Sure, unemployment is still high, but if you already have a job, there’s no better place to have it than in San Jose. CareerBliss.com ranked 50 American cities, based on eight “happiness factors.” San Jose came out on top in each category. Now all San Jose needs is more jobs.
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Three local companies have received a total of $6 million dollars from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop technologies that would reduce the cost of solar energy production by as much as 75 percent by 2020.
An Egyptian businessman who has been negotiating between the Tahrir Square protesters and the Egyptian government says that Google exec Wael Ghonim, believed to be held by the Egyptian government, could be released this afternoon. It remains to be seen how he was treated after two weeks of administrative detention by the Mukhabarat secret police.
Archeology has come a long way since the the days of Indiana Jones, thanks to satellite technology and Google Earth. One Australian archeologist, David Kennedy, was able to scan 1,240 square miles of the forbidding Saudi Arabian peninsula from the comfort of his office in Perth. He found 1,977 potential archeological sites there.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: war survivor and movie star Kieu Chinh, OK Go, Beta State, jazz warehouse art jam, Rey Resurreccion.
The titans of metal invaded San Jose on Thursday night and rocked out the HP Pavilion. Jennifer Anderson caught some of the mayhem on camera.
Michael Moore continues to sport his Spartans cap on national television interviews since receiving the hat along with the prestigious John Steinbeck Award and a warm San Jose reception last October.
Classical guitar has a new French master. Floria Larousse has played in several continents and now he’s on his way to San Jose. Larousse plays the Historic Hoover Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 12.
In just another example of how much it seems everyone wants to work for Google, a report came out Friday that the company received an astounding 75,000 job applications in just one week.
The 1940s farce “See How They Run,” now a Tabard Theatre production at Theatre on San Pedro Square in San Jose, comes complete with many of the genre’s hallmarks: slapstick humor, mistaken identity and a large cast of characters constantly running in and out of doors.
