A New Year’s Eve meal, wine tasting in a mountain setting, cooking a delicious winter feast, listening to jazz and tasting wine in an exotic setting and being able to drink your own wine at a restaurant minus the corkage fee. It’s yet another week of food and wine events. December 31-January 7.
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Corinne Phipps, the founder and CEO of Urban Darling, a South Bay wardrobe styling company, is able to nudge people out of their clothing routines and into new, flattering looks.
Starting in January, San Jose will begin its redistricting process with the appointment of an 11-member commission. Ten of the members will be selected by City Council members, while the chair of the commission will be picked by Mayor Chuck Reed.
Mineta’s bomb-sniffing Lab Crazy Jack is retiring after nine years at the airport. His role will be taken over by the three German shepherds who currently work with him. Retiring alongside Jack will be his trainer, San Jose Police Officer Randy Changco.
Google has purchased a building in New York City for the sky-high price of $1.8 billion. The 18-story building, with the address 111 8th Avenue, occupies an entire city block and has 3 million square feet of space, making it bigger, in square footage, than the Empire State Building.
Santa Clara County got a brand new tactical armored vehicle, or BearCat. The new, multipurpose vehicle, with a price tag of $285,000, was paid for with a grant from the Department of Homeland Security. It will be available for a variety of intense police actions across Santa Clara County.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: rock jam, sparkling wine tasting, Mahatma Moses Comedy Tour, Steve White, Bobby Lee.
In his book “The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto,” tt’s bourbon that literary historian Bernard DeVoto praises the most highly: bourbon and its lighter cousin rye, as American as the Washington Monument and far more useful.
