year. The 2013 event included performances by Iggy and The Stooges and a three-day technology conference with appearances by Steve Wozniak, Nolan Bushnell and John McAfee. The 2015 C2SV brought camera phone inventor Philippe Kahn and Oculus VR co-inventor Jack McCauley to the stage of the California Theatre. Awards Metro has received several awards for its work, including: Three papers in the Metro Newspapers group won at the National Newspaper Association's 1995 contest, announced September 1996. Metro won two awards, for editorial cartooning and writing, at the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Awards, July 1996 Six papers in the Metro Newspapers group were honored for writing, editing and design at the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Awards, July 1997. Metro staff writer J. Douglas Allen-Taylor received first place in the Peninsula Press Club's 1997 Professional Journalism Awards Competition for specialty story detailing how the malt liquor industry, after achieving success marketing to black communities, set its sights on the Latino youth market. Metro staff writer Will Harper received an honorable mention in the Peninsula Press Club's 1997 Professional Journalism Awards Competition for feature story, weeklies ("The New Jesus"). Metro Special Sections Editor Gordon Young received First Place in the Peninsula Press Club's 1994 Professional Journalism Awards Competition for light feature story, weeklies ("Pop Culture Princess"). Metro Silicon Valley won two awards, in lifestyle coverage and freedom of information, at the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Awards, July 2004. Metro Silicon Valley won two awards at the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Awards, October 2008. Metro Silicon Valley’s Nick Veronin won SPJ NorCal Excellence in Journalism Award: Arts & Culture at the Society of Professional Journalists, NorCal Chapter in October 2016 for his “Radius Clause” feature, which revealed how the music industry's anticompetitive practices put a damper on Silicon Valley nightlife. Metro Freelancer John Flynn won a Society of Professional Journalists Norcal award for “Lost in Translation,” an investigation into the scarcity of interpreters in Santa Clara County's justice system and how that shortage impacts the rights of non-English speakers. Early online player Metro was an early participant in the online publishing revolution, launching the Livewire online service in 1993, one of the first online efforts by a non-daily newspaper publisher. The service offered free email accounts, online commerce, chats, posting forums and online articles. Virtual Valley, a similar service with an emphasis on covering Silicon Valley