Every silver lining has a cloud, they say. While the city really wants a $14.9 million FEMA grant to rehire laid off firefighters, accepting it means they can’t lay them off again for two years. The only way to avoid this would be for the firefighters to accept a 10 percent salary cut, and refusing to accept that cut led to the layoffs in the first place.
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The neighborhood stretching diagonally from the center of downtown San Jose to Backesto Park—a section of the 95112 Zip—features some choice old apartment houses scattered among single-family units. Most of these are two- and three-stories, and some have received recent renovations. Among these older landmarks are a number of newer complexes—some of which bring a nice contemporary style to the neighborhood.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: comedian John Witherspoon, the story of stuff, the Electric Voice, the De Anza Daddios, soul sisters Andy Allo and Mara Hruby.
Pagoda Lounge in San Jose hosts two rising stars of the new breed of soul music. Andy Allo and Mara Hruby play Friday, Feb. 18.
On Thursday, the California Geological Survey put up a map of active earthquake fault zones. Looking at the map, you’d be hard-pressed to find a spot in the Bay Area that isn’t in or near such an area.
The local star of tonight’s hip-hop show at VooDoo Lounge is Rey Resurreccion, the Filipino rapper whose music videos shot around San Jose have been blowing up on YouTube.
Once, Rome had the reputation of being a City of Hills. With the the Amgen Tour de California coming to San Jose, we may have that reputation too. Stage four of the famous bicycle race will take cyclists to the top of Mount Hamilton, an almost 2,000-foot pedal uphill over just four and a half miles. It’s quite a pedal, but what a view!
By limiting messages to just a few dozen characters, Twitter is changing the way people write. While sesquipedalian monstrosities are out, the micro-blogging site has added some new words to the English language too, most recently, “Mubaraktic,” meaning, “Someone who can’t take a hint.” In keeping with a changing world, the root is neither Greek nor Latin, but Arabic.
High tech giants like Intel and Cisco may claim to be ethnically diverse, but the numbers tell a different story. Minorities such as African Americans and Hispanics make up a disproportionately small section of their workforce, while the percentage of Asian Americans is augmented by foreign workers from China and India.
San Jose’s oldest deli, Chiaramonte’s Sausage and Deli, opened a location at the airport after a meet-up arranged by the city. Then air traffic plummeted. The airport deli is likely to be out of business within two weeks.
