Issues / 2000 / Jun 08
By Michael Edgecomb
Street Talk The scene and the scenery in Monterey County are changing quickly, as the longtime residents featured in this week''s cover story can attest. The Weekly''s Street Talk reporter was dispatched to Salinas to ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist gets into the head of a sacred literary figure.
Are they giving out Pulitzer Prizes these days for sheer audacity? What exactly are the criteria that put Michael Cunningham''s The Hours in the same class as, say, Toni Morrison''s Beloved (the 1988 award winner)? ...
The long-awaited Plan B dam alternative is running on empty.
Dam Committees! Thirsty Peninsulans have been waiting with bated breath for the California Public Utilities Commission to pump out Plan B, the state-mandated alternative to the proposed Carmel River dam, since its expected arrival date ...
Emerson String Quartet's latest recording proves Shostakovich quartets are indispensable.
>Classical questions were asked than answered when Chamber Music Monterey Bay hosted the Emerson String Quartet last fall. Emerson''s playing of Shostakovich''s popular String Quartet No. 8 was more than an isolated concert experience, it ...
Grace Medaille's sidewalk murals offer a vibrant contrast to Carmel's pricey canvases.
Street Art The tourists have started to arrive and the locals are out in force to soak up the warm weather. Walk Bonifacio Plaza between Alvarado and Calle Principal, and chances are you''ll meet Grace ...
Squid Fry
The Horse Pucky's Gettin' Deep It comes as no surprise to Squid that the first shots of what promises to be an action-packed campaign season are being fired from the 28th state Assembly district. How ...
Oldtimers Speak Out
"I got off the train at the Del Monte depot, and it was like a Western town. It was quiet." --Angelo DiGirolamo, Monterey "Back then, Monterey seemed more like Watsonville. But now it feels like ...
Monterey marine biologists still head to Baja to study life along the shore, just like Steinbeck and Ricketts did 60 years ago.
Ocean Life In the spring of 1940, as the Nazi war machine was rolling through Europe and U.S. isolationism was heading toward its inexorable demise, John Steinbeck and biologist Ed Ricketts chartered a sardine boat ...
The first assignment is to learn how to be totally responsible for filling another creature's needs. And yes, there is a test.
Birth Control Last month, over 50 local kids between the ages of 12 and 14 had the privilege of experiencing parenthood. Their initial responses to the prodigious event were mixed. Some of them were excited ...
Local waitpeople offer tips for diners who failed Manners 101.
Window Seat We, the dining public, all likely harbor a pet peeve or two when it comes to receiving good service. Like when we''re shelling out our payola on a restaurant-prepared meal and the waiter ...
Like an onslaught of comic-book heroes, a spate of pop groups invade MoCo's music scene.
Rock This week, a trio of pop groups will swoop down, leap tall buildings (but none over three stories high), and attempt to save us with pop music in grand comic book tradition. It would ...
