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On a recent Friday afternoon, Sand City Mayor David Pendergrass sits shotgun in a city-owned Ford Expedition, giving a city tour that was set up the day before. City Administrator Todd Bodem is behind the wheel, driving north up California Avenue, past the Edgewater Shopping Center.
When Amazon drops off a package at your home, it’s a…
Directed by Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane • Starring Ellen DeGeneres, Ed O’Neill, Albert Brooks • Rated PG • 103 min.
In late March, the city of Salinas hired a handful o…
Monterey painter and multimedia artist Mel Barrett saw few opportunities on the Peninsula for emerging artists like herself, so she created one.
As much fun as Vincent Randazzo has had playing lead…
Different diets work for different people. That is o…
Monterey County Public Defender Jim Egar is out. But…
Locals in the know consider sculptor Edmund Kara one of Big Sur’s most illustrious and secretive artists. He was the exclusive dressmaker for Lena Horne for three years and worked in the wardrobe and costume departments for Universal and Paramount Studios in the 1950s. But he switched to woo…
The doctor, author and palliative care expert is ready to take the end-of-life conversation further.
At the heart of the SPCA is a simple principle. Never turn any animal away…
Blood is on my mind. Forty-nine people. Forty-nine bodies moving to the beat of music, 49 hearts pulsing with joy on a dance floor. But the bullets…
If spending a Sunday afternoon with an adult beverage in one hand and gourmet foodstuffs in the other while listening to top-shelf blues players in a beautiful location sounds good, this is a worthy Father’s Day celebration.
Andrew DeRossett first met James Rossi while he was …
“Are you ready to expand your mind and test your limits of mayhem?” That’s improv comedy troupe Off-the-Cuff Productions asking. They’re inviting folks 18 and older to join them every Thursday, 6-7pm, at Monterey YMCA for lessons in improv by Mirth-O-Matics director Rich Westbrook. Email spe…
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber • Starring Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Danielle Nicolet • Rated PG-13 • 144 min.
When the California Coastal Commission met Feb. 10 i…
CalSTRS cut pensions for dozens of retired Salinas teachers. Now they’re fighting to get it back.
Down Big Sur’s coast, a descendant of President Warren G. Harding proves a well-hidden scandal was true.
CON TRAILS… There are times, Squid admits, when Squid wants to be someone else. This past Election Day is one example, when Squid donned a human disguise in an effort to vote at the ballot box. (A trail of slime gave Squid away.)
All too often $11 can’t get you a beer at a baseball…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming months will be…
