Irene Dalis, founder of Opera San Jose, will step down from the company in July 2014 after 28 years working at the opera company. At 87 years old, she says she feels it is finally time to let someone else take the lead.
Irene Dalis, founder of Opera San Jose, will step down from the company in July 2014 after 28 years working at the opera company. At 87 years old, she says she feels it is finally time to let someone else take the lead.
Karen Gabay practically grew up with her ballet company, signing on straight out of high school with what was then the San Jose Cleveland Ballet 34 years ago. She was 18, already groomed from performing with a semiprofessional troupe in her hometown of San Diego.
Veggielution’s annual spring celebration, Avant Garden, returns on Friday with local chefs creating dishes from produce harvested on the urban farm, craft brews and, new for this year, San Jose Made vendors.
MACLA’s 15th Annual Latino Art Auction arrives May 18, providing the opportunity for attendees to expand their Latino art collection with friendly bidding wars in a festive setting.
Last week, the Menlo Park Planning Commission unanimously passed a plan for Facebook’s new West Campus. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and legendary architect Frank Gehry have been collaborating on a design for this new structure over the past several months, and it now looks that their vision will come to fruition.
While most cities in California have seen development stall in the last few years, thanks to the recession and the dissolution of state’s redevelopment agencies (RDAs), Willow Glen has become an outlier, a DIY business community.
Jane Austen’s novels are so noted for their insight into the manners and domestic proprieties of their age that it’s easy to forget how lively, indeed funny, her work is. An element of danger also arises: those idyllic country settings are really battlefields in which lone heroines square off against an array of Willoughbys, Wickhams and Crawfords.
The indian call center has become an unfortunate racist cliche, the place where robotlike workers perform outsourced American jobs, and even for many who don’t partake in churlish vitriol about “stolen” jobs, there is something undeniably surreal about being connected with a service person in South Asia.
More folks seem to be taking up homebrewing as a hobby based on feedback from local homebrew stores. The next step for some is exploring the possibility of joining a homebrew club. The American Homebrewers Association has a database of more than 1,000 registered homebrew clubs, including San Jose’s Almaden Brewers, Affinity Home Brewing Club, the Grain Trust and the longstanding Worts of Wisdom Homebrewers and Silicon Valley Sudzers, as well as Santa Clara’s the HeadQuarters and Santa Clara Valley Brewers.
A restaurant in downtown Los Altos that is starting to garner some legitimate buzz. Its cottage setting is reminiscent of a visit to Grandma’s: impossibly clean, surprises for the children and collective sighs of relief from the parents.