Issues / 1998 / Apr 09
Letters
The United Nations? On March 13, AMBAG gave a program in Monterey on the so-called "Sustainable Development," which I believe is nothing more than a clever con-game being foisted on the unwary public by the ...
From The Editorial Desk
At age 15, I lay in a coffin for the first (and last) time. As an after-school delivery boy for a flower shop, I made daily rounds to local funeral homes, pinning carnations on corpses ...
Alternatives to an expensive funeral.
So you don''t want to shell out $5,000 for a funeral? You don''t have to. According to Jerri Lyons of the Natural Death Care Project (NDCP) in Sebastopol, there are many funereal steps you can ...
Local schools react to Jonesboro killings.
On March 24, Americans recoiled in horror at the televised carnage that came to us from Woodside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., where a jilted 13-year-old and his 11-year-old friend gunned down four fellow students ...
You can't take it with you, but gravestones let you leave a message behind.
They loom eerily over the smoothly manicured grass of the cemetery, yet grave headstones are the final loving markers of a person''s life. Gravestones encapsulate the vital information and perhaps favorite words of the deceased. ...
Taxes--Alms for Uncle Sam
Tax season is upon us, Uncle Sam''s got both palms open and an expectant look upon his face. How do Monterey County residents feel about handing over their hard-earned dollars, and the way the government ...
Getting Juiced--Former members of popular local bands set to make their mark.
Could the band Juice have chosen a more fitting debut than St. Patrick's Day? By the time my friends and I arrived at Viva Monterey that night, the band had warmed up to a bubbling ...
Watching Our Language--Unz initiative would take away steps we teachers are making.
It is rather ironic that the Pacific Repertory Theater is performing the play Inherit the Wind, about the trial of a teacher teaching a controversial subject, in this case evolution. With the 21st century approaching, ...
Brine Food
Stand by for the latest breaking news on the edible frontier: The haute-est of haute, the current culinary cause celebre, the most bandied-about cocktail party repartee overheard among the gatherings of gourmands for 1998 is ...
Housing and land preservation are key issues in District 3 Supervisor's race.
It is Monterey County''s largest, most economically powerful and culturally diverse supervisorial district. It boasts a population of approximately 85,000 residents and stretches over 1.5 million acres, from the southernmost end of the county, north ...
Director John Sayles' multi-layered fable packs political punch.
Maverick filmmaker John Sayles had one of his greatest successes with Lone Star, but he continues to follow his own renegade path with Men With Guns (Hombres Armados), a kind of detective story that partakes ...
A look at America's ever-evolving dance with the Grim Reaper.
How long, I would ask, are we to be subjected to the tyranny of custom and undertakers? --Lord Essex On March 10, the state Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) revoked the business licenses of a ...
Ready to move up from the EZ form and a crayon? Here's the latest on tax prep software.
It''s the scariest night of the year and it''s happening soon. The sweating, the screaming, the cursing--midnight, April 15, looms like the term paper deadline from hell. The date has become an icon of adult ...
Rio Grill
They call the menu at Rio Grill 'regional American with a Southwest flair.' That's the problem with trying to sum things up: while it might be accurate, it's sometimes not adequate. This is a menu ...
Notes or Soul?--Santa Cruz County Symphony delivers one but drops the other.
Can we agree that Mozart''s music is more than notations on manuscript paper? If not, the Santa Cruz County Symphony performance of Mozart''s celebrated Symphony 40 in G Minor last Saturday night would have pleased ...
Roundup, Shoot Up, Pay Up
And Ken Starr Would Still Think His Investigation Should Continue I received an intriguing e-mail this week titled, "A Village of 100, a Message of Conscience from Rod Diridon:" If we could shrink the earth''s ...
Something Different--Check out some roots music of a different type in some unusual venues.
You say you want roots music, something that cuts close to the bone before soaring to the heavens; something that has some meaning beyond silly little songs? Something that can touch your soul and make ...
Few frills attend the internment of MoCo's indigents.
"A visit to El Carmelo Cemetery [in Pacific Grove] will favorably impress anyone with the beauty of the location for a city of the dead," wrote Irvin A. Engle for the Pacific Grove Review in ...
Nothin' says lovin' like an organ donation.
Why throw away a perfectly good body when you can recycle it? In an operating room at the Monterey County Coroner''s office in Salinas, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center "harvests" ...
