After rotting garlic left a bad taste in his mouth, Vincent Verret decided to grow his own in the backyard. Before he knew it, he had started a garden full of garlic, peppers and tomatoes. Then he did what any backyard farmer with a bouquet of flavors would do: make some chili sauce.
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San Jose had a rare non-tech headline on Forbes.com this week with a blog post on local champions of the arts Cherri Lakey and Brian Eder, founders of Anno Domini art gallery in the SoFA District.
“We really never want to call ourselves a “program” because that implies curfews and drug tests and other restrictions. We do something completely different.”
Due to waning interest in skating and accompanying lower revenues, San Jose Skate has decided that closure of the rink is the best option.
Opera may have been around since the 16th century, but the team at Opera Cultura feel it’s time for an update. Cuentos de Peregrinacion or Tales of Pilgrimage is a new hybrid show that combines operatic singing with staged readings that tell of immigrants’ experiences coming to the United States.
To the uninitiated, San Jose seems flat, uncultured, flatulent, stunted and dangerous. Contrary to the beliefs of those folks, San Jose is doing quite well in the culture department, growing right under the noses being thumbed at it. One of many examples of this growth is Shona Sanzgiri’s pop-up at Black and Brown: “On the Cusp.”
“I was working as a community organizer for violence against women and girls issues and through that job we had a small grant from the state of California justice department that we decided to use to produce a video to help our cause. The experience of making that video left an impact on me.”
Using typically off-putting images in beautiful ways—such as a skeleton superimposed against a flower—Levin-Lau’s pieces are examinations of the how life and death, the beautiful and dreadful, interact everyday if you dare to look.
He’s not a bird, not a plane, and not quite a super hero (yet) but Ryoga Vee is a Ninja.
Many choose to study or read at a library because it’s a quiet place with many resources—until a string quartet shows up and launches into Beethoven in the stacks.
