Issue Archive
In the U.S., we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents …
Charlie Costanza recalls a story involving a custome…
The Watsonville Film Festival is a superb excuse to …
Directed by Denis Villeneuve • Starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto • Rated R • 163 min.
Lately, Kim Boekbinder has found it difficult to perform her post-punk electronica anthem “Pussy Grabs Back.” And it has nothing to do with the aforementioned word in the title – not in reference to a cat – which is uttered more than 30 times in the three-and-a-half-minute tune.
When Marina resident Joanne Bowman first started vol…
The CEO of General Pencil makes a point of keeping manufacturing in the USA.
The Monterey Library doesn’t just grant you access t…
It would be tempting to think the Hawaiian pop band Kalapana so-named itself to memorialize the eponymous village on Hawaii’s Big Island that was buried by lava when the Kilauea volcano erupted in 1990. But the band’s lead singer and co-founder Malani Bilyeu says otherwise.
On its last visit here, the Miró String Quartet was …
On any given lunch at Monterey High School, students…
Over the last two years, The Marine Mammal Center ha…
Follow-up: If you won the lottery, but could only buy things starting with one letter of the alphabet, what three things would you buy?
Since 2011, three people have died while under the c…
Here is a mobius strip bit of arts and culture news. Part of the opening night performance of Philip Glass’ Days and Nights Festival on Sept. 29 had a percussionist doing non-traditional drumming, including using balled up pages of a newspaper. Upon further inspection, those pages were revea…
I fell asleep Sunday night in an apartment in Manhattan, where I’ll be staying for a little while this month, and as I drifted off…
If the island-crushing climate chaos and mass murder…
I like to smoke weed in my car. Not while I am driving, or before I drive, but usually after I get to my destination before I walk into wherever I am going. Is that cool? - Hot Box Harry
In January 2018, contractors working for the U.S. De…
The years since the Sept. 11 attacks have seen myria…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You wouldn’t expect a 5-y…
