Issues / 1998 / May 21
According to the LandWatch report, the 14 major highway and road segments evaluated by county transportation agencies:
* Three are at Level of Service D * Four at Level of Service E * Five are at Level of Service F * Portions of one are at Level of Service D and F ...
Did Judy Pennycook use her influence to push through her subdivision?
Despite earlier denials from District 2 Supervisor Judy Pennycook that she attempted to influence county staffers working on a subdivision of her North County property, a key county official this week admitted he met with ...
Frank Sinatra--Old Blue Eyes
Sure, Frank Sinatra had alleged mob connections and hadn''t sung on key since the late ''70s. And yes, he once recorded a cover of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" that made even his most ardent fans ...
Squid Festival fishermen and chefs will demonstrate dozens of ways to prepare Monterey's favorite cephalopod.
Put a few of the things that make Monterey County famous in a pan, stir ''em up, and you''ll have made yourself a pretty fine dish. But while artichokes might be fairly familiar, garlic holds ...
Agit-prop performance piece at CSUMB raises toxic-waste awareness.
While most theater in the area has slipped into the revival of comfortable, non-threatening plays, there was a performance piece this week at CSUMB that at least strove to make a social impact in the ...
A further look at LandWatch and its State of Monterey County 1998 report.
According to President Mike DeLapa, LandWatch grew out of a recognition that Monterey County was slated for tremendous amounts of growth over the next 20 years without an adequate, comprehensive assessment of the county''s actual ...
Letters
Vote for Hunter I urge you and your readers to support Kurt Hunter for supervisor, in District 2. Kurt has the ideas and the energy to make constructive and cost effective changes in our county ...
Freshly painted murals have replaced the weathered panels on Cannery Row.
If you''ve been down to the aquarium end of Cannery Row this month, you will have noticed something a little different: The old Cannery Row murals have been replaced with fresher, brighter Cannery Row scenes. ...
The Mucky Duck
"S omething for everyone" is how chef Victor Salazar describes the popular downtown spot where he has been behind the line for the last five years. Poring over the various menus, his assessment appears to ...
Monterey County Sheriff Norm Hicks confronts pre-election accusations.
Monterey County Sheriff Norm Hicks currently faces every elected official''s nightmare: Two weeks before election day, the state attorney general''s office has requested that the Monterey County district attorney''s office investigate Hicks on charges of ...
Robert Redford, the golden boy of Sundance, chases a golden guy from Hollywood.
I detect the scent of a golden statuette wafting in the breeze. Robert Redford''s adaptation of Nicholas Evans'' best-selling novel is a countrified, monolithic thing of beauty--gorgeous to behold despite the fact that its overlong, ...
June ballot propositions create some strange political bedfellows.
The last few years have seen the people of California presiding over the state''s most controversial political decisions and this June 2 will be no different. Though there are fewer ballot measures on the primary ...
The once-reclusive movie star has become as verbose as his latest character.
Warren Beatty, the reclusive screen idol--riveting as the bumbling bank robber in Bonnie and Clyde, the re-incarnated jock in Heaven Can Wait, the crusading journalist in Reds, the visionary gangster in Bugsy--has always been extremely ...
Trivial Distractions
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Finally, the answer to this, and many other burning culinary queries... Part of the reason it''s so challenging to meet deadlines when one writes about food is ...
Maestro's Farewell--Despite last-minute complications, there were memorable moments in Clark Suttle's farewell concert.
The setup for last weekend''s Monterey County Symphony was--at least for me--a disappointment. As orginally announced, departing music director Clark Suttle''s last concert aimed for the stars: Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss and Brahms'' ...
May Madness
The Hills Are Alive...Arrrgh! I wouldn''t personally pay to see public officials making fools of themselves. They seem to do enough of that for free (or in the case of county supervisors, they do it ...
Just Say No--We need to halt large subdivisions until we revise the General Plan.
Monterey County is cherished for the beauty of its coastline, rolling oak hills, expansive farmland, and open spaces. Recreational opportunities and natural beauty attract business, residents and tourists. Tourism and agriculture drive our economy. Yet ...
Monterey County--at The Crossroads
Decades from now, when Monterey County is either one of the last habitable coastal areas in the state of California, or the last place to succumb to the effects of rampant sprawl and over development, ...
Festival Time There's Memorial Day music all over the place: outdoors, indoors and everywhere in between.
If you haven''t done it already, it''s time to get ready for Memorial Day music festivals. It''s time to fix the zippers on your sleeping bags, clean the mildew out of your coolers and dust ...
Slyding into Jazz--With a new album in the making, Dogslyde returns to MoCo.
Last seen in town giving a dynamite performance with the Left Coast Jazz All-stars in January, trumpeter Clyde "The Slyde" Sutliffe brings his 1996 Bammie-nominated group Dogslyde to The Jazz Store Saturday. The Bay Area-based ...
Calendar of Seasons--Local classical presenters announce plans for their fall '98 through spring '99 seasons.
Carmel Music Society Nov. 3 Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet Nov. 30 Beaux Arts (piano) Trio Jan. 11 Vladimir Feltsman, piano Feb. 1 Cho-Liang Lin, violin Mar. 9 Heidi Hau, piano (winner of 1998 annual competition) Mar. ...
