The Presidio of Monterey stirs slowly at this early hour. Cars trickle through the gates. The base – 140 acres of coastal California, home to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and one of the last active military installations in the county – holds its breath.

Heat Waves – the Nashville hot chicken pop-up operated out of chef Rudolfo Ponce’s eponymous restaurant in Pacific Grove – is usually mellow on Sundays, with a few diners grabbing their lunch from 11am to 6pm, or until they run out.

There’s an iconic scene in most Star Wars movies, which shows pilots in the cockpit of a spaceship looking out from massive windows into the nothingness of the universe. But once they flip their ship into lightspeed, the stars around them form streaks of light, demonstrating just how impossi…

On a sunny Monday afternoon, a group of young men are warming up on the grass at Monterey County Juvenile Hall in Salinas, jogging and stretching before touching a soccer ball.

A man sitting next to me glances at his phone and chuckles. He shows me a directive from his wife, sent via text. “You can sit in one, but don’t drive,” it reads.