Issues / 1998 / Jul 16
Main Events (Sunset Center, San Carlos & 9th, Carmel, except as noted) 624-2046.
Saturday 8pm. Bruno Weil conducts JS Bach''s cantatas O "ewiges Feuer," "Ich habe genug," "Vereinigte Zwietracht," Elgar''s Introduction & Allegro. Sunday 2pm. Bruno Weil conducts JS Bach''s Mass in B Minor. Monday 10:30am. Harpsichordist John ...
Local playwright Rob Foster offers a promising play about life and love in the '90s. Now comes the hard part.
Up until the 1950s (or thereabouts), full-length plays of three hours'' duration were the norm. Often, these plays needed every minute of their stage time as they cut big swaths through social and political issues, ...
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 ...
Monterey County's abundance of food from Central and South America makes its mark on regional cuisine.
When it comes to fast food, you''ll find the best alternative to burger-and-fries on the western side of the Continental Divide. In most parts of the other half of the country, most dine-and-dash denizens have ...
Pay to Play
Calling Dr. Choice, Stat! My doctor died last week, which was no huge surprise, given that he was 99 years old and had been chain smoking since he was old enough to light a cigarette. ...
MoCo Residents on Poetry
Poetry slam competitions are getting bigger and better. But, although the 1998 West Coast Regional Slam will be held on our own turf at Big Sur''s Henry Miller Memorial Library on Saturday, Monterey County residents ...
Park District chief leaves an activist legacy.
Twenty-five years ago, he was the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District''s first manager. As he prepares to retire, Gary Tate points to the district''s growth and takes obvious pride in what the district--and he--have accomplished. ...
It's wild, fast, irreverent and fun...just what you think of when you think "poetry."
It''s Jerry Seinfeld meets Henry Rollins meets Tonya Harding. From the bowels of the mid-''80s Chicago punk art scene to 60 cities across North America, the slam poetry movement has grabbed blue-stockinged Sir Poetry by ...
Carmel Valley Historical Society struggles to find permanent site for archive.
"Dedicated to the future of our past," is the motto of the Carmel Valley Historical Society, which since its founding in 1987 has assembled an invaluable treasure trove of artifacts, documents and memorabilia pertaining to ...
The older the score, the more difficult it is to discover the composer's intent. Just ask Bach Festival Choral Director Bruce Lamott.
The performance today of music composed in previous generations represents many acts. For most executants, it starts with score--the published version of a composer''s intentions. But scholarship during the past half century has shown, with ...
The festival's main events get all the glory, but there are plenty of smaller offerings worth seeing.
Looking for a good excuse to ditch work? In addition to the Bach Festival''s main events, there are several ancillary programs of exceptional promise, many during the day. In the Intermezzo Recital series (2:30pm at ...
Know Your Sardine
Out of an industry that once numbered 28 canneries, only one exists today. Monterey Fish Company in Sand City is the last of the line, with its brightly colored cans of Sardinaps sagax found under ...
Could Sand City link be the latest piece of a statewide Coastal Trail?
When Sand City dedicated its new coastal bicycle path a few weeks ago, it was another chapter in a dream come true for some-a recreational trail providing public access to the coast and spectacular views ...
Letters
That's News? When Etha Gray came to The Western Stage in 1989, she didn't come offering her services as Sue Fishkoff states >(CW, July 9), she came asking for assistance to develop her own African-American ...
There's more to Monterey County agriculture than lettuce, strawberries and artichokes.
Monterey County has some 320,000 acres under cultivation; acres that produce a harvest of about 40 vegetables, each with a cash value ranging from $1 million up to almost half a billion dollars. In addition ...
Mark Bava's sculpture offers reflections on the rat race.
Mark Bava''s work is unlike that of most Monterey-area artists. Instead of drawing inspiration from the region''s natural beauty, Bava''s work--at least the body of his work currently on display at the Sculpture House and ...
Monterey's regional cuisine is defined by geographical blessings and cultural influences.
Any area''s regional cuisine is defined as much by the temperament of its climate as its people. The Central Coast of California is a uniquely endowed part of the world, spilling over with year-round harvests ...
Warped, weird and violent: Joe Dante's latest offering isn't Toy Story 2.
It would be easy to reduce Small Soldiers to the story''s lowest common denominators and call it Toy Story meets Gremlins, but this is a Joe Dante film, and nothing''s ever that simple when it ...
Plaza Linda
When you think of Plaza Linda, it's probably the courtyard that first comes to mind. Or maybe you think of the sangria-roasted chicken, or Tijuana tacos or the suizas enchiladas. Whatever your memory, if it''s ...
Sunshine & Soul--From Seaside's Sunday Blues to an independently released CD, there's a lot of both to go around.
The sun finally came out last weekend, just in time for the kickoff installment of Seaside''s annual Sunday Blues in the Park series. I got there in time to catch most of Deanna Bogart''s set. ...
With more than two dozen new restaurants in the last year, it's obvious that Monterey County continues its love affair with food.
The restaurant business in Monterey County is constantly in flux, with new restaurants opening at a steady pace all around the county. Here are 24 restaurants that have opened--or which have gained new owners--in the ...
Real Art for Real People--The arts community has only itself to blame for tepid public support.
Whether in The Herald, Coast Weekly''s very own Squid Fry, or scribbled on Morgan''s Coffee House''s sagacious white board, there is somebody griping about diminished funding for the arts and a "stodgy" naysayer, often a ...
Madeline offers a scattered but comfortingly impressionistic take on the children's classic.
Not surprisingly, Madeline opens with a voice-over: "In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines..." With those familiar storybook words, the viewer (well, this viewer) must, by pure Pavlovian response, nestle down ...
Everyone who cooks it has their own version of how to make this classic California fish stew.
According to Tony and Fran DiGirolamo, cioppino got started up around the San Francisco Delta area. It started out on the houseboats up there, around the turn-of-the-century. There were lots of immigrants from Sicily, Spain, ...
Summertime, Music is Easy--Juice debuts new EP, Brother Gumption rocks Bluefin, Flora Purim in Santa Cruz.
It''s summer, tourists are clogging up the highways and the fog sometimes burns off the beaches for fun in the sun. Out in the valley, where there are still some fruit orchards, mixed in with ...
