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There’s something primal about grilling. This is, after all, the original form of cooking – the activity that arguably distinguishes humans from other members of the animal kingdom. The concept is simple: Make a fire, put food on top of that heat, then voila. Of course things have evolved, w…

Many of the performers at Cali Roots have toured or played together before, regularly draw on each other for inspiration, and think of the event as an extended family reunion…

PRIUS EXPRESS… Squid’s a big believer in snail mail, and likes to communicate with friends by postcard – sometimes they take longer than expected to arrive, but that’s part of the charm. But they always arrive.

From the time they were constructed in the 1960s until their retirement in the mid-1990s, the pair of 500-foot-tall smokestacks at the coastal edge of Moss Landing sent plumes of smoke into the air, sometimes raining soot from the Moss Landing Power Plant onto the boats docked nearby. The to…