Since 2008, Joel Slayton has served as Executive Director of ZERO1, the art and technology network that is responsible for the ZERO1 Biennial Festival and several large public arts projects in San Jose.
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East Side San Jose is filled with great Mexican restaurants that offer plenty of tacos and taquerias, but also regional specialties like birria, tortas and uchepos, a tamale dish from Michoacan.
Touchstone has taken up residence in the old Studio Theatre building on the corner of South First and San Salvador. The spot, once plagued by outbreaks of violence and bad dance moves, has been completely transformed. The old art-deco movie house, with its high ceiling and sturdy construction, is a good fit for Touchstone.
I put the hammer down at the CODA representative’s cue. The car responds quickly, doling out a near-excessive amount of speed. It’s a neighborhood, so I ease off the pedal. The regenerative brakes kick in and start to slow the car a bit. I don’t really care how fast we’re going—I’m focused on the chassis and the ride—but as we continue the drive, I find myself drawn back to the accelerator: I’m startled how fast 134 electrically-charged horses can push. What brought me into the electric car’s cockpit, cruising down Stevens Creek Boulevard, is the new CODA dealership—the only one of its kind in Northern California.
San Jose is more of a meat and potatoes town than a seafood city, but if you know where to look you can find some good fish. Look here.
Kien Hoang founded Umbrella Salon almost 12 years ago with partners Michelle Givens and Khiem Hoang with the mission of establishing a luxurious, innovative salon that was also involved with the community.
The upside to the furor over the naming of Story Road’s Vietnamese business district two years ago was everybody got hip to the fact San Jose has a thriving Vietnamese business district with great food to boot.
Leave it to a legendary cartoonist to collect the stories of San Jose’s historical heroes and package the whole shebang into 40 pages of wonderment. Jim Hummel, a longtime fixture at the Mercury News, has now supplied the youth of the valley with an easy-to-grasp mechanism for retaining historical tidbits.
There is more to Chinese food than fried rice and wontons. Check these places out to see what you’ve been missing.
The people behind San Pedro Square Market promised great things and I think they delivered. The food and big bright spaces are a boon to downtown’s dining scene.
