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Common is one of the most respected rappers walking the Earth. His sales may not necessarily reflect that…
Kandace Springs has no idea where she is. All she knows is she is at an “industry” party somewhere in the Hollywood Hills…
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau was recorded at the famed Avatar Studios in New York City over a frantic three-day period that…
When pianist Gerald Clayton talks about jazz, he distills it down to its most basic components. “It’s the same 12 notes for everyone,” he says…
Fleet Foxes’ venerable self-titled debut was arguably the best overall album of 2008, topping just about every year-end “Best of” list, including rankings from Pitchfork Media, Rolling Stone and The Guardian, which proclaimed the record “a landmark in American music – an instant classic.”
On a sunny Tuesday morning, husband-and-wife duo Rog…
Before appearing at Monterey Jazz Festival, the bassist riffs on travel, songwriting and social media.
The aspiration is this: a Stephen King movie adaptation that actually lives, breathes, and renders you insensate from lack of sleep, just as the source material did. Stranger Things have happened. It, based on King’s 1986 best-seller that, at 1,489 pages, currently functions as a bookend for…
When California American Water changed its rate stru…
It’s a rare Big Sur property that combines redwoods,…
Four years ago, retired judge John Phillips kicked o…
Poinsettias, an ornamental Christmas plant, usually require placing orders months ahead. But when Steve McShane got a call from his poinsettia supplier in early August, he knew something was up.
There’s a difference, Evan Marsh tells me, in how th…
While memories abound from jamming at the Hyatt in M…
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From SpectorDance’s Ocean Trilogy and East West dance pieces and the Monterey County Artists Open Studio Tour in September, to the lush and swinging Pink Martini and the fantastical Salinas Valley Comic Con in December, the Fall Arts Preview Calendar (p. 26) helps you track down the best of …
Suzka Collins used to live in Sand City, her base fr…
When I used to frequent the IHOP and other such establishments with my homies, I would raise eyebrows by eating the parsley that garnished my plate. Not the delicate flat-leafed parsley, but the curly kind that tastes like green steel wool. “Nobody eats the parsley,” I was informed, erroneously.
One of the biggest global forces in food is trying i…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two animals are pictured …
