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Rod Bastanmehr on January 15, 2013
The first time I paid attention to Lady Gaga (really paid attention: watched her; mused on her; dissected her willingly) was when she killed herself. It was her breakthrough live performance at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, where she performed “Paparazzi,” a song that equates the bloodthirsty hounding of her lover-to-be…
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Will Sprott, a solo artist and member of the Mumlers, shares his favorite songs from 2012, a mix of retro soul, modern R&B and songs from his comrades in the Bay Area music scene.
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Fans of craft brew and the retro sounds of the Bang gathered at San Jose’s Landmark Ballroom over the weekend for the KraftBrew Winter Ball. Metro photographer Geoffrey Smith II was on hand to catch the action.
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There was no shortage of bikinis, booze or balloons as Sunnyvale hub for adult entertainment AJ’s celebrated its 25th anniversary on Saturday.
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Dan Vado, owner of San Jose comic book hub and live music venue SLG Art Boutiki, announced this week that the business must relocate to make way for a new apartment building.
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Music is always a good Christmas gift, but as record stores continue to disappear, it’s getting harder to find options outside of iTunes download cards. Bands are still making physical albums these days—CDs, vinyl records, and the latest retro trend, cassette tapes. San Jose has lots of bands that have put out…
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Jennifer Wadsworth on November 14, 2012
One of San Jose’s up-and-coming women’s clothing lines started out as a fake brand. Petals and Peacocks began as a senior project for Victoria Velasquez, at the time a student of fashion marketing and management at the Art Institute of California in Sunnyvale. She practically begged the dean to let her display…
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To complement poll tallies, victory speeches and election hangovers, a new wave of Internet memes took over social media sites on election day. Here are a few of our favorites.
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There’s such a thing as being a diverse band—then there’s Curious Quail, whose members don’t seem to know what kind of music they play.
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Joseph Demaree, a San Jose native who balances his time between painting, music and live performances as his alter ego Captain Nowhere, returns for South First Friday for his first major showing in San Jose in the last few years.
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