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Save Martin Luther King Library’s California Room from San Jose’s Budget Cuts

The California Room on the fifth floor of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Main Library is one of the most useful rooms in all of San Jose. Only a non-vibrant person would suggest otherwise. More than 5,000 people visited the room over the last year, including students, teachers, authors, historians,...
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Ray Hartmann pled for compassion and common sense in one of his last columns

If you’re waiting for the government to solve the homelessness crisis with anything resembling a heart, forget about it. What we are watching is a bipartisan race to the bottom. The Trump administration has kicked into full cruelty mode, demonizing the homeless as just another population to be disposed of.
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San Jose’s Acid Test House: From Grateful Dead History to Forgotten Local Legends

Last year an original flyer emerged for one of Ken Kesey’s acid tests, the notorious multisensory happening at 38...
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A Visit to the Original Round Table Pizza and Menlo Park’s Historic Landmarks

With pizza on his mind, and on several of this issue’s pages, the columnist made a triumphant return to...
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Levitt Pavilion San Jose Gains Momentum With Plans for St. James Park Stage

Last week, a few dozen arts advocates gathered for a power-networking soiree at MACLA to hear Friends of Levitt...
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CADRE Lab at SJSU Celebrates 40 Years of Experimental Media Art and Innovation

If you build something, the students will eventually come. The CADRE Lab for New Media at SJSU proves it. This...
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A Book Lover’s Guide to Los Gatos Bookstores

If people on Instagram can post guides to bookstores in Rome and Paris, then Los Gatos should have its...

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