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.
Read MoreEach 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.
Read MoreMany of the targets of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ fiery viral speeches lie squarely in Silicon Valley, from the billionaires he wants taxed to the tech giants he wants to break up. Sanders will be in Silicon Valley March 4 for the only Northern California appearance scheduled to talk about his new book, "It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism," hosted by Kepler’s Literary Foundation at San Jose’s California Theatre.
Read MoreIn Malcolm Harris' expansive, engaging and explosive book, the image of Stanford racing to replace its beds to accommodate its increasingly tall freshmen serves as an apt metaphor for what he calls the Palo Alto System.
Read MoreEmil DeAndreis, a born-and-raised San Franciscan, isn’t a typical writer. For starters, he says he does a lot of writing during his day job as a substitute teacher in San Francisco public schools (he's also an English professor at College of San Mateo). His latest novel, “Tell Us When To Go,” follows two friends and Fresno State baseball teammates — Cole Gallegos and Isaac Moss — as they navigate San ...
Read MoreThe local housing market is cooling down from its record-high prices of the first quarter due to a drastic shift in the economy. Tumbling tech stocks, interest-rate hikes and inflation are among the underlying fundamentals of the housing market that are deteriorating at a speed faster than many of us have experienced.
Read MoreFoster City resident Kat Sy's experiences as a queer Asian Amerian female skateboarder are being highlighted in a short film being shown at the Center for Asian American Media’s 40th CAAMFest now through May 22. “Crashing Wheels on Concrete” follows the ups and downs of Sy’s life through her love of skateboarding as she graduates from college and takes on the challenges of adulthood.
Read MoreThe Roger Bar and Restaurant in Mountain View is taking inspiration from Silicon Valley innovation, utilizing a robot and other kitchen tech in its operations.
Read MoreIs Mezli’s startup idea the future of restaurant labor … or just a fancy vending machine? Are robot-made grain bowls the future of cheap eats? Silicon Valley’s Mezli thinks so. (Image via Mezli’s Instagram) Susie is a local sous chef who spends her days on the line, making Mediterranean grain bowls with turmeric-coriander rice, chicken, roasted vegetables, crispy garbanzo beans and drizzles of a spicy, bright-red chermoula sauce. She’s the ideal employee: ...
Read MoreHiller Aviation Museum’s Jon Welte talks space travel, Martian life and Silicon Valley in space. This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater a little after 3:40 p.m. EST (12:40 p.m. PST) on Feb. 18, 2021. (Image via NASA) This time next week, Perseverance could be sitting peacefully upon Martian ground. If its landing proves a successful one, NASA’s Perseverance ...
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