Rising costs and complaints have cast a cloud over one of the city’s favorite events, Music in the Park. The San Jose Downtown Association will decide this fall if this should be the 23rd and final year of the free summer concert series.
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San Jose’s Planning Commission is urging the City Council to back off on its plan to decimate medical marijuana collectives. The commission recommends upping the cap on collectives to 25, extending land-use regulations and allowing off-site cultivation of cannabis.
The first 5,000 fans to enter Buck Shaw Stadium on Saturday to see the San Jose Earthquakes take on Portland will receive a Chris Wondolowski bobblehead. Meanwhile, San Jose Giants fans will have their own opportunity to snag a souvenir.
San Jose tops the list for America’s longest life spans. The question is: why? What makes people live longer here than any other place in the country?
Few racetracks in the world can boast turns as intimidating as those found at Monterey’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This year’s U.S. Grand Prix race takes place Sunday, while there’s also a San Jose Earthquakes game Wednesday and minor league baseball the rest of the week.
Baseball may or may not be America’s Pastime, as it was known for a couple of generations. But spending an evening at San Jose’s circa-1942 Municipal Stadium watching the San Jose Giants is still a pretty good way to pass the time.
Banks will be forced to do a better job in alerting identity theft victims of security breaches if State Sen. Joe Simitian’s bill passes.
The Bay Area may be diverse, but it has nothing on the cornucopia of characters who attend a day at the raceway. Everyone from the Porsche club president to Jethro’s cousin Cletus can find a place to call home when NASCAR comes to town.
The San Jose Giants may have lost a star in recent San Francisco send-up Brandon Crawford—the shortstop from Mountain View has been flat-out killing it since hop-scotching several levels and going straight to the majors from Single-A—but a few notable names have been seen in the local lineup in recent weeks.
After being on the mend with a broken right hand, Pablo Sandoval is slated to take the field Friday and Saturday for the San Jose Giants as part of his rehabilitation assignment.
