Issues / 2001 / Oct 18
Wise Up, Pawlick
Did the Salinas High School principal censor the yearbook? "I don''t know what that means," the Weekly quoted him saying in "Principal to a Fault" (Sept. 27). It''s time to learn-especially for a leader who ...
Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett and Bruce Willis shine as "The Sleepover Bandits," a trio of star-crossed lovers.
There''s much to like about Bandits, Barry Levinson''s new film about a romantic triangle that blossoms among a pair of gentlemen bank robbers and a suburban housewife who has grown dissatisfied with her chilly husband ...
Sergio Sanchez, who learned social justice from his parents, will be honored by ACLU.
When you''re looking to get something done, say the friends and co-workers of activist Sergio Sanchez, he''s the "go to" guy. The six-year resident of Monterey County, who has his hands in nearly every local ...
A reporter tests an ad campaign against reality and finds the lights are on, but no one's home.
831--tales of the area code Meandering down what has become North Salinas'' residential development main street, drivers can catch a glimpse of what was and what is yet to be. On the two-lane stretch of ...
Photographer Wynn Bullock knew how to engage the wondering viewer.
Around the world, two names immediately come to mind at the mention of Monterey area photography: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. These justly famous pioneers of the West Coast school were obsessed with capturing the ...
Top Gun Squid's mailpouch was stuffed this week with the usual bulletins and dispatches from the front.
It was the regular stuff: Hell on Earth, Report from Terror Firma, Apocalypse Today and the City of Marina Planning Commission Agenda. Luckily none of it arrived bearing powders--non-dairy creamer, brown sugar, stardust or spores. ...
Human Invention
street talk From the dawn of humanity''s rise up to the top of the food chain, we have achieved and failed for the sake of our species. Cavemen once hunched over a flame would soon ...
Mellow's the mood and perfection's the word at The Big Sur Bakery.
The Big Sur Bakery is very Big Sur. That is to say, it is very California but more so. And so is the Big Sur Bakery''s food. California cuisine means fresh, organic ingredients and simple-yet-innovative ...
Salinas anthropologist Gary Breschini spends his work week scouring the backcountry for ancient rock art left by natives. His findings tell a cryptic tale.
An eagle soars over the wrinkled terrain, banks on an updraft, then swoops down along a rock face. Thick brush clings to the leeward sides of outcroppings; manzanita and wild sage twist in tortured poses ...
October 18-24, 2001
thursday 10|18Poesía PolíticaMARTIN ESPADA READING Poet Martin Espada grew up in a New York City that was struggling with its melting pot identity. His father fought for the rights of Puerto Ricans, blacks and other ...
Liquid 8's music, a cross between heavy metal and punk, is all soul.
There is a new twist to Heavy Metal here in the Monterey music scene. This past spring groups of energetic thrashers stepped up to microphones across the Peninsula and revived the hammering sound of metal ...
Soupy Bush...Feel the Thunder...Make Some Noise...
SOUPY BUSH...Maybe there is something to the theory that television, film and other media influence peoples'' behavior. Last Thursday, I was stunned, startled and stupefied to watch President George W. Bush mimic the comedian Soupy ...
Ode to Oak...Speaking of perfectionists...Almost Evergreen...
Ode to Oak...One of my favorite restaurants on the Monterey Peninsula, White Oak Grill, is no more. The quaint and wonderful bastion of freshness, careful preparation, loving service and unyielding quality has been sold. Owners ...
Local officials say threats of terrorism striking locally are exaggerated. But they're ready anyway.
J&S Surplus in Moss Landing has been sold out of two items since the days following the Sept. 11 attacks: gas masks and American flags. Ozzy Cardinale of J&S says the current waiting list for ...
