Story Time
Tales of adventure, intrigue, romance and seamonsters? All of the 101-word variety
As if fitting it all into 101 words wasn’t enough of a challenge, this year the Weekly made your lives even more difficult. Not only did your stories have to meet that brief but iconic ...
We (Almost) Never Close
A dawn-to-dawn, 24-hour look at the men and women, paid and not, who toil in Monterey County no matter what the (holi)day.
There are the things and people that can’t wait: expectant mothers going into labor; sailors at sea in need of weather guidance; house fires that need to be doused; the tourists and beachgoers that stumble ...
Snappy Patter, Succulent Food
Chef Tim Wood reinvents comfort at Carmel Valley Ranch.
He can do a money impression of everyone from Cal Stamenov – whom he helped make Bernardus’ Marinus restaurant the destination it is today – to local gardening semi-celeb Mark Marino. His fresh day boat ...
Childhood Dreams, Adult Ambitions
Hyatt heir John Pritzker's vision of turning Carmel Valley Ranch into an always-open, everyone-welcome version of summer camp.
Like many billionaires, Hyatt heir John Pritzker is not immune to the lure of boyish acquisitions. Among his is a 2002 Aston Martin that is not just the same model but the very vehicle that ...
Imported
Monterey Maritime and History Museum Director seeks early exit from her job.
Museum Director Pam Crowe-Weisberg, who joined the staff in late 2009 and has overseen the year-long closure and ongoing revamp of the troubled institution, is reportedly in negotiations with the Monterey History and Art Association ...
Monterey parents to plead charter school case at County Office of Education.
The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District board gave a unanimous thumbs down to a new charter school in the district at its Jan. 3 meeting, paving the way for Bay View Academy's founding parents to ...
The Monterey Jazz Festival brings on a new managing director
A year-long search for a new executive director of the Monterey Jazz Festival landed Chris Doss in the position. Doss will direct day-to-day operations and will work with the Board of Directors and the Artistic ...
Special Edible
Salinas' Internet sensation owes much of his fame to a healthy diet.
Snappy Shelly Steinbeck cracked 1 million web views Dec. 31, making him, according to Salinas Public Library spokespeople, the most famous turtle on the web. See what he eats—and what else makes him tick—at the ...
After surviving gunshot wounds, sea lion is blind but safe
A sea lion that was rescued near Sausalito on Dec. 8 is in stable condition at the Marine Mammal Center, where the 330-pound adult male has started eating fish and vocalizing, says Jim Oswald, communications ...
Special Edible
A look at the many respectable restaurants that launched during the year gone by.
Just months ago, there were no incredible crepes being made by the Viva La Crepe chefs or unbelievable biscuits from Toast Carmel Valley, no rolls coming from the folks at Sakana Sushi or pints from ...
Former Santa Cruz Assemblyman John Laird to head state Natural Resources Agency, according to reports.
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that former state assemblyman John Laird is expected to be named by Governor Jerry Brown to head the state Natural Resouces Agency. The agency manages parks, fish and ...
Activists file suit against state pesticide agency for methyl iodide approval
A coalition of farm worker advocates and environmentalists filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court Dec. 30, asking the court to roll back the state Department of Pesticide Regulation's controversial decision to approve methyl iodide ...
About Last Night
First Night Monterey was an all-inclusive closing party to 2010.
Everyone was throwing or attending a New Year's Eve party to close out the first decade of the millenium. Locally, though, probably no one place could match the size, scope or the depth of creativity ...
Marina Coast Water District's S&P credit rating raised to AA-
The Marina Coast Water District (MCWD) announced that its Standard & Poor's credit rating has been improved from A+ to AA- in recognition of its "strong financial performance, good liquidity, and strong coverage." “The higher ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 30, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Readers: The failure by the Senate to pass the DREAM Act – which would’ve made citizens out of young adults who came to this country as children and go to college or join the ...
Images as Everything
Exploring a year in portraits helps reveal a community’s identity.
Sometimes you have to follow your subject for hours – through vineyards, a cave, a jeep ride (or seven) and into a hidden, dark cellar – for the one candlelit moment that captures his or ...
Squid Fry for Dec 30, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 30, 2010
DEVELOPER CONJUGATION… Just a few years ago, the noun Gerry Kehoe morphed into a past-tense verb around Oldtown Salinas. The Irish-born real estate developer (yeah, that’s it, developer!) wanted to build an ambitious hotel-and-condo project ...
How Now, J. Brown?
Governor-elect warns of even deeper cuts, locals brace for impact.
During a Dec. 14 budget forum at UCLA, Gov.-elect Jerry Brown predicted dark days ahead for California’s economy. But the question remains: How can it get any worse? With ominous yet vague warnings like “fasten ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 30, 2010
CANCER AWARENESS January is National Cervical Health Awareness Month. This is an opportunity to remind women to schedule their annual pap tests and appointments for their children to receive the series of HPV vaccine shots, ...
The Public Voice
Public Citizen
ONGOING ONE WARM COAT | MONTEREY – The Girl Scouts of Monterey Bay are collecting gently used coats so they can be cleaned and given to someone in need. Children’s coats are especially needed. Bring ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$560,000 Recent Sale 4496 Seascape Court, Seaside Built: 2005 Size: 2,465 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, den/office, vaulted ceilings, large fenced backyard Seller: Wells Fargo Bank Buyer: Sharon Coggin ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): “Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed,” said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011, Aries. From what I can tell, it will ...
Profit margin high, management say layoffs needed to keep it that way.
Nearly 50 Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital workers, including 20 registered nurses and 27 housekeepers and clerical workers, lost their jobs this week in the hospital’s latest round of cost-cutting. The National Union of Healthcare Workers, ...
What’s your most entertaining short story from your past?
Asked at the Maiden Publick House in Big Sur.
Follow-up: What’s the best story you’ve made up to get out of work? ASHLEIGH POLAND | Bar Manager | Big Sur A: I get gas and there are cops all checking me out. After I ...
Nurse Without Borders
Seaside man on annual trek to help save lives in Nigerian hometown.
Working in a shed and the garage of his Seaside home, Richard Anyanwu packs boxes with donated pharmaceuticals, stethoscopes and glucose testing strips in preparation for a three-week trip to Nigeria. The volunteer head of ...
Taxes Cometh
Volunteers prepare to file taxes for low-income earners.
As tax season approaches, United Way Monterey County is training a team of 90 volunteers to prepare taxes for low-income households. Part of the IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program developed 40 years ago, ...
Squid Bonanza
Biologically inexplicable boom highlights uncertainty about management.
On Dec. 17, 2010, the California market squid-fishing season was closed for the first time in history. The statewide catch hit the harvest limit of 118,000 tons, with 20,000 tons caught in Monterey Bay and ...
Cult of thinness battles fat acceptance movement and kids still lose.
As President Obama signs the new federal child nutrition bill, flanked by anti-childhood-obesity crusader Michelle Obama, the culture wars have devolved into a food fight – literally. Yet it is a battle in which the ...
Top Picking
Ag Against Hunger fuels food banks with discarded nourishment.
Ag Against Hunger is the ultimate example of a simple idea – one spark – put into great action. Without the Spreckels-based nonprofit, 11 million pounds of produce would have ended up in compost heaps ...
Best Year Ever
A trifecta of music playmakers reflect on an incomparable 2010.
Musically , the year gone by was a monstrous one for Monterey County. Bob Dylan, Arcade Fire and Agent Orange all graced the Central Coast with their presence. Conor Oberst and the Felice Brothers played ...
UFW co-founder is making methyl iodide her new mission.
Dolores Huerta at 80 years old has more energy in her voice than some people half her age. Famous (there are a lot of old timers who likely would use the word “notorious” – and ...
Gulliver's Travels
Black Out: Gulliver’s Travels doesn’t go much of anywhere.
As disinterested in itself as Gulliver’s Travels seems to be, it’s a wonder it ever came into existence at all. The film reveals little exertion made on behalf of the narrative, lackadaisical attention paid to ...
True Grit
True Grit includes beautiful performances but lacks pop.
It slips by almost unnoticed. Mattie Ross, relating her own tale of her adventures with U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, mentions her sister twice… and calls her by two different names. First she is Victoria, then ...
Tuned Up
First Night Monterey’s 2010 strong music options ramp up an already incomparable local tradition.
It’s a quarter-to-three on Dec. 31 and you, your sweetie, and your three kids are at Macy’s Furniture at Del Monte Center, waiting for a shuttle bus. Your youngest son, 5, is dashing at nearby ...
High Resolution
Showing how a table beer tap and bull ride are relevant.
In 2011, I will not go to the gym everyday, eat healthier or scale the seven highest summits in the world. I will, however, solemnly resolve to share with you things you should know. There’s ...
Beasties and Weezy
Exploring the most anticipated 2011 albums, from Radiohead to Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The year 2010 brought Jersey punk rockers Titus Andronicus into the spotlight with its American history-themed The Monitor. There was also Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, maybe the hip-hop masterpiece of the decade. The ...
Art Listing for Dec 30, 2010
Art Listing for Dec 30, 2010
HAPPENING THIS WEEK COASTAL ART AND POETRY CONTEST California school children (K-12) are invited to enter their California Coast inspired art, and/or poetry, into this year’s art and poetry contest sponsored by the California Coastal ...
Habanero’s Grill & Cantina
Habanero’s Grill & Cantina’s atypical approach works in downtown Monterey.
Sibling rivalry is nonexistent in Dennis Barwick’s family – his food and entertainment family, that is. Habanero’s Grill and Cantina, which opened on Sept. 17, joins sister establishments Bellagio Pizzeria (404 Tyler St.) and Luxe ...
Phone company to incoming governor Jerry Brown: Say no to methyl iodide.
San Francisco-based CREDO mobile is asking its California customers and others to demand that Governor-elect Jerry Brown reverse the Schwarzenegger administration's Dec. 20 emergency approval of soil fumigant methyl iodide, which is expected to be ...
Washington celebrates 25 years of CRP
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the 25th anniversary of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in Washington last week. "Although it was designed to address soil erosion, CRP has become one of the standouts in the ...
The Facebook furor, Bach rocks in Carmel, Dylan’s defiance and why California is still cool.
Call it the year of lame-duck achievements. Without attempting to gild the lily, 2010 ended better than it began. Here’s hoping the new year will bring us better times – and better luck. That said, ...
With a temporary provision for mental health services set to expire, families look to the courts
Mental health services for students that have been provided since 1984 by the state and counties, AB 3632, are in danger of being terminated in 2011. Approximately 20,000 students receive services under AB 3632 for ...
Finding a sustainable seafood dinner made easy
The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program has launched a new iPhone app, Project FishMap, designed to help consumers tag and identify restaurants and markets across the United States when they find ocean-friendly seafood, contributing ...
New construction laws are designed to protect homeowners and compliant contractors
Several California construction laws and regulations passed during the 2009-2010 legislative session will take effect January 1, 2011. The new laws include a consumer protection law requiring contractors subcontractors or materials suppliers who intend to ...
CHOMP - Blue Shield agreement vows to lower healthcare costs
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) has reached an agreement with Blue Shield of California to make local care more affordable to Blue Shield members, according to a joint press release. The two-year agreement ...
Carmel Examines Retirement
Nobel laureate helps advisory committee in look at CalPERS
With only 75 public employees, Carmel is a small player in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). But with an annual budget of $13 million, a financial obligation in the multiple millions of dollars ...
Day of Inclusion recognizes the city’s historic Chinese village.
After Hanukkah and before Christmas, the city of Pacific Grove has marked another day for reflection: the Day of Inclusion, Dec. 17. The state Legislature made the day official last year with the passage of ...
Continental Shift
Two locals plan a way to change the lives of Africa’s young women.
O n July 4, 2007, Suad Ali met Robert Pacelli at a barbecue in Monterey, 15 years and continents away from the first time their paths crossed. Back then Ali, now a Monterey resident, was ...
Art Listing for Dec 23, 2010
Art Listing for Dec 23, 2010
HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISANA GALLERY Cheryl Kampe paints watercolor landscapes and studies of local trees in her exhibition “The Trees of Life,” which visually whisper recollections of dreams, wind-swept, romantic and strong, with layers of ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen
ONGOING ONE WARM COAT | MONTEREY – The Girl Scouts of Monterey Bay are collecting gently used coats so they can be cleaned and given to someone in need. Children’s coats are especially needed. Bring ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$575,000 Recent Sale 670 Lottie St., Monterey Built: 1992 Size: 1,365 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fenced front and backyards, hot tub, skylights, vaulted ceilings Seller: Thalma Dudley Buyer: Ronald ...
Crime Watch
Behavioral tracking used against Iraqi insurgents may be headed to Salinas.
With one of the highest murder rates in the country, the Salinas Police Department envisions a day when it can stop some violent crime before it starts. According to SPD Deputy Chief Kelly McMillin, teenagers ...
If you could be the 4th wiseman, what gift would you bring?
Asked at Paris Bakery in Monterey.
ALMA HEREDIA | Paris Bakery Employee | Los Banos A: I’m thinking about peace because my son is in Afghanistan. So I’d teach him the lesson of peace to make the world a better place ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): “There’s always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in,” wrote novelist Graham Greene. I’ll add to that: There are at least three moments in adulthood ...
Fumigation Furor
Opponents of methyl iodide to sue by month’s end, claim political motivation behind emergency regs.
California strawberry growers got final emergency approval from the state Department of Pesticide Regulation Dec. 20 to deploy controversial soil fumigant methyl iodide – for use mostly in the strawberry industry – despite the protests ...
Hot Boxes
A definitive breakdown of the top 10 CD box sets of 2010.
In an era where digitally downloaded music is king, box sets continue to be released and attract music lovers of all kinds. There’s something about a collection of sometimes more than 50 albums and collectible ...
The Bakery Station
Fuel for Life: The Bakery Station gasses up Salinas on fresh java, pastries and sandwiches.
On an island once reserved for gas pumps, newspaper stands sit beneath an historic overhang’s classic Airstream curves. Above, a ’50s-style sign with a Mrs. Cleaver look-alike declares “Now Baking Daily.” Stepping into The Bakery ...
A season of frustration can easily transform.
I spend a great deal of time (more time, in fact, than would seem reasonable) positing this single question: What’s wrong with people? It’s something of an occupational hazard. The people in question this week ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 23, 2010
A Stand for Wild Horses The cruelty and blatant waste of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars to remove wild horses has reached staggering proportions. The level of disregard, disrespect and criminal behavior the Bureau of Land ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: I live in a suburb of Dallas, am super-white, and make decent money. Naturally, I have a Mexican gardener/lawn dude who works his ass off, has 14 brothers and sisters in Guanajuato, employs ...
Pulling Strings
Chamber Music Monterey Bay changes the string quartet game
Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet and the man credited with creating chamber music as we know it, probably didn’t foresee his compositions performed in a loungey coffeehouse. He would have been pleased. ...
Final Buildout
Pebble Beach Co. files scaled-back development proposal.
T hree years after plans for development at Pebble Beach were rejected by the California Coastal Commission, the Pebble Beach Company has filed a scaled-down proposal with the County Planning Department to expand two existing ...
Can we disconnect from online media long enough to live our lives?
The blog of a friend kept showing up in my inbox. I felt guilty not reading it each week, and couldn’t get it to go into my junk mail. Then I saw the unsubscribe button. ...
Crab + Bacon = Yum
Two of the best things to put in your belly and more to munch on.
‘Tis the season. For crabs. Last week insider sources tipped me off to a cracking deal on fresh crab. So I promptly appeared on Wharf Two Friday afternoon to pick up 11 from a lady ...
Cover Girl
Zoe Boekbinder opens a chapter of clever covers at Paper Wing.
Zoe Boekbinder is a tad bit nervous about returning to the Paper Wing Theatre for Thursday’s performance with opening act Dakota Belle Witt. The last time she played there was five years ago with her ...
The King's Speech
Stutter Stunner: The King’s Speech might be a quiet Oscar-talker.
In the winter of 1936, the rather strange King Edward VIII, ruler of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India, and so forth, announced his decision to abdicate the throne in order to marry Wallis Simpson, ...
Squid Fry for Dec 23, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 23, 2010
HIGHER EDUCATION… Squid fondly remembers those heady college days. Drinking with the party-crazed otters, smoking a little seaweed with the mollusks. But Squid never realized one apparently can’t traverse the CSUMB campus without tripping on ...
I Love You Phillip Morris
Con Bond: Jim Carrey and I Love You Phillip Morris break new ground beautifully.
In I Love You Phillip Morris (no relation to the tobacco company), writer-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa pull off something that until now hasn’t been done in mainstream American cinema: A story where the ...
Little Fockers
Dumb Fockers: Little Fockers doesn’t make the most of its opportunities.
Apart from the smutty giggles that derive from the mere mention of the Focker family surname, this third entry in the now 10-year-old comedy franchise falls flat. Following Meet the Parents in 2000 and Meet ...
Salinas public libraries will stay open for limited hours during the holidays, despite previous plans to close down through the New Year
Salinas will open two of its three public libraries for limited hours during the holidays, despite earlier plans to close down entirely until January 3. In hopes to save an estimated $150,000, most city employees ...
Joyce Vandevere, Peace Resource Center president for five years, will step down in January 2011.
Joyce Vandevere, president of Seaside's Peace Resource Center since it became a 501c(3) non-profit in 2005, is stepping down from her post. On Jan. 18, the board of the peace organization will hold their annual ...
Special Edible
This is bacon like you've never seen it.
Between the chicken-fried bacon, chocolate-dipped bacon, bacon cream cheese and bacon-wrapped scallops, it'd be understandable if you thought that this whole bacon thing was peaking. It's not. See how much more deliciously absurd it's getting ...
Culture Club
The Salinas-J. Edgar Hoover connection, a CSUMB grad’s Sundance success and David Ligare’s artistic accomplishments…
HOOVER DAMNED?: Dustin Lance Black is on the phone and he’s ready to do battle—politely but firmly—with the forces of evil. The North Salinas High School graduate who won the Academy Award for Best Original ...
$500,000 grant moves Marine Sanctuary Center toward fundraising goal
The Oakland-based California State Coastal Conservancy has awarded a $500,000 grant to the city of Santa Cruz to help fund interpretive exhibits at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center, slated to open in ...
City of Monterey considers wading into water war, taking on TAMC
The Monterey City Council will vote at its Tuesday Dec. 21 meeting whether to take up two items guaranteed to spark major debate in 2011. City Councilwoman Libby Downey has requested the council consider placing ...
AG orders Wells Fargo to provide loan modifications worth $2 billion; pay $32 million in restitution.
Attorney General Jerry Brown's office reports the settlement covers thousands of Californians with so-called "pick-a-pay" or adjustable rate mortgages which ballooned to unaffordable levels. Wells Fargo didn't originate any of the loans in question; they ...
Fight Night
Photos and video from the Winter Brawl of mixed-martial arts at the Fox Theater in Salinas.
Despite the rain, the Fox Theater Salinas was full of heavy-hitting mixed-martial arts action during the Winter Brawl hosted by Central Coast Throwdown. Local fighters Jonathon Gaxiola and Adrien Olivas both won their bouts and ...
Salinas Weapons Arrests
Federal law enforcement officers and Salinas police charge two men with federal weapons trafficking crimes
Two Monterey County men have been indicted on 14 counts of federal weapons trafficking and possession charges following a seven-month investigation led by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. More than 70 ...
Leasing Losses
Wharf tenants may pay less than leases should be worth, according to commissioner.
=The city of Monterey may be losing as much as $3 million a year because of sweet deals offered to restaurants and shops on Monterey’s Fisherman’s Wharf, according to Monterey Planning Commissioner Willard McCrone, a ...
Sheriff Defines Strategy
Scott Miller tags former P.G. City Manager to lead transition team
With two weeks remaining before Sheriff-elect Scott Miller takes the reins at the county’s biggest law enforcement agency, he has brand new sets of olive drab sheriff’s uniforms on order, he’s just met with Sheriff ...
Tricky Dick and Me
Excellent Italian for Nixon, a fishy iPhone app for you.
Richard Nixon and I never had much in common. With the help of one of the most memorable personalities in Pagrovia, that’s changed. The other night at Alberto’s (373-3993) at the top of Forest Hill, ...
Charter Voyage
MPUSD to vote on fate of proposed academy.
Bay View Elementary School, slated for closure in June, could open next fall as Bay View Academy, an independent charter—if some Bay View parents have their way. On Dec. 13, parent Bill Shaw confronted a ...
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ONGOING TOY DRIVE | COUNTYWIDE – Dorothy’s Place sponsors a toy drive with drop-off points across the county, including United Way of Monterey County, 60 Garden Court, Monterey. Call or email for additional locations. 223-6658. ...
Corral Decision
Final commission vote expected at January meeting.
Conversely, his opponents will know if they have to do the same. After a decades-long process that has seen Phelps sue the county just to get them to consider his project, the planning commission is ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$795,000 Recent Sale 24735 Dolores St., Carmel Built: 1972 Size: 1,396 square feet Features: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Expansive ocean views, fireplace, breakfast bar, vaulted ceilings, deck Seller: Walter and Ethyl Paully ...
Squid Fry for Dec 16, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 16, 2010
GO AHEAD, MAKE MY MANTRA… Sometimes Squid stands in front of the mirror, all steely-eyed and sneering, doing the world’s best imitation of a tough former Carmel mayor threatening punks with guns. (No, not Sue ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 16, 2010
Gated Ideology If the Military Avenue, San Pablo Avenue, and Hilby Avenue gates between Seaside and General Jim Moore Boulevard are opened, it is true that traffic on those streets will increase. (“Seaside considers opening ...
What is your modern day, coal-in-the-stocking gift?
Asked at the post office in Monterey.
Follow-up: Who should meet under the mistletoe? GREG HANLON | Retired | Monterey A: Any more bills. I just paid my Comcast bill and it was over $100, which is far too much considering I ...
Curtains Fall on CET
Carmel grants lease on space to PacRep children’s group
On Dec. 4, Nick Hovick, artistic director of Children’s Experimental Theater and Staff Players Repertory Company, announced that this weekend’s musical revue performance at the Indoor Forest Theater by Taelen Thomas, Lynda Jardine and others ...
Assange is a necessity. Can the same be said for Amazon.com?
By all accounts, jerk is not a big enough word to describe Julian Assange as a human being. His number two man recently defected to start a rival to Assange’s WikiLeaks, saying there was now ...
Ready to Play
Unfolding an invaluable DVD holiday shopping guide for the music freak in the family.
From a previously unreleased Rolling Stones concert movie documenting the band at the peak of their powers to a film examining John Lennon’s post Beatles days, there’s been a flood of rock music DVDs released ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 16, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Last year I went to Chihuahua and noticed the Mexicans I was traveling with said gras – like a shortened version of gracias. Is this a common thing? Can I say it? Currently Hot Unlike ...
Strong Like Onyx
A pioneering program prevents tragic ends for victims of cancer.
Onix, the mother of a 4-year-old daughter, works full time as a housekeeper in Carmel. She, like 55 percent of families living in poverty in Monterey with a female head of household, doesn’t make a ...
Half Baked
Food safety and school lunch gets a hard look from Congress.
Rarely in our history have food politics so dominated the national spotlight. Two food-related bills are currently circling the legislative drain, and their backers are running out of time to get them signed by the ...
Tron - Legacy
Despite its pedigree, Tron: Legacy does not impress.
I’m really starting to think they hate us, the masters of our so-called entertainment. At the very least they surely hold us in disdain, see us as inconvenient obstacles to their god-granted profits. If only ...
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is powerfully and beautifully bewildering.
After 2008’s conventionally plotted, over-praised The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky dives back into another competitive sport of sorts in the deliciously wackadoodle Black Swan. This drama-horror hybrid, set within a New York ballet company, strikes a ...
America’s drug policy a failed experiment in social engineering.
America’s drug policy aims to reduce illicit drug use by arresting and incarcerating dealers and, to a lesser extent, users. Whatever its merits (and there are some), the policy is deeply flawed because it is ...
Art Listing for Dec 16, 2010
Art Listing for Dec 16, 2010
HAPPENING THIS WEEK A GREAT PLACE HOME AND GARDEN Julia is a charming woman whose mischievous sense of humor sometimes pokes out of her polite British accent. Having done work for Hanna Barbera on Charlotte’s ...
Guru Jazz
Cellist super talent Renata Bratt joins Kenny Stahl and Bob Burnett at Plaza Linda.
On Friday at Plaza Linda, a unique jazz trio – featuring Kenny Stahl on flute, Bob Burnett on seven-string guitar and Renata Bratt on cello – will celebrate the holiday season with their distinctive twist ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): I vividly remember seeing singer Diamanda Galas in concert. Though classically trained, she didn’t confine herself to mellifluous melodies and elegant tones. She was a whirlwind of elemental sound, veering from ...
