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The Bay Area’s own Lavay Smith is a modern day chanteuse. She performs with her band at the Sunnyvale Theatre on Feb. 12.
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then a local kid accomplishes his dreams and reaches the pinnacle of his profession. For James Jones, a Gunderson High and San Jose State graduate, that moment came Sunday in Arlington, Texas. Jones, a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, had five catches for 50 yards in a 31-25 Super Bowl XLV victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
While it would seem college hockey players and beer would be a match made in Labatt Blue Heaven, San Jose State’s club hockey team is in crisis mode. The entire team was suspended from play this past week following accusations of student-athletes drinking during or after team events as well as possible hazing.
Ronald Harwood’s “The Dresser,” now at San Jose Rep, focuses tightly on these two: the fast-failing Sir, played by an alternately stentorian or whimpering Ken Ruta, himself a theater legend of considerable proportions, and his longtime dresser, Norman, drawn with brilliant nuance by James Carpenter.
Sure, unemployment is still high, but if you already have a job, there’s no better place to have it than in San Jose. CareerBliss.com ranked 50 American cities, based on eight “happiness factors.” San Jose came out on top in each category. Now all San Jose needs is more jobs.
Three local companies have received a total of $6 million dollars from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop technologies that would reduce the cost of solar energy production by as much as 75 percent by 2020.
An Egyptian businessman who has been negotiating between the Tahrir Square protesters and the Egyptian government says that Google exec Wael Ghonim, believed to be held by the Egyptian government, could be released this afternoon. It remains to be seen how he was treated after two weeks of administrative detention by the Mukhabarat secret police.
Archeology has come a long way since the the days of Indiana Jones, thanks to satellite technology and Google Earth. One Australian archeologist, David Kennedy, was able to scan 1,240 square miles of the forbidding Saudi Arabian peninsula from the comfort of his office in Perth. He found 1,977 potential archeological sites there.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: war survivor and movie star Kieu Chinh, OK Go, Beta State, jazz warehouse art jam, Rey Resurreccion.
