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In the last 10 years, the federal government has spent $17 million to encourage Americans to read books through a program called the Big Read. It’s administered by the National Endowment for the Arts, which brings the program into different communities across the country to foster more readi…
“Something’s Happening Here” is the aptly titled fir…
On a windy August afternoon, with patches of blue sk…
As the Fort Ord Reuse Authority is set to expire in …
The idea was first hatched in San Francisco, in 2005: Convert a metered parking space into a public park for one day, creating what has since become known as a “parklet.”
In the Salinas Valley, rows of crops stretch for mil…
The pioneering jazz drummer/composer brings a boatload of chops to the Monterey Jazz Festival.
As a controversial bill awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s ap…
As Car Week gave way to Labor Day, a very different version of star power was on display...
The festival packs in 659 artists on eight stages ov…
The B-52s began by way of the divine union of booze,…
Directed by Adam Wingard • Starring James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid • Rated R • 89 min.
Editor’s note: After White House Press Secretary Jos…
Follow-up: What older artist and newer artist would you like to hear collaborate?
Antonio Sanchez uses his drumset as therapy – a place he feels the safest, because he is in command of his emotions.
Jazz was America’s most popular music beginning in t…
Playing music, Davina Sowers says, is a basic necess…
The Friends of the Marina Library are throwing their…
During a city tour of Marina in a dusty Prius, Mayor Bruce Delgado points from the backseat to his beloved cafe, Coffee Mia, and Michael’s Taqueria, which he says has the best Mexican food in town. The three-term mayor seems to know Marina like the back of his hand. This November, he is up f…
In 1970, Nina Simone wrote a rallying cry of a song …
Cécile McLorin Salvant was riding the high of a firs…
The first surprise is the most striking: Where Monterey Marriott once housed a Starbucks and a Three Flags Cafe, a brand-new bar-restaurant now appears. The whole lobby, in fact, has been reinvented to feel less transactional and allow for more lounging, free Wi-Fi’ing, eating and drinking. …
A bowl of massaman curry after a day of free climbin…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): What should you do if you…
