Recent Stories
Tiny Turbines
County preps for a surge in rooftop wind power.
The potential clash between condors and wind turbines has slowed a proposed big renewable energy project in Salinas Valley. But it may be smoother sailing for local residents and businesses who seek to harness the ...
Gulf Stream
The impacts of BP’s oil spill still linger in the Southeast – and Monterey County.
Water is ubiquitous in southern Louisiana. The air itself is wet, thick with palpable humidity. Highways run inches above swamps; bayous descend into channels that flow into the Gulf of Mexico. On the GPS, I ...
Travels with Charlie
Singer-songwriter to appear at Steinbeck Fest with tales of life as a road warrior.
Singer-songwriter Charlie Faye talks about cities as though flipping through a calendar: “May was Shreveport. June was Burlington. August will be Milwaukee.” For Faye, touring isn’t a drop-in and get-out-of-town kind of event. She likes ...
Sweet Home California
Greening a Seaside foreclosure brings joy and pain.
In the dead of the night, in a tiny Monterey apartment, my toenail became the first casualty of my future home’s eco-retrofit. A few curses later, I managed to fire a grumpy question at my ...
Body of Work
Carmel woman’s new 'The Body Love Manual' navigates how to survive self-loathing slimmed down and amped up.
Some who pick up Elizabeth “Lily” Hills new book The Body Love Manual may be struck by a seeming contradiction in its subtitle: How to Love the Body You Have as You Create the Body ...
Not Dead Yet
Monterey County remains a historic home for a host of ghosts – or so people say.
When he went downstairs to visit the old Hotel Del Monte’s front desk, he left his new wife in bed. Then the 1906 earthquake hit. A chimney collapsed. She was killed instantly. Decades later, witnesses ...
On the Road
Kelley Calvert embarks on a cross-country journey, powered by biodiesel, in search of something elusive.
Weekly contributing writer and MIIS instructor Kelley Calvert decided to find herself some hope this summer. How she's doing it, though, is a little different: The thirtysomething bought a biodiesel VW and is going to ...
Artistic Nature
Sand City’s newest gallery leverages the area’s environmental appeal.
Tucked in Sand City’s industrial fabric, Fine Art Base could almost be overlooked – if it weren’t for all the cars outside its inaugural exhibition. Inside the well-hidden structure, the space opens to high ceilings ...
Well Versed
Poet Donald Hall’s work is non-confessional, but moving and carefully wrought.
Imagine knowing what you will do with your life before knowing how to drive. Impressive – but not nearly as remarkable as actually doing it. “At 14, I decided to spend my life writing poetry, ...
Let the Film Roll
Monterey Movie Tours star enough information to entertain and educate locals as wells as visitors.
y theories on the Monterey Movie Tours don’t survive past the opening credits. I figured it was a gimmick – no great movies or stars came together here. The seat covers brightly displaying the names ...
