Arts & Entertainment
Women From Plains
City Lights Theater Company brings Tracy Letts’ caustic drama ‘August: Osage County’ to South Bay
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In his epic graphic novel 'Habibi,' Craig Thompson tells a tale of true love in new and old Arabia
read moreBrain Drain
Tiffany Shlain’s ‘Connected,’ a memoir-biography about her father and a whole lot more is long on goals and short on process
read moreWake-Up Call
San Jose Rep opens its season with an energetic staging of the musical 'Spring Awakening'
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San Jose Repertory Theater mounts the Tony-winning musical of youthful passion ‘Spring Awakening’
read moreBuster Poses
The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto screens two Buster Keaton silent comedies— ‘Steamboat Bill, Jr.’ and ‘The Three Ages’—on Sept. 9
read moreLurching Along
This Wednesday (Aug. 31) the big Zombie-O-Rama takes over downtown San Jose with a zombie crawl and a screening of 'Fido'
read moreSense and Sensibility is a Success
TheatreWorks mounts an engrossing stage version of Jan Austen's famous novel
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's new show is led by ringmaster Brian Crawford Scott, a San Jose native.
read moreThe Big Beat
Taiko Jam 2011 at Stanford features five Japanese drum ensembles from around the world
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Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music scores with a wonderful orchestral piece by Shuko Mizuno
read moreSouth First Fridays
After a small hiatus, the South First Fridays event returns this Aug. 5 with art, music and shopping opportunities in San Jose’s SoFA District from 7 to 11pm.
read moreFellini Fun
City Lights Theater Company delivers a sexy version of ‘Nine,’ the popular musical based on the Fellini movie.
read moreBooked Up
Two shows at the Cantor Arts Center reveal riches of the printers’ art that no ebook can duplicate.
read moreOn Target
One of San Jose’s largest summer events, the Target Summer Pops Free Music Festival, which runs July 30–Aug. 7, provides audiences an opportunity to experience the excitement of orchestral, world and pop music from the comfort of their blanket
read moreTimeless Love
'Aida,' opening this weekend at Children’s Musical Theater San Jose, is reinvented as a modern story with new twists, catchy tunes and the timeless bond shared between a Nubian princess and Egyptian commander.
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Book Review: Cracked Up
Mark Arnold's 'If You're Cracker, You're Happy' is not just the best book about the history of 'Cracked' magazine, it’s near certain to be the only book about it.
read moreContinental
Two new features— 'Viva Riva!' and 'Africa United'—examine the seamy and the sentimental sides of life in Africa.
read moreArt Review: Frames of War
Artist and Hanna Hannah uses scenes of international tragedy—South African shanty towns, a child buried in debris—and decontextualizes them in her show 'Frames of War' at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
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