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The Ghosts of Santa Clara Street in Downtown San Jose
The block of Santa Clara Street between First and Second is fermenting on many levels.
Always in search of a more global context, I consulted a book on Paris to help me understand this block in a more...
Kindness in San Jose: Dolly Parton, Aart de Geus and Susan O’Malley
While certain tech industry CEOs embrace the global far right and advocate inhumanity, inequality and cruelty as policy, it can be a form of self-care to elevate others who thrive on kindness and generosity instead.
Back in the...
Glass Pumpkins: A Bay Area Halloween Tradition
Irish and Scottish immigrants to the U.S. brought the tradition of carving scary faces on turnips and placing them in doorways around Halloween to scare away wandering ghosts around 1840. They quickly figured out that it was...
Dracula in Mountain View
Fall is here and Halloween is approaching, so audiences can sink their teeth into a timeless Halloween thrill, Dracula.
Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for September 30-October 6, 2026
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Orchids may lure pollinating insects with ingenious illusions rather than nectar. Some mimic the look or fragrance of other flowers. Others...
Coyote dodges a battery: San Jose’s greenbelt remains protected—for now
As warm, dry breezes brush past the hills and fields that make up Coyote Valley, Nick Perry recalls overlooking the landscape with his grandfather, and deciding...
Evicted San Jose club owner Pete Be says he had unwritten deal to pay...
After one of the SoFA District’s largest property owners passed away earlier this year, a six-figure legal dispute over unpaid rent ensued. It ended with the...
Mia Asano in San Jose
Born in Denver in 1999 and trained in the Suzuki method, Mia Asano is a prodigiously talented and boundary-pushing electric violinist.
Kathleen Edwards in Menlo Park
Singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards 2025 release, Billionaire, was produced and backed up by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit members..
Kehlani in Mountain View
Pop sensation Kehlani got their start as a member of teen vocal act PopLyfe, though the singer left the group not long after.
The New World in San Jose
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the nation. Despite all of its flaws, it’s still a country that has inspired generations of immigrants.
The Hellflowers in San Jose
This weekend real punk rock is alive and grinding in the most appropriate of places, a skate park. Oh, and it’s totally @#$%&*in’ free!
Queer American Memorials in San Jose
The ICA hosts Queer American Memorials, an ongoing project that replaces stories of violence with stories of life.