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Beyond forming a coalition that could activate volunteers to get out the vote and do advocacy work, a new cultural era for gay life in the Salinas Valley was fomenting in the 2000s…
“Sometimes we have to go through bad things to end up at the places we’re supposed to be.”
After 12 years working in agriculture, Macias now works as a community worker for California Rural Legal Assistance’s LGBTQ+ program and understands first-hand the struggles her clients…
WE BEAT ALVAREZ BY EIGHT POINTS. Some of our JV wres…
Lunchtime at Salinas High School is a flurry of activity: the slamming of lockers, the crowding of bathrooms, the adjusting of Airpods. The school’s logo, an S and silhouetted cowboy, adorns the cheerleading uniforms and football jerseys of students anticipating Saturday’s game.
Maybe you’ve seen it on your way to the Monterey Spo…
The parking lot of the Foods Co. shopping center on …
These days, stage fright is not a problem for Chicag…
For 24 years, business partners Kevin Hartley and Weldon Webb operated After Dark on Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey. They remember customers running in at night to avoid being seen coming or going from the region’s only gay bar. “Things have changed tremendously since we opened, for the bette…
A Filipino immigrant living in Salinas finds his dinner – and himself – out on the water.
People of different genders and sexual orientations have always existed, but the labels they use have changed…
Many are those virtuosic players who, regardless of …
It was a surprise inspection that brought a pair of …
Michael Franti is a modern-day Renaissance man. Sinc…
CARMEL ART ASSOCIATION, Dolores between Fifth and Sixth, Carmel. 624-6176, carmelart.org
Elin Kelsey, who lives part time in Monterey, is a p…
At first, the area was known as Sargenta-Ruc, a Nati…
When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announ…
At Rippling River, the Carmel Valley apartment compl…
Did they or didn’t they? You know they did, but some…
Do you shop at a Kroger supermarket? Or maybe at Foo…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself,” wrote poet André Breton. I think that’s an excellent principle to put at the top of your priority list in the coming weeks, Aries. To be in maximum alignment with cosmic rhythms, you should…
