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I am currently on a manhunt for a WordPress theme that would fit with Silicon Alleys. In the meantime, you can find me on Facebook and Twitter.
Blight Makes Right
Monday, February 9th, 2009IN AN Aug. 13, 2008, cover story, I channeled the Urban Blight Exploration Junkie and raved over the Pink Elephant Center, that landmark rundown strip mall at the corner of King Road and Virginia in San Jose City Council District 5. I had quacked about the place once before in ...
Count Five Avenue
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009LAST MONTH saw the passing of John Byrne, lead singer of the '60s San Jose garage-rock band Count Five. He penned the immortal fuzzed-out 1966 hit Psychotic Reaction, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard charts and was listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Top 500 ...
Shepard Fairey in San Jose
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008MOST CITIES revel in their own pop culture landmarks or specific locales tied to things that celebrities did there. For example, much hoopla survives about the road where James Dean crashed, the hotel room where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols murdered his girlfriend, the garage that spawned Hewlett-Packard, the ...
San Jose’s favorite daughter
Thursday, March 20th, 2008About a year ago, Adrienne Barbeau came back to San Jose to fill in for George Romero at a horror convention. I just had to ask her about Del Mar High School, since that's where she went. Well, it turns out that a copy of the 1963 yearbook exists in ...