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All things feline, including cats themselves, take center stage at this new Retro Row boutique

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All things feline, including cats themselves, take center stage at this new Retro Row boutique

A cat-themed boutique, art gallery and adoption center opens on Retro Row on Friday. You’ll also find plenty of real, live feline friends inside Cool Cat Collective. Anyone who enters the store on Fourth Street near Temple Avenue can interact with the cats that live in a protected playground inside the store. Husband and wife … Read more

A Revisitation of Steinbeck’s ‘Cannery Row’ – Through the Eyes of a Cat

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Local author Nancy Harray. (Photo courtesy) In 1958, the city of Monterey would rename Ocean View Avenue “Cannery Row,” in honor of an industry and an era that would ultimately end in 1973, when Hovden, the last remaining cannery, closed its doors. The new name also offered a nod to John Steinbeck, who, in 1945, … Read more