Recent Stories
Serious Business
Marina Technology Cluster Business Plan Contest sprouts some unique schemes.
Julienne, scallop, mince, dice, cube: There’s more than one way to skin (and slice) a potato. It’s an obscure tater cut, though, and one that happens away from the kitchen, that represents a potential revolution ...
Jarring Mason
Smoky songwriter Mason Reed rides West to East Village.
This Tuesday, Mason Reed steers his GMC Sierra pick-up towards East Village Coffee Lounge for the first West Coast date on a “never-ending tour” to promote his new album, You Can’t Come Back from Heaven. ...
DIY Diesel
Local visionaries design a mini fuel refinery with big possibilities.
Tucked away behind an unmarked door in a hangar behind the Marina Municipal Airport resides a grease-smeared contraption small enough fit on a forklift – a peculiar maze of coils, pipes and gauges – that ...
Human Trace
The United Nations Association Film Festival proffers powerful humanitarian portraits.
Twenty-four-hour news, Twitter and YouTube have made information instantaneous and ubiquitous, allowing users to connect across cultures, languages and continents. Unfortunately, quantity hasn’t translated to quality – the flood of information often drowns meaningful messages ...
Wildly Inspiring
Ken Burns’ much awaited National Parks series explores the toil behind the treasures.
When people think of national parks, they probably picture mammoth redwoods, snowcapped Tetons or the Colorado River lolling through the Grand Canyon. It’s unlikely they envision George Masa, a Japanese immigrant who meticulously recorded local ...
World Power
HI-Monterey Hostel celebrates a landmark anniversary – and readies for a second venue.
If the walls of the HI-Monterey Hostel could talk, they would recount – in an amalgamation of languages – quite a few tales. They’d speak of an impromptu fire pit concert by a French tourist ...
Buried Issues
Watchdog group digs up questions about the Fort Ord cleanup.
Asmall group of citizens is bringing up old grievances with the U.S. Army’s efforts to clean up the former Fort Ord. The Fort Ord Community Action Group, an advisory body to the California Environmental Protection ...
On a Mission
A historic Carmel Mission exhibition peeks at the artful architecture that defines its cousins to the south.
Carmel’s Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, headquarters of Father Junipero Serra’s Alta California efforts and the place where he is buried, has added another body of historic significance. This time, however, it’s a body ...
Money’s All Gone
Central Coast VNA and Hospice’s Seaside adult day care center closes its doors.
Another casualty of the state buget cuts: The Central Coast Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice’s Seaside adult day care center will close in about a month. The local nonprofit provides healthcare, rehabilitation and socialization to ...
Student Guide 2009
Free Your Mind: All the education, none of the tuition.
With MIIS sending experts all over the globe, MPC assembling one of the finest community college faculty in the USA, CSUMB reinventing the concept of a state school and NPS feeding bright minds to the ...
