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Morgan Hill’s BookSmart opens satellite location at Eastridge mall
At Eastridge, books are back in the mall and soon authors will be too.
Not since Barnes & Noble abandoned its Eastridge location has another bookstore appeared in the immediate vicinity. Now everything has changed. Brad Jones and...
Samay Raina in San Jose
Twenty-eight-year-old Samay Raina is the biggest comedian in India. Now on his 2nd American tour, which culminates with a show at Madison Square Garden, Raina is sizzling hot. With over 14 million combined followers on IG and...
The Royal Bloodline of San Jose Symphony
The ghosts of San Jose symphonic musicians go way back, and they refuse to become invisible.
In the same way that the organization San Jose Rocks preserves local rock history, someone should also preserve the Royal San Jose...
Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for February 12–18, 2026
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them,” wrote Ernest Hemingway. This Valentine season,...
How Purple Lotus Keeps It Fresh
Published in cooperation between Purple Lotus and Metro Silicon Valley
For many cannabis consumers, there’s one unmistakable sign that they’ve found the right dispensary: the flower smells...
Netflix, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount: What’s the Deal
This article originally appeared in the American Prospect.
In progressive circles, there is a great fear about the consolidation of Hollywood and the broader media into the...
The Sex Lives of Puppets at Stanford
For those who don’t away from the title, “The Sex Lives of Puppets” offers a fun, frank, and fascinating exploration of humanity.
The Queers in San Jose
The Queers have a tight formula for writing songs about love, drugs, fighting Nazis and the perpetual boredom of American culture.
Jacquees in San Jose
Jacquees operates squarely in the tradition of modern R&B singers who treat smoothness as a competitive sport. Emerging from Atlanta, he built his profile through melodic...
Cinderella in Campbell
Ballet narratives can seem dense, but the World Ballet Company’s version of Cinderella will be immediately familiar.
Vitamin String Quartet in Menlo Park
Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) started in 1999 as an experiment to take popular rock and roll and give it a string treatment.
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach in Mountain View
A story based on a Cuban folktale about a 21-day-old cockroach named Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha, who wants to get married.