VTA is partnering with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to establish a new bike sharing program. The program, set to launch Oct. 1, will offer 1,000 rental bikes across the Bay area, with about 400 in San Jose, Mountain View and Palo Alto. Each bike will have high-tech features that include smart cards, wireless internet solar powered stations and GPS technology.
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The Downtown Campbell Business Association, the city of Campbell and Urban Villages, the market’s organizer, have announced plans to implement a new format they hope will improve the shopping experience of the popular market.
Hawaii is the most food insecure state in America. It imports as much as 90 percent of its food and is highly vulnerable to disruptions in food supplies and spikes in the cost of oil.
Blush serves Americanized sushi and a few varieties of oysters and a forgettable shrimp cocktail. The menu includes sushi with lots of squiggly squirted sauces, spicy tuna rolls, dragon rolls—that kind of thing.
A new resident of San Jose, Diane Ortega has managed The Studio climbing gym on First and San Salvador since it opened earlier this year. Ortega first started climbing at age 19 while living in San Antonio, Texas where she grew up.
The Obon festival returns this July in San Jose’s Japantown for its 77th year.
Every first Thursday of the month, the “After Hours” program at the Tech Museum invites adults 21 and over to come into the Museum after closing to enjoy a night of science, games and drinks.
The year was 1935. Prohibition’s attempts at stamping out alcoholism by force had failed, but two men discovered that simply sitting down and opening up to each other could help them stop drinking. The men were Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, whose story is now told in Bill W. and Dr. Bob.
The chef-owned restaurant is something of a rarity in Silicon Valley. There is a difference between a restaurant owner who hires someone to do the cooking and the restaurant owner who also leads the kitchen.
Hold the beef. Here comes the fish. Alexander’s Steakhouse, a luxury steakhouse with locations in Cupertino and San Francisco, plans to open The Sea, a high-end seafood restaurant on the site of Trader Vic’s on El Camino Real in Palo Alto.
