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January 30, 2026

The Graystones looking forward to St. Mary’s Country Fair performance

grid of band images
You can hear the baseline first, melodic and uptempo, backed by a solid drum beat. Then come the vocals, soulful and true. A keyboard lays down some sweet chords, with accents on guitar. The music swells, a horn section chimes in, until the song...

Holly Lane puts the frame in focus at NUMU

After the Storm
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...

Temporary mural at cafe crash site along Main St. to proclaim LG is ‘Stronger Together’

before the mural was this plastic
The jaw-dropping footage of the newer model Volvo careening down University Avenue quickly became national news. That car ended its journey in front of the iconic Brevetti Farina coffee roaster inside of the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company. When the media descended upon Los Gatos...

After performing with Harry Styles, Usher + Pink, local graduate Saghari is choreographing a second New Ballet piece

Keon posing for a photo
Keon Saghari, a Los Gatos High School graduate, has found success in the world of rollerskating, performing with Usher, Pink and Harry Styles, and is now choreographing a ballet piece for New Ballet's upcoming show in San Jose.

Los Gatos designer’s shoes hit Golden Globes red carpet in Beverly Hills

Flor de Maria and shoes
It had been a year since Janelle James got in hot water for interrupting a co-star during last year’s Golden Globes, and she wanted to make sure her look was on-point for this year’s edition. And thanks to the insights of one of her stylists,...

Veterans Foundation hosts ‘Mission: Impossible’ premiere in Los Gatos

Kent Hillhouse speaks
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...

Peninsula Symphony—feat. Natasha Paremski—to perform Mendelssohn + Rachmaninoff (Calendar)

symphony orchestra show upcoming
This week's Calendar features an orchestral opportunity, a chance to fight breast cancer and a potential jazzy encounter. Peninsula Symphony Orchestra Pianist Natasha Paremski, performs with the Peninsula Symphony in a program of works including Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Mendelssohn’s Overture for Winds, and Rachmaninoff’s...

All that jazz, and much more at Saratoga High

Jason Shiuan and the band
Jason Shiuan, the music director at Saratoga High School, is this year’s recipient of the California Music Educators Association’s Byron Hoyt/Don Schmeer Band Educator of the Year award. Congratulations! After several emails and calendar checks, I caught up with Shiuan on the SHS campus. I...

3rd Annual Hitchcock Film Fest endears despite hiccup

Hitchcock Festival lobby
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...

The impressive start to a sizzling season

child in the park
Traffic was impossible, but at least the downtowners could walk. The music fans appeared in Town Plaza Park Saturday to take in bluegrass and Americana tunes, not to leave out zydeco. Those who arrived prior to the noon start time staked their picnic blankets and chairs...

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