MetroED hosts 18th annual car show May 3

Classic car show The Metropolitan Education District’s Silicon Valley Career Technical Education (SVCTE) center is hosting the 18th annual Bob McTaggart Custom & Classic Car Show May 3, 5-8 p.m., at the MetroED campus, 760 Hillsdale Ave. in San Jose. Owners of custom and classic cars will showcase their rides at the free event, and attendees can vote for their favorites in nine categories: best car, best motorcycle, best bike, best car under construction, best truck, best club participation, ugliest car, best engine and best paint job. sThe event also features raffles, prizes, food and music. The show supports SVCTE’s  student competition group SkillsUSA. Past events have raised over $10,000. MetroED is governed by a joint powers agreement that includes the San Jose Unified School District. For more information, visit https://www.metroed.net. Agriculture walk Bay Area Older Adults is hosting a California Agriculture Walk around Martial Cottle Park in San Jose on May 8, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The leisurely walk includes a stop for a presentation at Our City Forest and ends with an included picnic lunch. Registration for Hike 8 is required by visiting https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/may. Neighborhood Notes CAMBRIAN>>Rising young

Cinequest audiences connect with film about Saratoga winemaking family

Local filmmaker and Los Gatos native Chris McGilvray says viewers of “Eden,” his documentary about the transition of Mount Eden Winery in Saratoga to the next generation of the family that runs it, seem to identify with the people on screen. McGilvray, who runs Nomadic Bear Productions out of Santa Cruz, adds that the film sparks many conversations, especially those that people avoid but probably should have. The audience at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival in March, where more than 700 people attended a screening of the film at the California Theater in San Jose, apparently felt a connection to McGilvray’s seven-year exploration of the winery and the family that runs it. “Eden” earned a Cinequest Audience Award for Best Documentary, tied with “Of Color and Ink” by Weimin Zhang. The project began as an ode to the rugged beauty of the Saratoga hills on the eastern edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains winegrowing region. McGilvray and cinematographer Isiah Flores filmed at the beautiful mountaintop property that was once owned by Paul Masson and later sold to Martin Ray, founder of Martin Ray Vineyards

More artists than ever before to open studios for 38th annual tour

San Jose artists Deborah Ikeda and Eileen Wong Cervera both had tech careers before embarking on their “second lives” as artists. Now Ikeda uses a kiln to create fused glass pieces such as bowls, platters and “gems” that she sets in sterling silver jewelry, while Cervera creates oil paintings inspired from photographs that hold meaning for her. Ikeda and Cervera are two of the more than 375 visual artists from the Bay Area who will be participating in the 2024 Silicon Valley Open Studios (SVOS), the highest number of artists in the event’s 38-year history. SVOS gives art lovers and collectors behind-the-scenes access to established and emerging artists from South San Francisco to Gilroy and Pacifica to Half Moon Bay. One of the largest Bay Area fine arts shows open to the public, this free event features painting, sculpture, jewelry, photography, woodworking, mixed media, pastels, pottery, metalwork, textile art and more. “Artists are thriving here in the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley Open Studios is excited to support them,” said Stephen Toll, president of Silicon Valley Visual Arts, organizers of SVOS. “It’s a wonderful opportunity

Word Game: April 28, 2024

TODAY’S WORD — GLYCERINE (GLYCERINE: GLIS-er-in: A sweet syrupy alcohol typically obtained in the process of making soap.) Average mark 50 words Time limit 60 minutes Can you find 61 or more words in GLYCERINE? TODAY’S WORD — GLYCERINE gene generic genic genie genre girl glee glen green grey grin gyre leer leering leery lice liege lien liger line liner ling linger lycee lying lyre lyric celery clergy cling clingy creel cringe cringle crying eely eerily eery elegy energy erne eyeing recline reel reeling regency reign rein relic reline rely relying rice rile ring ingle inly nice nicely nicer niece To purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last! RULES OF THE GAME: 1. Words must be of four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed. 3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible. 4. Proper nouns

Bridge: April 28, 2024

A measure of success, I believe, is not how you look at a problem, but whether you look at the same kind of problem the same way as a year ago. My columns this week focused on resolving guesses — for instance, a two-way guess for a missing queen — by drawing inferences from the bidding or play. A beginning declarer is unable to organize his thought-processes well enough to draw inferences; he has other worries, such as whether to draw trumps. But most “card-reading” is simple in principle. It takes focus and practice, but anyone can do it. Today’s South plays at four spades after North has opened one club in fourth position. West leads the jack of hearts, and declarer takes the king and sees a possible loser in each suit. If West has both black kings, South may make an overtrick; but if East has both, the defense will have time to set up and cash a heart trick. At Trick Two, South correctly leads a diamond. He hopes to set up a diamond trick in dummy for a heart discard. West

Ask Amy: Can I go after the widow for what was stolen from me?

Dear Amy: I’m writing to you to ask your opinion of a moral/ethical situation that I am experiencing. Many years ago, my mother died, leaving a will that stated that my brother and I were to share equally in the money that she had in bonds. She had discussed this bequest with me. Since she made my brother the executor of her estate, he was able to sell the bonds without my knowing. He kept all the money and told me that there was none for me. My brother died last year. I didn’t want to bring up the aforementioned situation at that time, due to my sister-in-law’s health and her intense grief. But now that it’s almost a full year since he passed, I’d like to know this: Would it be morally/ethically correct if I ask her for the money that my brother “stole” from me? I know that she most likely didn’t know anything about the fact that he did this. It upsets me to know that he didn’t honor our mother’s final wishes. I do need the money. So I’d like your

Dear Abby: My husband doesn’t know I have a secret apartment

DEAR ABBY: I have been deceiving my husband for a couple of months and can’t figure out how to come clean. I feel like a terrible person. We have been married 17 years, and during the first four or five we were happy. We don’t have very many disagreements, but when we do, he always wins. This is because he’s intense, intelligent and very intimidating, so I always back down. I am so uncomfortable with him and careful about what I say that it has started to make me depressed and anxious. I’m in therapy and trying hard to speak up for myself. The deception I speak of is that I have rented an apartment in another town and have lied to him about trips to see my sister, my daughter and my mother just so I can feel some peace, read a book, knit, and just … be. He has no idea because our finances are separate (his choice). I’m afraid to tell my husband I want to leave him because a few years ago I expressed how unhappy I was and said I

Prep roundup: Serra dominates in win over St. Ignatius, Benicia softball wins eighth straight game

Baseball No. 3 Serra 5, No. 11 St. Ignatius 1 The Padres bounced back after dropping the first of a two-game series against the Wildcats on Friday.  St. Ignatius took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Patrick Ruane scored Makai Susor on a sacrifice bunt.  Serra responded in a big way in the fourth inning.  The San Mateo school scored four consecutive runs as St. Ignatius struggled to get outs. After Evan Bradshaw knocked in Ian Josephson to tie the game, the Wildcats walked three straight batters with the bases loaded and Serra took a 4-1 lead heading into the fifth.  Ian Armstrong’s RBI single in the seventh gave Serra a commanding 5-1 lead to seal the win for the Padres.  Serra, which improved to 18-5, 9-3, snapped its two-game losing streak. St. Ignatius dropped to 15-7, 6-6. No. 4 Valley Christian 11, Bellarmine 0  The Warriors blanked Bellarmine behind a superb pitching performance from Rohan Kasanagottu . Kasanagottu pitched 6 1/3 innings, striking out seven and allowing four hits.  Stanford commit Quinten Marsh went 3 for 3 with five RBIs and a

San Jose: Woman killed in Friday night shooting

SAN JOSE – A woman was found shot to death Friday night in downtown San Jose, according to authorities. Officers responded to a report of an injury around 9:07 p.m. in the area of North 4th Street and East St. John Street, police said Saturday. The victim, who was not breathing when police arrived, was taken to a hospital but later pronounced dead. It was the city’s 12th homicide of the year. The suspect was gone by the time officers got to the scene. Police have not yet released the suspect’s description or a possible motive for the shooting. The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification to next of kin. The San Jose Police Department is investigating the fatality. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sgt. Van Den Broeck and Detective Estantino of the Homicide Unit at 3829@sanjoseca.gov and/or 4339@sanjoseca.gov or 408-277-5283.

Photos: Hundreds enjoy Berkeley Bay Festival

The City of Berkeley presented the Berkeley Bay Festival at Shorebird Park in the Berkeley Marina on Saturday. The perfect sunny spring weather and the location attracted hundreds of visitors to the free family event as a celebration of the San Francisco Bay local wildlife. It featured dozens of exhibits and hands-on educational activities from environmental and wildlife conservation organizations from around the Bay, live music by Purple Fox and the Heebie Jeebies, West Grand Brass Band, Pan Extasy, and a performance by Prescott Circus Theatre as festival goers watch the colorful and lively shows from the lawn while picnicking or enjoying the food trucks. Visitors also took a close look at aquatic animals displayed in a 1500-gallon tank as part of the Mobile Fish exhibit brought by the East Bay Regional Parks District, which was one of the big attractions of the event. Also, the Cal Sailing Club, which held an open house, provided free 20-minute boat rides to visitors. Volunteers from Cal Sailing Club give 20-minute free rides to visitors during the Berkeley Bay Festival at Shorebird Park in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday

NFL Draft winners and losers: Pac-12 shines before extinction while new versions of SEC, Big Ten dominate

The Pac-12 set a conference record with 43 selections in the 2024 NFL Draft and will carry loads of momentum into next — err, never mind. At least the conference went out on top, breaking its previous seven-round record of 39 selections set in 2015. That total was second among all conferences — the SEC led the way with 59 selections — and reflects the high quality of play in the Pac-12 last season. But the backdrop of realignment loomed over the three-day event in Detroit. Both Washington State and Oregon State produced three picks. The other 37 selections played for schools that are departing the Pac-12 this summer. Washington led the way with 10 picks, tying the school record since the draft was reduced to seven rounds in 1994. But if we expand our scope, the future of the sport becomes clear: Schools that will be members of the SEC and Big Ten next season accounted for 140 of the 257 selections (55.5 percent) — more evidence of their growing dominance. The first example came courtesy of the College Football Playoff: All four participants

Oakland police investigate fatal shooting in Coliseum neighborhood

A person was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in the Coliseum neighborhood of Oakland, according to Oakland police. Responding to an alert by the gunshot sensor ShotSpotter, officers arrived at the 6900 block of Hamilton Street just before 1:30 p.m. They found a struck vehicle but no victim. While on the scene of the crime, officers were notified that a person with a gunshot wound had arrived at a local hospital and was pronounced dead by medical personnel. The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification to next of kin. The Oakland Police Department is investigating the fatal shooting. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Homicide Section at 510-238-3821 or the tip line at 510-238-7950.

San Jose State football: Quarterback competition headlines 2024 spring game

SAN JOSE — A year ago, San Jose State had a clear succession plan for when star quarterback Chevan Cordeiro eventually graduated. Former SJSU head coach Brent Brennan brought in University of Oregon and Liberty High School quarterback Jay Butterfield from the transfer portal and recruited highly-touted Sacramento area high school QB Anthony Garcia to be SJSU’s future playmakers once Cordeiro left the program after the 2023 season.  Since then, Brennan has left to be the head coach at the University of Arizona, Garcia has followed the long-time SJSU head coach, and Butterfield has fallen to fourth on the depth chart.  Enter Saturday, and new SJSU head coach Ken Niumatalolo has made it clear there will be a quarterback competition for who will be under center for the Spartans next season.  Two quarterbacks on the roster have caught his eye: Walker Eget and Emmett Brown.  “Right now it’s neck-and-neck between Walker and Emmett right now,” Niumatalolo said. “Right now I’m looking for the guy who’s going to take care of the ball for us and also be the leader that commands the respect from both

Cal Poly Humboldt closes campus for rest of semester over Gaza protests

Cal Poly Humboldt officials are closing the campus for the remainder of the semester with classwork continuing remotely, as pro-Palestinian student activists refuse to end their occupation of two academic buildings. This closure means that anyone on campus without authorization by University Police is subject to citation or arrest, the university wrote in a statement Saturday. Students living on campus are being asked to limit their movement to between their residence hall and dorms, and they cannot be on other parts of campus “until further updates.” The far Northern California campus had already been shut down since Monday, when dozens of students set up an encampment inside Siemens Hall, an academic and administrative building, at the Arcata school in an act of “solidarity with those facing genocide in Gaza,” organizers said. They demanded that the university divest from Israeli companies and weapons manufacturers. University administrators called in riot police to clear the encampment, resulting in a clash with protesters and three arrests. “Those who are staying in there are not staying in there for noble causes. They’re criminals,” University President Tom Jackson told the Eureka

Stanford football: Why Cardinal are looking forward to new ACC affiliation

STANFORD – When Stanford opened last season at Hawai’i, traveling a day earlier than usual to adjust to the time change and the long flight, little did it know that it would be good preparation for the years to follow. Starting this season, Stanford will replace annual trips to the Pacific Northwest and Southern California with cross-country flights as it begins a new era in the ACC. The Cardinal will play four games in the Eastern time zone in 2024, including visits to Syracuse, Clemson and N.C. State and a previously scheduled game at Notre Dame. “It’s going to be fun,” junior cornerback Colin Wright said. “I know a lot of people have mentioned the travel implications, but I think all those things will work themselves out. Playing against schools that we’ve all admired growing up like the Clemsons and Miamis will be interesting. “A kid like me from Texas has never been to the East Coast, so it will be an interesting opportunity to see those places.” While almost everyone would prefer the old arrangement of the Pac-12 and its longstanding regional rivalries, the

Top transfer prospect, former Stanford guard Stojaković heading to Cal

Mark Madsen won’t be the only former Stanford player in the Cal men’s basketball program next season. Andrej Stojaković, the son of former NBA All-Star Peja Stojaković and a former top-25 recruit, told ESPN that he will transfer to Cal after spending his freshman year across the bay with the Cardinal. Stojaković averaged 7.8 points and 3.4 rebounds over 32 games as a freshman under Jarod Haase, who was fired following his eighth season in charge, none of which ended with an NCAA Tournament berth. Stanford hired former Washington State coach Kyle Smith, but Stojaković was one of several key players to leave the program. The 6-foot-7 Sacramento native also considered Kentucky and North Carolina, according to recruiting site On3.com, but ultimately decided to stay in the Bay Area. He shared the news on social media by simply posting an edited image of himself in a Cal jersey. “The stories and experiences he was able to share with my dad the first time meeting, we kind of bonded over each other’s goals,” Stojaković told ESPN of Madsen, who visited him the first week after he

Bay Area police chase: Suspect bails out of stolen car on fire in California Highway Patrol pursuit

Video posted online Tuesday by California Highway Patrol Golden Gate’s Air Division captures Bay Area cops chasing a suspect driving a car stolen in San Bruno until its tires rolled off in Solano County and the car immolated in Sacramento on Saturday night. The footage recorded by a camera on CHP Airplane 37 shows the pursuit in one dozen cuts over four-and-a-half minutes documenting CHP Golden Gate’s involvement in the April 22 chase, which begins in the video on I-80 eastbound as the suspect passes the Bayview Avenue exit in Richmond around 11:20 p.m. The voice in the left audio channel eight seconds in is Air-37 dictating the suspect’s motion to dispatchers responding on the right channel and coordinating with police on the ground dropping a spike strip to puncture the stolen car’s tires. The suspect continues fleeing at speeds CHP said exceeded 100 miles per hour until the car catches fire on I-5 in Sacramento and they bail out to surrender. “Unfortunately, even with four flat tires and the vehicle riding on the rims the driver continued to flee,” CHP Golden Gate Air Division

As EU election campaigns kick off in Germany, the Ukraine war, rise of far right are dominant themes

By Kirsten Grieshaber | Associated Press BERLIN — Several German parties on Saturday kicked off their campaigns for the election of the European Parliament in June with a focus on issues such as the war in Ukraine and support by many European voters for far-right nationalist parties across the continent. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ’s center-left Social Democrats, or SPD, launched their official campaign for the June 9 EU election with a rally in Hamburg, Scholz’s longtime home city. Responding to many German voters’ fears their country could be drawn into Ukraine’s war with Russia if it’s too proactive in its military support for the eastern European country, Scholz tried to alleviate such concerns. The chancellor reiterated that Germany would continue to stand by Ukraine’s side under his leadership as the second-largest arms supplier after the U.S., but would avoid a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia. “To those who are worried, who are afraid, I say: you can rest assured that no matter how the debates go, the German Chancellor, the government I lead, will not abandon the course of prudence, the course of

Top diplomat Blinken will visit the Mideast again this coming week. What can he achieve this time?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East on his seventh diplomatic mission to the region since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began more than six months ago, the State Department said Saturday. Blinken is traveling to Saudi Arabia on Monday, just two days since arriving back in Washington after a trip to China. Blinken will attend a World Economic Forum conference and meet with Arab foreign ministers in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. An Israeli foreign ministry official says Blinken will visit Israel on Tuesday, a stop not mentioned in the State Department’s announcement about Blinken’s itinerary. His latest Mideast trip, on the heels of meetings in China with President Xi Jinping and other high-ranking officials, comes as the war grinds on, with more than 34,000 Palestinians killed, hundreds of thousands displaced and a steadily worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. In the surprise attack by Hamas against Israel on Oct. 7 that triggered the war, about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 people abducted. U.S.-backed efforts to negotiate a cease-fire in exchange for the release of the hostages

Lawyer: Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate jail

By Larry Neumeister | Associated Press NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer said Saturday that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after his arrival on Friday to city jails. “They examined him and sent him to Bellevue. It seems like he needs a lot of help, physically. He’s got a lot of problems. He’s getting all kinds of tests. He’s somewhat of a train wreck health wise,” Aidala said. A message left with the hospital was not immediately returned Saturday. Messages seeking comment were also left with city and state corrections offices. On Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals vacated his conviction after concluding that a trial judge permitted jurors to see and hear too much evidence not directly related to the charges he faced. It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial. Prosecutors said they intend to retry him on charges that he forcibly performed

South Bay meets Southern Hospitality: What Los Gatos baseball team learned from trip to rural Tennessee

Like many baseball teams in the Bay Area, Los Gatos spent a week away from home playing non-league teams.  But instead of taking on other opponents from the West Coast, the Wildcats traveled down to middle Tennessee, playing unfamiliar programs like Friendship Christian and Overton in a small town called Lebanon. Located around 45 minutes east of the state capitol and a world away from what the South Bay natives were used to, the teenagers grew to appreciate the state that coach Mike Minkel spent his college years. “They saw a lot of respect for strangers and people you’ve never met before,” said Minkel, who went to school at Cumberland in Lebanon. “A lot of time spent holding doors for people and going out of your way to be kind when you don’t have to be.” Despite both graduating from the same NAIA program in the 2000’s, both Minkel and his assistant coach Eric Mull still have plenty of friends in the area, making it possible to plan games and put together events with help from locals.  Los Gatos won all three games in the