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Sheriffs from both Monterey County and Santa Cruz County were the guests on the show. Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto was elected as sheriff in 2022 and was the first Latina elected as a Sheriff in California and the first woman and openly LGBTQ+ person elected in Monterey County. She has over 33 years of experience in law enforcement. Santa Cruz County Sheriff Chris Clark was appointed as...

Mark Zuckerberg is in Aaron Sorkin’s crosshairs once again with The Social Reckoning. This time Sorkin both writes and directs, and the result is a thrilling drama with dynamics reminiscent of great American cinematic tales where a little people’s hero triumphs over the forces of darkness, ultimately testifying on capital hill.The hero of this story is data scientist turned whistle-blower Frances...

“You Can See Everything” is a film that opened to sold out theaters across the nation on its very first weekend.Beware of universal quantifiers, like seeing everything, or as in “I have never told a lie” which phrase coming from the mouth of Elizabeth Holmes inspired universal laughter in the audience. This so-called documentary about Elizabeth Holmes filmed during the last month of her freedom...

Don Coolman takes his time.

Putting Democracy in Your Hands: The Digital Democracy Project“Be Bold America!” October 16 2026 at 5:00pm (PT)Putting democracy into your hands. That’s what the Digital Democracy Project is doing and building nationwide. The project allows registered voters to tell their legislators how to vote on hundreds of bills being debated. Then, real-time results are provided to legislators in advance of...

had higher expectations for Other Mommy, directed by Rob Savage and written by Nathan Elston, than the film ultimately delivered. Given the cast, which includes Academy Award-winning actress Jessica Chastain and filmmaker and actor Jay Duplass, this film was disappointing, to say the least.The premise is that an entity worms her way into a family, targeting Bela, a precocious eight-year-old girl...

Oftentimes when movie plots are derived from books some of what made the book so intriguinggets lost in translation, and that is the case with Verity, the film based on the popular novel byColleen Hoover. Directed by Michael Showalter and adapted by Nick Antosca, Verity stars Anne Hathaway as Verity Crawford, a successful mystery novelist whose characters tend to be evil andunredeemable.Verity...

Here Comes El Niño!with Dr. Daniel Swain, UCANR & NCARSustainability Now! Sunday, October 11, 2026Summer is over and the rainy season looms ahead. We are being promised a wild, wet and wooly winter, with a “Super” El Niño. Temperatures in the tropical Pacific are going up leaving marine mammals to starve and die. There have been few hurricanes in the Atlantic this year while, with two months...

October is LGBTQ+ History month and we are learning about the LGBTQ+ history archives that exist in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties. David Reichard co-founded the Monterey County LGBTQ History Project and archives now available at the CSU Monterey Bay library when he was a professor there. Rob Darrow has been involved in sustaining the LGBTQ+ archives at the Museum of Art and History in Santa...

Primetime, directed by Lance Oppenheim and distributed by A24, invites a deeper look into performative morality and what those in the entertainment industry will do for ratings.Based on the 2007 Esquire article Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die by Luke Dittrich, the film follows the production of the reality television series To Catch a Predator.Chris Hansen, played by Robert Pattinson, does...