San Jose is taking a giant leap forward to the next generation of public transportation with the Podcar City Conference. Pod cars are a hybrid form of public and private transportation, also known as personal rapid transit. They are electric vehicles that run on a track, like a train, but each car is for individuals and takes them exactly where they want to go, without stopping to let people on or off along the way.
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Ten former San Jose Giants, including the entire postseason starting rotation, closer Brian Wilson and rookie phenom Buster Posey, will attempt to slay the Texas Rangers in the 2010 World Series starting tonight. Wilson and Posey will join starting pitchers Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez and Madison Bumgarner, as well as Sergio Romo, Travis Ishikawa, Nate Schierholtz and Pablo Sandoval, as former San Jose Giants trying to break the San Francisco Giants 56-year World Series drought.
Soccer fans may have noticed that Earthquakes star Chris Wondolowski donned a bright pink wristband while he scored an unheard of three goals during the team’s Oct. 20 game. Instead of shying away from wearing pink clothing, Wondolowski and many of the team’s players and coaches sported pink attire at Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara a week ago.
The South Bay does have vegetarian restaurants. They generally fall into two groups: south Indian food (dosa, utthapam) and Asian-ish restaurants that lean heavily on tofu and faux meat. I love south Indian food, but I think the fake meat thing is lame. If you’re going to cook or eat vegetarian food, embrace it. Why dress up food to look like meat?
Izakaya is Japan’s take on tapas, small plates of food designed to go with beer and sake. Silicon Valley has a wealth of izakaya restaurants, and while the range and execution of the dishes at Kyora put it somewhere in the middle tier of South Bay izakaya restaurants, it still deserves a place on the map.
Senator Barbara Boxer made a campaign stop in San Jose on Tuesday and spoke at a townhall meeting at Cisco. While she repeated her commitment to saving local jobs, Boxer came under fire for Cisco’s own outsourcing of jobs and its keeping of $30 billion offshore to avoid corporate taxes.
Police Chief Rob Davis’s retirement will cost the city millions of dollars over the next 25 years. A thirty-year veteran of the SJPD, he is entitled to 90 percent of his $230,000 salary, a 3 percent annual hike, and lifetime health insurance for himself and his dependents. Payments on the salary alone are expected to exceed $6 million.
Opening Ballet San Jose’s 25th anniversary season, company veteran Karen Gabay took the starring role on Sunday at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in company director Dennis Nahat’s two-decades-old choreographic update of the story ballet ‘Giselle.”
Because the winegrowing region is so vast (from Half Moon Bay to Watsonville and Santa Cruz and both sides of the Coastal Range), it’s easy for wineries to get overlooked by would-be wine tasters and customers. That’s were wine trails come in handy.
High-speed rail may have just received another $900 million in federal funding, but Palo Alto isn’t interested. At last night’s city council meeting, councilmembers voted unanimously to tell the High Speed Rail Authority that they do not want a station in their city. The problem, they say, comes down to traffic, costs, and parking.
