Officer James Cooper is currently on assignment cruising the streets of downtown San Jose via Silicon Valley’s favorite green method of transportation: a bicycle. We talked to Cooper about crazy crowds, astronauts and his favorite places in San Jose.
Articles by Jerry J. Salas
After rotting garlic left a bad taste in his mouth, Vincent Verret decided to grow his own in the backyard. Before he knew it, he had started a garden full of garlic, peppers and tomatoes. Then he did what any backyard farmer with a bouquet of flavors would do: make some chili sauce.
The names Original Gravity and Paper Plane almost sound like opposing ideas, but these neighboring spots share a co-owner and in a sense, a concept: drinks and bar bites. Whereas the former serves up pints and upscale sausages and hot dogs, the latter, Paper Plane, serves barrel-aged and handcrafted cocktails, house-made punches and a well-rounded menu of elaborate small plates.
Psycho Donuts in Campbell is hosting the Bigfoot Event art show to benefit the Bigfoot Discovery Museum on April 12, with more than 22 artists selling their Bigfoot-inspired pieces. The Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, near Santa Cruz, was opened by Michael Rugg and Paula…
Opera may have been around since the 16th century, but the team at Opera Cultura feel it’s time for an update. Cuentos de Peregrinacion or Tales of Pilgrimage is a new hybrid show that combines operatic singing with staged readings that tell of immigrants’ experiences coming to the United States.
Freestyle motocross riders with more than 1,000 total stunts arrive in San Jose with Nuclear Cowboyz at SAP Center on March 29 and March 30, a new show that adds theatrics to the world of adrenaline-fueled arena motorsports. The show is set in a post-apocalyptic…
Silicon Valley Contemporary will host 40 galleries and nearly 250 artists from around the world during a long weekend in April at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
“I was working as a community organizer for violence against women and girls issues and through that job we had a small grant from the state of California justice department that we decided to use to produce a video to help our cause. The experience of making that video left an impact on me.”
Many choose to study or read at a library because it’s a quiet place with many resources—until a string quartet shows up and launches into Beethoven in the stacks.
San Jose’s annual Cinequest film festival returns March 4-16 in downtown San Jose with hundreds of independent films and filmmakers, parties and presentations.
