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The sweaty conga player runs over to the drummer’s floor tom and bangs an up-tempo, samba-like beat. The crowd at the Fox Theater in Salinas instantly starts jumping and hollering as the Argentinean ska band busts into Los Fabulosos Cadillacs’ hit song, “El Matador.” Flavio, the former bass …
In the fertile soil of Salinas Valley, a new crop is…
Retired Carmel Valley Postmaster Don Ask will challe…
Hanging with friends, blowing up a storm, and raisin…
The beloved syndicated cartoonist, Harry Shorten (wh…
Three days after his house burned down, Mark Weber is back at Hartnell College doing what he does best: teaching math. Yellow chalk dust covers his right hand and smudges his shirt. He draws bell-shaped curves, explaining to students in his hoarse and animated voice how to chart bear weights…
In four separate lawsuits challenging the state’s pl…
The Sadies make it worth slogging through all the bands who got in touch with their inner cowboy thanks to The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
You remember Donnie Darko. Six years ago, this debut…
There is no counting. The people whirling around the floor aren’t dancing. They move in a simple, continuous motion. The left foot, planted solidly on the ground, pivots while the right propels the spinning movement of the meditative body. As the dervishes turn counterclockwise to the sound …
Superstar guitarist “Slowhand” Eric Clapton once sai…
The endless repackaging of old music continues at a …
More than a half-century ago, the Monterey City Coun…
My mom stood in front of my cutting board, dwarfed by a giant head of cabbage from the last farmers market. In her hand was a knife that was also disproportionately large.
Look no farther than the saffron-lime scented tomato…
Folow-up: What is good and bad about the art scene i…
Going Birding… Well, Thanksgiving is next week. You know what that means: Time begins to accelerate with each passing minute until suddenly it’s New Year’s Day, you’re making a pitcher of Bloody Marys for yourself and the assortment of family/friends crashing at your home, the parade is on t…
Saturday night sock hop doesn’t seem like the place …
