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Morgan Hill’s BookSmart opens satellite location at Eastridge mall
At Eastridge, books are back in the mall and soon authors will be too.
Not since Barnes & Noble abandoned its Eastridge location has another bookstore appeared in the immediate vicinity. Now everything has changed. Brad Jones and...
The Royal Bloodline of San Jose Symphony
The ghosts of San Jose symphonic musicians go way back, and they refuse to become invisible.
In the same way that the organization San Jose Rocks preserves local rock history, someone should also preserve the Royal San Jose...
10,000 Memories of Partition
When empires collapse, they eventually grace the walls of the Los Altos History Museum.
For more than 10 years, the 1947 Partition Archive, a Berkeley-based non-profit, has interviewed, documented and preserved eyewitness accounts from all ethnic, religious and...
Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for February 12–18, 2026
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them,” wrote Ernest Hemingway. This Valentine season,...
How Purple Lotus Keeps It Fresh
Published in cooperation between Purple Lotus and Metro Silicon Valley
For many cannabis consumers, there’s one unmistakable sign that they’ve found the right dispensary: the flower smells...
Netflix, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount: What’s the Deal
This article originally appeared in the American Prospect.
In progressive circles, there is a great fear about the consolidation of Hollywood and the broader media into the...
The Queers in San Jose
The Queers have a tight formula for writing songs about love, drugs, fighting Nazis and the perpetual boredom of American culture.
Jacquees in San Jose
Jacquees operates squarely in the tradition of modern R&B singers who treat smoothness as a competitive sport. Emerging from Atlanta, he built his profile through melodic...
Cinderella in Campbell
Ballet narratives can seem dense, but the World Ballet Company’s version of Cinderella will be immediately familiar.
Vitamin String Quartet in Menlo Park
Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) started in 1999 as an experiment to take popular rock and roll and give it a string treatment.
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach in Mountain View
A story based on a Cuban folktale about a 21-day-old cockroach named Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha, who wants to get married.
Eva Peroni in San Jose
Colombian composer and multi-instrumentalist Eva Peroni skillfully combines musical elements that, on paper, shouldn’t work together.