Issues / 1999 / Sep 02
Albert Brooks' The Muse gently goads Hollywood's star-making machinery.
Brooks has always been the poor man''s Woody Allen, a perpetually harangued schlub, the nexus of bad luck and ill fates. His appealingly cosmetized vitriol has carried a number of superior films (Modern Romance, Lost ...
The Noodle
When Chuck and Beverly Duncan moved to the Peninsula in the early '90s, they thought they'd retire, play golf, eat out a lot, just take it easy. They'd sold all their earlier business interests and ...
Defense of Marriage Initiative, slated for March 2000, will generate more heat than light on the issue of gay marriage.
Get ready. The war over gay marriage is about to come screaming back into the spotlight, courtesy of a voter initiative on the March 2000 primary ballot that would bar the state of California from ...
Tomato, Tomahto
Gen-Xers and Gen-Nexters: This is your chance to rectify the tomato-less existence that has been your legacy these last 30 years of post-modern agri-bizwax industrial standardization. It''s the eighth annual Big Get Even, Sunday, Sept. ...
Missing county health department documents raise questions concerning contamination cleanup in Monterey.
Peninsula That jog, bike ride or walk with the baby stroller you often take on Monterey''s recreational trail may not be as healthy as you think. While the city-owned San Carlos Park and the adjacent ...
Mark your calendars for a season full of performances, art exhibits and musical presentations.
As summer wanes, the fall arts and entertainment schedule waxes. From now through Thanksgiving, local stages and galleries will be filled with an overwhelming number of openings and performances. We know you''re busy, so we''ve ...
Forget clandestine meetings on desolate streetcorners or tracking down someone's friend of a friend. There's a dealer on your desk.
It came in a plain brown wrapper--two varieties of high-grade marijuana totaling a quarter-ounce, delivered to a downtown San Francisco office building via regular mail. The pot had been ordered off a Web site in ...
Cyber Dime Bags?
Marijuana. Viagra. Xanax.There''s a whole pharmacopia of drugs being sold online. What do Monterey County youth think about the local drug scene and buying marijuana on the Web? Brooke Weston Age: 18 Occupation: Student Resides: ...
News Briefs
All Wet In a stinging rebuke of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, Superior Court Judge Richard Silver ruled against the approval of developer Jim Morgens'' September Ranch development project. In issuing his ruling, Silver ...
Letters
Smarmy ArmyWeekly readers should know the Army''s creation of the "SMART Initiative" or "SMART Team" for ordnance and explosive wastes cleanup at Fort Ord is a direct result of the Fort Ord Toxics Project''s 1998 ...
Starzzz's Kathi DeMaria and Steve Vagnini sever business relationship.
RockRumors about tension between booking agent Steve Vagnini and Starzzz''s owner Kathi DeMaria have been flying around the rock ''n'' roll scene for about a month. As of yesterday, Sept. 1, the rumors turned to ...
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory Squid wants to know what went wrong with the evil plot to slide the Cannery Row Marketplace development through the process like a greased pig. Did the payoff ...
Enjoyable piece of fluff, with top-notch performances.
Rodgers and Hammerstein''s Flower Drum Song, now playing at The Western Stage, is mostly a lighthearted, funny and enjoyable piece of fluff, with only a few memorable songs and only the slightest hint of any ...
