Issues / 2001 / Jan 11
Squidfry
The Check's Not in the Mail... Music, they say, hath charms to soothe the savage breast. And the lack thereof apparently has the ability to inflame it. When radio listeners on the Monterey Peninsula who ...
Sipping, sighing and falling in love with a ruby-lipped beauty.
Seated across from me and a sea of Piedmontese wines, Marchesi di Barolo''s Paolo Abbona leaned over and said, "The year 1970 wasn''t exceptional for Barolo." How could Barolo''s "Wines Proprietor" say something like that? ...
Decoding race relations at Monterey County's most ethnically diverse campus.
The clanging bell signals school time, and a December chill is in the air. Through a maze of modular classrooms and colored backpacks, Seaside High students make their way to first period, stopping to shake ...
Streetalk
The airwaves are chock full of sitcoms representing some wild sense of life or another. These programs can stuff you full of new ideas rooted in a questionable reality, and sometimes the characters represented on ...
Characters in careening storylines become roadkill in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic.
Clearly, director Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies and videotape, Out of Sight, The Limey) cares more about creating films that interest him than about mainstream adulation. Even so, such laurels continue to come to him, bolstered ...
Your Letters
Sucky Theaters One thing missing from Tim Wright's otherwise fine piece on local movie theaters ("Flicks Nix," 1/4-10) was discussion of the cavalier attitude all Peninsula theaters display toward their audiences. More often than not, ...
Janina Fialkowska reminds us of what we've been missing.
classicalLooking svelte and radiant, Janina Fialkowska returned to the stage of Sunset Center where, over many years at the Carmel Bach Festival, she built up a considerable local audience for her piano artistry. That her ...
Seeking out Caucasian subculture in the long-lost wilds of Carmel Valley.
831--tales from the Area CodeTo the uninitiated, Carmel Valley may appear to be a culturally homogeneous landscape dominated by middle- and upper- middle class descendants of European immigrants. Yet to me, the highly trained journanthropologist, ...
Taped books open a world of discovery to lit-loving travelers.
The New York Times recently reported that for some busy New Yorkers the only time left in the day to read is during their subway commute. Residents of the Central Coast may have to wait ...
Live local music gets slammed on two fronts.
Bassist James Finley was in a terrible car accident two weeks ago between Figueroa and Franklin. Finley had been driving friends home and was almost home (without a lick of alcohol in his system) when ...
From The Editorial Desk
Decoding race relations at Monterey County's most ethnically diverse campus. Story: Rebecca Crocker -- Photos: Randy Tunnell
Korean Grill's flavorful fellowship proves that you can never bite the hand that feeds you.
Well, it''s the year 2001--definitely a space odyssey. Here we are already in the future, looking at where we''ve come from, where we are and, with luck, where we''re going. We as a species are ...
The Peninsula's only homegrown Spanish-language newspaper is finding its place in the world.
Inside a garage that doubles as an office on a quiet residential street in Seaside, newspaper publisher Raúl Magno Peralta and production manager Oscar Avendano López navigate a mess of computers and phones to photocopy ...
