Issues / 2002 / Oct 10
Texas wit and pundit Molly Ivins draws a bead on George W. Bush.
Photo by: Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle; Molly Ivins (who once remarked about President Bush the First: "His problem is that he was born with a silver foot in his mouth") has been making fun of George ...
Jeff Curtis brings his emotionally charged guitar stylings to Ocean Thunder Sunday.
A different sort of soul music will gild the walls of Ocean Thunder on Sunday when finger-picking guitarist Jeff Curtis returns to Monterey on Sunday. The New York-based Curtis, who plays a Windham Hill-ish improvisation-based ...
Asked at Safeway in Pacific Grove.
Photos by Elizabeth Ahrens (left to right): Rob Rasmussen, Roy Brokaw, Verlea Kellogg Question: Everyone has an "inner artist." What is your form of contributing art to the world? Follow up: What is your favorite ...
FULL DIS-CLOSURE...
This Mollusk has always harbored high hopes that the race for Monterey County sheriff will erupt into a full-blown, knock-em-down, shootout. It looks like Squid''s Wild West dream is coming true. Earlier this week, sheriff ...
An Evening of Flamenco and Hawaiian dance opens the California Performing Arts Festival Wednesday.
Photo: Toe-Tapping: ADITI does its flamenco thing Wednesday. When people think of dance, they might think first of feet. However, the performers of ADITI and of Kehau''s Hula Ohana, performing together next Wednesday as the ...
Ambitious plans are underway for expanded rail service in Salinas and on the Peninsula.
While the county continues to be held hostage by astronomical project cost estimates of the Prunedale/ Highway 101 bypass project, a ongoing campaign is also under way to re-establish passenger rail service to Monterey County. ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 10|10 MPC Faculty Art Show 12:30pm. Work, the first exhibition showcasing the artwork of the adjunct faculty of Monterey Peninsula College''s art department, opens with a reception at 12:30pm in the department gallery. 980 ...
A Dune With a View
Photo: Sand City''s Ocean View Drive is the site of a small development of one-of-a-kind homes ranging in price from $575,000 to $1 million plus. There''s something surprisingly cheerful about the Wedgewood blue-and white-trimmed exterior ...
Artifacts
NEW KIDZ ON CARMEL"S BLOCK...The Carmel Art Association, the West's oldest (at 75 years) artist-owned cooperative, has accepted two new artists into its august membership: Plein Air painter Richmond Woodson and abstract sculptor Peter Hiers, ...
Snowboy and The Latin Section
Para Puente!/Cubop Records Snowboy? His name is what? That was my first impression of this Cuban soul master. How ironic is it that a man named Snowboy can create such red hot, fierce compositions blending ...
Fashion, art and music from the wild side of Monterey.
Photo: Marsha Olson, local clothing designer, painter and impresario, hosts a fashion show at Club Octane Friday. There''s a curvy blond model in a purple dress standing, hand on hip, in Marsha Olson''s living room. ...
The Panetta Institute sends 22 students to intern on Capitol Hill.
Photo by Randy Tunnell; Political Creatures: Jeanine DiCesaris (gesturing, at left) and Crystal Macias (at far right) talk policy at a Panetta Institute seminar for congressional interns. Twenty-two college students are gathered around a rectangle ...
By Raymond Napolitano
BY BREAD ALONE...I just got another good reason to drive down to Big Sur on a regular basis-as if anybody needs one. Big Sur Bakery, the coolest little bakeshop and restaurant around, has stopped wholesaling ...
Moss Landing locals say they were ignored in water plan.
Some Moss Landing residents say state and local agencies have left their small town high and dry while planning a seawater desalination plant-which is being proposed as a solution to the Monterey Peninsula''s water woes ...
Carmel's Power Juice gets your engine revved up the right way.
Photo by Randy Tunnell; Clean Fuel: Wheat grass and lettuce are center stage at Power Juice. Thirty years ago, running a restaurant devoted to organic food, fresh squeezed juice, and low fat, nutritious food was ...
Karma brings something worth hearing to Doc's.
Two years ago, when Karma was hitting the heavy rotation on CD-93 and playing Monterey, she was six months pregnant. Perhaps that explains her (too long) absence from the local club scene. Now that she''s ...
Hotpicks
thursday 10|10 Good For Your Soul KARMA After a two-year absence from the Peninsula, singer KARMA returned to Doc''s five months ago. She''s back in town tonight promoting her new album, and playing a mix ...
Red Dragon begins to earn back some of the respect we lost after seeing Hannibal, but just barely.
Photo: What Big Teeth You Have: Will Graham (Edward Norton) comes to the lair of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in Red Dragon. There''s a scene in Red Dragon-a bigger-budgeted remake of Michael Mann''s 1986 film ...
A local writers' group fights it out to produce a short-story anthology set in Monterey County.
Photo: (left to right) Walter Gourlay, Byron Merritt and Pat Hanson spent long hours in coffee shops discussing Monterey Shorts. Writing is a solitary endeavor. The time-worn image is of a lonely, tortured soul slaving ...
War on Drug Dealers
Mr. Lee''s recent letter to the Weekly, "Declare Drug Peace," [Oct. 3-9] displays an incredible naivete in regard to narcotics enforcement, and does Mike Kanalakis, and the deputies and detectives of the Sheriff''s Department, an ...
In the last days of its 2002 session, the state legislature authorized a $10 billion bond to fund the most sophisticated rail service in the nation.
Photos by David Loutzenheiser, (left to right) Ariake Island, Tokyo; cockpit of the ICE (InterCity Express) Train, Netherlands; new ICE in Duesseldorf, Germany. I lost all of my notions about what travel should be last ...
Local Peace Activist Faces Prison
Longtime Salinas peace activist MacGregor Eddy has been ordered to appear in a Santa Barbara court Oct. 18 to face charges of trespassing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, where she was one of two demonstrators ...
