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.
Read MoreTo support our local dining scene, The Six Fifty and Peninsula Foodist are teaming up to bring Peninsula Restaurant Week back for its third year May 19-27, featuring deals, prix-fixe menus and special dishes from your favorite eateries between Daly City and Sunnyvale, as well as the San Mateo County Coastside.
Read MoreKeep 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.
Read MoreAtherton resident and debut novelist behind the book "In the Event of Death" Kimberly Young talks with The Six Fifty about how overcoming a health scare inspired her to write a book and why she chose to include characters who don't work in tech.
Read MoreThere's a Chinese proverb that says, "It takes 10 years of practice for 10 minutes of performance." For VC Tang, a Thai woman who grew up in San Francisco and now lives in Redwood City, the proverb rings true as to how her debut book, a cookbook-memoir called "Come Eat, Grandma! Recipes and Stories of Thai Home Cooking" came together.
Read MoreBehind the doors of a shop on Palo Alto's California Avenue is a brand-new game wonderland that aims to appeal to everyone – even people who say they don't like games.
Read MoreThough the bestselling author and former Peninsula high school administrator Joanna Ho is known for writing children's picture books, she was compelled to write her latest release, a young adult novel called “The Silence that Binds Us,” after a couple of encounters she had years ago.
Read MoreBack in 1971, Frances Moore Lappé broke ground as an early advocate of plant-based eating in her first book, “Diet for a Small Planet.” More than 50 years later and with an updated introduction, Lappé’s book is more relevant than ever, highlighting the environmental and human costs of meat-heavy and highly processed diets.
Read MoreWhen Emily Winston opened her first storefront in Berkeley back in 2019, she cobbled together personal loans from members of her email list along with friends and family. Today, Winston is eyeing a bagel plant and wholesale business, and community members are shelling out thousands of dollars in order to support the construction of her bagel empire.
Read MoreBraveMaker founder wants the Bay Area to become a hub of film and art, starting with Redwood City.
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