Kabob restaurant in an industrial area under a dramatic cloudy sky
Jan 8, 2025

Urban Crawl: Traversing San Jose Avenue’s Industrial Backwater

San Jose Avenue took me from Monterey Road all the way to Old Almaden Road, providing a half-mile cross-section of humanity.
samara adu
Man playing a piano onstage
Jan 8, 2025

Felder Revives Rachmaninoff in TheatreWorks Production

TheatreWorks is presenting Hershey Felder’s final one-man-show about great music composers, with the pianist-writer-actor as Rachmaninoff.
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Jan 8, 2025

Pico Iyer Illuminates a Quiet Place Beyond Words and Ideas

Prior to his talk on Jan. 14 with Kepler’s host Angie Coiro at Kepler’s in Menlo Park, author Pico Iyer spoke about his newest book, ‘Aflame.’
Jan 8, 2025

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for Jan 9–15, 2025

Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs of the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.
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After celebrating the holidays with family and recovering from Covid, congressional veteran Zoe Lofgren flew back to DC to begin her new term.
Prescription bottle marked with a marijuana leaf inside a lifesaver
Research has shown pot helps people get off opioids, but the effectiveness has been hard to measure. A new study claims to have solved this.
Invoke at Stanford
It’s common these days to say artists or groups defy a genre or are hard to categorize. But for Invoke, it truly is a task as this quartet jumps from Western and Eastern classical to jazz, bluegrass, ragtime, Appalachian fiddle tunes and, well, everything else.
Indie-Licious in Mountain View
For over a decade, BACMA has hosted concerts for local Chinese musicians and well-known bands from mainland China and offers educational series to promote Chinese culture and cultivate local Chinese American pop music.
Martin Amini in San Jose
Martin Amini grew up with an Iranian father and a Bolivian mother, giving him a multicultural background that lends a unique and hilarious insight into life.
Valerie in San Jose
Winehouse’s tragic and untimely death left a serious hole in the world of modern music. Luckily, a Santa Cruz and Bay Area-based group took up her mantle in a stunning way.
Mason Razavi in San Jose
For the release of his forthcoming Even Keel, Razavi is joined by saxophonist Charles McNeal, who’s played alongside McCoy Tyner, Wynton Marsalis, Roberta Flack, Lyle Lovett and Boz Scaggs.
Rachmaninoff And The Tsar in Mountain View
The production features some of Rachmaninoff’s most famed pieces, including the Second Piano Concerto, the Paganini Variations, preludes and other symphonic selections.
cantor arts center, stanford university, free art museum
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