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Portrait of a Broken System

A new book explains how artists got squeezed out of their livelihoods in the age of Big Tech.

August 12, 2020 by Wallace Baine

Question Mock

John Waters tracks own his rise and fall in Hollywood while offering advice on everything under the sun in his new book 'Mr. Know-It-All.'

August 5, 2020 by Steve Palopoli

Bath Times

The Watergarden has been a cornerstone of gay culture in Silicon Valley since the 1970s, surviving homophobia, political shifts and the AIDS crisis—but not coronavirus.

July 29, 2020 by Jennifer Wadsworth

Fits and Sports

As pro athletics attempt a comeback, the virus could come out on top.

July 8, 2020 by Emanuel Lee

The Recovery Begins

Independent businesses survive with support from their customers. They share their stories.

June 17, 2020 by Metro Staff

Flash Black

Fifteen Black-themed films you should’ve already seen.

June 10, 2020 by Kelly Vance

Tears of a Town

San Jose deploys curfews, helicopters, tear gas, explosives and rubber bullets to quell protests and vandalism, and an officer disgraces the city by telling a protester to ‘shut up, bitch.’

June 3, 2020 by Jennifer Wadsworth

When their shows were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, musicians and comedians started performing live online in unprecedented numbers—and have turned what was once a shoddy substitute for in-person concerts into an emerging art form.

May 27, 2020 by Steve Palopoli

Silicon Valley Delivers

Restaurants, Food Trucks and Cocktails-To-Go.

May 20, 2020 by Metro Staff

The Fragments of Our Times

For four decades, San Jose has sought to forge identity and culture from sprawl by investing in themed business districts and events. Those painstaking efforts to build communities, promote diversity and bring people together have unraveled in a tsunami of social distancing.

May 14, 2020 by Jennifer Wadsworth

1918: Our Pandemic Past

Just like today, optimistic predictions and phony cures accompanied the Spanish flu as the pandemic made its deadly sweep through the Santa Clara Valley.

May 6, 2020 by Geoffrey Dunn

Sheltered Children

Locked down families reconnect on a deeper level.

April 29, 2020 by Emanuel Lee

Freed Cocktails

Your drink followed you home from the bar, and isn’t leaving.

April 22, 2020 by Metro Staff

Cannabis and Chicanery

No, marijuana does not cure the Covid virus.

April 16, 2020 by Dan Mitchell

Taking it to the Streets

Picking up on the valley’s new culinary options.

April 8, 2020 by Grace Hase, Mike Huguenor and Jennifer Wadsworth

Head Rush

As shelter-in-place panic buying ensues, dispensaries try to get straight answers in the new regulated cannabis era.

April 1, 2020 by Hugh McCormick & Dan Mitchell

Double Blind

Santa Clara County spends billions on its health care system, building and buying hospitals and employing top tier talent. But when COVID-19 landed here, it lacked the basic tools and procedures to contain the spread.

March 25, 2020 by Jennifer Wadsworth