Other than Halloween, this is perhaps the only night of the year you can act like a real zombie and menacingly roam the streets of downtown San Jose without spending a night in the slammer. You can don your own zombie make-up or the good folks at SLG Art Boutiki can zombify you for $5 starting at noon.
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Big Basin Vineyards is one of my favorite Santa Cruz Mountain wineries. While pinot noir has become the region’s marquee wine, Big Basin’s Bradley Brown is making a name for syrah with his luscious single-vineyard designated wines. (His pinots aren’t too shabby, either.) Not only are the wines beautiful to behold, but so is the winery itself. ALSO: Roamin’ the Rhones, Saturday–Sunday, Aug. 21–22: Burrell School, Hunter Hill, Loma Prieta, Poetic Cellars and Vine Hill; Hunter Hill’s vineyard dinner, Sunday, Aug. 22.
At 10:30 at night in the dark parking lot of an abandoned retail store, a group of young, muscly guys are engaged in what looks to be a very intense debate. But this isn’t a street fight, it’s Treatbot, the ice cream truck from the future, where Karaoke stars satisfy their musical ambitions and sweet tooth.
Minh Duong, the pro-business, Chamber of Commerce–endorsed City Council candidate, has made his business experience the central theme of his campaign to oust District 7 Councilmember Madison Nguyen. He believes his knowledge of budgets and finance can help the economically-strapped city better manage its money. Duong’s own business acumen, however, may not rise to the level his talking points suggest.
Four of eight works heard during the second weekend of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music took a decidedly retrospective look back that—big surprise—seduced audiences long-used to confronting the avant-garde’s cutting edge.
Silicon Valley made a name for itself by piecing together small parts in a big way, so it’s fitting that Bernie Lubell’s tech-inspired exhibit should also find a home here at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Constructed as four interrelated mechanical units and a series of two-dimensional designs, Lubell’s “Conservation of Intimacy” is a testament to both the beauty and anxiety that technology brings us as well as an exploration of the tensions that such a paradox implies.
Bill Maher is the measured, gentlemanly “but seriously folks” sideman to Jon Stewart’s rebelliousness: capable of taking a blimp-launching nutter like Ron Paul and polishing him up to the point where Ron Paul.com feels like officially linking to the I-view. But that’s the point: every night, and every time Maher opens his mouth, he makes someone mad.
B.B. King just won’t quit playing. He was doing farewell tours as far back as four or five years ago, and certainly he’s slowed down, but the man is 84 years old. He’s still vibrant and funny, and he can still play the hell out of a guitar.
In 1977, the Italian American Heritage Family Festa became the first ethnic festival to be held in downtown San Jose. This year the Festa moves to its new home in Guadalupe River Park to better accommodate the 25,000 attendees.
When the devastating fire broke out just before dawn at Trace Elementary school, a local official was immediately notified … by email. To put it simply, the fire broke out, and an email was sent to the official, who was still lying in bed, fast asleep. Presumably, the official would only have found out after he woke up, had his first cup of coffee, showered, and turned on his computer, or whatever his daily schedule might be.
