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A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Worrying patterns in our climate personalitiesWhen I wrote about climate personalities two weeks ago, I got an angry response...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 25, 2019Last comment by eileen, 26 minutes ago | 1 comment | 283 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Round Table Pizza bites the dust in downtown Palo AltoA longtime Round Table Pizza outpost in downtown Palo Alto has closed for good. The 263 University Ave. restaurant closed on Sunday, Aug. 19, according to an...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Aug. 23, 2019Last comment by Jeff, 3 hours ago | 19 comments | 6604 Views
THINKING ABOUT COLLEGE
UC Application Redesign(written by Lori McCormick) The University of California application is getting a new look! The outdated application is being refreshed and new technologies...
Original post made by John Raftrey and Lori McCormick on Jun. 6, 2019Last comment by madhvi252525, 3 hours ago | 2 comments | 2543 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Morsey's Creamery brings buffalo-milk gelato to downtown Palo AltoMorsey's Farmhouse Kitchen, the Los Altos restaurant that serves dairy products made from...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Aug. 19, 2019Last comment by get real , 3 hours ago | 13 comments | 2417 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Local Transit to the Rescue?Will better local transit get more people out of cars? ==I This is the second in a series of posts on using buses to reduce emissions, the first being about
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 18, 2019Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, 9 hours ago | 32 comments | 3476 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Japanese-style cocktail bar opening in Los AltosJean-Luc Kayigire wants people to imbibe more in downtown Los Altos. The Los Altos resident and former bar and restaurant owner said that because of the city's...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Jul. 23, 2019Last comment by HiolasLos, 23 hours ago | 7 comments | 2956 Views
THE FOOD PARTY!
Eating Green on the Green – August 25Summer’s not over yet. Here’s your invitation to some plant-forward outside-fun, sponsored by the impassioned folks of
Original post made by Laura Stec on Aug. 20, 2019Last comment by Grits Is Grits, on Aug 23, 2019 at 2:04 pm | 6 comments | 1419 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
New hotel restaurant opens inside Hyatt Mountain ViewFairchilds Public House in Mountain View plays up the Silicon Valley angle, unabashedly. Beyond the name itself, a reference to Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation,...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Aug. 23, 2019There are no comments yet. 1771 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
After 39 years of cakes and pastries, Palo Alto institution Prolific Oven to closeIt started with a scaling back of the eclairs. The owners of The Prolific Oven struggled to find an available baking decorator to hire, so they temporarily made...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Aug. 14, 2019Last comment by canelesdebordeaux, on Aug 22, 2019 at 1:09 pm | 60 comments | 19220 Views
INVEST & INNOVATE
The Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Process ExplainedEvery 8 years the state gives each regional planning agency a housing planning target for the number of units needed and affordable at various income levels. Then...
Original post made by Steve Levy on Aug. 14, 2019Last comment by The Business Man, on Aug 22, 2019 at 6:12 am | 19 comments | 1928 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Owners of Palo Alto's Tamarine plot casual Vietnamese spin-offTamarine has weathered more than 15 years of change in downtown Palo Alto, rarely if ever straying from its founding concept: modern interpretations of Vietnamese...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Jul. 19, 2019Last comment by viet food fan, on Aug 22, 2019 at 12:02 am | 4 comments | 4273 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Singapore's oldest cafe to bring imported coffee, kaya toast to Palo AltoCome this fall Killiney Kopitiam, known as Singapore's oldest cafe, will have its first U.S. outpost in downtown Palo Alto. Amanda Steckler, a Singaporean native...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Jul. 29, 2019Last comment by hawker stall food fan, on Aug 21, 2019 at 11:30 pm | 3 comments | 7654 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Fusion restaurant brings Indian pizza to Palo AltoCurry Pizza House is now slinging chili paneer pizzas, desi pesto bread sticks and achari chicken wings in downtown Palo Alto. The 320 University Ave. restaurant...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Aug. 5, 2019Last comment by pa resident, on Aug 21, 2019 at 11:12 pm | 24 comments | 6760 Views
COUPLE'S NET
Premarital and Couples: Marriage MaintenanceAccording to research by Dr. John Gottman, who runs the "Love Lab" in Seattle, most couples wait an average of six years from the time they sense issues...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Jul. 26, 2019Last comment by http://quickrishta.com, on Aug 21, 2019 at 12:10 am | 2 comments | 2521 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
San Francisco's Saint Frank Coffee comes to Menlo ParkSan Francisco third-wave coffee shop Saint Frank Coffee is now pouring single-origin espressos from a 250-square-foot outdoor kiosk in Menlo Park. Saint Frank...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Aug. 20, 2019Last comment by Sophie, on Aug 20, 2019 at 11:27 pm | 4 comments | 2089 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Vinyl and cocktails: Redwood City's Timber & Salt to host listening bar pop-upRedwood City bar Timber & Salt wants you to put down your phone, listen to a vinyl record and have a drink. For four hours on Monday evening (Aug. 19), Timber...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Aug. 16, 2019Last comment by Elena Kadvany, on Aug 18, 2019 at 9:06 pm | 3 comments | 1842 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
What is your climate personality?People react to climate change in different ways. How do people in our area think about it? Do we accept it? Fight it? Fight against the fight against it? Are we...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 11, 2019Last comment by Game Over, on Aug 18, 2019 at 1:22 pm | 35 comments | 2205 Views
COUPLE'S NET
"You Gotta Have Balls [to do counseling] . . .. . . It's really scary, taking a look at yourself." A man said this to me yesterday while asking for my help. It is scary, it does take balls (or the female...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Aug. 16, 2019There are no comments yet. 1934 Views
INVEST & INNOVATE
Democrats are Having the Wrong Debate About Health CareI agree with Emanuel's thoughts below. My family and I believe most Americans are more worried about health care costs than access. I watched all the debates...
Original post made by Steve Levy on Aug. 3, 2019Last comment by Wm Burton, on Aug 15, 2019 at 8:08 am | 48 comments | 3665 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Mountain View gets its own Ike's sandwich shopEver-expanding sandwich chain Ike's Love & Sandwiches opened its newest location this week at 1020 N. Rengstorff Ave., Suite F, in Mountain View. Ike Shehadeh...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Aug. 9, 2019Last comment by Reader X, on Aug 14, 2019 at 7:26 pm | 10 comments | 6444 Views
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Round Table Pizza bites the dust in downtown Palo Alto
By Elena Kadvany | 19 comments | 6,604 views
Local Transit to the Rescue?
By Sherry Listgarten | 32 comments | 3,476 views
Eating Green on the Green – August 25
By Laura Stec | 6 comments | 1,419 views
"The 5 Love Languages" by Gary Chapman
By Chandrama Anderson | 0 comments | 975 views
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