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Here’s a surprising statistic: Cardiovascular disease is the underlying cause of a third of Monterey County deaths each year.
A nurse fiddles with the tube poking out of George G…
As the fast food workers’ minimum wage campaign gain…
Rivalries – the kind that go down in history, like t…
Salinas’ Chinatown, unlike its counterparts in San Francisco and New York, doesn’t give off a particularly touristy vibe. It’s a destination for the city’s homeless, and often a destination for drug dealers. But a destination in itself? Given the neighborhood’s unsightly buildings and seedy …
Local nonprofit Artists Equity has pretty much got it down.
Britt Govea of (((folkYEAH!))) Presents and Mollusk …
After the September 11 attack on the World Trade Cen…
FUNNEL MONEY… Squid’s search for a Halloween costume has turned up some masters of disguise, like color-changing cuttlefish and chameleon. But the prize goes to Salinas Valley Leadership Group, a big-money political donor to business-cuddly candidates like Salinas councilmembers Steve McShan…
The law-degree ambitions of a Marina pot collective …
The year was 1993. By day, Gil Rubio was a copy jock…
Gilbert Olivares, a former substance-abuse counselor for Salinas Union High School District, isn’t the only one to blame for sexually abusing the teenagers he worked with.
With only a shallow pool of candidates on the Novemb…
Flammable protests at schools put a spotlight on freedoms and reason.
A drunk guy on his honeymoon walks onto a cottage po…
• The Monterey Modernism Monologues reception and le…
Koyaanisqatsi, the first film in the trilogy directe…
Imagine going on a first date with someone who provi…
As a Salinas resident, I am accustomed to the hunger pangs at the mention of Oldtown Salinas.
New York City is no longer the Big Apple. Nope. It i…
Elizabeth Welden-Smith’s sea-green copy of the Grape…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’ve got a good feeling a…