Grape-growers in Santa Clara County are facing a new pest this season—Lobesia botrana, the European grapevine moth. They are believed to infect a 94-square mile area in Santa Clara County, and agricultural officials are taking drastic measures to ensure that they do not spread. Pest control agents are removing all the grapes from backyard vineyards in the affected areas.
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Two armed men walked into the Dispensary, a medical marijuana dispensary in San Jose, tied up the employees, and made off with an undisclosed amount of marijuana and cash. The incident occurred shortly before noon on Wednesday. There were no patrons on site at the time, and the two employees did not see where the robbers fled, or if they fled by car or on foot.
FabMo’s monthly distribution events have become a mecca for eco-conscious Silicon Valley artists, teachers, quilters and crafters looking for free premium materials. The all-volunteer, nonprofit organization has found use for tons of high-quality samples that would otherwise have been thrown away.
The Shack Shakers’ music is wedged securely between punk blues, psychobilly, alt-country and swamp rock. They’re rocking the Blank Club on Oct. 15 with Bob Wayne & The Outlaw Canaries and the Shitkickers.
Bounded by Taylor Street to the north and Empire to the south, First Street to the west and 10th to the east, San Jose’s Japantown is a fairly compact, walkable neighborhood. The area’s little “downtown” runs along Jackson Street and features professional services and retail shops, including a dozen-plus restaurants—from Mexican and Korean to Chinese and Hawaiian and, of course, Japanese—and a recently opened dog boutique.
Driscoll, who was one of four players from San Jose State to earn a spot in this year’s World Championships, says he owes his success entirely to the judo legend Uchida. “It came from the instruction of one of the best coaches in the nation,” the 29-year-old grad student says. Driscoll says he was intimidated weighing in with his heavyweight division competitors at the competition in Tokyo earlier this month. “This was the first time that I was by far the smallest guy in the room,” the 6-foot-3-inch, 255-pound judoka says.
In the South Bay, foodies are expected to know their northern curries from their southern dosas. The new Steps of India seeks to hone that curry consciousness even further, billing its cuisine as Northwest Frontier fare. That’s a good hook for this area, especially as it lands in a crowded field of South Bay Indian restaurants. Even right in its Cambrian Park neighborhood, just down the street on Union Avenue, Rangoli has long held court as the most popular Indian cuisine this side of Amber India.
Google planned on turning one of its Mountain View properties into a recreational area, complete with a soccer field, basketball court, disc golf area, and horseshoes and bocce ball pitches. The problem is that the area is home to the burrowing owl. After some consideration, the city has decided that a $20,000 donation to preserve the rare bird could mitigate the problem.
Santa Clara County’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to opt out of the Secure Communities federal program, also known as SCOMM. Members of the Board of Supervisors and the public claim that the program, which submits all fingerprints taken in the county to the Department of Homeland Security, only drives illegal immigrants deeper underground, and encourages them to avoid the police at all costs.
What can we do to make the world a better place? That was a question asked by Google, who took their motto of “Do no evil,” and expanded it to “Do good instead.” They asked for ideas to improve government, education, transportation, the environment, and offered to provide seed money to “the most innovative approaches to solving some very pressing problems.”
