Fresh off leading the Stanford Cardinal to an Orange Bowl victory and the most successful football season in school history, quarterback Andrew Luck has decided to make the NFL wait a little longer.
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The new eight-disc MLB Productions and A&E Home Entertainment World Series DVD package collects every game of the SF Giants series against the Texas Rangers plus two games of the NLCS and highlights of the season.
Club Wet is in the news again, but if the city has its way, it won’t be there for long. After a New Year’s Day incident left a woman with a punctured cheek and throat, City Attorney Rick Doyle is trying to take the unprecedented step of closing the club down permanently. A hearing is scheduled for January 24.
Rumors are buzzing that Larry Ellison wants to buy the New Orleans Hornets and move them to San Jose. Ellison confirmed that he has made an offer to the Hornets’ owners to buy the franchise for $350 million. He was not, however, willing to say what he would do with the team if he did end up buying them.
Find peace and quiet to unwind from all the winter holiday craziness at these stress-free places in the San Jose area.
Andrea Blum learned fresco painting from a man who once served as the assistant to Diego Rivera. She was living in Italy then, also apprenticing to master cheesemakers. She worked as a decorative painter at the same time creating a cooking school in Tuscany. She graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism, focusing her reporting on food issues. Wherever she goes, whatever she’s doing, art and food are tightly intertwined.
Kaygetsu is not only one of Silicon Valley’s best Japanese restaurants, it’s one of the best restaurants period. The restaurant specializes in kaiseki-style cooking, a visually stunning, technically demanding school of Japanese cuisine served in multiple courses. But that’s not what this review is about; it’s about sushi, really great sushi. This restaurant within a restaurant is one of Silicon Valley’s premier, if lesser-known sushi destinations.
Margaret Wingrove’s ‘Heartbeats’ program, running Jan 6-9 in San Jose, draws on 30 years of her company’s innovative dances, with pieces about literary and personal themes.
Qualcomm has announced that it plans to buy San Jose’s Atheros Communications for $3.1 billion. Based in San Jose, Atheros develops semiconductors for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. Qualcomm agreed to pay $45 per share.
The Morgan Hill Unified School District is arguing in court that it is not responsible for the suspension of students for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. They have no problem with parents suing the principal at the time, but they claim that he was not acting on their behalf and should not be charged as defendants in the case.
