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San Jose’s sewage plant is a wonder of old-school science and technology. And it’s falling apart.
Most of what comes down the pipe at the San Jose–Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant is, frankly, crap. The 53-year-old facility, which occupies 2,600 acres of former marshland on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, serves eight cities and receives the toilet flushings of some 1.4 million people. More
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Mike Ortega has worked at the plant since 1980. He recalls his shifts at the headworks almost in a reverie. One day, he says, the ditched spoils of a bank robbery came piling up against the five-eighths-inch screens. More
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Music
Left Coast Live wraps up its five-day festival on Friday with a downtown, musical blowout. The festivities kick off as headliners Lyrics Born, Booker T and Miggs perform at an outdoor stage in the SoFa district. Simultaneously, Mumlers, Good Hustle, Maxx Cabello Jr. and La Colectiva will perform at the Mini Main Stage, located at South First and San Salvador streets. More
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Theater
Chicano theater troupe marks 25 years of community creativity
For the past 25 years, Teatro Visión has defined itself in as the leader of Chicano theater in Silicon Valley, mixing nontraditional productions with social justice and providing a forum for community involvement. The company celebrates its quarter-century mark this Saturday with a gala and concert. More
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A musical revue about the blues at TheatreWorks strays a long way from the genre’s roots
TheatreWork’s new production, "It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues," is a old-fashioned crowd-pleaser designed to leave audiences feeling good about themselves. Built around the talents of seven singing actors (some also play instruments) sitting on chairs in front of a three-screen slide show, the self-described “musical revue” is a didactic, if weirdly meandering, journey through the history of the blues—from its roots in Africa to its flowering on the streets of Chicago. For the most part, the singing is strong, and the musical accompaniment is polished (a tight backup band sits in for Act 2). It is, in short, a perfectly pleasant experience. More
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A new play at Teatro Vision explores the dynamics of Latino brothers in L.A.
There are so many good moments and strong performances in the current Teatro Visión production of Richard Montoya’s "Water & Power" that I scarcely know where to begin. So let’s start with the play’s prologue, delivered by the gruff, wheelchair-bound shaman gangbanger Norte/Sur (Rubén C. González), who rolls himself onto the stage to inform us that the lords of death are severely pissed off (his language is more colorful). More
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TheatreWorks presents Lisa Loomer's play about a mother and her struggle to understand her troubled child
Like a child with ADD, Lisa Loomer’s "Distracted," presented by TheatreWorks, darts impulsively from scene to scene. Actors abruptly enter ongoing monologues, which they interrupt with fast-paced dialogue, before exiting, their services no longer required. Chairs are wheeled into view from offstage before being hustled into position by the actors themselves. More
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There is a line late in the second act of Murray Schisgal’s Luv, now being presented by Northside Theatre Company in San Jose, that is apparently important enough to the playwright that he has put the words into his characters’ mouths no fewer than five times in the span of about a minute. “Love,” begins Ellen (Susannah Greenwood) “is a giving and taking, an interchange of emotions, a gradual development based on physical attraction, complementary careers and simple social similarities.” More
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Theater
The Palo Alto Players want us to root for Shakespeare's ‘Romeo and Juliet’ all over again
Palo Alto Players trims some crucial dialogue in its new version of Shakespeare classic tragedy of star-crossed lovers. More
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Music
With ‘Salutary,’ San Jose band Pericardium pumps out an eclectic mix of metal, rock and psychedelia
The past year and a half has been a roller-coaster ride for San Jose’s Pericardium. The young rock act has transitioned from a keys- and violin-heavy amalgam to a standard four-piece with two guitars, a bass and drums. And while the musical stylings of the band have morphed along with the lineup changes, the inspiration and drive to create out-of-the-box sounds has remained the same More
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