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As you walk through the gallery of New Museum Los Gatos, vivid colors and images stick out and form a mosaic of different perspectives and stories. The gallery’s spring exhibition highlights Santa Clara County’s best student artists that submitted to “ArtNow”—this year’s theme is...

The curtain goes up on the nights a nude model is being drawn... ...as renowned portrait artist John Robert Peck works with his Tuesday evening charcoal drawing class at the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company. Workshops are offered thru NUMU, too, and commissions are accepted. Dinah Cotton...

After five years of meetings, proposals, compromises, and design revisions, the Town Council has unanimously approved the new Los Gatos Meadows development. It’ll be situated on an 11 acre property that was the home of one of our earliest and most prominent citizens, John Weldon...

The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District announced last week three Los Gatos High School students and six Saratoga High School students have been accepted to an annual juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition. The educational program, titled “ArtNow,” is presented by...

The Terraces of Los Gatos held a Spring Open House, last week, at its 800 Blossom Hill Rd. digs, not too far off Los Gatos Boulevard. This nine-acre residential campus has been welcoming downsizers since 1992. Those who live here say they enjoy an active,...

Merrylou White, a 70-year-old resident of the Santa Cruz neighborhood of Pleasure Point, had purchased a pass for all three days of this year’s Scotts Valley Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival, held this past weekend. She’s someone who grew up in Los Gatos, attending Los Gatos...

Many people can identify with being young and unable to find community in the world. For James Kopecky, ballet became a passion back in high school, when a mentor noted his dance skills. “When I was younger, I couldn’t do a lot of outdoor sports...

Santa Cruz County has been the backdrop for various horror movies, most famously “Lost Boys,” “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” and, more recently, Jordan Peele’s “Us.” But its deepest connection to Hollywood involves the ultimate master of the macabre. Back in the 1940s, director Alfred...

San Jose’s homegrown film festival, Cinequest—which is on now through the rest of March—will feature some 250 movies from 45 different companies. More than 100 of these are premieres of one kind or another. Cinequest is also a showcase for new technology—“a discovery bastion” not...

As you approach former Saratoga mayor Jill Hunter’s front door, you can’t help but notice her blooming backyard garden basking in the sun. Step inside, and her keen eye for plants is obvious. They are the center of attention. What else would you expect from someone...