San Jose - Arts & Culture

South Bay cinema fans will have plenty to see and do during the second half of August, thanks to the innovative film festival known as Cinequest, which returns after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.

Hoodline's Bay Area Summertime Happenings curates a selection of recommendations to get you out of the house this weekend, from the cultural to the culinary. 

An historic, dome-shaped cinema building near Santana Row in San Jose could get a major facelift that would transform it from a former movie theater into something new.

Mountain Winery in Saratoga has just released an impressive lineup of musical acts and comedians slated to play over the next six months as part of its first full concert season in three years.

With COVID restrictions all but gone, organizers of the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, formerly known as the San Jose Jazz Festival, have released the lineup of artists and are more optimistic than ever that they can pack this year’s event.

After being closed for almost two years because of the pandemic, a well-known and intimate live jazz music venue in San Jose’s SoFA District has now decided not to reopen and will be ending its operations permanently.

Bay Area music fans will have a new concert venue to break in starting this month as the doors open at the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park.

A secret South Bay hideaway that pays tribute to Captain Hook, Blackbeard, and all the other famous pirates is about to get unearthed like a treasure chest and revealed to the entire world thanks to the National Geographic Television Series "The World According to Jeff Goldblum" on Disney+.

Some big changes appear to be on the horizon for the Port of Redwood City as the push for waterfront development kicks into high gear.

The next big concert at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara could go later into the night after a vote by the city council last week.

A popular art installation that once illuminated the sidewalks around the front of San Jose City Hall will be coming back in a few days, and it will stick around this time for the next six years.

A statue in San Jose that has been a source of controversy even before it was installed, now finally appears to be headed to a storage yard. The statue displays former San Jose mayor Thomas Fallon holding a flag in San Jose while he was a captain in the Mexican–American War in 1846, after the U.S. had just taken possession of California. 

It appears a beloved mural in the Washington-Guadalupe neighborhood in San Jose is going to be covered up at the behest of the property owner, and many in the community are upset.

You may remember 15-year old Tyler Gordon of San Jose, who live-painted a portrait of Kamala Harris on Twitter last year. Now he has a bestselling book.

If you were planning to hit one of the biggest street festivals in the country this weekend you’ll have to make new plans

You may notice over the next couple of days that San Jose City Hall is lit up in rainbow colors as a way to pay tribute to Eddie Gale, who was an iconic jazz trumpet player decades ago.

Hamilton is coming to San Jose in October, and tickets are already selling fast. The mega-hit musical is playing Oct. 12-31 at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

San Jose's SoFA neighborhood will soon be home to a striking new outdoor pavilion that will host a number of art-themed events, and potentially serve as a symbol for a reimagining of Silicon Valley's built space.

An artist is projecting an animation of running wolves from the back of a bicycle every evening this week in a roving art installation funded through Palo Alto's public art program.

San Jose Jazz is debuting a new music venue in the city’s downtown that includes a digital video wall outside, where it will project performances for free public viewing.

Find out how to participate in a Lunar New Year craft, where to get a red envelope and more in Hoodline's roundup of South Bay Lunar New Year events welcoming the Year of the Ox.

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