Issues / 1999 / Nov 25

Your Letters

Your Letters

Flaming Indignation Finally, articles and information like "Money to Burn" (11/11) may make a difference in how wildland fire protection, education, and training may be conducted in the wildland and wildland/urban interface zones of Monterey ...

Throw Your Nuts

It's time to think about what holiday traditions you'll adopt.

It was a Czechoslovakian Christmas blessing, but now all anybody can remember is that the first part sounded like "kuti, kuti." Once, in a very different life within this same lifetime, my then-father-in-law, Frank, would ...

La Gourmandise

Chef Profile

Duck into this diminutive deli cafe out of the fray of the Crossroads Boulevard, pick up a menu, and it quickly becomes clear that there's a whole lot more than meets the eye at La ...

Holy Fire

Holy Fire

Asmiling young woman handed me a program as I walked into the Seaside Assembly of God on a recent Sunday. I slipped into a pew near the back, hoping to watch unnoticed as people filed ...

Dark Side Of A Tale

With Sleepy Hollow, director Tim Burton serves up another gothic visual treat.

You''ll notice Washington Irving''s name is absent from the title of Burton''s new film. That''s due in no small part to the fact that this version of the story owes less to Irving''s original tale ...

The People Speak

The People Speak

How many times have you read Street Talk and thought, "Geez! I could think of better questions than that!" We gave folks on the street the chance to tell us what they''d ask if they ...

Artifacts

Artifacts

Prodigal Dancer When Salinas Performing Arts, Inc. presents its Nutcracker ballet this weekend at Sherwood Hall in Salinas, it will be a kind of local-boy-makes-good fairy tale. The role of the Cavalier, more commonly known ...