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Tables are set with precision on crisp white tablecloths in the upstairs dining room of Montrio. Menus are tucked neatly into folded napkins – it’s a dressy affair. The crowd is youthful for the most part and fit, but no one is ready to sit just yet.
Marvin Green IV is a familiar face, at least for sta…
The location itself is a promise of success. The gig…
The powerhouse Central Coast Celtic trio Molly’s Rev…
FREE SPEECHAs Russia continues its unrelenting war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is disseminating disinformation, trying to persuade consumers of state news that the war of aggression is a liberation mission. In a darkly ironic twist, the Kremlin is increasing its stronghold on the media megaphone…
For over 40 years, the Soquel-based Ecological Farmi…
Over the summer of 2021, a new attraction got the attention of people in Marina: handcar tours, a ride on the abandoned train tracks that run along the west side of Highway 1 in a cart, pushed by up to four people using a seesaw motion.
Big Sur resident Dana Carnazzo flips through a yello…
As my life goes on as usual, it’s eerily easy to forget that Ukrainians are fighting a war for survival against Russian aggressors who invaded on a pretext of lies. Then I am reminded of the grim reality, and my mind follows a predictable cycle: I catch myself feeling fine while there is so …
It might be hard to tell on the basis of Japanese re…
RODENTS ON PARADE… Squid gets a lot of interesting press releases in Squid’s email inbox. And by “interesting” Squid means weird and pointless. Recently Squid received one such release from RatsOfCalifornia.com, launching a “Campaign To Tackle Growing Public Health Crisis.” It seems rats are…
In the past year, over 8,000 Monterey County low-inc…
Over the past two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, sp…
In 2018, before the County Board of Supervisors bann…
Godfather of soul James Brown was friends with Martin Luther King Jr. Serena Williams struggled before matching her sister Venus in tennis stardom. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was into women’s rights, and rapper Queen Latifah could probably whoop your ass in both karate and basketball. N…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Isak Dinesen…
