Recent Stories
Cooking for Solutions 2013 – Gut Instincts
The evolution of offal-pioneering chef Chris Cosentino continues to surprise – and so does his stance on true sustainability.
What would Wolverine eat? No really, what would the Marvel Comics superhero eat? It’s a subject that had buried into the brain of Chris Cosentino, the San Francisco powerhouse chef best known for bringing guts ...
Delivery services: the big new target in pot skirmishes?
On Feb. 13, the Monterey County District Attorney’s office quietly dropped its case against Joshua Mount, a driver for the medical marijuana delivery service 831 Delivers. Mount, along with 831 Delivers owners Ash Hewitt and ...
Fort Ord’s mother of all signature-gathering battles.
How many of you were approached over the weekend of May 4 by someone bearing a clipboard and asking for your signature to support Fort Ord? How many of you signed? More importantly, did you ...
ANTON & MICHEL
Storied Carmel institution Anton & Michel daringly switches gears, with mixed results.
The bar is beautiful. Carmel stone, cut thin, runs floor to ceiling. Large format bottles of local wines occupy small shelves. The polished wood bar gleams. Specialty cocktails like the Mad Martini ($9.50) and Planter’s ...
WINE & FOOD 2013: Tube Meat Takeover
Butch Francis expands his Cowboy Sausage empire in inspired and crazy ways – including a pitch for national TV.
The Sausage King is in his element. There are women to flirt with and politicians to shmooze. There are old customers who didn’t realize he was again selling at the Oldtown Salinas Farmers Market after ...
Monterey examines the serious issue of homelessness.
Somewhere in the middle. There has to be somewhere in the middle. The city of Monterey is on the verge of making serious decisions on how to handle what local businesses and some residents describe ...
Arms Race
New state law would fund the hunt for guns legally purchased by those who aren’t supposed to own them.
Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller knows they’re out there. He also knows his department is too hamstrung to do much of anything about it without help. “They” are the weapons that were at one time ...
The races are linked. So too are we all.
It’s something of a dare: “You try to find some meaningful words or thoughts about this tragedy,” one of my pals posted Tuesday morning on Facebook. And I’ve got nothing. I’ve got nothing smart to ...
NPS security is confused about the First Amendment.
We were striving for a metaphor. What we got instead was an object lesson in the First Amendment and the power of bullies with badges. On April 2, I sent Weekly photographer Nic Coury to ...
Seaside homeowners are looking for elusive peace.
Rudy and Terry Canchola readily admit it: When it came to doing renovations at their Seaside home, they didn’t exactly do everything by the book. They didn’t seek out and obtain all the proper permits ...
