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...
by Jeffrey Brock | Aug 4, 1994 | Writing
DEBORAH OLSON is the end of the line. At Sunnyvale’s C.J. Olson Cherries, her family has nurtured cherries and apricots for four generations. But Olson’s brother and sister aren’t interested in digging their hands into the farm’s soil. And...
by Jeffrey Brock | Jul 1, 1994 | Writing
WHEN TANNED RETIREE Ted Forster removes his watch at the Bramhall Willow Street Park Lawn Bowling Green, he shows off a visible testament to his love for his gentlemanly sport: a section of skin as white as his T-shirt. During the last two years, he and his wife,...
by Jeffrey Brock | Jul 1, 1994 | Writing
AS A MARIACHI melody bounces back and forth inside a circle of trumpets, guitars and violins, baby Fernando Torres’ upturned eyes swing about as if he were watching a tennis match. Fernando reaches up to his dad, Abigail, a violinist, as he and other members of...
