Housed in a rustic, shabby chic building that was once a fire station and more recently John Bentley’s restaurant, Station 1 exudes a warm charm with its fireplace ablaze and wooden tables and wall. The food can be described as new American, but there’s a Japanese undercurrent that runs throughout the food, with delicate, well-composed plates that often appear broken down into their constituent parts.
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Jeff Welch, president of the firefighters union Local 230, hit the ‘reset button’ in labor negotiations with the city in an attempt to avert fiscal catastrophe.
On Tuesday, San Jose City Council voted unanimously to protect at least some of its assets from being seized by Gov. Jerry Brown. The County responded within hours with a letter from its attorney, Miguel Márquez, claiming that the RDA owed it $62.9 million in back fees for services.
Police have released a video of the shooting that took place at the Mexicali Club last January. They hope that the video will help them capture two suspects, including one as yet unidentified, who have eluded them since then. The incident left three people dead, including two other shooters.
Someone in Sunnyvale doesn’t like dogs. Two open boxes of rat poison were found in the Las Palmas dog park in Sunnyvale. Written on the sides of the boxes were “Kill all dogs” and “All dogs must die.” Police are currently investigating the crime.
The Bay Area as a whole may be one of the most densely populated places in California, but no city in the region has passed the 1 million residents mark … yet. According to the latest census results, San Jose is still the third largest city in the state and the 10th most populous city in the country. It is also the only one of the top 10 cities with a population of under 1 million. Based on current trends, it may take till 2021 to get there.
Though prolix speeches are as Castro as fine cigars and fatigues, the retired Cuban leader has just passed 100,000 followers on his Twitter account—Castro himself follows only 19 people. The sad thing is that he is not the most popular Cuban twitterer. That honor goes to Yoani Sanchez, a blogger and political dissident in Havana with 109,898 followers.
‘Medal of Honor’ by Calin Peter Netzer and ‘The Glass Slipper’ by local director Jarrod Whaley top Richard von Busack’s best bets list for today.
In San Jose, many libraries have been forced to cut back hours. With budget cuts, they could be cutting their opening hours down to just three days a week.
Steve Sokol was known as the “World’s Fittest Man.” He died in a car crash on Monday morning, after his car rammed into a power pole on Cottle Road.
