Issues / 2001 / Dec 13
Local lawmakers ignore the latest claim against state Senate redistricting scheme.
Alan Clayton says the map he has drawn as an alternative to the state Senate''s new redistricting plan protects the rights of Latinos, environmentalists and Monterey County Democrats. But he has yet to find local ...
Home-movie documentary chronicles relationship between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman.
Maybe the best way to describe Grateful Dawg is "Captain Trips Unplugged," a collection of home-movie footage cobbled together into an 80-minute documentary tracing the friendship and musical collaboration between Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia ...
Stalking the wild fruitcake in its native habitat.
It''s a long and perilous journey to the New Camaldoli Hermitage. One must travel an hour and a quarter south of Carmel on Highway One, shrewdly passing puttering tourists while taking care not to spill ...
Be It Resolved
Q: If the city of Monterey makes a New Year''s resolution, what should it be? Follow Up: Have you ever kept a New Year''s resolution to yourself? Rita Kamacho Hospitality/Monterey Fix the schools. Roofs are ...
My Generation, Not Fade Away, Dock of the Bay
MY GENERATION...I know the holiday season is upon us, you know-- fa la la la la and all that, but I''m worried about the coming winter, after the first of the new year. Tourism, the ...
Paul Fleischman hits the right tone in Seek.
All good books manipulate language to turn words on the page into powerful images, smells and tastes, but in Seek (Cricket Books, $16.95), a brilliant new novel for young adults by award-winning Monterey author Paul ...
First the bikinis, then the band.
First, let''s get the glitzy stuff at Blue Fin Cafe & Billiards tonight out of the way: There will be beautiful, bikini-clad women there from 7-9pm for the Politically Incorrect party brought to you by ...
Taking the cure for the modern malaise.
Over the years the reports about Paraiso Hot Springs have trickled in, typically dispatched by friends and acquaintances just returned from an extended two-day soak in the elderly resort''s soda springs. They always say the ...
Steven Soderbergh infuses his remake of Ocean''s Eleven with style and fun.
A clever, ingratiating, and altogether inoffensive update of the 1960 Rat Packer of the same name, Ocean''s Eleven may be exactly what audiences are seeking right now. Heavy on style and boasting the kind of ...
A local wine professional remembers learning the ropes atop the World Trade Center.
In the wine industry, the last quarter is the biggest season of the year. September, therefore, was prime time for those who sell wine to have an audience with those who buy wine--the retail buyers, ...
Hang on to Your Wallets
If the President''s recent exhortation to shop for the sake of the country seems a little obscene, given the crying want elsewhere in the world, take heart. On Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 10am and 7pm, ...
I've been dreading this for years.
And I'll stand in line this weekend to see the first installment of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. I don''t remember when I first read J.R.R. Tolkien''s fantasy masterpiece, probably in ''74 or early ''75, ...
MEET THE NEW BOSS...
Squid's already PO-ed that the Central Coast will soon be represented by an out-of-town Republican, but the news that the Monterey Peninsula's next likely Senator is an anti-choicer sent Squid into a beak-clacking, ink-spewing, tentacles-flailing ...
The Big Sur Land Trust is trying to buy paradise.
Corey Brown walks toward a small clearing in a pine forest five miles south of Carmel and five minutes up a steep dirt road above Highway One. He stops at the crest of the knoll, ...
Hot Picks
This week's Hot Picks were preened and strutted by Anthony Cardott, Kate Folsom, Alex Gilrane, Traci Hukill, Jessica Lyons, Andrew Scutro and Chuck Thurman. thursday 12.13 Stomp Three Times PEPPERSTOMP Just about anyone can enjoy ...
Very Disappointed
This letter registers my profound grief over the cover story in your Dec. 6 paper ("The Lord''s Player"). As a longtime resident and regular reader of your newspaper, I found the story not worthy of ...
Wireless antennas prompt rules and ruses.
(photo) TeleCommunion: The new steeple at the First Baptist Church in Monterey contains state-of-the-art cellphone equipment. A Monterey Pine tree behind The Presidio barely disguises another celltower. It would have been quite a cross. Six-feet ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 12.13 Holiday Castles and Houses 1-2:30pm (3-5 yrs); 3-4:30pm (6-9 yrs). Let your kids be the architects as they build candy castles and graham cracker houses, create holiday crafts and sweets, and generally have ...
