.Lindsey J. Smith

It's a warmer than average Friday in late October, and at 4pm plenty of folks would be itching to get a jump on the weekend. But not Raj Jayadev. The youthful-looking 43-year-old community organizer is still running around the offices of the non-profit he helped co-found, Silicon Valley De-Bug, as he prepares to head over to the Santa Clara County Main Jail.

By the time Hillary Mickell started the recipe sharing site Foodily, she'd been working in tech for quite some time. She'd held senior marketing positions at giants including Yahoo, where she climbed the ladder, balancing her career against having two kids. She received her share of offhand comments about how raising children would kill her career. She watched the man hired to fill in for her while she was on maternity leave cozy up to her boss, and wondered if, perhaps, her job was in jeopardy. Still, she thought the culture was fairly inclusive.

Agha’s Gyro Express serves ridiculously tasty and affordable lamb over rice plates.

Competing plans to fix the state death penalty could affect 747 inmates at San Quentin.

Conservation meets tech as local Nerds for Nature takes root. Dusk creeps across the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto. The salty, grainy smell of baked marsh grasses wafts through the door of a conference room at the Peninsula Conservation Center, as Zach Miller, lean and alert, stands by the door, waiting for the clock to strike 7. As stragglers settle in, Miller introduces himself.

SJMADE has launched a First Saturdays fair on The Alameda.

Robotic surgeries represent future of medicine, but marketing and lack of regulation raise red flags.

MOOYAH is no ordinary fast food joint.