San Jose Philz Coffee Shop owner and manager Nick Taptelis brought the San Francisco-based regional chain down to San Jose on a whim, drawing in everyone from policemen to international students alike with signature blends and specialty drinks.
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A collaboration of efforts from city officials, San Jose’s soccer teams and the fans themselves, “City of Champions” is on display through February at City Hall, shedding light on everything from San Jose’s earliest soccer teams to the San Jose Earthquake’s latest achievements.
San Jose Museum of Art celebrates Day of the Dead with art, music, dancing, storytelling and more.
Courtesy of SV411.com, here’s a quick rundown of the latest technology news in Silicon Valley, including low Q3 figures stirring news of companies lined up to purchase search engine Yahoo.
Party on, Dudes! The World Dodgeball Society hosts one of San Jose’s few dodgeball tournaments this weekend with the Keanu Reeves Totally Excellent Dodgeball Adventure. The two-day competition runs Saturday and Sunday.
San Jose blogger Tanesha Awasthi’s website, Girl With Curves, has become a shapely success.
BN Chicken is all about soup, and what’s homier, more mother-in-lawly, than a big bowl of soup? One of the specialties of the house is dakdoritang. It’s touted as a hangover cure—a special kind of hangover cure that drove me to drink. But then dakdoritang is a special kind of soup.
Five storefronts and a parking lot along South First Street, from San Carlos to San Salvador, stand in dark contrast to their neighbors. The white lights and customers in occupied areas only accentuate what urban planners call “missing teeth” on this city block. Downtown San Jose, like many cities trying to recover from the recession, has seen companies come and go, and restaurants and bars launch and leave. But one entity the city could always rely on to plow money into recruiting and subsidizing new businesses has all but turned out the lights as well.
Limiting the Occupy Wall Street movement to the excesses of corporate America and their D.C. lackeys misses the bigger picture. The U.S. economy—all economies—depends on the natural economy, i.e., the environment. And it’s in dire shape.
A fascinating new show at the Tech Museum charts the scientific achievements of Muslim scholars and inventors.
