Issues / 1998 / Jun 11
Blundering and Plundering
County Class Clash It''s finally becoming clear why the 450 attorneys and managers who work for Monterey County are squawking over changes in the county health insurance plan. As reported here a couple weeks back, ...
A series of 12 short trips that can reclaim the joys of summers when you had a real vacation.
Remember when summer vacation meant three months off? When the last day of school was filled with the promise of lazy days and hanging out with friends, and adventure was just around the corner? When ...
Cut this out, tape it to your refrigerator, or mark your personal calendar. There's something for everyone this summer.
June 12-14 Old Monterey Sidewalk Arts Festival. Downtown Alvarado Street is lined with booths, featuring hand-crafted sculpture, painting and ceramics. Also held in August. Monterey. 655-8070 20 Monterey Rock & Art Festival. A music and ...
Plenty to choose from when it comes to summer theater fare around Monterey County.
Summer''s the time when the local theaters move into high gear, offering fairy tales in the great outdoors, Gypsy in Monterey and Salinas, a little Steinbeck, some Shakespeare and lots of stuff for kids. Without ...
The dream of a multi-pronged approach to arts splits up.
If change is good for the soul, then the three spirits gallery in Sand City should have achieved nirvana by now. It appears that the earthly trinity has split, and each fragment is struggling to ...
The Truman Show is a pretty good movie. But would you ever want to watch it again?
Question: Is The Truman Show really the subversive film that all the advance hype would have us believe? Or is it merely this season''s way of spelling Gump? Answer: It''s a little of both, though ...
Pornophony on Video--Dark production of Richard Strauss'' Salome has a little of everything.
Richard Strauss'' opera Salome, based on the Oscar Wilde story, made the composer rich enough to buy his spacious villa at Garmisch. Already adept at exhibiting such family values as sexual relations between a grown ...
Bluegrass With a Twist Czechoslovakian, North Carolinian, and Panama Red-ian bluegrass dominates music this week.
Let''s start with bluegrass, there''s a lot of it around here this week. The state-of-the-art Media Room plays host to a pair of bluegrass-ish concerts this week: On Friday, Druh Tr va, a quintet of ...
A new 90-photograph exhibit matches the diversity of local photographers' group.
You want diversity? You got it. The Image Makers, an informal group of 44 local photographers, is opening "Collective Visions," an exhibit of 90 photographs at the Pacific Grove Art Center on Friday. According to ...
Letters
Squid Got It Right Squid stepped on the water district's "tale." Their letter last week trying to claim that they want public input directly contradicts a long track record of District actions. In the past ...
Lighthouse Bistro
If you're one of those people who likes to read menus like other people read novels, you'll find that the menu at Lighthouse Bistro is tantamount to the New York Times list of best sellers. ...
Expect new surcharges when you visit national parks this summer.
With the recreation season unfolding across California and beyond, outdoor enthusiasts should brace themselves for broadening surcharges affixed to Mother Nature. Such is the new reality forged by the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program, a mandate ...
Relations between Cal-Am and water district to be tested at June PUC hearings.
To hear officials with the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD) tell it, all is smooth sailing between the district and the California-American Water Co. (Cal-Am), at least in regard to the processing of Cal-Am''s ...
Blue and Green--This week's National Oceans Conference is an opportunity to showcase environmentalism.
I was dismayed to read your coverage of the National Oceans Conference in the June 4 edition. Your paper missed the point of the conference entirely: This conference is about substance; it is about protecting ...
OmBUDDIES program joins seniors and kids in a bond that transcends years.
Ask OmBUDDIES what they like about the program and they all have only one thing to say: everything. Once a week OmBUDDIES get together, seniors in nursing homes and assisted living facilities and kids, mostly ...
Dark Skies, Dark Vision--The gray skies haunting MoCo seem appropriate harbingers for a punk concert.
When I talk about the weather in this column, I usually refer to how the sun came out, summer is here, everyone is happy. Baloney. It''s all a ruse. The world is a gray place. ...
Holiday Heaven--Summer Time!
Yes summer is finally here, and Monterey County residents are looking forward to a scarce season of sun-drenched days along the coast. Could it really be time to relax and soak up some ultraviolet rays? ...
Culinary Paths
Sticking to your principles is a thing to be admired. Whether you insist on the purity of ground, drained and pressed soybean curd for your personal protein allotment, or you whoop in excitement at the ...
Living in paradise may be expensive but there are enough free things you can do to make up for it.
Yeah, yeah. We''ve all heard it again and again: Living in Paradise is expensive. But there are also a ton of things you can do around here that cost nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. All it ...
