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Oct 2, 2024

With AR, San Jose’s Past Could Be Just a Click Away

If Paris can augment reality with an appreciation for history, then so should San Jose. And if Google really cares, then it should help.
Front of a theater with the marquee advertising an appearance by Nancy Pelosi
Sep 4, 2024

Places and Faces and Points in Time in the California Theatre

Last week, the ghost of Steve Jobs was lurking as I contemplated a zillion events I’d seen in the California Theatre over the last 20 years.
Intersection signs shot at an angle with industrial landscape around it
Aug 28, 2024

Lost Highways: Back Before Freeways Ruined Everything

From a Zen perspective, all San Jose phenomena are subject to change, decay and death. This is especially true with lost highways.
Urban fountain with water flowing over cement steps
Aug 21, 2024

Memories of Redevelopment on Paseo de San Antonio

In San Jose, developers wipe out entire blocks, only to wipe them out again 20 years later. Paseo de San Antonio is no different.
Grocery store display with blueberries surrounded by other shelves
Aug 14, 2024

Smoking Bargains and Blistering Rock at Grocery Outlet

The Grocery Outlet Bargain Market in downtown San Jose proves that music calms the savage breast. And yes, killer deals were aplenty.
Man wearing a beret
Aug 7, 2024

Chris Esparza: Elegy to a San Jose Giant

Chris Esparza, who passed away over the weekend, was a pillar of the San Jose arts, restaurant, nightclub, music and events industries for at least 35 years.
BevMo! store and surrounding parking lot and trees
Jul 31, 2024

How Metallica Made a Mark on South San Jose History

At the intersection of Blossom Hill and Santa Teresa, in the suburbs, sits a perpetually empty parking lot. I was there to absorb history.

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