The historic Fox Theatre reopens under new management and with a new vision for live music in Silicon Valley. The Fox is known for blues and Americana but will also be bringing Latin, Ukranian, world music, comedy, and Broadway shows.
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One of the things I’ve always liked about Jeffrey Hatcher’s 1996 adaptation of Henry James’s 1898 novella, “The Turn of the Screw,” now being presented by Dragon Productions in Palo Alto, is its minimalism.
Walkscore.com has given San Jose an average score for its walkability. Some neighborhoods are simply better than others, with Buena Vista, Burbank, Rose Garden, and Downtown topping the list of the city’s most walkable neighborhoods. While San Francisco topped the list, San Jose was beaten by cities such as Cleveland, Milwaukee, and even Los Angeles.
The engineer who first leaked the confidential memo about Google’s raise for all employees has been fired. While Google refuses to comment on the issue, observers wonder how the company hoped to keep an across the board raise for 23,000 people a secret for long. Some are suggesting that the raise was an attempt to curb a brain drain to rival companies such as Facebook.
In an effort to overcome a looming deficit, Santa Clara City Council voted 6-1 on Tuesday to lay off about 80 workers if their representatives don’t agree to a 5 percent pay cut or 12 days of unpaid furlough.
The raid on San Jose Patients Group was one of a number of “smash and grab” raids on local pot dispensaries that occurred last Thursday and Friday, Nov. 3 and 4, just days after San Jose voters overwhelmingly approved Measure U, a medical marijuana tax.
In the male-dominated world of streetwear fashion labels, it’s hard for a chick to cut a break.
But that’s exactly what East Side San Jose–based fashion designer Joyous Ladi is endeavoring to do with Girls Night Out Society (GNOS), her innovative new streetwear line.
Designed just with fly ladies in mind, Ladi’s ironic, irreverently funny screen-print girl-fit T-shirts have only been on the market for a few months. Nonetheless, GNOS is already generating some serious Internet buzz.
Adrian Oliver, arguably the Western Athletic Conference’s best player, was humbled by being forced to sit out a year for transferring to SJSU to be closer to his family. Since, Oliver has found a niche as the Spartans best player while being the glue that brings his family together.
Work on the 50,000-square-foot project is well under way, and completion is set for next spring. The marketplace will house about 30 vendors including a produce market, meat and fish market, wine bars, demonstration kitchen, restaurants, a barbershop, live music and a 25,000-square-foot public square.
OPENING a restaurant is an act of faith. The hours are grueling, the financial reward small and the failure rate extremely high. Opening a restaurant in an out-of-the-way location in a town that is not known for its food culture and that requires potential patrons to step out of their culinary comfort zone is plain insane.
Yet that is exactly what chef Royce Mori did, and his Red Crane restaurant is quickly coming up on its third anniversary.
