Chettinad, India, is synonymous with richly spiced dishes. The Chettinad families live along the coast in the Tamil Nadu state, near Chennai. The South Bay has America’s highest density of restaurants serving these southern Indian specialties. Avoiding them due to unfamiliarity would be a mistake.
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Mexican wrestling has a remarkable cinematic history that stretched over three decades. Beginning in the 1950s, top “lucha libre” (free fighting) stars began appearing in movies that had them wearing their trademark masks not only while wrestling but while driving around in their sports cars and engaging in Batman-like adventures battling Martians, “death robots,” vampire women and criminal masterminds.
Since 2008, Joel Slayton has served as Executive Director of ZERO1, the art and technology network that is responsible for the ZERO1 Biennial Festival and several large public arts projects in San Jose.
East Side San Jose is filled with great Mexican restaurants that offer plenty of tacos and taquerias, but also regional specialties like birria, tortas and uchepos, a tamale dish from Michoacan.
Touchstone has taken up residence in the old Studio Theatre building on the corner of South First and San Salvador. The spot, once plagued by outbreaks of violence and bad dance moves, has been completely transformed. The old art-deco movie house, with its high ceiling and sturdy construction, is a good fit for Touchstone.
I put the hammer down at the CODA representative’s cue. The car responds quickly, doling out a near-excessive amount of speed. It’s a neighborhood, so I ease off the pedal. The regenerative brakes kick in and start to slow the car a bit. I don’t really care how fast we’re going—I’m focused on the chassis and the ride—but as we continue the drive, I find myself drawn back to the accelerator: I’m startled how fast 134 electrically-charged horses can push. What brought me into the electric car’s cockpit, cruising down Stevens Creek Boulevard, is the new CODA dealership—the only one of its kind in Northern California.
The road trip and the literal and figurative potholes we hit along the way are fading into memory, but Food Forward lives on. Next month, on April 9 at 7:30pm, KQED will air our first episode: “Urban Agriculture in America.” The show will play on PBS stations across the country for most of the month of April.
The shoebox of a restaurant specialized in yakitori, charcoal-grilled skewers of meat, fish and vegetables. But in 2008, a fire in a Chinese restaurant next door damaged Sumiya, and the restaurant closed. Sumiya has since reopened on Homestead Road in Santa Clara, while Gaku opened on the site of the old Sumiya. For me, the new Gaku is better than the old Sumiya.
When viewing such a “modernized” version of Shakespeare, it’s hard not to be struck with an initial sense of incongruity. Can we really accept an actor in 21st-century street clothes speaking in early-modern English? If the play is done well, as the powerful new City Lights production of Hamlet is, then we can accept it just as readily as we can accept actors talking to themselves in soliloquy.
San Jose is more of a meat and potatoes town than a seafood city, but if you know where to look you can find some good fish. Look here.
