Issues / 2001 / Sep 13
For the first time ever, the Artists Studio Tour will include a group of teen artists. They just might steal the show.
Smells Like Teen Spirit: Youth Arts Collective participants Jenny Hugo (above left), Phil Bekker (in white T-shirt), Fletcher Tucker and Valerie Leadingham (pictured below with Meg Biddle) bring a new dimension to the Artists Studio ...
Three thousand miles from the mayhem, Salinas residents reel from the shock and do what they can to help.
On the Street: Above, Erin Finley and Mark Boothe struggle to make sense of Tuesday''s events. At right (from left to right), Rickey Valentine, Robert Pletcher, Ricky Rotenberg and Jim Pletcher at the Salinas skate ...
A Brooklynite reacts to what the attack means to his community.
They were boxy, they were ugly, and they were out of scale even within lower Manhattan''s riot of skyscrapers. They were smug. Yet, as all of us in Brooklyn hold vigils on roofs for the ...
Local flyboy comes home to star in the skies above Salinas.
831 -- Tales from the Area Code Long-time Salinas resident Sean D. Tucker and his Team Oracle will come off the road midway through the national air-show season to perform with other headliners at the ...
Foreign policy experts at MIIS talk about the United States, the Middle East and the evolving craft of terrorism.
On Tuesday, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Amin Tarzi hung up a poster of New York City in his office window. Like many other researchers ...
The Monterey World Music Festival was built around an idea that is needed now more than ever.
Urna''s soaring vocal improvisations will give traditional Mongolian songs a contemporary feel during the World Music Festival on Saturday.Some of the bands scheduled to appear at this weekend''s Monterey World Music Festival might not make ...
By Raymond Napolitano (ray@coastweekly.com)
The traditionalists won out. The powers that be, combined with the power of public opinion, have derailed my career as a restaurant reviewer. Good riddance. But the editors like my style (or so they tell ...
Life on the Peninsula goes on while New York and Washington burn.
So many people tried to give blood, nurses had to turn them away. Some donors said it made them feelless helpless than just watching the carnage on TV. The line outside the Blood Center overflows ...
Despite its location on a major thoroughfare, many people drive right by the goodness inside Patty's Caf& %s;.
Tom´:s Gonzales, owner of Patty''s Café, serves house-made meals that rely on fresh ingredients. If Patty''s, a family-owned Mexican café, were on Cannery Row, Fisherman''s Wharf, or even in downtown Pacific Grove, it would undoubtedly ...
From The Editorial Desk
Every night at 10, the plaintive notes of "Taps" are broadcast through speakers around the Presidio of Monterey. Sitting at the kitchen table last Monday night in my apartment, two blocks from the base, I ...
Mark of the Beast... And Speaking of Humanity...
MARK OF THE BEAST... As I sit here trying to drum out clever things to say about wet T-shirt contests and packed nightclub floors, I cannot find words for these things. There is too much ...
Watching the screen go dark at the end of The Musketeer might be the best part of the entire film.
Immediately after sitting through Peter Hyams'' resourcefully awful "reimagining" of Alexandre Dumas'' classic tale of King Louis, Cardinal Richelieu, and the little problems of state that make them whine, I felt compelled to revisit Richard ...
Two one-acts examine intimacy--from a distance.
Watching the two one-act plays by John Patrick Shanley that comprise Missing/ Kissing, one gets the feeling that something is indeed missing. And it might have to do with kissing. This production, a joint venture ...
The Presidio of Monterey has been on guard for a week. But how much does it matter?
Don''t let the sign trick you, things are no longer "normal." After the bombings, a Green Beret studying Arabic said he expects his world to change fast. We''ve been warned that the question was not ...
After six decades, it's hard to remember that Dave Brubeck's jazz was once revolutionary.
Dave Brubeck first appeared around these parts when he played at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1962. In a performance that helped put the festival on the world''s jazz map, he performed The Real Ambassadors, ...
