Subject: Menlo Park

• Bay Area's MySpace Top Ten

  August 22, 2007

• Last Night: Charge of the Light Brown Apple Moth at Town School for Boys

  April 25, 2008

• Penzeys Now in Bay Area

  Some of Penzeys' spices are sufficiently superior that they're worth the extra trouble.

  February 4, 2009

• Campaign: Don't Throw Out Your Chemical-Spewing TV -- Recycle It

  Oliver KurmisOnce it showed 'Trash TV.' Now it's just trash ... or is it?With the February 17 digital TV deadline fast approaching, many of you are probably planning the haul of your dinosaur boob tube out to the curb for the Sunset Scavengers. But as any enviro-conscious San Franciscan knows, you're never quite throwing anything "away." Unfortunately the mass amount of analog TVs that will hit the trash dumps in the coming weeks contain toxic chemicals li

  February 13, 2009

• Dem Hoodstarz' Rapper Charged in Gang Sweep

  Busted: Dem HoodstarzAs the Chronicle reported on Sunday, 42 members of a South Bay gang known as "the Taliban" have been arrested following a joint task force raid conducted in 14 Bay Area cities Friday night and Saturday morning. The suspected Taliban members--who have no religious affiliation, according to police--have been charged with various crimes ranging from homicide to robbery to selling everything from ecstasy and marijuana to guns; $240,000 in cash, automatic weapons, and large qua

  March 9, 2009

• Aisle Seat

  September 27, 1995

• Road Trip Pit Stop: Beltramo's

  ... has one of the broadest selections of liqueurs anywhere.

  March 26, 2009

• Road Trip Pit Stop: Weimax

  Among other things, probably the widest selection of raki, arrak, and ouzo in the area.

  April 7, 2009

• Einstürzende Neubauten: The Industrial Revolution Has New S.F. Headquarters

  November 21, 2007

• For Sale, Not Cheap

  December 27, 2006

• This Ain't Your Children's YouTube ...

  Google bought YouTube for something like a bazillion dollars last week. Is this a deathknell for the popular video clip service, or the start of an even bigger, better Internet library?

  October 25, 2006

• Literary Events

  August 30, 2006

• Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

  May 31, 2006

• Greening the Left

  Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results

  February 15, 2006

• Blind Eye Unto the Holy See

  Pope Benedict XVI named him Roman Catholicism's top doctrinal watchdog -- even though, as San Francisco archbishop, William J. Levada resolutely looked away from sex-abuse complaints against a renowned priest and legal scholar

  July 13, 2005

• Reps Etc.

  March 9, 2005

• Fast Times at Marin Catholic High

  A case that the Archdiocese of San Francisco apparently doesn't want you to know about

  January 19, 2005

• Zipped Up

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  January 19, 2005

• And a Teen Shall Lead Them

  How 15-year-old Ben Casnocha brought e-government to Cupertino, Menlo Park, Burbank, and other cities across California

  February 4, 2004

• Intrepid Antiwarriors of the Libertarian Right Stake Their Rightful Claim to Power

  Looking into the endearing obsession known as Antiwar.com

  December 10, 2003

• Total Future Awareness

  The Defense Department hires a New Economy futurist to help fight terror. Don't you feel safer already?

  September 17, 2003

• Urban Explorer

  A request for an inexpensive and interesting restaurant for a party of eight sends our critic to the books

  June 4, 2003

• See No Evil

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada styles himself as a leading advocate for openness among Catholic leaders on the clergy sex-abuse issue. So why doesn't he practice what he preaches?

  May 21, 2003

• War Torn

  Despite their hatred of Saddam Hussein, many Iraqis living in the U.S. oppose Bush's war

  February 5, 2003

• It Should Happen to You

  S.F. novelist Noah Hawley becomes Hollywood's newest writer/director

  June 26, 2002

• Dog Bites

  Dance away the energy blues, then worship at Sunset’s gardening headquarters

  February 28, 2001

• A HAL of an Idea

  Dr. David Stork is trying to create a new computer that thinks like a human being. But he needs your help.

  November 15, 2000

• Zoom Lens

  Not Politics as Usual: The Jewish Film Festival

  July 19, 2000

• Dog Bites

  You Hate Me! You Really Hate Me!; Harry Potter and the Imaginary Suitcase of Cash; Lite Reading

  July 12, 2000

• Best Chef

  Roland Passot of La Folie

  May 17, 2000

• Worst of the Lot

  Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

  January 26, 2000

• Charity Begins @ Home

  A young software engineer has a plan to teach Silicon Valley to change its tightfisted ways

  January 5, 2000

• The Man Who Came to Dinner

  Environmental Eating Action Team

  December 1, 1999

• TheirNameHere.com

  New domains -- including .store -- likely to multiply Internet trademark conflicts

  July 14, 1999

• Science of the Lambs

  Buying Dolly the duplicated sheep has brought researchers at the Bay Area's Geron Corp. to the threshold of remarkable frontiers in transplants and cloning. Do we want to follow their lead?

  June 30, 1999

• Art of the Dealership

  Wherein one East Bay trio gets acclaim and attention the old-fashioned way: by accident

  June 9, 1999

• Oral Histories and Pulp Fictions

  Excavation, celebration, and provocation at the 18th annual Jewish Film Festival

  July 15, 1998

• From Bang to Net

  How Arno Penzias, who won the Nobel Prize for confirming the universe started with a Big Bang, turned his back on pure science and became an investment banker for Silicon Valley

  July 15, 1998

• Night Crawler

  April 1, 1998

• That Sinking Feeling

  Sinkhole that ate Seacliff still eats at its residents

  October 1, 1997

• Pinstriped Medicine

  How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

  January 29, 1997

• Chick's in the Male

  Under a proposal receiving serious consideration by the city, health insurers may be required to cover the cost of municipal workers' sex changes

  December 4, 1996

• Tripmasters

  The Bay Area's chemical gentry

  August 21, 1996

• Fish Story

  Red Herring Editor Tony Perkins is a self-described maverick, a stylish fast-talker with a knack for making friends and influencing people in the high-tech world. Not bad traits for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, but are they what it takes to publish a "m

  April 10, 1996

• Pet Sounds

  Douglas Hollis combines audio with visual in his larger-than-life environmental sculptures

  February 14, 1996

• Letters

  December 6, 1995

• Navel Maneuvers

  If Adam and Eve moved to Northern California, they'd probably note on the first day that the balmy weather, inspiring vistas, and mellow vibesreminded them of Eden. On the second day, they'd pick up a copy of "Common Ground" and enroll in a self-help cour

  August 23, 1995

• With S.F. Critical Mass Mojo in Tow, Tesla Motors To Open Store in Biketown USA

  Tesla's next endeavor? ​Fresh off the revelation that the company's top publicist is an avid fan and participant in San Francisco's Critical Mass monthly bicycle parade, Tesla Motors announced  it will be opening an electric car store in America's top bicycling city, Boulder, Colorado.Last month we chronicled in this space how Rachel Konrad, communications manager for Tesla Motors, the Peninsula-based maker of hot-rod electric cars, revealed to a cycling-oriented podcast that she's a memb

  October 20, 2009

• Have You Seen This Missing Elderly Man Who Enjoys Hanging Out at BART and Bus Stations?

  Paul McAdoo​Paul McAdoo sounds like an interesting guy -- and if you see him, be sure to stop and have a chat. Then call the Menlo Park Police Department, as McAdoo has been missing since mid-October. The 86-year-old dementia patient has taken off for spells at times in the past; his family told police he's "a drifter" and a fan of public transportation -- which helps explain why he's often found hanging out at BART and bus stations. San Franciscans are advised to keep an eye out for McAdoo at

  November 4, 2009

• Missing 86-Year-Old Dementia Patient Found in S.F.; Unsure Where He's Been For Two Weeks

  Menlo Park's Paul McAdoo turned up safe and sound -- but no one really knows how​Yesterday we urged readers to call the cops if they saw 86-year-old Paul McAdoo of Menlo Park, a dementia patient with a yen for hopping on buses or trains and taking them to parts unknown. Since McAdoo went missing from his Menlo Park home on Oct. 16, we weren't expecting a happy ending to this story. Elderly dementia patients who require a cane to ambulate don't fare well on the streets. So we were thrilled -- a

  November 5, 2009