Issues / 2001 / Feb 08
Derelict mates destined for the sword can make the romantic cut this Valentine's Day with the right sparkling gesture.
Valentine''s Day is a no-brainer for most men and women. Men know what they have to do, and they usually wait until the last possible moment to do it--place that panic purchase for $100 worth ...
Slither up, ask and you shall receive everything you want to hear about rockin' Monterey.
rockIwas reminded by the infamous local musical guru Juan Collier (pronounced John) last week that we are near the beginning of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Snake. Since Juan was born under ...
Erotic art fest arouses curiosity by slipping sex into MoCo's everyday world.
The first thing that jumps into my mind when the term "erotic art" comes up is of some naked freak covered in paint, slapping his bare-assed body against a canvas--that and just about every Calvin ...
Salinas symphonic composer Mark Connor melds his love of the classics with the challenge of connecting with modern classroom culture.
831--Tales from the Area Code Can a composer of symphonic music survive in Salinas? The answer is yes, if he''s careful and diligent. And if his horizons are well defined. Salinas resident Mark Connor deftly ...
Your Letters
What Are You, New? I am a high school journalist who can't figure out why you completely missed the story of Dilworth and Smith v. city of Pacific Grove. This is all about putting an ...
A Salinas attorney goes to bat to overturn an initiative that makes it simpler to try kids as adults.
Avenging Angel: Lawyer Miguel Angel Hernandez calls Proposition 21 an "evil thing" that is not only wrong but unconstitutional. Dressed in the mustard-yellow uniform of Monterey County jail inmates, 17-year-old David Varela leans his head ...
Fantasy lives abound in cyberspace,but who you get may not be who you want.
Here''s a quickie rundown on what the desperate male might do to get himself some rapture. However, this also can be fun. Meeting people on the Internet and having "cybersex" is something relatively new. It ...
Marina City Council betrays the public trust.
soapbox.A recent "special" meeting of the Marina City Council--where a 4-1 vote was taken against a citizen-approved initiative--makes one wonder whether a toxic cloud from the dump has drifted over city hall. First, a little ...
Streetalk.
Coming up this Wednesday is one of the most romantic holidays of the year. Some folks will be running around buying chocolates and sexy lingerie for their mates ("Don't you think Bruno looks great in ...
From The Editorial Desk
Any talk about sex and love will eventually offend almost everyone listening. There are very powerful thoughts and emotions attached to both subjects that often create strife between any two points of view. Why do ...
Pacific Grove writer flunks his first big screen test.
It''s too bad there isn''t a sliding scale admission at the local cineplex based on how much a movie cost to make plus the moviemakers'' original aspirations. Not all movies have a bajillion-dollar budget, and ...
In our wide-eyed correspondent's four-day quest to understand passion, the whole story is often more than the sum of its body parts.
Any talk about sex and love will eventually offend almost everyone listening. There are very powerful thoughts and emotions attached to both subjects that often create strife between any two points of view. Why do ...
Korean ensemble preserves an ancient endangered musical species for the modern world.
classicalIn recent decades, the public spotlight seems to have fallen on a disproportionate number of young virtuoso players of violin and cello who were born in Korea, or who are of Korean descent. Violinists Chee ...
Artifacts
Play It to the HamboneIf you walk by Monterey Peninsula College's Morgan Stock Stage Monday evening, do not be mystified by the illogical sequence of sounds. Do not be concerned that the wailing sobs you ...
With each passing day of newspaper-fueled recounts, Dubya loses more votes.
It''s becoming clear just how solidly George W. Bush lost the election in Florida. The media''s ongoing examination of Florida ballots has increased Al Gore''s edge in the popular vote and revealed the expected maelstrom ...
Celebrating both the mundane and the transcendent, Don Weygandt's exhibit of vessel monoprints evokes the 'value of suggestion.'
In The Book of Tea, first published in 1906, Kakuzo Okakura asks readers to consider "the value of suggestion" in art. "In leaving something unsaid," he writes, "the beholder is given a chance to complete ...
Squid
Citizen Salinas Who says civic meetings can't be a barrel of laughs? When I swam with some resident sharks in Salinas, Squid learned that urban planning can be fun. Salinans gathered last week to donate ...
Taqueria del Mar's Gasca clan elevates the social and culinary character of our little slice of paradise.
One of the most excruciating things for me to contemplate among the vast ocean of excruciating things to contemplate is the hard reality that places one person, who might be a complete dirtbag, in a ...
