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Stitching it together: Coastside Quilt Studio offers crafting and community
Dana Miller started the new Pacifica business with an aim to ‘bring together a community of creatives.’. A quilt is a multilayered thing, both physically and, in many cases, metaphorically. In the right hands, it can be a functional, warm blanket, a work of art, and a way of stitching together memories and nurturing community all in one tidy textile project.
Fired up: In search of Peninsula dining destinations offering fireside seats
Gather ‘round the fire pits with bites and beverages at these nine spots. It’s the time of year for long, dark nights and finding fun ways to light them up. When the air is chilly and the sun sets early as the winter solstice draws nearer, one way to celebrate the season is by enjoying a relaxing meal or tasty beverage by the warm glow of a fire. To quote Olaf the “Frozen” snowman, “The hot and the cold are both so intense. Put ’em together it just makes sense!” If you’re hoping to find cozy dining and/or sipping destinations with a warm glow, you may want to give these a try.
The Six Fifty’s 2023 guide to Peninsula holiday performances, festivals and community gatherings
Here’s what’s coming to town this holiday season. Whether it’s a choir singing carols, dancers pirouetting to Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” or bands bringing their spins to holiday favorites, it’s one of the most musical times of the year. After all, “the best way...
Culinary holiday happenings around Silicon Valley
From special sales and makers markets to cookie-decorating workshops, there are food festivities fit for everyone’s wish list. Want to celebrate the holidays while supporting your favorite local eateries? From special food sales and makers markets to cookie-decorating workshops, there are food festivities fit for everyone’s wish list. Here’s a running roundup of food-centric holiday happenings around the Peninsula.
The new Google Visitor Experience showcases a variety of art and a public cafe. Here’s what you can expect to find.
The Mountain View tech campus has unveiled its new community space featuring colorful artwork and an eatery with organic offerings. The Google Visitor Experience opened on Oct. 12 with much fanfare and media coverage. Although the multi-national tech company’s headquarters in Mountain View is privately owned, it is adjoined by public parks and greenspace. So, it was possible to walk around the 26-acre site but not really have much interaction with Google employees.
Los Altos Hills exhibition is a memorial to much-loved artist Dee Ropers
‘A Textured Life’ highlights vibrant works spanning the avid world traveler’s artistic career. Perusing the paintings included in “A Textured Life,” an exhibition of the diverse work of the late Dee Ropers, one gets a sense of Ropers’ openness to change and experimentation – both as an artist and in general.
United Nations Association Film Festival highlights humanitarian efforts with local ties
Peninsula festival showcases 60 short and feature documentary films focusing on human rights issues. How do you move millions of pounds of food to people who are hungry? Quicker than many thought possible when student-led project Farmlink is at the wheel. How do you tackle poverty both abroad and in our own backyard? For Peninsula resident Evelyne Keomian, it’s done fearlessly — and on two continents.
A forgotten, self-taught artist is ‘rediscovered’ in Cantor Arts Center show
Retrospective explores Morris Hirshfield’s brief but successful career as a painter in 1940s New York. Morris Hirshfield’s life seems, at first glance, to be the stuff that inspires biopics: Polish immigrant starts out in the garment industry of New York City, later owns his own tailoring business then shoe store, earns patents for his footwear designs only to lose it all in bankruptcy. But, in true cinematic style, he then finds success in retirement as an artist whose very first paintings are featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Seems improbable, maybe even impossible? It is a fascinating story that is well told and illustrated in the exhibition, “Morris Hirshfield/Rediscovered,” on view through Jan. 21, 2024, at the Cantor Arts Center.
Get secret messages from the sea in one of seven installations at the Code:ART digital art festival
The city of Palo Alto’s free biennial festival places interactive digital artworks throughout downtown. An alley off of Emerson Street in Palo Alto will soon be the site for what has to be, hands down, the Peninsula’s most unusual intersection. There will be no gridlock, traffic lights, or even cars for that matter; instead, undulating sea creatures and secret messages in bottles will beckon passersby to come explore an undersea world.
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