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About Linda
Linda Taaffe is associate editor for the Palo Alto Weekly/PaloAltoOnline.com. She oversees special print projects, including the Home & Real Estate, Neighborhoods and award-winning Info magazines. She coordinates special digital projects such as Searching for their Father's Killer and Palo Alto's Journey into the 21st Century.During the past two decades, Linda has worked as a Bay Area journalist covering education, government, business and neighborhoods. She launched her career as a writer at her hometown paper in Los Altos and was an editor at Bay Area News Group and Silicon Valley Business Journal before joining the Palo Alto Weekly in 2016.
Stories by Linda
Where to find a free Thanksgiving Day meal on the Midpeninsula
This Thanksgiving, thousands of community members will come together in kitchens and dining halls throughout the Midpeninsula, from the Mountain View restaurant owner who opens his doors every year to offer free turkey dinners to the dozens of volunteer kitchen workers who will spend the morning prepping and serving turkey with all the fixings to hundreds of children, families, seniors and homeless individuals.[Monday, November 21, 2016]
Berkeley's Counting Crows return to the Bay Area
Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz now calls Greenwich Village home, but the singer/songwriter got his start as a musician in the Bay Area with his debut album, "August and Everything After," which went multi-platinum and catapulted the band into a music career that hasn't let up for 25 years.[Thursday, September 8, 2016]
Book Talk
Vlasta Diamant, Jessica Bennett and Susan Wolfe will present their latest books.[Saturday, August 27, 2016]
Sibling silliness
Gloom, doom and insecurities that reach comedic proportions plague three middle-aged siblings in Christopher Durang's farce "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," which the Palo Alto Players premiered at the Lucie Stern Theater on June 10 (performances continue through June 26).[Monday, June 27, 2016]
Code: ART coming to downtown Palo Alto next year
Palo Alto is preparing to turn downtown into an interactive "creative laboratory" for three days next year as part of a new program to crowdsource ideas from the community that could transform underutilized alleyways and corridors into engaging public spaces.[Wednesday, May 25, 2016]
Book Talk
The voices of The Grateful Dead returns to Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, Palo Alto City Library gets new assistant director and more.[Friday, May 20, 2016]