Issues / 2001 / Mar 01
Southern Monterey County locals say their quiet lifestyles and mock bombing raids don't mix.
Brother Isaac Meyers wears a simple white robe tied at the waist, the traditional garb of the Benedictine monastic order. His sandy gray hair streams to his shoulders, and a dense beard masks his delicate ...
Relax, Already!
Oh, c''mon now! What''s not to like about Raymond Napolitano''s restaurant reviews? We were having a pretty nice Saturday perusing (among other things) the Weekly of Feb. 15-21 when an irate letter to the editor ...
Guest conductor's shortfalls sink Monterey Symphony performance.
classical Monterey Symphony guest conductor Adam Flatt was way over his head during his appearance on Feb. 18 at the Sunset Center. In a program of widely different styles, Flatt was never more than superficially ...
Now is the time to find inspiration in all sorts of soulful media.
Mardi Gras is behind us and, in the aftermath of Fat Tuesday, we''re warming up for the long stretch to spring time musical antics. Most people would tell you to stay home, watch TV and ...
By Aaron S. Birk
street talk The winter rains are sure to drag some hearts into the abyss of boredom and depression. In these moments, abnormal thoughts rise out of the soup of consciousness like phantoms. They feed upon ...
It cries! It coos! It wakes you up in the middle of the night! It''s a seven-pound, computerized contraceptive!
Remember Baby Alive, that Kenner doll that supposedly performed lifelike functions? Baby Alive was all about digestion. She came with a bottle, some diapers and a few packets of "baby food" that turned suspicious hues ...
Stephen Moorer is the merrier as he leads Pacific Repertory Theatre into the most ambitious phase of its history.
The year is 1979. Two drama students from Carmel High are rummaging through costumes, furniture and props in an off-campus storage space beneath a local movie theater. One of them pauses to muse, "Wouldn''t it ...
Bicycling to work? An electrifying idea!
If you''re like most people, there are probably several reasons why you don''t bike to work. There is that steep hill between your house and the office where you have seen cyclists spinning their pedals ...
Ed Harris' Pollock is an art lesson, an emotional thrill ride and a melodrama all in one.
By now, the art from Jackson Pollock''s later years is well known: heroic masterpieces comprised of paint puddles, drips and spatters that add up to a swirling kaleidoscope of action. Equally well known (thanks to ...
Bada Bing's got a lot going for it, but thoroughly cooked pizza crust ain't one of 'em.
So, my editor calls me and says, "So wadda you say for the next thing, you do Bada Bing?" I say, "Wadda you mean, badabing?" He says, Bada Bing in Carmel. They opened a pizza ...
Strong acting lifts MPC's Three Tall Woman from the ordinary.
Imagine Samuel Beckett''s Waiting for Godot mated with Edward Albee''s American Dream and reduce the characters to one, three-tiered maid/mother/crone personality. Do that, and you''ll get some sense of Three Tall Women, Albee''s 1994 Pulitzer ...
A tip of the top hat to the area's best restaurant wine programs.
Am I a wine snob? You better believe it! I taste and evaluate dozens of wines each week. How lucky am I? Well, it isn''t always a walk in the park. In fact, 90 percent ...
Sharon Daly and Linda La Rone run a popular pet store but their real calling is the sharing of knowledge and joy.
Immediately upon entering the store, I am surrounded by an eye-dazzling kaleidoscope of pet food, collars, toys, litter boxes, treats--a great variety of pet accouterments spread about, around and above me, at my feet, on ...
There's a Kook Among Us
The other night Squid was sitting down for dinner when the phone rang. It was "Enrique" (name changed to protect the innocent). "Hello, this is Enrique from the Monterey County Herald, your local newspaper blah ...
From The Editorial Desk
It cries! It coos! It wakes you up in the middle of the night! It's a seven-pound, computerized contraceptive! Read our cover story for more...
Jill Jackson steals the show and gets the bone in Magic Circle's delightful Sylvia.
Not since the classic sci-fi flick A Boy and His Dog (starring Don Johnson before his Miami Vice stint) have we had such an opportunity to get a dog''s eye view of the world and ...
