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Big Wow! ComicFest
Arts May 14, 2013, by Richard von Busack
Any history is an oversimplification, but a significant amount of comic-book history was made by two of the guests at this weekend’s Big Wow! ComicFest in San Jose. The festival—at this point the Bay Area’s biggest gathering of the thousands of local comic-book, science- and speculative-fiction fans—was formerly known as Super-Con. That name was borrowed by parties in another state; Big Wow!‘s convention manager Steven Wyatt says, “We have taken the name ‘festival’ to heart and are trying to have more events going on.”
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Jon Serl Paintings at SJSU
Arts May 08, 2013, by Michael S. Gant
Serl’s oil paintings (mostly on board rather than canvas) often depict amorphous figures of both people and animals with free-flowing, almost liquefied outlines. The large Others Someplace Else (late 1980s) conjures up a lost world in which three ochre and yellow imaginary dinosaurs cavort in front of a mountain range beneath of swirling blue and white sky that would do a well-schooled Impressionist proud.
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Billy Elliot the Musical
Arts May 01, 2013, by Tad Malone
Billy Elliot the Musical, the Tony Award-winning stage adaptation of the film about a boy’s love of dance and the struggle with his family’s expectations during a coal miners’ strike in northern England, arrives in San Jose May 7.
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Free Comic Book Day
Arts May 01, 2013, by Richard von Busack
The global event Free Comic Book Day, which began in Concord about a decade ago, is now what Mountain View’s Lee Hester of Lee’s Comics calls it: “the world’s biggest comic event, bigger than the SanDiego Comic Con or any comic con.”
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Cirque du Soleil Announces Return to San Jose
Arts Apr 24, 2013, by Matt Crawford
Cirque du Soleil will finish 2013 with a return visit to San Jose for its production of Amaluna.
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SJ Q&A: Irene Dalis, Opera San Jose
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Irene Dalis, founder of Opera San Jose, will step down from the company in July 2014 after 28 years working at the opera company. At 87 years old, she says she feels it is finally time to let someone else take the lead.
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Karen Gabay & Ballet San Jose
Arts Apr 17, 2013, by Jennifer Wadsworth
Karen Gabay practically grew up with her ballet company, signing on straight out of high school with what was then the San Jose Cleveland Ballet 34 years ago. She was 18, already groomed from performing with a semiprofessional troupe in her hometown of San Diego.
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MACLA Celebrates 15th Annual Latino Art Auction
Arts Apr 15, 2013, by Celeste Lodge
MACLA’s 15th Annual Latino Art Auction arrives May 18, providing the opportunity for attendees to expand their Latino art collection with friendly bidding wars in a festive setting.
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Persuasion at The Stage
Arts Apr 10, 2013, by Sean Conwell
Jane Austen’s novels are so noted for their insight into the manners and domestic proprieties of their age that it’s easy to forget how lively, indeed funny, her work is. An element of danger also arises: those idyllic country settings are really battlefields in which lone heroines square off against an array of Willoughbys, Wickhams and Crawfords.
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Disconnect at the SJ Rep
Arts Apr 10, 2013, by Sean Conwell
The indian call center has become an unfortunate racist cliche, the place where robotlike workers perform outsourced American jobs, and even for many who don’t partake in churlish vitriol about “stolen” jobs, there is something undeniably surreal about being connected with a service person in South Asia.
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