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The Monterey Bay Shores “eco-resort,” in the works since the 1990s, exists only on paper, in the hearing rooms of the California Coastal Commission and in court. The proposed project’s footprint encompasses 39 acres of Sand City oceanfront. Developer Addi Ben “Ed” Ghandour proposes to build 184 hotel rooms, an equal number of condominium units, a conference center, restaurants, underground parking and amenities like a pool and spa.

SQUID BEEF… Squid has lots of friends at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, especially in the kelp forest exhibit. Mostly old swim team buddies. And Squid counted humans as among those friends too – until recently. Let Squid explain: When Squid saw the press release for the Aquarium’s much-anticipat…

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera says that the brain has “a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.” In the coming days, it will be especiall…