This is the best Bay Area college football team in decades, playing with the best Bay Area quarterback and coach (NFL or college) in decades. It’s like the stars aligned perfectly for the Stanford Cardinal this year, and yet much of the Bay Area has yet to take notice.
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Before my visit to Bona, a new Polish restaurant in Menlo Park, what I knew about Polish cuisine was pretty much limited to kielbasa. And potatoes. I’m pretty sure they eat a lot of potatoes in Poland. But there’s more to Polish food than sausage and spuds. Much more
Before my visit to Bona, a new Polish restaurant in Menlo Park, what I knew about Polish cuisine was pretty much limited to kielbasa. And potatoes. I’m pretty sure they eat a lot of potatoes in Poland. But there’s more to Polish food than sausage and spuds. Much more
In a short span of time, this zany holiday mashup comes extremely close to being literally what its title says it is. Having appeared at San Jose Stage two years ago, ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told’ is now back by popular demand.
Evergreen College’s new Center for the Arts is causing more problems than anticipated. The $38 million building is plagued by a series of design flaws that left one instructor on disability and sixty students with no place to learn. It is also contending with fifty Cal/OSHA safety violations and one fire department violation.
Thanksgiving is known for two things: a big feast followed by a retreat to the living room to watch the big game. At “The Window,” a drop-in service run by the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph’s Office of Social Ministry, the two will be combined in an unusual way. The turkey will be served by the San Francisco 49ers.
Taste of Compassion at Florentine restaurant, Nov. 22.
Try a new restaurant or a new dish at an old favorite while benefitting West Valley Community Services. Tickets are $24 with reservations or $26 at the door and 50 percent of the proceeds will benefit WVCS.
Thanksgiving at the Plumed Horse, Nov. 25.
Join Michelin-starred chef Peter Armellino on Nov. 25 for a four-course Thanksgiving menu with Armellino’s interpretation of the classics. Choices include kabocha squash soup with diver sea scallops, oven roasted turkey with the traditional accompaniments, roasted fall vegetable risotto or roast New York strip with a warm Valhrona chocolate fondant for dessert
Smokers signed a petition on Monday protesting the proposed extension of anti-smoking measures in the county’s unincorporated areas. The new ordinance would institute an annual permit fee on shops that sell tobacco, prevent pharmacies from selling tobacco products, and ban the sale of tobacco 1,000 feet from schools and 500 feet from other shops selling tobacco. It would also ban the selling of flavored tobacco.
BART will be shredding 250,000 tires, wrapping them in fabric, and laying eighteen inches of them right beneath the tracks along its new line from Fremont to San Jose. This, BART says, will help reduce vibrations and cut back on noise. It will also cut the cost of noise reduction by 40 percent.
An EMT now working with the SJFD videoed how he used his ambulance while on duty to get dates.Though he did that while working privately for AMR, now the SJFD has to figure out how to deal with him, especially now that a DVD of his exploits is making the rounds.Does the SJFD hae enough trust in him to ensure that he fulfills his duties when they conflict with his “duties”?
