Downtown News

A look of profound sadness creased the face of Senayit "Sunny" Hailu on Monday morning as she swept the sidewalk next to downtown San Jose's Original Joe's. The man who protected her business was dead.

Christmas is just around the corner! Let us make it brighter and help spread the joy to all! Students and community volunteers from San Jose and Milpitas residents, while every households are preparing for the holidays, have launched separate toy drives.

The calendar might say today is Thanksgiving, but the yuletide carols on the radio and vacant lots stocked with conifers scream "Merry Christmas." The holiday season is here, and trees are being lit throughout the Bay Area.

With the winter season creeping upon us, one of the many San Jose winter traditions is back! The Downtown San Jose ice rink opened last Friday, November 20th, and is officially ready for you to glide around on from now until the end of January.

San Jose is on the verge of adopting its new bicycle plan at the next City Council meeting on November 17th, which, as anyone who has cycled in San Jose knows, would be a welcome change from decades of traffic engineering focused almost solely on automobility.

The front entrance and lobby of Carlsbad Medical Center are closed for remodeling.

The monolithic structure of public education is resistant to change. As evidence the system continues to use an antiquated calendar from our agrarian past, and it organizes school districts in historic slices that make no logical sense.

Everyone is invited to enjoy the free outdoor concert by Kim McKee and Ken Willson on Wednesday, Oct.

Every now and then, an issue comes before the San Jose City Council that exposes the fissures of local politics in a memorably revealing way.

Liam's List: September 18th, 2009 Share + Sep 18, 2009 4:21 pm US/Pacific Liam's List: September 18th, 2009 Greetings chums, Another weekend of fun and frivolity looms.

The 4000 block of Alum Rock Avenue in San Jose is closed in both directions this morning as firefighters continue to battle a three-alarm blaze at a commercial structure, according to officials.

As she stood in front of the bandstand in Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park Sunday - eyes closed, swaying to the beat of a '70s cover band - the pendant earrings that spelled out ELVIS on either side of Marlene Coelhosousae's face were all shook up.

Safeway's shiny new 'Market' is being touted as a boon to downtown - just blocks from San Jose's own Zanotto's By Jessica Fromm A 50-PERSON queue snakes through the buzzing aisles of The Market in downtown San Jose.

U.S. Rep. Lofgren will speak with Almaden residents U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, will speak to residents at the Almaden Valley Community Association's monthly meeting on Aug.

Back in late June, Home & Garden writer Holly Hayes - that would be my spouse - wrote about our little experiment in urban farming with a series of raised beds that emphasize vertical gardening.

The memorial is sponsored by UC Berkeley Asian American Studies Program, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Takaki family.A The Asian American Studies program and the Department of Ethnic Studies express profound sorrow at the loss of Ronald Takaki, world-renowned Asian American scholar and public intellectual.A He retired in 2002 and passed ...

LAST WEEKEND, the anti-man-about-town returned from a much-needed slumber and forged a pathway through a superior First Friday event in downtown San Jose.

Not all the art on display at the South First Fridays event in downtown San Jose this week will be found inside galleries.

Not all the art on display at the South First Fridays event in downtown San Jose this week will be found inside galleries.

Santa Clara County courthouses will close one day each month starting in September, in order to save money following the announcement of state cuts.