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From Big Band to Modern: Jazz for Every Taste at SCU

1 week ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

Santa Clara University SCU Presents is wrapping up the 2024-25 season with a pair of jazz concerts, Wednesday and Saturday of this week, with something for almost every jazz lover. The performance on the 28th features a full jazz orchestra performing classic jazz pieces and a modern composition by Annie Booth — commissioned for the Reno Jazz Festival in 2022. On the 31st, three small jazz combos play modern jazz and original compositions.
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.
Beauty Thieves Arrested, Connected to String of Northern California Thefts

2 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Erika Towne

They’re calling it “Ulta Thefts … Ultimate Arrests.” The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department has arrested two people tied to a string of beauty product thefts in the South Bay and deputies are looking for a third suspect. Deputies say the trio stole from multiple Ulta Beauty stores, including ones in Sunnyvale and Cupertino.
Another Winning Soroptimists’ Fundraiser “In the Bag”

2 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Carolyn Schuk

Now in its second decade, Soroptimist’s Classy Bag Luncheon and Auction continues to be the Santa Clara charity event of the year, drawing more guests every year and raising hefty sums to support Soroptimists’ charitable programs. In honor of the service club’s record, State Senator Aisha Wahab presented the club with a plaque of recognition from the state legislature at the April 26 event.
The Weekly Wins 10 Awards at 2024 California Journalism Awards

2 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Erika Towne

The Santa Clara Weekly team earned nearly a dozen awards at the recent California Journalism Awards, including top honors in editorial and health reporting. Five reporters on The Weekly team garnered recognition.
Jury Finds Santa Clara Owes David’s Restaurant More than $1.3 Million

2 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Erika Towne

The City of Santa Clara is fighting back after a jury ordered it to pay the owner of David’s Restaurant and Banquet Hall more than $1.3 million. On May 16, the city filed an appeal contesting a January 2025 civil court verdict. The verdict was the culmination of several years of court battles between David’s Restaurant, referred to in court documents as D.E. II Restaurants, Inc., and the City of Santa Clara. In 2019, the city began eminent domain action against D.E. II.
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.
Milestones - Tax Upon Tax? - Opinion

3 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Miles H. Barber

In its search for tax revenue, the Santa Clara City Council has explored new, old and now an untried idea to raise funds for city operations and salaries. Here’s something that would be new for Santa Clara: How about we install parking meters throughout the city? Hmmm … when considered on the surface it sounds like a reasonable idea. However, when you get the wrapper off the package, there are more issues than you can count on your two hands and two feet.
El Camino Hospital Breaks Ground on Rehab Facility in Sunnyvale

3 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Erika Towne

A new, state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility will soon take shape along one of Sunnyvale’s main corridors. While initial construction work on the new El Camino Hospital facility on El Camino Real near Mary Avenue has already started, the official groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 22.
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.