Culture

A new literature organization known as SCRAWL has been formed in Morgan Hill with the goal of bringing together readers and writers from across South County to share in a mutual love of stories.  Founder Jordan Rosenfeld, a local journalist, editor, and author of 11...

Morgan Hill residents are pressing the city and housing developer Valley Oak Partners LLC to change plans for a 93-unit housing project so that a massive Coast Live Oak, thought by some to be among the largest and oldest trees in Morgan Hill, is...

The Edward Boss Prado Foundation is ending its partnership with Morgan Hill Unified School District, with the nonprofit’s leadership saying the district’s plan to run its own food and clothing programs leaves it without a role. Cecelia and Gary Ponzini, who founded the foundation in...

South Valley Symphony kicks off its 53rd season Oct. 4 at 3pm at Guglielmo Winery in Morgan Hill, opening a four-concert season built around a single unifying idea: celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. “We wanted to primarily continue celebrating America’s 250th anniversary,” said Anthony Quartuccio, the...

More than 75 young performers from across South County will step onstage Oct. 2 as South Valley Civic Theatre opens “Disney’s The Lion King Jr.” at the Morgan Hill Community Playhouse, to run for three weekends. Adapted for young performers from the Broadway musical and...

When Ivan Uranga decided to shut the door on a 14-year office job to own his own business, the chicken sandwiches game in Gilroy was wide open. Today, two and a half years after opening Macaco Spicy Chicken Sandwiches, competition is fierce since Chick-fil-A...

Author Alie Saad synthesized science, speculation and spirituality to develop a narrative that explores the nature of consciousness and the definition of life, and forces the reader to ask hard questions about the role of science, regulation and mysticism in medical cases where the...

A new self-guided history trail wound its way through downtown Morgan Hill for the first time Aug. 29, as the Leadership Morgan Hill Class of 2026 cut the ribbon on “Many Stories, One Morgan Hill,” the capstone project to the nine-month leadership development course. The...

A day on the green goes hilariously wrong in “The Fox on the Fairway,” Ken Ludwig’s golf-course farce opening Aug. 28 at Pintello Comedy Theater. The play pits two rival country clubs against each other in a high-stakes tournament after one club’s leader poaches the...

Twice Tyger, a small regenerative-farming vineyard north of Gilroy, has opened a seasonal tasting room this summer while it works through county approval for a permanent tasting pavilion and production facility on its own estate five miles away. The current “satellite” tasting room, at a...