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About Julia
Julia Brown started working at Embarcadero Media in 2016 as a news reporter for the Pleasanton Weekly. From 2018 to 2021 she worked as assistant editor of The Almanac and Mountain View Voice. Before joining the company, Julia was a news reporter for the Half Moon Bay Review newspaper and wrote about education, agriculture, and the unincorporated San Mateo County Coastside.A Foster City native, Julia earned a bachelor's degree in modern literature from University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree in journalism from Stanford University.
Stories by Julia
Costumed canines, clucking chickens and … a roly-poly? Looking back on 75 years of the Los Altos Pet Parade
Kids and their pets -- from pooches to parrots, turtles to tarantulas -- have taken to downtown Los Altos every Saturday following Mother’s Day for decades for the Los Altos Kiwanis Pet Parade. This year, it's on May 14.[Saturday, May 14, 2022]
Blooms, birds and bees: 10 gardens to visit on the 20th annual Growing Natives Garden Tour
Gardeners and plant lovers alike are abuzz over the return of the Growing Natives Garden Tour, which went virtual the last two years due to the pandemic.[Tuesday, March 29, 2022]
From MV to the TV: How Sean Patrick Small went from hooping at Los Altos High to playing NBA legend Larry Bird
It’s easy to see “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” as a sports show, but HBO’s new comedy on the Los Angeles Lakers’ dynasty of the 1980s focuses on relationships, like the rivalry between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.[Tuesday, March 15, 2022]
Just our luck: St. Patrick’s Day events make a comeback
For the first time since 2019, St. Patrick’s Day festivities are back without restrictions on capacity or county mask mandates in place. So don your green apparel and celebrate on the Peninsula.[Monday, March 14, 2022]
Carb cravings: Boichik Bagels coming soon, Rōzmary Kitchen's sandwich pop-ups return
If freshly baked breads is your idea of heaven, Palo Alto and Mountain View might just become your new happy places in coming weeks.[Monday, February 7, 2022]
Woman who yelled anti-Asian epithets during theft in Mountain View arrested
Mountain View police arrested a 39-year-old Greenbrae woman Friday (March 5) after she allegedly yelled racial epithets while stealing from a store in downtown Mountain View last month, according to a police press release.[Monday, March 8, 2021]
Record-breaking coach Tara VanDerveer on pandemic play and social justice
Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer talks about reaching the milestone of leading the all-time coaching wins list, what it's been like coaching amidst coronavirus restrictions and protocols, and social justice activism.[Wednesday, February 3, 2021]
PG&E to host wildfire safety webinar Wednesday
PG&E is hosting a virtual meeting from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3, for San Mateo and Santa Clara County residents interested in learning about the utility's wildfire safety program.[Wednesday, June 3, 2020]
Update: Peninsula Target stores removed from temporary closure list
Target has temporarily closed stores throughout the country following looting at some of its stores nationwide during protests this week in response to the death of George Floyd.[Saturday, May 30, 2020]
Coroner's Office identifies motorcyclist killed in Mountain View crash
A 56-year-old San Jose man was killed Thursday night (May 7) after crashing his motorcycle on Highway 237 in Mountain View, according to the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office.[Saturday, May 9, 2020]
