Four terrific films and a fine TV show are a great way to get started on St. Patrick’s Day. I hope someday to see the old stones and meet the old sods, and gape at the Neolithic tombs that were ancient when Stonehenge was a suckling, but in the meantime there’s always the cinema for a received idea of what it’s like in Eire.
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When Angela Cartwright, never to be forgot as “Penny Robinson,” comes to the San Jose Super Toy, Comic and Collectible Show this weekend, she carries with her the residual electricity of having been a passenger on perhaps the bravest of 1960s TV spaceships, the Jupiter 2.
Sperry Station is a relatively new business collective located in a historic building in downtown San Jose. Since last October, it has quickly established itself as an ambitious purveyor of the arts and a spot for creative types to exhibit and sell their work.
Cinequest Film Festival has a lot to offer this year, with hundreds of films and indie filmmakers and celebrities Harrison Ford and Chuck Palahniuk visiting San Jose. The Festival starts its 23rd year on Feb. 26 at California Theatre and continues at various venues in San Jose through March 10.
Although the Retro Dome closed its doors in January of this year, Shannon Guggenheim is keeping active and looking for a new location in the Silicon Valley for the theater. We interviewed her about the recent closure of the Retro Dome, how she spends her time when she’s not working and some of her favorite local hangouts.
The one-man show, put on by the Tabard Theatre Company, follows the reminiscences of Fields on his last day as chief butler of the White House, a post which he held from 1931 to 1953.
Paul Magid, co-founder of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, discusses his experience in theatrical comedy and juggling antics in anticipation of his performance of “40 Years of Wondering, Juggling and Cheap Tricks” at San Jose Rep.
Don Draper’s signature cocktail, the Old Fashioned, gets a delightful twist at 55 South, a new cocktail lounge on 1st Street in San Jose.
When standing before a Mark Rothko painting, you may find yourself absorbed in the expansive canvas; or, exasperated, you may mutter “a third-grader could have painted this.
Located in what used to be a Gelato Classico, the new Snake & Butterfly cafe—or, to be precise, Factory & Lounge—in downtown Campbell links three hard-to-resist treats: artisanal chocolates, gelato and espresso.
