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Music
Johnny Cash lives again in tribute band playing Friday, Nov. 6, at the Blank Club in San Jose
CASH’D OUT plays Friday, Nov. 6, at 9pm at the Blank Club, 44 S. Almaden Ave., San Jose; cover is $12. (408.29BLANK) More
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Movies
A local documentary about wrongfully convicted East Palo Alto man airs on KTEH Nov. 5.
TALK ABOUT double jeopardy. In 1991, Rick Walker, an independent auto mechanic living in East Palo Alto, was wrongfully convicted of murder, mostly on the basis of questionable testimony. Years later, the witness confessed, and Walker was exonerated. Having spent 12 years in San Quentin, Pelican Bay and other hard-core prisons, Walker was punished again by a quirk in the law. While the average prisoner is given some money and assistance upon release, an exonerated prisoner must wait for special legislative appropriation bills to receive the paltry $100 a day for each day of wrongful imprisonment mandated by California statute. More
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News
Housing Costs Out of Balance; Vaccine on its Way; PA Election Results
Where Does All the Money Go?
It used to be conventional wisdom that no one should spend more than 25 percent of their income on rent or get a mortgage worth more than two years gross salary. A new study by the Urban Land Institute shows that Bay Area residents are thinking outside the box—or throwing conventional wisdom out the window. More
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News
Oliverio’s plan would zone and tax medical marijuana clinics, and use the money for cops and roads
IN San Jose, people who rely on a doctor-prescribed puff of pot to relieve pain must hit the highway, and drive to a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco or Santa Cruz, or else hit the street, and buy a bag from a dealer. City Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio has a plan designed to help relieve cancer patients’ pain, and also make the city a mint in sales taxes. More
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News
Internet and computing pioneers honored at Computer Museum
A FREE-FLOATING columnist can find the muse in any crowd, whether it’s billionaire pioneers of the computer industry or Finnish astrologer/filmmakers who write books expanding on Timothy Leary’s eight-circuit brain model for intelligence increase. And in the last few weeks, that’s exactly what I did. More
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Books
The beloved Santa Cruz poet passed away last week at 73.
MORTON MARCUS, whose outsize presence animated and at times dominated Santa Cruz County’s literary culture for most of the last 40 years, died peacefully at home after a long illness early in the morning of Oct. 28. He was 73, and seemed both younger and older—younger because his attitude toward everything was one of boyish enthusiasm More
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News
Two Teens Arrested in Halloween Murder Case; San Jose Named One of Nation's Cleanest Cities
City to Host Skating Championships
San Jose is not known for its icy climate, but it does have its share of world-class figure skaters. Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi grew up in San Jose, and so did U.S. champion Rudy Galindo, who won the Gold right here in San Jose in 1996. The two of them used their star power to bring the U.S. Skating Championships back to San Jose in 2012. More
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Real Estate
According to a recent study, things are worse everywhere else.
There's good news for Silicon Valley's real estate market. In a study of distressed markets across the country, Real Capital Analytics found that the region has the lowest amount of distressed properties in the country, with a total value of just $556 million. More
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News
Reed Lambastes Sacramento; Davis' Plan for SJPD Questioned; PA Voters Consider Tax
’California Is Ungovernable,’ Says a Combative Mayor Chuck Reed
In an interview with the Fox Business channel, Mayor Chuck Reed called California "ungovernable," and called for a new constitutional convention to set matters right. "We fight and fight and fight and fight, and never get anything accomplished," he said, adding that the state hasn't really had a balanced budget for over a decade. "They're not trying to take our money. They're taking our money," said Reed, pointing out that California has repeatedly raided the city's coffers to cover its own budget deficit. More
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Restaurants
YOU’VE HAD chianti and sangiovese before, maybe even a super Tuscan or a barbaresco if someone else was paying. But if you’re like most people your experience with Italian wines doesn’t go much beyond the stuff served in straw-covered bottles. More
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