Metro Issue: Feb 8–Feb 14, 2019

Cover Story
San Jose Rockage Festival
Held at the Landmark Ballroom in San Jose Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 11-12, the event will feature 20 bands and 50 classic arcade games on nonstop free play, as well as 10 console setups.
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back to topSan Jose Partners for Downtown WiFi

Can San Jose's municipal WiFi project finally make the city the true Capital of Silicon Valley?
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back to top034 Motorsport in Fremont

The art of making cars go really, really fast, requires quite a bit of engineering and imagination.
read more‘Obey Your Master’ at Exhibit A Gallery

Metallica, San Jose skate great Steve Caballero and Tony Alva showed up for the 'Obey Your Master' show in Los Angeles.
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back to topTalib Kweli comes to Pagoda

Doing the unexpected is nothing new for Talib Kweli and Res, the duo behind alternative R&B/hip hop group Idle Warship, which comes to Pagoda Lounge in San Jose on Saturday.
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back to topGreen Whales

San Jose's Renegade Theatre Experiment brings to an end its 10th-year anniversary season with Green Whales at Historic Hoover Theater.
read moreQuilt National

Showcasing the work of some of the country's premier contemporary quilters at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
read moreWalker Evans Photographs

A new exhibit at Stanford Cantor Arts Center compiles both memorable and unexpected images from the life of photographer Walker Evans.
read moreBecoming Britney

Inspired by the head-shaving incident of a certain pop star, Becoming Britney is not a typical musical. Playing Feb. 10-March 11 at The Retro Dome in San Jose.
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back to topOscar Nominated Shorts

For the Oscar-betting pool on Animated Short Subjects: note that the big nominations went to retro films (Hugo, The Artist and so on). Thus Moonbat Studios, creators of "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," should be clearing some mantelpiece space.
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back to topLa Lune Sucree

Bettina Pope’s dream was to own a bakery. Her dream has become a reality—and she hasn’t had more than two days off since she and her husband, Mark, opened San Jose’s La Lune Sucree in September.
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