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There is a recurring character in The Simpsons, a B-list actor who shows up in industrial and educational films with some variation of this greeting: “Hello. I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such films as Andre the Giant, We Hardly Knew Ye and Firecrackers: The Silent Killer.” He’s…
Comic books are a physical manifestation of a lot of…
Punk music spontaneously combusted mid-’70s when London’s Sex Pistols and New York’s Ramones gave their first concerts and dropped debut albums within weeks of one another. Most Europeans point to the Pistols as punk’s progenitor, while Americans (and especially New Yorkers) call The Ramones…
Mark Governor, an accomplished film score composer, …
Follow-up: if you had a megaphone to the world, what…
Sol Treasures is an arts center and gallery in King City founded eight years ago to make up for arts de-funding in area schools.
The Monterey County Board of Supervisors’ chamber was standing-room only the morning of Dec. 13, with about half of the audience there to bid farewell to supervisors Fernando Armenta and Dave Potter…
In her work as an art conservator – someone who uses…
Clumsy but almost synchronized tip-toeing gently rat…
The city of Salinas is embarking on its largest capi…
The sex, drugs, booze and other currencies of the rock and roll trade, often defined by excess and inhibition, were a little much for 15-year-old guitar prodigy Jonny Lang. He’d recently found international fame with Lie To Me, which topped Billboard’s New Artist chart in 1997, then found a …
This week’s cover story is all about comics, includi…
The beautifully appointed 2,000-square-foot home bui…
Nationwide, the number of farmers markets has quintu…
One self-imposed rule of this column: Don’t write ab…
Hey I heard you went to the Emerald Cup this past weekend. How was it? – Vic Arias
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Living is a form of not …