Issues / 2002 / Jan 24
Canadian quartet serves an eclectic blend of music, delivered with a smile.
Photo:Quartetto Gelato makes its first appearance in Monterey on Friday, courtesy of Chamber Music Monterey Bay. Imagine you''re planning a 15-day, 7-million-mile road trip. What CD do you take? If you''re Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk ...
Local transportation planners tout effort to design foot-friendly cities.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Salinas planner Ben Berto, national bike-and-walk guru Dan Burden and Monterey transportation planner Doug Bilse believe local communities should design for pedestrians. It''s a chilly bright Saturday morning when three ...
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friday 1|25 Eine Kleine Bach Musik TAFELMUSIK This inspired group from Canada has achieved international recognition since its inception in 1979, playing Baroque period instruments at over 50 concerts a year at home in Toronto ...
Why a champion surfer and her daughters are hooked on riding waves.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Rip Girls: Mom Julie Parker, left, and daughters Chloe and Ali Barger have been making trips to the beach since the girls were small and Parker was a surfer on ...
A wide range of herbal and other natural remedies are available to men with erectile dysfunction.
The scents of relaxing aromatherapy oils waft though heating machines, and soothing music plays softly in the background at Cornucopia Market in Carmel. It''s the perfect place to pick up some eco-friendly makeup, or organic ...
Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down puts a harsh face on the chaos of battle.
Photo:The pain and confusion of a troubled US raid in Somalia are captured in Black Hawk Down. Ridley Scott''s Black Hawk Down-about the disastrous 1993 raid in Mogadishu, Somalia, that left 18 U.S. servicemen dead, ...
Eighty-year-old Mary Burr just got her black belt in Aikido. Anyone care to get walloped by a grandma?
Photo by Randy Tunnell: War Dance--Mary Burr, who has danced most of her life, started studying Aikido seven years ago at the tender age of 73. She was drawn to its graceful style of movement ...
Supes extend subdivision ban six months--not long enough to develop a long-term plan.
There''s no water in North County. Curtis Weeks, GM of the Water Resources Agency, says the area has two choices: either cut water use in half, or find an alternate answer. But there''s no solution ...
It's world-renowned women painters and local artists made good at the Monterey Museum of Art's late winter exhibit.
Photo:"Untitled #25" by Martha Casanave from her "Coastal Pinholes" show Among the countless losses of September 11th was Louise Nevelson''s largest wood sculpture, "Sky Gate New York" (1978). Inspired by an airborne view of the ...
A photojournalist of the Cuban Revolution comes to town.
Photo: A Star Is Born: In this and other photos of Che Guevara, Raul Corrales captured the idealism and gravity of the Cuban Revolution. Corrales speaks at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel on ...
The Forge in the Forest's impressive menu and magnificent setting add up to a unique dining experience.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo:A Man and His Meal--Chef Bruce Silverblatt matches the Forge in the Forest''s impressive menu with its setting. The first time I went to the Forge in the Forest, I got ...
Shattered Dreams, Smoke and Fire, Sad Passage, Fishing for an Invite
SHATTERED DREAMS... The AT&T PRO-AM is just around the corner yet, for some reason, nobody has asked me to play. I would think that by now, the public would be tired of the usual boring ...
