There are 14 restaurants participating from Downtown San Jose and 12 restaurants from other parts of San Jose. The event runs until October 23rd and you can find a full list of restaurants over here.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Silicon Valley Restaurant Week! October 16-23
Silicon Valley Restaurant Week is back and includes around 50 participating locations! Each restaurant will offer a fixed-price 3-course menu with several options. Cafe Stritch even has a 3-course $15 menu that looks really good.
There are 14 restaurants participating from Downtown San Jose and 12 restaurants from other parts of San Jose. The event runs until October 23rd and you can find a full list of restaurants over here.
There are 14 restaurants participating from Downtown San Jose and 12 restaurants from other parts of San Jose. The event runs until October 23rd and you can find a full list of restaurants over here.
I'm in Love With a Church Girl Premiers in San Jose
Okay, normally I wouldn't be promoting a mainstream theatrical movie on the blog but there are three important reasons why "I'm in Love With a Church Girl" is an exception:
1.) The producer/writer is a pastor in San Jose, the funders and the crew are also based here.
2.) The national premier of the movie is today at the California Theater Downtown (playing in movie theaters everywhere starting this Friday, Oct 18).
3.) The film was almost entirely shot in San Jose. Check out the trailer below. There are at least three shots of Downtown San Jose (Fairmont, Plaza de Cesar Chavez, California Theater) and one of Santana Row. I'm sure you guys will find more.
Oh, it's also based on a true story. Check it out!
1.) The producer/writer is a pastor in San Jose, the funders and the crew are also based here.
2.) The national premier of the movie is today at the California Theater Downtown (playing in movie theaters everywhere starting this Friday, Oct 18).
3.) The film was almost entirely shot in San Jose. Check out the trailer below. There are at least three shots of Downtown San Jose (Fairmont, Plaza de Cesar Chavez, California Theater) and one of Santana Row. I'm sure you guys will find more.
Oh, it's also based on a true story. Check it out!
Monday, October 14, 2013
TWO BUCK Tuesday Tomorrow!
From Phantom Galleries:
Join us at KALEID Gallery for this upcoming TWO BUCK Tuesday, October 15th, 7pm-10pm!
Come enjoy an inspired evening of performances, live painting, $2 art, drop-in sketching table & quirky people get together! It’s open to all ages and free! Here are some of of the participating artists who will be joining us this time:  Jodi Mascarenas will teach us how to decorate sugar skulls for Dia de Los Muertos.  James Pollard will be painting in oils and working on "THE CUBE".  David Mejia will draw your portrait while you wait in ink and watercolor.  Nicolas Caesar will be drawing ferocious and adorable monsters.  Lara Sophia will draw you in oil pastels.  Andre J Hart and Al Preciado will be collaborating on a flower painting in preparation for their upcoming show at KALEID.  Enjoy music by DJ Bob Johnston TWO BUCK Tuesday, October 15th, 7pm-10pm! Free & open to the public RSVP on our event page here. KALEID Gallery 88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando) San Jose, CA 95112 info@KALEIDGallery.com 408-947-1785 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, noon -7pm Free admission |
Trammell Crow Bringing 575,000 SQFT of Manufacturing Space to Alviso Area
There has been a lot of news on new residential or commercial development in San Jose, but it has been quiet on the industrial front for quite some time. In fact, there hasn't been an industrial building built in San Jose for 15 years. However, manufacturing is slowly coming back to the US. With more advanced robots and 3D printing technologies in the pipeline, the trend will likely continue if not accelerate in the future.
Trammell Crow has decided to take a leap of faith and speculatively build a massive amount of manufacturing space on the edge of Alviso on 57 acres of empty land formerly owned by Cisco. The first phase will be a single 250,000 SQFT building for high-tech manufacturing. After that, an even larger 325,000 SQFT building will be constructed. Finally Trammel Crow plans to top off the project with 400,000 SQFT of office space between two and three story buildings on North First.
While there is quite a bit of manufacturing space in the North First area, most of the facilities are outdated and are much smaller in sized than what is being planned by Trammel Crow. This could really attract an interesting tenant or two to the Alviso area.
Source: SVBJ
Trammell Crow has decided to take a leap of faith and speculatively build a massive amount of manufacturing space on the edge of Alviso on 57 acres of empty land formerly owned by Cisco. The first phase will be a single 250,000 SQFT building for high-tech manufacturing. After that, an even larger 325,000 SQFT building will be constructed. Finally Trammel Crow plans to top off the project with 400,000 SQFT of office space between two and three story buildings on North First.
While there is quite a bit of manufacturing space in the North First area, most of the facilities are outdated and are much smaller in sized than what is being planned by Trammel Crow. This could really attract an interesting tenant or two to the Alviso area.
Source: SVBJ
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Playful People Productions Presents: Willy Wonka Kids and Willy Wonka Jr
Sounds like a fun local production for those with kids:
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Playful People Productions Presents:
Willy Wonka Kids and Willy Wonka Jr
This scrumdidilyumptious musical is guaranteed to delight everyone's sweet tooth! Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka JR and Willy Wonka KIDS follows enigmatic candy manufacturer, Willy Wonka, as he stages a contest by hiding five golden tickets in five scrumptious candy bars. The lucky winners will get a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of candy. Four of the five winning children are brats: the fifth is a likeable young lad named Charlie, who takes the tour with his equally amiable Grandpa Joe. This scrumdidilyumptious musical is guaranteed to take the audiences on a fantasy ride into the land of pure imagination!
All Shows at the Historic Hoover Theater, 1635 Park Ave San Jose, CA 95126
Show Times:
Willy Wonka Kids -
Friday, October 25th 7:00pm
Saturday, October 26th 10:00am, 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Sunday, October 27th 10:00am and 2:00pm
Willy Wonka Jr -
Friday, November 1st 10:00am and 7:00pm
Saturday, Novemer 2nd 10:00am, 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Tickets available at www.playfulpeople.net
$12 attendees 12 and up, and $8 children 11 and under
Tickets at the door (30 minutes prior to curtain)
$15 attendees 12 and up, and $10 children 11 and under
For questions: barb@galiotto.com
Playful People Productions provides a quality, caring environment in which children, youth & their families have positive theatre experiences, while being involved in many aspects of on-stage/ back-stage theatre. Our company fills a need of providing beginning through advanced theatre for the whole family to the community. The founders have expanded the program to include classes & summer camps.
Playful People Productions is run by mother-daughter team, Barbara Galiotto & Katie D' Arcey, who between them have approx 50 years experience in the musical theatre world. Both are Positive Discipline trained & worked as early Childhood Educators as well as in theatre. Both have worked as professional directors with children's theatre for many years.
For each production we employ professional designers, artists, choreographers and directors to guide our students. We also hire experienced college & high school students to do jobs in the production such as directors, stage managers, lighting, make-up, & set designers, choreographers and assistants. This allows students to gain work experiences in all aspects of theatre. The goals of Playful People Productions are to provide the community with a variety of performing opportunities for children, youth & families to experience. Playful People Productions will challenge young people in the community, provide a safe, caring environment, & involve parents in a wholesome, well-rounded activity. We believe that a good theatre experience will greatly improve the lives of the children, youth and families in our community.
Playful People Productions is run by mother-daughter team, Barbara Galiotto & Katie D' Arcey, who between them have approx 50 years experience in the musical theatre world. Both are Positive Discipline trained & worked as early Childhood Educators as well as in theatre. Both have worked as professional directors with children's theatre for many years.
For each production we employ professional designers, artists, choreographers and directors to guide our students. We also hire experienced college & high school students to do jobs in the production such as directors, stage managers, lighting, make-up, & set designers, choreographers and assistants. This allows students to gain work experiences in all aspects of theatre. The goals of Playful People Productions are to provide the community with a variety of performing opportunities for children, youth & families to experience. Playful People Productions will challenge young people in the community, provide a safe, caring environment, & involve parents in a wholesome, well-rounded activity. We believe that a good theatre experience will greatly improve the lives of the children, youth and families in our community.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Saturday Stats: Median Home Prices for Ultra-Rich and Everyone Else
Redfin published an article last month claiming that the richest 1% of American are faring better after the housing crash than the rest of the 99%. The median for the top 1% of homes is only 4% below the 2007 peak, while the lower 99% is still 23% behind the overall peak. However, what is more interesting to me is the charts below. In the 20 or so markets evaluated, San Jose came up with the 3rd highest median price for homes in the top 1%, below Los Angeles and San Francisco. On the flip-side, if you look at the bottom 99%, the San Jose area has the highest median price for homes, topping even San Francisco.
What does this mean? At the very least, in terms of housing we are slightly less unequal than other metros between the uber-wealthy and everyone else. Also we have the most expensive real estate in the report for those that are not extremely rich. Nothing really surprising, but interesting nonetheless.
Source: Redfin
What does this mean? At the very least, in terms of housing we are slightly less unequal than other metros between the uber-wealthy and everyone else. Also we have the most expensive real estate in the report for those that are not extremely rich. Nothing really surprising, but interesting nonetheless.
Source: Redfin
Friday, October 11, 2013
Centerra Update
The giant hole in the ground you see below will one day become the Centerra high-rise in San Pedro Square! Thanks to Jeff Arko for sending in the photo (he'll have more soon).
San Jose Stage Company Announces 2013-14 Season
San Jose, CA — San Jose Stage Company Artistic Director Randall King announces The Stage’s 2013-14 Season:
“As the company enters its next decade, we continue our mission to bring bold, diverse and innovative new work to The Stage. Our 31st Season revolves around the heart, soul and strength of community tackling the forces of corruption, exploitation and depravity. Each play zeroes in on the fear and paradox that exist in the realities and myths of the American Dream in today’s world. These stories are told with great humor and pathos,” noted Artistic Director Randall King
The Stage’s 2013-14 Season kicks off with Kristoffer Diaz’ body-slamming 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity, presented in association with Capital Stage Company. Associate Artists Kevin Blackton*, Halsey Varady*, Will Springhorn Jr.*, Allison F. Rich* and Martin Rojas Dietrich* will light the holidays with Joe Landry’s radio play of the iconic classic film It’s A Wonderful Life. The New Year fires up the long-anticipated production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s powerful and evocative The Threepenny Opera, followed by two Regional Premieres — Lynn Nottage’s stunning new comedy By The Way, Meet Vera Stark and the sexy and explosive 2012 Tony Award Nominee Bonnie & Clyde: A New Musical with Music byFrank Wildhorn, Lyrics by Don Black and Book by Ivan Menchell.
Finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize
THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY
Presented in association with Capital Stage Company
Written by Kristoffer Diaz
October 16 – November 10, 2013 / Press Opening October 19, 2013
The acclaimed comedy The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deityslams together thrilling spectacle, incredible characters and geopolitical allegory into an invigorating theatrical experience that you can’t find on pay-per-view. Kristoffer Diaz’s play also received the 2011 Obie Award for Best New American Play and the 2008 National Latino Playwriting Award.
“has the serious crack and pop of a galloping, honest-to-God, all-American satire”
– The New York Times
“an adrenaline rush…delightful physicality and freewheeling theatricality!”
– Washington Post
Beloved Holiday Classic
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY
From the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
and Jo Swerling
Adapted by Joe Landry
November 27 – December 22, 2013 / Press Opening November 30, 2013
This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. An ensemble of Stage Company associate artists brings to the stage the story of idealistic George Bailey, who has given up on his dreams in order to help others and who now considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve, bringing about the intervention of his guardian angel. It's A Wonderful Life celebrates community at its best and reminds us that we contribute to each other's happiness and well being, perhaps daily, in ways we might not ever be conscious of. This is the timeless gift of the story and why it continues to resonate so powerfully with us today.
"fresh and inventive way of reconnecting with a classic story of love and redemption."
– Chicago Sun-Times
“Wonderful, heartwarming and good for the soul” -- San Francisco Chronicle
Powerful Iconic Musical
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
Based on John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera
Adaptation and Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht / Music by Kurt Weill
German translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann
English translation of dialog by Robert MacDonald
English translation of lyrics by Jeremy Sams
February 5 – March 30, 2014 / Press Opening February 8, 2014
A milestone of 20th century musical theater, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) rolls on unstoppably into the 21st with absolute relevance in today’s world. In their opera “by and for beggars,” composer Kurt Weill (1900–1950) and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) created a trailblazing musical spectacle of fierce social and political critique where the haves clash with the have-nots with its haunting jazz score by Kurt Weill, acid harmonies and biting lyrics. This musical saga of the villainous but irresistible Mack the Knife and his marauding band of thieves is a revolutionary musical theatre inspiring such hits asCabaret (at The Stage in 2011 for an extended run) andUrinetown, The Musical (at The Stage in 2006 for an extended run).
“the kind of theater that shakes up a audience” – Chicago Daily Herald
“an engaging and biting piece of theatre” – New York Daily News
Regional Premiere
BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK
Written by Lynn Nottage
April 19 – May 11, 2014 / Press Opening April 19, 2014
Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and the 2012 Drama Desk Nominee for Outstanding Play, the regional premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s new comedy, Lynn Nottage draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood. This multimedia presentation is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold on to her career.
"Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic, and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won't expect." — Time Out New York
"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history — and the startling simplicity of desire — with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion." — Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Regional Premiere of a New Musical
BONNIE & CLYDE
Music by Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics by Don Black
Book by Ivan Menchell
June 4 – July 27, 2014/ Press Opening June 7, 2014
Bonnie & Clyde charts a true tale of love, poverty, criminality and celebrity set in the 1930s Southern States of drought, dust, disease and death. When Bonnie met Clyde, it was an instant and dangerous attraction. These two young lovers became inseparable and quickly plunged themselves into a life of fast cars, guns and revenge. Part folk heroes and part murderous outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde instantly became the stuff of legend. This new stage adaptation fuses together vintage images with rockabilly, blues and gospel music. Bonnie & Clyde was nominated for two 2012 Tony Awards and five 2012 Drama Desk Awards nominations, including Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Music.
“armed and amorous, committing cold-blooded musical”
– The New York Times
“entertaining, melody-enriched, original musical”
– CurtainUp
All titles and dates subject to change
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
The Stage is located at 490 South First Street at William Street in the SoFA district of downtown San Jose. 2012-13 Subscriptions available at 408.283.7142 or www.thestage.org
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About San Jose Stage Company:
Launching on its 31st Season, San Jose Stage Company is recognized as the San Francisco Bay Area's Premiere Off-Broadway Theatre. The Stage is known for its devotion to new and cutting-edge work and for its commitment to showcasing high-quality local talent.
Ranked the 3rd largest theatre and 9th largest performance arts organization in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, San Jose Stage Company is a vital force in the community. The Stage has earned a reputation for artistic excellence by providing high quality, edgy theatrical experiences that engage, educate and provoke audiences. That includes 147 productions, 45 new works and 13 world premieres.
The Stage offers five core education and outreach programs and has housed over 250 independent performance groups. Located at the Gateway to the City's Arts and Entertainment District, San Jose Stage Company, the SoFA District's first arts anchor organization, continues to promote San Jose's stature as a burgeoning regional arts center by providing live theatre experiences that enrich the quality of life in the community.
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