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Rediscovering San Jose, One Walk at a Time
Together, Rebecca Solnit and Juan Felipe Herrera recently re-ignited my obsession with exploring San Jose on foot.
How did this start? Well, 20 years ago, when this very page featured walking experiments in the more wounded parts of...
Remembering Alan Soldofsky’s Legacy in San Jose’s Literary Community
In April of 2019, Alan Soldofsky organized that year’s annual Legacy of Poetry Festival at San Jose State University (SJSU), including a reading by Forest Gander, who won the Pulitzer Prize two days before his campus appearance.The...
Valerie Fridland in Menlo Park
In Why We Talk Funny, linguist Valerie Fridland explores the evolution of human speech, and why accents develop.
Paul Conyers in Sunnyvale
Paul Conyers has the relaxed cadence of someone casually telling a story, right up until a sharply engineered punchline.
Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for July 29-August 4, 2026
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Aries artist Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles, France, for 15 months in 1888 and 1889. It was the most prolific...
Is San Jose Water Safe to Drink? A Look at the 2025 Water Quality...
How much do you trust the liquid that comes out of your tap? According to the San Jose Water Quality Report for 2025, water here clears...
Helping Combat Senior Isolation in Santa Clara County
Seniors make up roughly 14% to 15% of Santa Clara County’s current population, but a massive demographic shift is underway. Projections show older adults aged 60+...
Paul Conyers in Sunnyvale
Paul Conyers has the relaxed cadence of someone casually telling a story, right up until a sharply engineered punchline.
Save Ferris in Menlo Park
Taking their name from a subplot in the 1980s John Hughest film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, this Orange County ska-punk group received a Grammy nod (in...
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in San Jose
This is a rare chance to witness sharp and emotional storytelling up close. It is nonstop entertainment, suitable for all ages.
Strata in San Jose
Strata’s return could have settled for a victory lap through the songs that put the Campbell band on early-2000s rock radio. Instead, April’s “Soar,” its first...
Bug Bath in San Jose
Bug Bath, out of Reno, headlines this three bill show. Everything is big about Bug Bath. Or maybe it’s, everything is bug about Bug Bath. A...
02 The Good Bad Guy in Menlo Park
People should take their outdated vision of poetry gatherings, beatniks, berets and bongos and embrace the new wave of spoken word artists.