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They emerge from the cracks of Castroville, the pelican pouches of Pacific Grove and the side streets of Seaside once a year. They spout accounts of cats and love, death and disaster (see sidebar, p. 18) for a chance to win chilled cash and dynamite dinners. They use words like “frack,” and …
Britney and Paris minus-panty moments, Christian Bal…
Inside the dank and spacious Holman Antique Plaza on Pacific Grove’s Lighthouse Avenue, Nader Agha works his magic: schmoozing with customers, steering employees, and selling five figures’ worth of Chinese relics in the space of an hour.
Seaside High is a sprawling campus on a ridge so clo…
With two stellar shows on Saturday, it may still fee…
Sherlock Holmes is one of the great characters: impossibly Byronic, with his superior intelligence and (apparent) imperviousness to the fairer sex; impossibly misanthropic, with his disdain for almost everyone in the world but his amanuensis, Watson; impossibly brilliant, with his near-psych…
With Salinas surpassing its highest body count on re…
Nothing too complicated about It’s Complicated – it’…
A $50 million initiative to expand broadband Internet access to the Big Sur coast, Salinas Valley corridor and link to hubs in Santa Cruz and San Benito counties is getting a strong Wi-Fi signal. The California Public Utilities Commission recently approved a nearly $5 million grant to develo…
Something’s happening to a primo pork sandwich near …
Ritual and celebration at solstice time has been the…
Follow-up: What is your family’s weirdest holiday tradition?
On the corner lot of a once-pleasant, palm-studded n…