Issues / 1999 / Oct 28
Squid Fry
Last week, I unfairly misrepresented an effort by Mark Talbrook to build a single-family home in Big Sur''s Pacific Valley. An attorney claiming to "represent" several Pacific Valley residents called and said they were concerned ...
Even Meryl Streep can't save horror flick director Wes Craven's misguided attempt to switch genres.
Just because a story is true doesn''t mean it will automatically make a great movie. Believing that flawed logic is horror director Wes Craven''s (Last House on the Left, Scream) first mistake. His second mistake ...
CSUMB Prez Attacked
The house and car of CSU Monterey Bay President Peter Smith and his wife, Sally, were vandalized early Saturday morning. According to a campuswide e-mail written by Smith, a group of young men made the ...
GiftHorse races to the top with its single, "Heather's Arrest;" McGarrett's tries live music (again).
Rock The critics are drooling over GiftHorse, a four-piece Los Angeles band that came out of nowhere with its 1999 indie debut album, Excess, Lies and Heather''s Arrest (on Pinch Hit Records). Their musical abilities ...
For the sake of the environment and your wallet, vote for Molly Erickson and Kris Lindstrom.
If ever there was such a thing as a "watershed" election, the race for the three seats on the board of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District certainly qualifies. Tuesday''s election could result in the ...
Students welcome skeletons, marigolds, and eulogies into the classroom for Day of the Dead.
Papier-mache skeletons in brightly colored window displays along Watsonville''s Main Street wish passersby "Happy Day of the Dead," a greeting that may ring strangely in Anglo ears. But the Mexican celebration Dia de los Muertos ...
Street Talk
Congressional Republicans have once again killed campaign-finance reform. Thus is lost another opportunity to fix an electoral system that more and more appeals to billionaires and actors, and less and less attracts honest, sincere people. ...
Cornucopia Cafe offers a world of organic eats and drinks. They're still searching for the right kind of wine.
If you caught the opening of Cornucopia Cafe last Wednesday (see Chef Profile), you may have already taken your palate on a world tour, without having to leave town. I started at the coffee bar, ...
You don't have to crack the latest annual report of the American Water Works Company to figure out that this is a hungry corporation.
Or, better put, thirsty. That one word, "More"--printed underneath an eerily computer-altered picture of a glass of water--says it all. American Water Works, which counts Cal-Am among its country-spanning network of 23 subsidiaries, wants more ...
Tuesday's water board election could decide the fate of a new Carmel River dam.
It should come as no surprise that the California-American Water Co.''s proposal to build a new dam on the Carmel River has surfaced as one of the defining issues in Tuesday''s water board election. Despite ...
Chef Profile
Cornucopia Cafe, a dream in the hearts and minds of two partners for almost as long as they can each remember, has arrived. John Zobler began the Cornucopia Market 22 years ago, specializing in the ...
For Oct. 28 through Nov. 3
Carl Cherry Center for the Arts We Are One. Opening Reception. An exploration of themes and techniques in printing with works by Rumiko Okerse, Lesley Spowart and Elizabeth Stokebye. Guadalupe at 4th, Carmel. 624-7491. Reception: ...
Interrogated, surveilled, and told to keep quiet, many Asilomar workers say it's time to join a union.
When he was called on the carpet for wearing a union button at work, Maximino Hernandez knew it was time for him to move on. Financially speaking, quitting his $7.54-an-hour gig at the Asilomar Conference ...
Your Letters
Come Clean on Growth Ironically, it seems that the Carmel Valley Property Owners Association (CVPOA), which has been lobbying the county about the deplorable traffic situation on Valley roads, wasn't happy when the Planning Commission ...
