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3rd Annual Hitchcock Fest on March 14-16 in Scotts Valley
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...
Author of psych-thriller to sign books at Beyond Text
On Dec. 7, at 2pm, Beyond Text Bookstore in Los Gatos will host a book signing with Ellen Kirschman, author of the newly released Call Me Carmela.
This psychological thriller follows police therapist Dot Meyerhoff as she helps a young woman uncover her roots, while...
Local high school string quartet to join the pros
When the touring show “Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown” returns to the Campbell Heritage Theatre on Nov. 17, Prospect (Saratoga) High School String Quartet will join the professional musicians on stage to lend some local talent to this homage to the British...
DA’s cybercrime art contest for students kicks-off
District Attorney Jeff Rosen is asking Santa Clara County high school students to create and submit original art that helps the DA's Office fight online crimes like fraud, catfishing, and cyberbullying.
The winner will receive $1,500. The second-place winner will receive $1,000. The third-place winner will...
Art Around Town (photos)
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...
Veterans Foundation hosts ‘Mission: Impossible’ premiere in Los Gatos
On the evening of July 19, local resident Grant Atwell was out taking photos at Jazz on the Plazz, and wasn’t at the “Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1” premiere at the Los Gatos Theatre, in which his daughter stars alongside Tom Cruise.
That’s because...
Students featured in ‘Be-You-tiful’ contest exhibit (incl. poem by Saratoga student)
On May 18, the Triton Museum in Santa Clara opened its new digital art gallery with poetry, video, essays and visual art from the Eating Disorder Resource Center’s “Be-You-tiful” contest.
Students were invited to submit pieces exploring how social media and the world around them...
West Valley College fashion show presents collections from talented emerging designers
A steady beat pumps out over a glossy white runway. A curtain shields models wearing items from up-and-coming designers, in a show creative directed by early Alexander McQueen collaborator Simon Ungless. Was this New York Fashion Week? Paris? Or Milan?
In fact, this was the...
Holly Lane puts the frame in focus at NUMU
A modern picture frame’s function is simply to provide a border for a painting or photograph—to be inconspicuous. In Holly Lane’s hands, however, frames play anything but second fiddle.
“Holly Lane—Not Enough Time to Love the World,” a new exhibit at NUMU (New Museum Los...
Los Gatos nonprofit plans series of celebrations for Africa Day
To celebrate Africa Day, the Los Gatos nonprofit AWỌ is debuting an art exhibit in San Francisco titled “Unhindered Pairings.”
The free exhibition is a collaboration with cultural collective Afriicionado and radio station KALW 91.7 FM.
The exhibition will debut on May 2, from 5–9pm, at...
