SF News In Blow To Zuckerberg's Real-Life Privacy Settings, Palo Alto Rejects Plan To Demolish Nearby Homes All he wanted was a little privacy. Alas, it is not to be. According to CBS 5, the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board rejected Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to demolish the four
SF News Palo Alto Planning Commissioner Publicly Resigns Saying She Can't Afford To Live There Anymore It's a familiar story these days up and down the Peninsula — person gets priced out of the city in which they've lived for years as housing costs skyrocket, and is forced to uproot
SF News Security Robot Knocks Toddler To The Ground Then Runs Him Over At Stanford Shopping Center A Palo Alto toddler was injured last Thursday after his parents claim a security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center knocked him over and then proceeded to run him over. And what's more,
SF News Facebook Employee Arrested For Alleged Rape, Knifepoint Imprisonment A man who identified himself to police as an employee of Facebook was arrested Tuesday morning, following allegations of a June sexual assault in the suspect's home. According to a press release from
SF News Woman Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Brick At Steve Jobs's House A bizarre scene reportedly went down at the former home of the deceased Steve Jobs, and a woman stands accused of felony assault and misdemeanor vandalism involving the Palo Alto residence. According to
SF News Concerned Over Real Life Privacy Settings, Zuckerberg To Demolish Four Homes That Surround His Concerns over privacy have led Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to file plans to demolish four homes that neighbor his Palo Alto residence. So reports The Mercury News, which further notes that the he
SF News Video: Local Audi Mechanic Takes Joyride, Appears To Do Cocaine In Customer's Car It seems that one Bay Area car mechanic may have watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off a few too many times. Video posted to YouTube, that looks to have been shot from the dash-cam
SF News Bald Eagle Finally Found After Going On Lam From Palo Alto Zoo Looking for a fun and free spring break activity? Watch Sequoia fly at 2:30pm at Byxbee @FriendsJMZ #sequoiatheeagle pic.twitter.com/KidwWOdLzt— Sequoia the Eagle (@PaloAlto_Eagle) April 6, 2015 A beloved
SF News The <em>Atlantic</em> Is The Latest To Ask Why Palo Alto Teens Kill Themselves Four students in the Palo Alto school district have committed suicide since last October, none recently, and Hanna Rosin in the Atlantic is the latest to cover the events. As she points out,
SF News Decrepit Palo Alto Shack Lists For $2 Million Because 2015 This Palo Alto property is "an exciting opportunity to build your dream home in charming Barron Park neighborhood" according to a broker making the pretty reasonable assumption that the existing structures on the
Arts & Entertainment Video: James Franco Talks About Growing Up And Stealing Stuff In Palo Alto Palo Alto native James Franco just told the story of his California upbringing for an animated piece from Google Play. He reveals that his dad, like him, kind of had attention deficit disorder
SF News Palo Alto Library-Goers Freak Out Over Bedbug Infestation Some patrons of Palo Alto's public library are scratching themselves silly, after reports of bedbug sightings at a local branch have them worried they got a side dish of "parasite" when they checked
SF News Larry Ellison Buys Giant Palo Alto Hotel In Life-Size Monopoly Move This just in: Billionaire yacht cheater and proud Hawaiian island owner Larry Ellison just paid $71.6 million to buy a huge-ass Palo Alto hotel. The Business Times reports that Ellison is basically
SF News James Franco To Teach Film At Palo Alto High School HAPPY LABOR DAY💥 Just painting and watching my new favorite show, #broadcity A photo posted by James Franco (@jamesfrancotv) on Sep 7, 2015 at 2:09pm PDT James Franco: What will he do
Arts & Entertainment Some Silicon Valley Person's Covered Their Home In Real Snow My neighbor trucked in snow for her holiday party last night. #guesswho #mysiliconvalley #paloalto A photo posted by Stefania Pomponi (@stefaniapomponi) on Dec 12, 2014 at 1:05pm PST Plummeting through an Instagram
SF News Scenes From Last Night's Peaceful Eric Garner Protests In SF, Oakland, And Palo Alto Last night, in the fourth such Oakland rally in two weeks, protesters once again called for police accountability in the deaths of black Americans. The demonstrations were spurred by a grand jury decision
SF News Report: Palo Alto Has The Highest Rents In The US, SF Is #2 According to "rental marketplace" Lovely, though we here in San Francisco feel that we have dreadfully high rents, it could be worse: we could live in Palo Alto. The company's Q3 Rental Market
SF News Stanford Students Launch New, Unpermitted Rideshare App For Late-Night Lifts To The South Bay Unhappy with paying $60 to $80 to get back to Palo Alto from the city via Uber, a couple of Stanford seniors have launched a new app called Fleet that ferries people along
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Getting Sued By Palo Alto Developer In Property Dispute Because he's stupidly rich and likes to snap up multi-million-dollar properties like second-hand hoodies, Mark Zuckerberg recently spent $43 million to buy up four pieces of property adjoining his own Palo Alto residence,
SF News Naked Palo Alto Teen Goes On Drug-Fueled, Blood-Spitting Rampage On Friday evening in the drug-addled peninsula, 18-year-old Daiki Glenn Minaki terrorized a Palo Alto neighborhood in the nude. According to police, Minaki attacked two residents inside their homes and jumped a woman
SF News Suspicious Backpack Prompts Evacuations At Stanford [Updated] UPDATE: Police have determined said backpack to be harmless. Whew. Back to class, kids. Police have determined there is no threat to campus. Buildings will slowly be reopened. Please respect police perimeter in
SF News Palo Alto Fire Chief Uses Emergency Alert System To Notify Everyone About Pancake Breakfast Charity pancake breakfasts are a time-honored tradition at fire departments nationwide. And for good reason: who doesn't love charity and pancakes? Emergency alerts that go straight to your cellphone, on the other hand,
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Buys Neighboring Houses So He Can Set His Own Privacy Settings Silicon Valley boy king Mark Zuckerberg dropped $30 million total over the past nine months to buy up four houses surrounding his five-bedroom home in Palo Alto. Zuckerberg reportedly snatched up the homes
Arts & Entertainment 'Office Space' Creator Mike Judge Filming HBO Pilot In Silicon Valley Mike Judge, creator of the original office slacker comedy, will be in Palo Alto today filming scenes for a new HBO pilot about life in the strike-it-rich, startup world of Silicon Valley. After
SF News Protesters Converge Upon Mark Zuckerberg's Fundraiser For Gov. Chris Christie As Hurricane Sandy turned New Jersey Governor Chris Christie into everybody's favorite heroic schlub — his donut-chomping shtick on Letterman was particularly odd — many forgot about his pockmarked leadership skills when it comes to
