It’s appropriate that an art museum dedicated to innovative contemporary art puts a unique spin on the challenge of raising money. Not only can visitors at Santa Clara’s Triton Museum’s annual fundraising Gala buy art, they can also watch local visual artists make art. It’s one aspect of the decade-old event that brings art lovers … Read more
At 6:30 last Saturday morning at the City Hall fountain the call went out, “OK, Start Fishing,” and it was controlled pandemonium for several minutes while eager youngsters grabbed poles and got ready to fish for trout in the City Hall fountain. The fountain isn’t normally stocked with trout. But once a year, Santa Clara … Read more
When you think of rare and out-of-print books, San Francisco is much more likely to jump to your mind than Santa Clara. Indeed, as the home of the iconic Beat bookstore City Lights, and the vintage pulp shangri-la Kayo Books, it’s hard to compete with the city north of us. However with gas prices knocking … Read more
With the exception of Santa Clara’s Christmas teddy bear, there are few city traditions that can claim a pedigree as long as its annual Easter egg hunt, which dates back almost 80 years. “Several hundred children of this city [Santa Clara] will take part in the first annual Easter egg hunt conducted by the Santa … Read more
Mission City Dog Training By Melissa McKenzie For nearly 45 years Walt Nagle of Mission City Dog Training has been training dogs and at some point during the last 30 years you may have seen him on Saturday mornings at Maywood Park with a handful of owners and their pups. “I trained a number of … Read more
Stanford economist and co-author of “Sports, Jobs and Taxes” Roger Noll has been quoted a few thousand times in recent years by both supporters and opponents of a 49ers football stadium in Santa Clara. So a couple of weeks ago I had my own conversation with this oracle of sports economics. Rather than ask Noll … Read more
If you’ve driven down El Camino between Los Padres and San Tomas in Santa Clara recently, you may have seen a billboard announcing “Judgment Day, May 21, 2011.” You may have dismissed it as just-another-end-of-the-world-nutcase. The billboard is only one of two thousand such billboards in the U.S. and its originator, 89 year-old Oakland-based radio … Read more
Look, I’ll find any excuse I can to visit more stores. So last week I decided to turn a routine trip to the grocery store for a dinner party into an opportunity to explore Santa Clara food shopping possibilities. My first stop down El Camino was for fresh salmon at Neves Fish Market, on the … Read more
In a short six months, Santa Clara’s emergency call (9-1-1) dispatch center move to Police Department headquarters has demonstrated benefit. “Communications is so important to us,” says SCPD patrol officer Patti Lynch. “It’s so important to have them in the building. We have a much better relationship. We know them and they know us.” That … Read more
Cyril Northcote Parkinson observed in his book, The Parkinson Principle, that “The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.” Last week the Santa Clara City Council offered new proof of the venerable scholar of organizational behavior’s correctness; spending less time assigning the sale of hundreds … Read more