Issues / 1999 / Sep 23
Salsa queen simmers, local wine cellars are stellar.
Window SeatYou just never know who you''re going to run into over a giant vat of tomatoes. We''re not talking ordinary tomatoes, we''re talking a bejeweled flotilla of red, yellow and sun-gold toybox tomato chunks, ...
Your Letters
Virtual Tax Man I am writing as a local bookseller and proud member of my community about two issues of deep concern to me: Congress' moratorium on new Internet taxation, and the failure to collect ...
The Monterey County Artists' Studio Tour lets you poke your nose right in the artist's easel.
On the Indonesian island of Bali, there isn''t a word for "artist." There isn''t a word for "someone who drinks water" or "someone who combs their hair," either, and for a similar reason--art there is ...
Taking aim at "economic fascists," California lawmakers just say no to Costco and other retail monoliths.
MarketplaceCostco, Kmart, Target, and Wal-Mart want you to feel sorry for them. That''s right. Four companies with combined annual revenues of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars--more than the economic output of 189 ...
SWF(iddle) looking for LTR with playful, soulful musician.
Classical Outgrown your violin? Time to upgrade your viola or your cello? What to do? "The bottom line is its sound," declares Rochelle Walton, a Monterey violinist and teacher--and former New Yorker--who has elevated many ...
With a new entertainment coordinator, Starz changes direction and promises a varied lineup.
Rock In the first couple of weeks without a booking agent, Starz experienced some lineup difficulties that caused pessimists to predict the club''s premature demise. Intense enthusiasm and a bag full of ideas however, may ...
Will a new, 16-screen theater complex be the salvation of Peninsula moviegoers, or the death knell for hometown theaters?
It is a story with all the trappings of some cheesy, Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster. An alien entity descends upon a quiet coastal community, luring an unsuspecting populace away from their homes with promises of escape ...
Pac Rep delivers delightful production of Shakespearean confection.
According to Dan Gotch''s (Pacific Repertory Theatre''s dramaturg) dramaturgical notes, William Shakespeare''s The Merry Wives of Windsor was "supposedly commissioned by Queen Elizabeth because she so loved the character of Falstaff" (who first appeared in ...
Street Talk
Bye Bye, Big Boxes? The envelope-pushing California state legislature has put its foot down on "big-box" retailers, passing a bill that--if signed by Gov. Gray Davis and upheld by the courts--would ban the construction of ...
Francis Veber's odd couple in The Dinner Game provides plenty of laughs.
In the utterly delightful French film The Dinner Game, the buffoonish Francois Pignon (played by Jacques Villeret, resembling a deflated James Coco) is a sad sack of a man whose good intentions and bad judgments ...
MoCo's top attorney leaves office amidst hushed allegations of poor management.
CountyA wall of silence has been erected by Monterey County officials in the aftermath of County Counsel Doug Holland''s abrupt departure earlier this month. Despite Holland''s own insistence that, after eight years as the county''s ...
Squid Fry
Honey, Can You Give Me A Lift? Remember Orville and Ellina Golub, those 80-something rebels who dared to defy the city of Carmel by asking for a height variance and an elevator for their retirement ...
Cannery Row's proposed IMAX theater offers a kinder, gentler, movie theater experience.
What''s a developer to do? If you''re Jim McGillen, who wants to build an IMAX theater at Cannery Row, expecting people who oppose the project to get their facts straight would be a nice start. ...
Singer/songwriter Annie Gallup stands out for her unusually personal style of music.
What''s Up, Chuck? Sometimes it''s just way too easy. Way too easy to predict what''s going to spill out of that shiny new "singer/songwriter" CD, or to approximate what you''re going to see onstage at ...
A traveling exhibit on the California Gold Rush steams into town at the Monterey art museum.
The word spread like a tumbleweed across the Sierra Plains..."Thar''s GOLD in them thar hills!" The discovery of this precious metal would change the way the "golden state" would be seen forever. Now the story ...
The General Store
Chef Profile Changing ownership this past May, The General Store, a local landmark for decades, embarked on a new culinary epoch, one that brings a historied partnership back together. New proprietor Glenn Hammer recalls earlier ...
