As managing director at San Jose Repertory Theatre, Nick Nichols oversees one of San Jose’s most popular theater destinations. Each year, the theater hosts a variety of performances from theatrical standouts like …
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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.
Hidden in plain sight is the somewhat generic-sounding Asian Bistro in Campbell, a source for both Vietnamese and Chinese food. It’s located in an area not surrounded by other Asian restaurants, and from the outside, the building is unremarkable, so I was pleasantly surprised at how well Asian Bistro delivered on both cuisines.
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.
Amor Cafe and Tea, the latest coffee/tea house in downtown San Jose, is able to offer in-house baked goods because it also owns a commercial kitchen in town, which it uses to make goods to sell at flea markets on weekends.
It started with a stand at the Ferry Building Farmers Market in San Francisco. Now, a little more than three years later, the idea of simple and fresh Mexican food with local, sustainable and organic ingredients has expanded to two popular brick-and-mortar Tacolicious locations and a brand-new Palo Alto site opening on Feb. 19.
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.
