa Clara Valley’s northwestern fringe was like a South Bay version of San Francisco’s Pier 39.
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Johnny Ray Huston on November 3, 2021
“What is it about queer people and horror?” Anthony Hudson asks over the phone from Portland, OR, answering his intriguing question a few moments later. “What I’ve learned is the whole genre is queer. The term subgenre is a misnomer.”
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Jay Edgar on November 3, 2021
Perhaps best known for his famous essay The Santaland Diaries—which chronicles his young adulthood travails as a Christmas Elf at a Macy’s—David Sedaris has earned a reputation as a curmudgeon for the underdog, sardonically taking down the little indignities that the common person faces every day. Sedaris’ latest collection Calypso takes an…
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Elliott Sky Case on November 3, 2021
This Friday, a new sound will echo through downtown San Jose, connecting the city to the world at large in new ways, when Beta Space: Trevor Paglen opens at SJMA. The installation can be heard emitting from the museum’s clock tower for the next year. Paglen, a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has spent…
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Jay Edgar on November 3, 2021
CineQuest, San Jose’s premier film festival, may have ended in May, but that doesn’t mean cinephiles have to wait a whole year for more filmic gems. CineQuest’s new all-virtual younger sibling, CineJoy, is bringing features and shorts from around the world straight to the home with an all-new streaming platform built just…
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Elliott Sky Case on November 3, 2021
Bestselling author and illustrator Brian Selznick has transported all kinds of audiences across space and time: his historical fiction book The Invention of Hugo Cabret was adapted into Scorsese’s Oscar-winning Hugo, and his illustrations have appeared in children’s and YA classics, from picture books to the 20th-anniversary editions of Harry Potter. His…
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Li Patron on October 27, 2021
Last week, podcasters Carmen Sánchez and Manuel Ávalos hit a major milestone. “We made a podcast baby, and it survived to one year,” Sánchez says in the introduction to the anniversary episode of San Hauntse. “That’s better odds than any child in the early 1900s!” The macabre sentiment is fitting for a…
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Grace Stetson on October 27, 2021
There’s nothing quite like the beauty of live performance, and especially the kinetic power of dance. That’s something Doug Varone—critically acclaimed and award-winning director and choreographer—understood from the second productions halted at the top of the pandemic in March 2020.
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