by
Mike Huguenor on April 21, 2020
In the months before the sudden outbreak of COVID-19, Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga launched a new thematic that would prove eerily prophetic: “SOCIAL: Rethining Loneliness Together.”
Continue reading »
Founded in 1972, the Swiss mask theater group Mummenschanz made a name for themselves by doing a lot with a little. Dressed in black spandex suits, the performers practically disappear on the all-black stage, as the eye is drawn to the wild masks and colorful props the members use to accentuate and…
Continue reading »
by
Metro Staff on March 11, 2020
When Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s dog dead with a garden fork sticking out of its body, he unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in an act of animal cruelty he did not commit. A mathematically gifted 15-year-old, Boone is at once highly intelligent and unable to interpret everyday life. On his journey…
Continue reading »
by
Metro Staff on March 11, 2020
Jerrie has had enough of the sexist trolls and gatekeepers who have worked to thwart her success in the gaming industry. Now, she’s leading a talented team to take back her rightful place as a leader in the realm of virtual reality. But as the virtual world once again invades the meatspace,…
Continue reading »
by
Metro Staff on March 4, 2020
Ben Franklin once said (allegedly), “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Today, many more might say the same thing about hot wings, a no-doubter in the Pub Food Hall of Fame. On March 7, a Wing Crawl wristband will be good for a sample plate…
Continue reading »
by
Wallace Baine on March 4, 2020
This latest production by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley—a Northern California premiere—tells the story of Jerrie Cobb, an accomplished aviator who might have become America’s first female astronaut, if she had only been given the chance. Inspired by Amelia Earhart, Cobb sought to become part of the Mercury space program in the early 1960s…
Continue reading »
by
Wallace Baine on March 4, 2020
Not that anyone needs an excuse to visit the delightfully retro environs of History Park in San Jose. But opening this month is a promising program for anyone interested in California history. As its title implies, Her Side of the Story: Tales of California Pioneer Women features 30 first-person accounts of women…
Continue reading »
Through woven sculpture and installation, Bay Area artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren examines her Indian heritage. In “I Was India: Embroidering Exoticism,” the textile artist takes two of the Punjabi phulkaris, or shawls, which she found in her grandmother’s cedar chest. The artist uses these garments, embroidered by her aunt nearly a century…
Continue reading »
by
Metro Staff on February 26, 2020
Decades before anyone had ever heard of a podcast, the public radio program Selected Shorts brought listeners funny, absurd, sad and thought-provoking stories to their home and car radios. Performed before a live audience by notable stage and screen actors, Selected Shorts has been a fixture on NPR affiliates for more than…
Continue reading »
by
Metro Staff on February 26, 2020
Meet George Jetson—or at least his modern-day avatars—at the GoFly Prize contest held this weekend at Moffett Field. Some of the brightest minds to ever work on the development of personal flyers (think The Rocketeer or Iron Man) show off their designs of hoverboards, flying motorcycles and other futuristic contraptions as they…
Continue reading »
