Issues / 1999 / Jun 10
Letters
No Time Like The Present Like many other writers, I too am a native of the Salinas/Monterey area and hate to see my peers forced from their hometowns by the current price structures. But I ...
A new video documentary series celebrates century's greatest artists.
At Do Re Mi Music, they can''t keep ''em on the shelf. From Warner Video, the producer that brought you the award-winning "Art of..." documentaries on great conductors and opera singers, now comes a new ...
Why Strike?--Charles Vaughn Jr.'s successful hunger strike was a non-violent force for change.
Why a hunger strike? Asking myself this question, I opened a copy of Henry David Thoreau''s 1848 essay, "Civil Disobedience." In it, Thoreau asserts the moral imperative of the individual to respond to unjust circumstances: ...
Sumptuous feature debut by Tony Bui is beautiful but hollow.
Much has been made of this movie being the first American film shot in Vietnam since the war and performed in Vietnamese by Vietnamese actors. For that it is to be commended. And to the ...
The Murmurs rock Salinas Valley Salad Days; Harrison does Media Room.
The Salinas Valley Salad Days, a festival making its debut this weekend, provides one of the rare occasions to catch headline musical entertainment in Salinas. Two of the three stages at the festival will cater ...
Onward and Upward
Who Ever Said Money Doesn''t Grow On Trees? Squid is delighted to be invited to attend the Big Sur Land Trust''s June 22 gala dinner featuring a keynote address by America''s largest private landowner, Ted ...
Why would hundreds of field laborers vote against the UFW?
Almost 1,400 men and women engaged in the back-breaking labor of picking strawberries headed to the polls last week to choose an employees'' group that would lobby for their rights. The ballot pitted the venerable ...
Monterey County's prime farmland is threatened by growth. Can anything be done to contain it?
The school''s morning bell is minutes from ringing. Tense parents and commuters are lined up on Schulte Road in mid-Carmel Valley--just one of many valley roads--and wait, impatiently, for an opening in the fast current ...
Highlights Of The Landwatch Report
Traffic Highway congestion is measured on a scale of Level of Service (LOS) from A to F, with F being the worst. Of the 15 state highway segments evaluated by the Transportation Agency for Monterey ...
Groups organizing to oppose Eastwood's proposed purchase of Carmel's historic Flanders House.
While Clint Eastwood and his business partners are finalizing details on the much-publicized $800 million purchase of Pebble Beach Co., a much quieter army of partners is galvanizing to fight Eastwood''s suggested purchase of yet ...
Focus On Growth--Developing Thoughts
Monterey County is in a constant flux of development. Developers vie to expand urban areas into surrounding agricultural land, while others feel that we should set growth boundaries and redevelop within the existing urban limits. ...
Although the music scene seems to be stalled right now, there are some alternatives to consider.
There are a lot of reasons why the music scene seems to be in a holding pattern right now. First, we''re coming up on summer, generally one of the slower times of year for live ...
Moss Landing entrepreneurs make peace--and profits--with snails and artichokes.
What do you get when you cross a snail with an artichoke? If you''re the team of Michael Jackson and Peter Delfino, a savvy executive chef and an entrepreneurial grower, you get "Artichoke-Fed Fresh California ...
Mariscos Puerto Nuevo
If you're looking for seafood and you like it spicy, Mexican-style coastal cuisine is the specialty of the house at Mariscos. Opening her most recent eatery a few months ago at the site of of ...
Opponents and proponents debate a proposed 2500-home development at Armstrong Ranch, north of Marina.
Although it's years away from breaking ground, the proposed development of Armstrong Ranch has already made some Marina residents fighting mad. The current conceptual design proposes 2,500 homes for construction on a 900-acre parcel of ...
Fire In The Fog 06/10/99
Sure. They swore to us, back in eighth grade, that our axis was guaranteed to tilt itself toward the sun this time of year. But it''s a hollow sort of meteorological affirmation when you can''t ...
Jazz vocal legends Hendricks and Ross keep the music alive and happenin.'
"It is something you have or you don''t have, something you feel or you don''t feel; but in any case, it is there in all jazz music." --Duke Ellington. Wherever Duke has been hanging out ...
