Mountain View’s Milk Pail Market survives by offering specialty items that big-box groceries can’t. Located right across the street from Safeway, the 38-year-old market has carved out a deep niche.
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A group of Saratoga businesses will host Foodie Fun on the Run, a food truck gathering Aug. 25 aimed at benefiting local charities. In addition to food, the event will include a mobile zoo.
Woofstock, a wine- and music-filled event aimed at raising funds for Furry Friends Rescue, is set for Sept. 23 at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga. And it’s never too soon to pick out an outfit for Fido.
The cable channel NuVo TV is taking MMA fans on an inside look with its reality show “Fight Factory.” The show takes viewers inside the doors of San Jose-based American Kickboxing Academy and Josh Koscheck’s “Dethrone Base Camp” in Fresno.
Silicon Valley Roller Girls is a nonprofit, all-female flat track roller derby league that was founded in 2007. Megan “Panda Monium” Williams played alongside the girls for three years until stepping off the rink to focus on her role as coach. Along with other members of the coaching staff, Williams does her part by facilitating scrimmages, teaching new skills and strategies to players and developing teamwork.
At San Quentin State Prison, 724 inmates are housed in the largest death row in the United States, waiting their turn on the lethal injection gurney. But if the Savings, Accountability and Full Enforcement for California Act (SAFE) passes on Nov. 6, their fate will change dramatically.
Pedestrians and drivers may have noticed significant changes to downtown roads with new bike lanes added on 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th street.
Good Karma Bikes is reaching out to the homeless community by providing people not only with bicycles but also the tools and skills to fix them and apply those skills for future job opportunities.
San Jose police were called to Mercury Newspaper headquarters after more than a dozen news racks from other local publications were found in a metal recycling dumpster behind the daily’s plant.
There is no menu at Sawa; the service is all omakase, that’s Japanese for “the chef will decide what you eat.” There is also no drinks menu. If you want beer or sake, of which Sawa has some very good stuff.
