Issues / 2000 / Aug 31
Marcia De Voe remembers her beloved Peninsula as a magical place.
831 Geriatric-fearing middle-agers obsessed with anti-oxidants and alpha-hydroxy creams should take a lesson from Marcia De Voe. The pint-sized Carmel resident and retired schoolteacher doesn''t have time to feel old; she''s too busy. At 83 ...
Artifacts
Keep Your Day Jobs The National Endowment for the Arts has released the results of a landmark study on artist employment. The name of the report is, "More Than Once in a Blue Moon: Multiple ...
A Short History Of Migrant Labor
The current tide of labor-driven border crossings from Mexico has very real roots in the laws of supply and demand. Seasonal laborers, mostly single men, have been crossing the border for over a century now, ...
Farmworker advocacy groups say it's time to overhaul the way labor camps are managed.
Caught in a windy channel between Highway 101 and the foothills, the Camphora Apartment complex in Soledad was never intended to be permanent family housing. Built in 1958 to house seasonal single migrant workers, the ...
Richard Brautigan left his daughter a sad, confusing legacy.
books At a reading of Ianthe Brautigan''s You Can''t Catch Death: A Daughter''s Memoir (St. Martin''s Press, $21.95), she alternated passages from her book with her father Richard''s last novel, An Unfinished Woman. As his ...
American master Gunther Schuller contemplates the state of contemporary classical.
classical American composer Gunther Shuller spent several hours at Robert Louis Stevenson School''s Pebble Beach campus last month, critiquing music by student composers at the annual California Summer Music program. The visit afforded a rare ...
Porn-a-graph
street talk Last week the Herald pasted an article about "teen porn" on its cover. Since the reality of a subject like pornography can get lost in the depths of the PC generation mindset, we ...
Six days a week they go to work in the fields at 3am for low wages and no job security. Rebecca Crocker reports on the immigrant workers who put food on our tables.
To WorkWe rose early for the fields. Monterey was asleep and thick with the smell of the sea at 1am, and I covered myself in layers and wrapped a light shawl around my head. The ...
Toss your watch out the window, it's time for ReggaeFest.
The sixth incarnation of the Monterey Bay ReggaeFest is upon us. In the past, the festival has showcased an entire Rastafarian galaxy of performers such as Pato Banton, Burning Spear, and Israel Vibration. This year, ...
From an unassuming strip mall in Seaside, Barn Thai delivers the spice.
Thai food is not for everyone-although it should be. In Thai cuisine, staples like rice, noodles, fresh vegetables, assorted meats and fishes provide the foundations for beautifully balanced dishes that emphasize freshness. Vegetables are not ...
You Think The Dollar Or So You Plunk Down For A Head Of Lettuce Is Expensive? You're Getting Off Cheap.
You're not just buying a bundle of chlorophyll, fiber and water, you're buying a package of someone's dreams wrapped in hours of backbreaking labor. Weekly staff writer Rebecca Crocker recently spent a day harvesting lettuce ...
Letters
Sickening Romance While curing your own olives sounds romantic ("A Cure for Olives," 8/24-30), it is also risky unless it done properly. Any time one uses any food preservation directions from an old history book ...
Make a meal of these musical appetizers.
what''s up, chuck? There are a couple interesting groups at Morgan''s this week. On Saturday, a primarily acoustic pop/rock duo called Halcyon makes its Monterey County debut. Stephanie Callahan and Deb Hunseder are the two ...
Squid
Buy Republican I like to think I''m immune to slick ads promoting excessive consumerism. No jingles, slogans, or images of half-clad hardbodies in skimpy undies can penetrate Squid''s slimy defenses. But this one, which came ...
