Arts + Entertainment

Our NUMU has a lot going on. For starters, this is the 10th year at its current location, and a celebration has been planned. In 2015, two existing museums combined into this one museum. So, this is actually the 60-year anniversary of museums in...

New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) last week unveiled “Ebb & Flow,” its newest exhibition, featuring three artists—Cheiko Shimizu Fujioka, Moekoa Machida and Margaret Luo—who worked with museum curators to create four distinct artworks, including one collaborative piece titled “Interwoven Elements.” Located just by the entrance to...

On Friday, the theme of the drugs-and-alcohol-free “Grad Night” was finally revealed. Los Gatos High School seniors were ushered into a wonderland based on the concept of “Take Flight,” where they could party all night in a safe environment while “flying” to six different locales—Austin,...

The weekend before his 11th birthday, Los Gatos resident Colin Kennedy was honored with a $500 scholarship at the Cotati Accordion Festival. He also got to perform at the North Bay event Sunday. “It was pretty nerve wracking,” he said, explaining what it felt like to...

With all the brilliance of a night out at La Cinémathèque française, the youthful filmmakers of Los Gatos burst forth Monday morning with creativity and verve, taking the red carpet at the Los Gatos Theatre by storm. Patty McNeil, of Monte Sereno, was one of...

Artist provides satirical take on fine art world In “Koons Ruins at the James Estate” at New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) (on view through Nov. 27), Bay Area artist Kathy Aoki provides humorous relief from the “art market tyranny” of artist Jeff Koons with her...

Silicon Valley has played host to many tectonic cultural forces over the decades—from the introduction of the personal computer to the way search engines and social media companies altered how humans navigate through the world.  In a way, these technological advances allowed old and young...

Pirate Cat Radio, at the 92.9 FM frequency, is the “work in progress” of Los Gatos resident Daniel Roberts. KPCR was switched on in 2020 and relocated here this past December, as first reported by the Los Gatan. For Pirate Cat Radio founder Roberts,...

Parham Pourahmad stands in the hills of Ed Levin County Park in Milpitas, waiting for the perfect moment to snap a bird of prey in its natural habitat. Suddenly, a Cooper’s hawk swoops down. It begins to claw apart a squirrel. Pourahmad aims his Sigma 150-600mm...

Here’s something not to be missed: an evening of traditional jazz with a youthful spin as music students across Monterey County audition in Los Gatos for the honor of being accepted as an All-Star. Stu Reynolds leads the instrumental Monterey Jazz Regional All-Star Band, with...