San Mateo Harvest Festival draws holiday shoppers
As the West Coast’s largest indoor arts and crafts show, the Harvest Festival featured over 250 artisans, as well as live music and comedy.
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Cupertino welcomes its new poet laureate
Cupertino recently welcomed its new poet laureate, Jennifer Swanton Brown. The poet laureate position creates public events that promote the literary arts in the community and inspire creativity in residents.
Palo Alto High School students show high spirits for annual tradition
Spirit week, which marks the days leading up to the homecoming football game, fosters camaraderie through a series of rallies and contests.
Menlo Park says goodbye to the old Park Theatre
Just as Menlo Park’s old Park Theatre is about to get demolished, objects from the building — like curtains, doors, marquee letters and movie seats — were sold to avoid ending up in the landfill.
Senior volunteers help local food bank program
At a time when nearly 100,000 Santa Clara County residents don’t know how they’ll get their next meal, services such as the Second Harvest Food Bank Brown Bag program are even more essential.
‘Aurora’ art piece will light Palo Alto skies starting Nov. 16
On Saturday, Nov. 16, Aurora — an art piece created by Charles Gadeken that originally debuted at Burning Man in 2011 — will finally be lit in front of Palo Alto’s City Hall.
‘Trekkies’ flock to Burlingame for Star Trek Convention
The Hyatt Regency in Burlingame hosted Creation Entertainment’s Official Star Trek Convention from Nov. 8 to 10.
Piece by piece, Palo Alto is using developer money to expand public art collection
Palo Alto looks to expand its “Percent for Art” policy from municipal projects to private developments. City Council will decide on this Dec. 2.
Hundreds of Palo Alto residents celebrate Day of the Dead with song, dance and art
For the city’s fifth annual Day of the Dead — or “Dia de los Muertos” — celebration, a folkloric dance group was among those who participated at last Sunday’s event, dedicated to showcasing Mexican heritage.