AltWeeklies Wire
Iconic Bakery Dogged by Racism, Retaliation Allegationsnew
Peters’ Bakery has done business in East San Jose for nearly 80 years, but a legal dispute between the owner and a worker has turned ugly.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
08-14-2015 |
Business & Labor
Coffee Cart Startup Creates Jobs for the Formerly Homelessnew
Kartma employs formerly homeless people and equip them with not only the skills to brew gourmet coffee but to staff, stock, market and otherwise run a small business.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
08-10-2015 |
Homelessness
Kamasi Washington: An ‘Epic’ Young Jazz Talentnew
One of jazz’s ascendant virtuosos, saxophonist Kamasi Washington wowed critics with his sprawling, three-disc debut LP, ‘The Epic.’
Metro Silicon Valley |
Brandon Roos |
08-10-2015 |
Performance
Comedian Brian Posehn Is A Total Nerdnew
Now that he's a father, Brian Posehn, has given up pot. But he'll never give up on heavy metal.
Metro Silicon Valley |
John Flynn |
08-10-2015 |
Comedy
No End in Sight for California Capital Punishment Fightnew
For now, capital punishment in California resembles an M. C. Escher drawing—a Möbius strip going endlessly nowhere.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Tom Gogola |
08-05-2015 |
Crime & Justice
The Podcast Invasionnew
Podcasting's blowing up-more than a decade after its low-key debut. What took so long?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Nick Veronin |
08-05-2015 |
Culture
Bad Nudes Bared: Lupin Lodge’s Idyllic Clothing-Free Lifestyle Unravels in Alarming Fashionnew
Natural disasters. Kinky sex. Meth abuse. Worker exploitation. A dead motorcyclist. A con man. Can it get any worse for the once idyllic Lupin Lodge?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
07-24-2015 |
Features
'Lean Out' Urges Women to Create Their Own Culture in Silicon Valleynew
Serial entrepreneur and veteran coder Elissa Shevinsky thinks it's time for women to stop trying to be part of sexist Silicon Valley and to create their own spaces.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
07-24-2015 |
Books
Santa Clara County Official Pleads Guilty to All Chargesnew
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President George Shirkawa pleaded guilty to all 12 charges against him. A Metro Silicon Valley investigation first exposed Shirkawa's actions in September 2012.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Josh Koehn |
03-18-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: George Shirkawa
Roll Numbersnew
ANTI-DRUG ADS have long portrayed pot smokers as lazy and unmotivated. But given the announcement by medical cannabis supporters at a press conference last Friday, that old stereotype needs some revising.
Faced with what they called a back-door ban of San Jose's collectives, the barely month-old Citizens Coalition for Patient Care (CCPC) turned in more than 47,000 signatures to the city clerk that morning, well over the 29,653 signatures needed for a referendum against regulations the City Council passed in September.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Ted Cox |
11-03-2011 |
Drugs
Meat-Eaters Help Launch a New Front in the Slow-Food Movementnew
By the time Peter Licht pulled into Devil's Gulch Ranch to pick up his pig, four lambs had already been slaughtered. Mobile butcher John Taylor made quick work of them, gutting and cleaning each animal in about 15 minutes.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Stett Holbrook |
03-07-2010 |
Food+Drink
How We Americans Spent Ourselves Into Ruin but Saved the Worldnew
Something is very wrong with the unselective manner in which folks on the other side have allowed the neocons to define the argument. It is an unfortunate habit of the left to assume that any vocal and assertive appreciation of the American contribution to human civilization must be fascist.
Metro Silicon Valley |
David Brin |
12-11-2009 |
Economy
Devout Catholics are Coming Out of the Closet, and San Jose's Diocese is Welcoming Themnew
Secretly, San Jose is the most gay-friendly diocese in the nation. And now, one parish wants the world to know.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jessica Fromm |
11-20-2009 |
Religion
Silicon Valley's Nascent Auto Industry is on a Rollnew
In the past 12 months, green technology, in general, and automotive tech, in particular, have become the fastest-growing sectors of the American economy. The prospect of a new, sustainable automotive industry has already sparked a gold rush in the private sector.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Eric Johnson |
10-22-2009 |
Business & Labor
The Clinician and the Poet in Kay Redfield Jamison Harmonize in 'Nothing Was the Same'new
This is a slim yet profound book, unadorned by fatuous spirituality, by a writer eager neither to conceal nor exaggerate her feelings. It gives grieving its complete due, and at the same time there's nothing at all depressing about it.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
10-15-2009 |
Nonfiction
