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Alejandra Franco, an 11-year-old girl who moved with her parents from Mexico to Salinas about two years ago, is remarkably expressive and outgoing, even though she is still learning a new language. With her camouflage-print cap turned sideways (apparently unconcerned about mussing her should…
Bill Monning, a longtime political player who narrow…
Sometimes you have to search to find irony; sometime…
In their double-bill homage to the cheap, grungy movie-houses of yore that featured an ever-changing orgy of back-to-back exploitation B-movies, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have created an unparalleled, irreverent pair of dueling films. Loving attention is given to recreating the …
Bob Leidig strolls the downtown blocks of Carmel-by-…
If the cello mimics the human voice and the saxophon…
Spending his high school years in of King City was not easy for Felix Lozano. The guitarist, who moved to the Salinas Valley town from Texas when he was 13, was into punk rock music, while most of his peers were more interested in the King City High School Mustangs.
Alisal Water Corporation (Alco) will likely become t…
JOURNEY TO THE PAST…Just got back from a quick weekend in Boston. Went to see my old pal JOHN BARMON, a guy I met back in ’84 while I was working at a busy restaurant in New York City called Gianni’s. ANTHONY BOURDAIN devoted a whole chapter to that restaurant, using an alias for it, in his …
Winemaker dinners have become routine. One recent wi…
It was January 31, 1999, Super Bowl XXXIII. The Denv…
In front of Moss Landing harbor, where sailboat mast…
