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Three of America’s most acclaimed chamber musicians come together this weekend for the first of a two-concert project focused on offering public performances of all six of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano trios. Three of the six are performed this weekend, the others via a return visit in April …
Carmel painter Michael Snodgrass has a dog named Jac…
Whether you regularly attend or not, these classical…
Salinas Valley State Prison is no longer a maximum-s…
Talking loudly was the least of librarians’ concerns at the San Lucas Library, where graffiti became a nearly constant problem and librarians regularly found footprints on tables – and the ceiling. Eventually a sheriff’s deputy took to the library as a de facto field office.
Green Jelly is a word combination that subconsciousl…
The Nat Geo Live speaker knows elephants and Africa and wants to share their lessons.
Before Seaside City Manager Craig Malin was hired la…
After spending the day in the gallery at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2015, walking the links while watching some of the world’s top professional golfers yuck it up with celebrities, junior golf instructor Ryan Campbell and his girlfriend Tiffany Hayward went to the Tap Room for drinks.
Calloused hands twist and fold a leaf of New Zealand…
Bob Fitch was a photographer for the Southern Christ…
WHO’S IN TOWN?When about 300 community members from 24 institutions, mostly churches, convene in Seaside this week, they’ll be meeting not to worship but to strategize. Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA) is the local arm of the national Industrial Areas Foundation, l…
#NeverTrump is dead. Long live #NeverTrump.
Explosions, natural disasters and comic book heroes …
Jonathan Richman is a veritable audiophile cult hero. With his Boston-based band The Modern Lovers, he released the consummate proto-punk album The Modern Lovers in 1972. If you’re confused by the term “proto-punk,” don’t beat yourself up. “Proto” means before, and punk mean evokes the howli…
Follow-up: What’s your dream vacation destination?
To call the recent behavior of former Salinas Mayor and radicchio salesman Dennis Donohue “disappointing” would be a vastly insipid understatement, like calling the Kardashians self-obsessed…
For those still mourning the retirement of The Most Interesting Man in the World, there is some small consolation, and it happens right here in this corner of the globe, serendipitously enough.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Russian writer Anton Chek…