I am a long-term customer of the infamous green-logoed coffee store. On many occasions, I have been appalled by you, the supposed manager of a West Valley location. You are like the Cheshire cat, being friendly to the customers, but then you turn around and berate and belittle your staff like I…
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Kaylee Lawler on July 12, 2018
Despite her rising popularity, Grammy Award-winning Spanish rapper Mala Rodriguez is keeping it real—insisting on continuing to spit in her native language rather than make a play for a wider English-speaking audience. Favoring beats that incorporate elements of flamenco music, Rodriguez uses the mic to champion feminist ideals. She’ll be joined at…
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Winona Rajamohan on July 12, 2018
The seventh annual Island Reggae Fest is back with a full day of entertainment celebrating island culture and the reggae lifestyle. The festival has expanded this year with a new attraction titled “Roots & Culture,” which will focus on Polynesian customs and tradition. Catch global artists like Fiji, who reigns as one…
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Nick Veronin on July 12, 2018
Saratoga-based Yvette Young is undeniably talented. Raised on a strict regimen of classical violin and piano, she discovered the guitar as an adolescent. Young approaches her instrument as she might the piano, using both hands to tap the frets, coaxing out complex, multi-layered melodies that would be impossible to produce from strumming…
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Kaylee Lawler on July 12, 2018
The talented kids of CMT take to the stage to perform The Wiz. Based on L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz—most famously adapted in the MGM cinema classic, The Wizard of Oz—this production is based on the 1978 Broadway musical of the same name. The original staging of…
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Bill Kopp on July 12, 2018
Founded in 1996 when all of its members were students at Indiana University, a cappella group Straight No Chaser has gone through more than its share of changes. But the group’s unique, old-meets-new approach—all-vocal performances of original and classic songs with beatboxing—has endured and expanded its audience.
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Kaylee Lawler on July 12, 2018
Danielle Bradbery—known for her 2013 single “Heart of Dixie”—was the season four winner of The Voice. Longtime Nashville songwriter Chuck Wicks had his first big break as a solo artist in 2007 with his song, “Stealing Cinderella.” Both are set to take the stage at this Thursday’s Song & Wine Series, hosted…
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Bill Kopp on July 12, 2018
Any casual music fan knows at least one reggae artist: Bob Marley. While it’s true that Marley and his group the Wailers were making ska and rocksteady music—two Jamaican styles that predate reggae—as early as 1963, the Maytals were the first to use the term “reggae,” and can thus lay legitimate claim…
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Nick Veronin on July 11, 2018
The Biblical story of Jonah and the Whale is an allegory about forgiveness and mercy. The overarching narrative of Denver duo In the Whale is power, wrath and good old-fashioned rock & roll. Guitarist Nate Valdez and drummer Eric Riley craft bare-bones hard rock songs about living fast and free. Their 2016…
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Two kids are a helluva lot to deal with, especially at 2 and 4 years old. You’re looking at two snot-nosed, chocolate-stained balls of energy who have the mobility of a cockroach and the stamina of an Iditarod husky. They may be cute, but they’re impossible to contain—and it ain’t my job…
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