Using music and theater, “Slide,” a performance making its Bay Area premiere as part of the Stanford Lively Arts program, examines this question and the potential loneliness caused by isolating ourselves from information that contradicts our beloved perceptions.
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A ceremony was held Thursday to begin demolition of the FMC plant near Mineta San Jose International Airport, paving the way for a new soccer stadium for the San Jose Earthquakes.
The Smith Brothers chat with Serbian filmmaker Srdjan Sarenac in today’s episode of “Today at Cinequest,” and Richard von Busack talks about some hot documentaries that will be screened at various theaters around San Jose today, including ‘The World According to Ion B.” and ‘Dying to do Letterman.”
The poll of young Britons found that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are considered more important than David Cameron and Barack Obama. According to the poll’s results, the invention of Facebook is more important historically than even the discovery of the laws of gravity by Sir Isaac Newton.
Bill Sherry, Aviation Director at Mineta Airport of San Jose/Silicon Valley, has been picked by the city to moonlight as Dan Fenton’s replacement as the head of Team San Jose. Despite his new position, he will continue to serve as head of Mineta as well.
City Council and the Firefighters Union have hammered out the final details of a deal that would save the city about $30 million over the next two years, while protecting firefighters from a repeat of last year’s layoffs. With an agreement in place, the proposal is expected to pass a vote by members of the union.
The National Day of Unplugging this Saturday offers people a chance to “Turn off. Tune off. Drop in” by unplugging their cell phones and laptops. The event runs from sundown Friday evening until sundown on Saturday, and gives electronics consumers everywhere a chance to reconnect with people as people, not as bits and bytes.
From the late 1990s to the mid-00s, a silent crime wave sucked billions out of banks, compromised personal privacy on a wholesale scale and exposed weaknesses in the information technology bedrock of the United States’ national security. Now there’s a window into an underworld where PIN numbers, CCV codes, passwords, Social Security numbers and answers to security questions (“Where was your mother born?”) are auctioned off like lawn dwarves on eBay.
Day three features the Chilean drama “La Vida de las Pescas,” a re-cut of local favorite “Superhero Party Clown,” and a lot more. Plus the Smith Brothers with filmmaker Phillip Guzman.
City Council voted unanimously to study the inclusion of performance evaluations in its decisions about who to lay off. At present, layoffs are based on seniority. Some 79 percent of city residents would like to see performance as a criteria for layoffs, but the unions disagree. City Council is divided on the issue, but is willing to investigate it further.
