Issues / 2001 / Oct 11
Local classical presenters scramble to mount the first shows of their new seasons.
music The tragic events on the other side of the country are playing havoc with more than airport security and the stock market--they''re having a disruptive effect on the Monterey Peninsula concert scene, as well. ...
The local economy is slowly recovering from the hard blow it took on September 11.
So few travelers emerged from the Monterey Airport it felt like some remote rural strip. The skycap sat in the sun behind his podium, his cap at a tilt and the radio on. He didn''t ...
Despite fewer performances, the Carmel Performing Arts Festival now has venues spread throughout Monterey County.
If the Carmel Performing Arts Festival is any indication, the city of Carmel is expanding its borders at a rapid rate. Beginning tonight and continuing for the next three weeks, the festival will present more ...
An amateur astrologer ventures to Nepenthe's legendary sign parties.
831-Tales from the area code Holly Fassett does not seem like a typical Capricorn. The owner of Big Sur''s Nepenthe restaurant, she does not appear to be a cutthroat businesswoman intent on making a profit ...
Potty Mouth...Aloha Oe...Missing in Action..
POTTY MOUTH...KPIG listeners who faithfully tune in Uncle Sherman''s "Dirty Boogie" radio program from 10pm to midnight on Saturday nights, can pollute their minds 24/7 with the XXX Radio Network. A couple years ago, at ...
Stop the Bombing
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 were attacks against humanity, and the bombing of Afghanistan is only the same crime. No, we cannot capitulate to those that commit terrorism on our country or on anyone ...
Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke breathe new life into cliched characters in Training Day.
''This is important. Don''t blow it," wife Lisa (Charlotte Ayanna) tells her rookie cop husband Jake (Ethan Hawke) at the outset of his first day as neighborhood narc-to-be. Eager to nail a coveted spot as ...
Look Who's Talking...Let's Go Get Juiced...Looking the Part..
LOOK WHO''S TALKING...As I continue to study the world situation, it seems more and more apparent that communication between humans--actually, the problems in communication between humans--is the most important component of the overall struggle that ...
By Aaron S. Birk
street talk One aspect of childhood memories is usually the toys and the small things we as little brats did to entertain ourselves. Whether it was a bike or a mountain of Legos with which ...
Mel Edelman's mixed media exhibit explores how surface impressions give way to complicated depths.
Some of life''s most compelling mysteries arise from the inner complexity of people''s minds. In artist Mel Edelman''s most recent exploration of life around him, however, he wanted to examine the simplicities on the surface. ...
Marina neighbors convince sex offenders to go to Salinas.
A vibrating hummingbird pokes at a feeder hung overhead as Tammy Carter sits crunched at a toddler-sized plastic picnic table in her front lawn and talks about the sex offenders who used to live in ...
Ashcroft's anti-terrorism bill--with a few protections for civil liberties--hits House floor.
When the Bush Administration''s hastily assembled anti-terrorism proposal emerged from the House Judiciary Committee on Oct. 1, it dragged behind it a bombastic and revealing name. The Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct ...
Language school expects new demand.
''Where''s A?" asks Gary Munsinger of his wife Mounia as they sit in an upstairs office off Forest Avenue in Pacific Grove. On a table before them is a chart of the Arabic alphabet. There ...
Staff Player's season resonates with the nation's somber mood.
The theme for the Staff Players Repertory Company''s season that opens this weekend at the Indoor Forest Theater seems almost hand-picked to correspond with the confused emotions and priorities that the world is experiencing today. ...
Twelfth Knight...Electronic Frontier...
TWELFTH KNIGHT...The most interesting things can happen while everyone''s watching CNN. While Afghanistan gets pummeled by Tomahawk cruise missiles and indigestible TV dinners, the hazy outlines of a very different sort of battle are beginning ...
Despite Siamese Bay's generally strong offerings, a few small fix-its would take the restaurant to a new level of quality.
I am a firm believer in sensualism, defined in The American Heritage Dictionary as "the ethical doctrine that the pleasures of the senses are the highest good." As a lifetime member and an extremely sensitive ...
