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AUSTIN – Wearing only tight green briefs and a Robin Hood hat, Rushad Eggleston dangled upside down like a bat from a rusting, two-story-high piece of scaffolding. Somehow, he managed to hold onto his oversize cello while he sawed on it like a frantic lumberjack. His band, Tornado Rider, con…
Spike asks riders to honor one rule. He recites it w…
The Rolling Stone Showcase at Palm Door
“If you like The Mystery Lights, maybe you’ll like u…
Salinas police have cracked down on two factions of Sureno gangs and netted 10 arrests in the wake of a 6-year-old boy's death from a stray bullet on Tuesday, the department announced today.
It’s a Carmel election tradition.Candidates put thei…
Gary Smith, former owner of Monterey Live, stands in…
Raphael Garcia, project manager at Rana Creek, is hoping to try out the sustainable design elements proposed for Sand City “ecoresort” Monterey Bay Shores, but at a less politically volatile location. Garcia is part of Peninsula Housing Partners, a Monterey County-based development team prop…
Noah Baumbach’s very vocal critics have sneered that…
Resurrector doesn’t just make music; he performs Son…
HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Transitions: The closing show for the Cafe’s Lucid Dreams exhibit—which, if you haven’t seen, you are cheating yourself—goes out with a bang at roughly 180bpm, with DJ Temo Medina spinning house jams, busy workers uncorking wine, twisting beer caps and do…
The official advice on www.sxsw.com is telling: "SX…
The latest ruling in the Flanders Mansion case under…
In 1975, a group of molecular biologists retreated t…
CARMEL CONFLICTS… Squid’s inky comrades at the Weekly uncovered less-than-legal doings at Carmel City Hall, what with the city having signed an $80,000-plus yearly contract with city Treasurer Dewey Evans and his associate, Laura Dadiw, a conflict of interest according to state law and the c…
Juan Galletas, a senior at Edward Alvarez High Schoo…
Curtis Quinones is serious about his eco-friendly st…
If the farting cow in a leather gas mask doesn’t do the trick, the flaming-orange roseate spoonbills might. Or perhaps a visitor will be inspired to do more biking after meeting the Magellanic penguins that haplessly rode an ocean current from Patagonia to Brazil.
Colorful graffiti tags envelop the walls, and makesh…
After 27 years at Heritage Harbor in Monterey, the n…
Chef David Frappeia delivers a deftly pan-sizzled sand dab sandwich ($8.95) to a patio table overlooking a tennis match. Beyond, Castle Rock’s noble creases gaze on green hills soaking up midday rays.
Follow-up: How would you overthrow the California go…
Nelson Santos sits at a polished dining table in his…
