Issues / 1998 / Apr 30
Project Censored's National Judges
&bul; Dr. Donna Allen, president of the Women''s Institute for Freedom of the Press. &bul; Ben Bagdikian, professor emeritus and former dean, Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. &bul; Richard Barnet, author of 15 ...
A portrait of the actor as a chronic bullshitter.
Hot off his limited engagement at the county home for wayward movie stars, Robert Downey Jr. returns to the big screen in Two Girls And A Guy, a showcase for Downey''s talents that should cement ...
Proposed transit changes have some riders unhappy.
At a meeting last week at the Monterey Public Library, officials from Monterey Salinas Transit (MST) tried to explain to an unhappy crowd of mostly senior and disabled bus riders why after almost 20 years ...
Believe it Or Not
Next Up, RJ Reynolds Reports on Smoking... If you weren''t in the Bay Area last weekend, you missed out on the Alameda Newspaper Group''s April 26 interview with Dina Ruiz Eastwood, the part-time KSBW anchor ...
David Mamet's latest film gets off to a slow start but offers huge payoffs.
The first 15 minutes of David Mamet''s The Spanish Prisoner are artificial, stilted and awkward. Mamet''s celebrated textual minimalism is at odds with lush settings in a tropical resort and unnecessarily active camera work. But ...
Saint Material
There''s St. Michael, the patron saint of grocers. Then there''s St. Dunstan of Canterbury, patron saint of locksmiths. St. Stephen of Jerusalem is the patron saint of bricklayers, and St. Nicholas of Russia represents children, ...
Spring Fever--Young musicians and new bands burst with springtime energy and enthusiasm.
Looks like we can kiss the cold and wet goodbye and welcome the summer season of festivals and outdoor concerts. Don''t you think it''s about time? That feeling hit me as I watched last weekend''s ...
Letters
Get Busy! I find your paper to be invaluable when I plan my entertainment and dining out. I especially enjoy Beth Peerless' contributions. Chuck Thurman also provides a nice presentation. Scott MacClelland is pretty negative ...
May Hot Kid Picks
3 sunday Happily Ever After The Friends of the Aromas Library's annual storytelling concert is a not-to-be-missed event for families looking for riveting entertainment for their 2 to 14-year-olds. On tap are the Humdingers!, a ...
Project Censored--Is the News Reliable?
Sonoma State puts out "Project Censored" each year to draw attention to the nation''s most under-reported news stories. But how does the public feel about the news? Do people feel important issues are neglected, or ...
Sweet Deals--New CD releases capture recent visiting artists, save money.
A year ago, an enthusiastic crowd filled the large church at Mission San Juan Bautista to hear "Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe" (properly Maitines para Nuestra Se¤ora de Guadalupe). The work, which was composed ...
Eat or Be Eaten --Predation may not be pretty, but that's nature.
There is a "tooth and claw" aspect of nature that isn''t (by our reckoning) pretty. Witness the recent Herald article reporting on orca (killer whale) predation on migrating gray whale calves. It is only natural ...
A battle is brewing between Monterey County and private Internet service providers.
A decision this past February by the Carmel Middle School (CMS) to drop the Monterey County Office of Education (MCOE) as its Internet service provider after only several weeks of service, has touched off a ...
From carcinogenic toothpaste to world arms sales and lost spaceships of plutonium, here's 10 stories that didn't make headlines.
Last month, for the 22nd year in a row, the Sonoma State University student and faculty program announced the conclusion of its annual search for major, significant, but little-reported news stories. And once again, the ...
Palermo Bakery
When the phone rang at Palermo Bakery last week, Erasmo Aiello picked up the call at Mickey's Toontown in Disneyland while loading his kids onto a ride. "The guy wanted to know where his bread ...
From the Past with a Blast--Millennia collide in Haunted by Waters'' electronic tribal music.
What do you get when you blend synthesizer with bodhran, electric violin with didgeridoo? You get something like the music from Haunted by Waters; it''s a mystical sound, blending early tendrils from the coming millennium ...
