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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.
Eat + Drink

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.
Eat + Drink

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…

The county’s new probation chief talks about the past and future of reforming criminals.
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The county’s new probation chief talks about the past and future of reforming criminals.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Feb 19, 2015

When Marcia Parsons got her start in the criminal justice system, she was just out of college with a sociology degree from San Jose State. She…

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

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 …

County’s first cryotherapy spa promises whole-body healing with a blast of deep freeze.
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County’s first cryotherapy spa promises whole-body healing with a blast of deep freeze.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Jan 22, 2015

White nitrogen gas swirls around my body. I’m standing up, naked, in a cryogenic chamber smaller than a phone booth. Rubber booties and gloves keep my feet and hands tolerably warm while the rest of my skin prickles with goosebumps.

A fan-turned – photographer stocks The Press Club’s first art opening with his music heroes.
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A fan-turned – photographer stocks The Press Club’s first art opening with his music heroes.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jan 15, 2015

A music concert is a fleeting moment. An adventure in anticipation, freedom, music, emotion and release. An odyssey that can involve a crescen…

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