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05/15/2024

Tezkatlipoka Aztec Dance & Drum and Movimiento Cosmico are throwing a big birthday bash for San Jose’s own incarnation of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, whose visage is represented in sculptor Robert Graham’s monumental Plumed Serpent, first installed in San Jose’s …

05/15/2024

The energy burst that begins once the days grow longer leaves more time for pleasure and play. Friends visit more often. Spirits lift.

05/15/2024

In early February, San Jose’s New Ballet announced that a lead in this year’s staging of Cinderella would be Alysa Reinhardt. On the surface, there was nothing particularly notable about that announcement; Reinhardt is an acclaimed and experienced dancer and …

05/15/2024

The movement to legalize cannabis began in earnest in the ’60s and ’70s, and California was at the epicenter of it all the way up until the passage of Prop. 64, which legalized weed for adult use. The fight continues, …

05/15/2024

Comedian Christopher Titus is not only the hardest working comedian in the biz, but also one of the best comics to dive deep into talking about mental health, depression and rage. Twenty years ago, when his first hit special, Norman …

05/15/2024

The sound of one hand typing led me to search for a pizza cutter at my favorite Vietnamese grocery store.

05/15/2024

Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs of the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.

05/14/2024

Tanya Tucker can be considered a musical prodigy. She scored her first hit at the tender age of 13 in 1972 with “Delta Dawn.” Since then, Tucker has remained a prominent figure in the country music scene, making the rare …

05/14/2024

Jakob Nowell is a spectacular talent that makes the world sound like what people thought the future would be like in the ’90s. The kid’s got chops and an uncanny ability to write hooky hits effortlessly. His debut album, Enter: …

05/14/2024

The funniest thing about Sammy Obeid might be that he turned down a lucrative gig at Google to become a comedian. Hailing from Oakland, the Lebanese-Palestinian American worked hard through undergrad at UC Berkeley and came out with a 3.9 …

05/14/2024

When life gets dull and every day seems to be a repeat of the last, there’s nothing like a strong dose of art to jolt the system and stimulate the mind. When life becomes particularly heavy, it takes more than …

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