The Bay Area as a whole may be one of the most densely populated places in California, but no city in the region has passed the 1 million residents mark … yet. According to the latest census results, San Jose is still the third largest city in the state and the 10th most populous city in the country. It is also the only one of the top 10 cities with a population of under 1 million. Based on current trends, it may take till 2021 to get there.
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Though prolix speeches are as Castro as fine cigars and fatigues, the retired Cuban leader has just passed 100,000 followers on his Twitter account—Castro himself follows only 19 people. The sad thing is that he is not the most popular Cuban twitterer. That honor goes to Yoani Sanchez, a blogger and political dissident in Havana with 109,898 followers.
‘Medal of Honor’ by Calin Peter Netzer and ‘The Glass Slipper’ by local director Jarrod Whaley top Richard von Busack’s best bets list for today.
In San Jose, many libraries have been forced to cut back hours. With budget cuts, they could be cutting their opening hours down to just three days a week.
Steve Sokol was known as the “World’s Fittest Man.” He died in a car crash on Monday morning, after his car rammed into a power pole on Cottle Road.
Senator John McCain will be visiting Silicon Valley on Mar. 22, but before he comes, he will be needing a lesson in outsourcing.
While the revolution sweeping the Middle East might not have been possible without social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, those sites have avoided joining Google, Apple, and Microsoft in the Global Network Initiative to ensure free speech and privacy online.
RvB talks about his best bets for today, including the rough cut panel discussion of ‘Cheap Fun’ by Zach Sutherland, Shorts Program 6 and 8, and ‘Marrow’ by Matt Wilkins.
Protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church failed to show up at Gunderson High’s performance of “The Laramie Project” on Friday, but at least 500 counter-protesters were outside to greet them. Inside, the show went on as planned before a sold-out audience.
By the end of the year, San Jose will be getting a new area code, 669, in addition to 408. The question is whether the split will be geographical, as it was in 1998, or whether there will be an overlay, so that two adjacent homes could have two separate area codes. The California Public Utilities Commission will be holding public hearings this month before deciding which strategy to adopt.
