Know the People and Places That Make The Peninsula Great
Although only one out of five people interviewed in Saratoga could identify petanque, the city is spending almost $17,000 on a court in Azule Park after a Saratoga resident spent five years petitioning the city council.
Getting accepted to Stanford isn’t getting any easier. In 2000, the university received about 18,300 applications. In 2010, that figure had increased 75 percent to more than 32,000 applications.
Stanford seniors perform Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s award-winning 2003 drama “The Pillowman,” a dark play where nothing is simple, and even the most horrific tragedies come to an uneasy truce through comedy.
The salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper rail are both endangered species living near East Palo Alto’s Cooley Landing. Their presence may slow plans to turn the vacant property into a park.
This winter, ABC’s “Private Practice” featured the da Vinci, a surgical robot made by Sunnyvale company Intuitive Surgical. Although ABC asked to use the product, companies pay more than a billion dollars each year for product placement.
The weather did not live up to the hype in San Francisco early Saturday morning. A crowd of 50 formed at Twin Peaks, one of the city’s highest points, but the sky was clear and the pavement was dry at 1:30 a.m.
Annie Loya, 26, organized East Palo Alto youth to protest a dangerous waste handling plant in 2007. Now, she’s working with city officials to create a land-use map, ensuring homes won’t go on the toxic site.
This winter, Congress passed the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act, making it illegal to produce and distribute sexual fantasy videos that involve torturing small animals. Critics say the law violates the First Amendment.
In the second installment in the Peninsula Press StayCations series, we visit Ano Nuevo State Park, the winter home for a colony of over 2,000 northern elephant seals.