Either under the table for protection or hiding from someone sporting a fiendish fannypack-khakis combo, Catherine Kilkenny of San Jose's Willow Glen looks scared as all hell, doesn't she? Many people were. Last night's 5.6 earthquake, which we didn't feel but hear the majority of you did, tore nerves to shreds, shook the ground, and sent magazines flying to the floor. In a little over 12 hours, it managed to cause quite the stir.......

Uh oh! Did you stop by the Jamba Juice on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen in San Jose any time during the first two weeks of August? An employee may have given you hepatitis A. Turns out one of the food handlers didn't realize she was sick and she might have given it to you if she didn't wash her hands properly. If you were at the JJ from August 9-16, get a shot. If......

--Love the San Jose public library -- just don't love the San Jose public library. --An Angelides aide says they found the "hot blooded Latino" audio clip on a publicly-accessible website. Also, former Steve Westly manager Garry South seems to be calling Matier and Ross a lot. --The City of Oakland accidentally turned down a historic garden by Lake Merritt, and now has to make it into condos. --Water fountain pressure is low at Oakland......

We love it when art doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it’s such a rarity these days that when we heard about the Smart Ass show at Southern Exposure, we knew we had to rush out and catch it. The eccentric group of artists in Smart Ass finds humor in their work and in the mundane, whether it’s rearranging the lawn furniture of a neighbor or stealing luggage from an airport carousel. However, it......

Have we used this picture before? We can't remember now. Yo! There's a huge big rig dangling off the side of the eastbound 80/southbound 880 ramp this morning! The driver suffered fatal injuries in the accident, and all westbound lanes on 80 were blocked until about 8 a.m. Folks in the tony Willow Glen neighborhood in San Jose are wearing a lot of hats these days, as their perching pigeon problem persists at the corner of Minnesota and Lincoln Avenues. There's another p word we could use here but we're not going to -- let's just say, step lively and cross under the telephone wires with caution. And the cops have a woman in custody who tried to set fire to an 10-story office building at Valencia at Cesar Chavez last night. SFFD got there and put it out before anything happened. ...

See Sudden Fear tonight at the Balboa's Reel SF film festival! Someone's killing pets in San Jose: neighborhood residents in Willow Glen had been getting -- and ignoring -- increasingly-threatening notes complaining about various pets over the past seven years -- until a King Charles spaniel named Jackson was killed last week. Jackson's owner had received two notes complaining about barking a few years ago, and then came home to find that Jackson had been poisoned with antifreeze. Another neighborhood resident's cat had been found killed seven years ago, with a note on its collar saying, "I warned you about your cat." Police are saying it's probably just a weird coincidence that a woman was murdered early Sunday morning in the Western Addition at Eddy and Divisadero was killed a few blocks away from where her father was killed two months ago. Man, you don't want two members of your family featured in the SFist Blotter! And a Pittsburg police officer shot in the line of duty over the weekend has died. His family is donating his organs. ...