Issue Archive
Some things about the 101-Word Short Story contest are as certain as, say, the Carmel Residents Association opposing live music permits.
Same routine every Friday, the afternoon stop at Sav…
Benner Stumpf, the VP of HR, believed the 360 Review…
The New Year’s Eve activities of the 22nd annual Fir…
The year gone by has been big for the Coffis Brothers & The Mountain Men, their biggest yet. On Halloween, the Americana rockers opened for Brothers Comatose on the main stage of the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, around two years after singer-guitarist Kellen Coffis saw Salinas native/jam band…
Where once vaults held $100 bills, there is now a st…
It all started with howling. The deer of Pacific Gro…
When Monterey native Matt Hable jumped back into the…
In Del Rey Oaks, property deals seem to fall through faster than deals to acquire old Pentagon property. The city still owes $700,000 to Federal/JER Associates, the now-bankrupt Washington firm that envisioned building a golf course, hotel and condos on DRO’s portion of the former Fort Ord.
Here’s a line that may sound familiar: Residents of …
The hardworking staff at the Visiting Nurse Associat…
Jayanti Addleman is the librarian who leads the fisc…
➔ Spending Christmas at the movies? In the fallout f…
So gift-getting left you penniless. No problem. Put …
Tons to cover and not a lot of space, so here is my year in review, part one, featuring my five most compelling stories from January through July, in no particular order...
A national conversation on issues of race and police…
Sometimes the enemies you fear are not in some far o…
Follow-up: What role does imagination play in your life?
CLYDE SHOW… Not much surprises Squid, but when Monte…
Benedict Cumberbatch is an excellent arse. His Sherlock – cold, complex, insensitive and rude – has won hearts around the world, despite of (or maybe for) being an insufferable jerk. So it’s no surprise Cumberbatch pulls off so winningly the tragic tale of the brilliant, and somewhat unconge…
With the salad days of summer behind us and dark, co…
I’m standing in the center of the ice rink in downto…
The sounds of friendly conversation at the Monterey …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Hell is the suffering of being unable to love,” wrote novelist J.D. Salinger. Using that definition, I’m happy to announce that you have a good chance of avoiding hell altogether in 2015. If there has been any deficiency in your power to express and bestow love, I…
