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A HOSTAGE SITUATION ENDED QUIETLY in the California Capitol on June 28, when lawmakers in Sacramento paid a hefty ransom to big soda companies.
On a rainy evening in April, one teenager in a room …
Carlos Rene Castro, 20, was born in El Progresso, Ho…
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie • Starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames • Rated PG-13 • 147 min.
It’s commonplace for musicians to foray into new genres these days, but for the Latin Jazz Collective it’s different: They don’t just reach out for a new genre here and there – the entire eight-piece ensemble was founded on merging Afro-Cuban rhythms with modern American jazz sensibilities.
Monterey insurance agent Ann Appel remembers the day…
California soul is groovin’, a bistro vibe rockin’ at Poppy Hall, a new culinary hotspot.
In 1906, the citizens of Pacific Grove proved to Sco…
When Amanda Nizza was at Pacific Grove High School, she took one of those typical student jobs, hosting for r.g. Burgers. She must have enjoyed the experience. Nizza – “pronounced like pizza,” she says with a laugh – now is a server at Passionfish in P.G. The role is more complicated than ju…
David Dilworth is enthusiastic about cosmology. He h…
In 1953, the Carmel Bach Festival was in its 18th ye…
A corrido is a Mexican ballad with a narrative that …
To help alleviate the region’s worsening housing cri…
When Monterey Bay Community Power was formed in 2017, Del Rey Oaks was the only city on the Monterey Peninsula to not join the carbon-free energy cooperative, despite a petition signed by about 200 of its residents asking that it do so.
WHEN HE’S TALKING ABOUT SODA, State Sen. Bill Monnin…
OIL MONEY… As Squid gears up for another season of the reality TV show that is Monterey County elections, Squid first decided to recap the June primary for kicks. Candidates had until July 31 to file campaign finance reports, and Squid thought it strange that Margaret Duflock, a South County…
I don’t know if you’ve seen the trailer yet for the …
Enrique Sosa had ambitions, and at age 14, he had started carving out a path for how he would fulfill them…
WHO’S IN TOWN?Making good decisions is hard, which is why some have tried boiling it down to formulas. The guys of HBO’s Silicon Valley hilariously used a SWOT – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats – matrix to decide if they should warn an annoying character about a dangerous st…
Imagine living in a town where you turn on your local station to see the news anchor reading a scripted segment criticizing other news outlets as “fake news.” Now imagine living in another town where your local news anchor reads from the same scripted segment. This is exactly what happened a…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that August wil…
