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.Cover Story

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...

.Cover Story

Apr 9, 2025

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

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.SV News

Apr 9, 2025

Big on El Cortito

.SV News

Apr 9, 2025

San Jose City Council’s Million Dollar District

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.Columns

Apr 9, 2025

Silicon Alleys: A 20-Year Journey Starts With One Stop

Lisa Thomas got me the job. That’s how it all started, somewhere in the roach-infested paradise of Cactus Club’s happy hour.

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.Astrology

Apr 9, 2025

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for April 10–16, 2025

Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs of the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.

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.SV News

Apr 2, 2025

Garlic Festival: Scaled Back, But Returning to Gilroy

The famed Gilroy Garlic Festival will return this summer after a five-year absence, the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association announced.

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.Columns

Apr 2, 2025

Silicon Valley’s Music Scene Has Come a Long Way

In 2005, I visited Nashville and returned to complain about San Jose’s dismal live music scene. Last week, I was in Nashville again.

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.Cover Story

Apr 2, 2025

Playwright Lloyd Suh Documents the Asian American Experience

TheatreWorks’ production of ‘The Heart Sellers’ explores the intimacies of friendship and the wider scope of American history.

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.Astrology

Apr 2, 2025

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for April 3–9, 2025

Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs of the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.

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Metro Silicon Valley E-edition

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