Issues / 2002 / Jun 06
Jeffrey Foucault's rough-hewn charm comes across in a noisy room.
Photo: Singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault learned his craft first from his dad, and then from guys like Chris Smither and Greg Brown. The best live music can sound as easy as a conversation over beers with ...
Hamid Karzai, global fashionplate (and Afghanistan's interim leader), appeals to our fascination with the exotic.
Photo by Getty Images Photo: My Uniform''s Cooler Than Yours-Hamid Karzai walks with the commander of all U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan, Commanding General F.L. "Buster" Hagenbeck. The spoils of war are as rich as ...
Squidfry
SUICIDE IS NOT PAINLESS... Be advised, Squid does not mean to mock another soul''s sadness or despair. The purpose of relaying the following passage serves merely to share recent printed material that set Squid back ...
Letters
Tax and Spend The Weekly did an excellent job on the article "Pro-Tax Protesters" [May 30). The issue is far bigger then just the City of Salinas. The utility tax is on the ballot in ...
Hotpicks
thursday 6|6 Horse Bill 66th MONTEREY NATIONAL HORSE SHOW All right, so it''s not really a "national" horse show. It''s the horse show for the Monterey County Fair, it''s just gotten too big for the ...
Foodchain
MAGNANIMOUS MORSEL... Fresh Cream''s owner, Steve Chesney, has decided to offer a 20 percent discount to all schoolteachers who eat at his restaurant. Also, he is issuing a challenge to all Peninsula businesses to follow ...
It's time once again for the groovy soul-surfing feel-goodfest that is the Surfabout.
Photo: Bashed Lip-Viktor Klinger makes some water art at the 2001 Surfabout, where he wrested the All-Around Waterman title from defending champ Craig Cox. Sad but true fact: Carmel is often characterized as a fuddy-duddy ...
Don't let a rank odor keep you from life's cheesy pleasures.
Photo courtesy of California Milk Advisory Board Photo: Despite draconian pasteurization laws, California makes some pretty fine stinky cheeses, too. If the thought of cheese conjures up images of bland snack food hermetically sealed in ...
City prepares for June 18 public hearing.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Monterey City Council informally reviewed its proposed $71.5 million municipal budget for 2002 to 2003. As with so much else, the September 11 terror attacks lurked in the background. Within months ...
Kevork Mourad's paintings map the emotional landscape.
Art: Wo-Wo-Wo Feelings-Kevork Mourad''s "Transparency" (acrylic on paper, 19" x 14.5") exemplifies the evocative body of work coming to Sasoontsi Gallery in Salinas. If anyone was hogging the finger-paints in elementary school, it was Kevork ...
Monterey's dusty gem needs a hero.
Photo by Randy Tunnell Imagine a place in downtown Monterey where your favorite band, just about any kind of band, performs for about a thousand fans. Far from the crowded chaos of the huge stadiums ...
With covenants broken, developer wants to put 275 houses on Marks Ranch.
Photo by Randy Tunnell Photo: Rev. Jerome Politzer says the decision to sell Marks Ranch and develop housing there violates the trust of his old friend, Herman Marks. When Herman Marks, a philanthropist and nature ...
Dueling statewide growth plans head to Assembly.
Two bills encouraging "smart growth" land use policies recently cleared the state Senate and will soon make their way onto the Assembly floor. While both bills push the same ideas, only one pays municipalities to ...
Monterey High students sound off on global warming, education and the future.
Photo by Randy Tunnell Photo: Global Warning-Juan Ramirez, a junior at Monterey High, wrote an essay on global warming for the United Nations Association and brought home the gold for the regional division. Maj-Brit Eagle ...
The new film based on Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears packs way too much action.
Photo: Does Not Compute-The Sum of All Fears finds Morgan Freeman and an improbably cast Ben Affleck embroiled in Russian politics, Tom Clancy-style. If you''ve ever wondered what crackerjack CIA Agent Jack Ryan was like ...
Asked at Supercuts in Monterey By Jennifer Flowers
Q: What is wrong with the Monterey Peninsula? Name something. Follow Up: Why are you here? Brandon Mirani Student/Pacific Grove A: Too many tourists. The police don''t have enough to do but pick on innocent ...
The Elephant Man demonstrates the power of the human spirit in overcoming physical disabilities.
Photo by Randy Tunnell Photo: James Kiberd (l) and Barbara Babcock take on the demons of Victorian England at the Golden Bough Playhouse. In The Elephant Man, the Tony award-winning play by Bernard Pomerance, the ...
Newsbriefs
Nation's Campuses Still Hotbeds of Idealism, Panetta Says When Newsweek coined the phrase Generation 9/11 last November, the character of today''s high school and college students became the subject of much idle speculation. Now the ...
