Tequila is all the craze as of late, and you may get a style of why if you happen to go to the latest bar at San Pedro Sq. Market in downtown San Jose. The agave-based craft cocktails served at Alma Tequileria are a far cry from the times when ingesting tequila meant doing pictures of Jose Cuervo with salt and lime.
You’ve obtained spirit-forward drinks just like the sweet-cinnamon Matador San Pedro and the one-two punch of the Oaxacan Beet Down, which has each tequila and its smoky cousin, mezcal, plus a beet liqueur. The Woman Peralta — and I really like the localized names for the cocktails — is sort of a spiced-up strawberry margarita. (Cocktails run $13-$14, and there’s additionally a number of high-end tequilas and mezcals served by the glass, in addition to beer and sangritas.)
The drinks aren’t the one enchantment for Alma, both. It fills the nook spot that was Blush Uncooked Bar and supplies a desperately wanted anchor for the Market Corridor constructing, which incorporates newcomers Hyland Home of Sushi and Mochinut, in addition to a redesigned Market Beer Co. And it appears nice, too, from the surface mural bursting with colourful flowers and vegetation by artist Lila Gemellos to the woven basket lighting fixtures hanging from the ceiling and wooden alcove seats.
Whereas it’s been open for a number of weeks now, Thursday was its official grand opening and it drew a various crowd, together with a number of residents of the Centerra condo constructing throughout the road testing the brand new neighbors.
ANNIVERSARY EVENT: It has been a attempting few years for the Chinese language Performing Arts of America. Founder Ann Woo died unexpectedly and tragically in 2017 following a confrontation outdoors a bubble tea store in West San Jose, after which the COVID-19 pandemic introduced its applications to a standstill two years in the past.
However the San Jose-based nonprofit group — which isn't a touring group however promotes ethnic arts and tradition by performances, group service and training — is on a comeback with a thirtieth anniversary gala efficiency deliberate for April 16 on the San Jose Middle for the Performing Arts.
“An Ode to the Golden Tang” celebrates China’s Tang Dynasty, which ran from 618 to 907. CPAA Govt Director Lihong Zhang stated the period was identified for its booming economic system, thriving arts and multicultural society. The present’s 4 components rejoice the poetry, theater, dance and music of the interval. “Our manufacturing is motivated by the wealthy arts and inclusive tradition from the Tang dynasty,” she stated.
Tickets to the 7 p.m. present can be found at www.cpaasv.org/2022.
BLOSSOM FESTIVAL RETURNS: After being away for 2 years, the Saratoga Blossom Pageant is again April 9 on the Heritage Orchard and the encircling space. The free occasion, based mostly on the unique pageant that began in 1900 and ran for 40 years, celebrates Saratoga’s agricultural historical past with plenty of small-town touches together with vintage automobiles, orchard excursions and a petting zoo.
After all, there’ll be music, too, and it’ll be far and wide, from the ragtime sounds of the band Parlor Methods and the Spirit of Sunnyvale Dixieland Band to extra fashionable covers performed by Dolce Musica. Individuals dressed as historic figures from Saratoga like Isabel Stine and Olivia deHavilland will probably be strolling round from midday to 2 p.m., but when they’re not fairly the dialog you’re searching for, you might chat with authors together with Tim Stanley (“Final of the Prune Pickers”) and Lisa Newman (“For the Love of Apricots”).
The entire thing runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and there may be parking obtainable within the Civic Middle parking zone, in addition to at West Valley School’s Lot 4. If you happen to want extra particulars, you possibly can dig them up at www.saratogahistory.com.
STRIDING FOR A CAUSE: One other occasion that's again in motion this 12 months is the PanCAN PurpleStride, the massive fundraising stroll for the Silicon Valley affiliate of the Pancreatic Most cancers Motion Community. It’s set for April 30 on the Guadalupe River Park’s Discovery Meadow in downtown San Jose. This month marks the occasion’s tenth anniversary in Discovery Meadow, a decade that has introduced in almost $3 million for pancreatic most cancers analysis.
The occasion’s fundraising aim this 12 months is $257,000 and it was 88% of the way in which there by Friday afternoon.
“By taking motion domestically, we've got the chance to make a distinction within the lives of pancreatic most cancers sufferers nationwide,” stated Diane Borrison, advocacy chair for PanCAN Silicon Valley and herself a pancreatic most cancers survivor. “We're dedicated to persevering with to lift very important funds and consciousness to help the pancreatic most cancers group and we’re trying ahead to being again collectively in individual this 12 months to take action.”
The occasion’s premier sponsor is the Kenney household of San Mateo, who misplaced their daughter, Carol Fitzgerald, to pancreatic most cancers at age 51 in 2016. You may register for the occasion or get extra data at www.purplestride.org/siliconvalley.