Palo Alto News

This Sunday evening, February 12th, will be the second Fortnightly Music Club concert of the year.

Students at Gunn High School recently used the "green screen" in the school library to make a video of themselves disguised as cells moving through a human body.

Looking for that special gift to pay homage to your honey? Here are five ideas to cut costs, and create a memorable gift that can't be fully store-bought. Bring a Restaurant Home: A If you want to avoid the crowds lingering at restaurants on Feb.

After a nearly 16-year lull in enforcement, the city of Palo Alto is poised to resume regulation of its massage parlors and practitioners.

Urban Migration. After six years on 24th Street, Heather Bruchs and her dog Bill are shuttering their store and searching for a new Nest in Palo Alto.

For a store opening, it's a happening. The Nature Gallery, a mineral store with an educational bent, opens at Linden Tree Books' old location at 296 State Street on Friday evening with a bang.A Owner Carol Garston was well-known in Palo Alto for the community building she did from her base at Town & Country Village.

If Palo Alto has an Achilles Heel most city officials would say it is the handful of public buildings that easily could crumble when a major earthquake hits the region.

Listen to the Palo Alto City Council meeting live when the council is in session via the KZSU Webcast .

Not only was the 63-year-old's grandmother diagnosed with the debilitating form of dementia, but his father has the disease as well.

Palo Alto's Municipal Services Center is a sprawling maze of industrial activity -- a 16-acre complex where hardhats abound and utility trucks loaded with spools of electric wire stand alongside fire engines and as-yet-uninstalled gas lines, street signs, generators, sandbags, asphalt, rock and other utilitarian necessities.

A new analysis by the California High-Speed Rail Authority calling for a four-track rail system between the Bay Area and Central Valley has set off a fresh wave of criticism from Palo Alto and surrounding cities, with many calling the latest document a betrayal of the authority's earlier promises.

Remember those orange flying rings called Aerobies? They were a little like a Frisbee, but would fly forever.

GREENFIELD - Kia Jean Bowman, wife of Annie Lane Clarke and daughter of Dr. Shahab Momtazi and Barbara Bowman, died Saturday, Jan.

I know you thought I was going to tell you we're giving out McRibs, but hopefully a day full of networking and learning about bike advocacy issues that affect us all is more exciting that a pressed meat product sammie of unknown origins and dubious food product credentials.

Ceramic bowls created by children wait to be fired during a clay wheel throwing class at the Junior Museum & Zoo in Palo Alto on Wednesday, Feb.

Terry Sand brings her colossal sense of humor, her theatrical flair and maybe a few tricks to work each day - all in the name of entertaining seniors.

When Valentine's Day rolls around on Tuesday, Eric Gonzalez will have a gift to celebrate with his wife, Rosario Berenice: a roof over their heads.

Laura Lauder, a Bay Area philanthropist and venture capitalist known for her passion for Jewish education, has been named the recipient of the 2012 Rambam's Ladder Award.

The program includes the Haydn String Quartet in F-sharp Minor and the Quincy Porter String Quartet No.

PALO ALTO, Calif.-- --Anacor Pharmaceuticals , today announced the sale of 3.25 million shares of its common stock for gross proceeds of $21,450,000 pursuant to an underwriting agreement with Canaccord Genuity acting as the sole bookrunner.