The Italian American Heritage will set up collection stations at this weekend’s Festa celebration in San Jose to raise money for a Faenza Flood Relief Fund.

The decision by the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce to cancel Taste of Morgan Hill follows previous post-pandemic South County cancellations of the mushroom and garlic festivals.

The 42nd annual local festival was scheduled to take place May 27-28 in downtown Morgan Hill, but the nonprofit Mardi Gras organization that produces the Mushroom Festival still plans to host an entertaining summer fundraising event.

California’s Legislature has become more diverse than ever. At the same time, a rally against transgender healthcare was held at the state Capitol and anti-semitism in the state is on the rise.

Adobe said 10 Oscar-nominated films used Adobe creative applications, including Everything Everywhere All at Once, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Top Gun: Maverick.

Tabard Director Rhys Williams said in an email that the theater, formerly Theatre on San Pedro Square, at 29 N San Pedro St., will be permanently closing in just over six weeks.

The capybara sisters were born at a zoo in Texas, early in October and were transferred to Happy Hollow at the recommendation of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Capybara Species Survival Plan. Capybaras are not endangered, but their native habitat in the Amazon Rainforest is.

Breeze of Innovation was selected in 2019 in a juried international competition. The civic monument is intended to pay homage to the San Jose Light Tower, which stood at Market and Santa Clara streets from 1881 to 1915.

Gov. Newsom and the Legislature cut a California cannabis tax, but not everyone is convinced it’s enough to stabilize the legal market. Social equity operators say the changes don’t do nearly enough to help them.

In addition to the Discovery Meadow at the San Jose Children’s Museum and Almaden Lake Park in San Jose, public fireworks displays are scheduled for sites in Cupertino, Gilroy, Milpitas, Mountain View, Morgan Hill and Santa Clara, according to county officials.

Massey is the successor to symphony founder Andrew Bales, pending his long-planned retirement.

The San José Downtown Association selected downtown-based entertainment industry veteran Mauricio Mejia to promote future concerts.

The venerable Café Stritch will be reinvented as a new venue in the coming months as the keys are turned over to the jazz bar’s former general manager, Andrew Saman. The establishment will be known as Mama Kin, Saman says, and will continue to book jazz shows while expanding with other types of music.

Campbell, a writer and musician, is curator of Beautiful Black Books as part of Poetry Center San Jose and conducts lectures, workshops in creative writing and spiritual verse.

A star in wartime Vietnam, Phuong Tâm returns to the spotlight five decades later with reissued recordings next spring.

Even as national headlines fade, a core of young Black activists are demanding attention through community service and controversy