Issues / 1998 / Dec 24
Monterey's downtown New Year's Eve extravaganza is bigger than ever.
Highlights of the ever-expanding First Night Monterey this year include a completely new performance area and a bigger procession than ever. Now in its fifth year, the crowd attending the annual alcohol-free New Year''s Eve ...
Area charities say lavish social events are an important part of their fundraising programs.
Dinner and dancing at swank venues such as Carmel Valley''s Quail Lodge or Pebble Beach''s Inn at Spanish Bay, multi-course meals specially prepared by some of the area''s finest chefs, exclusive performances by (and autographs ...
A Salinas arts group gets kids off the street and onto the stage.
A nine-month-old Salinas-based community arts organization, aimed toward getting at-risk kids off the streets and into the performing arts, is doing a lot of good work with very little money. Very little? How about none. ...
Despite disclosure laws, most donors don't know where their charitable donations go.
Fueled at least partly by the desire to give consumers more insight into how their charitable donations are used, new federal regulations 11 years ago began requiring tax-exempt nonprofits to make public their tax forms ...
The Prince of Egypt--offers a breathtaking, secular look at Old Testament tale.
DreamWorks executives are hoping their new animated feature The Prince of Egypt will be the chosen one, the one that leads the young studio into the promised land. And, in fact, the studio may have ...
The jolly fat man was neither as fat nor as jolly until Coca Cola made him that way.
Santa is all about a Coke deal. No joke. Fat and jolly Santa with the red suit and cap, thick black belt and sooty boots, rosy cheeks, luminous eyes and brighter-than-white teeth is the genius ...
After the Bombing, What Now? Whither weapons inspection following the air strikes?
An apparent casualty of the recent U.S. and British air strikes against Iraq is the inspection regime conducted by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), which has worked for seven and a half years to ...
Salmon Cure
Before the big ball drops in the Big Apple, clever kitchen escapees can have the jump on the next spread. Even if you''re sure you''ll never eat again, this is the time to gather a ...
Weekend Before Christmas--Celebrate the season with good cheer and a little music.
''Twas the weekend of Christmas, when all through the town The clubs were near silent. From bands? Little sound. The bar rags were hung from the faucets with care, In hopes that on New Year''s ...
Parker-lusseau Pastries
Even though they are young in years, husband and wife Yann Lusseau and Anne Parker are long in the experience they bring to creating fine, contemporary French pastries. Not unlike the measured processes that transform ...
A gang-related CD is pulled from local music stores, First Amendment notwithstanding.
To even the most casual observer, G.U.N.--or "Generations of United Norte¤os"--seems like a pretty nasty CD. On the cover is a photo of young men sporting the red bandanas emblematic of the northern California Norte¤os ...
The winter holidays bring unique challenges and opportunities to our multicultural classrooms.
How and which religious holidays should be observed in the schools? What does it mean to have a Christmas program? Is it okay to have a menorah or other religious symbols in the classroom? And ...
Letters
Articles "Superb" Thank you for your superb series of articles on Rancho San Juan, Mountain Valley, and urban sprawl in the Salinas Valley >(Coast Weekly, Dec. 3). Between these two developments alone, Monterey County will ...
Golden Years?--Stuart Canin, founder of the New Century Chamber Orchestra retires--again.
Under its founder and concertmaster, Stuart Canin, the New Century Chamber Orchestra will perform an all-Russian program the weekend of Jan. 14 through 17 in the S.F. Bay Area. In case you don''t recognize his ...
Good Tidings, Bad Tidings--For some, this season marks a new beginning, and for others it seems the end.
Sand City is perhaps best known for the big-box shopping centers and their enticing array of stores. But Sand City also has something most people are unaware of: Olivo Records. Founded in 1986 by Nick ...
All I want for Christmas is...Another Little War
Once again the U.S. war machine takes on Iraq. And once again the timing of the conflict is a little suspect. What''s really going on? Is the threat real or politically motivated? These are some ...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Bah, Humbug! While browsing the newsstand at a local bookstore, who should Squid encounter but Clint Eastwood on the cover of Travel and Leisure''s new golf magazine, sharing with golf fans everywhere the joy''s of ...
