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A music concert is a fleeting moment. An adventure in anticipation, freedom, music, emotion and release. An odyssey that can involve a crescendo of events: getting the tickets, hanging out in the parking lot before the show, standing in line with fellow fans, fording scalpers and security; b…
From Ozzy biting the head off of a live bat to Iggy …
Mavis Staples remains humbled by her 75th birthday c…
If movie-world think pieces are any indication, American Sniper is the latest fact-based movie that simply isn’t going to be allowed to be a movie. We’re apparently not allowed to talk about it without worrying about whether it smooths over the rough edges of its primary subject, Navy SEAL C…
It’s just not going to happen in time.
The Arts Council for Monterey County supports more t…
On a sunny Monday afternoon, spry soccer players kic…
There’s a lot to love about Monterey County Gives!, starting with the local nonprofit agencies well worth enthusiastic support.
As a physical science teacher at Seaside High, Hebar…
ShadyLady began, esoterically enough, as Simone van …
The land-use watchdog LandWatch resolved one battle …
The line between comedy and tragedy has always been a razor-thin one, which may be one of the reasons that comic actors reach toward the farthest and most morose poles when they turn to drama.
As students across Monterey County settle back into …
➔ Juan L. Sanchez performs a “concert” of Spanish po…
This might sound like a case of one neighbor squealing on another. Or one pet hogging the neighborhood. But it’s also the story of an 11-year-old boy’s beloved pet pig being taken away.
To make sense of the senseless, we tell ourselves st…
The woman at the back of a packed room in Seaside’s Oldemeyer Center said she’s lived in Seaside for more 30 years. She’s seen her high-school contemporaries from the 1990s in the news – not for their accomplishments, but for their murders. And she wants to know why nobody seems to be paying attention to the issue of money.
Follow-up: What’s the farthest you’ve ever traveled …
One Bq is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. - Wikipedia
I blame the Rock Scully memorial benefit last weeken…
When Monterey city officials welcomed California Governor Vicente de Sola in 1815, they presented him with the finer things: olives from San Diego, oranges from San Gabriel and wines from San Fernando. They entertained him with shows of horsemanship. And a bear-and-bull fight.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never make anyth…
