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Student pens play on affair BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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A former Stanford student who had an affair with Palo Alto Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims is putting on a musical based on their experience. “Part love story, part cautionary tale, ‘Mimi & Jo’ is a queer comingof-age play set to original music that explores the intimacy of creative col-
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laboration, exposes the pain of hindsight, and attempts to reconcile the gray space between attachment and abuse,” former student Olivia Swanson Haas wrote in a tagline for the play, which she will present
on Sunday in San Francisco. The play looks back to 2012, when Haas was 22, and Lythcott-Haims was 44 working as Stanford’s dean of freshman and undergraduate advising. “The dean was a school celebrity — charismatic, adored — and I was the kind of young person who craved attention from powerful people. When a [See AFFAIR, page 18] LYTHCOTT-HAIMS
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U.S. PLAYS TONIGHT: The U.S. men’s soccer team tonight will face Bosnia-Herzegovina tonight at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The World Cup game begins at 5 p.m. There will be watch parties throughout the Peninsula, including in downtown Palo Alto, Castro Street in Mountain View and Courthouse Square in Redwood City. BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP: The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. TRUMP AND CRYPTO: President Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion dollars from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released yesterday shows. TRANSGIRLS IN SPORTS: The Supreme Court is upholding state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. Left unresolved by the outcome are lawsuits challenging state laws and [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
NEW ART FOR CITY
This sculpture, which is six feet tall, is some of Palo Alto’s newest public art. See story on PAGE 23.
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A company trying to build the world’s first self-driving air taxi could leave Mountain View because of an influx of RV dwellers, according to a city memo. Governor Gavin Newsom’s office of economic development has met with city employees to understand the situation and advocate for Wisk Aero, Assistant City Manager Audrey Seymour said in a June 22 memo to council. Wisk is “reconsidering plans to invest in facility improvements and maintain and grow their business in Mountain View,” Seymour’s memo said. Wisk has five buildings at the end of San Antonio Road, between the Palo Alto Baylands and Shoreline [See RVS, page 18]
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