Issues / 1998 / May 14
Letters
Headlines Where??? We enjoyed your "10 Censored Stories" in the April 30 edition. Why is it that the so-called main media press cannot or did not include such stories? Talk about "controlled press." We certainly ...
Theory In Action--Why needle exchange programs make good sense.
According to White House sources, senior health officials in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--including HHS Secretary Dr. Donna Shalala--recently recommended to President Clinton a move toward some kind of federal funding for ...
Sam Farr raises as good as he spends.
Despite the fact that your voice in Washington, Congressman Sam Farr, is politically popular and running for reelection during a very shiny moment in the economic cycle, he is leaving nothing to chance, and plans ...
It's 9:30pm and the sidewalks are rolled up. Will Steinbeck salvage Salinas nightlife?
It is 9:30 on a Saturday night and downtown Salinas is quiet--so quiet that even a mediocre quarterback could lob a long pass down Main Street without hitting a single car. Or a single person. ...
Three others are also campaigning in District 17
Along with the two Republican nominees Cares and McCampbell and incumbent Democrat Sam Farr, there are three other candidates on the District 17 ballot. They are Art Dunn, Scott Hartley, and Rick Garrett. Dunn, a ...
Producers explain why duplicate productions of the same play show up in the same season.
This summer, audiences will be treated to two productions of the musical Gypsy. Separated by a mere two weeks and less than 20 miles, Baby June, Gypsy Rose and friends take the stage at The ...
Is Prop. 220 a good plan for county courts, or politics as usual?
No doubt many voters in the June 2 primary will be uninspired by Proposition 220, the court consolidation initiative. It doesn''t have big money backers flooding the airwaves with misleading commercials. Nor does the measure ...
Two Challengers face an uphill battle to unseat District 2 incumbent.
There''s not much apparent fire being generated in the District 2 supervisorial race. Unlike in District 3, where numerous candidates are scrambling to fill an open seat, in District 2 a well-connected, some say entrenched, ...
Being Courtney means never having to say you're sorry.
About the only conclusion one can draw from Kurt and Courtney, director Nick Broomfield''s engrossing and darkly funny documentary about the life and death of grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, is that in our invasive, media-driven ...
Here's an advance look at the $10.5 million National Steinbeck Center, opening next month.
When the National Steinbeck Center opens June 27 in Salinas, visitors will get to inhabit, however briefly, the world of Nobel Prize-winning author, John Steinbeck. Visitors (an estimated 140,000 to 300,000 a year) will enter ...
Seinfeld Syndrome--Whaddaya do when nobody tells you nothing? You hit the streets in search of info.
Apparently doomed to echo the mass media push to be all things Seinfeld this week, I started to prepare a "Column About Nothing." That would be easy since there was nothing on my desk about ...
Two Republicans challenge each other--and Farr--in the 17th District.
Imagine if you will, a 28-year-old Republican cook representing the 17th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. That''s the goal of Mark Cares, a red-headed, enthusiastic young Republican who''d like the chance to sit ...
Of Land and Water
Do As We Say, Not As We Do In the face of threatened water rationing by the California-American Water Co., Squid is glad to know the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District has done its best ...
Salinas Nightlife--Hot In The City
What kind of nightlife does Salinas have to offer? Despite the arrival of several new restaurants, plenty of movies, some good theater, and the best performing arts center in the county, the overwhelming popular response ...
Prop. 223 aims to whittle school administration costs, but teachers remain mum on support.
From standardized tests to the end of bilingual education, what to do about the sorry state of California schools has been one of the most hotly debated issues of the political year, and strong political ...
Requiem for a Clarinetist--Homage to Rosario Mazzeo conjures memories.
For Mother''s Day, clarinetist John Laughton and pianist Melinda Coffey served up a short program of music that falls sweetly on their instruments. It began with a new piece by New York composer Annette LeSiege ...
Savory Finds
You are what you eat. Brillat Savarin, 19th century man of science and letters, bon vivant and dyed-in-the- wool gourmand is likely spinning around in his grave, still reeling from liberties taken with his most ...
Tarpy's Roadhouse
Long on imagination, with expertise to back it up--that's the impression you're likely to come away with after experiencing Tarpy's Roadhouse. Whether you're strolling the lovingly tended grounds, studying the mouth-watering menus, or enlisting their ...
Family Tradition--John Lee Hooker, Jr., has a new lease on life and is beginning to make his musical mark.
First time I saw his name, I thought somebody must''ve made a mistake. There''s only one John Lee Hooker and, at 80 years old, he''s no junior. But I was wrong. There is a John ...
Modeling class in Seaside offers opportunity to work with live model.
Standing in the middle of a studio with one''s drawers on the floor, the center of everyone''s attention has got to be most people''s worst nightmare (or biggest thrill, depending on personal tastes). For George ...
