Behind-the-scenes knowledge can ruin the magic sometimes. There’s a reason “watching how the sausage gets made,” especially taken literally, could ruin your day. But that seems unlikely to happen with something as beloved as beer. After all, learning how grains become liquid sunshine has turned more than one beer fan into a brewer.
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For decades now, Jeff Chang has been a student of the complex and interconnected issues of race, class and inequality in America. It only took him two books and subsequent book tours to realize that he was uniquely qualified to say something meaningful on the subject. And what he has to say isn’t exactly heartening.
Known for its innovative sets and strong ensemble acting, the San Jose Stage Company lives up to its reputation in a new production of a classic of American theater, The Rainmaker.
Christine Benjamin says she never really fit in at her high school. It was the end of the ’70s and she really didn’t like disco or big hair. But the ’80s—which bookended her college years—that was a decade she could get behind.
San Jose Public Library is offering a series of programs that focus on the veteran experience of returning from war.
The “art” from which Art takes its name is less a painting than a blank canvas. And while the stark white work sits figuratively and literally at the center of Yasmina Reza’s 1994 play, the production isn’t really so much about the piece, as it is about the way three friends respond to it and to each other over the course of of the play.
When it comes to chalking, the real art is gone by the time the chalk makes its final flick. Chalk art is really about seeing the lines and color in action—and that’s what brings the 5000 people to Backesto Park every September for the Luna Park Chalk Art Festival.
Back for its second year, C2SV Technology Conference + Music Festival returns September 11-14 with a new home in the SoFA District and an added emphasis on local influencers in tech and music.
The Tumblr history blog Unhistorical has over 150,000 followers, several among them students at Homestead High School. But few know they had walked past its owner every morning inside their school hallways.
It has become an annual tradition at The Arsenal, the San Jose art shop, studio and gallery space. Each year, a mixture of graffiti artists, tattoo artists, fine artists, illustrators and designers come together to showcase their work in a particular medium. This year the artists have been limited to pencil and paper for the “Graphite Show,” which opens this weekend.
