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They’re Hot! Bay Area Burger Week Celebrates Smashing Success

On Monday night, there’s a line at the counter. Fifteen hamburger patties, each smashed to the diameter of a small frisbee, sit on a sizzling, smoking grill. One by one, they are dropped on buns. Jalapeños are placed on top, and another green pepper slice is tucked into the...

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Technology and Psychedelics

Silicon Valley’s Psychedelic Quest to Hack the Human Mind

Sep 30, 2026

When AI, math and physics researcher Alejandro Zarzuelo first arrived in the Bay Area from Spain, he joined friends...

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Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for September 30-October 6, 2026

Sep 30, 2026

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Orchids may lure pollinating insects with ingenious illusions rather than nectar. Some mimic the look or...

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Santa Clara Street

The Ghosts of Santa Clara Street in Downtown San Jose

Sep 30, 2026

The block of Santa Clara Street between First and Second is fermenting on many levels. Always in search of a...

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San Jose Jazz Summer Fest

San Jose’s Downtown Future: Can the Experience Economy Replace the Office?

Sep 23, 2026

San Jose’s downtown is changing—and city leaders aren’t necessarily trying to bring back the one that existed before the...

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Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for September 23-29, 2026

Sep 23, 2026

ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the practice of niwaki, Japanese gardeners shape trees so they look both natural and artfully...

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Kindness in San Jose: Dolly Parton, Aart de Geus and Susan O’Malley

Sep 23, 2026

While certain tech industry CEOs embrace the global far right and advocate inhumanity, inequality and cruelty as policy, it...

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Metro Silicon Valley E-edition

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