Issues / 2000 / Nov 22
Local abortion providers are still far from ready to prescribe the abortion pill.
Seventeen years after the FDA gave the OK to test RU-486, 12 years after French women began using it, seven years after President Clinton lifted President Bush''s ban on its importation, four years after the ...
A venerable piano bar attempts to navigate Monterey's byzantine zoning regulations.
There is a bar on Lighthouse in Monterey affectionately known as Bosso''s. It''s a typical bar, with a poolroom, a taproom, and more important to this tale, a large lounge within which rests an old ...
The next generation of El Teatro Campesino continues to make art for social change but with a decidedly modern beat.
Brothers Kinan, Anahuac and Lakin Valdez, along with cousin Emiliano and a council of approximately 15 other young people, engage in a wide range of projects that continue the late ''60s and ''70s social activism ...
Memorial Needed
"Vet Project" (11/9-15), the fine article by Rebecca Crocker, hit home. As a veteran of bloody Word War II and frozen Korea, I still see the dead and dying. All of us had the right ...
Michele Wilkes conjures magical moments in Fifi's food and wine fairyland.
There are many things to remind us (the males of the species) daily that women are tougher than we are. I will not insult anyone reading this by making a list, since even the simplest ...
MPUSD schools need at least $60 million in repairs and a successful bond issue.
When a 200-square-foot section of roof crashed down on the heads of some Monterey High School students in March of 1999, injuring two of them, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District officials could no longer ignore ...
From The Editorial Desk
If you live in any sort of an urban area, you've seen them, the street people in their ragged clothes. In moments of guilt you've given them some spare change, or maybe, in moments of ...
'Tis that time of year: Time for more movies than you can shake your laser at.
holiday picks What''s the holiday season without the fat-dripping smell of roasting turkey, the boozy nutmeg aroma of spiked egg-nog...or the comforting smell of buttered popcorn? Yep. Along with the usual family and travel stresses ...
Shaken, Not Stirred
Anyone who has spent even a short time at the martini bar at Lallapalooza Restaurant on Alvarado is familiar with Daniel Koffman''s work. He''s the artist responsible for the 60 artworks in varied mediums that ...
Fries With That?
Truly, it is not good to be cheap. It is not good to be easy. This is true if you are dating and it is true if you are voting. But Squid would caution readers ...
A daughter of Detroit discovers the Mideast sun through Levantine cuisine.
sidedish When I was a child, my mother''s favorite thing to make for dinner was reservations. This meant that at least once a month we would eat at a restaurant catering to Detroit''s 350,000-strong population ...
