The Silicon Valley guide to festive and frightful Halloween-themed events for all ages
Our guide to Silicon Valley Halloween festivities covers all ages and includes parties and special events; concerts, screenings and performances; family-friendly festivities; and food-and-drink events and restaurant celebrations.

What’s up this weekend: The Kombos Collective, Code:ART, Paula West, history of rock posters and more
This weekend, dive into the history of 1960s rock posters, enjoy interactive digital media, hear pop and indie music in a variety of languages, a chamber group’s salute to a Greek composer and more.
Review: West Bay Opera stages strong ‘Samson et Dalila’
Saint-Saëns’ “Samson et Dalila” is the kind of lesser known treasure that makes a great addition to any aficionado’s list. With its production, West Bay Opera highlights the unique musical innovations of its score.
Italian espresso bar and roastery will soon open in a Redwood City shipping container
San Mateo resident Joe Witherspoon has never roasted coffee beans before. So naturally, he decided to start his own roastery.


Skip the Starbucks pumpkin spice latte: These 16 Peninsula coffee shops are serving up seasonal fall drinks
For many, pumpkin season is the unofficial start of fall. It’s when coffee shops advertise pumpkin spice lattes, when grocery stores are filled with pumpkin spice versions of pretty much everything and visiting pumpkin patches is the designated weekend outing.
New Palo Alto cake business offers DIY classes and custom cakes
From mountain ranges to intricate 3D floral patterns, imagination is the limit to what a cake can look like at Palo Alto’s newest cake shop.


The Ol’Man Brothers Band plays the music of the Allman Brothers Oct. 18 at Club Fox
Navigation III: Lingering, a day of performances, art installations and conversation Oct. 26 at Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Zoppé Italian Family Circus Nov. 1-30 in the Redwood City Library main parking lot
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson shares his newest novel. “The Wayfinder,” set in the Polynesian islands, about a young girl who is chosen to save her people from starvation Nov. 5 at Kepler’s Books
Mystery Brew Gift Market Dec. 5 at Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company
Earthwise Productions presents Russian Telegraph, featuring Beth Custer and David James, performs music from their new album, “turnips,” Dec. 13 at the Palo Alto Art Center
A Special Evening with Smokey Robinson Dec. 18 at The Guild Theatre (on sale Oct. 17)
“Hershey Felder: The Piano and Me” world premiere Jan. 17-Feb. 8 at TheatreWorks
Cosmic bluegrass with Kitchen Dwellers Feb. 17 at The Guild Theatre (on sale Oct. 17)
Southern rockers The Marshall Tucker Band Feb. 20 at The Guild Theatre (on sale Oct. 17).

Bell’s Books to mark 90 years with literary festivities
In 1935, Herbert Bell packed a station wagon full of books and arrived in Palo Alto with the intent of supplying texbooks to Stanford University students. The downtown Palo Alto shop is now filled with literary treasures for run-of-the-mill bookworms and hardcore collectors alike. Bell’s Books is in its 90th year and going strong, and will mark the milestone with a special event featuring local authors and more.
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