Palo Alto

Betsy Franco Directs Ensemble of Teen Monologues Inspired by 'In the Time of the Butterflies'

Nicole Hammersla | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: San Francisco Education, San Francisco Around Town, Rafael Trujillo, Playwriting, Palo Alto, Arts Education, Monologue, Betsy Franco, Video, San Francisco News

Written and performed by the students of Henry M. Gunn High School, Faceoff seeks to explore the intersection of tyranny and resistance. I caught up with Betsy Franco, who coached Gunn's teen writers and actors through the process.

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Silicon Valley: Failing the Way to Better Education

Dr. Keith Devlin | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Education, Mathematics Education, Khan Academy, Palo Alto, Vinod Khosla, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto Startups, Technology Startups, Silicon Valley Startups, Failed Startups, Startup Failures, Technology News

If there is one thing Silicon Valley knows how to do, it is fail. We do it all the time, and that is the secret of our famed success.

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Palo Alto Is the New Hollywood

Chip Conley | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Silicon Valley, Business News

Young people -- many of them college dropouts like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg before them -- are streaming to Palo Alto hoping to be the next Steve Jobs (another dropout) with the desire to invent something incredible that might change the world.

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More Jobs -- Steve and Small Business

Nelson Davis | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Digital Era, Macintosh, Ipod, Palo Alto, Apple, Garage Based Small Business, Xerox, Pepsi-Cola, Iphone, Lexus, Steve Wozniak, Mercedes Benz, John Sculley, Ipad, Small Business, Remembering Steve Jobs, Small Business America, Business News

From the beginning, the creator and the creation were a single bonded brand. It is an exceptional business achievement if people think of you when they see the product and the product when they see you.

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California High-Speed Rail Faces Trouble In Palo Alto -- And More In Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, San Francisco Peninsula, Economic Stimulus Package, California High Speed Rail Authority, Palo Alto, Jerry Brown, Menlo Park, High Speed Rail, California High Speed Rail, Atherton, San Francisco News

ATHERTON, Calif. -- Walk down Ashfield Road in this well-heeled town of 7,000 on the San Francisco Peninsula and you'll find million-dollar homes surr...

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Obama's Council On Jobs Heads To Silicon Valley For Job-Creation Ideas

Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: White House, Linkedin, Aol, Sheryl Sandberg, Palo Alto, President Barack Obama, Netflix, VMWare Inc., Facebook, Council on Jobs and Competiveness, Steve Case, Silicon Valley, Business News

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Members of a presidential task force are scheduled to convene in Palo Alto to solicit ideas from Silicon Valley businesses o...

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The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt

Anneli Rufus | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Yogurt, Marriage, Palo Alto, Breakfast, Pastries, Hotel, Meusli, Silicon Valley, Coffee, Hotel Keen, Denmark, Danish, Buffet, Padborg, Travel News

Hotel breakfasts feel like being a child and wandering downstairs to find your place at the table already set. Hotel breakfasts thrill us because we do not have to cook them.

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Pollock's 'Lucifer' Gifted To Stanford

AP | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Lucifer, Palo Alto, Post-World-War-2-Art, Art-Donations, Abstract Expressionism, Donations, Stanford University, Stanford, Gifts, Painting, Pollock, Arts News

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A family has donated 121 pieces from its collection of prominent 20th century American art to Stanford University, including the ...

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Bay Area Residents Donate Books To Charities But Not Libraries

San Jose Mercury News | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Friends of the Palo Alto Library, Reading Tree, Libraries Closing, Palo Alto, Libraries, Books for Charity, Library Funding, Boys and Girls Clubs, Libraries in Crisis, Books News

A big, blue "Books for Charity" bin in the corner of a Safeway parking lot on El Camino Real in Menlo Park overflowed with donations Monday, prompting...

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Apple Using iPad 2 for Retail Signage (VIDEO)

Larry Magid | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Apple, Apple Store, Ipad, Ipad 2, Steve Jobs, Palo Alto, Technology News

The iPad 2 may be on backorder for consumers, but Apple doesn't seem to have any shortage of them when it comes to its own uses.

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Holcombe Waller Goes "Into the Dark Unknown"

Salvatore Bono | Posted 07.01.2011

Read More: Palo Alto, Into the Dark Unknown, Theater, San Francisco, Holcombe Waller, Indie, Portland, Aids, Folk, New York News

When you love what you do and have such a passion for it, you never work a day in your life. For folk artist, Holcombe Waller, performing and making m...

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Yes, Even Apple Screws Up Sometimes

AOL Small Business | Steve Strauss | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Apple Mistakes, Parc, Apple, Palo Alto, Entrepreneurs, Newton, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Business News

When you are in business, mistakes will happen. Given that, one of your jobs is to make sure that you don't get burned by a really bad one, that you l...

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Is 140 Characters (Enough!) for Arab Civil Society?

Ty McCormick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, National Democratic Party, Palo Alto, Cairo, Egyptian Revolution, World News

The Mubarak regime was never supposed to fall. But fall it did -- and with a force rivaled only by the political science curriculums now being hurled out of university windows.

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Silicon Valley: A Behind-The-Scenes Tour

Steve Blank | Posted 05.25.2011

What's been occurring for the last 50 years within Silicon Valley's tight cluster of suburban towns is nothing short of an "entrepreneurial explosion" on par with classic Athens, renaissance Florence or 1920's Paris.

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An Autographed Mark Zuckerberg Baseball Card? Like.

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

While it's unclear whatever became of his baseball skills (Aaron Sorkin skipped it in his Social Network screenplay), one man remembers Zuckerberg's magical season in Little League.

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New Facebook Layout Angers People With No Lives

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borowitz Report, Twitter, Andy Borowitz, Palo Alto, Los Angeles Times, Mark Zuckerberg, Kate Hudson, Harry Potter, Facebook, Comedy News

Tracy Klugian, 27, joined four hundred protesters outside Facebook headquarters demanding, in his words, "that Facebook give what passes for my life back."

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My Own Private Palo Alto ...

David Carnoy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palo Alto, James Franco, Hate James Franco, James Franco Hate, Celebrity Writers, Palo Alto Book James Franco, Palo Alto Book, Celebrity Authors, Books News

Dear James: When my little sister and her friends bumped into you at the Stanford Shopping Center a few years ago I thought it was really cool that ...

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Preventing Teen Suicide

John Merrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Learning Matters, Mental Health, California, Adolescence, Palo Alto, Cyberbullying, Gay Teen Suicide, Bullying, High School, Community, Teen Suicide, John Merrow, Middle School, Education News

We need to support connections beyond the peer group. And it's not enough to just 'encourage' these connections; let's rebuild our institutions so that they happen naturally.

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PHOTOS: America's Most Expensive Housing Markets

The Huffington Post | Nicole Hardesty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Housing Markets, Real Estate, Honolulu, Greenwich, Most Expensive, Newport Beach, Palo Alto, Business News

Plans to relocate to California? The state dominates as the most expensive housing markets in America, according to a new report by Coldwell Banker. ...

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James Franco's 'Palo Alto' Reviewed

James Franco | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Franco Writing, Creative Writing Programs, Palo Alto, James Franco, Creative Writing Mfa, James Franco Palo Alto, Mfa, Creative Writing, Palo Alto Franco, Franco, Books News

In the "bad" column are the first two stories, both of which end with hit-and-runs but no material impact. "Chinatown," a tale about an Asian girl who...

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Driving Miss Mado (or Five Days on the Road With My 87-Year-Old Mother)

Andrea R. Vaucher | Posted 05.25.2011

Road trips with elderly parents must provide a high comfort quotient, starting with a well-appointed sedan and, if possible, luxury hotels. No matter how tired my mother was, when we checked into a gorgeous place, she beamed from ear to ear.

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San Francisco Values Clarified

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

We have become a nation of lazy thinkers. The unreality of "San Francisco Values" fits the same tone here in that people will choose to believe what a "celebrity" tells them.

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James Franco Writes Short Stories

EW | Thom Geier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Franco Book, Short Stories, Writers, James Franco Palo Alto, Palo Alto, Writing, Books, James Franco, Books News

[E]ven I had to raise an eyebrow when I learned that Scribner would be publishing Franco's first book this October, a story collection named for the 3...

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Is There Really an NYC Start-Up Boom? And if So, What's Causing It?

Jose Ferreira | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foursquare, Knewton, Nyc, Twitter, Venture Capital, Facebook, Huffington Post, Tumblr, Tech Startups, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, Vc, Technology News

In years past, the best-and-brightest all came to NYC to work in law, fashion, or finance. The talent's still coming, but those industries have all shrunk. The big beneficiary is the start-up scene.

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Goodbye, Western Union? Overseas Remittances Now ATM to ATM

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multi-National Corporations, Switzerland, Brooklyn, XO Machine, Technology, Western Union, Notebook Industry, Automated Banking, Vital Wave Consulting, Cell Phone, Singapore, Manhattan, Haiti Earthquake, Dr. Andreas Stehmann, Jurgen Samuel, Wincor Nixdorf, Evens Anozine, Cash Remittance Transfer, Classmate PC, Mobile Phone, Moneygram, One Laptop Per Child, Barcelona, Developing-Country Markets, Turkey, Philippines, Germany, Automated Check-Out, GSM Association, Brooke Partridge, Education, Intel, Sicap AG, Haitian Diaspora, Second-Order Impact, Queens, Cam, Connectivity, Healthcare, New York City, France, Fonkoze, Palo Alto, Un-Banked, Atm, Mobile Technology, Senegal, Cash Remittances, Ncr, Business News

Cash remittances allow people living in cash-hungry countries to receive funds from friends and relatives in cash positive-countries. Before the eart...

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