Plans to build a synthetic snow slope in the South Bay have gained a good amount of social media traction, but not much in reality. After talks with Morgan Hill in 2009 and 2010 about building one east of Highway 101, developer Martin Benik withdrew his application because of the high cost of an environmental review. But he remains optimistic about the chances of a park in San Jose.
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Team San Jose announced “The Price Is Right Live!” will come on down Sept. 20 at the San Jose Civic theater. “The Price is Right Live!” is a live stage production of “television’s longest running and most popular game show,” hosted by Todd Newton. The show is more or less like the TV show, grabbing contestant’s from the audience and giving them an opportunity to play games.
Cream (“Cookies Rule Everything Around Me”) is a summer crowd pleaser, with homemade ice cream sandwiches for about $2.50, ice cream by the cone and milkshakes.
A few years ago, two brothers from New York came up with the unique business model of placing ads on toilet paper. Starting this fall, Star Toilet Paper will make its Silicon Valley debut in San Jose CIty College campus bathrooms, and the move could save the school more than $15,000 a year.
In many ways, Tuesday’s ceremony was a standard corporate pep rally, leaving aside the thundersticks and person walking around in a furry shark costume. SAP executives Bill McDermott and Jonathan Becher, joined by San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, touted the newly renamed SAP Center—or, some might say, The Arena Formerly Known as HP Pavilion—and its potential to improve the company’s profile in Silicon Valley.
San Jose community centers will open their doors as places of refuge from the blistering heat striking the Silicon Valley Monday through Wednesday.
VivaFest, one of the largest celebrations of mariachi and traditional Mexican music in the United States, returns to San Jose in August with headliners Fernando de la Mora and folk group Mariachi Sol de Mexico, while the festival’s Latin alternative stage will feature Grammy and Latin Grammy-nominated group Kinky.
The Fourth of July is already right around the corner and, as always, the South Bay is full of barbeques, music, fireworks and other Independence Day events.
Orchard Supply Hardware, headquartered in San Jose since 1931, declared bankruptcy Monday, but the city may not lose the historic business. Lowe’s seeks to buy 60 of the approximately 90 California stores, and the company says it plans to keep the OSH name.
The new 49ers football stadium still under construction in Santa Clara was selected today by the NFL to host the Super Bowl in 2016.
