Issues / 2001 / Nov 29
Cheap EATS, B&W Gala, Peer Review
CHEAP EATS...Dining out in California just became more affordable with the debut of the DINE CALIFORNIA CARD. Discounts up to 20 per cent off regular prices are available at participating restaurants throughout the state. The ...
Elayne Boosler brings her unique perspective to Monterey.
A telephone conversation with Elayne Boosler last week was interrupted by several incoming calls that she needed to take. These weren''t calls from the usual Hollywood suspects--agents, promoters and their like. No, these were phone ...
The story of Hooty Croy reveals unsettling truths about America.
The most compelling 45 minutes on film this week might not be in a movie theater. Reason to Fear: The Cultural Defense of Hooty Croy, a documentary being shown at CSUMB''s World Theater on Wednesday, ...
Grease Is the Word
The thoughtful article "Smart Food" by Traci Hukill (Nov. 21), about school lunches, especially in California, is both inspiring and saddening. While students at such places as Fremont Elementary School in Salinas may now enjoy ...
A former US boxing champ teaches kids confidence inside the ring.
Huffing and puffing, they come back in from the run around the ballfields behind the Boys & Girls Club. As another group plays casual handball at a nearby wall, Germaine, Tyrone, Chris, another Chris, Petey, ...
News Briefs
Chief Promises Investigation Standing on the city hall steps with about 40 citizens and representatives of the Green Party, Coalition of Minority Organizations, the ACLU and the Seaside Concerned Citizens Committee, Mel Mason of the ...
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thursday 11|29 The Play's The Thing THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO Prior to writing The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Alfred Uhry had already carved for himself a place in American theater literature with his much-acclaimed ...
It took a loose team of powerful men--each with his own agenda--to deprive Monterey County of representation in the State Senate.
(Photos: top row, left to right) Gov. Gray Davis Fred Keeley was his go-to guy during the energy crisis. So maybe the lights were out when he approved the new Senate map that cut his ...
STREET TALK
Finding things to do on a rainy day can be a bit of an adventure. When the storm clouds linger or things in life just seem to come to a standstill, it sucks to be ...
Flaherty's exquisite seafood and relaxed atmosphere are one more reason to be grateful.
I don''t even remember deciding to get into a holiday spirit. But I found myself feeling thankful on several occasions over the past weekend. It happened while sitting around the Thanksgiving Day table, eating cousin ...
Fred Keeley talks with the Weekly about the deal that probably cost him a seat in the State Senate.
Fred Keeley distinctly remembers the day he found out he'd been abandoned by the leadership of his own party. "I got this Sunday call," he says, and describes the conversation that followed. "Do you have ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 11|29 Managing the Sanctuary 1pm. The Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries will be jointly evaluating regulations, boundaries and strategies for management and operations. Today''s scoping will take ...
Three artists explore faraway locales and bring their findings to Peninsula galleries.
Travel, whether to discover an exotic country or return to a faraway home is, for many people, an enduring holiday tradition. This year some travelers may decide to stay put and avoid the current uncertainties ...
Return to Yesterday, Updated Tradition
RETURN TO YESTERDAY...Back in the mid-''70s, when I immigrated to the Peninsula, Cannery Row was still the cool place to hang out--if you had hippie-ish, artistic, downscale sensibilities. Sure, there were lots of abandoned canneries ...
Peace Out, Ron, Just Ask the Tuvaluans About Global Warming, Self-Righteousness Rides the Freeways
PEACE OUT, RON Squid would like to offer some free advice to outgoing Monterey Peninsula Water Management District boardmember RON CHESSHIRE as he gazes down a long line of commitment-free third-Mondays-of-the-month: Boyfriend, go get yourself ...
Hotpicks
thursday 11|29 The Play's The Thing THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO Prior to writing The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Alfred Uhry had already carved for himself a place in American theater literature with his much-acclaimed ...
Head of understaffed planning department says the shortage of affordable housing is the root cause of development bottleneck.
For a man who is caught in a losing fight, Scott Hennessy seems pleasant and serene. His office, brand new and mathematically neat, is in the back of what used to be a military intelligence ...
