Issue Archive
Monterey County Weekly 101 Word Short Stories - 2013
This year, nearly half of the 20 music offerings per…
The Wolf of Wall Street ingeniously chronicles the worst of ’80s Wall Street excesses.
First Night Monterey is the best party to get intoxi…
As I approach a crew of firefighters on the edge of smoldering redwoods, just west of the Big Sur River, it struck me that their uniforms were orange, not the yellow you usually see on firefighters.
As Monterey County officials were roaming the ashy r…
Restart Button: Near the beginning of the year, the …
Though nearly all of the tracks on Sugar Sauce’s deb…
Before her husband retired from a 20-year career as …
If you’re homeless on the Monterey Peninsula and hav…
Big Sur residents are no strangers to fire. What feels different as the Pfeiffer Fire smolders, compared to the Basin Complex Fire in 2008, is that Big Sur residents aren’t strangers to sheriff’s deputies.
Have you ever taken a selfie? Think about that question for a moment before you answer. Think about the word itself, which was just chosen as the International Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries. Surely you’ve taken a picture of yourself before. I have, and it’s usually because a family…
Ben Stiller charms as everyday hero in Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but his direction is all over the map.
LOCAL SPIN 12.26.13 - Twelve great stories, one great year, or how I’ve been spending my time.
A year is more than half a million minutes. We’re ta…
• There was really no way for the Henry Miller Memorial Library to avoid the hard irony of promoting and showing The Nightmare Before Christmas at Golden State Theatre on Dec. 22 while addressing the Big Sur fire that spared the library but not 22 other structures, including 15 homes, before…
My editor and I have a strange dynamic. He suggests …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Edmund Kean (1789-1833) w…