Celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert will stop in San Jose this spring on the Good Vs. Evil Tour, one of only nine dates on a short tour created for both to share their insights and experiences in the restaurant industry.
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Popular Japanese retailer Muji is planning to open a new store in downtown San Jose in 2013, it’s first store on the West Coast.
Fans of the locally produced Discovery Channel program Mythbusters can now safely immerse themselves into that scientific fray at “Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition,” a new interactive exhibit at the Tech Museum in San Jose that offers visitors the chance to try several hands-on experiments, watch live demonstrations, see props from the show and more.
The origins of Halloween date back to the ancient Celts, who held a fall festival called Samhain (pronounced Sow-in). It was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth around this time of year. In order to ward them off, the ancient Celts would dress up in costumes generally made of animal heads and skins.
“RACE IS the most incendiary topic in our history, and the moment it comes out you cannot close the lid on that box.” This line from David Mamet represents the idea behind his legal drama Race, the season opener at San Jose Stage.
Joining the popular trend of the live action family events recently stopping in San Jose, film and animation production company DreamWorks is bringing How to Train Your Dragon Live to HP Pavilion this December.
This coming week, SJSU’s Center for Literary Arts fall series shifts into high gear with three events highlighting novelist, poet and playwright Nick Flynn.
44 Plays for 44 Presidents is exactly what its title says: a string of short, mostly self-contained miniature performances that relate the history of the U.S. presidency. Originally conceived by Chicago’s Neo-Futurists
The play is almost cinematic in its approach. One scene in which Kartheiser and Sharma leap through the apartment to the tune of a song by the Killers is more film montage than stage show. This effect, further embellished by John Iacovelli’s elaborate, immersive scenic designs.
The new show at Renegade Theatre Experiment, Collapse, is a darkly comic play by Allison Moore that focuses on a day in the life of a miserable couple in Minneapolis who, through a series of bizarre coincidences and events, resolve the issues between them.
