A new company is hoping to turn cloverleafs along the freeway into solar energy farms. Republic Cloverleaf Solar says that it can power 3,000 homes with energy produced by solar panels installed on the unused land along the freeway. It is in negotiations with CalTrans and PG&E, and hopes to begin construction next year.
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Stanford alums Thomas Steyer and Kat Taylor made a $7 million gift to the school to establish the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance for the study and development of new technologies for producing clean energy.
If this were France, this article would never have been written. There, the 110-year-old Michelin guide is a venerated source of restaurant recommendations. The annual guide’s release is a reason for hot debate and raucous celebration. But we are not in France.
San Jose boasts a half-dozen Ethiopian restaurants, and humble Mudai is one of my favorites. Mudai Ethiopian Restaurant doesn’t feel so much like a restaurant as it does an Ethiopian cultural center or an extended living room.
The weekend of Jan. 15–16 will be a big one for fans of Santa Cruz Mountains wine, so it’s not too early to mark it on the calendar. Jan. 15 is “passport day,” in which dozens of local wineries will open their doors to visitors. Jan. 16 is a wine and crab competition at several, yet-to-be named restaurants.
Thanks to the combined talents of writer Duane Poole, composer Larry Grossman and lyricist Carol Hall, Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” has been turned into a world-premiere musical at TheatreWorks.
Smashing Pumpkins, Phoenix, My Chemical Romance, Black Keys, Broken Bells and local band Finish Ticket rock the HP Friday Dec. 10.
City Council is scheduled to discuss the latest developments in the proposed aerial route that high speed rail will take to reach its downtown destination. Meanwhile, Scott Knies, Executive Director of the San Jose Downtown Association, is already voicing his reservations, and urging the city to reconsider the tunnel option instead.
Pat Dando and the Chamber of Commerce will be attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a medical marijuana facility on Wednesday, even though the legality of such facilities under the city’s zoning laws has yet to be determined. “They are a business with good standing in the city,” says Dando, in what could be interpreted as the Chamber’s stand on medical marijuana.
The Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corp is suing Youtube for copyright infringement, after an Egyptian living in Alexandria posted videos of questionable ownership on the popular website. Though the videos have since been taken down, they are said to have caused “great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money.”
