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A handful of heady restaurants give Monterey County hope – and flavor – without wheat.
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A handful of heady restaurants give Monterey County hope – and flavor – without wheat.

  • Updated Feb 23, 2024

Sizzling Tastes: The gluten free crêpe flambées Suzette entertain tableside and on the tongue.

A handful of heady restaurants give Monterey County hope – and flavor – without wheat.
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A handful of heady restaurants give Monterey County hope – and flavor – without wheat.

  • Amanda Womack
  • Updated Feb 23, 2024

Imagine your diet without cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch or pasta for dinner.


Regional Project’s death breathes life into Peninsula mayors’ alternative.
News

Regional Project’s death breathes life into Peninsula mayors’ alternative.

  • By Kera Abraham
  • Updated May 16, 2013

The Regional Desalination Project has absorbed a series of blows since entering the ring in March 2010: public backlash, unmet financial oblig…

Local Spin | Opinion

Musings on an uninsured friend, Natividad’s Anthem issue.

  • By Mary Duan
  • Updated May 16, 2013

A good friend of mine has, for the past few months, suffered one of the worst chronic coughs I’ve ever heard. It started with a cold, and it’s…

Celtic trio Molly’s Revenge helps celebrate the birthday of Scotland’s most famous poet, Robert Burns.
Music

Celtic trio Molly’s Revenge helps celebrate the birthday of Scotland’s most famous poet, Robert Burns.

  • By Adam Joseph
  • Updated May 16, 2013

In 2004 and 2005, Molly’s Revenge performed at the Shanghai International Music Festival in China. The acoustic Celtic trio’s performances wer…

Seven of Monterey County’s greatest artistic minds will be honored at the seventh annual Champions of the Arts.
Arts & Culture

Seven of Monterey County’s greatest artistic minds will be honored at the seventh annual Champions of the Arts.

  • By Adam Joseph
  • Updated May 16, 2013

It’s not the kind of thing you expect to hear from a film professor. 


Secret Agent Meh: MMA star Gina Carano’s brawn meets director Steven Soderbergh’s brains – and it goes kind of Haywire.
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Secret Agent Meh: MMA star Gina Carano’s brawn meets director Steven Soderbergh’s brains – and it goes kind of Haywire.

  • By MaryAnn Johanson
  • Updated May 16, 2013

We’ve seen this movie before. A helluva lot. Secret agent/gun for hire/covert badass gets burned. Who did it? The bad guys? The colleagues? Th…

Extremely Long, Incredibly Annoying: 9/11 serves as a cheap gimmick in this film take on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel.
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Extremely Long, Incredibly Annoying: 9/11 serves as a cheap gimmick in this film take on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel.

  • By Dan Hudak
  • Updated May 16, 2013

“As with anything,” Thomas tells his nine year-old son Oskar, “if you want to believe, you can find reasons to.”


A screwball musician brings his unique passion to Pacific Grove.
Music

A screwball musician brings his unique passion to Pacific Grove.

  • Leo Tushaus
  • Updated Mar 12, 2013

Different Key: After quitting his day job as an air conditioning repairman in the mid ’80s, Dick Hensold started growing out his beard, which …

A screwball musician brings his unique passion to Pacific Grove.
Music

A screwball musician brings his unique passion to Pacific Grove.

  • By Adam Joseph
  • Updated May 16, 2013

Composer, studio player, theater musician, teacher, multi-instrumentalist and 2006 Bush Artist Fellow Dick Hensold has always marched to the b…

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