San Jose State won’t be making a move to the Mountain West Conference, but it wasn’t because the Spartans got cold feet.
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Vince Vaughn gave him his first big break. The Italian-American comic from Chicago performs at the San Jose Improv on Feb. 2-5.
The recent 30th-anniversary concert given by San Jose’s modern-dance gem the Margaret Wingrove Dance Company drew from decades of Wingrove’s award-winning choreography.
Peruvian cuisine sounds exotic, but at least as far as it’s expressed in Silicon Valley, it’s quite tame. There’s a lot of meat and potatoes, and rice and beans; often all on the same plate. It many ways, it resembles Spanish food, with paella-like dishes, grilled and fried seafood and stewed meats.
Anthony Batts moved his way up the ranks of the Long Beach Police Department over 20 years, steadily picking up specialized training as he earned awards and accolades before becoming chief. After seven years in that job, where he was able to oversee a significant reduction of violent crime, Batts moved on to Oakland with a promise to save the city—whose young African American men were being murdered at an alarming rate—and lead a department shaken by the killing of four officers. Fourteen months later, Batts is already planning to move again.
We are lucky to live in such a bountiful state. Where else can you taste wine from South Africa, learn how to make classic French pastry, and enjoy an Italian happy hour all in one week? Some might say we’re spoiled, so let them, because for us it’s just another South Bay week. Jan. 26-Feb. 2.
In his State of the County address on Tuesday, Supervisor Dave Cortese called for a restructuring of the juvenile justice system that would keep young offenders out of juvenile hall. He proposed that the age limit for incarceration be raised from twelve to sixteen. Juvenile Court Judge Patrick Tondreau wants to extend the age distinction to probation as well by establishing a separate probation office for juvenile offenders.
Facebook’s new program, called “sponsored stories,” picks comments that users write about products and incorporates them into ads that appear on their friends’ pages. It’s what the company calls, “word-of-mouth marketing at scale,” though it offers users no possibility of opting out of the program.
While Google announced plans to hire new employees, Yahoo announced plans to lay off more people as it prepared to release its fourth quarter statement. Income was up but revenue was down for Yahoo, leading some investors to wonder how long Carol Bartz should be given to turn the troubled company around.
The SJPD and sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a thief wielding a knife in a Santa Clara County ravine. Little information has been released about the incident, which ended on Tuesday evening when rescue teams went into the ravine to retrieve the suspect’s body. Police have yet to name the suspect or to identify what it was that he stole.
