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A Law to Enforce the Law

Violators of pesticide regulations are rarely punished. A recently passed bill could change that.

Six years ago, a crew of fieldworkers walked into a Salinas Valley vineyard and started their day’s work pruning. They had no idea the field had been doused with pesticides just 20 minutes earlier. Almost ...

News Briefs

Fort Ord Burn Planned On Sept. 22 and Sept. 23, weather permitting, the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) will sponsor a multi-agency habitat restoration and training burn. This is not related to the Army’s planned ...

Grown Up and Proud

Goddess worship comes to The Beach FM.

Karen Hudson and Lily Hills seemed destined for friendship. Hudson says it was Hills who first approached her and broke the ice on their first day at St. Francis High School in Mountain View.“She was ...

Faire Play

A couple of moderne girls and their squires take a trip to a bawdier time.

“Ladies, I do address you, and undress you in my mind.” The man speaking so impertinently appears to be a peasant of some sort, so we turn away. Another man, wearing a jester’s cap, walks ...

TheaterListings

Born Into It

Second-generation folk artist Eliza Gilkyson follows political effort with a more personal album.

While some girls spend their early teenaged years taking riding lessons or thinking about boys, 14-year-old Eliza Gilkyson was singing on Disney television movies like The Secret of Romney Marsh and The Legend of Young ...

Just a Little While

A New Orleans evacuee meets some of his people.

Lafayette, La.—She just stares at me, the Iowan volunteer. Silver and green Mardi Gras beads drape around her neck. She pushes a blank form across the table. “It’s been a long day,” she says. Sitting ...

Dead Funny

Just Like Heaven is a romantic comedy beyond the grave.

Forget that tired old Batman/Superman hypothetical—what inquiring minds really want to know is who’d win the Romantic Comedy Battle Royale: upstart Reese Witherspoon or grand champion Meg Ryan? Odds are still on Ryan by a ...

Art Wide Open

Monterey County Artists Studio Tour could be the best—and the last.

The Monterey County Artists Studio Tour has never been better. Under Dianna Holubec-McArthur’s highly effective direction, it has expanded to include nearly 100 Monterey County artists from Salinas to Big Sur. Ironically, this weekend’s 17th ...

Irish Power

Bohola brings a bold mentality to traditional Celtic music.

When a traditional Irish ensemble starts citing thundering rock bands as an influence, you know you’re not in Dublin anymore. Bohola, one of the most respected bands on Chicago’s vibrant traditional Irish music scene, is ...

Street Talk

Take Me Back: Asked at Del Monte Center, Monterey

Q: If you could take us back to any era, what would it be?Follow-up: Who would be your sidekick? Penny Barbree Farmer | King City A: I’d go back to the horse-and-buggy days, before there ...

HOMEPAGE: Pacific and Grove

Two small, quiet streets called Pacific and Grove in Pacific Grove intersect at property owned by Ted and Jan Rose. Their side yard is shaped like the bow of a ship—a bow where a venerable ...

Local Legend Dies

Edgar Henry Haber, founder of Quail Lodge and noted philanthropist, was 93.

Chief Quail is teeing it up in greener pastures. World War II veteran, golf champion, philanthropist, environmental developer and founder of Quail Lodge Resort and Golf Club, Edgar Henry Haber died at his Carmel Valley ...

A New Nightmare

Director Tim Burton returns to the same sort of visual world he created in The Nightmare Before Christmas with Corpse Bride.

It only takes the first few moments of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride to realize that the filmmaker is unquestionably in his element. Strangely stylized characters—all vertiginously angled noses and physics-defying hairdos—wander the streets of a ...