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Nov 6, 2024

Riffing on the History of Guitar Player Magazine

Out beyond an abandoned CVS building on The Alameda, there is a field where Guitar Player magazine operated in 1967. I will meet you there.
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Nov 6, 2024

Guitarist Joe Bonamassa Keeps the Blues Alive

Now on a tour that brings him to the San Jose Civic on Nov. 7, blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa has been gigging since at age of 12.
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Nov 5, 2024

Hugh Grant’s Role in ‘Heretic’ Seems an Odd Career Choice

Hugh Grant isn’t used to being mixed up in a screenplay quite as messy and perplexing as Heretic’s is.
Nov 6, 2024

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for the Week of Nov. 7–13, 2024

Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs of the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.
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Preliminary results in the first published returns from Santa Clara and San Mateo counties showed Sam Liccardo beating Evan Low by a 60%-40% margin.
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Silicon Valley is about to get its first Vietnamese American representative on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.
Sunami in San Jose
Sunami has become something of a revelation in a few short years, touring the world and picking up a legion of fans thanks to their brutal beatdown sound and commitment to the joke.
Mike E. Winfield at Stanford
After a couple of decades of grinding, Winfield became an overnight success. He’s ready to capitalize on it, with hours of material, a magical ability to generate more, and a stage presence that matches his big, generous smile.
Complete with costumes and props, the play stars seven seniors from Avenidas (a community center for adults aged 50 and up) and is directed by retired Harker School Library Director Enid Davis.
Elephino in San Jose
Elephino, a sphinx of elephantine and rhinocerotic origins, is also a band that plays mostly instrumental funk improv.
Kaitlin Butts in San Jose
Her music has just the right amount of steel guitar (important!) and hits just right, like a warm cup of coffee on a cold winter morning—spiked with some yummy bourbon, making the drinker want to tap their feet, sway and dance to the joy and pain that is ’Murica.
Fiddler on the Roof in Palo Alto
Fiddler on the Roof focuses on the character of Tevye as he attempts to maintain his cultural conditions when worldly influences seek to disrupt his life.
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