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Jun 11, 2025

Blues & Brews Kickoff Plans Bring Back Memories

This weekend the Fountain Blues & Brews Fest expands to two days for the first time in its history, kicking off with a VIP party.
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Jun 11, 2025

Yacht Rock Revue Charts a Course for Success

“Yacht rock is whatever we say it is,” Nick Niespodziani says. “It’s in our interest for the definition to be as all-encompassing as possible.”
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Jun 11, 2025

Brandy Clark’s Tales of Heartbreak, Homicide and Home

Brandy Clark has long been a lauded pen in Nashville’s inkwell, landing hits with chart toppers while also stepping out with her own records.
Jun 11, 2025

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for June 12–18, 2025

Author Rob Brezsny offers insights for all signs of the horoscope in his weekly Free Will Astrology column.
May 28, 2025
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VegFest, one of the largest vegan food events in the greater Bay Area, takes place May 31 at the Santa Cruz Fairgrounds.
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The decision to revoke the waiver could upend California’s decades-long efforts to clean up the air and reduce greenhouse gases.
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Jinx Jones in Redwood City
Denver native Jinx Jones got his start in music early and relocated to the Bay Area in 1989
Tune-Yards in Menlo park
Tune-Yards is the brainchild of Oakland-based musicians Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner.
Mary Chapin Carpenter in Saratoga
Singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter seamlessly blends elements of country, folk and pop.
The ABBA Concert Experience in San Jose
One can’t help but love ABBA. They’re the one exception for many disco-haters, and a favorite of disco fanatics.
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Founded in 1989, the Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) is a contemporary art space focused on Chicano and Latino history and experience
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Lynn Nottage is the only female playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice:
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