Cover: Chill Factors
Even in high-tech Silicon Valley there are ghost stories--and some of them are quite haunting.
News: Pounding the Pavement Pounders
Los Altos passed an ordinance that gave El Camino Real day workers their walking papers--right across the street to Mountain View. Now Mountain View is weighing its options.
Inner Beauty: A woman tries to surmount the superficial in TheatreWorks' 'Violet.'
Birk's Works: Birk McCandless' corporate mead hall is the place to see and be seen, to eat and be sated.
A La Carte: Paolo's is visited by champagne royalty.
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