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Quick Bites: Another celestial wine festival in the sky, MEarth mirth, drama on Ocean Avenue and free wine.
Eat + Drink

Quick Bites: Another celestial wine festival in the sky, MEarth mirth, drama on Ocean Avenue and free wine.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • May 12, 2015

A Pinot freak’s mandatory bucket-list mission comes 1-4pm Saturday, May 16, as vintners pour their favorite rare vintages at scenic Mer Soleil…

Ranking the finest specialty foods in Monterey County.
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Ranking the finest specialty foods in Monterey County.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Apr 20, 2015

The biggest joy from this year's Best of Monterey County Readers Poll was not standing on the top of Bixby Bridge in a giant bottle costume. (…

Daniel Boulud on #PBFW, shocking the world and what makes him feel alive.
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Daniel Boulud on #PBFW, shocking the world and what makes him feel alive.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Apr 9, 2015

Turns out, in addition to being a world-beating chef/restaurant owner, with seven restaurants in New York City alone (including Michelin two-s…

MPUSD teachers' union reaches landmark contract agreement with district.
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MPUSD teachers' union reaches landmark contract agreement with district.

  • David Schmalz
  • Mar 25, 2015

Some say the last time Monterey Peninsula Unified School District teachers had a multi-year contract was in the early '90s. 

Cal Am lightens the terms of its own proposal to extend the state's Carmel River cutback order.
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Cal Am lightens the terms of its own proposal to extend the state's Carmel River cutback order.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Mar 11, 2015

California American Water officials have admitted they're not going to hit the state’s January 2017 deadline to cut back 70 percent of its pum…

A Bitter List: 14 funny things comedian Lewis Black told us.
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A Bitter List: 14 funny things comedian Lewis Black told us.

  • Mark C. Anderson, Adam Joseph
  • Updated Feb 4, 2015

"If you don’t think [God] has a sense of humor," Lewis Black told the Weekly last month, "why did he create us?"

The world’s angriest comedian returns to Monterey, rage intact and ready to take on, well, everything.
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The world’s angriest comedian returns to Monterey, rage intact and ready to take on, well, everything.

  • Adam Joseph
  • Updated Feb 4, 2015

Lewis Black’s enraged rants, laced with sarcasm, cynicism, rhetoric, frustration and four-letter words help him connect with his audience. At …

Eleven tasty predictions for Monterey County food in 2015, including word on five new restaurants.
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Eleven tasty predictions for Monterey County food in 2015, including word on five new restaurants.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Jan 14, 2015

Like ol' life coach Tony Robbins says, change is inevitable. Progress is optional. 

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The CIA’s torture program architects create a contrived debate, and journalists are complicit.

  • Reed Richardson
  • Dec 18, 2014

After several years and numerous bureaucratic roadblocks, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence finally published a – shortened, partial…

That water memo wasn’t the only Monterey Downs document we got.
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That water memo wasn’t the only Monterey Downs document we got.

  • Mary Duan
  • Dec 18, 2014

Last weekend, as detailed online and in a print news story (p. 15), the Weekly was given exclusive access to a confidential attorney memo accidentally released as part of a sweeping Public Records Act request by the activist group Keep Fort Ord Wild.

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