There already is an $89 million deal to build a new stadium for the Earthquakes near Coleman Avenue. It’s been there since 2008. Now, however, the city wants to make the deal even more attractive to Earthquakes owner Lew Wolff and two local developers in an effort to keep them from backing out. The proposed terms of the new deal would save the developers $4 million and give them an additional two years to buy it.
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More and more people across San Jose are turning trash into cash by bringing aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles for recycling and a refund. Once considered the income of the indigent, collecting recyclable trash is cutting across all economic sectors and incomes. At Ranch Town Recycling, they are seeing more and more people in expensive cars come to bring in their trash.
At a special meeting today, City Council will discuss new zoning ordinances for medical marijuana dispensaries. The meeting comes in the wake of a series of raids on medical marijuana collective and a protest by card carrying marijuana users on Friday night. It is hoped that the meeting will clear up some of the haze surrounding the dispensaries’ legal limbo.
Mixing ska, funk, punk, rock and hardcore, Fishbone caters to their hardcore fans. They bring the funk to the Avalon on Dec. 16.
The film The Social Network was all about their on-again, off-again relationship between Zuck and the Winklevoss twins, who claim that Zuck was hired by them to code their own social networking site ConnectU. After receiving $65 million in settlement fees, the twins are back in court, claiming that the sum was based on fraudulent numbers.
Back in 2007, the 75 families of the South Valley Islamic Community received a permit to build a mosque on 15 acres of land in San Martin. Then the donations dried up because of the down economy. Now the community is trying to reinvigorate the project and hopes to have a new mosque in place within a year.
It’s easy to talk about the awesome power of Waters’ fully operational stage show, but underneath the spectacle of what is certainly the most epic rock concert I’ve ever seen, there was a feeling of liberation radiating from the man at the center of it, which gave the music’s themes of escape from misery and hatred a new power.
Now in its regional premiere at San Jose Rep, “Backwards in High Heels” charts screen legend Ginger Rogers rise to stardom, from her girlhood victory at a Charleston contest through her time on Broadway and her appearances opposite Fred Astaire.
Gingerbread house making at Quattro restaurant, Dec. 11 and 18; Meet Rachel Ray at Santana Row, Dec. 11; Grow your own mushrooms with Veggielution at Emma Prushch Park, Dec. 1; Sur La table Cooking class, Dec. 13; Poultry 101 at Love Apple Farm, Dec. 14; Santana Row Holiday for Second Harvest, Dec. 14. 21 and 28
NASA Ames Airfield will soon be home to the world’s largest blimp, the 235-foot-long, 65-feet-in-diameter Bullet Class 580, manufactured by E-Green Technologies.The ultra-modern blimp has more room for helium in its compartments, making it able to reach altitudes of 22,000 feet, far more than the standard blimps, which rise to 4,000-5,000 feet.
