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Tease photo Giving Weekly Style

The annual Monterey County Gives! kicks off with an eye on funding the creative big ideas of local nonprofits.

MC Gives! 2012: Read More MC Gives! - ANIMALS MC Gives! - ARTS & CULTURE MC GIVES! - COMMUNITY & SOCIAL SERVICES MC Gives!: EDUCATION & YOUTH MC Gives!: ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY MC Gives!: HEALTH, ...

Tease photo Monterey County Gives! 2012 – ANIMALS

Animals – Monterey County Gives! 2012

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Arts & Culture – Monterey County Gives! 2012

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Community & Social Service – Monterey County Gives! 2012

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Educatio & Youth – Monterey County Gives! 2012

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Environment & Sustainability - Monterey County Gives! 2012

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Health, Wellness & Food – Monterey County Gives! 2012

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Issues / 2012 / Nov 08

Tease photo deYoung and the Restless

CSUMB film students and alumnus will be featured at one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

The deYoung Museum in San Francisco, which began life as the Fine Arts Building in 1894, has in its collection thousands of paintings, sculptures, textiles, clothing, artifacts and other art objects from the Americas, Asia, ...

Brezsny's Astrology November 8-14, 2012

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The data that’s stored and disseminated on the Internet is unimaginably voluminous. And yet the 540 billion trillion electrons that carry all this information weigh about the same as a strawberry. ...

Tease photo By The Numbers 11.08.12

Real Estate

$1,050,000 Recent Sale 19 Mentone Drive, Carmel Built: 1986 Size: 2,393 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Ocean views, 2 fireplaces, separate entrance, large patio, private beach access Seller: John and ...

Tease photo Just Squash It

The options for seasonal squash are both endless and endlessly edible.

It amazes me when people claim not to know what to do with squash. Because, other than pour milk over it in your cereal bowl, what can’t you do with squash? Can you fry it ...

Tease photo Gonzo Grapes

The wine capital of the county quietly plays home to one of Earth’s biggest vino producers.

A small wooden billboard on sleepy Alta Street announces little Gonzales and its four-digit population is the wine capital of mighty Monterey County. Yes, you’d be a corkhead to believe everything you read on South ...

Tease photo Near and Far

United Nations Association Film Festival bridges the world’s issues with local audiences in surprising ways.

Former Coast Guard Seaman Kori Cioca chokes back tears as she reads aloud a suicide letter. “A mother, brother, sister and husband should never live with knowing the horrible acts upon me,” she says. “Find ...

Tease photo Skyfall

Look Out Below: Delicious villainy, Daniel Craig sexuality make for a thrilling Bond adventure in Skyfall.

Ah, finally we understand the masterplan that has been quietly ticking over since Casino Royale. That movie was not, in fact, the 007 reboot – it merely set the stage for the reboot. It introduced ...

Tease photo The Sessions

Better Than Sex: Director Ben Lewin employs a trio of talent to lift The Sessions above its plot potential.

A man in his thirties who has spent his adult life flat on his back in an iron lung and has never had a sexual experience decides to attempt intercourse with a paid therapist. But ...

Tease photo Wow Power

Nearly a dozen local music acts unite in Salinas to raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief.

The lowest point of local music promoter/singer-songwriter Kiki Wow’s life was about 20 years ago while she was living in L.A. She was going through a divorce, involved in a child custody battle and had ...

Tease photo Ska Rumba Riot

Puerto Rican outfit La Quilombera pushes genre and cultural boundaries at Casa Sorrento in Salinas.

La Quilombera frontman Alexis Rivera Falú is ready to revolt. But he’s not into guns, coups and guerrilla warfare. The Puerto Rican is thinking about intellectual upheaval, where art can bring people of all cultures ...

Tease photo On the Edge

Potter pulls ahead in hot race against Del Piero; Armenta nails Salinas district.

County Supervisor Lou Calcagno looks more at home on his Moss Landing dairy farm than at My Attic, a swanky new bar on Alvarado Street in Monterey. But he fit right in at fellow Supervisor ...

Tease photo Sweeps, Stakes

Monterey Peninsula races create dramatic new city council dynamics.

The aisle was so crowded with Marina liberals, the servers at Mountain Mike’s had a hard time muscling through pizzas. When Councilman David Brown stood up with a poster board of election results, he could ...

Tease photo Taxing Times

Salinas, Carmel pass sales tax measures, while Pagrovians just say no to Measure F.

The Texas developer who proposed a seven-story hotel on Pacific Grove’s Holman Block will have to rethink his plans. Measure F, which would have raised the building height cap to accommodate the proposal, took a ...

Tease photo Copping a Job

Salinas voters tap an ex-detective as mayor, an activist for council and two incumbents.

In the race between a scrappy and sometimes mercurial councilman and a low-key retired-cop-turned-private-eye, voters went with the powers of detection. Joe Gunter edged out Sergio Sanchez to replace ag businessman Dennis Donohue as the ...

Tease photo Nailed It

Central Coast progressives stay in office, but a few key ballot measures go down.

Asleep and a wake up later, and here’s what stayed the same. Despite an electoral map that cut a swath of bright red through the middle and southern parts of the country, President Barack Obama ...

Tease photo Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked @ Target in Marina.)

Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked @ Target in Marina.)

Follow-up: What duty would you never volunteer to do? SARAH ELLW | Social Worker | Marina A: As a live-in intern at the Tenderloin Homeless Clinic, where I worked with children. It made me want ...

The Public Voice

Letters To The Editor 11.08.12

Giddyup! I was disappointed to see the Civil Grand Jury conclude that the Marina Equestrian Park does not provide public recreation (“Extra Helping of Squid,” Oct 25). This conclusion makes no sense. Squid, your squidlets ...

LOCAL SPIN: Geezers Logic

Battling youth-voter apathy and elder-voter ego.

I was fetching my eldest from Monterey Peninsula College the other day – don’t ask why an 18-year-old doesn’t have a license, as that’s another column altogether – and he told me his friend/study partner/classmate ...

Squid Fry 11.08.12

10 : Number of American Red Cross Monterey Bay Area Chapter volunteers deployed to the East Coast for Superstorm Sandy disaster relief. Source - American Red Cross.

URINETOWN… Squid’s always known the Peninsula was short on water, but Squid never expected it to get so bad officials would fight over sewage. As the Weekly first reported Oct. 31, the Monterey Regional Water ...

Get Involved

Public Citizen 11.08.12

THURSDAY 11 | 8 THE FUTURE OF THE FORT | SEASIDE – Sustainable Seaside and FORT Friends host a community workshop to discuss the future uses of the newly designated Fort Ord National Monument. 6pm. ...