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A close look at how and why the SPCA for Monterey County puts down so many animals.
An open mic event like Networking Aloud is an invita…
It sounds like it comes from a lost Merle Haggard B-…
The Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series is taking a hiatus this summer and its host, Henry Miller Library, has opened up the space for others to fill. The first is the Flying Robot International Film Festival, which is all about drones.
First came the classes. As they have for 35 years, a…
A seventh-grader unearths the history of Japanese-American baseball during World War II.
The Arts Council for Monterey County has launched a …
The death of Muhammad Ali will undoubtedly move people’s minds to his epic boxing matches against Joe Frazier or George Foreman, or there will be retrospectives about his epic “rumbles” against racism and war…
Follow-up Describe your life in three words.
Phil Bergman’s office is like no other.
On the evening of June 1, when about 250 people gathered in the Wedgewood Wedding & Banquet Center at Rancho Cañada Golf Club, it should have been a celebratory, or at least a civilized, exercise in democracy…
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ message about taking mo…
A century ago, before the wetlands of the Salinas Valley were drained to make way for farmland, Carr Lake was the largest of a seven-lake system, which flowed into Elkhorn Slough and out to Monterey Bay. In the 1920s, the lake became 480 acres of farmland, where lettuce is the primary crop t…
The truffle chips, glowing garlic bread, towering BL…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Mythologist Joseph Campbell analyzed fairy tales for clues about how the human psyche works. For example, he said that a fairy tale character who’s riding a horse is a representation of our relationship with our instinctual nature. If that character drops the reins…
