Renaissance Faire is coming Downtown!

Wow, this is an interesting new event for Downtown San Jose I really didn't see coming. On August 6th and 7th, Guadalupe River Park will be transformed into a medieval kingdom complete with jousting, minstrels, magic, and of course the obligatory turkey legs. You can find more information on the First Annual San Jose Renaissance Faire in the poster below or at there website right over here.

1st Street Updates

Let's start the week off with some good news. 2 new restaurants are coming to First Street in Downtown San Jose very soon. First off is Zanotto's Express which will feature sandwiches, soups, salads, and sushi. This location will essentially take the best of Zanotto's and package it into a deli environment.

Next up is the former Maceio space. It won't be empty for much longer as it's in the process of being converted to Cabritos Mexican Bistro. I'm trying to get more info on this one.

They will join WOW Noodle house, Bella Mia, Billy Berks, and Smile Sushi to help build some vibrancy in this area. As soon as the old E&O corner space is built out, I think we'll have a nice little restaurant district here.

Veggielution Olympics

Coming August 6th, replacing our workday that Saturday.

Have some fun, win prizes, and support our youth program Dig Crew (and help our summer youth leader Alyssa Quinonez represent us at the National Rooted in Community Conference in Philadelphia, P.A.
Our summer youth leader Alyssa Quinonez will be representing Veggielution and the Dig Crew this summer at the national Rooted In Community conference held in Philadelphia, PA.  Rooted In Community is a national grassroots network of diverse youth and adults working together and committed to fostering healthy communities and food justice through urban and rural agriculture, community gardening, food security, and related environmental justice work.  Alyssa and fellow youth will work to create the Youth Food Bill of Rights to be presented to congress at the conference.  There is even word of presenting it to the First Lady!  For more information, please visit rootedincommunity.org
Alyssa has been working hard to plan and coordinate the Farm Olympics as a way to support her trip to Philadelphia.  She will be participating in the events and gathering donations for her trip.

Sponsor Alyssa

Prizes and Games!

Family-fun, including corn shucking, watermelon seed-spitting, giant vegetable toss, cherry tomato chubby-bunny, relay races, and a corn-on-the-cob eating contest. All this will lead up to our main event, the Weed-a-Thon, with contestants scouring the farm for our Most Wanted weeds and weighing in their bounty at the end to win one of many exciting prizes donated by local businesses.
REGISTER BY AUGUST 2nd!

Saturday Stats: San Jose Ranks #1 in Longevity

Here's a nice statistic for you all. San Jose has the best life expectancy out of any city in the United States! We just barely beat out Honolulu for the top spot. With friendly people, great weather, and low crime... this shouldn't come as a huge shock. Click here to see the full list.

World's Largest Heart Made of People

If you are looking of something really unique to do this Saturday, someone is going for the Guinnness World Record for the largest heart made out of people at the Children's Discovery Museum. For all of the details, check out their Facebook page!

Time	Saturday, July 30 · 3:00pm - 8:00pm
Location	The Field Next To The Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
Created By	Albert Ricardez, Armando Ricardez
More Info	GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORD! James Bowser is inviting everyone to join him in breaking the current world record in the Guinness Book of World Records by making The World's Largest Heart Made of People. This event will take place on Saturday in the park next to the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose @3:00pm On July 30th Please bring own refreshments and some to share if possible :) Location: 180 Woz Way San Jose, CA 95110 COME WITH ARM'S OPEN AND READY TO JOIN IN THE HEART PLEASE INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!! HOSTED BY: JAMES BOWSER email: ArtOfPrinting@yahoo.com

"Celestial Summer" Debuts at Axis

Today Axis is hosting an opening celebration for Celestial Summer, the latest exhibition at the Axis Art Gallery featuring photographs taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. You can also enjoy refreshments, tours, and see art works from over 50 local artists in the Axis lobby. If you feel like taking in some views, you can also have a look at the model homes on the 12th floor and the Penthouses.

It all goes down between 5:30pm - 7:30pm tonight at 38 N. Almaden #101.

Downtown San Jose Restaurant List Updates!

I added a brand new page to the Downtown San Jose Restaurants database to make it easier to track changes made to the document. We now have 202 Downtown San Jose Restaurants in the list, along with tons of useful information like numbers, websites, hours, yelp reviews, and costs. Below is a list of the latest changes from the changelog tab:

• 6/19/2011 Changelog started
• 6/19/2011 Thepthai closed
• 6/28/2011 Maceio closed
• 7/1/2011 Popeye's is now Southern Fried Chicken
• 7/5/2011 Added A & K Noodle House on 304 E. Santa Clara St.
• 7/5/2011 Added Osheyo at 273 E. San Fernando St.
• 7/5/2011 Added Peanuts Deluxe Cafe at 273 E. San Fernando St.

If you haven't bookmarked it yet, here's the link to the spreadsheet! There is also a permanent link over to the right entitled Downtown San Jose Restaurants.

Yogurtland is Coming Downtown

A brand new Yogurtland is coming to Downtown San Jose near SJSU at 125 E. San Carlos Street.  Some of you may remember this as the old Gamestop space. Thanks to Arlene for the tip!