There’s some good news for the unemployed throughout the Bay Area. Many local companies are planning to start hiring again.
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The Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County is looking for ways to increase public access to the inner workings of county government. At its weekly meeting on Tuesday, Supervisors will discuss enacting a new Sunshine Ordinance.
There’s a lot of competition these days between San Jose and Oakland, with the fate of the A’s lying in the balance. On Sunday, San Jose proved where the real winners live, when a local man won the 26.2 mile Oakland Marathon.
With Facebook now valued at $85 billion, the company is looking for ways to polish its corporate image, especially in places like Washington, D.C. One possibility for a new company spokesman is the recently unemployed Robert Gibbs, who just stepped down from the position of White House Press Secretary.
The new trend for men is adultescence, that long transitionary period between adolescence and adulthood, rife with signs of both. They can now sign up to get a “Cloud Girlfriend,” a virtual partner who fulfills their every fantasy and doesn’t cost a penny. It’s a Facebook friend with benefits, and it’s not real.
If the Bard is correct and “All the world’s a stage,” then parking lots are part of that stage. Perhaps that was the idea behind a series of brief productions by the San Jose State University theater group. Their actors were performing Car Play, six theatrical sketches lasting 10 minutes each, but instead of using an auditorium, they were using a university parking garage. Ibsen be damned. This was realism at its finest.
I’ve heard about Chez Sovan for years as one of San Jose’s best hole-in-the-wall eateries, and now I get what all the fuss is about. It’s a friendly neighborhood restaurant with a devoted following and a solid menu of satisfying food. That’s a recipe for success.
Feeling guilty about being gay? Apple has an app for that, or at least it did. It was the ex-gay ministry’s Exodus International app, intended to put people back on the straight and narrow (minded) path.
When it comes to cool, grassroots food events, San Jose takes a back seat to San Francisco and the East Bay. Why that’s the case is a subject for another column, but for now let’s say it just is. But San Jose is about to get a whole lot cooler next month with SJ Eats, a food-truck rally on April 2 that will draw as many as 20 food trucks from Silicon Valley and beyond. If all goes well, the event could be the dawn of a regular food-truck market.
Mayor Chuck Reed says he wasn’t kidding when he proposed shuttering 90-plus medical marijuana collectives in San Jose, allowing only 10 to continue to operate, by auctioning licenses on eBay. Confronted with the likelihood that his plan would invite dozens of lawsuits that could last years and cost the city millions of dollars, the mayor responds: Bring it on.
