Five reasons to look forward to the work week: Downtown Ice, Puccini’s Tosca, Black Wednesday, turkey dinner, Felipe Esparza.
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Alfred Uhry’s “Driving Miss Daisy,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and was made into an Oscar-winning film with Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, is being revived by Tabard Theatre Company of San Jose.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: get served by 49ers, Maggie Estep’s poetry, steampunk Shakespeare, Chicago’s drummer, Adam Carolla.
‘Old Technology,’ a 45-year retrospective of Tony May’s career opening Friday Nov. 12 at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, includes works in a variety of media.
One of the things I’ve always liked about Jeffrey Hatcher’s 1996 adaptation of Henry James’s 1898 novella, “The Turn of the Screw,” now being presented by Dragon Productions in Palo Alto, is its minimalism.
In the male-dominated world of streetwear fashion labels, it’s hard for a chick to cut a break.
But that’s exactly what East Side San Jose–based fashion designer Joyous Ladi is endeavoring to do with Girls Night Out Society (GNOS), her innovative new streetwear line.
Designed just with fly ladies in mind, Ladi’s ironic, irreverently funny screen-print girl-fit T-shirts have only been on the market for a few months. Nonetheless, GNOS is already generating some serious Internet buzz.
Salvatore Calisi, former executive chef at Los Gatos’ excellent Dio Deka, has taken over the kitchen at San Jose’s Ristorante Fratello, a 10-year-old neighborhood Italian restaurant. He ditched every dish on the menu to create a totally new lineup. He also has plans to open a higher-profile Italian restaurant of his own in Los Gatos. Suddenly, it seems, Silicon Valley’s Italian food scene just got a whole lot better.
Based on the 1950 film noir classic starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden, Sunset Boulevard tells the story of Joe Gillis, a struggling Hollywood script writer who happens upon a crumbling mansion while fleeing some repo men.
Renegade Theatre Experiment’s production of “All This Intimacy” by Rajiv Joseph emerges as an enjoyable tragicomedy as well as a necessary story, reminding us that we all have the capacity to commit very big, life-altering blunders.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: Lewis Buzbee, Sankai Juku, Moreno Gistain Piano Duo, CTRL+ALT+DEL, Oversocial Mofo Revue.
