Eric JohnsonSF Station Writer |
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| | Los Angeles is one of the world's premier destinations, and visitors can be choosy when selecting a place to spend a night—or a week. These ten hotels, scattered throughout the city, offer sublime accommodations. More » |  | | | Tesla inks deal with Daimler; Fisker comes to Silicon Valley Fisker Automotive, designer and builder of boutique hybrid and electric vehicles, came to enemy territory yesterday to debut its Fisker Karma at Santana Row, and to announce the opening of a Silicon Valley retail outlet. But the news was eclipsed by the announcement today that Fisker’s rival, the Silicon Valley-based Tesla Automotive, inked a big-money deal with Daimler Motors. More » | | | | At Stanford, Kronos unveiled 'A Chinese Home,' and collaborator Wu Man played a mean pipa. [i]Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home[/i], which had its West Coast premiere at Stanford’s Memorial Theater Saturday night, is the most recent collaboration between the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man, master of the Chinese pipa. It was a success—but I’m glad Kronos and Wu decided to open the night with their first piece, 1995’s [i]Ghost Opera[/i]. More » | | | | How a computer program figured out what you like to listen to LAST THURSDAY, Dominican University of California in San Rafael hosted a very different kind of town hall meeting. While no fundamentalists were apparent, a near-religious fervor pervaded the lecture hall for the latest Pandora “Get-Together,” hosted by the popular Internet radio and music-discovery service. More » | | | | Will Sprott breaks down their new album, track by track THE Mumlers' debut record, 2007's Thickets and Stitches, launched the ambitious San Jose band onto a national stage. Besides attention from Rolling Stone and NPR, it was the album that launched a thousand blog posts. The consensus: Ambitious. Fascinating. Soulful. Distinctive. And above all, unpredictable. More » | | | | In a rare display of teamwork, California’s professional sports teams have kicked in to support Proposition 1A, a ballot measure that would extend a hike in the state's sales tax and impose a cap on state spending. More » | | | | Valleywag reports a deal’s in the works. Owen Thomas of Valleywag reports this morning that Apple is in serious negotiations to buy Twitter, for up to $700 million. Thomas attributes the information to a source who “has been recruited by Apple for a senior position.” More » | | | | Plans to bring BART to downtown San Jose are still moving forward, despite economic shifts and bureaucratic shortfalls, according to [url=http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/05/04/daily7.html]a report in today’s San Jose - Silcion Valley Business Journal[/url]. More » | | | | Four San Jose area schools were closed late Thursday, as the number of cases of swine flu continues to grow. The schools are Delphi Academy, Santa Clara Elan Espirit Preschool, Santa Clara Challenger School and San Jose Rucker Elementary School. Branham High School was closed earlier in the week. More » | | | | It’s official: the wave of defaults still sweeping California and the nation is the result of irresponsible lending practices, which peaked in late 2006, according to a just released report.
MDA DataQuick, a real estate analyst, reports that three lenders were on the tip of that wave, making a stunning number of loans that have since gone bad. More » | |
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