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Apr 9, 2025

Poppy Love

Microcosm or macrocosm? For the next eight days, both of those words apply to the bucolic towns to the south of Silicon Valley—and that’s thanks to the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival. With eight hours of film screenings every day, stories from around the United States and the world will...

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Apr 9, 2025

Local Lens: Poppy Jasper Focuses on South County...

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Apr 2, 2025

Playwright Lloyd Suh Documents the Asian American Experience

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Mar 26, 2025

Summer Concert Planner

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Mar 19, 2025

Peak Robot: Report from Ground Zero of the AI Revolution

The rolling robots and industrial-looking autonomous Jaguars will one day be primitive reminders of transitional technology.

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Mar 12, 2025

Cinequest Serves Up a Cinematic Kaleidoscope

The 35th edition of Cinequest will feature some 250 movies from 45 different companies—and more than 100 are either world or U.S. premieres.

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Mar 12, 2025

Seven Don’t-Miss Screenings at the Cinequest Festival

At Cinequest, hundreds of films will be screened in three locations: the California Theatre, 3Below Theaters and the Hammer Theatre Center.

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Mar 5, 2025

Bankers, Guns and Money

A violent incident in Alviso led to what were once San Jose’s tallest building and the nation’s biggest bank.

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Mar 5, 2025

San Jose’s Bank of Italy Building Awaits Its Next Act

When Bank of Italy opened its new skyscraper at First and Santa Clara in 1927, the local papers treated the event as a major milestone in San Jose history.