Issues / 1999 / Aug 05
Will thousands of new houses in Seaside and Marina flood the market?
PeninsulaToday might be a great day to sell your home. The price of a house--any house--is climbing rapidly in Monterey County; fewer homes are on the market and they are selling faster than a year ...
Carmel Valley's newest theater opens with Ken Kesey's classic, a strong enough beginning.
The Magic Circle Center for the Performing Arts presents Dale Wasserman''s adaptation of Ken Kesey''s modern classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest, directed by Magic Circle founder Elsa Con. This is the premiere production ...
Rancho San Carlos opponents challenge new permit application.
PeninsulaOpponents knew this request was coming, they just didn''t know exactly when or in what form the request would come. Now they know. The owners of the Santa Lucia Preserve, otherwise known as the Rancho ...
Cabrillo Music Festival presents Leonard Bernstein's seldom produced, controversial extravaganza.
Controversy swirled around Leonard Bernstein''s Mass when it opened the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., nearly 30 years ago. The critical reaction was as kaleidoscopic as the 110-minute work itself, and sprayed in all directions. ...
Long Bar hosts a blast from the past with Ambrosia, the former heartthrob, pop-rock band.
O.K., sometimes a band''s name will sound very familiar and famous, but you can''t quite make the connection, until you hear the song that is, and then it''s like duh (slap in the forehead), of ...
For Aug 5-11
Theater Openings Carousel Wednesday, 7pm, preview. Opens 8/12. Musical. MPC presents the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel. Direction by Tom McKenzie, choreography by Susan Cable. MPC Morgan Stock Stage, 980 Fremont St., Monterey. $5/preview show ...
Steinbeck Fest examines author's writings on WWII.
John Steinbeck once compared the writer/artist to a bomb--a congenital truth teller that "... the non-creative can never trust, and properly so, because he might move them or expose them to themselves." It is Steinbeck''s ...
Huntington Witherill sees the future of photography driven by the past.
PhotographyFor photographer Huntington Witherill, a highly regarded landscape photographer who served as a former assistant at the Ansel Adams Workshops in Yosemite, and as first president of the Center for Photographic Art''s Board of Trustees, ...
Every Man for Himself
New Rules The Suns of Liberty (lead by President Samuel Adams) is inviting all "interested Sovereign Citizens" to head down to the Admiral Benbow Tavern on Alvarado Street in Monterey tonight to sign a "new" ...
Schedule of Events
All events held at the National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St.,Salinas, unless otherwise noted. $50/4-day pass ($40 for members); $25/1-day pass ($20 for members); $40/bus tours, includes box lunch; $10/walking tours. For information and other ...
The Blair Witch Project explores old myths in chilling new ways
It''s a story even older than Hansel and Gretel''s, the story of children who wander off into the woods and, consequently, suffer fateful run-ins with witches, becoming caught in doom''s lair like hapless insects in ...
Members of the Slow Food Movement are fighting back.
During the course of this last century, which began and has grown up with the industrial revolution, we have become the slaves of speed. From speed dial on our phones to microwaved dinners, with each ...
The proposed IMAX theater won't be required to file an Environmental Impact Report.
PeninsulaEverybody thinks it''s a great idea. Environmentalists, historians and developers alike see the proposed IMAX theater planned for Cannery Row as a positive addition to the community. Even so, considering the potential impact the project ...
T' Pearl's "New World Style" menu skips around to reveal various ethnic influences.
For more than 13 years, the Bonilla family''s El Miguele¤o Restaurant has been familiar to Seaside diners looking for Salvadoran food. Bonilla brothers Orlando, Eduber and Velis later struck out in a different direction catering ...
For Aug 5-11
Cabrillo Music Festival All performances held at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. Ticket prices/reservations, 420-5260. Friday, 8pm; Saturday, 2 & 8pm. Marin Alsop conducts fully staged production of Bernstein's Mass. Sunday, ...
