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Instead of grass, Carol LeNeve’s front yard is mostly covered in ankle-high Carmel creeper, a shrub with dark-green, oval leaves. LeNeve, dressed in a purple turtleneck and jeans, walks down her stone path toward Camino Real in Carmel. Oak leaves crackle under her sneakers. LeNeve points out…
It is said that shortly after the Community Hospital…
I could list my gardening limitations to the soundtr…
I could list my gardening limitations to the soundtrack of a slow violin. My yard is a thin strip of lava rocks that I, as a renter, don’t have the liberty to disturb. And even if I did, I wouldn’t have the time, money or energy to get all Alice Waters-y in the dirt.
The state Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA) has issued a scathing report lambasting Salinas-based Alisal Water Corporation for overcharging customers, not properly responding to complaints and withholding financial data. The report, which was finalized late last week, concludes Alco is u…
With a muckraking tale of black gold, a psychopath a…
Santa Cruz-based public radio station KUSP recently announced a proposal to buy its Monterey County counterpart, KAZU. But CSUMB Foundation officials (the Foundation owns the station and its license) say KAZU is not for sale.
It wasn’t so long ago that Colin Farrell was poised …
Americans are worried about the impending recession …
Except for a hardy band of neo-con optimists and the official apologists of the Bush regime, almost everyone is agreed that the United States has gotten itself into a nasty, self-wounding mess in Iraq where it is fighting a drawn-out guerrilla war it cannot win. At the same time, a large num…
Rafael Hernandez was doing his best to keep his son …
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was known for wandering around Paris with a hollow walking stick filled with it. Vincent Van Gogh drank it heavily—and a number of his works took on its mouthwash-green hue. Pablo Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas all created paintings where a glass of it wa…
If you’re reading this paper, you probably feel a fu…
It’s energy-efficient, cheap and more environmentall…
The Kitchen God knows your family secrets. According to Vietnamese customs, about one week before the first day of the Lunar New Year in February, that god, Ong Tao, flies to heaven to share his insight with the jade emperor. To sweeten Ong Tao’s journey, incense is burned, dried sweeten fru…
The chatter resonating throughout the faux wood-pane…
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