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May 11, 2022
KKUP 91.5 FM 50th Anniversary
Currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, KKUP 91.5 FM is the oldest listener-supported radio station in the country.
At KKUP, humans choose the music and human...
May 4, 2022
San Jose’s Apple Forefather, Henry C. Skinner
Deep in the Roosevelt Park neighborhood, a sidewalk plaque on a tiny side street teaches me about seeds. Then I travel. And get curious....
Apr 27, 2022
Auctioning San Jose History
From one abandoned warehouse to the next, San Jose has become the world capital of rotating historical junk-inventory auctions. As physical history gets discarded,...
Apr 27, 2022
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed
Ink or blood? What’s the difference? Those questions are posed throughout Viet Thanh Nguyen’s latest novel of ideas.
In The Committed, the questions function like...
Apr 20, 2022
Memorable MLS
In what now seems like the vanishing Wild West, the San Jose Earthquakes were winning Major League Soccer championships and setting records.
With coach Frank...
Apr 13, 2022
Cattle to Apple
The story of Silicon Valley can be understood as a road from cattle to Apple. Literally.
If one desires the grand sweep of local history—as...
Apr 6, 2022
A Mall Evolves
From fish heads to Slayer albums, the present merged with the past during a recent revisit to Oakridge Mall.
As I’ve said, the suburban traveler’s...
Mar 30, 2022
Snapped Back
Dusty slides from worldly adventures in 1965 provided exactly the intergenerational Kodak moment I needed to contextualize my own travels around San Jose.
I was...