African Americans in WWII Panel @ History San Jose

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Dishcrawl - Neighborfood

San Jose-based Dishcrawl is taking the hyperlocal foodie scene up another notch this weekend. They are doing their first Neighborfood event, which lets you try out 8 (yes, 8) different restaurants all within walking distance in a single neighborhood. There is no better way to try out a bunch of different restaurants in one night! The icing on the cake is that the proceeds from this event will benefit Arts Council Silicon Valley. For more info and to get your tickets at a discounted price click here!

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Event: Neighborfood

Premise: Neighborfood is a one night celebration of food, family, and the community we live in. Neighbors will visit 8 local restaurants to try 8 dishes, with proceeds to benefit Arts Council Silicon Valley.

When: Sunday Feb 24, 2p-5p

Where: Downtown Mountain View

Price: $40

Link: http://dishcrawl.com/neighborfoodmtnview

The Pointerless Web with Nicholas Zakas

Interesting free event below with local food, craft beers, and a great topic for those in tech (probably at least half of us). To register, just click here.

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  Thursday, February 21, 2013

  6:30 PM To 9:00 PM
• PayPal Town Hall

  2161 North 1st Street, San Jose, CA (map)

  PayPal Town Hall is at PayPal HQ and faces North First St. Park anywhere!

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Not everyone uses a computer in the same way… yet many developers tend to build web experiences as if they do.

Nicholas Zakas is a renowned engineer, known for his leadership in front end architecture, including performance and maintainability.

Come hear Nicholas’ story and explore:

• How people navigate the web without using a mouse
• How the web is inherently accessible and how web developers make it less so
• How spatial navigation is changing the way keyboard users navigate the web

Special host for the evening: Victor Tsaran, Head of Accessibility, PayPal

As always, this event will feature:

• delicious, free food from a San Jose-based restaurant,
• craft beer tasting and
• an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with the brightest TechXplorers in the South Bay!

RSVP now to get your seat.

Agenda:

@ 6:24PM: Delicious Food & Craft Beer Tasting

@ 7:21PM: Nicholas Zakas' Pointerless Web

@ 8:03PM: Questions & Answers with Nicholas Zakas and Victor Tsaran

How to find us: Town Hall is at PayPal HQ, facing North First Street.

Public Transit Info: PayPal Town Hall is directly across the street from the Karina Station of VTA/Light Rail in San Jose, CA.

Parking Info: All unmarked spots at PayPal HQ are up for grabs. When you pull into the campus, look for Town Hall (large building says "Town Hall" above doors, faces North First) and then park where you'd like.

Please RSVP for you and your guests to make check-in speedy.

Please also bring a valid ID.

About Nicholas Zakas:

Nicholas C. Zakas is a front-end consultant, author, and speaker. He worked at Yahoo! for almost five years, where he was front-end tech lead for the Yahoo! homepage and a contributor to the YUI library. He is the author of Maintainable JavaScript (O’Reilly, 2012), Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox, 2012), High Performance JavaScript (O’Reilly, 2010), and Professional Ajax (Wrox, 2007). Nicholas is a strong advocate for development best practices including progressive enhancement, accessibility, performance, scalability, and maintainability. He blogs regularly athttp://www.nczonline.net/ and can be found on Twitter via @slicknet.

About Victor Tsaran:

Victor leads the Accessibility Team at PayPal. The team is responsible for ensuring that users with disabilities can effectively utilize PayPal's products and services, both on mobile and desktop devices. Prior to PayPal, Victor oversaw the implementation of the company-wide accessibility activities on the technical side for Yahoo! In addition to his job responsibilities, Victor has a passion for jazz guitar and participates in various open source projects, the most known of which is JSonar, the software which enables visually impaired musicians around the world to use Cakewalk Sonar, the world’s leading music recording application for Windows.

Content Magazine Pick Up Party for Issue 5.0

The latest issue of Content Magazine comes out tomorrow and they provide a "delivery option" that you will not find offered by many other magazines (if any). They invite readers to come party with them and pick up their issue at the venue! You can meet not only the writers and photographers, but also some of the San Joseans featured in the magazine in person.

This pick-up party is very special as it marks Content Magazine's first year in print. Also, I couldn't think of a better venue to celebrate than Vino Vino (4.5 stars on yelp, 180 reviews). If you are one of the few people than haven't been to this wine bar yet, you are missing out.

For more info, check out their Facebook event over here.

Noonie Cakes Opens in Eastridge

A new cupcake shop has opened up in Eastridge mall called Noonie Cakes. It's run by Jackie Jackson, someone who has been in the catering business for quite some time. She features Southern flavors such as peach cobbler, sweet potato, banana pudding, and of course red velvet. The shop is located near the movie theater and is open from 10am-7pm Monday though Saturday and 11am-7pm on Sunday. For more info, check out their website over here.

Net Impact Silicon Valley / Santa Clara U MBAs with Kitchen Table Advisors present TEDx Event

A Viewing Party, Feb 16, 12 to 4 PM

We will be hosting a fun and casual viewing party to watch a live-streaming of TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” on February 16, 2013.Speakers with various backgrounds in food and farming will share their insights and expertise.

The event is free of charge and includes lunch, provided by Bon Appetit catering. All are welcome. Register here.

Date: February 16, 2013
Time: 12 to 4
Location:
Santa Clara University
Lucas Hall, Room 126 (Forbes Conference Room)
Alameda & Franklin Street, Santa Clara, CA

For more directions, see the SCU Campus Map

For more information about TEDx Manhattan - Changing the Way We Eat, check out www.tedxmanhattan.org

General schedule
12:00 Arrive, mingle and enjoy a lunch at no charge
12:45 Launch webcast and get inspired!
3:00 Networking and small group discussion

Due to the timing of the event, we will only be showing one session of the TEDx talks titled EMPOWER.

Speakers include: 
Maisle Greenawalt The realities of a large company going sustainable
Lindsey Lusher Shute Young farmers
Cheryl Kollin Farm to Freezer
Ann Cooper School Food
David McInerney Good food should taste great 

Attendees will also receive a variety of TEDx Manhattan Giveaways!

- King Corn DVDs
- Foodopoly by Wenonah Hauter
- Take Back the Tap! branded Klean Kanteens
- Foraged Flavor by Tama Matsuoka Wong
- Stonyfield gift bags
- Chipotle tri-fold gift cards for free burritos and chips & guacamole
- Fenugreen FreshPaper
- NRDC tote bag, bookmark and sticker sets
- The Perfect Finish by Bill Yosses
- More TBA!

Questions? Contact:

Net Impact Silicon Valley: Clara Kuo (silicon@netimpact.org)

Net Impact Santa Clara: Lawrence Chum (lchum@scu.edu)

*TEDx Manhattan is sponsored by the Glynwood Institute (www.glynwood.org)

Special Thanks to:

The Roots of XVI - February 15 @ 6 PM at Harry's Hofbrau in San Jose

One of the most prevalent venues in the South Bay beer scene is hosting a Firestone Walker Brewing Company event today. No tickets or pre-purchase required, all you have to do is show up and you can purchase as many samples as you would like a la carte. Sounds like a great way to celebrate beer-week in a classic San Jose watering hole. Harry's Hofbrau is located on 390 Saratoga Avenue and the event starts at 6pm.

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THE ROOTS OF XVI – FEBRUARY 15 @ 6 P.M. AT HARRY’S HOFBRAU IN SAN JOSE

One of California’s most acclaimed barrel-aged beers is set to be deconstructed as Firestone Walker Brewing Company and Harry’s Hofbrau in San Jose present “The Roots of XVI,” a one-of-a-kind tasting of the rare component beers that were blended to create Firestone Walker’s XVI Anniversary Ale. 

The doors open at 6 p.m. No tickets or reservations are required. Guests can simply come and purchase samples as they wish.

This SF Beer Week event will be hosted by Jeffers Richardson, director of Firestone Walker’s new Barrelworks facility, which is dedicated to barrel-aged wild beers and strong ales.

The Chop on XVI…

XVI is the seventh release in Firestone Walker’s anniversary series, dating back to the release of the inaugural anniversary release called “Ten” in 2006.

Every year, local Paso Robles winemakers gather with the brewing team to taste through a variety of strong ales and determine the final blend. This year, the result was XVI, which was composed of 226 barrels spanning eight diverse components.

“Dozens of notebooks, hundreds of questions and countless beers have refined our approach to creating the best flavors possible through barrel aging,” says Brewmaster Brynildson. “Then we step back and let our winemaker friends help us put the final puzzle together. This year, the result is XVI—our finest achievement to date.”

At “The Roots of XVI,” the puzzle will be pulled back apart, and guests will savor these rare component pieces and learn about the art of blending. The featured component ales are:

Velvet Merkin / Aged in Bourbon Barrels     

-Traditional Oatmeal Stout

Double DBA / Aged in retired Firestone Union Barrels

-Double strength English Pale Ale

Parabola / Aged in Bourbon Barrels

-Russian Imperial Oatmeal Stout                                                                  

Helldorado / Aged in Bourbon and Brandy Barrels

-Blonde Barley Wine

Bravo / Aged in Bourbon and Brandy Barrels

-Imperial Brown Ale

Wookey Jack / 100% Stainless Steel

-Black Rye India Pale Ale

Happy Valentine's Day San Jose!

This Valentine's Day, I have to plug a chocolate store that I just found out about recently. Schurra's has been making fine confections since 1912, and they have been based in San Jose since the early 1930s. They make their candy and chocolates from scratch each day on-site at their historic San Jose location (840 The Alameda). Everything is made by hand, they have no machines to automate the process. I had a chance to try some of their chocolate a couple days ago and it blew me away. You have to try the salted dark chocolate caramels!

So instead of stocking up on Godiva or Ghiradelli this Valentine's Day, why not go hyperlocal and try something made right here in San Jose!

To visit Schurra's website click here.

Schurra's, creating a tradition of Fine Confections since 1912.  Albert and Justin Schurra started their confectionery business with retail stores in Stockton and Modesto California.  They soon expanded their candy business to include wholesale accounts throughout Northern California.  In the early 1930's they closed their stores in Stockton and Modesto and moved to The Alameda in San Jose.  The Alameda, also known as the beautiful way, was San Jose's premier neighborhood.  The mansions of successful doctors, lawyers and architects lined the street as they do today.  However, today they have been converted to offices for doctors, lawyers and architects.  A street car system ran down the center of the street carrying passengers from Alum Rock Park through downtown and out towards the town of Santa Clara.  The Alameda was and is also known as Hwy 82.  It was the most modern route to San Francisco at the time.   In the mid 1930's Albert Schurra purchased the building at 848 The Alameda.  He designed a "Sunshine Candy Kitchen"  where customers could watch candy being made through the windows.  Skilled women would sit in the front windows that faced The Alameda and artistically dip chocolates by hand.  Many of the chocolate dippers worked for Schurra's well into their 90's and two, Gladys Neisonger and Myrtle Bay, lived to be over 100 years old. While we have since located next door to the old Sunshine Candy Kitchen, we proudly carry on Albert and Justin's time-honored traditions and adhere to their standards of quality by making everything from scratch everyday.

Visit our Historic Shop at

840 The Alameda

San Jose, CA 95126

ph. 408.289.1562

fax. 408.289.9222

Store Hours:  Monday - Friday 10am - 6:30pm

Saturdays 10am - 5:30pm

Closed Sundays except for the Sunday before Christmas, Valentine's and Easter.  We are open those 3 Sundays from 11:30am - 4:00pm

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Phantom Galleries + Cinequest "Art Unleashed"

from Phantom Galleries by PG

Phantom Galleries is proud to be partnering with Cinequest again this year for their Cinequest 23 Film Festival! This is the 4th year that PG & CQ has worked together to bring this live painting event to the amazing audiences of this maverick film festival.


This year's artists are: André Hart, Melanie Sharr and Jeff Hemming. All three artists are highly imaginative in their concepts and excellent in their painting practice. We look forward to their interpretations of the festival's theme "UNLEASH."

Festival attendees will have the ability to observe each artist put their talent to work and thereafter vote for their favorite artist via Facebook. All sponsors, artists and paintings will be presented at the closing ceremony before announcing the winner of the "Live Art Contest!"

Stop by often to see our artists' progress. Artists will be on view in the Camera Cinemas 12 windows along the Paseo de San Antonio walk between S. 1st and S. 2nd streets during the festival February 26–March 29, 2013.

Cinequest schedule & ticket information available at www.cinequest.org

New Downtown San Jose Walking Tours!

One more step has been taken towards making Downtown a legitimate tourist destination. A group of students have come together under the guidance of Greg Adler--a high school teacher at Santa Teresa--to provide walking tours of Downtown San Jose. The group is called San Jose Walks & Talks and we should do everything we can to support them.

Their signature tour is aptly named Adobe to Adobe. It starts at the Peralta Adobe in the San Pedro Square Market and then goes all the way to the Adobe headquarters and back. The tour takes about an hour and the suggested donation is only $5. The next walk is Saturday, February 16th at 11:30am.

Downtown San Jose is filled with such a rich history that I think you will be surprised at how much you'll learn on these tours.

For more information, check out their website over here or email contact@sanjosewalksandtalks.org.