Issues / 2002 / Jul 04
Best Of The Rest
Photo: Tip-Toe--see how the pretty flowers grow at Earthbound Farms on Saturday. thursday 7|4 Soledad Does the Fourth Soledad starts celebrating early, with a flag-raising at 7:45am. Christina Ripley sings the national anthem. The day ...
Two Rodgers and Hammerstein revues should delight fans of musical theater.
Photo: Sing Out-Celebrating the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein at MPC (left) and at the Western Stage (above). There''s a bright golden haze on the meadow. The corn is as high as an elephant''s eyyyyyyyye...After ...
Hotpicks
thursday 7|4 Flagging Spirit INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS It''s a bad day to be a chicken, but a good day to be a human-every city, town, village and wide spot in the road has cooked up ...
Developers' plans for Mt.Toro area head to Planning Commission.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: White Hat- Stan Corda calls a recent citizens'' committee decision to rezone famland near his family''s place "unbelievable." Stan Corda bristles when hopeful developers suggest that ag land in the ...
Charter International School moves into the newly abandoned Larkin Elementary.
Photo by Andrew Scutro. Now empty for summer, Larkin Elementary sits perched on a hill in Monterey overlooking the bay from Watson Street. On Sept. 3, Larkin will be teeming with children, the students of ...
There's no place like La Villa Taqueria for the best Mexican meal in town.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: No Tico Taco- La Villa Taqueria''s chef never met a canned food she liked. A couple of Saturdays ago, I invited my friend Steve to drive down from Santa Cruz ...
Newsbriefs
Greenfield to Gonzalez: Goodbye In a surprise move that even caught some councilmembers off guard, the Greenfield City Council did not renew planning consultant Zak Gonzalez''s contract at its June 18 meeting. Gonzalez was hired ...
A special report
Last summer in Monterey County, we worried that the recession in Silicon Valley would cripple the local tourism industry. This year we worry that bioterrorists will attack our families, or that World War III will ...
Viva hosts the last days of Matt Christ.
Photo by Aaron S. Birk Photo: Goner or Gomer? Graphic artist and punk rock screamer Matt Christ bid bitter farewell to Monterey last week. The Punk vs. Metal show last Thursday at Viva was an ...
Foodchain
DO UP THE FOURTH... This issue is set for release on July 4th, Independence Day. I am not alone in my worry about the possibility of other terrorist actions on our biggest national holiday. Frankly, ...
Spreckels' Fourth of July is the same now as it was 30 years ago-minus the fireworks and with different hairdos.
Photos courtesy of Lee Smith Photo: Small Is Beautiful-the competition was somewhere between friendly and ferocious at the 1998 Spreckels Water Ball (above). The same year, a band of ruffians crashed the party (below). There''s ...
Letters
Small is Beautiful Mayor [Dan] Albert was quoted as saying that if the new city hall is "a big ugly building, we are going to hear about it" ["Room of Their Own," June 13-19]. Several ...
Squidfry
MARINA MONGERING Squid's heard a juicy rumor that former mayoral candidate and Measure E champion Ken Gray is tossing his hat in the ring for the Marina council seat vacated by Ila Mettee-McCutchon when she ...
Director Barry Sonnenfeld delivers another fun, lightweight sci-fi comedy in Men in Black II.
Photo: Three Men and A Vast Arsenal of Deadly Weapons-once again, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith pay a visit to the sleazy weapons-stockpiling alien Tony Shalhoub in Men in Black II. It''s tempting to ...
John Livingstone's adventures abroad in the service of his country make fun reading.
Photo: By Jove- John Livingstone in 1954 as a U.S. intelligence officer in Austria. Carmel war hero, photographer, spy and author John Livingstone has lived through the worst parts of the last century, defended our ...
Asked on the Rec Trail in Pacific Grove By Elizabeth Ahrens
Q: Is the United States at war? Follow Up: Will this Independence Day be any different? Bob Feeney Retired/Pacific Grove A: Not to me. I was there when December 7 struck Hawaii. It''s a whole ...
Longtime local activists rise again to challenge a nation at war.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Everywhere the Signs-peace protesters at Windows on the Bay in Monterey hope their placards stimulate debate among local citizens. Every Sunday from noon to 2pm, a small group of people ...
Pacific Grove takes on stunning new dimensions from the rooftops.
Photo: "#4 Southwest Holman House," by Michael Kainer In his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo uses the vantage point of the great cathedral''s bell-tower to describe Paris as seen by a bird in ...
Do California Impressionists deserve their own appellation? A new exhibit in Monterey says no.
Photo: City Scapes- "Chinatown, Stockton and Clay Streets," by Jules Page (far left) and "The Financial District, Manhattan" by Colin Campbell Cooper, both at the Monterey Museum of Art, illustrate the movement called California Impressionism. ...
