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Out of respect for his parents’ example, photographer and designer Jerry Takigawa didn’t delve into his family’s World War II-era Japanese-American internment ordeal until after they had died…
For Monterey Peninsula residents who take an interes…
The so-called Monterey Mural, created by artist Guil…
It was 1855, five years after California became a st…
Squirrel Nut Zippers founding member Jimbo Mathus avoids using “reunion” to describe the nine-piece collective’s return to the stage a couple years back.
The wife of former Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital …
Directed by Morgan Capps and Milann Spitzmiller • Not Rated • 88 min.
Whether painted on surfboards, skateboard decks or rectangular metal sheets, Phil Leonard’s handsome geometric abstractions look fast. Not that his work looks like it was easy to execute; the complex layers of color and pattern, sprayed in automotive urethane paints, clearly take both skill …
School was a week back in session at Pacific Grove H…
Laguna Seca’s CEO experienced a racing season of sorrow, success and promise for the future.
If he’s not at home in Monterey, he might be in the Serengeti, searching for herds of buffalo. Or leading a photography workshop while swimming with whales in Tonga…
In the mood for a Christmas war movie? Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas, en Francaise) is a 2005 epic about the unofficial, spontaneous and temporary ceasefire that halted fighting early in World War I, during which opposing soldiers convened in joint burials, exchanged gifts and played soccer. …
The curvature of knobby, sprawling tree roots has long been an invitation to photographers, serving as a natural seat for the human form. Edna Bullock saw that invitation…
Directed by Phil Johnston, Rich Moore • Starring John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Alfred Molina • Rated PG • 114 min.
Logan Mize was just 16 and living in rural Clearwate…
“If playing in bars and clubs were my only recourse, I’d have to rethink my life,” says musician Lou Barlow.
It can be difficult to make history come alive, and …
With Donald Trump’s apparent war on non-white immigr…
Zach Weston wants to go back in time with photography – back to the time of black-and-white film and the tangible process of doing everything by hand…
The Nov. 20 Salinas City Council meeting saw the council flip-flop on an ordinance temporarily banning labor contractors from placing H-2A farm laborers in residential neighborhoods.
John Malloway knows wine. He stocks select bottles – along with one of the county’s best collections of Port – at his shop, Monte Vista Wines & Spirits on Soledad Street in Monterey. But Malloway doesn’t drink wine, or anything alcoholic, for that matter. He has been sober for more than …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Every year the bird known as the Arctic tern experiences two summers and enjoys more daylight than any other animal. That’s because it regularly makes a long-distance journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again. Let’s designate this hardy traveler as yo…
On Nov. 14, in response to a New York Times story de…
