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Silicon Alleys: Almaden Valley Athletic Club marks 50 years
Joe Shank, 87, is showing me around Almaden Valley Athletic Club at Camden and Kooser, the facility he opened...
Save Martin Luther King Library’s California Room from San Jose’s Budget Cuts
The California Room on the fifth floor of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Main Library is one of the...
Summer 2026 Sports
Despite the efforts of the city up the bay to keep us from getting a baseball team, the valley’s...
L.A. Guns Returns to Downtown San Jose’s Rock Scene
The remains of the Sunset Strip from 1988 surfaced last week at the Ritz for a small rock show...
AAPI Heritage Month Through Art, Film and Community in the Bay Area
With Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month now upon us, the columnist reincarnated as “Herb Caen Tagore” and...
Ray Hartmann pled for compassion and common sense in one of his last columns
If you’re waiting for the government to solve the homelessness crisis with anything resembling a heart, forget about it. What we are watching is a bipartisan race to the bottom. The Trump administration has kicked into full cruelty mode, demonizing the homeless as just another population to be disposed of.