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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE’S STATION IN MONTEREY OPERATES 24 HOURS A DAY, 365 DAYS A YEAR, MOSTLY OUT OF SIGHT. While someone from the team of 24 meteorologists is always on, interpreting data to predict what’s coming – often moderate, pleasant, 60-something-degree conditions – sometimes t…
Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu is playing a Dvorák concerto in h…
Sweet peach iced tea deserves a still, sultry aftern…
Lobster thermidor will settle you onto a mound of pl…
On the corner of Midtown Lane and Main Street in dow…
Theoretically, the extraordinary series of atmospheric rivers that doused the Central Coast in late December and early January should have been a boon for efforts to divert water from the Carmel River and store it in the Seaside Basin for future use, a mechanism known as aquifer storage and …
Travis Pratt will be the first to tell you that comi…
Smooth roads are not just an aesthetic issue, they a…
Former and current employees of the Pebble Beach Com…
Pam Murakami’s new exhibit, Memories, Spirits and Heroes at Hartnell College Gallery in Salinas, is more than a collection. It’s the whole ceramic world of personalized Japanese mythology, inhabited by creatures like kappa, one of many yōkai, a reptilian water demon who kidnaps babies at wor…
The city of Gonzales started the new year with a new…
When the four-member Del Rey Oaks City Council conve…
DEEP HOLE… While oozing around Monterey County in Squid’s jalopy, Squid has been generally impressed by how fast crews show up to clear storm damage. Downed tree? Cue the chainsaws. Sinkhole big enough to swallow a child? Cue the Jan. 10 contract between the city of Salinas and Don Chapin Co…
That the United States military has its sights clear…
For the official ceremony installing her as presiden…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries director Francis Ford Coppola was asked to name the year’s worst movie. The question didn’t interest him, he said. He listed his favorite films, then declared, “Movies are hard to make, so I’d say, all the other ones were fine!” Coppola’s comments remind me o…
On Feb. 15, 2003, in hundreds of cities across the w…
I joined some 200 members of the California press co…
SAY RAMEN… Ko Ko Ro opened this week in Seaside. The ramen and sushi shop is still working out the kinks – including staffing issues that left it shuttered for the day on Feb. 14 – but promises fresh seafood and cold beer. Ko Ko Ro replaces the short-lived Crab Bucket on the corner of Broadw…
