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Master sommelier is a difficult title to achieve. Jeffrey Birkemeier has been after it for 10 years.
Four stemmed glasses, a paper cup and two bags containing wine bottles wait on a table in an empty Salinas restaurant. It’s a clear, sharp, late-April morning, and Jeffrey Birkemeier settles into a chair and gazes for a moment at the arrangement.
That Michael Jacobi is retired hardly matters. While…
Gather ’round, horror movie fans, for an opportunity…
If Elsa, the magical ice-wielding princess of Annandale, were to write and produce her own indie album, she’d probably sound something like Katie Hazdovac. Born and raised in Pacific Grove, Hazdovac is evolving into her singer-songwriter career with the release of two singles this year – “Th…
Yong Soo Kim quietly lived alone in his one-bedroom,…
On a sunny Saturday afternoon on Oct. 14, a handful …
When husband-and-wife duo Bruce and Abbie Leeson lau…
The numbers are pretty staggering.
In a stunning win, construction students from Rancho…
Every June, makeshift booths pop up throughout Seasi…
Tenants of two farmworker apartment complexes, Tesoros Del Campo in Salinas and Vista Del Valle in Chualar, received a shock in August, when their landlord, the Housing Authority for the County of Monterey, sent out notices of potential rent increases of 400-500 percent, effective Jan. 1, 20…
On a sunny Saturday afternoon, dozens of children si…
This is not your regular children’s book. Addressed …
FREE SPEECHIndia’s most famous living author, Arundhati Roy, is being prosecuted by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of whom she has been critical. Roy has been known for her involvement in human rights and environmental causes, inducing a critique of the Indian treatment of M…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): JooHee Yoon is an illustr…
The events of recent days are unprecedented. The last time units of Jewish and Palestinian fighters went to battle on such a broad front in Israel-Palestine was 1948.
Paul Hawken is a doer and a thinker on a large scale…
