{"id":361460,"date":"2026-06-15T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361460\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:09:52","slug":"taste-of-milpitas-features-a-world-cup-watch-party-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361460\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste of Milpitas features a World Cup watch party \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taste of Milpitas<\/p>\n<p>The City of Milpitas is hosting a free, all-ages outdoor event June 20 at the Milpitas Community Center. Taste of Milpitas will feature a variety of local food vendors, a live concert stage, community entertainment from 3-9 p.m. and a World Cup watch party at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Food booths include Meat Time, Taishoken, Ume Tea, Crepe Shibuya, Pizza Guys Milpitas and Jaden\u2019s Kettle Corn. Food trucks will be on site from Takoz Mod Mex, Me Oi Viet Mom\u2019s Table, Chubby\u2019s Chick\u2019n, I Love Cheesesteak and Mister Softee.<\/p>\n<p>The bands Relative Key and Good Time Collective will provide live music. Community performance groups taking the stage include School of Indian Dance, Viet Steps, Blue Dragon Taekwondo, MANOS Folkl\u00f3rico, Young at Hearts of St. Elizabeth and groups from the Barbara Lee Senior Center.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mvblfeast.com\/taste-of-milpitas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mvblfeast.com\/taste-of-milpitas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birds, Pop and Go Puppets<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birds are coming to the Milpitas Library on June 20 for two shows, from 2-3 p.m. and 3:30-4:30 p.m. These famous feathered friends have been featured on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d and \u201cThe Ellen Show\u201d and perform tricks including riding a bike, singing songs and playing basketball.<\/p>\n<p>On June 24 Pop and Go Puppets will perform \u201cRumplestuntskin\u201d at 3:30 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. In this updated fairy tale, moto-daredevil Rumplestuntskin knows the secret to awesome motorcycle stunts and is willing to share it, for a price.<\/p>\n<p>These events are part of \u00a0this year\u2019s summer reading program, \u201cPlant a Seed, Read.\u201d Tickets are free but are required for entry and can be picked up 30 minutes before each performance. There\u2019s a limit of two adults per family.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taste of Milpitas The City of Milpitas is hosting a free, all-ages outdoor event June 20 at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,584,971,23,191,88,90,89,198,200,420],"class_list":["post-361460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-events","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-milpitas","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}