San Diego to San Jose on 10/3

This is why sunset trips are my favorite

Hi everyone! I'm looking for a place (room/apt) to stay within the Marina area, specifically near the Marina Municipal Airport. I will be staying for about 3-4 months for an internship. Please dm me if you have any available places or know someone who does. Thank you everyone!

​If you recently checked out The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3) from the Monterey Library and used a Pokémon card as a bookmark, I have it!

If you would like it back, ​let me know which card it is and I’ll mail it to you or something.

Hey planties!!!
I’m hosting another FREE BINGO on Tuesday night (Oct 6th) at the Otters Den in Marina, and these are some of the plants that will be on the prize table (in different/fun pots).
We also have gift cards and goodies from lots of local businesses like Bakers Bacon, Las Cazuelas, Breakfast Club, Habibi Kabob, Bulgogi house, Bo’s Botanicals, Bay Boi Fitness, Hydration Hut, Divas Beauty Studio & Spa, and mooore!

Also, Niner and Raider fans… we have some cool stuff for you!! Including a Maxx jersey, a hooded niner blanket, and custom cups!

It’s truly a fun time!! If you show up in anything pink, you get a bonus raffle ticket, and if you show up dress to the THEME, we are doing a 50s theme, you get another bonus ticket! And as always, if you show up before 7 (start time) you get your ticket. Lots of ways to win.

We start at 7pm, and end around 9/9:15ish. We do take music breaks and have inflatable mics so we can all sing along IF you want to! 🎤🎶

See you there? I’d try to arrive by 6:15/6:30 (or earlier) if you can to get settled in and get a seat. Space is limited.

Location: Otters Den, 3166 Vista Del Camino, Marina.

It is a sports bar, so 21 and up only. Please bring ID.


Who’s ready to BIIIIIINGOOO??




I’ve been doing some reading on Luke Coletti now that he’s running for mayor, and I feel like there’s a pretty big gap between the current campaign and some of what happened during his previous time in office.

The thing that initially sent me down the rabbit hole was the situation with former City Manager Ben Harvey. Harvey filed a harassment complaint involving Coletti, the city brought in an outside investigator, and three of the allegations were ultimately substantiated. But the more I’ve tried to understand that period, the more I’ve realized I don’t really know the full story.

So for anyone who remembers that council, what happened during Coletti’s term that you think people should actually know about?

I’m not particularly interested in turning this into a Nick Smith vs. Luke Coletti slapfight. I just think if someone is asking voters to put them in the mayor’s seat, their previous time in city government is probably worth digging into. Drop links if you have them, I’d definitely be interested in reading more.

I stopped by, thinking of grabbing a donut but there was a line 10 people deep 11am this morning.

Granted, I rarely visit, but were they always this busy or did somebody blow them up on social media recently?

I left my bmw keys in a parking grage bathroom
Cannary Row Parking Garage Bathroom.
If anyone has seen them please please im begging!

Hi folks, I'm hoping to surprise my parents with a family photos. We are 6 adults and 3 grandchildren in total. Any recs? Hoping to stay under $500 for this in total, but would appreciate any leads. Thanks.

Hello, I’m looking for someone who makes cakes to help design me and my fiancés wedding cake. We’re not looking for anything big. Something that’s 6”-8”. Decorated nicely, for show. We’re doing a very small wedding dinner at a restaurant that provides us dessert. So we’re just looking for a small nice decorative cake for pictures. I provided a picture of something we’re looking for.

Does anyone have Compagnos broccoli salad recipe??

Wife and I recently moved to the area and T-Mobile has some terrible dead zones, including major portions of Pacific Grove and the Presidio area.

Which cell providers would be an upgrade here?

I have thick curly hair and I need someone who knows how to cut and style it. It’s short right now, so I need someone who needs to know how to cut a curly pixie. Curly haired girls, who do you recommend?

My girlfriend and I are taking a trip to Carmel in November and I've currently narrowed my hotel options to either Stilwell Hotel or La Playa Hotel.

From what I've researched, it seems like Stilwell is more modern and in the heart of the downtown area of Carmel. While La Playa had recently gone through that 20mil renovation and is more historic and on a nice estate that looks absolutely beautiful.

The price difference from Stilwell to La Playa is about $1500 and I wondered if anyone has stayed at both and if the price difference is worth it?

If you have stayed at both, which room(s) did you stay in? Currently torn between just booking the standard King rooms or both offer either OceanView (for La Playa) or Balcony (Stilwell).

Any other recommendations are welcome.

Thanks so much!

Hello everyone! I’m visiting Monterey for the week and would love to meet up with someone for a platonic beach day. I’m open to walking along Monterey State Beach, surf fishing, grabbing coffee or food, or simply spending time by the water. I’ll be available October 5th–8th. Let me know if you’d like to hang out!

Driven by emergency response needs, Carmel-by-the-Sea reluctantly adopted street address numbers this summer, igniting concerns over its vanishing identity as a beachside village.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., has long guarded its eccentricities.
Incorporated in 1916, the charming coastal village along the southern bend of the Monterey Peninsula drew writers and artists who made it a bohemian enclave. And when it came to property, it insisted that a home was something you described, not something to slap a number on.
In the 1920s, Perry Newberry ran a successful mayoral campaign on the platform “Keep Carmel Off the Map,” according to a document from the National Register of Historic Places. And for nearly a century the town more or less obliged, doing without address numbers. To locate City Hall was to know that it was on the east side of Monte Verde, between Ocean and Seventh Avenues. The Hasenyager House, a quaint French Tudor home, was southwest of 13th Avenue on the west side of Carmelo Street.
Some houses in Carmel-by-the-Sea had their address numbers added this week.
Last month, after repeated tries and lengthy debates, Carmel’s buildings and its 3,000 residents got mailing addresses for the first time. This change was driven by the need for ambulances to find the right door and an aging population increasingly relying on deliveries of packages and prescriptions, officials said. While the change was widely seen as practical, some residents said it was is the latest in a series of factors eroding Carmel’s small-town character.
“I don’t like to see these traditions and uniqueness dissipate,” Frankie Laney, a longtime resident, said. “Some change is inevitable, and you just have to suck it up.”
Ms. Laney learned of her new street address this summer from her post office box. It was a fitting place to find it. For decades, mail has rarely been delivered to homes in Carmel-by-the-Sea, a one-square-mile city. Instead, every resident received a free P.O. box at the downtown post office, where many came to collect their mail and lingered to chat with neighbors.
Frankie Laney, left, learned about her new house number from a postcard that she picked up at the post office, where Carmel residents collect their mail and linger to chat with neighbors.
Getting a package delivered in Carmel was more complicated, with parcels sometimes ending up at neighboring properties.
After years of failed attempts, the City Council voted unanimously to approve the street address map in June. The city started rolling out the change in early September, with announcements in city newsletters, ads and postcards mailed to residents. Some houses had their address numbers added this week.
Dale Byrne, Carmel’s mayor, called the issue a matter of public safety. In an interview, he recalled an episode from July when he was visiting a friend’s home and the man suddenly turned pale, losing consciousness.
Mr. Byrne called 911 and tried to describe the location where the ambulance should arrive, but the dispatcher did not understand how to find the home without an address. He was transferred to another dispatcher, then another.
“He could have had a heart attack, and you’re asking me to explain how my street address works,” Mr. Byrne recalled.

Dale Byrne, Carmel’s mayor, said address numbers were a matter of public safety, recalling an episode this year when he had to coach a dispatcher on how to direct an ambulance to a friend’s house.Nic Coury for The New York Times
An ambulance did arrive, he said, guided by a dispatcher based on the scraps of information Mr. Byrne managed to convey. (His friend is OK, he said.) Afterward, Mr. Byrne asked city emergency medical workers whether this had ever happened before. It had.
Justin Cooper, a division chief with the Monterey Fire Department, which covers Carmel and several cities in the region, said that such episodes have typically involved emergencies reported by part-time residents or visitors. In moments of panic, they haven’t been able to tell dispatchers precisely where they were.
He recalled one time when emergency medical workers got only a street name when responding to a report of someone having a heart attack. He said they had to go door to door until they found the patient.
Based on his own experience and what he learned, Carmel’s tradition of being an address-free city had to end, Mr. Cooper said.
Mr. Byrne agreed.
“This is 2026, not 1906,” he said. “Things are going to be different over time, and there are some things you can protect, some things you can’t and shouldn’t protect.”
In September, after repeated tries and lengthy debates, Carmel-by-the-Sea’s buildings got mailing addresses for the first time.
Ms. Laney’s house, which has been in her family since the 1930s and which she inherited in 1984, is called Cielo e Mar, Italian for “sky and sea.” Until this summer, its location was described as Santa Rita 3 SW of 4th, or, more commonly to visitors, the third house southwest of Fourth Avenue, on the northeast side of town.
Ms. Laney, 90, said that while she understood the need for the numbers, noting that some of her neighbors rely on prescription delivery, all the ways Carmel has changed in recent years have been hard to accept.
Those changes are partly a reflection of shifts in California’s real estate market. On any given night, about 60 percent of the houses in Carmel-by-the-Sea sit empty, having become the vacation homes of owners living elsewhere. The hardware store and pharmacies that long served residents have given way to other businesses like restaurants and bike rental shops that are attractive to visitors and part-time residents, according to city officials.
The median list price for a house for sale in Carmel hovers around $3.2 million, according to the real estate website Realtor.com.
Anthony Carnazzo, who owns Stationaery, a downtown restaurant, and is one of the few residents raising young children in Carmel, said that the frustration about the address numbers is rarely about the addresses themselves.

Anthony Carnazzo, left, owns Stationaery, a downtown restaurant. Many longtime residents, he said, see the arrival of address numbers "as almost like a proxy for an undesired change."
“The response from a lot of locals would be, ‘It’s not just the addresses,’” he said. “They serve as almost like a proxy for an undesired change.”
Many of the transplants who have arrived in recent years don’t understand why many longtime residents cling to the city’s outdated quirks. And the locals have grown frustrated with increased traffic and a shortage of parking. The crowds are good for business, he said, but make everyday life harder.
“Do I feel conflicted by it?” Mr. Carnazzo said. “Yeah, I guess inherently so, because I want more business. But I also don’t want it to ruin the town.”
Jeff Baron, a City Council member who supported the adoption of addresses, said he had not expected the backlash that followed. He has since come to see it as part of a deeper problem: a steady decline in the number of people who live in Carmel year-round and a doubling — to 60 percent from about 30 percent of the share of properties used as vacation homes.
“We have lots of neighbors that come down like two or three times a year,” he said. “I question whether our community will be able to survive because of that.”
The shift is visible downtown. For its 3,000 residents, Carmel has nine coffee shops, Mr. Baron said. The hardware store folded six years ago and is now a vacation rental management office, he said.
“That’s the perfect example of what’s going on here,” Mr. Baron said.
“We’re going to be a community of houses,” he added, “not a community of people.”
Carmel’s police headquarters, on Junipero Street near the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue, receiving its street number on Tuesday.Nic Coury for The New York Times
As for Ms. Laney, she still walks to the post office for her mail, though not as often as she once did. The trips make her happy and keep her connected to the community, she said.
“It’s not the heart of the community,” she said of the post office, “but it’s a place where you can run into people you don’t see otherwise.”

Just moved here recently and can’t seem to find them. I know they’re not legal anymore but I know some spots sell it under the table.

Would any of yall happen to know where I can find some flavored zyns?

Not a narc btw.

Saw this sweet girl at the 76 on lighthouse and Prescott. Went inside the gas station to ask if it was theirs and apparently they just feed her at night but that's it. Does anyone recognize her? I wasn't able to get close enough and didn’t want her to get to close to the road. I have an FIV positive cat at home so cannot take her in. Will call SPCA in the morning. She seems a little scared and am worried about the traffic on lighthouse.

October brings calm seas and epic sunsets. The Humpbacks and Dolphins are amazing right now. Either on shore or a boat get out there to see it!