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Larry Horton, Stanford University's longtime senior associate vice president and director of government and community relations, will step down at the end of this calendar year, he told the Weekly today.

When last we heard from the Menlo Park council on the proposed eight-acre Stanford-Arrillaga project, a subcommittee had been appointed on April 16 in the hopes of guiding concerned residents and Stanford to a detente.

Years from now, no one will recall that the 2013-14 California budget was passed on time.

For former University City High baseball standout Greg Cohen, Ultimate Frisbee, or Ultimate as it's called by those who play it, "is the hardest sport I've ever played."

Stanford Law graduate and former Sunnyvale mayor Bill Fernandez gives a free talk on his book "Kaua'i Kids in Peace and War," about his life growing up on Kaua'i in the 1930s and '40s.

More than 25,000 family members and friends gathered for Stanford's 122nd Commencement weekend.

At a conference in Xi'an, archaeologists discuss how the digitalization of historical sites and relics help recreate communities, allowing them to look into the past and see the future.

Speaking to an international student body, Stanford commencement speaker Michael Bloomberg assailed U.S. immigration policy, saying that the nation should reward academic accomplishment with green cards.

Sandie Timm of Menlo Park sent us this photo of Vice President Joe Biden with her son Ben, 7, at the Harvest furniture store at 639 Santa Cruz Ave. in Menlo Park on Saturday, June 15. Mr. Biden was in San Francisco Friday night for a fundraiser and then on the Peninsula for his niece's graduation from Stanford.

Biden popped into Hobee's Restaurant this morning, along with South Bay Congressman Mike Honda and chatted with people inside and posed for lots of pictures.

Melody Stanford of San Anselmo, left, dances with Dustin Williams of Santa Barbara, center, Saturday, during the Northern California Pirate Festival in Vallejo.

If you and your significant other are true jazz lovers then this is a great opportunity you do not want to miss.

When East Palo Alto activist William Webster stepped into a plane headed for Paris on Sunday, it marked the first time he would travel abroad in over four decades.

The sumptuously gifted Brazilian jazz singer Claudia Villela has been a scarce presence on Bay Area bandstands for far too long, but that doesn't mean she hasn't been making music.

Years from now, no one will recall that the 2013-14 California budget was passed on time.

They collaborated with jazz great William Parker, workshopped with neuroscientists and synesthetes, staged an underground performance at Cantor Arts Center, dazzled an audience at Bing Concert Hall, partnered with the a cappella group Talisman on an original composition, and finished the year with a spring performance at San Francisco's Yerba Buena ... (more)

At the Faculty Senate meeting, Harry Elam, vice provost for undergraduate education, gives a presentation on the implementation of the recommendations of the 2012 Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford .

The Peninsula JCC raised $332,000 at April's Cabaret Under the Stars to help fund its latest innovation, Gan Tzedek .

The upheaval in Turkey started nearly two weeks ago with peaceful demonstrations over the planned removal of Gezi Park, one of the last green spaces in Istanbul, to make way for a shopping mall.

Stanford University officials received a fiery rebuke Wednesday night from the head of Palo Alto's Planning and Transportation Commission, who called the university "arrogant" for its resistance to add a road to the Mayfield housing project that would keep traffic from the new development out of neighborhood streets.