Our new Questions & Answers column, SJ Q&A, starts with one of the rising stars in baseball, San Jose Giants centerfielder Gary Brown. Still in his first season with the Giants, Brown was named the California League Rookie of the Year last week. He was a first-round pick by the San Francisco Giants in 2010 and could be making a move to the Big Leagues in the very near future. For now, though, Brown and the Single-A Giants are focused on the playoffs starting Saturday.
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Informal jams of traditional Irish music, sessions are commonplace in Ireland. O’Flaherty’s brings the sessions to San Jose.
The town in the south of Santa Clara County is about more than garlic. Gilroy has wonderful homes in a quiet, suburban setting.
San Jose State University police are trying to identify a man who lured a female student into a secluded area and groped her after offering her a cigarette Monday morning.
Samsung took a blow at this year’s IFA Consumer Electronics show in Berlin, the largest consumer electronics show in Europe. It was forced to remove its Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its booth after a local judge ruled that it must stop selling the product. The decision was the latest in a series of contentious court cases initiated by Apple, claiming that Samsung’s products have the look and feel of Apple’s iPad and that it violates its patents.
Yesterday, SanJose.com followed the lead of CNET and other Bay Area news sources to report on the loss of an iPhone 5 prototype in a San Francisco bar. At the time we asked, “Why Apple prototypes keep ending up in bars. Is it some publicity stunt?”
On Thursday, Starz Entertainment issued a press release stating that it, “has ended contract renewal negotiations with Netflix.” As a result, “When the agreement expires on February 28, 2012, Starz will cease to distribute its content on the Netflix streaming platform.”
Friday’s art walk brings the Jazz Mafia to Eulipia, plus John Staedler, Ghost and the City, and San Francesca to the main stage.
Police have released a new photo of a suspect wanted for the murder of a woman found dead in a San Jose home on Friday.
A San Jose police officer who was arrested in Gilroy on Wednesday on suspicion of having sexual contact with two underage teen boys has been released on $100,000 bail.
