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In her Carmel Valley studio, Brooke Weston rolls up the sleeves of her black and green flannel shirt, exposing colorful tattoos down her arms and across her knuckles. Straight blond hair falls loosely over her shoulders.
Sky Country frontman Nico Georis has a unique take o…
It can be outright alien what humans will do in the name of health…
It would be understandable to love mushrooms purely …
Kelly Watson Snyder looks to Washington, D.C., and w…
Imagine raw sewage oozing up from Carmel’s manhole c…
When Sheri Braden grabs a few potatoes from her pant…
I’ve marched in and organized many marches. So I supported but wasn’t planning on going to Washington, D.C. for the Jan. 21 Women’s March, feeling good that younger women were rightly leading this time around. As the time grew nearer, the march was growing beyond all expectations. I had to b…
First, a confession. I’ve lived in Seaside and Marina for three decades, and had never been inside the city-owned Monterey Sports Center…
Apologies to the Thighmaster, Jane Fonda, the Shake Weight and that machine that looped around the love handles…
On a geologic scale, some truly mind-bending stuff h…
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There are documentaries that are so vital that they …
It’s one thing to be the only living composer to eve…
Robert Earl Keen closes all his shows with the adore…
Before the sun begins to rise on any given weekday, …
As the race heats up among the contending desalination proposals that would serve the Monterey Peninsula, the region’s sole operational desal plant, in Sand City, is set for a revamp.
To understand why two CEOs of local hospitals shaking hands is a big deal, you have to go back a few years…
Follow-up: What’s something you couldn’t give up for…
Syrian refugee children have lived through years of …
PRIVATE EYES… Every time Squid drives along Canyon Del Rey, Squid dreams of taking a ride in the Del Rey Oaks Police Department’s MRAP – the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense’s surplus program and railroad heir James J. Hill III. As a DRO PD …
Grocery shopping has never struck me as a challenge,…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Westward Ho! is the name of a village in southwestern England. Its name is impressive because of the exclamation point. But it’s not as dramatic as that of the only town on earth with two exclamation points: Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, which is in Quebec. I invite you …