.Katie Lauer

San Jose’s St. James Park has seen more than its fair share of violence since the city was founded, its gardens and grasses—meant to...

Propped up at the wooden bar inside Vahl’s Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, regulars sometimes wax poetic about Alviso’s historic heyday—when the hustling and bustling...

Fans will have less than 24 hours to soak in the new Brandi Carlile album In These Silent Days before the singer-songwriter takes the...

Four basketball courts in Campbell Park became hallowed ground for Isaac Farfan during the summer of 2020, as the smooth, blue surface—its basketball hoops...

In between sweeping scenes above the rooftops of Jerusalem—beyond the golden Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall’s limestone ashlars—cameras capture images of...

The lineup features the festival's traditional dramas, comedies and short films, but also a new class of films focused on the coronavirus and global health crisis that came with it. Halfdan Hussey and Kathleen Powell, the festival founders, tried to strike a balance of fantastic escapism with contemporary reflection of a global crisis.

Bryan Ida, a Los Angeles-based artist who grew up Palo Alto and graduated from San Jose State University, will never know the exact emotions his grandfather was feeling in that moment, but he knows where he was headed: nearly 700 miles inland to Topaz Internment Camp in Utah, as one of 112,000 Japanese Americans – both first-generation and American-born – who were relocated from their homes on the West Coast and imprisoned within internment camps for no reason other than their heritage.

Time is truly an illusion, but somehow it's both finally and already time to ring in the New Year. In a typical year, you'd probably drop by a house party or catch a comedy act with friends, but 2020 has refused to be typical in any way.