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The Gilroy Garlic Festival, and the town of Gilroy itself, are for the most part uniquely multicultural…
Of all the reasons given for evicting a tenant, part…
Tiffany Lologo reminisces on how, as a child, she wo…
In the opening scene of the 1995 post-apocalyptic ac…
Another incident of gun violence, close to home, children shot and killed…
The clear majority of people struggling with mental illness do not present a current or future risk of violence…
Every deputy on patrol in Monterey County is trained on active shooter response…
Where are we safe and how can we protect ourselves and our loved ones?
"The whole thing is crazy.” That’s John Steinbeck describing the United States in his 1966 essay collection America and Americans. “We built America and the process made us American – a new breed, rooted in all races, stained and tinted with all colors, a seeming ethnic anarchy. Then in a li…
Festivals link the members of a neighborhood, a city, a region, and turn them into a community…
A few years ago, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh spoke with Rolling Stone’s David Fricke on feeling Jerry Garcia’s presence in the music when performing Dead songs.
The old pool next to Water City Sports and Roller Ho…
The mid-’60s to mid-’70s were tough times for parent…
The news on July 19 came as a shock to the South Cou…
For several years, Jarod Ottley’s family worked a small cannabis farm in South County, originally under the medicinal marijuna law created by Prop. 215 in 1996. Later, after cannabis was legalized by Prop. 64 in 2016 and Monterey County created an ordinance regulating how and where cannabis …
It’s no coincidence that the traditional sports comp…
Directed by Quentin Tarantino • Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Rafal Zawierucha, Damon Herriman, Al Pacino, Dakota Fanning, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant • Rated R • 161 min.
Follow-up: What are your plans for this summer?
Last Sunday’s Salinas Obon Festival in Chinatown sho…
Three Monterey County farming companies, four mother…
On Sunday night, like everyone else in California an…
Dollars and Sense… A budget-conscious Squid is a happy Squid, and so it was that Squid took time over the weekend to square away the finances and figure out what should stay and what should go. Shrimp flakes for sprinkling over popcorn for extended Netflix-and-snack sessions? Stay. An ever-i…
He started as a teenager busing tables. Now Kevin Ph…
What’s the longest-running, original unadulterated strand of cannabis? - Earl E. Mann
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Dear Diary: Last night m…
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the Grimm brothers’…
