The Hawaiian island of Maui: Where civilization and Eden merge
Think Hawaii and images of romance, blue skies and glorious weather float by the conjured thoughts. Midway across the warm Pacific lies a chain of islands called Hawaii, 2,000 miles of ocean from our mainland with no continental coast between. These small bits of land appear offered to the sky by water and pressed to the earth by stars. Here civilizations of Occident and Orient merge under the tropical influence of the Polynesian culture.
‘Upright Grand’: Love, frustration and humor
The world premiere of “Upright Grand” by Laura Schellhardt starts the 43rd season of the usual grand theatre that TheatreWorks offers.
Pink and blue make … green?
It's come to my attention that there are two types of pregnant people in this world: those who find out the gender of their child as soon as they can and go around calling their stomach "Tommy" or "Jennifer" for the next nine months; and those who refuse to find out the gender of their child one nanosecond before the actual birth, no-matter-what.
Hot Gilroy topics: from the dangerous fires to fireworks
Whew! The weekend fires were as close a call as this community's
What’s Really Mind Boggling? The BIA and Ms. Walker
The ongoing saga of the Amah Mutsun Indian tribe has me rolling
Gilroy coyote and the pack that’s after your wallet
Started my day Wednesday with a lone coyote, which I've seen before but never so close. On a chilly walk with the dogs backside of Christmas Hill Park, the coyote, like the one in the old roadrunner cartoons, sped by going a million miles an hour 25 yards ahead across our path. Dogs take chase. Coyote chasing rabbit. After a half mile, the coyote stopped, the dogs pulled up and headed back my way and the coyote forlornly bayed into the frosty dawn. He seemed to have lost his pack. Then, I cartoon kaboomed on the iced-over walkway next to the amphitheater and headed next for a meeting with MayorAl. Ah, never a dull Gilroy moment.
Top 5 moments of the Fall ’09 season
In my four months with the Dispatch, I have found that there is














