Issue Archive
1. Our oceans are acidifying – even if the nightly news hasn’t told you yet.
The Upright Citizens Brigade began life in 1990 as i…
Tom Russell hopes his ambitious forthcoming folk ope…
A new waste hauler is taking over Peninsula trash ne…
A young man was in his 20s when a recent accident left him with irreversible brain damage. As if that weren’t enough suffering, his parents were disputing the proper course of action: Should they keep providing health care?
His well dates back to 1884 and is only 15 feet deep…
Almost 20 years ago, Sarah-Mae Nelson started volunt…
The death of a family member is difficult enough to …
Don’t tell Hollywood I said this, but chopping the final novel of the Hunger Games trilogy into two films might be the best thing that could have happened to this franchise. It didn’t work forHarry Potter – the first Deathly Hallows film was terrible – and Peter Jackson is already two-thirds…
In a recent encounter between Fox’s Bill O’Reilly an…
Trapped in the midst of listcicles like “17 Signs You’re in Love with Grilled Cheese and Didn’t Realize Until This Moment” and “11 Delicious Reasons Why Pie is Better Than Cake,” BuzzFeed.com has been conjuring some serious journalism. The infotainment site/timesuck, under direction of Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith, launched an investigative unit in 2013 and hired Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Schoofs to run it. (As an aside, I heard Schoofs, who won the 2000 Pulitzer for International Reporting for a series on AIDS in Africa, speak at a conference over the summer. He’s a hardass, in a magnificent way. “Reporting begins,” he said, “when a source says ‘no.’” Amen to that.)
If comedy troupe The Upright Citizens Brigade was th…
Otis Williams felt fame hit in February 1965, after …
The video shows an 8-year-old boy, suited up in shou…
No one said the newspaper business is easy. Especially not in little Pacific Grove, where the owner of a community paper is grappling with debts to three other newspapers in bankruptcy court.
(Photo) "A Tree Grows in the Swamp" by Sylvia Gardne…
THE RACE CARD… Squid admits to being obsessively devoted to a few good things in life, like shrimp-garnished cocktails, the 2016 election predictions (it’s never too soon!) and NPR. Just hearing the voice of Michele Norris calms this cephalopod’s highly developed nervous system.
Come spring Weekly readers have the tricky task of d…
It’s just before 7am on a Wednesday in Seaside, and …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Someone on Reddit.com posed the question, “What have you always been curious to try?” In reply, many people said they wanted to experiment with exotic varieties of sex and drugs they had never treated themselves to before. Other favorites: eating chocolate-covered …
