Issues / 1999 / Jul 15
Around Town
Do not be alarmed if a man--about 5 feet 9 inches, medium-build, sporting a goatee, wearing a white coat--approaches you and demands your lemons. That''s just Chef Brandon from Stokes Adobe, who is regularly moved ...
Humor and special effects make this a cut above the average horror flick.
Lake Placid has both full-fledged, post-modern, tongue-in-cheek dark humor, and there''s state-of-the-art special effects surprises in this movie about a mysterious Loch Ness-kind of beast that haunts a Maine lake while developing a taste for ...
Running Amuck
They Tried to Pull the Plug on the Beatles, Too Somebody stop him. Local history buff Neal Hotelling is out of tune this time. Hotelling, usually a rational advocate for preserving the precious historical resources ...
The Monterey Junior Lifeguards program trains local youngsters to be safe and to protect the oceans.
Lifeguards in Monterey County are a rare breed. With 80 miles of coastline to patrol, the two California State Parks lifeguards are the only professionally trained lifeguards hired to watch city, county and state beaches. ...
Letters
Thanks, But... Although thanks are in order for the acknowledgment of my environmental sensitivities, your article ("Toxic History," July 8) failed to identify the fundamental facts that form the basis of the Cannery Row Marketplace's ...
Plans are chugging along to bring passenger train service back to the Monterey area, but not everyone is on board.
Ron Sanders isn''t at all happy at the idea of Seaside building a train station right where his auto repair shop now stands on Del Monte Boulevard. Sanders, owner of Ronnie Sanders Auto Service, moved ...
Pacific Grille
If it seems like deja vu, you're not imagining things. The sign that used to read Holiday Inn as you drove through Monterey on southbound Highway 1 has, for the last year and a half, ...
Mudfrog makes Monterey County debut at BlueFin.
The bio for Santa Cruz-based Mudfrog reads like a musical receipe that includes REM, The Beatles, and Steve Earle as major ingredients, with "strange electronic devices" added as secret spices. Guitarist/vocalist Scott Beesley describes the ...
Smells Fishy--Changes to the Monterey city code seem suspiciously tied to Cannery Row Marketplace.
The old saying "Carmel by the Sea and Monterey by the Smell" still holds true today. Yes, there is something mighty smelly in Monterey, but this time what is fishy on Cannery Row is not ...
MPC revival of this paean to the 1960s is good, but not quite great.
What Saturday Night Fever is to the 1970s and Working Girl is to the ''80s, Hair, the "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical," is to the ''60s. Now considered a period piece, it evokes better, perhaps, than ...
Bruno Weil, Bach Festival artistic director, pushes festival to new heights.
Acclaimed yet controversial, the Carmel Bach Festival under Music Director Bruno Weil is startlingly different from the days when Sandor Salgo ran the fest. While a fond recollection of those days continues to haunt many ...
Can Pebble Beach's new owners bathe in the glory of their new acquisition? Or are they about to take a bath?
When contemplating ownership of Pebble Beach, the intangibles of ego must blur the bottom line of return on investment. How else can one explain the $820 million paid by actor/director Clint Eastwood, golfer Arnold Palmer, ...
Seaside to San Francisco--The Train's a Comin'
The Transportation Agency for Monterey County, in conjuction with Amtrak, is planning to open a train line from San Francisco to the Monterey Bay. What do local residents think of having a new mode of ...
This debut film from Britain documents a gay teen's coming-of-age.
The best scene in the new movie Get Real takes place in a public toilet. Not an ordinary toilet, but the kind of washroom playwright Joe Orton was alluding to when he wrote, "The men''s ...
