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PAI’s T3 series of inspirational and informative talks showcases innovative thinkers and doers from both inside and outside the Institu
06/05/2014
Palo Alto International Film Festival - Permanent-Revolution Caught up into the fun of volunteering at festivals in 2011, I gave more of my time to the San Jose Jazz festival in the summer where I poured wine for several hours, and then in September worked the Palo Alto International Film Festival. The first night I attended a 30th anniversary screening of Sp…
05/14/2012
Why do stress responses cause disease? Should medical professionals be as attuned to Darwin as they have been to Pasteur? Can aspirin block our evolved defense systems and sometimes delay recovery?
07/27/2011
Talenthouse, Scripped, and PAIFF event at Talenthouse in Palo Alto, California
Thursday, July 21, 2011
06/29/2011
The Great Gatsby in 3D-what are your thoughts? Check out this blog post!
The Medium is the Massage, Part V | Palo Alto Institute When I first read about Baz Luhrmann’s (Romeo and Juliet, Australia) plan to make The Great Gatsbyin 3D, I was puzzled. The movie is expected to be released in 2012 with Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire as three of its stars. But why 3D, I thought? It’s trendy right now — even art
06/28/2011
Read our latest blog post on actor Peter Falk
Influence | Palo Alto Institute The actor Peter Falk died last Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills, California. Although Falk was most known for his starring role as a disheveled, lovable detective in the television show Columbo, his death prompted me to remember his incredible, very different performance in John Cassavetes’ 197
The Palo Alto Institute/Palo Alto International Film Festival will be Netflix today to screen PressPausePlay. Kicking off the start of our corporate screenings until the festival in the fall!
06/09/2011
Are you concerned about what’s in your baby's food? Do you want nothing but the best and freshest ingredients in your baby’s food? Come join other moms for a focus group held by the Palo Alto Institute to help us learn more about what your baby’s food needs are. For more details, follow the link.
Organic Baby Food Focus Group | Palo Alto Institute Are you concerned about what’s in your baby's food? Do you want nothing but the best and freshest ingredients in your baby’s food? Do you know what’s in your baby’s food? Come join other moms for a focus group held by the Palo Alto Institute to help us learn more about what your baby’s food needs
05/10/2011
Persistence of Vision | Palo Alto Institute The San Francisco Film Society presents an annual “Persistence of Vision Award” to filmmakers. On April 30, 2011, however, SFFS presented the award to someone who stated onstage that he does not identify as a filmmaker: art world giant and San Francisco resident Matthew Barney who has been dubbed th
Check out our Cinco de Mayo BBQ Palo Alto Institute/Palo Alto International Film Festival headquarters using Color! For more info on Color, read our blog http://www.paiff.net/blog.php
Are you concerned about the food your baby/toddler is eating? If so, we would like to invite you to the Palo Alto Institute where we are conducting research on organic baby food products. Email [email protected] for more details.
05/02/2011
Finding Nostalgia for the Light | Palo Alto Institute Chilean director Patricio Guzman’s latest documentary, beautifully-titled Nostalgia for the Light, is not so much journalistic as it is an essayistic meditation on the power and ubiquity of the past as it exists in four parallels in the desolate Atacama Desert in northern Chile. A palette of blue, p
04/29/2011
Read our review of Sleeping Beauty at the San Francisco International Film Festival on our blog.
Sleeping Beauty Never Grows Up | Palo Alto Institute So wrote Anne Sexton in her powerful collection of poetry, Transformations, which reimagines and personalizes every familiar fairytale. Released in 1971, these poems present a take on fairytales that’s even more brutal than the version in Andrew Lang’s once-controversial “color” fairytale books.