.Gary Singh

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Gary Singh’s byline has appeared over 1500 times, including newspaper columns, travel essays, art and music criticism, profiles, business journalism, lifestyle articles, poetry and short fiction. He is the author of The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy (2015, The History Press) and was recently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. An anthology of his Metro columns, Silicon Alleys, was published in 2020.

Front of a theater with the marquee advertising an appearance by Nancy Pelosi

.Columns

Sep 4, 2024

Places and Faces and Points in Time in the California Theatre

Last week, the ghost of Steve Jobs was lurking as I contemplated a zillion events I’d seen in the California Theatre over the last 20 years.

Intersection signs shot at an angle with industrial landscape around it

.Columns

Aug 28, 2024

Lost Highways: Back Before Freeways Ruined Everything

From a Zen perspective, all San Jose phenomena are subject to change, decay and death. This is especially true with lost highways.

Photo of Nancy Pelosi with bright green graphic background

.Culture

Aug 21, 2024

In New Book, Nancy Pelosi Speaks Truth About Power

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will be in the South Bay on Aug. 26, speaking about her book ‘The Art of Power’ at California Theatre.

Urban fountain with water flowing over cement steps

.Columns

Aug 21, 2024

Memories of Redevelopment on Paseo de San Antonio

In San Jose, developers wipe out entire blocks, only to wipe them out again 20 years later. Paseo de San Antonio is no different.

Grocery store display with blueberries surrounded by other shelves

.Columns

Aug 14, 2024

Smoking Bargains and Blistering Rock at Grocery Outlet

The Grocery Outlet Bargain Market in downtown San Jose proves that music calms the savage breast. And yes, killer deals were aplenty.

.Columns

Aug 7, 2024

Chris Esparza: Elegy to a San Jose Giant

Chris Esparza, who passed away over the weekend, was a pillar of the San Jose arts, restaurant, nightclub, music and events industries for at least 35 years.