Issues / 1999 / Nov 04
Chef Profile
Every restaurant has a story to tell. When it comes to Taste Cafe and Bistro, you'd be hard pressed to find a more unique success story anywhere. Located in a small strip plaza at the ...
Being John Malkovich is a clever journey inside the actor's mind... or is it?
I''d been dreading Being John Malkovich because I was afraid the movie would ruin the actor for me. After seeing Looking for Richard, it was impossible for me to enjoy Al Pacino as I had ...
East Garrison development defines the meaning of mixed use.
"Imagine," reads a flyer for a proposed artist community on the former Fort Ord, "a crea- tive community of artists: sketching, dan-cing, writing poetry, making music, designing stage sets, composing symphonies, creating sculpture, photographing nature ...
One of the more fanciful ideas for Fort Ord is a year-round medieval village.
From the street it looks like an average automotive repair shop in Salinas, or any other town. In fact, it looks that way at the front counter, too. There are a few repair parts (in ...
Monologue artist Josh Kornbluth gets up close and personal with Ben Franklin: Unplugged.
"The piece kept going off in these strange directions," says Bay Area actor Josh Kornbluth of his most recent monologue, Ben Franklin: Unplugged. "I wanted to make the piece this and it kept becoming something ...
Whatever happened to the chickens who worked the tic-tac-toe game on Cannery Row?
Dr. Leghorn Einstein bears the weight of history on his tiny feathered shoulders. He--or, more precisely, the three chickens who rotated his role among themselves--was one of the last remaining tic-tac-toe-playing chickens in America when ...
A low-cost 'youth Asilomar' at Fort Ord? Marina officials ask 'Why not?'
When the Cold War came to an end, it hit the city of Marina harder than most towns in the Western world. At least that''s what Marina City Manager John Longley will tell you. In ...
Squid Fry
Somebody Over There is Whistling "Home, Home on the Range" I was a little concerned a few years back when my comrades over at the Herald decided to relocate their offices from downtown Monterey to ...
Folks planning a cohousing development on Fort Ord hope to sub-unite, not subdivide.
Following a draining day at work, Modern Man/ Woman picks up the kids from school/day care and trudges home to hide behind locked doors and gated entrances and six-foot privacy fences. A makeshift dinner is ...
Street Talk
To many, sports has become nothing short of a religion. Athletes are worshipped like so many gods. Sure, it''s fun to throw popcorn at the TV when the other team scores, but do we care ...
The Weekly takes a look at some creative ideas for taking Fort Ord from here to eternity.
Generally speaking, bureaucrats don''t make up slogans. They tend to leave catchy soundbites to politicians and their speech writers. But Michael Houlemard, executive director of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, recently came up with a ...
Is it nobler this holiday season to wrap your turkey in foil, soak it in brine or roast it slow?
November. The month that everybody stands around scratching their heads going "Ohmigod, the holidays. What happened to summer?" September was barely a blip on the radar screen, October was a sunny, disorienting tease and now ...
Your Letters
Who's Got a File? I''m alarmed that Cal-Am''s parent company, American Water Works, would "dig up dirt" on people in Chattanooga who stood between them and more profits ("Liquid Assets," 10/28). Can you please tell ...
Monterey Opera Association's La Traviata marks a new level of production values for the company.
"Up and down and back and around," is how noted soprano Nancy Williams describes the course of the Monterey Opera Association''s (MOA) development. She should know--she sang the role of Anina in the group''s first ...
