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Ommolbanin Shamsia, 20, says she has been painting f…
Bill O’Reilly’s attack on Nas was one of the more bizarre dust-ups of the last year. The roots of the controversy are preposterous: O’Reilly took issue with the lyrics of Nas’ “Shoot ’Em Up.” The song is an in-character murder fantasy– a stray dark mark at the center of an otherwise socially…
Last month’s San Jose Jazz Festival featured a dazzl…
Monterey County will ask the state for more time to vet the location of a proposed reentry facility, says Supervisor Fernando Armenta, who chairs the reentry facility committee. He says the county will request a six-month extension on Sept. 18.
On August 7, 1974, as the Watergate scandal reached …
Cattarina Tasso is the sort of woman who haunts the …
Compared to last year’s Superbad, sophomore director Deb Hagan’s coming-of-age teen sex comedy should be called Superlame. Three high school seniors– a skinny nerd, an obese kid, and a clean-cut pretty boy– visit nearby Feldmont University for a three-day weekend, and get co-opted by a frate…
Tinseltown has espionage all wrong. The cold, detach…
At the East of Eden Writers Conference in 2004, Terr…
First water, now sun: Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort is pulling out all the stops to turn his city into a self-sustaining community.
The G.I. Comedy Co., which includes a carousing trou…
For the decidedly epic event, Monterey Marriott-3 Fl…
One S.F. community blogger called Slow Food Nation, the anti-fast food event staged this past Labor Day weekend in San Francisco, “a place for arrogant white snobs to chastise the working class for not being able to eat and live more leisurely.” The blogger had it wrong.
Mike Marotta’s second-story office on Monterey’s Alv…
Sharks, he says, are the least of our concerns. Ther…
Native Americans. The Trail of Tears. Smallpox. Most…
