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Some come on boats in shipping containers across oceans. Some drive the coast in a multi-million-dollar convoy south from the Pacific Northwest. Another 100 join The Italian Stampede from Los Angeles, racing 300 miles straight to the Concorso Italiano.
A couple years ago, Luke Sweeney had a vision that h…
Mike Rianda has a rare kind of water problem on the …
Scott Dickson, aka Dr. Twang, has been tinkering aro…
In early April, Marina photographer Steve Zmak watched three tiny dune birds build nests on the site of the proposed Monterey Bay Shores “eco-resort.”
In his airy office with views of the Monterey Bay, B…
Already we have one police officer facing allegations he schemed to seize cars from immigrant drivers, swing the majority of the towing and impound business to the department chief’s brother and cut the chief in on the profits when those cars were sold at a fraction of their values. Another officer faces charges of illegally owning and storing an assault weapon, and another faces charges of threatening to physically harm a citizen. Still another officer, along with the ex-chief, are accused of embezzlement after the chief gifted an officer with a car owned by the department’s Youth Explorer Program. A third of the department went to jail in February and now face trials on charges that could send them to prison for years.
Ando Ehlers is a traveling hospice nurse who’s contracted across the country. He’s also the self-proclaimed “Master of Death Polka,” accordion-heavy punk-meets-metal with some Delta blues.
West Side Story is such an icon of musical theater t…
>> Red Door Garden & Art Gallery is a new …
It’s the trees, stupid.
There’s just no point in even bothering. I could huff and puff and moan and groan and explain why The Expendables 3 is a terrible excuse for a movie… even for a dumb, cheesy ’80s-throwback action movie. I could go into great detail about the laziness of the writing, about how perfunctory the…
The lobby of the Salinas Police Department flickers …
ERNEST GOES TO COUNCIL… Seaside Councilman Dave Pacheco is one of the sincerest local politicians Squid’s met. Case in point: his 2012 campaign tagline, “Together We Can Do!” (Squid’s copyeditor flagged it, but he stuck with it.)
Then, like a mirage in a food desert, it was gone.
In the summer of 1961, 19-year-old Leonard Triano ma…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Researchers in Peru have recently tracked down many previously unknown varieties of wild cacao plants. What that means is that there are exotic kinds of chocolate that you and I have never dreamed of, and they will be commercially available within a few years. As d…
