Issues / 1998 / Sep 24
Local actor Michael Jacobs rounds out those tricky vowels.
Got a heavy Brooklyn accent? Can''t wrap your tongue around an "ing?" Give Michael Jacobs a call. Jacobs, one of our area''s finest actors, is also one of the handful of local theater folk who ...
The 10th annual Monterey County Artists Studio Tour offers opportunity to meet local artists.
All too often, art is seen as a product, a commodity hanging on a shop wall, waiting for a new owner. There''s little chance of the buyer ever making contact with the artist who created ...
Marina candidates focus on planning, growth and getting along.
If a genie had washed up on the beach in a bottle, rambled down Reservation Road and granted the city three wishes, Marina couldn''t have asked for more. With the promise of potential growth as ...
Restaurant Buzz
Easy come, easy go. Or so it would seem, in the capricious world of the restaurant business. Ask the people who are in it and they''ll tell you it''s not for the money, it''s just ...
Summerhouse
Carmel Valley is the kind of place that for years just sort of kept its own pace. Quiet and sleepy used to describe it; these days it's better characterized as wide-awake and bustling along. And ...
In Other News...
The Mayor and the Model Carmel Mayor Ken White wants to know why the $65,000 Caltrans model of the proposed Hatton Canyon Freeway is available for private parties, while his repeated requests to host the ...
Literacy Comes Home--Basic skills programs on laptops make all the difference for struggling adults.
For the past two years, I have been coordinator of an innovative new program at the Monterey Adult School called the Basic Skills on Computer Program. This program is designed to help adults improve their ...
Pacific Grove City Council race revolves around priorities and personalities.
To hear incumbent Pacific Grove City Councilmembers Robert Huitt and Steven Honegger tell it, the city, like a well-oiled music box, is tinkling along nicely. Sure, maybe the city needs a minor tuning but, overall, ...
Finding Quality--It isn't always easy to hear the best of the new composers--until after they're dead.
If you wanted to get to the wheat of new music without sifting through all the chaff, how would you do it? Be assured there are ways but unfortunately you won''t find much help. A ...
A critical look at Cal State University Monterey Bay--is CSUMB meeting its own goals?
"Dr. Smith''s overall strategy for building a strong university is to establish that it is first and foremost the questions that drive an educational institution''s quality of evolution, not necessarily traditional answers." --from the CSUMB ...
Darren Aronofsky's low-budget sci-fi flick is like a full-bore panic attack.
Brilliant, surreal, and emotionally draining, this first feature from American Film Institute grad Darren Aronofsky recalls such low-budget sci-fi epics as Tetsuo: The Iron Man and more traditional paranoiac suspense films (Adrian Lyne''s Jacob''s Ladder ...
Developers present initial plans for Armstrong Ranch.
After half a century of anticipation, the development of Armstrong Ranch--the largest piece of privately owned, undeveloped land in Marina''s sphere of influence--is apparently off and running. At last week''s Marina City Council meeting--attended by ...
Letters
Addendum to Scott I read with interest an article by Scott MacClelland, entitled "Musical Milestones, a look at where classical music has been and is going in the Monterey County area," which was printed in ...
A thought-provoking tour leads walkers through 5 billion years of history in less than one mile.
"...A severed hand is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the Earth and stars and his history--for contemplation or in fact--often appears atrociously ugly..." --"Not Man Apart," Robinson Jeffers Almost five billion years ago, ...
Bassist/composer--and former Seaside resident--wrote suite for Jazz Festival.
When Ray Drummond composes for his All-Star Excursions band, it''s like trying to solve a musical riddle. "One of the questions I''m trying to answer with the band is what might have happened if we''d ...
Above the Curve--Students happy with CSUMB
Unconventional programs, elite faculty, and interaction between teachers and students are the hallmarks of CSUMB-and that''s what the university community wants, it seems. By and large, the school got above-average marks from the students we ...
Kid Picks
3/saturday Monarchs, Munchkins and Masked Men If you're a P.G. parent, you've no doubt been there before, but if you're not, the "aww" factor alone merits a trip to watch the 59th Annual Butterfly Parade. ...
Jazz Fest Hangover--Memories of the festival remain but must make room for this week's music.
It was ''round midnight Sunday when powerhouse Ray Drummond''s All-Star Excursion Band roared its final chord, signaling the end to the 41st Monterey Jazz Festival. Drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith drove the band ferociously all the ...
What is Up? For the second week in a row there's more good music in town than you can see.
Shazam!! It's like a slumbering, powerful beast awakening after a long summer's nap! The local music scene is rearing up with power and gl...uh...sorry, I got carried away. But for the second week in a ...
