Issues / 1999 / Apr 01
Letters
Too Harsh You got the tone wrong in your March 11 article, "Horse Latitudes, Seaside Finds Itself Politically Adrift." It is not realistic to expect Mayor Jerry Smith to come in with sweeping changes. Smith ...
Ron Howard's newest film isn't bad and it isn't good. It's just not what it could be.
The watch factor: Film critics know it by heart (we all bought stock in Timex''s Indiglo line years ago), and most everybody else will recognize it in at least some form or another. It''s when--and ...
Tarnished Trio--Vienna Piano Trio presents lackluster Mozart and Beethoven.
When does Franz Josef Haydn outshine both Mozart and Beethoven? When the Vienna Piano Trio plays them side by side, as they did last week in Carmel. Between a dull-as-dishwater survey of Mozart''s Trio in ...
Contraceptive Equity--If Viagra is covered by insurance, why not birth control pills?
In 1998, the U.S. saw the introduction of Viagra, a prescription drug for men. The introduction of "the Pill," a prescription drug for women, was in 1960. If a physician prescribes Viagra for impotence, most ...
Opening of new ag wing at Steinbeck Center is delayed.
Even when the National Steinbeck Center opened last June in Salinas, dreams of adding a gallery highlighting Salinas'' other famous export--agriculture--had long been on the minds of literary and ag industry leaders. It was originally ...
What will it mean to Monterey County when the Army re-deploys troops at Fort Ord?
In what may come as the most stunning news of the century for Monterey County, the U.S. Army is planning to reclaim Fort Ord. Last week, the Weekly received an apparently misdirected fax that outlined ...
Weather or Not--Don''t let the unpredictable climate stop you from seeing Mother Hips and Cosmo.
If you didn''t make it to Doc''s last week, you missed out on some excellent music. Yeah, I know the weather was yucky, all the hairspray in the world wouldn''t keep a single hair in ...
Paris Bakery
In the 15 years since Paris Bakery first opened their doors, the front counter of display cases have stretched formidably. Row upon row of fruit tarts, croissants, cakes and pastries appear in a kaleidoscopic pattern, ...
The Internet is revolutionizing the business of art.
Climbing the narrow corridor that leads up to artist Kevin Cromartie''s tiny attic workspace in his Pacific Grove home, one envisages a starving artist, slaving away in the cramped isolation of his garret room; rejected ...
Colombian gangs target travelling jewelry salesmen locally, and they're getting more violent.
Detective Sgt. Pete Poitras of the Carmel police department says you couldn''t pay him enough to be a travelling jewelry salesman. These guys are walking targets, he says, for organized South American gangs, virtually all ...
Things I Learned
The best way to avoid revolution? Keep the masses well fed and entertained. Or, as the Roman poet and political observer, Juvenal, more poetically put it, give them "bread and circuses." I''ve always been fond ...
April Fools
If You Can''t Stand the Heat, Stay Out of the Fryer Squid''s been taking some heat in recent weeks from certain readers wondering why Squid never has anything nice or positive to say about our ...
Kid Picks
3saturday Hippity Hoppity Peter Rabbit comes only once a year and he's a busy bunny this weekend. Several Monterey County cities and groups have Easter celebrations for kids, so grab a basket and start hunting. ...
Bad News and Good--Another one bites the dust but there's still plenty to celebrate.
Let''s start with the bad news: We''re losing another local club. Earlier this year, the After Dark closed its doors; this Saturday night marks >"The Last Dance" for Whitey''s Place. Club owner Jeff White called ...
The Joke's On You--April Fool's
If your children did not play tricks on you this morning, maybe somebody else will. Residents of Monterey County share their joys, expectations, and scares of the infamous April''s Fools Day! Camille Borum Age: 18 ...
