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Camilo Jose Vergara photographs the streets, storefronts, buildings and blocks of poor cities again and again, the same spots, year after year, in a process called re-photography. He returns to the same locations for decades. Over time, the evolution or de-evolution of a location can reveal …
Dan Diaz probably never have expected his face would…
Experiencing SambaDá live is like being catapulted i…
White nitrogen gas swirls around my body. I’m standing up, naked, in a cryogenic chamber smaller than a phone booth. Rubber booties and gloves keep my feet and hands tolerably warm while the rest of my skin prickles with goosebumps.
Between his poetry and paintings and veganism and meditation, Tong P. Kim is an interesting cat.
The health and fitness field is rife with misinformation and myth. Who can one trust? How about a couple of Ph.D.s? Kent Adams is a professor and chair of CSU Monterey Bay’s Kinesiology Department and director of the Exercise and Physiology Lab. Trish Sevene is a fellow professor and director of CSUMB’s Anatomy and Physiology Lab.
If one were to stroll down the sidewalk on Monterey’…
Andre Thierry is on a mission to coin a new musical genre: alt-Creole. The 35-year-old Grammy-nominated musician describes it simply as a blend of traditional and modern, only not as something he does consciously.
Time for a lunchtime jog. I plan to try out a brand-new Jawbone UP, a black bracelet designed to track my fitness in different ways – how far and fast I go, how many steps I take, how many calories I burn.
The ridiculously fit woman looking me over with a bit of mischief in her eye makes a prediction about my future. She is so right and so wrong at the same time.
Salinas native Mike Holland, who asks that I refer to him as “Jazzer Dude,” first came to Jazzercise in the 1980s, the era of fabulous fitness and heyday of the Jane Fonda workout video.
There is a saying in the Gyrotonic discipline that goes like this: “Stop moving, and you die.”
For a while, an older kid would follow sixth-grader …
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The map at explosive-crude-by-rail.org shows the Uni…
Michael Gaither is pissed. The City Council voted in…
Ita (pronounced EE-tah) Pantilat can bench press almost twice her weight. She considers a brisk hour walk to and from the gym a nice way to warm up and cool down in preparation for benching and dead lifting hundreds of pounds. If she’s training for competition and finds she’s hungry, she drinks water. There doesn’t seem to be an undisciplined strand of DNA in her body.
Going up into bird pose takes a little nerve. I have to drop my weight forward onto Jennifer Haydu’s feet and hands and trust her to support me as she’s laying on her back. From there, I raise my chest up and my arms out to the side like wings, all while she balances me on my hip bones.
With the dramatically shifting landscape of health care insurance coverage for many Americans, it would be tempting to simply state the obvious: More coverage for more people equals more business for hospitals.
Follow-up: What health trend do you view as silly or…
ABOVE WATER… Squid is ashamed to admit it, but Squid sometimes feels a pang of jealousy that Seaside’s city logo is an undersea rival, the seahorse. Like Squid, seahorses have excellent vision and a taste for shrimp. Like Squid, they defy typical gender roles. (Male seahorses are the ones th…
Mackerel seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it propositio…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Is there a patron saint o…
