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This past Saturday evening, Villa Montalvo came alive with art, in spite of the unexpected rain. Over the past 20 years, the Lucas Art Program has hosted over 1,300 resident artists at Montalvo. Eleven studios were open for tour and exploration. This evening started with appetizers, then...

Another Outdoor Festival? At the urging of our fearless editor I drove downtown to the Civic Center Lawn this past Saturday—always a daunting task with the beach weather and an unreliable Highway 17. An article was needed to cover the 52nd Fiesta de Arts. Oh, correction...

One of my earliest memories is from the early 1970s when I visited my elderly Italian aunt, whom we called Zia Elisa.

Warm season vegetables, or summer vegetables, can occupy a garden systematically. A few lingering cool season vegetables may continue production for a while. Warm season vegetable plants can replace them as they finish. Several warm season vegetable plants should start as early as possible....

When I was in high school, Tait Avenue in downtown Los Gatos's Almond Grove Historic District was a guaranteed stop, before me and my friends did our normal rounds of mischievous Halloween activities. We tried to pull off trick-or-treating for as long as we could until...

On Dec. 7, at 2pm, Beyond Text Bookstore in Los Gatos will host a book signing with Ellen Kirschman, author of the newly released Call Me Carmela. This psychological thriller follows police therapist Dot Meyerhoff as she helps a young woman uncover her roots, while...

From educational achievements to a prominent real estate hire, to details about the downtown parking plan, this week's LOCAL SCENE is plenty informative... Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno welcomes Shawna Borg Los Gatos-based Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno has hired Shawna Borg, former Compass Regional Executive,...

Last Wednesday evening, Clairdee expressed cool jazz with her vibrant and caring voice to the attendees at Jazz on the Plazz. Sharing her adherence to traditional jazz, her emotionally nuanced, velvety voice drew us in to a place where we could “love one another” and...

In On That Day: the definitive timeline of 9/11, author William M. Arkin notes that at 9:36am on Sept. 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Kevin Nasypany directed fighter jets based out of Langley go straight to Washington to be available to intercept incoming threats. By this...

Sculptor Sawyer Rose uses art to depict the work inequalities that women face in her exhibit, “Carrying Stones,” on display at New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) through Jan. 23, 2022.  Upon installation in May, Rose premiered two new sculptures and two more were added in...