Congress’s failure to extend unemployment benefits is already putting a strain on local food banks, with Christmas right around the corner. The demand for services has shot up 70 percent in the last year alone, and it is expected to get much higher as more people lose their unemployment benefits this month.
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Santa Clara County is handing out Get Out of Jail Free cards this month to anyone with a misdemeanor warrant for a nonviolent offense or a traffic violation. Until the end of the year, people with warrants against them for nonviolent crimes can simply walk into the local police station, get their citation, and schedule a new court date.
Was Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, a homosexual? This controversy ignites the action in the new politically pointed farce Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party, now running at City Lights Theater Company.
Gulf seafood event at Mayfield Café and Village Pub; Duckhorn wine tasting at San Jose’s Unwined wine bar; wine and chocolate pairing at Enoteca La Storia in Los Gatos; wine tasting weekend at summit wineries; LB Steak Sunday night prime rib dinners; walk with the winemaker at Cooper Garrod Estate Cellars.
Responding to public demands, the SJPD has agreed to provide crime prevention specialists to neighborhoods in West San Jose.Crime specialists were cut back from certain neighborhood, even though crime was on the rise. Part of the problem that the residents face is that so many of the crimes go unreported. A recent survey found that two-thirds of the residents did not report crimes that they knew about.
Netflix is fighting back after Comcast attempted to charge extra fees for overuse of bandwidth for the streaming of movies. Netflix says that such a fee would “threatens the open Internet,” and lead to the imposition of fees on content, depending on who the provider is. They plan to appeal to federal regulators, arguing that this is a breach of net neutrality.
The makers of Firefox are looking into a new version of their popular browser that will help users surf the net anonymously. The news comes just as a Subcommittee of the House of Representatives prepares to hold a hearing about “Do not track” proposals.
Vin, Vino, Wine is a 25-year-old wine shop (regulars call it VVW) with a carefully chosen selection of wines from around the world. The store’s tasting bar is open five days a week and features a revolving lineup for six or more wines by the glass. Rebecca Rapaszky is the store’s manager and wine buyer.
As someone who spends a great deal of time thinking, reading and talking about food, limiting my reviews to just a chef’s skills and a restaurant’s décor and service isn’t enough anymore. Isn’t the fact a restaurant serves low-grade, factory-farmed ground beef made of a composite of ammonia-treated meat scraps from different processing plants as relevant as whether the kitchen overcooked my burger or the waiter refilled my water?
President George W. Bush dropped into Facebook on Tuesday for a public chat with the social network’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. Though he refused to criticize President Obama, saying it was not good for the country, he id make reference to the recent Wikileaks revelations, calling them “very damaging.”
