Metro Issue: May 25–May 31, 2020
Cover Story
Summer Guide 2011
Metro's annual guide to everyone's favorite season: A look at upcoming concerts and plays, as well as local music, parks, museums and attractions.
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back to topThe New News
The Eight Annual Innovation Journalism Conference brings a new generation of journalists from around the globe to Stanford.
read moreThe Fly: Panic Room
Mayor Chuck Reed and most of the San Jose City Council took a two-hour tongue lashing Tuesday from city employees, retirees, union representatives and even staffers of several state legislators, then voted 8-3 to push forward with Reed’s declaration of “fiscal and public safety emergency.”
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back to topSilicon Alleys: Tasty Thoughts
The author's trip to Vancouver brings up some thoughts about new ideas for eating in San Jose and the possibilities at the soon-to-be San Pedro Square Public Market.
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back to topVoodoo Blues
The Santa Cruz Blues Festival, May 28-29, takes Jimi Hendrix back to his beginnings with an appearance by Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox and a lineup of musicians influenced by Hendrix, from David Hidalgo to Keb' Mo'.
read moreReview: Prince
No two Prince shows are ever alike, as the mercurial performer proved last week at HP Pavilion in San Jose.
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back to topReview: Love in American Times
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has won acclaim for depicting the Asian American experience; his latest work, Love in American Times, now at San Jose Repertory Theater, is something of a departure for him.
read moreReview: ‘Distracted’ at City Lights
Lisa Loomer's 'Distracted,' a recent play about a troubled American family and a mother's search for answers to her son's ADD, had its own trouble coming together on the first night of its run City Lights Theater in San Jose.
read moreSummer Screens
The summer cinema season brings the usual sequels and comic-book superhero adventures, along with one genuinely great film that will keep people talking for a long time: Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life.'
read moreMidnight in Paris
Woody Allen sends his surrogate on a trip back to the heady creative days of Paris in the 1920s.
read moreThe Hangover Part II
The three friends from the popular first movie get drunk and into trouble all over again—this time in Thailand.
read moreSV Dining
back to topReview: Fahrenheit Lounge
The stalwart downtown ultralounge now has a new chef, Christopher Glaze, and a tasty new Asian California fusion menu.
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