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Sports Roundup Nov. 29-Dec. 5

Sports Roundup Nov. 29-Dec. 5

Stanford football vaults to No. 4; Oliver’s 35 points just enough to edge Riverside; Stanford women’s soccer rolls to College Cup; Heatley spearheads Sharks victory; Louisiana Tech beats SJSU football.

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Bike Licenses Expected to Be Dropped

Bike Licenses Expected to Be Dropped

Are you buying your kids a bike this Christmas? Don’t worry about getting a license for it. City Council is expected to drop the bicycle license requirement at its weekly meeting this Tuesday. Bicycle licenses have been in place in San Jose since 1974. They were originally intended to build a database of all the bicycles in the city, and to make it easier to track down bikes when they get stolen.

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The Three Sixty Goes Rental

The Three Sixty Goes Rental

Now under new management, the troubled Three Sixty residential tower is to turn the building from condos into rental units. US Bank, which owned the primary loan that financed the building’s construction, recently sold the note to real estate investment firm Kennedy Wilson, Inc. Kennedy Wilson is now expected to foreclose on the project and take over its management.

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Bowl Bound

Bowl Bound

This is the best Bay Area college football team in decades, playing with the best Bay Area quarterback and coach (NFL or college) in decades. It’s like the stars aligned perfectly for the Stanford Cardinal this year, and yet much of the Bay Area has yet to take notice.

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Review: Menlo Park’s Bona Restaurant

Review: Menlo Park’s Bona Restaurant

Before my visit to Bona, a new Polish restaurant in Menlo Park, what I knew about Polish cuisine was pretty much limited to kielbasa. And potatoes. I’m pretty sure they eat a lot of potatoes in Poland. But there’s more to Polish food than sausage and spuds. Much more

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Review: Menlo Park’s Bona Restaurant

Review: Menlo Park’s Bona Restaurant

Before my visit to Bona, a new Polish restaurant in Menlo Park, what I knew about Polish cuisine was pretty much limited to kielbasa. And potatoes. I’m pretty sure they eat a lot of potatoes in Poland. But there’s more to Polish food than sausage and spuds. Much more

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College Arts Building Causing Problems

College Arts Building Causing Problems

Evergreen College’s new Center for the Arts is causing more problems than anticipated. The $38 million building is plagued by a series of design flaws that left one instructor on disability and sixty students with no place to learn. It is also contending with fifty Cal/OSHA safety violations and one fire department violation.

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Football and Food at St. Joseph’s

Football and Food at St. Joseph’s

Thanksgiving is known for two things: a big feast followed by a retreat to the living room to watch the big game. At “The Window,” a drop-in service run by the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph’s Office of Social Ministry, the two will be combined in an unusual way. The turkey will be served by the San Francisco 49ers.

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Food and Wine Events: Nov.22-Nov. 27

Food and Wine Events: Nov.22-Nov. 27

Taste of Compassion at Florentine restaurant,  Nov. 22.
Try a new restaurant or a new dish at an old favorite while benefitting West Valley Community Services. Tickets are $24 with reservations or $26 at the door and 50 percent of the proceeds will benefit WVCS.

Thanksgiving at the Plumed Horse, Nov. 25.
Join Michelin-starred chef Peter Armellino on Nov. 25 for a four-course Thanksgiving menu with Armellino’s interpretation of the classics. Choices include kabocha squash soup with diver sea scallops, oven roasted turkey with the traditional accompaniments, roasted fall vegetable risotto or roast New York strip with a warm Valhrona chocolate fondant for dessert

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Recycling on the Railroad

Recycling on the Railroad

BART will be shredding 250,000 tires, wrapping them in fabric, and laying eighteen inches of them right beneath the tracks along its new line from Fremont to San Jose. This, BART says, will help reduce vibrations and cut back on noise. It will also cut the cost of noise reduction by 40 percent.

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