by Jeffrey Brock | Feb 1, 1998 | Writing
WITH A SHUFFLE of a curtain, Stan Shaff emerges from a hexagonal portal that looks like a prop from the original Star Trek series. The composer leads his audience through a shadowy, gurgling labyrinth into the round inner sanctum of Audium, a theater of...
by Jeffrey Brock | Apr 1, 1995 | Writing
SOME WILLOW GLEN residents are crying foul because a temporary homeless shelter will be opening next month at the Willow Vale Free Methodist Church. It’s a refrain heard in other parts of this normally tranquil San Jose bedroom community during the last two...
by Jeffrey Brock | Dec 1, 1994 | Writing
AT ALUM ROCK’S COPA CABANA, four trumpeters unleash a fusillade of notes, and a clarinetist blows furiously in his instrument’s highest registers. Amidst the glorious out-of-tune chaos and reflected mirror images, Banda Capricorn’s tuba player pumps out his...
by Jeffrey Brock | Sep 28, 1994 | Writing
It’s Monday night at the Phoenix Jazz Club and San Jose resident Brian Wilkes is thirsting for blood. “I think I want to bleed you,” Wilkes says to Santa Cruzan Ted Trollman, who is sitting to his left around a large table. “There’s...
by Jeffrey Brock | Aug 18, 1994 | Writing
AFTER STRESS-INDUCED endocrine tumors sent pastor Dick Miller to the hospital for months in 1982, he realized it was time at last to drop his life-long heterosexual facade. “I was denying myself in order to do ministry,” says Miller, 54. “But I...
