Issues / 2002 / Mar 14
Why this 26-year-old Sandalista is hell-bent on saving the Bolivian rainforest.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Chris Devers is balanced on a stool in his kitchen, sipping a frothy green drink out of a porro, a hammered Brazilian silver cup with a sculpted straw. "I picked up ...
Foodchain
Photo by Bradley Zeve; Fly Girl--Susan Petersen of the Monterey Jet Center. RAISING THE BAR I''m out cruising with SWEET THING one afternoon last week, around happy hour, developing a hankering for cocktails. Can''t decide ...
Monterey County officials consider accepting Mexican ID cards from undocumented workers.
Photo by Jennifer Flowers; What''s in The Cards--Last Saturday, after waiting in line for hours at Greenfield Elementary School, 803 Mexican immigrants were issued official identification by the Mexican consulate. In several California cities, the ...
Hotpicks
thursday 3|14 The Young and the Restless THE UNINVITED If you haven''t been to Doc''s in Monterey for college night Thursdays, it''s worth the trip. For one thing, drinks are only a dollar, which means ...
The Big Sur landscape itself is enough for some--but not all--outdoor painters.
Photo: Plein to See--The Monterey Museum of Art''s "Land and Legacy" exhibition shows plein air paintings of lands preserved by the Big Sur Land Trust. Shown is Johnny Apodaca''s "To the Sea" ''Land and Legacy: ...
Newsbriefs
Livingston (Sort Of) Charges McCloud With Running "Secret Government" An hour into it, the faint scent of baking hors d''oeuvres wafted through the Carmel Woman''s Club on San Carlos Monday evening. About a hundred residents, ...
Voices from a high school poetry circle.
Photo by Wei Chang; The New Literati--poetry circle regular Holly Johnson reads a poem at one of the Monterey Library''s monthly gatherings for high school poets. Four hours after the school day ends, a high ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 3|14 Toastmasters Morning 6:35am. Every Thursday morning the Toastmasters meet to practice public speaking. Unitarian Universalist Church, 490 Aguajito, Carmel. 641-0652. Pre-School Story Time 10:30am. Pre-School storytime for children ages 3-5 will be held ...
Letters
Mexicans Steal "Our" Homes Odd how you would feature an article on the lack of affordable housing (for Americans) in the Monterey County and then feature an article encouraging illegal (immigrants) aliens to move here ...
Two talented Monterey cyclists and their short, happy roads to the 12th Annual Sea Otter Classic.
Photo by Randy Tunnell; Power Star--Petra Rocha, newly turned mountain biking pro, has charted a meteoritic rise through the ranks of cyclists. Ditto for Ted Fuller, shown below in front of his workplace at Point ...
In the Mir& %s; String Quartet, youth and lusty playing rush headlong into sophistication and consummate classical skill.
Photo: Strings Attached--the members of the Miro String Quartet--clockwise from upper left Joshua Gindele, Daniel Ching, Sandy Yamamoto and John C. A. Largess--are artist faculty at Kent State University, and travel and teach together during ...
