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With his machine gun drawn, Lance Cpl. Adrian Jimenez searched from room to room. Sweat soaked into his undershirt as he scanned the brick-and-concrete structure—nobody was inside. Another empty residence, another sigh of relief.
It’s been a big week for Joe Burnett, senior biologi…
The Carmel High girls’ field hockey team almost neve…
Imitation can be a creative cul de sac for musicians, a dead end in the search for a personal sound. But immersing oneself in the work of a master can also unlock new avenues, enabling a performer to expand and refine his or her own vision.
A gaily painted kite bucks and twists in the wind, t…
The last time folk rock legend Country Joe McDonald played Big Sur was back in 1967. With former bandmate Barry Melton, his band Country Joe and the Fish performed in a field right off Highway 1 facing the Pacific, which was spread out before them like a giant blue blanket. That day, the ban…
Since her 1989 debut, Homeland, Texas singer/songwri…
Away from Her treats the trauma of loss with the dig…
I first saw Adrienne Shelly in 1989, starring in Hal Hartley’s micro-indie The Unbelievable Truth at Houston’s Landmark River Oaks Theatre. Shelly was a rarity among women in that age: She was blond; she was beautiful, yet she seemed truly weird, even weirder than Rosanna Arquette—squeaky an…
Dan Gurney’s favorite local memory involves a twist …
Given the choice, many college students would probab…
Over the last year, the San Francisco-based traditio…
MONEY TALKS… Squid keeps a close eye on Squid’s money—one-third of Squid’s income pays the rent and utilities, one-third pays for the Squidmobile and the final third for booze. And being such an accountable cephalopod, Squid likes to know how Squid’s elected officials spend Squid’s tax dolla…
Two years ago, at the end of the Cooking for Solutio…
My love of food is what gets me arm-deep in the food…
Ibrahim Musa holds a plain folder containing the essence of his fateful life experience. Before coming to the US almost three years ago, the 49-year-old taught English, wrote poetry and was a journalist in his native Sudan. Fluent in five languages, he now teaches Arabic at the DLI. Tonight,…
Under a sky bruised by rain clouds, Don Roberson pul…
