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Is this year’s ‘Jazz on the Plazz’ season really almost over already?
Last night, it was the Jazz Mafia. Next week (Aug. 13), Clairdee. And the week after, the big grand finale—Tony Lindsay and the Soul Soldiers.
That’s the line-up that remains on this year’s Jazz on the Plazz calendar.
The weekly Wednesday-evening series, produced by Los Gatos...
Ted Sahl photography exhibit
Little is known about the life of late local photographer Ted Sahl. He was born in 1927 and grew up outside of Boston. He served in the Navy in 1947 and later moved to the Bay Area, where he began taking pictures in the...
Jazz on the Plazz organizers sound-off at series launch
Teri Hope and Jonathan Knowles, the organizers of Jazz on the Plazz, were clearly thrilled to welcome Los Gatos residents and visitors to the first edition of the Jazz on the Plazz series, which this year is honoring one of the greats while investing...
Congregations come together for Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
They may not have packed a room the way they did in pre-Covid-19 times—when around 1,000 people turned up for the community’s Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service—but the around 125-strong in-person crowd was augmented by additional attendees participating remotely.
Jeffrey Hall, the senior pastor at Los...
Frightful film fest fundraiser has early success
A ghastly celluloid extravaganza has reaped bloodcurdlingly impressive results, so far.
The youth-led Scares For Cares film fest has attracted a long list of frightening contenders, and just days after launching has already brought in about $3,000 for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
“It’s crazy how...
Event benefits annual jazz festival
Los Gatos Music & Arts and Linda L. Lester will present “The GALA” for Jazz on the Plazz, featuring renowned vocalist Kim Nalley.
The event will take place Sept. 26 from 5-9pm La Estancia Estate, 18000 Overlook Road in Los Gatos. The gala benefits Jazz...
West Valley Youth Theater rocking its way through summer season
As the beaming cast of The Lightning Thief returned to the stage to take a bow on Thursday night after their performance, it was clear West Valley Youth Theater's summer 2023 season was in full swing. The line-up includes four full-scale productions: Disney’s The...
Los Gatos designer’s shoes hit Golden Globes red carpet in Beverly Hills
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,...
Kat the Musician excited to set the ambiance at LG Roasting Co.
Katerina Aleksenko was 13 years old when she started teaching herself how to play guitar at home in Fresno.
At 21 she was staying in North Hollywood at an AirBnB, when the owner introduced her to famed music producer Charlie Wilson, which led to recording...
Author tackles chess and gender bias
Before Kyla Zhao became a talented adult fiction author in Silicon Valley, she was a young chess player in Singapore. Starting at age six, she played throughout her childhood before leaving the chess world after middle school. In her newly released novel May the...


















