Opera San Jose stages a double bill featuring dramatic operas by Leoncavallo and Poulenc.
Opera San Jose stages a double bill featuring dramatic operas by Leoncavallo and Poulenc.
A romantic restaurant is all about balance. It’s must be quiet but not too quiet. Service should attentive, but discrete. The food should be delicious, of course, but light and lively enough that it doesn’t put you to sleep. And while you’re dining in a crowd your table should feel like it’s own private island. These five restaurants fit the bill.
San Jose Bike Club’s Winter Series allows cyclists to maintain their fitness during the colder months.
From skateboard hard goods to various name brand cut and sew, Circle-A is the lone purveyor of authentic skateboard products from some of the industries most respected brands. Owner and proprietor of Circle-A skateboards, Bob Schmelzer has been running the shop since its first iteration in downtown San Jose before relocating to its current aquarium-like storefront on Paseo De San Antonio.
A selection of some of the best Thanksgiving dinner specials at San Jose restaurants.
The Abhinaya Dance Company combines mytholology, traditional music and dance in the Bharatanatyam style of southern India.
Make it or buy it? Bay Area author Jennifer Reese does the math and figures out what’s worth making yourself and what foods you’re better off buying at the store. In most cases, DIY is the way to go.
Whether it was fatigue from sleeping on the sidewalk, a lack of company in the cold night or anonymous death threats, which at least one outspoken female member received, the occupation in San Jose was noticeably dwindling in bodies and enthusiasm as the arrests started. And then Shaun O’Kelly, known to his friends as Cracker, went climbing.
A few months ago, with just $3,000 in his pockets, Justin Buzzard packed up his car and drove down the bay toward San Jose. Like so many young people, Buzzard came to Silicon Valley with big dreams. Start something new. Find a following. Get funding. Change the world. But Buzzard didn’t come here to found the next tech startup. He came to “plant,” or open, a church.
Fusion 9 is Silicon Valley’s (America’s?) first drive-thru Indian restaurant, and it represents the Indianization of American food. Or maybe it’s the Americanization of Indian food. Whatever it is, the El Camino Real restaurant is an intriguing bit of culinary anthropology.