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May 28, 2025

Artifacts from San Jose’s Summer of Love

Bill Guardino’s ‘South Bay Flashback’ offers a glimpse of the rock scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s, in a town that never got any respect.
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May 28, 2025

Redwood Mountain Faire Brings Two Days of Music to Roaring Camp

There’s more over the hill in Santa Cruz County than beaches and carnival rides. Case in point this weekend: the Redwood Mountain Faire.
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May 28, 2025

Who’s the Boss?

When I was a teenager in upstate New York, quiet, brown and trying to pretend I understood sports, Bruce Springsteen didn’t just play music.
May 28, 2025

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology for May 29-June 4, 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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Sweet Charity in San Jose
Composed by Cy Coleman, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon, Sweet Charity premiered on Broadway in 1966.
Maxx Cabello Jr in San Jose
Versatile South Bay blues guitarist Maxx Cabello Jr. is already making waves regionally and beyond.
Brainchamber in San Jose
Brainchamber is a band of heaviness and mystery. They hail from the school of “less is more.”
Dusty Slay in San Jose
Having been raised by a single mom in a trailer park in Opelika, Alabama, Dusty Slay is more blue collar than anyone involved in The Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
Japantown Returnings in San Jose
San Jose is awash in history, but none of its neighborhoods has a richer and more diverse past than Japantown.
Rotary Club in San Jose
In the world of punk, there are a lot of subgenres. Pop punk, hardcore, skate punk, cowpunk, horror punk, and more
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