Issues / 2001 / May 03
The Surfrider Foundation is looking out for Monterey County's water lovers.
Early in the morning on Friday, March 30, Ron Triplett went for a surf at Carmel Beach. At that hour, the news had not yet broken that the Carmel Area Wastewater District had accidentally dumped ...
Celebrating those sturdy landmarks of modern American cuisine: the diner, the soda fountain& the luncheonette.
Two Timer: Bing''s owner Kelli Bohanan is a double-timing dynamo at the area''s only "true diner". Way back in 1965hamburgers cost 35 cents at Oliver Drugs lunch counter in Mobile, Alabama. McDonald''s was still a ...
by Squid
A Bunch of Ingrates Poor Jan Leasure and Sheryl McKenzie. In drafting Voluntary Rent Guidelines on behalf of the Monterey Bay Property Managers and the Realtors association, they tried to do the right thing, they ...
Monterey Museum of Art's shared exhibit with a Japanese children's art museum opens a whole new world of possibilities.
International Intersection: Hamada Children''s Museum of Art Curator Noriko Takano gets creative during a recent visit to the Monterey Museum of Art. Also pictured are two works featured in MMA''s "Children''s Voices" exhibit: A Girl ...
Handmade mezcals from Oaxacan villages open a surprisingly smooth window on high wattage, world-class sipping.
Smooth as Fire: New Mexico-based artist and mezcal lover Ron Cooper offers tastes of one of his Del Maguey Oaxacan mezcal masterpieces to brave and curious drinkers. Mezcal. It''s one of those loaded words that ...
A new alcohol ordinance strives to make Monterey more boring.
At the March 27 Monterey Planning Commission meeting, Chris Shiner sauntered up to the podium and recounted an all-too familiar tale. One evening as he walked home from a night on the town, a Monterey ...
Whatsupchuck?
Beating the Tom Tom of Farewell: Western Stage's managing artistic director, Tom Humphrey, steps down to a different drummer.Battle for the Forest Once again, the Outdoor Forest Theater is a bone of contention. This time ...
Jazz is alive and well and living in Big Sur.
Jazz is not dead. Despite the critics'' insistence to the contrary, it is very much alive. It lives in the group improvisation of jam bands, in the twisted fury of avant-progressive punks, in the discordant ...
In search of the American dream, 100 babesin the Hollywoods pitch scripts and battle for options in a down-and-dirty screenwriting cattle call.
831 -- Tales From the Area Code One hundred writers in a room. I have been expecting an urbane gathering of intellectuals, perhaps swathed in collegiate chic--faded blue jeans, boots, the occasional beret. Instead, I ...
Lisa Coscino Gallery's new exhibit of six contemporary Mexican painters reveals a largely invisible artistic world.
The ancient Greeks called the process of writing on top of a text that has been partially erased palimpsest ("scraped again"). Since that time, many artists and writers have used the term metaphorically to describe ...
Bestseller Seabiscuit earns its reputation.
WordsThe mint julep sippers and the Daily Racing Form readers know who to keep an eye on this Saturday at the 126th running of the Kentucky Derby. Since Point Given shellacked the rest of the ...
Streetalk.
The choices you make in life affect no one more than you. It''s classic that some people prefer to push their way of life on others--that''s as old as written history. But when you''ve grown ...
Your Letters
Who Might That 'We' Be?Re: Rebecca Crocker's rail report ("Locals, Yokels and Tourists," April 29-25). What is it with the crusade to resurrect the Del Monte Express? Your article scratches the surface, but when will ...
Here are a few low-impact directions for starting a wine cellar.
Do you ever wonder what it might be like to step into a room chock-full of your favorite wines, pick up a few bottles that are in their prime, and step back into your dining ...
Michael Cristofer's The Shadow Box successfully navigates the tricky shoals separating comedy and pathos.
Every once in a while, you come across a production that''s so good that it''s hard to find the right words to praise it. Michael Cristofer''s The Shadow Box, now playing at the Magic Circle ...
One Night at McCool's needs more than one more for the road.
Genial and amusing, Harald Zwart''s One Night at McCool''s aims for something like the dark, silly humor of There''s Something About Mary, but unlike that film, it never fully rises to the occasion, maintaining a ...
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A peaker power plant comes to Monterey County.
There is no way to say no to King City''s new compact 45-megawatt power plant. Due to be online by July, it will be the profitable beneficiary of emergency measures to keep the lights on. ...
