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Vista de la terraza is Spanish for “balcony view” and each of 40 apartments here comes with a balcony facing a surprisingly impressive landscape for low-rent housing. The Vista de la Terraza complex sits at the dead end of Carr Avenue in East Salinas, perched on an embankment overlooking gra…
Shell Oil’s icebreaker Fennica is apparently on its …
Last Saturday, the Center for Photographic Art (CPA)…
Laura Marling is a kinetic force. She hasn’t stayed …
Big Sur resident Meredith Gafill remembers back to the El Niño winter of 1997-98, when relentless storms repeatedly knocked out power, including her electric wall heater. The outages often lasted weeks at a time; she’d pull on multiple layers of wool socks to fight off the cold.
Logan Norton literally wandered into photography. Wh…
In just two months, the game has changed in Marina. …
Artist advocates for the oceans through sea-life murals, towering sculptures and kids’ education.
“What we do matters.” “We are many, they are few.” These phrases are what people trying to effect change often say quietly to avoid slouching into despair. Today, they are what crews of Bostonians are singing to one another over joyous toasts, confident that their actions just beat back the …
Three important things, in no particular order.
Tait Reed is succinct when describing his two-member…
The tent city in Salinas’ Chinatown neighborhood is a patchwork of bright blues and dirty whites, the colors of tarps erected as homes. Makeshift structures line the railroad tracks that run through the city. On one lean-to, a spice rack is mounted, full of culinary seasonings, above a dug-o…
If you type “Carmel” into VRBO.com, an online hub fo…
Directed by Jonathan Demme • Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Audra McDonald, Rick Springfield • Rated PG-13 • 102 min. • At Maya Cinemas, Century Cinemas Del Monte
Follow-up: If you were mayor, what would be your fir…
TURTLE TIME… Squid was cleaning out the lair and came across an overdue library book – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Canoeing and Kayaking. Squid oozed to the Salinas Public Library to clear the fine and pay a visit to Snappy Shelly Steinbeck, the library’s tortoise mascot who makes his home…
• This might be the very first public event of Car W…
At first the mission was more mechanical than mouthw…
In a recent column, you wrote that it takes 6 gallons of water per day to grow a cannabis plant. Is it that high? - Dro Savoire
The sand under the play structure at Durant Park, ne…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Charles de Lint is a nove…
