Education Archives - The Six Fifty

A decades-old shopping hub can be found in a Peninsula college parking lot every month

For more than 50 years, the De Anza Flea Market has drawn vendors and shoppers throughout the Bay Area, raising money for the community college’s student government and activities. Each month, the market includes about 813 vendor stalls along with an assortment of food trucks and, at its peak, has attracted 15,000 to 20,000 visitors per month.

Step inside a unique workspace for Stanford grad students that’s also a home for art

Constructed five years ago, Denning House is a home-away-from-home for Stanford students from all over the world who enjoy its unique architectural design and world-class art collection. Since March, the house is also open to the public via regular tours.

Jam session: How to make the most of seasonal produce through food preservation

While the days of summer slowly fade, your produce doesn’t have to meet the same fate. In the depths of winter, a jar of fruit or vegetables can transport you back to a warm summer day.

Cinequest independent film festival debuts in Mountain View

For the first time, Mountain View’s ShowPlace ICON Theatre & Kitchen will showcase a carefully curated selection of films as a part of the acclaimed South Bay-based film festival Cinequest. The festival is already underway in San Jose and opens Aug. 24 in Mountain View.

Back open after winter storm damage, San Mateo’s CuriOdyssey science museum and zoo is unveiling a new building with bayside views and an interactive exhibit. Here’s what it looks like inside.

San Mateo’s CuriOdyssey, the longtime science museum and zoo, is unveiling a new building with bayside views and an interactive exhibit three weeks after reopening from a monthslong closure caused by storm damage.

How two former tech workers are channeling their love of coffee into a new Menlo Park business

The Coffee Lab, which opens at the end of April in Menlo Park, is definitely not a coffee shop. Instead, its owners want you to focus more on the experience of brewing and tasting coffee, hoping to teach you enough to take your own home coffee practices to the next level.

Remote work rises and Caltrain ridership plummets: How Silicon Valley has changed three years since COVID

Each year, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a regional nonprofit think tank, publishes its Silicon Valley Index, a report chock-full of data points attempting to paint a point-in-time portrait of the region. This year's data points confirmed a lot of what I'd observed anecdotally in my own circles: Essentials like housing, transportation, food and child care feel more expensive than ever.

Beyond plastic straw bans: ‘Generation Dread’ author and Stanford postdoc Britt Wray on coping with (and acting on) eco-anxiety

Britt Wray, a Stanford postdoc who lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains, talks about her book "Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis," which discusses the mental health impacts of the climate crisis, especially on young people who are increasingly agitated that the planet is facing unprecedented threats due to the actions of previous and current generations.

Think you’re juggling a lot? Go behind the scenes of the Game of Throws circus arts festival in Palo Alto.

From tentative newcomers to professionals keeping seven balls aloft at once, the Game of Throws circus arts festival drew people of all ages and skill levels.

Start the new year with the Peninsula’s best personal growth deal: Free college classes and a deeply discounted gym membership

With community college courses free for San Mateo County residents this semester, we've compiled our top 20 favorite classes from American Sign Language to zoology.