Culture

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...

Two Ann Sobrato High School teachers have joined forces to combine their subjects into a children’s book, pairing an English teacher’s writing with an art teacher’s illustrations in a new picture-based publication aimed at readers with ADHD and similar learning challenges. “Never Wish for Superpowers:...

Morgan Hill is starting work on a major update to its downtown planning rules, a two-year effort that will reshape the area’s housing, parking and streets in the years ahead. The Planning Commission got its first look at the project, called the Greater Downtown Specific...

South Santa Clara County students in 4-H and FFA will have a new opportunity to show off their livestock this summer as the inaugural South Valley Ag Fair kicks off July 27-28, with an auction to follow Aug. 1. The first event, a two-day “jackpot”...

Thousands of residents and visitors lined Monterey Road July 4 to watch the 151st Morgan Hill Freedom Fest parade, as the city joined communities across the nation in celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence. The parade featured 124 entries and 2,600 participants, making it...