Issues / 1999 / Nov 18
Art News in Brief
Saving the Slough On Oct. 14, the Weekly reported on a group of North County landscape artists who had begun staging weekly Thursday "paint-ins" at the Elkhorn Slough to protest a development project planned for ...
Kids' Art Contest Winner
Sometimes you have to be a parent to enjoy a children''s art show, but the Big Sur Land Trust''s "Walk on the Wild Side" competition, designed to strengthen local children''s connection to the beauty of ...
From The Editorial Desk
Fish and frogs, pines and plovers are just the beginning.The Central Coast is a haven for imperiled flora and fauna.
Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation show reveals a wealth of local talent.
There are two inescapable conclusions to be drawn after a visit to the Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation''s bi-annual members show, now on display at the Pacific Grove Art Center. The first is how many wonderfully ...
Kids' Art Contest Winner
Sometimes you have to be a parent to enjoy a children''s art show, but the Big Sur Land Trust''s "Walk on the Wild Side" competition, designed to strengthen local children''s connection to the beauty of ...
Not every endangered species story has a bad ending. A few good endings along the way have brought great cause for celebration.
For a while it looked bad for our familiar California (or eastern North Pacific) gray whale. Things are looking good now. Originally listed as endangered on June 2, 1970, with an estimated population of 12,567, ...
Your Letters
Enough Growth, Already Thank you for your editorial on Cal-Am's proposed Carmel River dam ("Dump the Dam, Once and For All," 11/11). Superb! Good to see someone cut through the rhetoric and tell it like ...
Kids' Art Contest Winner
Sometimes you have to be a parent to enjoy a children''s art show, but the Big Sur Land Trust''s "Walk on the Wild Side" competition, designed to strengthen local children''s connection to the beauty of ...
Chef Profile
Cozied up right next to the bay with one of the best locations on Cannery Row, the Chart House was ready for a new look, and got one. Part of a restaurant group that operates ...
Locally written play about a family ravaged by Alzheimer's makes a successful debut at Western Stage.
"Escuchame. Listen to me." This is a phrase repeated often in Looking for Words, a new work by Salinas playwright Michael Roddy currently playing at the Western Stage in Salinas. If you are willing to ...
Street Talk
California''s kids are surrounded by dollar signs, yet nearly a third live in poverty. To them, this might as well be the Great Depression. What are we doing wrong? How can we do better? Stephanie ...
Even after 40 years in the public eye, Joan Baez's career and life keep transforming.
Joan Baez has been many things. In the late ''50s she was a teenage singer, breathing new life into old folk songs. By the mid ''60s she had become an iconic figure on the New ...
Squid Fry
I Said Command-C, Not Command-X, You Idiot In what appears to be its crusade to erase the legacy of former City Manager Tim Brown, the Seaside City Council has lowered the axe on Information Systems ...
David Lynch takes on America's heartland and brotherly love in The Straight Story.
The Straight Story is a piece of American poetry, an elegiac ode to a 73-year-old man''s defiant act of raging against the dying of the light. Its simplicity belies an emotional complexity that will linger ...
