To celebrate the California Rodeo Salinas’ 100 anniversary, I was assigned to find characters with a deep history in the rodeo. My basic premise for the project was to interview a local man and woman who had participated in some of the major rodeo events. And they had to be over 80.
Finding characters from a...
Late in the newsroom, the phone rings. It’s a heavy call to take.
Kenny Martinez of King City invites The Californian to a peace rally, another effort by the community to quash gang violence in South County. What makes Kenny’s efforts particularly valiant is that he recently lost his brother.
22-year-old Ruben Armando Martinez was shot and...
The Hunt for Humboldt Squid from Conner Jay on Vimeo.
Giant squid lurk in the deep. A thousand feet down, large Humbodlt squid jet around black waters. They are ravenous cephalopods, ripping and eating through everything. Even each other. But they are also beautiful creatures, tantalizingly graceful as they change colors from a deep red to...
