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Question of the Week: How dependent are you on your cellphone?
We wanted to find out about the technology habits of Los Gatans, so Dinah Cotton hit the streets to investigate...
Robert Lloyd, 66, with his bird Elvis
(on Main Street)
"When I am with someone, I try not to use it at all."
Vida Eliasieh, 49, visual artist
(at...
Retired teacher gets hands-on with crayon charity
After Los Gatos resident Kathy Bays retired from a long career as a special education instructor and school administrator, she had some time to clean out the closets full of her kids’ old stuff.
She ended up with two shoeboxes full of old crayons to...
Utilitarian garden features are now aesthetic
Gardening is fun. Furthermore, gardens are pretty. Some gardens also produce fruits and vegetables. Not very long ago, production of fruits and vegetables was more of a priority for more gardens. Some big gardens generated firewood and a bit of forage for livestock. Contemporary...
Local Scene: Mads Tolling to kick off Jazz on the Plazz
What could be better than being outside, munching on gourmet foods and sipping fabulous wines under towering redwood trees, listening to cool jazz with musical greats, onstage and off?
With the long-awaited summer lineup for Jazz on the Plazz now announced, it’s time to plan...
Kiwanis brings Halloween to hospitalized children
On Oct. 22, to get into the holiday spirit, Los Gatos Kiwanis headed to Campbell for a “Trunk or Treat” event at CHoNC Pediatric Hospital, dressing up the back portions of vehicles with spooky decorations. It all went down in the parking lot of...
Holly Lane puts the frame in focus at NUMU
A modern picture frame’s function is simply to provide a border for a painting or photograph—to be inconspicuous. In Holly Lane’s hands, however, frames play anything but second fiddle.
“Holly Lane—Not Enough Time to Love the World,” a new exhibit at NUMU (New Museum Los...
COMING SOON: Town on verge of handing theater keys to CineLux
Paul Gunsky navigates his way around the boxes stacked up next to the concession booth inside Los Gatos’ classic theater building.
The CineLux CEO—who jokingly refers to his title as “head popcorn popper”—has been crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s as his company edges...
Mathletes killing it; ‘Edge of Anthropocene’ art; earthquake grants (local scene)
59 students from Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District have qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Competition (AIME), while a group exhibition "Lost Wild - Art On The Edge Of The Anthropocene" opens Feb. 1 at Whitney Modern in Los Gatos.
Horticulture: Soil saturation distresses roots
Saturation of the soil should be a rare problem within the local chaparral climates. Water is a limited resource. That is why plants that are not native or endemic to other chaparral or desert climates rely on supplemental irrigation. Many exotic species would not...
What does Earth Day mean to you?
On almost the most beautiful spring day, so far, Los Gatos celebrated Spring into Green at Park Plaza this past Sunday.
In addition to the smiles and sharing of information about what we can do to save our planet from further degradation by the human...


















