.Josh Koehn

So he took to the podium, looked over the dais, and ever-so-gently scolded San Jose's mayor and council, which, in honoring him for winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, had gathered in the very building that erased his parents' American dream. Nguyen and his brother, just children when the family fled Vietnam and assumed the burdensome mantle of refugees, were just as helpless as adults when their parents were forced to sell their business and see it demolished for a gleaming $343 million City Hall tower and rotunda. Whatever is left of the New Saigon Market lies fossilized at a depth reserved for milk-carton mobsters and earthworms.

We'll get to the goofiness of a grown man giving a teddy bear a seat at a billion-dollar company's board room table, or the work parties that resulted in office sex, lobby vomit and a janitor's workstation lit aflame, or the FBI investigation into HubSpot, the 'inbound marketing' cult that briefly employed author Dan Lyons and may have broken laws in attempting to stop his book from being published. But first a disclosure: reading 'Disrupted: My Misadventures in the Startup Bubble' will take any early- to mid- to any stage-career journalist down an existential suck hole.

In the order she got them, Amy Cohen has: a drawing by Leonard Cohen, a bouquet of flowers, a lantern, a ship bursting from a bottle, an hourglass and a wreath-'originally designed for the mannequin in the exhibit,' she says, hinting at what visitors to the McKay Gallery in History San Jose will see, should they visit the new exhibit, 'Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California History.'

Of all the culinary secrets hidden behind Bay Area kitchen doors, none is guarded more closely than that of the legendary Orange Sauce. The peculiar condiment has become a South Bay obsession for many who throw down on a burrito, taco, quesadilla—I could keep going but let's assume we both know other variations of Mexican cuisine that feature tortillas, meat, cheese, beans, etc. I set out to uncover the mysteries of Orange Sauce, the method in which it is made and how it spread like, well, sauce across Silicon Valley's casual dining scene. Unlike the traditional fare found in taquerias across the country, Orange Sauce started as a purely provincial offering.

Jeffrey Stout wears his overalls high and tight and he doesn't have time, or at least the inclination, to give off pretenses. He has the most successful new restaurant in the South Bay, Orchard City Kitchen, and the chef admits it while assessing why his Campbell establishment succeeds while fine dining institutions are going the way of the dinosaur.

Father's Day Brunch at Oak & Rye.

Campbell, the former prune capital, is now where future celebrity chefs go to learn the fine points of French cuisine. We crashed the party to see what's up.

Judge omits political friendship with George Shirakawa Jr. before offering light sentence.