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 | A touch of New Orleans food and blues right in San Jose THE SOUTH BAY seems to be getting more and more places to listen to good music. They are sprouting up in little corners where you don’t expect them. One newer venue that is trying to bring good blues to San Jose is Poor House Bistro. This New Orleans restaurant can be found near the downtown train station.More |  | Ex-UCSC prof delivers a message of uplift in folky songs MICHELLE CHAPPEL’S song “Screw you, Yahoo,” from 2008, is a jaunty, acoustic number on how bad it feels to be laid off and think it’s your fault when it’s not. An accompanying video posted to YouTube featuring the diminutive Chappel showing flashcards with key words from the song became a brief Internet sensation, garnering 17,000 viewers on its peak day. “I think the video’s more relevant now than it was then,” Chappel says.More |  | A local standup plans to record his first album at Sonoma Chicken Coop DECIDING on a career in comedy took some soul-searching for standup Mike Betancourt, who headlines “A Special Night of Comedy” this week at Sonoma Chicken Coop. Betancourt, who was born and raised in San Jose, served in the Navy from 1999 until 2004 on the USS Theodore Roosevelt during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. After the Navy, he attended West Valley College for two years before switching to Sacramento City College for a semester.More |  | Celebrating 50 years of advocacy with a gala on Saturday, Nov. 7 THE AMERICAN GI FORUM ANNIVERSARY GALA takes place Saturday, Nov. 7, at 5:30pm at Unify Hall, 765 Story Road, San Jose. Tickets are $50. (408.499.8369, 408.829.0329 or 408.775.3251).More |  | South Bay musician Angie Thurman of Stars Misplaced talks about her future plans THERE COMES a point in every artist’s life when he or she simply hits a wall. Picasso’s hiatus following World War II, John Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” from 1973 to 1975 and Hemingway’s 10-year literary absence after writing [i]For Whom the Bell Tolls[/i] are all examples of an artist’s need for a temporary departure from the creative realm. For San Jose songwriter Angie Thurman, that time is now.More |  | Our club correspondent is pleasantly surprised at San Jose's Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge I MUST ADMIT, I’m not the biggest fan of ultralounges. But I was recently at Fahrenheit in San Jose, and I have to say I had a really good time.More |  | Drs. Todd and Kathy Bragg got the idea for A Youthful Reflection after they went into a big med spa for some treatment. They felt like the spa was pushing products and services on them that they didn’t need, were overpriced, and that they weren’t being given the whole truth about the procedures.More |  | Johnny Cash lives again in tribute band playing Friday, Nov. 6, at the Blank Club in San Jose CASH’D OUT plays Friday, Nov. 6, at 9pm at the Blank Club, 44 S. Almaden Ave., San Jose; cover is $12. (408.29BLANK)More |  | The beloved Santa Cruz poet passed away last week at 73. MORTON MARCUS, whose outsize presence animated and at times dominated Santa Cruz County’s literary culture for most of the last 40 years, died peacefully at home after a long illness early in the morning of Oct. 28. He was 73, and seemed both younger and older—younger because his attitude toward everything was one of boyish enthusiasmMore |  | Two Teens Arrested in Halloween Murder Case; San Jose Named One of Nation's Cleanest Cities [b]City to Host Skating Championships[/b]
San Jose is not known for its icy climate, but it does have its share of world-class figure skaters. Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi grew up in San Jose, and so did U.S. champion Rudy Galindo, who won the Gold right here in San Jose in 1996. The two of them used their star power to bring the U.S. Skating Championships back to San Jose in 2012.More |
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