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It was the birds that signaled to Maria Velasquez that the water had gotten really bad. She’d been keeping eight green and blue parakeets, and giving them only bottled water to drink for months.
Black bears roam Yosemite campgrounds all summer, ju…
“He was asked to leave because of his behavior.” (“Stabbing suspect seen at Behavioral Health hours before crime,” June 6-13). Um, shouldn’t that have been, “He was asked to STAY because of his behavior?” - Karen Hookailo | via Facebook
The collective v. dispensary debate is heavily skewed in Marina due to a Draconian interpretation of Prop. 215 and SB 420 (“Marina medical pot collective ignores police notice to cease and desist operations,” June 6-12). Inaction by the City Council and gross bias by Marina PD has led to a C…
In Washington, where the state of war and the survei…
On a recent Friday morning, a small group of gray-ha…
When Carmel Mayor Jason Burnett and challenger Rich …
Sunny Fawcett sits on a bench outside the doors to Monterey County Superior Court Judge Albert Maldonado’s courtroom, sandwiched between a friend and her pastor. “Should we pray?” one of them asks. “Let’s pray.”
Admit it: you’ve wondered, when you find yourself po…
MAN OF STEEL : In Superman redux Man of Steel, snooz…
When Jason Michael Carroll was a kid, his ultra-cons…
The Epilogues’ “My Misinformed ‘John Hughes’ Teenage Youth” represents more than just a song marinated in My Bloody Valentine-caliber juices. It’s a living and breathing allegory. Like Anthony Michael Hall going from geeky freshman with a wedgie to dating the hottest girl in school, drummer …
A few days after Facebook billionaire Sean Parker’s …
A famous World War I recruitment poster at the U.S. …
Follow-up: What’s the most ambitious mission you’ve …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Irish poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan didn’t confine his lyrical wit to well-crafted poems on the printed page. He used it to say things that would advance his practical ambitions. For example, when he first met the woman who would eventually become his wife, he sai…
• Golden State Theater is up in the air and in the n…
The Grapes of Wrath turns 75 next year, so it seems …
In Singapore, Ivan Chong tells me, “The camera alway…
A month before he died in his sleep last weekend, possibly due to a faulty heart valve, Stephen Pessagno, 55, said goodbye to a special black lab.
Plenty of people look out upon the ocean and sense s…