Issues / 2000 / May 25
Street Talk
Judging from this past weekend, summer as we know it in Monterey County has arrived, and locals are gearing up for fun in the sun. So how will residents enjoy their first summer of the ...
The sandwiches, soups and salads at Goodie's live up to its name.
Dining Review A recent luncheon expedition to Pacific Grove reminded us of the upswing of noshing opportunities that grace the fair landscape of Butterfly Town. While it may not be the Big Apple, trying to ...
A pair of singer/songwriters deliver concerts that turn their frightful visions into beauty.
What''s Up, Chuck? The best poets and songwriters have the rare ability to see and express the horrible beauty in truth...and the honest horror in beauty. In some ways it takes an outsider''s eye, the ...
Your Letters
Alternative to Expense After reading your article on charter schools ("In Chartered Territory," 5/18-24), I want to comment on your coverage of the Waldorf School in Monterey. Your readers may be interested to know that ...
Paintballing offers a surprising numberof challenges--physical and mental--in a realm of pain and paint.
By Chuck Thurman Bits of twigs, dried leaves and green goo fly around me, tiny particles of shrapnel that sting when they hit exposed flesh. My face and goggles are coated with the slime, further ...
The Brits aren't the only ones enjoying the wicketest of games.
Those who don''t follow professional croquet may be surprised to learn that the genteel game of wickets and mallets has a "bad boy" (Mik Mehas); a boy wunderkind (18-year-old Jacques Fournier); and the croquet equivalent ...
Two plays by Samuel Beckett express the absurdity of life.
Theater Review Amidst the usual ho-hum season of tried-and-true musicals and period comedies, there is reason to celebrate (at least for loyal and hard-core theater fans). Beckett is in town! And, thanks to Conrad Selvig''s ...
By: Tai Moses
It''s Walt World On Wednesday, May 31, from 7-8:30pm in the community room at the Barnyard, the powers-that-be at Thunderbird Bookshop will conjure the spirit of the great 19th century American poet Walt Whitman. "Hearing ...
The Call of the Mild
It was a weekend of upsets at Laguna Seca Raceway, and Squid isn''t talking about the surprise ending of the Salinas 250. Nope, the real upset was that the stars of the Winston West weekend ...
From The Editorial Desk
Summertime and the livin' is easy; salmon are jumping and the artichokes are high... or something like that. With this weekend's unofficial kickoff of the summer season, our thoughts here at the Weekly turned to ...
The elephants aren't having as much fun under the big top as the audience would like to think.
"Circus performers are emancipated beings," wrote Henry Miller. "They live in the moment fully, and the radiance that emanates from them is a perpetual song of joy." It''s almost certain that Miller wasn''t referring to ...
I Cantori proves that sometimes composers know best.
Classical Sal Ferrantelli may have erred in transferring solo (and duet) movements to his chorus. Of course, he saved his I Cantori di Carmel the cost of hiring soloists, but in doing so he also ...
Need some ideas for planning your summer? the Weekly presents an A-Z guide to get your creative juices flowing.
a: Archery. There''s something intimate about archery, the way the bow and the arrow seem to become an extension of one''s body. Mt. Madonna County Park has a field range that is free and open ...
Programmers fear that KAZU's merger with CSUMB will end the radio station as they know it.
Radio It seems like a match made in heaven. A local progressive university welcomes a fiscally flailing public radio station into its fold. In doing so, the university, backed by a financially healthy foundation, ensures ...
Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks is a fluff-ball return to the director's earlier style.
Review Woody Allen returns to slapstick comedy in this new movie that''s a throwback to the days of his early film features. With its story about an inept bank robber, Small Time Crooks readily calls ...
In the fight over who gets to sell the late Payne Stewart's life story to the crowds at the U.S. Open, the widow is winning and the journalist is losing.
Payne''s Stewards It is without question one of the world''s premier golf tournaments, and for the 156 top professional and amateur golfers who will tee off on June 12 at the U.S. Open at Pebble ...
