Issues / 2002 / Dec 19
Who needs ice skates to play hockey? At Water City Roller Hockey, wheels work just fine.
Photo by Randy Tunnell--Little Big Wheels: Young players scratch for the lead in a heated game. Water City Roller Hockey founder Mark Tanous wants to bring the wonderful world of roller hockey to younger kids, ...
Artifacts
OPERA ON KAZU...Don''t mess with opera fans. They''re feisty, they''re fiercely devoted, and they''ll fight back when you take away their Puccini. Local lovers of the METROPOLITAN OPERA, which public radio KAZU-90.3 FM stopped airing ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 12|19 Full Moon Kayak Tours 4pm-7pm. Kayak on the beautiful Elkhorn Slough by moonlight, witness one of the last remaining wetlands in California. Friday also. Reservations required. Monterey Bay Kayaks, 2390 Hwy 1, Moss ...
The wild continues to be a dangerous place for condors.
Photos: Dave Monley--A Feeling of Release: The Ventana Wilderness Association held an auction this year to allow members of the public to spring seven condors-whose wingspans measure up to ten feet. Organizers and participants agreed ...
Congressman challenges FORA to act on its promises.
Photo: Randy Tunnell--Irked: Rep. Sam Farr is losing patience with the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, which he says is not doing enough to promote affordable housing on Fort Ord. It was Friday evening, Dec. 13, ...
Breathtaking and extravagant, The Two Towers makes The Fellowship of the Ring look like the amateur hour.
Photo: Home of the Brave--Viggo Mortensen logs another stellar performance as the warrior Aragorn (also known as Strider) in the gorgeous, bloody, masterful Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. If further proof was needed ...
Discspace
For Sleepyheads OnlyFlunk | Guidance Recordings Minimalist soundscapes mesh with soul-folk acoustics on Norwegian downtempo group Flunk''s debut album For Sleepyheads Only. Adding depth to a genre that lately seems a tad watered down, Flunk ...
News Briefs 12/19/2002
Presidio Gate Goes High Tech The Army will install some cutting-edge security equipment at the Presidio''s Franklin Street gate this winter to further protect the Monterey post from potential terrorist attack. From now until mid-April, ...
By Raymond Napolitano
ROYAL FAREWELL...HER ROYAL HIGHNESS QUEEN ANN OF WINCHESTER''s Monterey Holiday is winding down. She and PRINCESS SWEET THING were invited to attend LADY DOROTHY OF BATH''S Annual Holiday Hospitality Luncheon at the OLD BATH HOUSE. ...
Carmel Valley Charmers
Photos: Brett Wilbur--Even the guest room (left) in this Carmel Valley ranch offers space and light. The main house (right) is located right near the Carmel River. Post Adobe Ranch There''s a sense of openness, ...
Union blasts impending war with Iraq; Vreeland calls on City of Monterey to join battle.
If the shopping bags can say "Paris London Carmel," maybe the anti-war bumper stickers should start saying "Berkeley Santa Cruz Monterey." On Dec. 4, the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council passed a resolution opposing war ...
Hot Picks 12/19/2002
thursday 12|19 Everybody's Surfin' Now INFRAREDS "High octane" is how Keigan Skydecker of the band The Infrareds describes their sound. Bandmembers also mention "spy music" and "surf music in a trenchcoat," and say that recently ...
Squid Fry 12/19/2002
WACKY HOLIDAY HERO...Squid''s met some mollusks in Squid''s day that are a few sardines short of a school, but CD93 DJ JOHN YOUNG is about as kooky as they come. The next big storm is ...
Letters 12/19/2002
US Out of Central America Sometimes I can''t help myself. Mr. Michael Dusenberry commented on the Sandinistas of Nicaragua [Letters, Dec. 12-18]. He argued against a description of the Sandinistas as a democratically elected government. ...
Photo: MPC's Portable Theater mounts a charming Christmas Carol.
I''m not a big fan of improv-heavy plays in which small casts playing multiple roles, with minimal sets and costumes, beg the audience to suspend disbelief and "play along." They usually make me cringe. But ...
The Chen brothers deliver first-rate Chinese fare in Salinas.
Photo: Randy Tunnell I have found my Chinese restaurant, and it is in Salinas. It''s a small, unprepossessing place on West Alisal St., a block north of Main. It''s owned by 29-year-old Sam Chen and ...
Local big shots talk about their favorite toys, then and now.
When we heard that President George W. Bush''s favorite book is a children''s story called The Little Caterpillar, we decided that we had for too long overlooked the significance of people''s favorite playthings. Determined to ...
John Lee Hooker Jr. is a second-generation bluesman showing off his unique style.
The word "purist" does not apply to John Lee Hooker Jr. The late John Senior was one of the most revered and well-known bluesmen in the world. His son has said, "If I tried to ...
Local fave Jenna Mammina returns to Carmel with her genre-hopping repertoire.
Jenna Mammina doesn''t pay much attention to genres. A gamine faced singer with wide-open ears, Mammina picks and chooses from American popular music at will, grabbing an R&B tune here, nabbing a country ditty there. ...
Asked at Farmer's Market in Monterey
By Betti Ahrens QUESTION: If you could change Santa Claus from an old, fat, jolly man, what would you change him to? FOLLOW UP: What is sexy about Christmas? Steve Goosen Farmer/Fresno A: Just a ...
