Issues / 2002 / Dec 12
MPC Theater takes on an icon, and comes up smiling.
Photo: Face Time--Morgan Stock (left) makes a rare on-stage appearance; (right) Denise Guarneri, Gary Bolen and Dierdre McCauley help retell George Bailey''s popular tale. Frank Capra''s 1946 film It''s a Wonderful Life has achieved the ...
The ranks of poor people surge as the means to help them is squeezed.
Photo by: Randy TunnellIt''s the Monday before Thanksgiving, and the Monterey Peninsula is unseasonably balmy and crystal-clear. Beaches in Carmel and Pacific Grove are littered with moms and tots, surfers braving giant waves and college ...
Stephanie Nakasian and Hod O'Brien play a tribute to June Christy.
Stephanie Nakasian has swing. It''s the indefinable quality that has landed her the gig as singer with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band (whose show is syndicated on over 200 stations internationally), and it''s what made ...
Army policy conflicts with gay-friendly culture at DLI.
To hear Rob Hicks tell it, you can''t swing a cat around the Defense Language Institute (DLI) without hitting a gay soldier. "On my hall of 14, I knew nine men that were gay," says ...
Foodchain 12/12/2002
THE ROYAL VISIT...Her Royal Highness Queen Ann of Winchester seems to be enjoying her yearly retreat to our beloved Peninsula. Princess Sweet Thing and The Court Jester (me) have made sure that each of Her ...
Newsbriefs 12/12/2002
Marina Filegate? When the Clinton administration vacated the White House for the dubiously elected President George W. Bush two years ago, the Clintonites allegedly did so in a hasty, mischievous fashion. At the time there ...
Monterey's Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival serves up romance and song.
Photo: Round 'Em Up--Performing this weekend at the Monterey Conference Center are (from left) Tish Hinojosa, RW Hampton and David Wilkie.There are as many reasons to attend this year''s edition of the Monterey Cowboy Poetry ...
Dance music sensation, star pupil, role model--Angelina is just one of those people.
Photo: AngelinaWhile attending Santa Clara University in 1995, 17-year-old Angelina Camarillo heard about an audition for a record contract at Upstairs Records. Needing some extra money to finance her schooling, she went. She didn''t know ...
Best Of The Rest 12/12/2002
thursday 12|12Holiday Jewelry Sale 9am-7pm. Last day of MPC''s Metal Arts Department''s Holiday Jewelry sale. Unique and affordable gifts await. MPC Student Center, 980 Fremont St., Monterey. 646-4215. Republican Women Federated 11:30 am. Lunch and ...
Discspace 12/12/2002
Photo: Mike Skinner of The Streets. The StreetsOriginal Pirate Material Vice Records When I first discovered the new UK garage/hip-hop outfit The Streets, I envisioned a group of platinum-clad, thuggish British MCs once again pathetically ...
Artifacts 12/12/2002
CAPPING IT OFF... Going to CSUMB means giving back to the community--it's part of the university's mission statement. One way many graduating seniors do that is by taking part in Capstone festivals, where they present ...
Brad Cole's evocative photographs of Iceland shine at the Weston Gallery.
Photo: Islandia illustrates Cole's weaving of fact and fantasy.It was Mexican poet Octavio Paz who likened the physical world to a vast mirror that reflects the soul of the universe. Photographer Brad Cole''s hauntingly evocative ...
Monterey Cowboy Poetry And Music Festival Schedule 12/12/2002
friday 6:30pm Western Art & Gear Show & Sale (Monterey Marriott Hotel) opens 7pm "Ride the High Country" Wally McRae and Wylie & the Wild West; also Jessie Smith, Joni Harms & Ken Overcast ($30) ...
Two Thornton Wilder plays in Carmel focus on what is real and enduring.
Photo: Are we there yet, Dad--Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden looks at an earlier America through one familie's road trip.At Christmastime many theaters turn to light holiday fare, plays that affirm the spirit of ...
Henry Kissinger is exactly the wrong person to head an investigation of 9/11.
Asking Henry Kissinger to investigate government malfeasance or nonfeasance is akin to asking Slobodan Milosevic to investigate war crimes. Pretty damn akin, since Kissinger has been accused, with cause, of engaging in war crimes of ...
May Your Days Be Merry And Bright
Photo: Clockwise from top left--Strum and Twang, Brass Monkeys, Do As The French Do and Sacred SeasonHOLIDAY HAPPENINGS Just in case you're in need of holiday cheer, here are some events that'll get you in ...
A woman recalls trying to save a drowning victim.
Photo: Life Preservers--Left, members of the Monterey Fire Department bring the victim to shore after freeing her from the vehicle. Right, Nikki Hourihan tries to warm up.Photos by: Randy Tunnell On Nov. 14, 63-year-old Lillian ...
The formidably talented John Leguizamo leads a movie that manages to be a good, but not great, take on Latino gangster life.
Photo: La Vida Loca--John Leguizamo plays Victor, a gangster torn between his old life in the streets and a new life beyond, in Empire. ''If only I knew then what I know now," laments former ...
A shared a dinner around 'Van Gogh's table' provides a taste of Casanova's charm.
Photo: From France With Table--French chefs mix it up at Casanova (left); Van Gogh''s restaurant then (top right) and now (bottom right). Photo (left) by: Randy TunnellI was invited to a recent press dinner at ...
Letters 12/12/2002
Right Counter-Revolutionary Maneuver; Wrong ContinentIn his article "The US Spymaster," [Dec. 5-11] Eric Johnson writes that the Contras in Nicaragua "were waging war against a democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua." The Sandinistas, to whom ...
Around the World In Asked at PG Juice and Java By Betti Ahrens
Question: Have you even been on a cruise? What was the worst part of the trip? If not, what would you imagine to be the worst part? Follow Up: Where would you go on a ...
Privacy and Space in Marina
Photo: Stealing Home--This four-bedroom house in Marina has Veuve Clicquot champagne features at a Korbel price--$495,000.Photos by: Brett WilburChristine Cristobal loves her Marina house, but after two years of working on it she''s getting itchy ...
For the week of 12/12-12/18
Photo: Valley Views--Photographer Alan Ross will lecture Saturday at the Ansel Adams Gallery.art openings Ansel Adams Gallery Elements. Photography by Alan Ross, featuring landscapes and architectural work. Artist presentation: 12/14, 5pm. Reception: 12/14, 6-9pm. 685 ...
$5 million PG&E settlement could impact Duke Energy lawsuit.
Photo by: Richard PitnickPacific Gas & Electric has agreed to shell out $5 million to settle a lawsuit charging the company with violating state and federal clean water laws when it owned the Moss Landing ...
Squidfry 12/12/2002
Head of the Class... Squid almost burst into a chorus of Auld Lang Syne recently upon news of the missing Virgin Mary's head at Notre Dame High School in Salinas after a school dance and ...
