From garages to spaceships, a new exhibition explores the evolution of Silicon Valley architecture

It may not have an obvious center, but Silicon Valley does have unique architecture — though much like the unseen products of the valley itself, you may not always know it's there. Whether that's a feature or a bug is up to the viewer of "Building the Future; A Visual History of the Architecture of Silicon Valley," a new exhibition at the Los Altos History Museum that opens Aug. 3 featuring ...

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Peninsula author captures the journey of a would-be presidential assassin from suburban mom to the fringes of ’70s counterculture

Keep up a nearly 30-year correspondence with anyone and you'll get to know a lot about them. But for investigative journalist and Palo Alto-based author Geri Spieler, who traded letters for 28 years with would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore, she also discovered the ways in which Moore was unknowable, by her own design — as well as the things she couldn't hide about herself.

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