Education

The Work of Reading

A former English teacher now reads people and wardrobes with an eye for detail. Article and Photography by In her junior year of college, Abby Young was watching The Rachel Zoe Project on Bravo. She was captivated by Zoe’s work, from personal styling for celebrities to commercial and music video styling. Young was studying communications and literature, but the show made her recognize something familiar: she had already been doing this for years with friends and family, helping them decide...

Health + Wellness

Concierge Clinic For The Underserved

The San Jose clinic where one paying member covers two neighbors Article and Photography by A five-minute drive from the tech campuses, on West Alma Avenue in a San Jose neighborhood called Washington-Guadalupe, Dr. Angela Bymaster sees her patients in extra long concierge appointments.   The clinic is called Healing Grove Health Center. She and her husband, Brett, co-founded it in 2020 along with a community organizer named Maria Marcelo, Honduran pastors Jairo and Lourdes Sarmiento, and a...

Home + Design

The 20 Second Idea

How a Campbell contractor traded nearly thirty years of custom homes for backyard cottages. Article and Photography by   For twenty-seven years, Stan Acton had run a general-contracting business out of a yard in Campbell. Then, one morning in early 2017, he read the new state ADU rules and stopped.   He had founded the shop, called Acton Construction at the time, in 1990. It specialized in custom remodels. That January the state of California had loosened a set of restrictions on accessory...

Food + Beverage

A LONG TABLE ON RAMONA

How David Linares and Elizabeth Reviriego built the Spanish dining room they could not find anywhere else in Palo Alto. Article and Photography by Twelve years ago, David Linares and Elizabeth Reviriego met in London. They were Spaniards working in other people's restaurants, far from home. They opened a place in Madrid. Then they came to California and built their own on Ramona Street. David and Elizabeth had worked in hospitality since they were teenagers. He started at sixteen. She left...

Fitness

Callum Parker | Kalos After Cambridge

From a Cambridge scholarship to a storefront on Forest Avenue. Article and Photography by At seventeen, Callum Parker won the Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship to Cambridge. The Wellington newspaper called him a maths whiz. He read economics at Gonville and Caius. In his final term he tried running, set strong times almost immediately, and was on the New Zealand World Athletics roster soon after. In July 2021, racing for the silver fern, he ran 800 meters in 1:55.49. He was twenty-three. He had...

Fitness

Taekwon Kids

How Master Chin turned a dream into a dojo that funds programs around the world. Article and Photography by In 2000, Master Chin Sonu first brought taekwondo into mission work. The trip was a short-term church mission to a small town called Chinle, about four hours from Tijuana. He had been a software engineer for a decade and teaching taekwondo on his nights and weekends nearly as long. On the trip he assisted an older taekwondo master through a week of classes for the village children. The...

Style + Beauty

THIS IS WHERE I TAKE HER

Ellie's standing list, for the friend who comes once a year. Article and Photography by I have friends from all over the world who come to visit me in Palo Alto. This is mostly because I’m such an advocate for the Bay! Over the years, I’ve built a perfect little running itinerary for when someone's in town. It’s less a list than a route. Where we start. Blue Bottle on University on a Saturday morning. I grab a matcha and we sit outside on the patio to catch up. A walk worth taking. ...

Home + Design

THE HOUSE AROUND THE OAK

A Saratoga rebuild that left the tree standing. Photography by Drew Kelly A couple in Saratoga had a half-acre lot with a protected oak tree on it, and four grown daughters. They were ready to rebuild the house. Every architect they consulted drew a two-story plan, the standard answer when a heritage tree on the lot forces a builder vertical. Cynthia Spence Design looked at the same lot and proposed something different: a one-story modern farmhouse that wraps around the tree instead of...

Home + Design

FROM NEW DELHI TO PALO ALTO

Twenty years of Indian textiles. Three years of Marigold Row. Photography by Karina Pemberton At Marigold Row, a shop on the Town & Country side of El Camino, Anita Mehta is unfolding a piece of cloth that someone in a village outside Kolkata stitched together by hand. She runs a finger along a seam where two older fabrics have been joined. The technique is called Kantha, the Indian habit of refusing to throw a good cloth away. A grandmother's sari starts to wear through. Two layers are laid...

Home Services

Close to Home

Close to HomePalo Alto takes the spotlight in the latest episode of ADU Adventures, and what the show finds here says something quietly flattering about the town, and about the way its families build.Ask around Palo Alto and you'll hear a familiar set of questions, usually raised quietly, often at the kitchen table. Where will Mom and Dad live as they get older, close enough to help but still independent? Where does a grown child land while saving for a place of their own in one of the most...