Issues / 2000 / Aug 10
From The Editorial Desk
There's one word that can set a room of Monterey Peninsulans at each others' throats. That word is "water." For nearly 30 years arguments have raged about the building of a new dam on the ...
The Carmel Valley TomatoFest is the Miss America pageant of tomatoes.
Sidedish I thought I was pretty knowledgeable about tomatoes until I showed up at the TomatoFest in Carmel Valley a couple of weeks ago. After all, I''ve been buying organic heirlooms from North Carolina farmers'' ...
Last week's beautiful jazz singer vs. the ugly guys of the local rock scene.
Rock Last Sunday was a defining moment for my heart. Sandy Shore Productions put on a show featuring Tony Bennett and Diana Krall at Quail Meadows--for up to $1,000 a head. There we sat staring ...
A handy compendium of Plan B's initial components and how far they go toward achieving the magic number: 10,730 acre feet of water per year needed to stop Cal-Am's overpumping of the Carmel River.
Desalination Components: Three optional sites--Sand City, Moss Landing or Marina--for a desalination plant to treat seawater. Yield: Ranges from 6,700 to 10,730 acre feet per year. Advantages: Using the limitless supply of ocean water as ...
The food at Passionfish is so good it makes you want to moan.
Feast For the past 20 years a disproportionate amount of my income has journeyed from my pocket into the pockets of restaurant owners and service personnel throughout this country. Having long ago abandoned the notion ...
Check out a couple live shows, listen to a new recording of an old master.
What''s Up, Chuck? There''s a great new CD of old music by Lonnie Johnson that you should know about, but before we get into that, here are a couple recommendations for ways to get your ...
Residents of Serra Village Estates got sick of watching hikers change clothes in their cars and got the county to close an access point to public land.
Peninsula nature lovers may have noticed that the Anza Drive access point to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land at Fort Ord has been closed. The BLM''s 7,200 acres of recreation land are a ...
Squid Fry
And It Only Took Us Eight Years to Pawn This Place Off on You Squid had a front row seat at the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) love fest on Tuesday, where the Army (finally) ...
Coyote Ugly isn't a great movie but it doesn't look half bad after a couple drinks.
Bemoaning the ever-declining standards in American cinema at this stage in the game is pointless, considering how completely saturated the market is with crap. So let''s just approach this picture as what it is: a ...
By Aaron S. Birk
Street Talk The Olympics are right around the corner, and as the competition heats up, we mere mortal observers might feel compelled to compete in our own Olympic games. Freestyle martini mixing and long distance ...
Aaron Copland's The Tender Land plays against type.
Classical In terms of action, Aaron Copland''s opera The Tender Land is right up there with Puccini''s La Boheme, Charpentier''s Louise and Delius'' A Village Romeo and Juliet. In other words, nothing happens. OK, in ...
