Issues / 2002 / Oct 24
By Raymond Napolitano
ATTACK OF THE KILLER SPIDER: So five of us are sitting in FIFI''S; Sweet Thing and myself; Il Gran Maestro della cucina, SIGNORE ALBERTO BONATELLI; the reigning queen of postal behavior-excuse me, Postal delivery-LYDIA KU-KUCHAREW; ...
All the really big stars live at Vision Quest Ranch.
Photo by Randy Tunnell; Photo: Animal Magnetism: Charlie Sammut with Josef, above, and other denizens of Wild Things. The 500-lb African lion walks calmly over, muscles rippling beneath a dark mane that extends down to ...
White Oleander is a harrowing modern Oliver Twist with beautiful women instead of street urchins.
Photo: Pretty Poisonous: Michelle Pfeiffer plays a poet with a mean streak in White Oleander. The metaphoric title about the danger in beautiful things sounds like something from Byron or Keats, but this compressed film ...
Lots of color and flavor at The Grill on Ocean Avenue.
Photo by: Randy Tunnell; Photo: No Tourist Trap: The Grill on Ocean Avenue is reason enough to return to the Great Tourist Way. Alot of people who''ve lived here a long time will do just ...
Letters.
A ROYAL PAIN "King of Monterey." You said it! ["The Happy Mayor," Oct. 17-23]. Time for a mayor less enmeshed in the old days and old ways. One that will look ahead and move forward. ...
Blues With Attitude
Lara Price''s voice is smoky and shimmering with sincerity. It brings to mind images of things soaring, falling and shimmying in the breeze of the blues she sings. Backed by a band that compliments her ...
The Darvon Complex screams to be heard.
Photo: Ricky Chasteen and Ryan Lotz (right) look mean and sound meaner. It''s a hard world to be nice guys. Ricky Chasteen doesn''t look like a nice guy. He could probably do a pretty good ...
Successful fundraiser at PG's public radio station does not silence critics of programming changes.
When KAZU volunteers arrived to answer phones for this year''s annual pledge drive, they perched on newly replaced carpeting in a mostly empty studio with no ceiling. A fire in an upstairs office two months ...
Artifacts
DEBORAH OROPALLO LECTURE... Just one of DEBORAH OROPALLO'S paintings hangs in the too-small exhibit of Contemporary Paintings by Bay Area Women now at the MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART, not nearly enough to convey the wide ...
Going Places
Asked in the Crossroads Shopping Center in Carmel By Elizabeth Ahrens Q: Do you think that violence in foreign countries is affecting Americans, making them hesitant to travel abroad? Follow Up: Where did your summer ...
The California Performing Arts Festival winds down this weekend.
The state of the Peninsula is much like the state of the country. A microcosm, if you will. Even as political pundits go on about how the nation is slipping into some sort of moral ...
Strong candidates tackle crucial issues in next week's city council races.
Photo: Randy Tunnell Apparently, city council candidate Maria Giuriato doesn''t sleep, and lives on a strict diet of caffeine and idealism. Giuriato works for the Community Action Agency--an umbrella organization run by Monterey County that ...
A Condo Near the Woods By Brett Wilbur
Photo: Views, space and good neighbors make this seem more like a condomaxium. The ginger colored cat resting on Mary and Robert Leslie''s couch is too old to chase birds anymore. But the geese passing ...
Two Day of the Dead installations explore the soul's otherworldly journey.
A fusion of two worlds, the living and the dead, highlight the late October season as installations that explore our uneasy relationship with mortality emerge out of the darkened atmosphere of the Lisa Coscino Gallery ...
City Council elections could spur more change in volatile city.
Photographer: Andrew Scutro Photo: Powerhouse: After fighting the issue for years, Mayor Jim Perrine has recently emerged as a champion of affordable housing. Marina Mayor Jim Perrine stands waiting for a cup of black coffee ...
Ronald K. Brown dances his story and his people's history.
Ronald K. Brown, artistic director of Ronald K.Brown/Evidence, was almost lost to dance. An extraordinarily expressive performer and the choreographer of some of the most physically lush and richly layered dances of the last ten ...
Eleven candidates, five empty seats...it's going to be a good one in PG this year.
Photographer: Randy Tunnell Photo:Fresh Faces: Lee Yarborough and Jennifer McKnight are challenging some longtime politicos for seats on the Pacific Grove City Council. For a town where taffy-colored houses line peaceful streets and the biggest ...
Discspace
dZihan & Kamien/Six Degrees Records I bashfully must admit it took some lip-flapping and tongue-twisting to pronounce the names of two of Vienna''s most prominent producers, dZihan-pronounced Gee (as in gee-wiz) Hahn and Kamien (Kammy-en). ...
