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There’s magic to be found in tidepools—if you look closely and slow down.
Opinion

There’s magic to be found in tidepools—if you look closely and slow down.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Dec 10, 2024

Sara Rubin here, looking at the forecast for King Tides—very high highs, and very low lows—with the suggestion that you get outside along the …

Burning Question: Why do we have all those national food and drink days?
Eat + Drink

Burning Question: Why do we have all those national food and drink days?

  • Dave Faries
  • Feb 11, 2022

So you missed National Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day. No one will care if you crave a little butter pecan on another morning, right?

Burning Question: Why do so many people hate Chicago-style pizza?
Eat + Drink

Burning Question: Why do so many people hate Chicago-style pizza?

  • Dave Faries
  • Sep 28, 2018

This week’s Burning Question caused a fracas even before it left the Weekly’s majestic—and usually serene—offices.

Local Spin | Opinion

Two court decisions will impact how journalists report – for the better.

  • Mary Duan
  • Mar 9, 2017

In January, media industry analyst and “newsonomics” blogger Ken Doctor, writing for the think tank Nieman Journalism Lab, discussed the need …

Five reporters test out five fringe ways to eat in the name of research.
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Five reporters test out five fringe ways to eat in the name of research.

  • Jan 26, 2017

It can be outright alien what humans will do in the name of health…

Quick Bites: First ever 'culinary getaway,' barbecue pop-up and 'badass ballers' too.
Eat + Drink

Quick Bites: First ever 'culinary getaway,' barbecue pop-up and 'badass ballers' too.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Jan 23, 2017

Pebble Beach Company has been around since United States lawmakers thought Prohibition was a good idea.

Local Spin | Opinion

After decades in politics, Dave Potter reflects and Mary Adams aims to lead.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jan 5, 2017

Dave Potter’s political career, like a lot of his life, was unplanned…

Marina Coast’s prehistoric water supply is not replenishing.
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Marina Coast’s prehistoric water supply is not replenishing.

  • David Schmalz
  • Dec 1, 2016

If you turn on a tap in Marina, or anywhere in the former Fort Ord, some of the water coming out is thought to be more than 20,000 years old, …

Letters | Opinion

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 11.24.16

  • Nov 23, 2016

Trumped Up

Local Democrats regroup after election.
Local Spin | Opinion

Local Democrats regroup after election.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Nov 17, 2016

In the days after the election, a mile from the Weekly’s office, graffiti appeared on the wall of a shopping center with red letters that said…

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