Josh and Nick discuss furries, ComicCon and the normalization of nerd Culture and an exclusive interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen
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SV411 EP002 Viet Thanh Nguyen
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SV411 EP001 – Summer Guide
Summer Guide just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. We get a new name and a new numbering system. Nick and Josh talk about whats happening for Summer in Silicon Valley Interview with Cellista ©metroactive
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SV411 EP000 – Flare Up
Local artists stand up poet Mighty Mike McGee and humorist Ato Walker join Josh and Nick to discuss: Silicon Valley Flare Up What’s so great about California Why Pizza Hut will never sponsor us.
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meet… vote… watch money appear
Documents show that Cindy Chavez met with a developer a day before the Valley Transit Authority committee she chairs approved its project and seven weeks before the firm donated $50,000 to the Democratic Central Committee’s United Democratic Campaign. Chavez’s calendar shows that she met with Republic Properties’ Bob Mendelsohn and its consultant, Yvonne Ryzak, on…
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Missed Meetings
Woody Allen once commented that “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” And that’s a reasonable expectation of public officials whose $75,000 a year salary the public pays. So we decided to check in and see how the two mayoral candidates have been doing in their attendance at council committee meetings. Looks like Chuck Reed…
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Cluster bomb
A newspaper chain owned by an Alabama state employees’ pension fund has bought the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The news surprised those who assumed that Dow Jones Corp.’s announcement that it was looking to offload the Sentinel was simply a ruse to sell the paper to MediaNews Group Inc. MediaNews owns the Mercury News and the…
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No matter what everybody thinks
Lame duck mayor Ron Gonzales gave his eighth and final annual talk to San Jose Rotary Club on Wednesday. He taunted his audience with suggestions that he was going to reveal what he is going to do after he leaves office and which candidate he would endorse as successor, but wound up doing neither. Instead,…
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the dirty money trail
Why did Connecticut developer Republic Holdings Corporation drop $50,000 into the Democratic party’s coffers on September 5? Would it be a big stretch to conclude that the Greenwich-based concern didn’t just wake up one day and say, “Hey, let’s get rid of some of this unneeded cash and mail it to California to help those…
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The Diva Cindy
When we stumbled upon the “Official Website of Cindy Chavez†at www.cindychavez.com, we were shocked to see her wearing a tight white corset and a rhinestone collar. We’d never seen this flirty side of her before! Then again, we’d never seen her looking so young. Knocking 20 years off with makeup is a stretch, even…
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Metro endorses Reed
Metro will endorse Chuck Reed for mayor in the edition that hits the streets Wednesday. The newspaper has been a contributing factor in the razor thin victories of Ron Gonzales and Susan Hammer, both of whom Metro endorsed in hotly contested elections. Defining the contest as a referendum on open government, the endorsement praises Reed…