Diane Andrews

Santa Clara

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Santa Clarans En Masse Redistribute Goods from Their Driveways

2 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

Life-long Santa Claran Susie Hartline got tired of paying $460 a month to rent a storage unit to store all the stuff she no longer wants or needs. So, she signed up for Santa Clara’s city-wide garage sale on April 19 and emptied her storage unit. It was also an opportunity for her mom, Geri Nunes, to clean out the closets she has been filling since moving into her Santa Clara home in 1979.
Artist Margaret Luo Left Her Heart in San Francisco

2 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

Santa Clara artist and resident Margaret Luo not only left her heart in San Francisco. She sold it at auction in February to the highest bidder at a gala that raised $1.4 million to benefit Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
The Truth About Competing in the Miss America Pageant

3 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

Miss California 2024 Kimberly Vernon, a Santa Clara native, experienced firsthand the evolving truth about competing in the Miss America Pageant. “The Miss America Pageant of the 21st century looks a lot different than it did 100 years ago,” said Vernon, who competed for the 2025 title in January in Orlando, FL. “Yet people still have misconceptions about it.”The big misconception Vernon noted is that the pageant promotes a shallow view of women, focusing on beauty alone.
Santa Clara Players Closes 2024-2025 Season with Two Thought-Provoking One-Act Dramas

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

Proving its versatility, the Santa Clara Players (SCP) switches from comedy to drama for the close of its 2024 – 2025 season, staging two provocative one-act dramas by British playwrights. The world premiere (yes, in Santa Clara!) of “The Seventh Suitcase” by Phil Mansell and “Heaven’s Paradise” by Derek Webb run for eight performances, May 9-24. Both are dramas with underlying mystery, hints of things unknown. “The Seventh Suitcase” is set in a run-down hovel—perhaps in Ireland.
Carol Buchser, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

After her book discussion group on March 25, Santa Clara resident Carol Buchser stopped off for the first time at TOUS les JOURS, a French Asian bakery at Homestead Road and Lawrence Expressway, to meet up with a friend. She paused at a glass-enclosed food display case, deliberating but a moment before selecting a sugar-sprinkled donut—generously filled with chocolate cream—to go with a coffee. “Bob would love this place!” she said, settling in at a small wooden table.
Breaking Tradition: “The Plague Archives” at SCU’s de Saisset Museum

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

“Maya Gurantz: The Plague Archives,” at the de Saisset Museum on the campus of Santa Clara University (SCU) through June 14, is not a traditional art exhibition of original paintings, photography, sculptures, or artifacts. Rather, “The Plague Archives” comprises researched, copied and assembled historical records, music, original murals and videos that reveal the world’s shifting attitudes and definitions of disease, dating from the tenth century through today in the aftermath of COVID-19.
Sunnyvale Unveils 26 Stunning Sun Flair Public Art Sculptures

2 months ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

The former headquarters of Sunnyvale Community Services was transformed Feb. 8 into a temporary art gallery for the unveiling of “Sun Flair”—26 public art sun sculptures commissioned by the Sunnyvale Arts Commission. Each sun face was decorated by a different Bay Area artist (nine from Sunnyvale) to reflect the history, values, and characteristics of the city. It was the first and only time that all 26 suns would shine in one location.
CUSD Mandarin Immersion Program Celebrates Lunar New Year of the Snake with Gala

2 months ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

Learning Mandarin is about culture as well as language for the K – 8 CLIP students at John Muir Elementary School and Joaquin Miller Middle School in San Jose. CLIP (Cupertino Language Immersion Program) is an Alternative School Program of the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD), which includes 23 K – 8 schools (no high schools) in Cupertino and parts of Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Saratoga and Los Altos. At Miller Middle School, in the early evening on Jan.
Roberta Jones Junior Theatre Reprises Its Favorite Musical—“The Wizard of Oz” - The Silicon Valley Voice

2 months ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

At the Mission City Center for Performing Arts (3250 Monroe St.), March 21-23 and March 28-30, Santa Clara’s beloved Roberta Jones Junior Theatre (RJJT) reprises its (and one of the world’s) favorite musicals—“The Wizard of Oz.”Put on your ruby red shoes, close your eyes, and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself over and over, “There’s no place like…the Roberta Jones Junior Theatre!”Then get ready for magic.
SCU Stands Up for Science

2 months ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

Santa Clara University (SCU) demonstrated its faith in science as well as God on March 7. Faculty, staff, and students at the Jesuit Catholic university walked out of classes, labs and offices to Stand Up for Science at noon. Gathering outside the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, they rallied in solidarity with others nationwide—from Boston and Washington, D.C., to Sacramento and San Francisco—to protest recent federal government cuts in science programs and funding.