Know the People and Places That Make The Peninsula Great
Hundreds gathered at Stanford on Saturday, for the campus’ first-ever TEDx conference. Nearly 30 scientists, musicians, doctors, dancers and other experts gave 18-minute presentations: “Ideas worth sharing.”
Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater hosted rock legends in the 1960s, but after a 1971 concert got out of hand, the university rarely allowed rock shows. Saturday, Modest Mouse will headline Frost’s biggest rock show in decades.
The reporter and the football star traded places when Indianapolis Colts’ draft pick Coby Fleener wrote a profile of Sports Illustrated writer and NBC Sports commentator Peter King.
Stanford’s star tight end will graduate in June and join the Indianapolis Colts. Reflecting on his journey to the NFL, Fleener interviewed the man for whom he was named: Washington Redskins’ great Joe Jacoby.
While some Peninsula tech companies are making news hiring veterans, others are under the microscope for the high cost of security for their executives. Plus, hot picks from the Cool Product Expo.
Disturbed by the amount of plastic thrown into the San Francisco Bay, Stanford graduate student Ethan Estess created artwork illustrating the trash’s impact.
Henry Schulman, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Giants beat writer, has seen many changes in baseball – and baseball reporting – in more than two decades on the job.
Woodside California’s Filoli mansion draws crowds looking to go back in time. The estate was built in the early 20th century and has found new popularity, as period dramas like PBS’s “Downton Abbey” attract audiences.
Is Yelp hiding small businesses’ good reviews? Will schools ever see promised funds from redevelopment agencies? What are the lives of “the help” — domestic workers in the Bay Area — like today? Find out on the Peninsula Report podcast.