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There’s a feeling of intensity as soon as the lights go down at the beginning of La Pastorela. Audience members crowd into the pews of Mission San Juan Bautista, and cast members circle up in the back of the church, where they announce themselves by blowing into a conch shell that sustains a…
Something was changing on the picket lines of a grap…
It started out as a storage room and exhibition site…
Comic book stores used to be dusty enclaves for geek…
By day, Lisa Josephs is the National Steinbeck Center’s archivist, and Tara Spada its exhibits and events coordinator. By night they are co-organizers, with Salinas Public Libraries, of the Salinas Valley Comic Con.
Nestled under redwood majesty and a creamy blanket o…
Just steps from the Pacific Grove Butterfly Sanctuar…
The artist and animator has worked for Disney, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, as well as himself.
Maybe you’ve seen, or been in, or heard of, Critical…
The magic of the holidays is here again, and this time it’s hitting the Morgan Stock Stage hard with three performances by local singing outfit The Mistery Machine, performing Christmas Time is Here… Again!
Monterey City Council held a special closed-session …
On Aug. 8, Carmel drew a line in the white sand and …
Follow-up: What’s the strangest gift you have ever r…
WHO’S IN TOWN?In the frenzy of the holiday season there are some who are choosing to detach and take a deep breath. At the Esalen Institute, two leaders in the world of mindfulness take students on a Solstice Meditation Retreat. Mark Coleman, a teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Mar…
Michael Gomez always thought his clear-as-a-bell ten…
When you think of clean water, maybe crystal-clear bubbling brooks come to mind. Or maybe you think of stacks and stacks of paper, reports documenting various water quality metrics.
Heidi Diouf signs her new book The Superpower Playbo…
“There is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape of his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office. And a man who repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party.” -Al Franken, D-Minnesota, on the annou…
The holiday season can be a lot like journalism. The…
Blasted by 80-mile-an-hour winds that turned palm tr…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to a Sufi aphorism, you can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand people have called you a heretic. If that’s accurate, you still have a ways to go before you can be certified. You need a few more agitated defenders…
