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Jeff Monser had never organized a music event before California Roots Music and Arts Festival. He hadn’t put on an open mic night or a simple concert, let alone a full-day festival. The Santa Cruz-based artist/screen printing shop owner’s only experience in the entertainment biz came as a ve…
If Burning Man and the Electric Daisy Carnival conce…
The appearance of a short, thick-necked amphibian wi…
When Mission Park Elementary Principal Brinet Greenlee learned May 15 she’d been recommended for a demotion, it might not have been a surprise: The Salinas school has seen four principals in the last five years.
The King City Police Department is hiring.
For Mike “2Ls” Mills, this was a huge stage. Not fig…
Journalist Miriam Pawel’s biography of United Farm W…
• The letter opens: “The [ORGANIZATION NAME] respectfully urges the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees to increase funding to the California Arts Council, which has served as California’s arm for investing in the arts since 1975.” It’s a form letter from Californians for the Arts to incre…
Prop 42, on the ballot for California’s June 3 elect…
As a 20-year stringer for National Geographic, photo…
Adam Sandler has played so many idiotic characters that it’s difficult to take the messages of his films seriously. He was pro-gay in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) and the film was quickly dismissed. He even pleaded for peace vis-a-vis the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in You D…
Two Salinas Police officers followed an unidentified…
“It’s a shame how many of these historic venues arou…
Thinking - Weekly Facebook commenter Teri Short was to the point: “There should be a warning that this video is graphic.” She was right…
A journey of a thousand miles – make that 2,334 mile…
Jillian Coombs’ long pink hair fans about like the cape of a magician as she twists between two purple sashes hanging from the ceiling. In a flash, she transforms from a spread-open spider to an upside-down bat.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I believe your persuasive…
