It’s tough to bring topics like child molestation, breast cancer and dementia to the stage. Tabia does a great job of tackling these and many other serious issues, capturing both the serious consequences of keeping family secrets without losing the good-natured humor that imbues real life.
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Today, March 1, San Jose temporarily turns into one of the nation’s movie capitals as Cinequest arrives. In the first edition of Today at Cinequest, Richard von Busack, film critic for Metro Silicon Valley, previews the festival.
A new edition of Disney on Ice entranced audiences of all ages over the weekend at HP Pavilion in San Jose.
There are big plans for North San Jose, with as many as 16,000 new housing units about to be built there. The problem is that new housing means new families, and new families means new schools for their kids. Measure A asks local voters to decide who will fit the bill for those new schools.
Former Apple procurement manager Paul Devine appeared in San Jose Federal Court on Monday and pleaded guilty to fraud, as well as money laundering and conspiracy. Devine has since agreed to pay $2.25 million to Apple in damages. He could, however, earn jail time too, with a maximum sentence of twenty years per charge.
Lee Evans, a local track star of the 1968 Olympics, is offering his two gold medals for sale. Proceeds will be used to build a school in Liberia. The school costs about $400,000. He hopes the medals will fetch $250,000. “I don’t need the medals,” says Evans, who is currently in Nigeria. “I need money to build the school.”
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: 2011 Oscar-nominated shorts, taking better pictures, contemporary Indian art lunchtime lecture, ArtRage, South First Fridays Art Walk.
With 85 percent of adult Americans now owning a cellphone, Intel had decided to study the etiquette of electronic device usage around the country. The results were startling. More than nine out of every 10 Americans surveyed admit that they have seen people using mobile technology in annoying ways and places, while 19 percent admit that they do it too..
San Jose begins taxing medical marijuana dispensaries on Tuesday, following the passage of Measure U in the last election. To help ease the transition for dispensary owners, City Hall will be holding a seminar on Monday morning on how to calculate and pay the 7 percent tax. The first payment of the tax is due by the end of April, and owners will be required to file financial audits at that time.
Google’s engineers have been working around the clock to fix a problem affecting a small but significant group of Gmail users. All their emails and folders have disappeared. First reported on Sunday, Google has been attempting to retrieve and restore the lost information, and offering frequent updates to its users.
