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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
How to get your reading fix while everything's closed
Many local bookstores and libraries have adjusted to no-contact business models and are offering a variety of new services intended to keep the literary crowd well-read and more socialized while keeping a safe distance from others.[Friday, April 24, 2020]
A 'Little Women' weekend
Two of Hollywood's most iconic adaptations of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" will be back on the big screen at Stanford Theatre this weekend.[Friday, January 17, 2020]
Bay Area's largest real-estate firm? It's a New York startup
Compass, the venture-funded real-estate startup that launched its first office in the local market just over two years ago, became the Bay Area's largest residential brokerage firm this month after acquiring Peninsula powerhouse Alain Pinel Realtors for an undisclosed amount on March 9.[Saturday, March 23, 2019]
Comin' for ya!
Born into the Mardi Gras Indian culture in uptown New Orleans, Cha Wa's lead singer, J'Wan Boudreaux, has lived and breathed street music, pageantry and parades ever since his mother dressed him in his first hand-beaded and feathered parade suit when he was just 2.[Thursday, January 17, 2019]
Top 12 holiday book picks
As the hunt for the perfect gift gets underway this holiday season, we've decided to keep our focus local.[Wednesday, November 23, 2016]
Where volunteers, nonprofits serve free Thanksgiving meals
This Thanksgiving, thousands of community members will come together in kitchens and dining halls throughout the Midpeninsula, including 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 those in need.[Tuesday, November 22, 2016]
Tonight at Kepler's: 'To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs'
In his new book, "To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History," Palo Alto resident Lawrence Levy shares the story of Pixar's improbable success.[Thursday, October 27, 2016]