Raising a glass at Le Plonc, the new high-end, low-key wine bar in Mountain View

“It’s like happy hour all day”: the Peninsula’s latest lounge pours quality wines at $7 a glass Mountain View’s new wine bar, Le Plonc, features $7 glasses of quality wines and an eclectic menu to match. (Photo ...

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Watch Martin Luther King Jr.‘s speech at Stanford University about “The Other America”

Talking with King archivist and Stanford historian Clayborne Carson about our perception of MLK’s legacy and the dangers of “purposeful amnesia” Martin Luther King Jr., Brown’s chapel, Selma, Alabama 1965. (Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department of ...

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Last Call for Fabbro’s: The bootlegging legacy and hidden history of a Redwood City institution

Generations of an Italian family that once ran the popular Peninsula restaurant, bar and gambling hub convened for one “last supper” to reminisce. George and Maria or “Mary” Fabbro, immigrants from Italy, reportedly ran a speakeasy ...

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Our search for snow—the dessert—in Silicon Valley

Our search for snow — the dessert — in Silicon Valley The quirky Mountain View cafe has a knack for worldly sweets Snow in the 6–5–0: The “Atari” snow at Chilly & Munch features taro snow ice topped with condensed milk, toasted almonds ...

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Sharing the kids: How Harley Farms became California’s most popular goat farm

Dee Harley turned a “derelict mess” into a thriving Peninsula tourist destination. Now if she can just keep the masses out of her kitchen. “I think as human beings, we’re always gonna like baby animals, we’re always ...

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Documenting the myth and merit that drove Silicon Valley to “invent the future”

Menlo Park-based Kikim Media’s new series dives deep into the tech ecosystem of the Peninsula’s century-old innovation industry The Hewlett-Packard factory floor during the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of the Science Channel) “If I hadn’t been here in Silicon ...

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