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A Santa Cruz nonprofit is working on clinical trials to get MDMA in the hands of therapists to treat patients with severe PTSD. To read this week's cover story about how the FDA is reconsidering MDMA as mainstream medicine, pick up a copy of the Weekly available Nov. 2
“Loved to death” is a good phrase to describe Pt. Pi…
Appropriation from Native American culture is a stic…
The Laurie Morvan Band’s live shows are captivating …
On a Saturday morning at the Marina Teen Center, nine kids with acoustic guitars sit in a circle, their eyes trained toward sheets of music on the floor in front of them. They play a segment of music in unison as they warm up, but it sounds like a bit of a dissonant garble. Amy Novak Warren,…
At first glance, there’s no sign of the flooding tha…
Follow-up: What job would you love to have and why?
Whites for Racial Equity is hosting a local screening of Jeff Nichols’ 2016 film Loving, based on the couple at the heart of the 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which abolished state laws against interracial marriage.
In many ways, the success of the annual Internationa…
There’s is a movement afoot in classical circles involving both players and listeners, a resurgence of so-called “early music” performed on instruments from that historical period. European classical music had its best-known pieces written in the 1700s and 1800s, so early music has come to m…
Chadwick Brown has been at the helm of CB Brand’s va…
Half an hour before the Steinbeck Station Post Offic…
When the city of Monterey held a Zoning Administrato…
WHO'S IN TOWN?Fifteen years before Al Gore sounded the alarm bells about climate change with a slide show, Bill McKibben let the world know about it in his 1989 book The End of Nature. He went on to co-found one of the leading climate change organizations, 350.org. He’s been awarded the Righ…
When Melissa Smedley first heard the term “The Lettu…
Here are just a few of the names that AJ Alvero has been called in the past week…
Not too long ago I dedicated this space to an epicur…
Wait, there’s a difference between dabs and hash? - …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): America’s Civil War ended in 1865. A veteran from that conflict later produced a daughter, Irene Triplett, who is still alive today and collecting his pension. In the coming months, I foresee you being able to take advantage of a comparable phenomenon, although it …
