Issue Archive
In its earliest days, the paper that would become the Monterey County Weekly was billed as the “easy-going entertainment guide.” Today the news component is as robust as ever, but the so-called “back of the book” sections – events calendar, food and drink, movies, arts, music – has kept pace…
The community has spoken, and State Parks has listen…
Monterey County was a vast region with many remote, …
Big Sur is clearly one of the greatest spots on eart…
Kevin Phillips keeps busy as managing partner of four popular restaurants, Abalonetti Bar & Grill, Big Fish Grill and the Whaling Station in Monterey, as well as Beach House on Lovers Point in Pacific Grove. But in 1988 he was in his second year as food and beverage director at Carmel Va…
A former Monterey mayor and retired attorney reflects on the highs and lows of public service.
The first edition of Coast Weekly opened with a trou…
The former city manager and former community service…
It’s a Wednesday afternoon and Steven Wright is stuck in Durham, North Carolina with nothing to do. Three September shows were postponed thanks to Hurricane Florence, and now the rescheduled date is on hold as another storm approaches.
To say Charlie Higuera loves being a butcher is an u…
Pete Scudder was 25 years old in 1982 when he and hi…
Duke Quinones, owner of Vapor Sudden Service Cleaner…
In 1982, Peter Blackstock bought the Leslie Motors car dealership (which had opened in 1965) and changed its name to Victory Toyota. Victory was a good name. So was Toyota… eventually.
Legendary performer and dog lover Doris Day had one …
30 years in the history of a local, independently owned business is no mere blink of an eye…
DAWSON COLE FINE ART, Lincoln at Sixth, Carmel. 800-972-5528.
When a client walks into the March Hare salon in Car…
Carmel Realty Company specializes in high-end, bouti…
Jewelry has come a long way since John Bonifas began…
In the pantheon of long-lived businesses in Monterey County – and not only for the purposes of this issue in which we’re highlighting businesses as old or older than the Weekly, but also in general – the law firm of Noland Hamerly Etienne & Hoss may be one of the oldest around. Establish…
When Andy Matsui came to Northern California from Ja…
Hayward Lumber is about to celebrate 100 years in Mo…
Kelly Sorensen’s original intent for starting On The…
In 1930, after immigrating from Italy to the U.S., Louise and Victor Molinari moved from San Francisco to Salinas, and Louise got work cleaning houses. After 21 years of cleaning, she was ready for a more stable schedule, and transitioned with her husband and brother-in-law to making and sup…
The property owned by Tanimura & Antle in Spreck…
There are some things in life that just appeal to ev…
In an era filled with big box stores that have low p…
Jesse Banda started the Salinas Valley Comic Con in 2017, then left and launched the Central Coast Pop Expo in 2017, also a broad tent for comics, movies, novels, video games and cosplay. It inhabits Cocoanut Grove at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 10am-5pm Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20-21, with …
When Carmel turned 100 years old in 2016, local thea…
Thirty years ago seems like forever ago. Clint Eastwood was mayor of Carmel in 1988 (Sonny Bono was elected mayor of Palm Springs, too), Congressman Jimmy Panetta was only 19 years old…
If you’re drinking local wine in Monterey County, it’s only a matter of time until you run into grapes from the Santa Lucia Highlands. These grapes are usually Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and like SLH, you’ll hear about them a lot around here.
The Santa Lucia mountain range, formed over millions…
Sometimes pizza is more than just pizza. Hot cheese …
Restaurants come and go as trends ebb and flow here …
Fermin Sanchez sits on “The Bench,” a wooden seat just outside one of the entrances to Bruno’s Market & Deli in Carmel. Every few minutes someone – a customer, supplier or employee – stops to chat with this longtime owner. He welcomes each person by name with a warm smile and friendly greeting.
Once there were five Chinese teenagers from the same…
Every once in a while, Mother Nature turns on Nepent…
A lot has changed since a bar first opened on the co…
There’s a myth about El Charrito, the joint on Market Street in Salinas where the line for juicy chile verde burrito or a chicken bowl loaded with veggies and beans frequently snakes through the store, out the door and down the sidewalk. And that myth centers on the soft, warm flour tortilla…
Monterey mainstay Red’s Donuts must be doing somethi…
Since Rio Grill’s founding in 1983, a lot has stayed…
Perhaps Vince Poma’s business philosophy could be su…
The Sardine Factory celebrated its 50th birthday on Oct. 2.
Last year was one of acrimony for Monterey Peninsula…
At the top of a proposed contract that accounting fi…
FOLLOW-UP: What would you like to see happen in the …
SMOKE SIGNAL… The world, it seems to Squid, is going crazy these days, and whether it’s a fire, flood or journalist getting murdered, it seems another depressing story is always right around the corner. Or as Squid has heard some refer to the state of affairs, it’s a dumpster fire, and the o…
In the early 1970s, accountants Doug Hayashi and War…
