Issues / 2002 / Sep 19
Nancy Wilson, Rene Marie and Lizz Wright find their own ways to give voice to jazz.
Photos: Ladies Sing: (clockwise from upper left) Lizz Wright, Nancy Wilson and Rene Marie Women jazz and blues singers are present in abundance at Monterey Jazz Festival of 2002, a year in which the experience ...
Newsbriefs
CHOMP Nurses Mobilize Nurses employed by Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) met in Seaside on Tuesday with a representative of the California Nurses Association (CNA) to discuss unionizing. Two meetings closed to public and ...
Squidfry
SQUID IN 2004 Squid's found a new way to raise money to fund Squid's mayoral campaign: sue the city--and then sell your domain name for $5,000. Squid''s taking lessons from cyber gadfly BRIAN BAUGHN, who ...
Three players at MJF 2002 take the music in different directions.
Photos: Cory Wells Brown (Don Byron), Andy Nozaka (Roy Hargrove). When Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver and Louis Armstrong and a bunch of other black musicians in New Orleans invented jazz, they were playing ...
Hot Italian singer Roberta Gambarini plays Carmel this Thursday.
Photo: New American--Roberta Gambarini''s career has taken off since she moved to New York. It''s a truism that American jazz musicians receive far more respect (and money) in Europe than on their home turf. But ...
Hotpicks
thursday 9|19 Eat Your Veggies! TASTE OF THE VALLEY FOOD AND WINE SHOW Enjoy the foods that make the Salinas Valley such a significant source of the world''s produce. Award-winning wines and gourmet recipes will ...
Letters
Fish Rap We envy the neighbor of the woman with eighty birds [Squid, Sept. 12-18]. The laws of Monterey in their majesty allow only four birds per household but apparently unlimited numbers of dead fish. ...
My short happy friendship with Dizzy Gillespie.
Photos by Will Wallace Photo: Cheese, Diz--Dizzy Gillespie plays his last gig at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1992 (left), and at one of the many MJF shows he played over the years. Longtime fans ...
Stalking the wild Julia Child, and the fruit that bears her name.
Photo: A Fruitful Life--the Julia Child heirloon tomato variety was introduced at this year''s TomatoFest, where the real Ms. Child was to have been honored. This space was going to carry a very special interview ...
Art that's always there rarely gets the respect it deserves.
Photo: One Sheet to the Wind--Davis Ligare''s "Serifos (Thrown Drapery)" is on permanent display at the Conference Center in downtown Monterey. We tend to think of places we have lived in terms of the relationships ...
Farr's affordable housing plan gets a mixed reaction from FORA.
It was not a warm reception that greeted Rep. Sam Farr and members of the Housing Authority following their PowerPoint presentation to the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) board last Friday, but it was an ...
Is media hysteria about stranger abductions making kids and parents paranoid?
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Elizabeth Smart. Danielle Van Dam. Jacqueline Marris. Tamara Brooks. Samantha Runnion. Just the names of these recent victims of child abductions are enough to send shivers down any parent''s spine. Even ...
Asked in Carmel-by-the-Sea
QUESTION: What was your first-ever form of transportation? FOLLOW UP: What is your dream form of transportation? Don Brzezinski Retired/Greendale, Wisconsin A: Probably a buggy. I''m sure my mom had one, she had two of ...
Army prepares to burn a field in Fort Ord, and offers to relocate downwind neighbors.
A toll-free information line, set up to provide up-to-the-minute news flashes about the Army''s plans to burn brush at Fort Ord, is way behind the times: "There are no prescribed burns scheduled for the year ...
Sun and Fog: A PG Jewel and a CV Star
Photos: A 1909 Pacific Grove cottage has been "opened up" with windows, mirrors and French doors that open onto a perfect little garden (far left) and a tiny, functional patio (left). A four-year-old hilltop retreat ...
Hard to say what's more suspect: the case for intervention or the timing of the debate.
Maybe it''s just me, but I seem to have missed the case for going to war with Iraq. Normally, the case for going to war--this kind of war--begins with the discovery of evidence. That was ...
Mostly Martha ladles on the love in the mouth-watering manner of all the greatest food films.
Photo: You Have to Love the Food Like A Woman--Sergio Castellitto delivers a passionate discourse on flavors while Martina Gedeck listens in Mostly Martha. When it comes to cooking for the masses, the jaunty theme ...
Crimes of the Heart puts a charming Southern spin on the classic family drama.
Photo: The Gripes of the McGraths--left to right, Joyce Sherry, Anne Hoffman and Sherry Kefalas play the eccentric and passionate McGrath sisters in Crimes of the Heart. Beth Henley''s 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning play (and 1986 ...
