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The Global Cult: The Cult’s Ian Astbury has been calling California home since the late `80s.
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The Global Cult: The Cult’s Ian Astbury has been calling California home since the late `80s.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Nov 15, 2022

While the media concentrate on the late '80s when The Cult enjoyed its biggest commercial moment, for Ian Astbury, the band’s frontman and sin…

Bonus cuts: More from Q&A with world-class sculptor Steven Whyte of Carmel.
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Bonus cuts: More from Q&A with world-class sculptor Steven Whyte of Carmel.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Dec 1, 2017

It can be difficult, if not outright impossible, to quantify sculptor Steven Whyte's work.

A local Iraqi-American finds herself caught between two nations.
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A local Iraqi-American finds herself caught between two nations.

  • Marielle Argueza
  • Mar 30, 2017

On a freezing winter’s night in Baghdad, Iraq, when the air was just cold enough to see a person’s breath, Zainab (her name has been changed f…

Karen Anne Murray
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Karen Anne Murray

  • Feb 2, 2017

The caterer and serial entrepreneur talks about business, risk and the meaning of a cup of tea.

Three SkeptiCamp guests speak on science, church, and Trump.
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Three SkeptiCamp guests speak on science, church, and Trump.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jan 5, 2017

Skepticism is not just a critical eye and a doubtful countenance. It's also a movement of people who greet pseudoscience and the paranormal wi…

Songwriters Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and John Prine perform in Monterey.
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Songwriters Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and John Prine perform in Monterey.

  • Adam Joseph
  • Dec 8, 2016

“Everybody’s dying this year,” says folk icon Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. “It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some beloved musician dying.”

The top 10 under-covered news stories of the year.
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The top 10 under-covered news stories of the year.

  • Paul Rosenberg Terelle Jerricks
  • Oct 27, 2016

Throughout its 40-year history, Project Censored has covered a lot of ground that the corporate mainstream media has not. Begun by Carl Jensen…

A team tracks bottles of booze to keep restaurants profitable.
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A team tracks bottles of booze to keep restaurants profitable.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Oct 20, 2016

It’s lunchtime on a Monday, and light streams in through the windows onto the bar at Hacienda Mexican Grill in Westridge Shopping Center in Sa…

PacRep takes a chance with Shakespeare’s King Lear.
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PacRep takes a chance with Shakespeare’s King Lear.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Oct 20, 2016

As part of Pacific Repertory Theatre’s 27th annual Shakespeare Festival, they’re following up one of the playwright’s greatest comedies with o…

BREZSNY'S ASTROLOGY • Oct. 20-26, 2016
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BREZSNY'S ASTROLOGY • Oct. 20-26, 2016

  • Rob Brezsny
  • Oct 20, 2016

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the 1980s, two performance artists did a project entitled A Year Tied Together at the Waist. For 12 months, Lind…

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