Willow Glen succeeds because of its small town feel, walkability and good things to eat. Here’s where we like to go.
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San Jose native Monisha Murray opened Black and Brown in 2005 with a vision of creating a new kind of recycled clothing store. The self-labeled “modern and vintage clothing store” and art gallery celebrates its seventh anniversary next month and its recent move to The Alameda with a spring fashion show on March 10.
Chef and restaurateur Bradley Ogden has set up shop in San Jose to film a new television series that he will begin shopping to networks for broadcast.
Author and MSNBC news show host Rachel Maddow will appear with broadcaster Pat Thurston at the Morris Daily Auditorium Feb. 25 to accept the John Steinbeck Award. First presented in 1996, previous recipients include Bruce Springsteen, Dolores Huerta, Arthur Miller, Joan Baez, Garrison Keillor, Sean Penn and Michael Moore.
Brussels sprouts with bacon is hardly a new idea, but the combination has taken off lately. The pair has become a menu meme, a darling of online recipe searches and food TV.
Stomach growling as you sit in a boring presentation at the McEnery Convention Center? Break out and eat at one of these walkable restaurants.
After graduating from the San Jose State University’s theater arts department, Randy King co-founded San Jose Stage Company and has remained artistic director and a regular cast member in the company’s productions for over 29 years.
Beginning Feb. 15, San Jose Stage Company takes on Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize—winning Buried Child. Written during the economic slump of the 1970s, the semiautobiographical play explores the decay of the American Dream through the eyes of a struggling rural farm family.
Bettina Pope’s dream was to own a bakery. After leaving her career as a private education administrator in Florida, her dream has become a reality—and she hasn’t had more than two days off since she and her husband, Mark, opened San Jose’s La Lune Sucree in September.
Showcasing the work of some of the country’s premier contemporary quilters, the “Quilt National” exhibit, which opens Tuesday at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, takes the traditional image of what a quilt looks like and tosses it out the window.
