BART Between a rock and a BART place: San Jose business owner loses property to rail project By Annalise Freimarck | San Jose Spotlight | May 5, 2025 The project will connect BART services to Silicon Valley, an expansion decades in the making with ballooning budget costs.
Bay Area Years in the making, restored Pacheco Marsh now open with trails, nature exhibits By Tony Hicks | Bay City News | May 2, 2025 The area also has parking and easy access, with experts on site to share its story, the land trust said.
Home & Garden Commentary | Give bees, butterflies a boost and join the ‘No Mow May’ movement By Indira Balkissoon | May 2, 2025 Early-season pollinators will thank you.
Around Town Alfred Hitchcock thriller comes to Piedmont By Robert Hall | Flix Fest | May 2, 2025 Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly star in the May 8 Flix Fest feature 'Rear Window.'
Arts & Entertainment Young People’s Symphony Orchestra (YPSO) to hold Spring Concert on May 17 By Young People’s Symphony Orchestra | May 2, 2025 Featuring two winners of the annual Concerto Competition, violinist Carolyn Ren and cellist Donghu Kim.
Arts & Entertainment Bestselling East Bay author Allison Larkin explores complex families in ‘Home of the American Circus’ By Linda Lenhoff | Bay City News | May 1, 2025 Allison Larkin appears with authors Renee Swindle and Regina Marler at a conversation presented by Towne Center Books at 11:30 am May 6.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dreamers and I’ details inspiring journeys of scrappy Silicon Valley tech innovators By Anita Katz | Bay City News | May 1, 2025 Bay Area director Kenji Yamamoto and Nancy Kelly screen “The Dreamers and I” at 3:15 pm May 3 at the Smith Rafael Film Center.
News Ed Dept. axes $1B mental health program designed to thwart school shootings By Mark Keierleber | The 74 | May 1, 2025 The grant program, which helped train school counselors, is the latest target in Trump’s war on DEI.
Bay Area Ex-exec director of East Oakland boxing nonprofit pleads guilty to fraud, tax evasion By Katy St. Clair | Bay City News | April 30, 2025 Howard Solomon, executive director for the East Oakland Boxing Association, caused a tax loss to the IRS of approximately $287,185.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Ruth Asawa retrospective, Marin Irish festival, ‘Jersey Boys,’ Manuel Barrueco, Bach’s Mass in B-Minor By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 30, 2025 Don't miss the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s ongoing Free First Thursdays program.