San Jose CA

The first weekend of May 2026 stacks up well in San Jose: peak rose bloom, the Japantown market's 2026 opener, a downtown First Friday art walk, and the only sanctioned Cinco de Mayo parade in town — every one of them free. Whether it's a quiet date, a friends crawl, or a solo photo afternoon, here are the plans you can actually wear the outfit...

Doughboys has built a cult following by treating chain restaurants like sacred text and total nonsense at the exact same time. Hosts Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger turn fast-food analysis into a gloriously petty art form, mixing actual food talk with the kind of needling, side quests, and fake hostility that makes the whole thing work. Live, that chemistry gets even sharper. What...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Advocates for the unhoused gathered at San Jose City Hall on Tuesday to protest the city’s ongoing sweep of a massive encampment, alleging that several vulnerable residents are being left behind despite promises of relocation. The group delivered a formal petition to the city’s Housing...

The opening of Sushi Adachi on March 7, 2026 at The Village at San Antonio Center quietly confirmed what the data has been saying for a year. Per Mountain View Voice and Palo Alto Online, Peninsula omakase counters have doubled since 2024. The Mountain View → Cupertino → Santa Clara → San Jose corridor has its own version of the boom, and most of it lands well...

Saturday morning with the kids in the minivan, hunting warm conchas and tres leches before soccer practice — that is the whole point of a good panadería run. San Jose has dozens, but only a handful really earn the "bring the whole familia" stamp once you weigh seating, parking, and whether the abuela in the backseat will approve. These six have the press, the years...

If you're walking out of the Fremont Hindu Temple on Delaware Drive with hungry kids and zero patience for a 45-minute wait, you don't need a generic Bay Area best-of. You need places close enough to drive to in five minutes, open early enough to catch a Sunday-morning crowd, and forgiving enough for a four-year-old who refuses everything except...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — The accused killer of 6-year-old Jordan Cam Walker has been found mentally competent to stand trial. Jordan was one of three children who were allegedly murdered while they were under the care and custody of the Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children’s Services within the past three years, the […]

When phở is done and you still want something sweet, San Jose's chè scene is where the night actually starts. Skip Bambu — 60+ locations puts that one well past hidden-gem territory. These are small family-run dessert counters, all under 1,000 Yelp reviews, that mẹ would actually approve of.

Little Saigon isn't one mall on Story Road. It's a layered map — each plaza a different chapter of how a refugee community built a neighborhood, and how the next generation is now stewarding it. Bounded by I-280, Senter, US-101, and Owsley, this stretch holds more Vietnamese residents than any single city outside Vietnam. Walking the corridor from Tully to Story tells that...

DUBLIN, Calif. — A Bay Area defense attorney’s discovery of a recording of a confidential conversation with her client while reviewing evidence in a murder case has raised new constitutional concerns about attorney-client communications, according to the Mercury News. Just weeks before trial, Deputy Public Defender Sara Star...