Issues / 1998 / Apr 16
Author/lawyer Andrew Vachss fights for the rights of children in the pages of his books and in the courtroom.
It''s a sordid world inhabited by Burke, the protagonist of 11 noir novels by Andrew Vachss. Rapists, pedophiles and other sexual predators slum cheek-by-jowl with skinheads, underground arms merchants and cops paid to look the ...
Valley oaks face an uncertain future.
When the earliest Spanish and European settlers first gazed upon the oak-studded hillsides and valleys of Central California, they encountered a wildly beautiful, fertile land that embodied their conception of the New World as paradise. ...
Independent bookstores look for ways to compete with chain retailers.
Over the last 25 years, the face of retailing in the United States has dramatically changed as one after another small business closed its doors in the face of competition from large, chain retailers. The ...
Monterey County's coast redwoods face challenges from logging, tourists.
If there is a tree associated with California, it must be the coast redwood. With its tall, ramrod-straight trunk stretching majestically hundreds of feet into the skies, the coast redwood symbolizes the limitless horizons of ...
Retail/housing/movie complex coming to Monterey.
The last undeveloped, city-owned property in downtown Monterey will finally be put to use, with a six-screen movie theater, low-to- moderate income housing, and retail shops. The Osio Plaza project, named after the nearby Osio ...
Primordial Soup
If you stop to think about it, the archaeology of soup is pretty impressive stuff. By the time somebody figured out that the first concave mud pies--formed out of just the right kind of clay ...
Why Ration?--Cal-Am explains restrictions in a wet year.
The question that is asked is, "Why in 1998, when we are experiencing the wettest rainfall season in the history of the Monterey Peninsula, is Cal-Am proposing to file a water rationing plan with the ...
The Big Sur JazzFest brings musicians together in support of a battered community.
Music''s greatest power is its ability to bring together disparate elements. Just as it combines notes, rhythm, melody and instruments, it has the ability to bind audiences, musicians, communities, and ease the path for cultural ...
The Cottage Restaurant
It's a funny thing, the restaurant business. You can spend your whole life in it and then suddenly you're an overnight success. Or at least it seems that way, sometimes. "It was funny how it ...
Group forms to support accused MPC counselor.
A Monterey Peninsula College counselor who this month faces criminal charges in Monterey County Superior Court for allegedly threatening a student with a concealed weapon is "the victim of an institution" that "has a long ...
Foresters keep municipal trees alive and well.
To a novice, "urban forestry" seems almost like an oxymoron. But ask a city forester, and suddenly the idea begins to make a lot of sense. "An urban forest is any green space in a ...
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The estrogen level in the theater where I saw City of Angels was so high that by the movie''s end I was in serious danger of lactating. City of Angels, a remake of Wim Wenders'' ...
Environmental group votes on whether to support immigration reduction.
This week, half a million members of the Sierra Club, the nation''s oldest and one of its largest environmental organizations, vote on whether to support reducing legal immigration in the name of environmental protection. To ...
The Forest For The Trees
"A tree is a tree--how many more do you need to look at?" --Ronald Reagan A report issued last week by the World Conservation Union detailing the results of its 20-year, international survey of plant ...
Of Snails and Sheriffs
All Those In Favor of a Job, Say Aye It''s always a little weird working as a county employee for a boss who gets elected every four years. On the one hand, you''re working for ...
Earth Day--Are You Green Enough?
It''s Earth day and Monterey''s air is looking good compared to the smog-drenched skies of LA. Recycling is hip, but are we doing enough? Michael Brenner Resides: Monterey Occupation: Computers Age: 39 What''s the biggest ...
Letters
Dead Wrong No wonder I had so many calls asking if I was OK. When I picked up my copy of Coast Weekly at lunch time and turned to page 13 (April 9,"Bring out Your ...
Meet the judge who gives Ken Starr everything he wants.
If you are wondering right about now how Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr''s Whitewater investigation has spun out of control, skittering from its original, narrow mandate to investigate the Clintons'' political and financial ties to ...
Disease and development threaten the Monterey Pine.
In the competitive world of tree-hugging, the Monterey Pine is often overlooked, a plain-Jane extra in an environmental theater of majestic redwoods and stately cypress. This slight is certainly undeserved when one considers the magnificence ...
