Issues / 1999 / Jul 08
The First Sex?--Feminism in the New Century
The First Sex by Helen Fisher discusses whether women''s role in society is learned or innate and how that affects the feminist movement. What do locals think of the future of the feminism? Max Pahl ...
Stroke 9 returns to Monterey for their debut at the Long Bar.
Though the pickings are slim, the rock ''n'' roll sound that''s been coming our way has more than made up in quality what it lacked in quantity, and this weekend will be no different. If ...
Big Fish in Small Ponds
You Bite Me? Here''s a movement Squid can really get behind. Those caring PETA folks--People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals--are prevailing upon Monterey Bay Aquarium Executive Director Julie Packard to stop serving seafood in ...
MoSymph's newly appointed music director Kate Tamarkin ready to go.
Last week, this column called into question the decision by the Monterey Symphony to postpone by one full concert season the full-time installation of elected music director Kate Tamarkin. In the interim, we spoke by ...
The SPCA goes "no-kill," but that doesn't mean local shelters have followed suit.
Unwanted animals will still be killed in local animal shelters, despite all the attention given to the SPCA''s "no-kill" policy. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) will no longer be euthanizing ...
Letters
Save An Old Friend As I drive along Highway 1 heading north, with Fort Ord to my right and the old Soldiers Club (now called Stilwell Hall) to my left, I see an old friend ...
Graham Nash takes aim at photography's next frontier.
It''s next to impossible to think of Graham Nash as anything other than the Woodstock-era icon whose landmark recordings with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young represent one of the more enduring legacies of ...
In her book The First Sex, Helen Fisher argues that women are genetically better suited than men to face the future.
Will traditional gender differences serve women well in the 21st century? Emily Jenkins profiles anthropologist Helen Fisher, author of The First Sex and champion of the"natural woman" in FEED Magazine. Emily Jenkins, author of Tongue ...
Carmel writer J.S. Holliday strikes again with a lively history of California's golden glory days.
There is something rather fitting about the fact that historian Jim Holliday doesn''t use a computer. Working from his tranquil Carmel studio, the 75-year-old author and former executive director of both the Oakland Museum of ...
Barry Sonnenfeld's remake of the '60s television show lacks soul (or even a plot).
The pillaging of classic (and in the case of Wild Wild West, not-so-classic) television series marches relentlessly onward. One wonders where Hollywood will turn once the final cathodial grave is plundered (sure to be, as ...
Schooners Bistro
Conventional wisdom used to maintain that if a restaurant had a view, food came as an afterthought. While this may still be the case in many heavily trafficked tourist domains, the smart money knows that ...
History and environmental concerns clash on Cannery Row Marketplace site.
Dan Summers is an environmentalist. Sort of. Summers, the developer of the Cannery Row Marketplace, a proposed four-building shopping and residential complex slated for construction on the south end of the Row, wants nothing more ...
Don't forget to pack the books when you're getting ready for your summer getaway.
Paris Trance: A Romance By Geoff Dyer Farrar Straus and Giroux $23 hardcover With Paris Trance: A Romance, Geoff Dyer--Oxford-educated scholar of jazz and D.H. Lawrence--gives us a lyrical meditation on desire, memory, and time. ...
By Catherine Coburn
OK, all you righteous culinarian wanna-be''s: What do your Goodyear radials and the cultural revolution that overthrew the Coca-Cola Company have in common? Give up? Let''s go double jeopardy: What did New Product News tout ...
