Silicon Valley Contemporary will host 40 galleries and nearly 250 artists from around the world during a long weekend in April at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
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San Jose’s annual Cinequest film festival returns March 4-16 in downtown San Jose with hundreds of independent films and filmmakers, parties and presentations.
That huge blue and yellow tent pitched by the Taylor Street Bridge marks the return of Cirque de Soleil to San Jose with its production Amaluna.
Nearly 4,000 furry lions, tigers, bears and other creatures from the animal kingdom arrive in downtown San Jose for FurCon 2014 this week, a long weekend of panels, events and parties for anthropormorphic animal enthusiasts—people who like to dress up like animals, in layman’s terms.
While the Sharks aren’t fielding the most Olympians in the NHL as they did in 2010, four Sharks players made the cut for the 2014 Sochi games. Patrick Marleau and Marc-Edouard Vlasic will be playing for Team Canada, Joe Pavelski for USA and Antti Niemi for Finland.
The surf and sand at Santa Cruz beaches are much closer to San Jose than Lake Tahoe’s numerous ski resorts, but that doesn’t keep avid skiers and snowboarders from making the trip to catch some runs over a weekend outing. Several Silicon Valley outdoor stores are stocked with the latest gear each season and lift ticket discounts.
Anyone who’s ever wanted to kick the tires on a Lotus can head to the Silicon Valley International Auto Show, January 9-12 at the McEnry Convention Center.
The Amgen Tour of California, the largest cycle race in the country, will once again pedal its way through San Jose for 2014. This makes San Jose the only city to have hosted a stage of the race for each of Amgen’s nine years.
A crowd gathered next to San Jose’s Guadalajara Restaurant on November 1 for the unveiling of the new mural “La Gran Cultura Resonance,” a product of the Empire Seven Studios’ Mural Project. The piece, which runs the length of the building, has a trompe l’oeil aspect, with large painted blocks surrounding a massive portrait of the Mayan maize god.
Patrick Hofmeister has a freezer full of bugs. His mom sends them to him from Arkansas. But some creepy entomological obsession it is not. Hofmeister, who goes by the artist name WäDL, is interested in the bugs’ intricacies, their super fine details and patterns. These aspects make up part of his exhibition at the Triton Museum for ‘Spiral: Art of the Street.’
