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Grace Stetson on August 25, 2021
LGBTQ+ community, assemble! This weekend, the South Bay is hosting the Silicon Valley Pride Parade and Festival for residents near and far to come celebrate. This year’s theme: “Standing for love and Liberation.” The weekend will kick off with a night festival on Saturday, including two stages for DJ’s and live performances,…
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Elliott Sky Case on August 25, 2021
You don’t need three strikes to be OUT AT THE BALLPARK! Silicon Valley Pride’s official Pre-Pride event is a free, family-friendly evening featuring entertainment of Giants proportions no matter what team you play for. Brazilian percussion and dance ensemble Bloco do Sol San Jose is sure to excite eyes and ears, while…
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Li Patron on August 18, 2021
In late 2019, San Jose artist Melina Alexa Ramirez created what she imagined as a one-off illustration based on a tarot card: local photographer Justin Brown rendered as the Fool.
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Elliott Sky Case on August 18, 2021
A good drag husband is like a good sous chef: fast, able to take commands under high pressure and patient with the dramatics of creative/culinary genius. All these skills will be put to the test Monday, when South Bay queens Pam Cakes and Lemon Skweezy compete in SV Pride’s Drag Queen Cooking…
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Kyle Martin on August 18, 2021
Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson’s stunning solo mixed-media exhibition has been on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art since March, but its run ends soon. This Saturday, as the exhibit enters its final weeks, ICA holds a curator-led tour of the exhibit, inviting people to indulge their imagination in Patterson’s florid…
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Mike Huguenor on August 18, 2021
Campbell’s annual Boogie festival has gone through many names over the years, from “the Prune Festival,” to “Boogie on the Avenue,” to the geographically-misleading “Boogie on the Bayou.” But a Boogie festival under any other name would be just as funky, and this year’s “Boogie Music Festival Remixed” is no exception. With…
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Kyle Martin on August 18, 2021
It’s all about the three S’s, folks: sneakers, sneakers, sneakers. This weekend sneakerheads, hype fiends and style mavens alike can lace up and step out together at Sneaker Con. Best of all: it’s not in San Francisco, and it’s not in the Town: this two-day event—the first since May’s Sneaker Con Dallas—is…
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Kyle Martin on August 11, 2021
Back from its hiatus in 2020, San Jose Jazz’s yearly live and local music extravaganza is headed to quite a few stages around San Jose this weekend. From Friday on, many incredible musicians will be performing in nooks and crannies all throughout downtown San Jose, including local artists like the 7th St.…
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Jay Edgar on August 4, 2021
Twenty-five years ago on Eastside Drive in San Jose, Anthony Trevino and his friend Jose Portillo began memorizing and copying the moves of “Hitman” Bret Hart and “The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels from their 60-minute Iron Man match at Wrestlemania XII.
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Elliott Sky Case on August 4, 2021
Donna Haraway’s 1985 piece “A Cyborg Manifesto” inspired a generation of artists and theorists to dissect the relationships between technology, labor, gender and the human body. 30 years later, filmmaker Hito Steyerl titled her video installation after a quote from the text: “machines made of pure sunlight.” 2015’s surreal and expansive Factory…
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