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This is Us: Foodie’s Delight
This week we profile local chefs Reilly Meehan and Charles Phan. Chef Phan is a winner of the coveted James Beard Award for Best Chef: California and owner of San Franciscos’s The Slanted Door, which has been touted as America’s best Vietnamese restaurant. This is the only place we know where you can taste Lychee […]
This is Us: Working for Change
In this episode TiU visited the Emma Prusch Farm Park not far from downtown San Jose. This was an actual working farm from 1870 until 1969. The Farm is now run by The City of San Jose and the Department of Parks and Recreation. Kids come here from all over the valley to learn about […]
This is Us Visits California Artists
This is Us visits the studios of four Northern California artists; Kirk McNeil, artist/blacksmith who works with white hot steel and really big hammers to create unique art; Beth Gripenstraw, she’s best known for her original ceramic jewelry and large ceramic murals but it is her paintings about life with vertigo that are drawing attention […]
This is Us from Happy Hollow Zoo
For this episode we visited the Happy Hollow Park and Zoo in San Jose. I was lucky enough to be invited into the lemur enclosure. The gentle Black and white primates gathered around for the show open and ate cherries and strawberries from my hand. We also got a close look at a porcupine (kinda […]
This is Us Remembers Japanese Internment
It’s been 70 years since Japanese citizens were interned during World War II. In this episode od This is Us, we profile two local people who experienced the interment camps, Norman Mineta, the 14th U.S. Secretary of Transportation and Dr. Misako Miura who was interned with her family at Manzanar and who worked as the […]
Profile: Big Wave Surfer, Richard Schmidt
John Gregg, Steve Kern and the TiU crew spent a day at Richard Schmidt’s surf school (Nice work if you can get it!) in Santa Cruz. Schmidt is legendary big wave surfer, who shares his passion with others who dream of riding the waves. He has perfected an unusual teaching technique. He surfs alongside his […]
Emma Prush Park and Farm
Last week we spent a day on the farm and we never left San Jose. Near Story & King roads, beneath the HWY 101 and I280 interchange, lies a barnyard oasis complete with chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, goats, steers, bunnies and peacocks, where broccoli grows right out of the ground. Yes, city slickers, you too […]
Profile: Sal Kahn
“I did not imagine this. I did not imagine, a thing that can reach millions of students…. I imagined myself being some kind of teacher or professor. That was kind of my dream…” Sal Kahn is speaking of a dream come true. His YouTube based Kahn Academy provides education in math and science for beginners […]
Show: The Rescuers
We took a special tour of the San Jose Fire Museum with Captain Sean Lovens who shared the history of fire fighting in San Jose – from the days when firemen were known as “house wreckers” (because sometimes their only option was to pull a burning house down and save the rest of the town) […]
Profile: Tom Humann
Thomas Humann is a former Marine Corps helicopter pilot. After flying some dangerous missions in the Middle East, Humann left the Marines and became the pilot for Marine One, the helicopter that flies the President of the United States. Today, Humann is among an elite group of aviators who fly for CAL FIRE, battling blazes, […]
