Metro Silicon Valley

Metro is a free weekly publication from Metro Newspapers, located in San Jose, California. Often referred to as Metro Silicon Valley, this newspaper caters to the wider Silicon Valley region. Besides its print edition, you can download Metro for free in PDF format from the publisher's website. The newspaper also covers local politics and the social scene in San Jose with its weekly column titled The Fly.

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Inside the Box With Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Echo’

1 week ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Tad Malone

It’s curtain call. The lights dim as the last stragglers rush to their seats. The seated audience brims with excitement, quietly murmuring in anticipation. The adults look on with interest, but the children in the audience are enraptured. A girl and her dog, dressed in white and blue, appear in the aisle. She throws his toy on stage and it bounces off a massive white cube, opening a portal to another world. So begins Echo, Cirque du Soleil’s newest show in the South Bay.
Viva CalleSJ Marks a Decade of Open Street Events

1 week ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh

Last Sunday, Viva CalleSJ celebrated ten years of open street events in San Jose. It’s been a wild ride. Back in 2015, plans emerged to replicate various open street initiatives around the world, especially those in Latin America, where locals converted stretches of road into car-free spaces just for a few hours.
Can a Cannabis Lounge Quell Anxiety?

1 week ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Daedalus Howell

If one can remember anything about cannabis, it’s often the first time—and the last time—one imbibed it. Everything else is a blur of puff-puff-pass, gurgling bong water or the electric rush of realizing those were pot brownies about half an hour after eating them. My first time was with my lifelong pal, O., in the early ’80s, during Christmas break our freshman year in high school.
Downtown Diary: Shifting Winds Upend DTSJ Leadership, Projects

1 week ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Dan Pulcrano

To those who’ve watched downtown San Jose navigate a half century of trying to build itself into a regional center, the notion that prosperity is just around the corner is a bit of a punchline. During the ’80s, a convention center, a luxury hotel, a retail plaza, a sports arena and a handful of highrise office buildings were going to transform San Jose into Silicon Valley’s capital. Then the Gulf War recession hit.
Andre Kim in San Jose

1 week ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Mat Weir

In the comedy world, some comedians write and rehearse particular bits they repeat—sometimes verbatim—while on tour. Others are more observational, pointing out the absurdity of life with a sharp wit or quickly throwing out funny one-liners at whim. Andre Kim is one of the latter comedians. Hailing from Queens, New York, Kim has worked with Comedy Central, IHeartRadio and SiriusXM.
Stella Cole in Saratoga

1 week ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Bill Kopp

Inspired by the Great American Songbook, Stella Cole is a talented jazz singer known for her soulful voice and captivating stage presence. She launched a weekly livestream on TikTok, and it was a staggering success: one video of her singing earned 27 million views. Her social media following numbers more than 1.6 million. Fans revere Cole for her vocal range and emotional depth. A 2023 run with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox brought Cole’s artistry to even more audiences.
San Jose City Council’s Million Dollar District

2 weeks ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Barry Holtzclaw

Two frontrunners in yesterday’s special election to fill San Jose’s District 3 City Council seat—Matthew Quevedo and Gabby Chavez-Lopez—raised nearly $424,000 for their brief campaigns, according to the latest reports filed with the San Jose City Clerk. But that’s only part of the picture, in which campaign statements show nearly $1.5 million in campaign activity.
Big on El Cortito

2 weeks ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Dan Pulcrano

Monday this week, April 7, 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of a landmark piece of occupational safety law, Cal-OSHA’s ban on the use of the short-handled hoe in agricultural work. The order followed a California Supreme Court ruling that declared it an “unsafe hand tool,” a more formal description of el brazo del diablo, “the devil’s arm,” which left farm workers with herniated discs and sciatica amongst related back and skeletal injuries.
Silicon Alleys: A 20-Year Journey Starts With One Stop

2 weeks ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh

Lisa Thomas got me the job. That’s how it all started. Somewhere in the roach-infested paradise of Cactus Club’s happy hour—every day for me and maybe a few evenings a week for her—Lisa and I carried on with the others. She knew I was a struggling freelancer and she convinced me to apply for something, anything, at Metro, the alt-weekly newspaper located in an old brick building down the street from Cactus.
Baxter Robertson & Friends in Redwood City

2 weeks ago | metrosiliconvalley.com | Aaron Carnes

.Baxter Robertson & Friends in Redwood City BLUES JAM: Local legend Baxter Robertson is serious about making good tunes The long-running Blues Jam at Club Fox attracts a faithful crowd; they come to see some of the region’s finest in an unvarnished, loose and open musical meeting of the minds. Anything can happen, and unpredictability is baked into the recipe. This edition is led by Bay Area singer, songwriter and keyboardist Baxter Robinson.