Song Bird: Music Connection Magazine wrote that Melissa Polinar “has a voice that is not only skilled and imaginative, but distinct in its ton…
When Melissa Polinar was only 18, Warner Brothers brought her on as a staff songwriter. But the music giant had no real clue about the secret …
Kicking Off: Carmel candidates air their views at a Carmel Residents Association forum in February, moderated by District Attorney Dean Flippo…
If only City Council meetings were as civil as campaign season in Carmel. Four candidates vying for two open council seats largely agree on th…
Film Noir: Mantle Sound Core says the best way to watch his surreal short film Girls 1980 is “in a dark room with the volume all the way up.”
Similar to electronica oddities like Deadmau5, the Santa Cruz musician known as Mantle or Mantle Sound Core doesn’t like to divulge his real n…
Subway Sushi: Critics have the 10-seat sushi joint of Jiro Ono (top, left), featured in the captivating documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, on p…
Every night, 85-year-old sushi chef Jiro Ono serves a menu of just sushi to only 10 lucky guests inside a tiny sushi bar located in a Tokyo su…
Mergers are Forever: Natividad CEO Harry Weis offers a lifetime guarantee on his proposal to merge with Salinas Valley Memorial. Above, he sho…
It takes an expert presentation to moisten eyeballs during three hours of PowerPoints on proposed hospital mergers and acquisitions.