Carolyn Schuk

Santa Clara

Associate Editor at Santa Clara Weekly

Associate editor of Silicon Valley's hyper-local newspaper The Weekly.

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From Big Band to Modern: Jazz for Every Taste at SCU

1 week ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

Santa Clara University SCU Presents is wrapping up the 2024-25 season with a pair of jazz concerts, Wednesday and Saturday of this week, with something for almost every jazz lover. The performance on the 28th features a full jazz orchestra performing classic jazz pieces and a modern composition by Annie Booth — commissioned for the Reno Jazz Festival in 2022. On the 31st, three small jazz combos play modern jazz and original compositions.
Another Winning Soroptimists’ Fundraiser “In the Bag”

2 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

Now in its second decade, Soroptimist’s Classy Bag Luncheon and Auction continues to be the Santa Clara charity event of the year, drawing more guests every year and raising hefty sums to support Soroptimists’ charitable programs. In honor of the service club’s record, State Senator Aisha Wahab presented the club with a plaque of recognition from the state legislature at the April 26 event.
Eduardo’s: Keeping the Tradition of Fine Tailoring Alive in Santa Clara

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

For 50 years, Manuel’s tailor shop was a familiar sight driving down Stevens Creek in Santa Clara. But the double whammy of advancing age and the COVID pandemic led to the master tailor writing finis in 2020 to a long career making Bay Area residents look their best. But lovers of fine tailoring need not worry. The tailor shop on Stevens Creek is now the home of Eduardo’s tailoring, featuring the same top-notch work that was Manuel’s hallmark.
SJSU’s Beethoven Center: Not Just For Academics

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

Music lovers, if you’re free on Thursday, May 1, you might want to take in the last concert of the 2024-2025 season at the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies in San José. These free noon concerts are just one example of how the Beethoven Center, part of San José State University and located in the King Library in San Jose, is unique among academic study centers. “We’re a community-facing organization, not just an academic one,” said Beethoven Center Director Dr. Erica Buurman.
Image and Space: Nathan Oliveira at the Triton Museum

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

Bay Area artist Nathan Oliveira (1928-2010) described himself as an abstract artist whose work had to be “about something.”For the prolific Oliveira, the “something” is a point of departure for the viewer, not the point of arrival — “evocative” and “intangible” are often used in describing his work. Solitary figures in vague and open landscapes appear frequently in his work. The Oliveira show at Santa Clara’s Triton Museum of Art, “Variations on Form,” spans many decades and mediums.
James Williams: Santa Clara’s First African American Resident

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

James Williams wasn’t just Santa Clara’s first African American citizen and one of the first African Americans to settle in Santa Clara County. He was also a “first citizen” as a community leader in the city, and is honored for his role as a leader in Santa Clara’s Volunteer Fire Department. Today, an SCFD plaque honors him. But without the determination of the Garden City Women’s Club, only the most dedicated California history buffs would know Williams’ name.
Winning Connections: Sports and Local Business

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

With the World Cup and Super Bowl coming to Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium next year, the business of sports is in the spotlight. At a roundtable with sports and business leaders at the Triton Museum of Art on April 2, Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce looked at the business of sports and especially the role of women’s sports in that ecosystem.
Santa Clara’s Triton Museum: San José’s Loss, Santa Clara’s Gain

2 months ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

The Triton might still be San José’s premier fine art museum had it not been for San José Fire Marshal John Gerhard’s ruling that the museum’s pre-WWI building was a fire hazard. The museum got its start when founder Robert Morgan — a well-known San José attorney and rancher as well as a philanthropist and art connoisseur — began working to establish a fine art museum in San José.
Serenade to Music Returns to Mission Church

2 months ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

Conductor Elena Sharkova will be back at the Santa Clara Mission Church on April 12, 2025 with another annual Serenade to Music concert with the Symphony San José Chorale and Symphony San José, featuring music by two contemporary composers from the Americas. This year’s concert takes the audience on an ocean voyage, with The Secret of the Sea by American composer Jake Runestad (b. 1986), taking listeners on a dramatic nautical voyage with lyrics from Whitman, Longfellow and Inuit mythology.
Santa Clara’s $3.9M Former City Manager Threatening to Sue for Two Weeks of Benefits

Mar 4, 2025 | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

In closed session tonight, the Santa Clara City Council will address a potential lawsuit filed by former City Manager Deanna Santana. From October 2017 — when Santana was hired — until one year after she was fired, the former city manager collected a total of $3.9 million from the City of Santa Clara in salary ($2.4 million), supplemental pay ($435,000) and benefits ($1.2 million).