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San Jose Stage Presents Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe
With the holiday season upon us, who could forget that classic Frank Capra film where a downtrodden American everyman contemplates jumping to his death...
San Jose Stage Meets ‘John Doe’
With the holiday season upon us, who could forget that classic Frank Capra film where a downtrodden American everyman, overwhelmed by the injustices of...
Seized Up Open for Fear at the Ritz
Not long before he’d become frontman for the iconic Santa Cruz hardcore band Bl’ast, Clifford Dinsmore saw legendary punkers Fear play in San Francisco.
This...
Oingo Boingo: Ranking the Albums
Almost 30 years after Oingo Boingo broke up, its legacy is a study in contradictions. It was a cult band whose lead singer, Danny...
J&P Cosentino Family Farm’s Pop-up Stays a Favorite
Jason Cosentino is in the thick of summer fruit season.
During the pandemic, 91-year-old patriarch Phil Cosentino—whose father bought the San Jose land that J&P...
Legendary ’80s Hitmakers ABC Play Music in the Park
In the early ’80s, the thriving Sheffield, England music scene was making dark music for dark times. Inspired in equal measure by industrial decay...
Flat Landers
Woody Guthrie’s song “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” is not about the town in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. But you’d...
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Is Transcending Expectations
After Yaa Gyasi’s first novel, Homegoing, won a number of top awards, the book world might have expected a follow-up that would be similar...
