San Jose News Archive
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SJ Q&A: Wisa Uemura, San Jose Taiko
Sep 25, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon 1 Comments
Wisa Uemura took over as Executive Director of San Jose Taiko last year after performing for over 14 years. Growing up in the rural area of Kula, Maui, Hawaii, Uemura had seen taiko before, but first started playing in 1993 during her first year at Stanford University.
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Beautiful weather, a diverse population and a reputation as the hub of technology, San Jose is a great place to live. It’s also home to the nation’s most prosperous.
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Strikeforce Card Features 2 of San Jose’s Best
Sports Sep 19, 2012, by Cap Calderon
Sacramento hosts “Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Healy” on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Power Balance Pavilion. Featured on the card are two San Jose fighters, Josh “The Punk” Thomson and Mike “MAK” Kyle.
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Live Music Resurgence in San Jose
BusinessCommunityLocalNews Sep 19, 2012, by Jennifer Wadsworth 3 Comments
A strong musical, artistic culture incorporates more than just the nonprofit-driven opera, ballet and other well-established performance arts. But San Jose’s still a little slow to the take.
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New Reality Show Features San Jose Gym
Sports Aug 15, 2012, by Cap Calderon 2 Comments
The cable channel NuVo TV is taking MMA fans on an inside look with its reality show “Fight Factory.” The show takes viewers inside the doors of San Jose-based American Kickboxing Academy and Josh Koscheck’s “Dethrone Base Camp” in Fresno.
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SJ Q&A: Megan Williams, Silicon Valley Roller Girls
CommunityLocalNewsSports Aug 15, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon
Silicon Valley Roller Girls is a nonprofit, all-female flat track roller derby league that was founded in 2007. Megan “Panda Monium” Williams played alongside the girls for three years until stepping off the rink to focus on her role as coach. Along with other members of the coaching staff, Williams does her part by facilitating scrimmages, teaching new skills and strategies to players and developing teamwork.
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Prop. 34 could end the Death Penalty
LocalNewsPolitics Aug 15, 2012, by Leilani Clark 1 Comments
At San Quentin State Prison, 724 inmates are housed in the largest death row in the United States, waiting their turn on the lethal injection gurney. But if the Savings, Accountability and Full Enforcement for California Act (SAFE) passes on Nov. 6, their fate will change dramatically.
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New Bike Lanes Introduced to Downtown Streets
Community Aug 13, 2012, by Kim Diaz 2 Comments
Pedestrians and drivers may have noticed significant changes to downtown roads with new bike lanes added on 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th street.
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Good Karma Bikes Helps Set a Path to Recovery
Community Aug 08, 2012, by Kim Diaz 1 Comments
Good Karma Bikes is reaching out to the homeless community by providing people not only with bicycles but also the tools and skills to fix them and apply those skills for future job opportunities.
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San Jose police were called to Mercury Newspaper headquarters after more than a dozen news racks from other local publications were found in a metal recycling dumpster behind the daily’s plant.
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