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Dawn's Early Light

Photographer David Stroup focuses on the interplay between light and nature.

Photo: "Gathering Storm," by David Stroup. An exhibition of photographs by David Stroup, currently on display at the Highlands Inn, offers an array of images in the West Coast photographic tradition that are remarkable for ...

Water Color

Marina's effort to adopt a pod of sculpted dolphins progresses slowly.

Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Out of Water- Charles Fischer sands one of the fiberglass dolphins to be painted by artists. Inside the Monterey Sculpture Center''s cavernous kiln room, miniature bronze bulls and enormous supplicating ...

Foodchain

THOSE WACKY WINE PRICES...Peter Sigal sent me an e-letter regarding wine pricing in restaurants. He started out by writing: "It''s about time someone had an open discussion on restaurant wine prices. There is no doubt ...

All Over The Map

Petra brings the cuisines of the Middle East to Pacific Grove.

Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Great Balls ''a Garbanzo-Rawan (left) and Samer Nimri work wonders with pita. If you want to cause real trouble in the Middle East, ask where they make the best hummus. ...

Irresistible Draw

A young artist leaves for school in New York.

Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: The Face of Time-Sarah Eichman with her scroll of one-hour self-portraits. The inspiration for Sarah Eichman''s "24-Hour Drawing" came to her five years ago on a Greyhound bus, as she ...

A Shaggin' Good Time

Austin Powers in Goldmember recycles jokes and reverts to potty humor, but it's funny anyway.

Photo: Drives You Wild, Baby-against all odds, Mike Myers pulls it off one more time in Austin Powers in Goldmember. Like a patient too long under laughing gas, the latest installment in the Austin Powers ...

Reviews

The Good, The Bad and The Chubby POPA CHUBBY/BLIND PIG RECORDS The first song on Popa Chubby''s newest recording, The Good, The Bad and The Chubby, is worth the price of the whole CD. "Somebody ...

Newsbriefs

Marks Ranch: Park or Tract? A citizens'' land-use panel for the Toro area will vote on a proposal to build mini-mansions on Marks Ranch at its upcoming meeting. There are only two agenda items scheduled ...

Letters

Sensational Piece I''m surprised by the Weekly''s willingness to fall into the same yellow journalistic tactics as the traditional media by manufacturing the stories about teens in Monterey County doing some outrageous behavior ["Hooking Up," ...

Puddle Muddle

Issues blur as Monterey Bay gets thrown in with regional sanctuary review.

There is the kindergarten art-class truism that if you take all the colors in the paint set and mix them up, you end up with brown. The result is wholly unsatisfying. The same might be ...

Backwards Reality

The absurdist comedy Fuddy Meers tackles questions of identity with biting humor.

Photo: Memory Lapse-Fuddy Meers explores memory''s mysteries. Fuddy Meers, a play by David Lindsey-Abaire currently playing at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts under the auspices of Unicorn Theatre, is a comedy of the ...

A City On The Verge

Marina faces a choice of futures.

Photos by Randy Tunnell Photos: The Old and the New--In Mortimer's Card Room on Del Monte, Old Marina is alive and well. Not far away, the upscale Wild Thyme Deli heralds a new era for ...

The Caffeinated Candidate

The Monterey mayoral race just got a lot more interesting.

Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: The Public Service Industry-Morgan Christopher-coffee peddler, downtown impresario and passionate critic of municipal government- has thrown his hat in the ring for the Monterey mayoral race. If nothing else happens-if ...