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The Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) has been a hub for all things artsy since its inception in 1982. In 2016, the organization held a breakfast with artists and art supporters, whose number-one complaint was no affordable art studio space around. Arts4MC came up with an idea to fi…
In January 2017, Monterey County was hit with an ons…
About 100 people rallied outside of a Pajaro Valley …
On Tuesday, March 19, Salinas City Council voted unanimously to appoint René Mendez as the city manager, filling the city’s top staff position.
Cecily Salazar is a doula, a non-medical support per…
Despite a German-sounding last name, Catherine Stihl…
Tommy Castro is known for his relentless approach – …
ONE CAN CONSUME THE WORK OF DAVID WHYTE IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, from reading – his books of poetry (11 of them to date), essays (he is working on his second volume) or prose – or by tuning into online events to watch and listen, including to his frequent guest appearances on podcasts or his …
Alfredo Estrada was born and raised in a Mexican fam…
Hidden somewhere in Pacific Grove are priceless arti…
There is not just a story behind every cocktail on t…
FREE SPEECHIt’s typical for social media companies to collect and store users’ data. ByteDance, the China-based owner of TikTok, is no exception. But U.S. lawmakers have long had the app in their sights due to fears that ByteDance could turn over user information to the Chinese government. O…
Sol Treasures, an art hub in King City serving South…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I suspect you will soon have far more beginners’ luck than you ever thought possible. For best results, you could adopt what Zen Buddhists called “beginner’s mind.” That means gazing upon everyone and everything as if encountering it for the first time. Here are ot…
One week before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, P…
Her grandmother always insisted that education was the key to opportunity, and Rolla Alaydi took the message quite literally.