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In an office where the placement of a comma can cause a fight, imagine the battle that goes on when it comes time to read and select the winners – and the best of the rest – of the Weekly’s 101 Word Short Story Contest. We put out the call, as we have annually for the past 19 years, and you …
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but so…
It’s hard to find an area of California’s infrastruc…
Perhaps it’s the fact that I just finished reading Jaron Lanier’s counterintuitive but deeply persuasive polemic You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, or maybe I’m just suffering from sequelitis, but my reaction to Ethan Hunt’s fourth impossible mission on the big screen (really big; this one’s…
As a depressing indicator of Hollywood excess, I hav…
Without warning, Eyezon Soweto jumped on stage durin…
I admit it. I was jealous. Weekly arts writer/calend…
B udget cuts and revenue losses are clouding financial forecasts at schools across California. Yet even as classroom sizes balloon and arts programs wither, one capital-intensive trend is making notable gains: solar power.
Director Cameron Crowe casts a heart-warming cinemat…
When Joseph Pastore responded to a downed tractor-tr…
The Santa Cruz-based Juncos seem to sense that few musical things can tip people into a feeling of pleasant simplicity like acoustic harmonies, lively string instruments and lyrics about living life.
Local crowds feed off Mike Brandon’s energy like the…
They sweep from graphic novels to frontier foodie-is…
Class happens when some men, as a result of common e…
Tech investor and the Apple Computer co-founder Armas Clifford “Mike” Markkula, widely regarded as the adult supervision to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the company’s early days, has the county Board of Supervisors’ approval on a conservation plan for his 14,000-acre ranch.
Racism has not been this funny since Chappelle’s Sho…
It’s not every day that you get to trash talk Thomas…
It’s a Saturday in November when a local crew shows up at Carmel Beach wearing costumes which will never be confused with gold medalist Misty May’s beach-volleyball bikini. One guy wears a black beard, a large hoop earring and striped cotton pants. Next to the pirate is a gypsy in a turquois…
