.Gary Singh

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Gary Singh’s byline has appeared over 1500 times, including newspaper columns, travel essays, art and music criticism, profiles, business journalism, lifestyle articles, poetry and short fiction. He is the author of The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy (2015, The History Press) and was recently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. An anthology of his Metro columns, Silicon Alleys, was published in 2020.

Sports stadium with FIFA World Cup trophy sitting in the middle of the green

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Dec 10, 2025

2026: Will It Be San Jose’s Turn to Flex Like a Big City?

The transformative power of sports to forge a civic experience may finally be tested in San Jose when the FIFA World Cup arrives next year.

Archival black-and-white photo of an open garage with a car being worked on

.Columns

Dec 10, 2025

Photo Exhibit Resurrects What Was Lost to I-280 Construction

Thanks to a remarkable exhibit at the main library, we can now look at former houses that used to sit where the I-280 freeway now exists.

Copies of zines scattered on top of each other, photographed from above

.Columns

Dec 3, 2025

Return of ‘Art of Zines’ Proves DIY Publishing Isn’t Dead

With a new Art of Zines show set to open this weekend, my mind explored the history of sporadic zine exhibits in DTSJ.

.Columns

Nov 26, 2025

Zero to 60: San Jose Marks Grateful Dead Birthplace

In San Jose on Dec. 4, 1965, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Phil Lesh played their first gig as the Grateful Dead.