Issues / 2002 / Dec 05
Affordable housing designs push limits.
Draught Versions: A recently concluded affordable housing design contest featured ideas ranging from simple to extravagant. Standing among a display of more than 100 progressive, attractive and creative designs for housing in the Monterey Bay ...
John Poindexter's Information Awareness Office wants to read your email.
Two weeks ago, a few days before Congress passed the law creating the Department of Homeland Security, an unsettling story broke in the New York Times. The headline seemed designed to raise the hair on ...
Lallapalooza's best for cocktails and people-watching.
Face Time: The front room''s where the action is at Lallapolloza. Lallapalooza is a great place to meet for after-work drinks. Whenever I get together with friends, for a birthday or no reason at all, ...
How the Coast Guard and INS are being pumped up to fit into the Department of Homeland Security.
Leave it to Sen. Robert Byrd, the last of the old-school senatorial orators, to put it best. In a tirade that won him an arched eyebrow from the New York Times-a sure sign that he ...
Break Out The Stovepipe Hats And The Fishnets. A Burning Man Band Is Coming To Town.
Photo: Burn, Baby, Burn: Burn the Man started in the Nevada desert a year and a half ago and has been making its way to the Peninsula ever since, despite being waylaid at UCSC''s Porter ...
WHO'S SORRY NOW...
Politicians are a lot like squid in that they have no qualms about devouring anything that holds a lower or level place on the food chain-including their fellow cephalopods. Yup, it''s a squid-eat-squid world, both ...
Local woman launches African charity.
Sister of Mercy: Skyler Casey tried life as a missionary. Now she wants to help African AIDS orphans through her own non-profit. Last summer, Skyler Casey had a conversion of some kind, though she won''t ...
Hotpicks
May Your Days Be Merry And Bright HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS So much to do your head will spin. Maybe. On Thursday at 6pm there's the Pacific Grove Parade of Lights along Lighthouse Ave., with floats, marching ...
The annual December explosion of miniatures' shows prompts a look back.
Art: Tracey Adams, Counting to 4, 2002. What''s the big deal with miniatures? This month, not one, not two, but four displays of miniatures are on display at local museums and galleries. Their small size ...
The Western Stage mounts a wonderful, and original, Christmas Carol.
Heads Up: Jeffrey T. Heyer makes the best Scrooge since Alistair Sim. As the Christmas season rushes down upon us, wings outstretched like the angel of the Annunciation, the inevitable question follows: "Which version of ...
New And Old Goodies
Almost Neighbors: This 2,200-square-foot place near Cannery Row (left) is a pleasant drive from one of Pacific Grove''s older jewels (right). A New Place in New Monterey It''s hard to hear over the jackhammers tearing ...
Jewell of the Black Hills
Jeanne Howard asked the question if any of the menu items she found at the Big Sur Lodge could be found in Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota ["Jewel Among the ...
Happy Hometown Confab Visits
Livable cities are a good thing (sorry Martha Stewart). Sure, it sounds like common sense. But if it''s so obvious, then how do you explain San Jose? Each year, the International Making Cities Livable Council ...
The classic tale of prep-school rebellion has been done one too many times.
Class Struggle: New prep-school student Emile Hirsch, and teacher Kevin Kline are locked in a battle for power in The Emperor''s Club. This boys boarding-school story buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices ...
The Bootleg Series Volume 5 Bob Dylan Live 1975-The Rolling Thunder Revue
Columbia Legacy Revolted at the hoopla and bombast that greeted his 1974 "comeback" tour with The Band, Dylan went for a totally different approach a year later, organizing a troupe of widely-varying players and rearranging ...
Artifacts
ART FOR THE PEOPLE...Monterey County's ONE VOICE ARTS AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM is unveiling its newest mural next Thursday, Dec.12, at 2pm at the Department of Child Support Services office at 752 La Guardia St. in ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 12|5 Spirit of Christmas 5:30pm. Community Human Services hosts their Spirit of Christmas community event to give gifts to needy children throughout the Peninsula. Light refreshments and local celebrities will be on hand for ...
One woman with a cape is making the bars a little bit safer.
I don''t know much about superheroes. The guys I knew were always more interested in those men in tights than I was. Some adult girls I know have taken up kickboxing, but none has the ...
Gifts, Guns and Glory: Asked at the Monterey Peninsula Airport
Q: What is your biggest fear about the nation''s military plans? FOLLOW UP: Do you think the US will be at high risk during our holiday season? Marion Naegle Gonzales/Rancher A: Just use your common ...
After fighting the fight for 18 years, County Supervisor Judy Pennycook is stepping out of the ring.
Supervisor Judy Pennycook shuffles papers on her desk, searching for a recent report from the county''s General Plan Update team. Over the last three years, while planners and the public alike have worked to update ...
Anthony Wilson, when not co-starring as Diana Krall's guitarist, stretches out with his trio.
Anthony Wilson has spent much of the last year in perhaps the most high-profile guitar gig in jazz, accompanying singer/pianist Diana Krall during the globe-spanning tour that produced her recent hit album "Live in Paris." ...
Foodchain
SEASON OF GIVING...Waahhrrgghhooo, the holidays are officially here. The hangover from THANKSGIVING is just subsiding in time to really start freaking out about the end of the year holidays. In a society of consumption gone ...
One of country's leading ladies comes to Salinas.
Photo: Delta Afternoon: Tanya Tucker''s come a long way since her recording of "Delta Dawn" made the Top 10 in 1972. Country music veteran Tanya Tucker still knows how to thrill an audience. After proclaiming ...
