Issues / 2002 / Jan 10
Squid
UA: PUMP UP THE VOLUMEIt doesn''t happen often, but last Thursday night Squid''s desire to see the new film, Ali, outweighed the desire to avoid enduring another movie at Monterey''s decaying State Theater. Squid slinked ...
Letters
Peace Group is Not a Commie Front I am responding to a recent letter impugning the motives of the Peace Coalition of Monterey County. We seek non-violent solutions to crises because of a deeply held ...
Heeding an ancient call, little girls learn to cheer.
Two lines of little girls in matching purple and gold T-shirts are jumping, wiggling and punching their way through dance rehearsal early on a Friday morning. "One, two, three, look! Five, six, seven, whip!" yells ...
The alt-rockers It's Me, Margaret mix some optimism in with their angst.
Pain, fear and loneliness pulse through Hurry Up And Bleed. But somehow, despite an all-encompassing anguish, it stops short of outright despair. Rather than copping the attitude that life is horrible and always will be, ...
How Sister Rosa Dolores Rodriguez, hand-picked 2002 Olympic Torchbearer, became the heart and soul of the village of Pajaro.
It''s five days before Christmas and rain is falling in sheets. After all of the families have made it through the food distribution line behind the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Pajaro, ...
As Goes California, So Goes Monterey, A New Way of Walking, Presidio Sirens to Blare
As Goes California, So Goes Monterey With the State of California facing a budget deficit of $12 billion, the City of Monterey, for one, is making no bones about its similarly poor financial health in ...
An Evil Empire, Asked at the Seaside Post Office
Q: What was your worst experience with government-- federal, state or local? Follow Up: Do you know anyone who works for the government? Amy Kuwatani Retired School Cafeteria Worker/Seaside A: When they sent us to ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 1|10 Toastmasters Morning 6:35am. Every Thursday morning the Toastmasters meet to practice public speaking. Unitarian Universalist Church, 490 Aguajito, Carmel. 641-0652. Tango Classes 7pm/8:10pm. American Legion Hall hosts beginning and intermediate dance classes, no ...
Tillie Gort's has become a cultural landmark and a happy reminder of gastronomic days-gone-by.
Tillie Gort''s Cafe, founded in Pacific Grove in 1969, is a restaurant born of a happy revolution. It was smart and fun in the late ''60s to reject American political culture-with its stiff repression, its ...
Small Beginnings From Seaside to New York Thanks, Guys
SMALL BEGINNINGS Photographer JOHN LIVINGSTONE''S career started out humbly enough. In 1945 he was an air-ground combat observer in Germany when he discovered a small Zeiss box camera in a slain German soldier''s dispatch case, ...
