Arts & Entertainment
Book Review: Cracked Up
Mark Arnold's 'If You're Cracker, You're Happy' is not just the best book about the history of 'Cracked' magazine, it’s near certain to be the only book about it.
read moreArt Review: Frames of War
Artist and Hanna Hannah uses scenes of international tragedy—South African shanty towns, a child buried in debris—and decontextualizes them in her show 'Frames of War' at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
read moreContinental
Two new features— 'Viva Riva!' and 'Africa United'—examine the seamy and the sentimental sides of life in Africa.
read morePoint of View
Three artists at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara examine how an abstract perspective can change the way we think about landscapes.
read moreGood Help
California Theatre Center's production of 'The Servant of Two Masters' shows how a centuries-old play can stay funny and relevant.
read moreIranian Beat
Spurned at home, musicians Kayhan Kalhor and Pezhham Akhavass keep Persian music tradition alive and well on June 18 at Cubberley Auditorium in Palo Alto.
read moreRace to the Finish
TheatreWorks presents the regional premiere of [title of show], a musical comedy about the making of a musical comedy—in just three weeks.
read morePuppet Masters
The puppets in 'Avenue Q' talk dirty and do things they never did on 'Sesame Street' in San Jose Stage Company's new production of the Broadway hit.
read moreA Really Big Show
A model of a mammoth straight from the Guadalupe River shows up for a new exhibit at the Children’s Discovery Museum.
read moreFine Steins
Two new museum shows collect superb examples of the avant-garde art by Picasso, Matisse and others assembled by Gertrude Stein and her siblings.
read moreTree Huggers
Metal koalas now inhabit the eucalyptus trees near the Fourth Street entrance to SJSU thanks to a new city of San Jose art project.
read moreReview: Love in American Times
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has won acclaim for depicting the Asian American experience; his latest work, Love in American Times, now at San Jose Repertory Theater, is something of a departure for him.
read moreReview: ‘Distracted’ at City Lights
Lisa Loomer's 'Distracted,' a recent play about a troubled American family and a mother's search for answers to her son's ADD, had its own trouble coming together on the first night of its run City Lights Theater in San Jose.
read moreSummer Screens
The summer cinema season brings the usual sequels and comic-book superhero adventures, along with one genuinely great film that will keep people talking for a long time: Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life.'
read moreMidnight in Paris
Woody Allen sends his surrogate on a trip back to the heady creative days of Paris in the 1920s.
read moreThe Hangover Part II
The three friends from the popular first movie get drunk and into trouble all over again—this time in Thailand.
read moreComics Convention Preview
Sergio Aragones, longtime contributor to 'Mad' magazine, is one of many guests slated to appear at the Big Wow! ComicFest, May 21-22 at the San Jose Convention Center.
read morePage Makers
As the old drug peddler said, "First one's free." Free Comic Book Day is back this May 7, and comic stores across the country and throughout Silicon Alley will be offering samples from various publishers. The annual custom started nine years ago at Concord's Flying Colors Comics and has since spread worldwide.
read moreFinding Truth
A young Bay Area company named Inferno Theatre looks back at the family life of astronomer Galileo and his two devout daughters.
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