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 …
The energy burst that begins once the days grow longer leaves more time for pleasure and play. Friends visit more often. Spirits lift.
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 …
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, …
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 …
The sound of one hand typing led me to search for a pizza cutter at my favorite Vietnamese grocery store.
Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs of the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
This spring, the Stanford Concert Network presents Blxst, a self-taught rapper, producer and singer from South Central LA. In 2022, Kendrick Lamar invited him to feature on “Die Hard,” which peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. But …
Mexican singer Alicia Villarreal is from Monterrey and sings ranchera-inspired pop with her smoky and emotive alto voice. A veteran performer getting her start in church, Alicia has evolved her style over the years, first performing in bands such as …
Fully Committed is a comedic one-person show where that one person—Patrick Idleman—plays 40 characters. The story follows a day in the life of Sam Peliczowski, an out-of-work-actor/restaurant reservation line manager at a hot Manhattan eatery. A menagerie of aggressively comic …
Though a resolutely Bay Area band, Dark Satellite includes members from different cities with equally diverse musical backgrounds, taking disparate genres like jazz, rock, indie and even grindcore and combining them into a constellation of musical poetry that evades easy …
In the festering dullness that often strangles nights in the South Bay, a beacon of hope shines: Heavy Lemon. The show production powerhouse giveth again in the form of the ever-graceful Ryann Gonsalves. With a tremendous talent that demands to …
Here’s a riddle: Someone donates an old delivery truck to an esteemed jazz organization. What does the organization do? This happened to San Jose Jazz; naturally, they made the truck into a rolling music venue. The SJZ Boombox Truck stops …
By John Koenig
Cody Jinks flat out says he won’t make another album like his new effort, Change the Game. It’s not that he doesn’t like the album. In fact, he says he thinks it’s his most complete effort.
The small Milpitas restaurant Kokoro Ramen is big on flavor. With only a handful of tables, the menu offers more than eight types of ramen, dry noodles and a large collection of appetizers.
