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Robbie Powers’ lifelong affair with vinyl began innocently enough. Fifteen years ago, the L.A. native had just moved into his first apartment and was faced with an important decision: What type of stereo set-up did he want in his living room?
“Where the hell did he go?” shouts an audience membe…
Just before 2pm on Aug. 14, Dorene Matthews, propert…
Sand City’s West End Celebration is the once-yearly …
Dick Crispo is considered a local institution, in the best possible sense. It’s not that he’s static, or that his work is more respected than liked. It’s just that he’s such a fixture. He works in bold, day-glo colors, these expressionistic paintings of distorted trees, color meltdowns, land…
The cops lining the back wall of the Seaside council…
Performance artist Big Mike Geier opens the magical world of Puddles Pity Party for First City Fest.
Puddles is a little shy. A nearly 7-foot-tall clown …
Go to the inelegantly named Seaside website seasidemontereydownsandveteranscemeteryspecificplan.com. Search around for a schedule. It’s almost impossible to find. But with the help of a smart friend who scoured the city website, it looks like Seaside has put the Monterey Downs horse track/housing development/resort/blah blah on a fast-track to approval – before anyone has seen the environmental impact report (EIR), the draft of which is due by the end of this month.
“This whole area, this city is a racial powder keg,” one man at a protest in Ferguson, Missouri told the Los Angeles Times, two days after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. In an attempt to explain why the St. Louis suburb has been filled with de…
There’s a lot Salinas City Councilwoman Kimbley Crai…
Moonalice have played both West End and Jerry Garcia Night at Giants Stadium each of the last three years. (They play the West End Main Stage 3:30pm Sunday.) The San Francisco jam band, featuring three members of the extended Grateful Dead family, performed a set of Dead tunes on top of the …
>> For Hartnell College’s 8th Annual Summer ST…
SQUID FRY 08.21.14 - Zzzzoooom…
Amy Alkon (aka The Advice Goddess) writes a nationally syndicated advice column and is the author of the new book Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes say F*ck (St. Martin’s Griffin). The book has a chapter called “Eating, Drinking, Socializing,” with some interesting advice on food-re…
On one wall, electric pinks play tag with bright yel…
Dead Heads love the Grateful Dead, Dittoheads love R…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): An American named Kevin S…
