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2 weeks ago | 
meetingstoday.com | Gary Singh
From football to recycled guitar strings, from pancakes to potato gnocchi, Nashville is not just for country music fans. On a recent fam to Music City USA, I learned so much more about this iconic Southern cultural standout. Creative CollaborationsOne morning, as we sat inside Pancake Pantry, Music City’s legendary breakfast spot, we watched the line to get in snake its way around the block.
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1 month ago | 
metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh
Last Sunday, Viva CalleSJ celebrated ten years of open street events in San Jose. It’s been a wild ride. Back in 2015, plans emerged to replicate various open street initiatives around the world, especially those in Latin America, where locals converted stretches of road into car-free spaces just for a few hours.
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1 month ago | 
metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh
Lisa Thomas got me the job. That’s how it all started. Somewhere in the roach-infested paradise of Cactus Club’s happy hour—every day for me and maybe a few evenings a week for her—Lisa and I carried on with the others. She knew I was a struggling freelancer and she convinced me to apply for something, anything, at Metro, the alt-weekly newspaper located in an old brick building down the street from Cactus.
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2 months ago | 
meetingstoday.com | Gary Singh
It was a tale of two cities. A combo of country and gold. Tourism Australia presented the 2024 version of its signature incentive showcase, Australia Next, this past September 8-11 in Cairns, North Queensland, with a separate post-fam to Gold Coast, a thriving beach city just south of Brisbane. In both places, Meetings Today inspected some drop-dead gorgeous offsite venues for groups.
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2 months ago | 
metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh
As the Silicon Alleys column approaches 20 years, I am obsessed with reflections. In the first year of this page, 2005, I visited Nashville, Music City, and returned to complain about San Jose’s dismal live music scene, at that moment. Last week, I was in Nashville again—for the first time since that column—but I am not going to repeat myself. This time, even though San Jose will never be anything close to Nashville, I returned home with a more positive attitude.
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2 months ago | 
metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh
This Saturday, the nonprofit organization Maitri celebrates 34 years of combating domestic violence in South Asian diasporas. With an annual gala set to raise at least six figures, Maitri members take joy in reflecting on all they’ve accomplished over the decades. “Within Maitri, we always say it is one of those typical successful Silicon Valley startup stories where somebody starts something in the garage and it becomes really big,” said Geetha Krishnamurthy, Matri’s president of the board.
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2 months ago | 
metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh
Between 34th Street and Sunset, along Alum Rock Avenue, I experience poetry. It only takes a few banners. As I shuffle down the sidewalk, three vertical banners in particular catch my eye, each 2.5 x 8 feet, hanging from light poles that rise from the sidewalk. Pink digital prints with rainbows. Three lines from a poem, “En Otra Vida,” by local artist Ruby Morales.
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2 months ago | 
metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh
With Cinequest once again in full swing, the familial nature of the entire festival necessitates another report from the trenches. As the artist lounge opened for business on opening night, I was reminded of just how much family is really involved here. Nathan Louie, who is now sadly no longer with us, was once again dearly missed. Nathan was the guy decked out in traditional Chinese attire that welcomed everyone in front of the California Theatre, for what seemed like decades.
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2 months ago | 
cutoday.info | Gary Singh
Credit unions face an ongoing challenge in engaging younger members, especially as their core member base ages. With Gen Z embracing credit products and digital banking tools at an unprecedented rate, credit unions must rethink how to meet these evolving needs. One emerging solution is family hub card programs, which offer credit unions a way to engage parents and their children, fostering long-term loyalty and financial education.
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2 months ago | 
metrosiliconvalley.com | Gary Singh
Even if you’re not old enough to remember renting Gates of Hell on VHS, underage, at your local multistory video store just to watch someone vomiting her guts out, Ry Levey’s new documentary, Boutique: To Preserve and Collect, will take you back to those days. Thankfully, though, Boutique is not just about the past. The film is a love letter to physical media and the heroes who restore old forgotten Z-grade films for modern-day consumption.
