Alexander’s Steakhouse, Cupertino’s beloved high-end chop shop, recently moved down the street from its prior location outside Vallco Mall to the new Main Street Cupertino complex. Though the new restaurant is smaller, the grand opening showed an aesthetic upgrade of both its interior and exterior….
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The fourth annual Silicon Valley Beer Week kicks off July 22 with a whole new round of tap takeovers, release parties, beer pairings and other fun events featuring regional and local favorites. In the runup to this yearly celebration of suds, we’ve had beer on the brain. We took…
With no salary and yet one of the biggest responsibilities in society—educating our youth—volunteer teachers are often under-recognized. The President’s Volunteer Service Award seeks to change that. This year five Santa Clara County residents are being praised for their work as volunteer teachers for Citizen…
Why should beer take a backseat to the craft cocktail movement? Everything is fashion in the 20-teens and that means we can make room for beer and booze inside the same cup. In advance of Silicon Valley Beer Week, we criss-crossed the South Bay for…
Five years ago, Dr. Jim Withee made a calculated decision and quit his high-paying job as a government scientist to help people drink good beer. Withee had studied yeast in graduate school and applied his findings to the human immune system, studying ways for the…
Globally speaking, the MLS isn’t a great league. So rather than cobbling together two all-star squads, the league honchos skim the cream and pit their best against a competent challenger from across the pond. This year, the squad of scrappy Americans and washed-up foreign legends…
San Jose native Teresa Alvarado wants to make it easier for people to be able to proudly say they live in San Jose. After leaving the area for for grad school, she returned home to work with SPUR—one of the oldest non-profits in the area. The…
The famed Gilroy Garlic Festival returns July 29-31, this time with improved transportation for South Bay residents. A staple of summer for 20 years, the Garlic Fest attracts tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world for a weekend filled with cookcoffs, concerts…
Fried chicken never goes out of style. The classic and reinvented flavors all enjoy similar fanfare. It comes as no surprise then, that restaurants should offer an entire menu starring breaded poultry. Enter Starbird, a new, healthier version of Chick-Fil-A with in-app ordering and curbside…
The sun was intense and I could taste the Texas cedarwood as my homemade mustache wax melted into my mouth. If it wasn’t for the other ingredients—vegetable shortening, artisanally smoked beet sugar and Doritos Ranch dust—it would have been unbearable. I dragged the kiddie pool…
