Issues / 2002 / Nov 21
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Photo: Youth At Play: Youth Music Monterey performs a fall concert Sunday. thursday 11|21 Flu Clinic 9am-4pm. Get vaccinated so you don't get the flu. St. Ansgar's Church, 72 East San Joaquin St., Salinas. 648-3710. ...
KILLER SEAWEED...
Squid imagines the B-movie trailer, creepy organ music and all: It slinks along the ocean floor, devouring everything in it's path, covering the Monterey Bay like a seaweedy, sinister blanket. It''s deadly, invasive kelp! eeekk! ...
Big Sur Gets Wilder
The lame-duck congressional session has been kind to Monterey County, considering the climate in the capitol. Although Congress shamelessly opted to let 11 appropriations bills languish until January, essentially putting off budget decisions that should ...
Let the Landowners Decide
This is response to an article by Jessica Lyons in the Weekly and I want to state that the article really is quite simple. It is a choice of believing in property rights or not. ...
Artifacts
Artifacts 11/21/02 POET'S CORNER...Pacific Grove's current--and first--official poet in residence, RYAN MASTERS, is sponsoring the third in his series of monthly poetry readings this Saturday at 7pm at BOOKWORKS in P.G. Guest poet Ted Gerhke ...
American and fusion cooking meet where Toots once stood.
Photo by Randy Tunnell; Photo: Down Home Again: Meatloaf, chili, and a lobster or two. Being that I''m a Jersey girl, raised in the 1960s within spitting distance of the Turnpike and the Parkway, you''d ...
The director of Roger&Me doesn't hit the mark quite as well as he used to with this new documentary about gun violence.
Photo: We''re Slashing Prices: Michael Moore buys a few rounds of ammo at a friendly Canadian Wal-Mart. With his new documentary Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore proves once again that he is one of our ...
A new generation of Monterey Italians is keeping the tradition alive.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Tiffany Bonanno (the blond digging into the raviolis) is Italian by marriage. She fits right into this warm, boisterous clan. From left to right: Tom Colosi, Joe Bonanno, Beatrice Bonanno, Brian ...
The Bush Administration's ruinous environmental policies draw fire at international wildlife conference.
The fates of gray wolves and sea lions were discussed at an international confab sponsored by the Defenders of Wildlife. On the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 18, an SUV with "G BUSH" printed on Texas ...
Bohemian Rhapsody
Photo Caption: Rock and Sea: The legendary Stone House (left) was one of the first artists'' hangouts in Big Sur. A plot of oceanfront property (right) with nothing on it but a trailer and a ...
Leaky toxic dump near CSUMB housing scares some students.
As the Army prepared for a controlled burn on Fort Ord earlier this week, CSUMB students paid attention. Beginning Monday morning more than 100 students made a last minute raid on the Army''s Voluntary Relocation ...
Asked at Marina Dunes Resort
QUESTION: If you could be any tool, which would you choose and why? FOLLOW UP: Do you like to make or break things? Becky Lavelle Front Desk Clerk/Marina A: A level, because they have to ...
Necessary Targets falls prey to an unfocused script.
Photo: Hell and Back: Carol Daly, Teresa Del Piero and Cherie Bozlee give fine performances as traumatized refugees. It seems curmudgeonly to criticize the well-meaning production of Necessary Targets currently being staged at The Circle ...
Foodchain
"DOWN GOES FOLGER...Down goes Folger...Down goes Folger." I can hear HOWARD COSELL now, if he were here to hear about the news that JIM ("I put the wood in LOCKWOOD") FOLGER is engaged to be ...
The road from schoolmarm to Earth First! activist
Photo Credit: Charlie Star Photo Caption: Meighan To Earth: O''Brien''s life entered a new phase at an Earth First! direct action camp this past September. It was bad enough to have gotten lost in the ...
Paintings by Frank Ashley and Virginia Conroy offer very different views of reality.
Photo: Dangerous Games: Frank Ashley''s paintings show life filtered through the artist''s sardonic lens. Narratives, an exhibition of paintings by Frank Ashley and Virginia Conroy opening tomorrow at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, ...
The dismissal of nine DLI soldiers shows that the ban on gays in the military is as dangerous as it is absurd.
Whhhewwww. It was a close call, but the nation can breathe another sigh of relief. The threat has been extinguished. Nine soldiers who attended a training center in Monterey, including at least six who speak ...
Sigur Ros
MCA Records Occasionally, a band emerges seemingly oblivious to current music trends and unintentionally challenges the conventions of modern music. As if from thin air, the Icelandic quartet Sigur Ros has appeared, weaving exquisite melodies ...
Hotpicks
thursday 11|21 Arty Minglings THIRD THURSDAY The Monterey Museum of Art throws a monthly party for the Thursday after-work crowd, and today''s is one to catch. Blackstone Winery will be pouring the hootch, Monterey Marriott''s ...
Too Short Is Big At Planet Gemini
Todd Shaw, aka Too Short, did not invent West Coast gangsta rap (although he preceded Dr Dre and Ice T by several years), and he did not introduce hardcore sex-talk into the genre (although 2 ...
Young pop punksters from Utah drop into Viva.
Photo: The Sugarland Run blend emo, punk and old-school power-pop into barroom performance art. The Sugarland Run isn''t one of those groups that take themselves really seriously. They rag on one another very publicly on ...
Two new Ansel Adams shows reveal there is more to know about the master photographer.
Photo: Ansel''s Friends: Known best for his majestic landscapes, Ansel Adams''s close-up studies reveal equal mastery. Photo Credit: Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, 1954. Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. ©Dorothea Lange Collection, ...
