“Art Empowers” is the title of an inspiring new student exhibition at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University. I participated in handing out achievement certificates to more than 75 students enrolled in the ArtsConnect program of the Arts Council Silicon Valley (ACSV). The work was created in conjunction with local artists, and includes video, music, sculptures, poems and paintings. This is the 11th year of the student exhibition.
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Size Matters
We have traveled a long and winding road in the last fifty years—a very long way—and we are now on the verge of becoming a city of one million people. Wow! But does the size of San Jose really matter?
Virtuosity Matters
This week, a speaker at the Rotary Club noted that we all have to be prepared to do everything differently. The world is moving on and everything we thought right once is likely to be passed over by other advances. Long ago, there was a musical entitled “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.” The title seems apt now.
Three Quick Hits for a New Week
This week’s quote was a bit unusual in that it comes from the redoubtable Scarlett O’Hara, but how else to emphasize the incredible stupidity of the former Executive Director of the Redevelopment Agency, Susan Schick? I remember how several members of the Rotary Club suggested that I was too tough on her when I criticized her plan in 2001 to seize over fifty pieces of private property, our citizens’ “land,” in an astonishing, wrong-headed and aggressive plan invoking eminent domain in San Jose.
Et Tu, Chamber?
Throughout its history, San Jose has maintained a distinguished and courageous business community. In times of crises, our business men and women have risen to the task when elected leaders were too craven or too corrupt to do the right thing.
One can only feel nauseous and disgusted learning that when a member of one of our most prominent business families is solicited for a bribe, what action is taken? He calls Ticketmaster instead of the DA!
Pitching Baseball
Imagine this: our County Assessor Larry Stone is standing on the mound at Candlestick Park. It’s 1989. He’s a Sunnyvale City Councilmember and it’s Sunnyvale Day at the ballpark. Larry’s wearing a Giants cap and gets to throw out the first pitch.
The stadium is full and the fans are cheering. His name gets announced. He rocks back. His long arm reaches skyward and he throws the ball in the dirt – not the dirt at home plate where the catcher is patiently waiting. No way.
