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New menu at Tarpy's, Carmel aims at a Top 10, and In N Out dog food.
Eat + Drink

New menu at Tarpy's, Carmel aims at a Top 10, and In N Out dog food.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Oct 10, 2016

Old rabble rouser/food writer Ray Napolitano once wrote he saw a menu so loaded with tasty options he wanted to roll it up and eat it.

Smoking ban may be coming soon to county parks.
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Smoking ban may be coming soon to county parks.

  • David Schmalz
  • Oct 7, 2016

The Monterey County Parks Commission, in their Oct. 6 meeting in Salinas, heard a presentation of a proposed ordinance that would ban smoking …

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Medical professionals call gun violence a public health crisis.

  • Zoë Carpenter
  • Jun 23, 2016

The injured arrived at the Orlando Regional Medical Center in “truckloads.” They came with “multiple high-velocity” gunshot wounds to their arms, legs and chests, from the assault rifle…

The author, student and teacher is good at making meditation easier and less weird.
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The author, student and teacher is good at making meditation easier and less weird.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Mar 19, 2015

You know by the titles of his books, Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies and Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Medit…

Photographer Randy Wilder comes to the Press Club tonight with shots from 20 years at the Aquarium.
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Photographer Randy Wilder comes to the Press Club tonight with shots from 20 years at the Aquarium.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Feb 24, 2015

Randy Wilder, who lives in Salinas, takes photographs of the above-ground underwater sea life at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and has been doing …

White House honors Aquarium staffer as a climate change education champ.
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White House honors Aquarium staffer as a climate change education champ.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Feb 11, 2015

"I, Sarah-Mae Nelson, pledge to stop purchasing stupid plastic."

County’s first-ever bullying report surveys students, finds high rates of bullying.
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County’s first-ever bullying report surveys students, finds high rates of bullying.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jan 22, 2015

For a while, an older kid would follow sixth-grader Johnny Nguyen home from Los Padres Elementary School in Salinas. “He would chase me home a…

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Force Majeure - Official Trailer

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Best Wine List - Monterey, CA  (2014)
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Best Wine List - Monterey, CA (2014)

  • Mar 20, 2014

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Carmel Valley Company’s High-End Aquariums Integrate Biology and Living Art
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Carmel Valley Company’s High-End Aquariums Integrate Biology and Living Art

  • Kera Abraham
  • Nov 7, 2013

A pufferfish harassed the last bamboo shark egg on display at the Bumble Cafe, a farm-to-fork restaurant in Los Altos. That egg – bottle-brown…

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