Popular Japanese retailer Muji is planning to open a new store in downtown San Jose in 2013, it’s first store on the West Coast.
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Saturday marks another major event for San Jose fighters as hometown favorite Cung Le takes on former UFC middleweight champion Rich “Ace” Franklin at “UFC on Fuel 6.”
Each Dishcrawl takes place within a particular city, downtown area or neighborhood, with at least four participating restaurants, all within walking distance of one another. Lee hopes that this gives diners the opportunity, not only to become more familiar with the restaurants in their community, but to become better acquainted with their community as well.
For most Americans, a waffle is a waffle is a waffle. End of story. Judy Vandoorne, on the other hand, actually went to Belgium to study the art of making waffles properly. Her new food truck, Waffle Amore, steers clear of the American-diner version and instead offers waffles with the authenticity of a Belgian street vendor. She even purchased an oven imported from Belgium.
Among the many gourmet food trucks in the greater San Jose area, Kona Ice is a real attention grabber. A snow-cone truck rocking calypso music and painted in the vivid colors of a tiki bar.
My family and I recently went to TL Beer Garden in Sunnyvale to check out their beer offerings and atmosphere, but we were surprised by how much we liked the food.
Amy Anderson, events and promotions manager for the San Jose Downtown Association for the last seven years, is behind some of San Jose’s most popular events: the year-long Farm Fresh Fridays farmers’ market, Zombie-O-Rama, Live & Local Music Spotlight, Starlight Cinemas Free Outdoor Movies, Fountain Blues Fest and many more.
Following the release of their 19th full-length album and the finale of the Time Machine Tour last year, progressive rock legends Rush are back on the road. The band will be making a stop at the HP Pavilion on November 15.
Fans of the locally produced Discovery Channel program Mythbusters can now safely immerse themselves into that scientific fray at “Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition,” a new interactive exhibit at the Tech Museum in San Jose that offers visitors the chance to try several hands-on experiments, watch live demonstrations, see props from the show and more.
The origins of Halloween date back to the ancient Celts, who held a fall festival called Samhain (pronounced Sow-in). It was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth around this time of year. In order to ward them off, the ancient Celts would dress up in costumes generally made of animal heads and skins.
