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Last June, Roxanne de Bastion played the Glastonbury Festival, one of the largest music gatherings in the world, with a Coachella-caliber bill that included everyone from Adele to Beck to Coldplay.
Monterey County’s director of social services talks about his after-hours hobby: rock climbing.
Follow-up: What’s a positive thing in your life right now?
WHO’S IN TOWN?Did you know that bile acids are enjoying a renaissance in the medical research world? We didn’t either, but according to the organizers of the Bile Acid Receptors as Signal Integrators in Liver and Metabolism (C1) conference, they are, thanks to some key discoveries made at th…
What began in 1980 as a Dixieland-only festival is n…
There is a movie at Maya Cinemas – sandwiched among blockbusters like Logan and The Lego Batman Movie, and vibrant black films like Fences, I Am Not Your Negro and Hidden Figures – that has special significance to us folks in Monterey County.
As recently as the early 1900s, Seaside was said to …
The imam of Mecca’s Grand Mosque has taken it upon h…
After he attended a volunteer training for President…
Standing up to power can be invigorating whatever your politics are, but it can also be tiring and depressing, which is why self-care is vital for activists, says Caroline Haskell, director of health and wellness services at CSU Monterey Bay.
You saw the Oscars? Well, the bit when Jimmy Kimmel …
I have some prejudices when it comes to extreme outd…
An announcement about ceramacist Ken Takara opening …
I spent a little bit of time the other morning helping a friend find a good immigration attorney. She’s European-American…
On Jan. 21, when thousands of marchers converged on …
Developer Harvey Dadwal has dreamed of building a ho…
On a recent Saturday afternoon at the Watsonville Pl…
Salinas police arrested 35-year-old Juan Govea on Dec. 15 on charges of statutory rape, alleging he had sex with a 17-year-old girl.
We assembled a partial list of examples of community…
The Trump era has begun. It was only a matter of tim…
The members of Crown Chakra believe that there’s a m…
Martha Karstens, chief of the Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade, has lived in Big Sur since 1971, and has seen her share of fire – and storm-related disasters. But she says the storms this winter – especially in the wake of last summer’s Soberanes Fire – have been the toughest disaster yet.
Travel up the narrow canyons surrounding Prunedale t…
It was dubbed a “waking dream,” and it delivered. Feathered acrobats leapt and cartwheeled and flipped along a moving conveyor belt, over and through obstacles with spellbinding synchronicity, as the belt’s circular stage spun clockwise. Women – stretched inside 6-foot-diameter rings – rolle…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that you will h…
