Issues / 2000 / Oct 12
Wales' Treorchy Male Choir falls short in Salinas.
classical Wales came to Salinas last week when the Treorchy Male Choir opened the Salinas Concert Association''s 2000-2001 season at St. Paul''s Church. But somehow the performance seemed little more than a watered-down reflection of ...
Hot Club, hot issue, hot Morgan; Charles Lloyd in Carmel.
what''s up, chuck? Maybe the hottest show in town this week is Hot Club of Cowtown at Morgan''s Coffee & Tea. This is the third time Hot Club has been through our cowtown-cum-resort community and ...
Joan Allen shines in The Contender, Rob Lurie's political drama opening this weekend.
Vice presidential nominee Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) is the new appointment of a lame-duck president, in director Rob Lurie''s new film, The Contender. She''s about to be confirmed when rumors of a decades-old peccadillo become ...
You Know It's a Small Town When...
Pacific Grove really knows how to pack in the excitement. The latest flap took place outside last week''s city council meeting. Seems council candidate Dan Miller took exception when attorney Mary-Margaret O''Connell implied that Miller''s ...
A native daughter with an indie streak makes good on the cyberfrontier.
It''s easy to pick out Lisa Radon at the coffee place where we meet. She''s the one with the green plastic thick-rimmed glasses, the loud plaid miniskirt and the modish, no-nonsense ''do. But what really ...
Tutto Mondo Trattoria satisfies on a variety of levels.
We have progressed so far from basic survival. We take for granted aspects of life that our foreparents could not even have conceived attainable. The very idea of a food reviewer--someone who critiques the quality ...
These days, absentee voters have the power.
Saying that Election Day is Nov. 7 is not the whole truth. It''s one of those little white lies people embrace because it''s convenient to do so, like accepting that Christ was born on December ...
Bio-tech Marches On
Your cover article on biotechnology ("Hello Dolly," 9/7-13) was a heart-stopper that I expected would generate plenty of comments. I think Mr. Middlebrook''s letter in the next issue was all I read. These are the ...
Our Prayers Almost Answered
Faithful readers of ArtiFacts (someone.... anyone?) may remember a couple of months back when we were complaining about California''s pathetic excuse for a poet laureate, Charles B. Garrigus. It''s nothing personal; we just think that ...
Do you want to make tea (or music or art) at the BBC? You'll be able to do it again one day, but not before next June.
Students who fought--and who will pay--for the $600,000 rehabilitation of the Black Box Cabaret at Cal State University Monterey Bay are anxious to meet again in the only campus venue that feels like their own. ...
Open-mic nights, band website reviews, and new Amazon Mollies.
rock There are lots of local songwriter showcase/open mic gigs that don''t get much ink. These showcases give musicians a chance to flex their craftsmanship without having to face the grim expectancy of a crowd ...
Marina 2020 Vision wants to draw a line in the sand past which Marina cannot sprawl. Depending on your point of view, the urban growth boundary will either save the city or pass off its housing proble
Ken Gray seems an unlikely figure to stage a coup. Slight in stature, wearing tinted glasses a bit too big for his face, and walking with a slight slump in the shoulders, he's not exactly ...
By Aaron S. Birk
street talk You know that song "Mamas, Don''t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys"? Well, maybe there aren''t enough farmers and ranchers in our country anymore. Maybe our society is chock-full of lawyers, ...
Living the good life on a sailboat at anchor.
831--Tales From The Area Code If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.--Lin Yutang In July, the sailor and I sailed out of Monterey ...
The maligned holiday treat isn't just tasty. It's good for you.
sidedish Go ahead--have your little laugh. Tell the one about how there''s only one fruitcake in the world that just keeps getting passed around. Calvin Trillin beat you to it, but go ahead and tell ...
