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Special guest Latin jazz trumpeter Ray Vega joins the Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Murray Low, on Saturday, May 25, at 8 p.m. Vega was the lead trumpet player for Latin giants Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, and Mario Bauza, and a jazz trumpeter with the Duke Ellington and Vanguard Jazz orchestras, as well as classical composer ... (more)

"I'm here to send the message that Canada's open for business-we welcome the entrepreneurs that America is turning away" said Canadian Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney at Stanford Law School this week.

Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan today scripted history after he was confirmed as the first South Asian judge to America's second highest court.

After rocking out at a three-day concert, a band of hipster musicians takes a wrong turn on the way home and ends up in Hollywood, where a washed-up former A-lister lures the band members to her mansion and refuses to let them leave.

Spyros Panagiotis Skouras escaped childhood poverty in Greece to become a top Hollywood executive and organizer of a successful World War II foreign aid campaign, making him one of the most noteworthy Greek American immigrants of the 20th century.

Those people, clearly, haven't attended a Community Tuesday, a new lineup of activities every Tuesday at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto.

Menlo Park Transportation Commissioner Charlie Bourne resigned on May 21 after nearly six years of service, citing Brown Act violations by city staff and attempts to stop the commission from reviewing projects.

A source of electromagnetic waves at the top of the image can generate "hot spots" of field strength deep inside simulated biological tissue that are strong enough to power a pacemaker; according to computer simulations.

In less than a month, Julia Davids will earn her Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from Stanford University's prestigious Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, a.k.a. d.school. To mark the occasion, she's publishing an e-book about her undergraduate experience - this is an exclusive excerpt of the second chapter.

Advanced Placement United States History students can now say they met the writer of their textbook after Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Kennedy spoke to them Tuesday, May 21 at Palo Alto High School, discussing the importance of history in their lives.

An associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University has been charged with felony parent abduction after taking her three children on what authorities contend was a one-way trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Patricia Guerrero and Michael J. Popkins to judgeships in the San Diego County Superior Court.

Among factors that predicted the likelihood that patients undergoing bariatric surgery would experience postoperative cardiopulmonary complications were low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high levels of C-reactive protein, a researcher reported here.

Patagonia Palo Alto is screening "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet" tonight, May 22 at 6 p.m. The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, recounts the history of the environmental movement.

Meg Donohue celebrates the release of her second novel, "All the Summer Girls," the story of three friends reunited amidst unraveling lives and the secrets that surface in the beach town of of their youth.

Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society Explorer in Residence, called Her Deepness by The New Yorker and The New York Times , Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and first "Hero for the Planet" by Time Magazine , will be speaking at Northeastern University on May 22, 2013.

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A school-sponsored trip to Japan sparked a love for all things Japanese in Chris Hart, a 13-year-old African-American teenager from Palo Alto.

FLEMING'S ON THE MOVE ... Big plans are on the horizon for Fleming's Steakhouse at Stanford Shopping Center.