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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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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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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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Man Caught Acting as Law Enforcement, Vigilante
Community Jul 27, 2012, by Alyxandra GoodwinThe spirit of vigilantism lives on with more than the recent release of “The Dark Knight Rises”. A San Jose man has been sentenced to prison for impersonating a federal agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), complete with a fake badge and an unloaded gun to serve some misguided justice and avoid paying his rent.
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Four years of data detailing the locations of hundreds of thousands of drivers who have passed through San Jose resides in a server somewhere in Costa Mesa. The server belongs to Plate Scan LLC, a now-defunct company that sold License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology to police departments, including San Jose’s. While law enforcement officials call the ethnology a valuable tool to track criminals, privacy advocates and l;lawmakers are becoming concerned.
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SJ Q&A: Chris Moore, SJPD Chief of Police
CommunityLocalNews Jul 13, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon
Chris Moore officially stepped in as Chief of the San Jose Police Department in February 2011 after working up the ranks, starting as a police officer on street patrol in 1982.
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Casino M8trix set to Open Soon?
BusinessCommunityLocalNews Jul 11, 2012, by Josh Koehn 2 Comments
San Jose City Officials have their fingers crossed that Police Chief Chris Moore will sign off on Casino M8trix’s opening at a public hearing Thursday, July 19. If Moore gives the OK to gaming and other bundled alcohol and entertainment permits, the towering 16-story casino near San Jose’s airport can open the next day.
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SJ Q&A: Dan Gordon, Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
BusinessCommunityNews Jul 06, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon 1 Comments
Dan Gordon founded Gordon Biersch Brewing Company with partner Dean Biersch in 1987, and he continues to supervise the 114,000-square-foot brewing and bottling facility on E. Taylor Street in San Jose.
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