Kien Hoang founded Umbrella Salon almost 12 years ago with partners Michelle Givens and Khiem Hoang with the mission of establishing a luxurious, innovative salon that was also involved with the community.
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There are at least two sides to many stories, and in the assault against Atul Lall, one comes from a bitter victim of violent crime, while the other emerges from a defensive police department. According to Lall, police lend more credence to his assailants’ drunken recollections.
There are cheese fries, and then there’s poutine—the French-Canadian gift to the world of hangovers. This simple dish consists of French fries layered with squeaky cheese curds and beef gravy. It seems predestined that Americans would revere this hypersaturated Montreal staple, yet the dish is virtually unknown in most of this country. And where it is popular, poutine bears a few “cosmopolitan” characteristics.
The upside to the furor over the naming of Story Road’s Vietnamese business district two years ago was everybody got hip to the fact San Jose has a thriving Vietnamese business district with great food to boot.
Leave it to a legendary cartoonist to collect the stories of San Jose’s historical heroes and package the whole shebang into 40 pages of wonderment. Jim Hummel, a longtime fixture at the Mercury News, has now supplied the youth of the valley with an easy-to-grasp mechanism for retaining historical tidbits.
Leave it to a legendary cartoonist to collect the stories of San Jose’s historical heroes and package the whole shebang into 40 pages of wonderment. Jim Hummel, a longtime fixture at the Mercury News, has now supplied the youth of the valley with an easy-to-grasp mechanism for retaining historical tidbits.
To composer Guillermo Galindo, these are voices from the desert, Voces del Desierto, a work MACLA commissioned him to write for Quinteto Latino, a not-so-conventional wind ensemble. The piece will be debuted this weekend. Galindo, an established electro-acoustic composer based in the East Bay, drew inspiration for the project when he, along with Quinteto Latino director Armando Castellano and videographer Marvin Barrera, traveled to the U.S./Mexico border at Laredo one year ago.
Jenneke De Vries’ husband takes pizza very seriously. He was born in Naples to Dutch parents, and although he left Italy when he was still a young boy, he returned frequently to eat the city’s famed wood-fired bread creation. “He pretty much grew up on the pizza margarita,” she says. “He knows what he’s talking about.” Years later, living in Silicon Valley and working as a software engineer, he built a dome oven in his backyard so he could create thin-crust pizzas of his own.
Last month, my grocery bill was nearly $2,000. I don’t know if that sounds like a lot to you, but for a family of four with two young kids that seemed like a fortune. Something had to change. The problem as I saw it was I was shopping for each meal, running to the store several times a week. I knew this was neither efficient nor fiscally wise, so I decided to plan out a week’s worth of menus at once.
The announcement that Michael Miller would be stepping down as executive director of San Jose Jazz shocked a lot of people. Neither the group itself nor the local reporting on the story gave any clear reason for Miller’s jump to the smaller Children’s Musical Theater San Jose.
