Speculating whether a celebrity is gay is rapidly becoming the jeu du jour, and Google is helping out with that.
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“Spartan and clean.” That’s how Information Week describes Amazon’s new Kindle Fire. Better yet, it could probably be called the “no frills” tablet. At $199, it certainly offers a tempting price tag, but reduced cost means reduced features.
Tracy Letts’ caustic tour de force, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is now in the South Bay for the first time.
While its much larger neighbor, San Jose, awaits league approval for a baseball stadium, Santa Clara has jumped to the front of the queue. The city is only a few steps from completing a billion-dollar deal by pulling off the near impossible: making a professional sports franchise foot almost the entire the bill for a stadium while also giving much of the revenue back to the city.
When typing the name of Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck into Google, the second-highest recommended search is “Andrew Luck girlfriend.” That designation; we’ll call her “Lady Luck”; apparently goes to a Stanford gymnast, but it’s a title any gold-digger would be happy to have. The kid is more or less guaranteed to be the top pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, and with that comes a google of dollars in contracts and endorsements.
Willow Glen has always been one of San Jose’s most appealing neighborhoods. It is a tidy, well-maintained community with good-looking homes, lots of leafy, mature trees and a walkable downtown—Lincoln Street. Things are getting even better with an expanding food scene.
For more than 15 years, the classic Cal/French bistro was a mainstay on California Street, but owners Ambjorn Lindskog and Andrea Hyde tired of steadily rising rents, so they left. But they didn’t go far. The restaurant has been reborn just a few blocks away as Birch Street.
Requiring 90 musicians plus a chorale, the scope of Gustav Holst’s symphonic masterpiece is massive.
In a collaborative effort with the Israel Museum, Google has now posted high-res images of five of the most important Dead Sea Scrolls for aficionados and scholars alike to peruse.
President Obama is now in Colorado after an overnight stay in the Bay Area, where he attended two fundraising events and answered questions at a LinkedIn Town Hall.
