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Author tackles chess and gender bias
Before Kyla Zhao became a talented adult fiction author in Silicon Valley, she was a young chess player in Singapore. Starting at age six, she played throughout her childhood before leaving the chess world after middle school. In her newly released novel May the...
DISCOVER LOST GATOS: The historic Coggeshall Mansion
As we bid farewell to The Palms restaurant, let’s take a look at the history of this landmark Los Gatos property.
The stately nine-room Queen Anne Victorian home on what was then a residential section of North Santa Cruz Avenue was built for Mary Barry...
Citrus fruit ripens through winter
Winter is bare root season, which is the best time for installation of deciduous fruit trees. It is also the best time for dormant pruning of deciduous fruit trees. Evergreen fruit trees do not get much attention. Installation and any pruning of evergreen fruit...
Dinah’s Event Log: A Fiesta, a Gala and an upcoming flick
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...
Book club digging into Wilkie Collins’ 1859 novel; National Diversity Day events planned (Calendar)
Our calendar for the week includes arts and crafts, literary-mystery and multimedia art events
Fall Family Art Day
LGS Recreation and New Museum Los Gatos are partnering to organize a day filled with arts, crafts and activities inspired by local history and National Diversity Day on...
Big Truck Day—bronze festival winner—prepares for big Saturday fun
Organizers of one of the most popular events for families in Los Gatos, Big Truck Day, have been making last-minute preparation for tomorrow's festivities.
The fun begins Saturday, May 3 at 10am and goes until 1pm, at 15 Lyndon Avenue.
On the schedule: big trucks, food...
Local muralist creates visual history of Los Gatos
When San Jose-based artist Tomas Wisper Talamantes learned that New Museum (NUMU) wanted him to paint a mural about Los Gatos inside the museum, he had a lot of questions. The first one was where, exactly, this museum was.
“It’s not small, but it’s hidden,”...
Ringing in the New Year with music and champagne toasts?
Los Gatans will be rocking New Year’s Eve long before the clock strikes midnight, so plan to get your glitter on for an early dinner followed by some late night revelry.
Many restaurants, including Steamers, the Wine Cellar, Shepard & Sims, Loma Brewing Company and...
Art brings issues into focus at exhibit launch
If you haven't been to a contemporary gallery opening lately, you just might be surprised at what today's visual artists have to say.
And the big opening for the latest exhibit at New Museum Los Gatos, Saturday, showed that creative voices are keeping the faith...
The man who killed Sherlock Holmes and believed in fairies
May 22 marks the 165th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—the man who gave us Sherlock Holmes…and then tried to get rid of him.
He was never particularly fond of his most famous creation. Holmes, he once said, was “a thinking machine without a heart,”...


















