Issues / 2001 / Apr 26
This cancer survivor would walk 540 miles for a cure.
Roberta DeLasantos smiles a lot when she''s talking--so much, in fact, that she comes off like the kind of person who hasn''t a care in the world. But since her breast cancer diagnosis in March ...
What has become of the once-mighty globalization protest?
A hunched Joseph Holt stood in front of a Gap store on San Francsico''s Market Street last Friday afternoon, trying to stay out of the rain. A blond 23-year-old from Kentucky and a globally conscious ...
Gudrun and Andr& %s; Vadas have turned their Cafe Pronto!into a warm, nourishing gourmet hangout.
So it was my birthday, which also happened to be the day of the NCAA championship game between Duke and Arizona. Leading up to it, Sweet Thing asked me, "What do you want to do ...
Gil Shaham's purity of technique highlights rare Copland piece.
classicalAaron Copland''s centenary last year threw new light on several virtually unknown works. Among them is his splendid Violin Sonata, first heard in Carmel last week courtesy of Gil Shaham. The sonata dates from the ...
Big-time birder Craig Hohenberger discovers diversity and otherworldly highs in fleeting down-to-earth moments.
831 -- Tales from the Area CodeIt''s a quiet day on top of the world. Snow from the winter still covers the tundra, but the ponds have thawed and spring is about to break. This ...
Join us for part 2 of our guide to white wine varietals.
If you read my column last week, you know that if you understand apples, you understand varietals. To review, chardonnay and merlot are varieties of grapes just as Granny Smith and Red Delicious are apple ...
Streetalk.
Whether the world is run by fate, sheer force of will, or both is a question at the root of most belief systems. It is amazing what people will give themselves credit for based on ...
Your Letters
No ClassYour normally issue-sensitive magazine suffered a rather anesthetized "Moment in Time" last week (Street Talk, April 19-25). The column's stated premise was Aaron S. Birk's ability to arouse people's memory of their "perfect moment" ...
by Chuck Thurman
Desolation Rows It''s hardly surprising that Resort Theaters of America decided to pull the plug on the Galaxy Six Cinemas in Del Monte Center. Last year was a miserable one for movie theaters all across ...
Grammy-winner Poncho Sanchez provides MoCo with a spicy taste of Latin jazz.
It is the ultimate credit to a musician to be able to elevate the listener to ecstatic heights, to provide a musical world that transcends this mortal coil long enough for the listener to forget ...
The celebrated composer discusses his work for stage, film and concert hall, and his collaboration with West African performer Foday Musa Suso on the score to Jean Genet's controversial 'The Screens.'
Believing in composer Philip Glass is a little like believing in God. Either you do or you don''t. Neither gives you any middle ground. On the cosmic level, the Glass career continues to expand like ...
Tongue of a Bird finds the troubled core of loss and redemption.
ReviewThe important things, the things no one can take away, are held in one''s heart and mind--but only if we choose to remember. But what if we choose to forget? What is left of us ...
Eager to join the modern family of nations, the young of Vietnam share their hopes and dreams with two CSUMB students.
WordsLast November President Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Vietnam since the fall of Saigon, the event that 26 years ago this Monday finally ended the terrible conflict between the two countries. Clinton''s ...
Special Movie Screenings:
The Grapes of Wrath &The Last Days The Grapes of Wrath As the beginning of the "Steinbeck and Hollywood" film series, the Academy Award-winning classic The Grapes of Wrath commands the big screen, followed by ...
How fish farming in the Blue Revolution, done properly, will feed the world.
Dr. Rosamond Naylor is convinced that aquaculture can help save the world--or perhaps destroy it. It all depends. Naylor is a Pew Marine Fellow at Stanford University specializing in issues of food security, or how ...
A new housing coalition looks out for the workers no community can do without.
It''s a time-honored response to exclusion: play your own game on your own terms. In early April, following three dramatic public forums on the rising cost of housing, the Mayors'' Association formed a committee to ...
From The Editorial Desk
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by Squid
A Modest ProposalSquid figured that inviting a bunch of developers to solve the county''s housing crisis might be akin to asking a congress of foxes to make repairs on a broken chicken coop. But the ...
Long separated after common origins, pioneering nature print artist and zoologist F. G. Hochberg rediscovers the linkage of science and art.
In these modern times, art and science appear like two distinct, even contrary pursuits. To learn that someone is either an artist or a scientist will typically cause quite different expectations about that person''s personality ...
