Issues / 2000 / Sep 21
The Eyes of Tammy Faye documents the real life story of a (heavily) made-up survivor.
After the holocaust, three things will remain, says Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner''s most recent TV co-host, gay comedian Jim J. Bullock: roaches, Cher and Tammy Faye. The well-documented public life of this Christian televangelist is the ...
The Ventana Wilderness Society responds to criticism of the condor release program.
One day this summer, a small flock of California condors landed on the roof of John Alvord''s Pfeiffer Ridge home in Big Sur and stationed themselves there like giant feathered gargoyles with bad breath and ...
Growing houseplants from cuttings is cheap, easy and satisfying.
Several years ago I lived in a low-slung ranch house up on Monterey''s Spaghetti Hill. The rental home was woefully unremarkable, a boxy stucco job with wide eaves offering too much shade from those rare ...
An art show devoted to putting the brakes on development.
Take a quick tour through the Monterey County Cultural Council''s newest Art in Public Places show and you might think the exhibit was designed simply to explore the multitude of styles and media commonly used ...
Doctored results from water quality tests, millions in fines and a surprise in a water tank have put Alco Water Service in a pickle.
Jim Hively wasn''t out to bust anyone when he discovered problems with the Moss Landing Harbor District''s water supply earlier this year. He was just doing his job. As the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute''s ...
By installing simple water storage systems, rainwater could provide a rainbow of benefits.
The argument about the county''s so-called "water shortage" has raged for the better part of three decades, with millions of dollars and many angry words being spent trying to solve the problem. Scratch below the ...
Location, Location, Location
This year, the Monterey County Film Commission Screenwriting Contest (can we just agree to call it the MCFCSC?) is including a new award in its annual competition. The "Monterey County On Location Award" will be ...
Suicide rates among the elderly, especially white males, are higher than you might think.
They have lived full lives, seen their children grow and become parents themselves, and retired after decades of hard work in anticipation of a slower pace of life. But for many elderly people in Monterey ...
But What About the Articles?
Where''s Larry Flynt when you need him? The outspoken publisher of Hustler and defender of First Amendment rights might have a thing or two to say about recent developments in Monterey. After outraged mom India ...
Technology and Morality
Way back in 1980, I read a book by Jeremy Rifkin titled Entropy: A New World View. It''s a seminal treatise on how humanity, in its infinite arrogance, continues to think that it can defy ...
From The Editorial Desk
We humans are a very wasteful sort of animal. When we tear down a building or a fence, we're likely to just toss the leftover boards into a dumpster and forget about it. We plunk ...
It's the season when fighting fire can really get under your skin.
831-Tales from the area code At 3am the call comes over the loudspeaker. Three sharp tones, a pregnant pause, and then the deafening buzzer that grinds its way into the firefighters'' skulls and yanks them ...
Guitarist Terrence Farrell and Ballet San Jose display courage.
classical Guts. String instruments need them. String players require more. The solo musician must have enough to spill some as an expected dimension of every performance. But it''s the classical guitarist who needs the most. ...
Five recent short story collections give us glimpses into the lives of characters very much like ourselves.
books Try this experiment: Go to your local post office, or to a nice spot on the coast where people tend to gather, or perhaps your favorite produce stand on the outskirts of town. Then ...
A collection of Chagall's most beloved images appear as limited-edition prints.
The brilliant colors of 41 large-scale, first-edition Chagall prints (silkscreen serigraphs and metal-engraved lithographs) dazzle visitors to Congregation Beth Israel''s exhibit hall. "This is the first time that these particular images of Chagall''s have ever ...
Building with salvaged materials can save dollars, help the environment and make an artistic statement.
Near the top of Prescott Avenue, on the border between Monterey and Pacific Grove, you''ll find a varied lot of houses, new, old and somewhere in between. Years ago, this area was "the country" and ...
Marina is an unlikely place to find authentic English ales.
sidedish The first question on most people''s minds is how a brewery located in Marina, California can claim to make authentic English beer. The answer is that English Ales Brewery is brewing off contract to ...
Falling under the sensory spell of Deetjen's Big Sur Inn.
We decided we would zip down for an early dinner on Sunday. Deetjen''s had a slot at 6:15 so we figured, leave around 5, put the cruisemobile on autopilot, open the sunroof, fire up the ...
Annoyed By Tabloids
street talk Gossip rags touting crack-addicted schnauzers, monkeymen from space and prophecies of doom can wreak havoc upon the minds of those who take them as truth. Then again, they can send you rolling with ...
The locals are full of spirit, check out the music.
rock The Metro Santa Cruz printed an article called, "Get in the Groove" as a how-to guide for musicians who want to make it in the Santa Cruz music scene. In it, writer David Spinoza ...
