Issues / 2001 / Apr 05
by Squid
The Company You KeepSquid can think of no greater endorsement for a Democratic candidate contemplating a run for Assembly than an approving nod from conservative politico Bob McKenzie. NOT!! But that''s something Marina Mayor Jim ...
Letters between a Monterey businessman and a city official.
The following excerpts are from correspondence between Monterey City Attorney William Conners and Morgan''s Coffee and Tea proprietor Morgan Christopher. Christopher believes city code enforcers who report to Conners are harassing his cafe with frivolous ...
On the eve of the young bird's release, the Ventana Wilderness Society strives to keep condor chicks out of harm's way.
831 -- Tales From the Area Code After compressing six days of gear into my pack and tossing it into the back of our callused Isuzu Trooper, I help Marylise, the chick-rearing specialist of our ...
Time runs out on a Monterey landmark and a long-running band of funkateers.
rock The number 11 seems to have great significance to the Monterey music scene. Planet Gemini just celebrated it''s 11th anniversary with two months of rap, funk and other things that go bump in the ...
John Atkinson is steamed over the waterfront plan that will wipe his business off the map.
John Atkinson is beginning to feel like a marked man. Fifteen years ago, the state of Maine, exercising its right of eminent domain, demolished Atkinson''s antiques business in order to widen a highway by five ...
Your Letters
Priorities After reading Ms. Jenny O'Connor's letter (March 29-April 4), I felt compelled to respond. With respect to Ms. O'Connor, I will not degrade myself by being insulting. However, it seems that she just does ...
From The Editorial Desk
Twenty-year-old Carrie Klein had never been in trouble with the law. Then she fell in love, ran off with her boyfriend and landed in a Mexican prison while her parolee beau walked away a free ...
Twenty-year-old Carrie Klein had never been in trouble with the law. Then she fell in love, ran off with her boyfriend and landed in a Mexican prison while her parolee beau walked away a free man.
The front steps of the Mexicali courthouse look more like a flea market than an entrance to the hallowed halls of justice. A chaotic maze of carts selling coffee, candy, fruit and tacos winds through ...
With his head in the creative clouds, Carmel chef Kerry Loutas carves out a delicious corner of the culinary universe.
Carmel is a tough restaurant town. Although the tourist numbers are enormous, only places on or around Ocean really benefit from the out-of-towners'' arrival. The majority of visitors don''t venture more than a block or ...
Area musicians gather to honor one of their fallen own.
classical When our area''s musicians look outside their own extended family, they are quickly reminded of how much they are taken for granted. The media, which purport to represent what is important, are frequently to ...
'Traditional' photographer Richard Garrod finds transcendent beauty in the mysterious and obscure.
You wouldn''t expect to find any visual similarities, or much aesthetic commonality, between such disparate photographic subjects as a leaf cluster in Hawaii and a shredded sheet of black plastic, or the grill of a ...
Streetalk
The history of revolution in the United States is short and sweet--the American, the Industrial, the MTV, the Digital. Here we are the midst of the Age of Silicon, waiting for the next big thing ...
Action movie maestro Robert Rodriguez whips up a tasty adventure for young and old filmgoers.
It''s going to come as a surprise to many people that Robert Rodriguez--the filmmaker they associate with blazing action show-stoppers like El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn and The Faculty--has not only gone out ...
