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Good morning Palo Alto! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • What you’ll discover inside the new Palo Alto Museum in February
  • Will Palo Alto teens soon attend a teacherless, AI-powered school?
  • See why a Palo Alto dining room made a national top-10 list

Also on today's calendar: LIT BY THE BAY - NYE Celebration & Dance Party and 9 more events.

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Today's riddle: What did the balloon say to the doctor? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

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  • Sunday: Cloudy with a little rain, with a high of 63 and low of 54 degrees.
  • Monday: Periods of rain, temps: high: 59, low: 52.
  • Tuesday: A couple of showers, with a high of 61 and low of 48 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. ‘Renaissance woman' Juana Briones imbues Palo Alto Museum with history, pride (paloaltoonline.com) — Palo Alto residents will soon see a preserved wall from Juana Briones’ 1840s adobe home as the first permanent exhibit at the nearly renovated Palo Alto Museum on Homer Avenue. Funded in part by Embarcadero Media’s Holiday Fund, the museum is adding interactive “I am Palo Alto” storytelling, local history, and community event spaces ahead of a planned Feb. 28 grand opening.
   

2. No Grades, No teachers, No School Lunches: 'AI Schools' Coming To Bay Area: Report (patch.com) — An AI-driven private school network is planning to open a Palo Alto campus, offering screen-heavy, teacherless “focused learning” blocks guided by adult mentors instead of traditional teachers. The model, which charges high tuition and pays students cash incentives, has drawn both national attention and criticism over cost, screen time, and its potential impact on conventional public schooling.
   

3. The 10 Most Popular New Dining Spaces of 2025 (houzz.com) — One of 2025’s most-saved dining spaces online belongs to a Palo Alto couple who revamped their 1906 Colonial Revival home with a bright, symmetrical kitchen-dining area ideal for entertaining. The national roundup highlights this project alongside other stylish dining rooms, offering design ideas from lighting to built-ins.
   

4. East Palo Alto hires company for 24-hour parking enforcement (paloaltoonline.com) — East Palo Alto has approved hiring LAZ Parking for 24-hour parking enforcement, aiming to tackle overcrowded streets while freeing up its understaffed police department. The company, which already works in cities like Palo Alto, will start with two months of outreach before a year of comprehensive enforcement focused on fair, consistent rules and local hiring.
   

5. Buffaloes fall short in neutral site matchup with Stanford (ralphiereport.com) — Stanford’s men’s basketball team, which calls Palo Alto home, rallied past Colorado 77-68 in a neutral-site matchup in Phoenix after trailing at halftime. Freshman guard Ebuka Okorie led Stanford’s surge, capitalizing on Colorado turnovers and foul trouble. The result sends the Cardinal back to Palo Alto with momentum heading into the rest of their non-conference slate.
   

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