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A new species appears on the planet this weekend at the Monterey County Fairgrounds & Event Center. It’s one that doesn’t always rely on major record labels for maximum exposure. It breaks rules, makes up its own as it goes along, then promptly breaks those. It often doesn’t even use – o…
Twenty four hours is a long time to listen to great …
When Cal Poly students went scrambling along the fen…
If you can’t afford tickets to the First City Festiv…
Some might find it challenging to do something soulful for four decades, as has Marshall Tucker Band lead singer Doug Gray. But the Spartanburg, S.C. southern rocker doesn’t see it like that.
PUBLIC FORUM: 08.22.13 – Federal Chemical Safety and Improvement Act doesn’t keep Californians safe.
Californians have repeatedly expressed desire for th…
It’s not even October, when vote-by-mail ballots get…
There’s something spectacular about flight: the loops your stomach does as the ground shrinks below you; the birds-eye view as you flit overhead; the spectacular feeling that, as the poem goes, you’ve slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God. Then again, if all that’s keepin…
FLOUNDERING MANSION… Once in a while Squid indulges …
It’s hard not to sound condescending when I suggest …
Well before Fox News anchor Lauren Green’s cringe-wo…
Things many 18-year-olds do: leave home, get a full-…
Giuseppe Pennisi used to be skeptical of environment…
Asked at: Pico de Gallo in Monterey.
• The Arts Council for Monterey County has lent a helping hand to many different arts organizations and happenings in the county, and in their August e-newsletter they reveal a big hand of their own: the 2014 Champions of the Arts. They include author Jane Smiley for lifetime achievement, YO…
As spiritual types like to remind me, I am here for …
If you consume more calories than you burn, you gain…
You know those cute little weights that look like ca…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): An Indian student named Sankalp Sinha has invented the “Good Morning Sing N Shock.” It’s an alarm clock that plays you a song and gives you a small electrical jolt when you hit the snooze button. The voltage applied is far less intense than, say, a taser, and is de…
