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A poetry reading is wrapping up at the Henry Miller Memorial Library on a balmy July night. A few dozen people mingle on the wooden deck that reaches around back, nestling into the duff of a redwood grove. Sinewy young guys bounce at the ping-pong table while middle-aged women in high-qualit…
Car Week is a really colloquial way of referring to …
They may not have a home, but for 48 hours beginning…
Joey Hyde’s putting the finishing touches on his maj…
When Salinas city officials talk about the future Taylor Farms headquarters under construction in Oldtown, they make it sound like a savior for the ailing business district. Then there’s the likelihood that CSU Monterey Bay will buy the Steinbeck Center, and things are really looking up.
“I’m going to be working for as long as I can becaus…
>> Monterey Museum of Art (559 Pacific St., Mo…
It was after dinner at Boy Scout camp. The sun had set around the campfire and “Friend of the Devil” sparked an affair between Dave Holodiloff and the Dead that continues to grow.
Underneath Matt Adams’ Wookie exterior and just-woke…
Move over, Nadya Suleman.
The U.S. Air Force officer detained by Monterey County sheriff’s deputies after neighbors reported seeing a suspicious man in a hoodie prowling around a Carmel Woods home has filed a federal lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office and the deputy who detained him.
Just past midnight on July 23, multiple residents in the Seaside neighborhood near San Pablo Avenue and Havana Street dialed 911 and reported hearing multiple gunshots. Weekly photographer Nic Coury, who lives in the area, heard the gunfire too and did what’s become second nature for him: He grabbed a camera and set out to find and document what happened. He arrived just minutes after the police, and just seconds before the paramedics.
TRIPLE DOH!… A lot of things have been written about Food Network star Guy Fieri over the years, but Squid’s favorite comes from Myles Tanzer, who in a 2012 post on Gawker described him as “Mountain Dew in human form.”
The booming foodie-fication of the population, the t…
When it was founded just after the Civil War, the Na…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If a farmer plants the same crop in the same field year after year, the earth’s nutrients get exhausted. For instance, lettuce sucks up a lot of nitrogen. It’s better to plant beans or peas in that location the next season, since they add nitrogen back into the soi…
