Issues / 2003 / Jan 09
Pablo Menendez brings Cuban flavors to California.
On The Road: Mezcla, Pablo Menendez''s California-based band, has a following in Havana and travels there to perform. Earlier this month, Pablo Menendez''s funky Yoruba, Afro-Cuban, salsa, bebop fusion septet Mezcla ("mixture") went island-hopping from ...
Best Of The Rest Listings
friday 1|10 Music Together 10am. "Joyful Noise: A Born to Read Program" is designed for babies, parents, siblings and expectant parents to encourage storytelling and literacy in the young. Free, reservations encouraged. Monterey Public Library, ...
Two-of-a-Kind Wonders
Fun in the Forest On a quiet street near Bird Rock in Pebble Beach, a three-bedroom house with twin master suites blends nicely into the trees. Inside, the sense of space is almost startling, with ...
Coastal Commission prepares to fight devastating court ruling.
''It''s like the ring race in the Lord of the Rings," says Peter Douglas, the executive director of the California Coastal Commission. "The opposition never sleeps. They want the ring of power." The opposition Douglas ...
Hotpicks
thursday 1|9 Two On Five CHAMBER MUSIC IN COLTON HALL Katie Clare Mazzeo has played her harpsichord in concerts and recital halls across the U.S. and Europe, has given performances on the harpsichord and pianoforte ...
Watercolor artist and private eye Charlsie Kelly mixes and matches.
Some artists come to their trade as philosophers and thinkers who develop ideas with styles adapted from historical precedents. Some artists opt for the aesthetic life because it manifests their sensibilities; their cells are happy. ...
NPS takes on domestic security.
The Terror War has gone academic. In the first program of its kind, Monterey''s Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) now offers a master''s degree in Homeland Defense, even though the definition of the term is nebulous ...
A journalist remembers Jerry Fry's benevolent reign at Monterey City Hall.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: You''ve Come A Long Way, Jerry: Former Monterey mayor Jerry Fry doesn''t bound up the stairs any longer, but he still gets to harrass local reporters. Watching Mayor Jerry Fry at ...
The Over-30 Top 10 of 2002
Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (American) At his absolute best, sounding like he''s saying goodbye. And there are no more where he came from. Bob Dylan 2002 tour When they didn''t kill ...
Jack Nicholson finally acts his age, and it works out well for everyone.
Hitting The Highway: The word is that Jack Nicholson may garner a 12th Oscar nomination for About Schmidt. At the age of 66, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) is a man unprepared to face life''s ambiguities. ...
Marina development questioned again.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Home on the Firing Range: Not-so-old abandoned housing in Abrams Park on Fort Ord will be torn down to make room for over 1,000 (mostly very expensive) homes at Marina Heights. ...
Foodchain
EVERY DAY CAN BE NEW YEAR''S... The difference between the restaurant business and war is in the restaurant business they kill you slowly, in war you get it right away. That''s one of the many ...
El Teatro's Zoot Suit portrays the rise of Chicano consciousness in brilliant style.
Photo: Strutting Their Stuff: Remarkable staging and exuberant dance numbers punctuate Zoot Suit. To put it simply, El Teatro Campesino''s current production of Zoot Suit might be the best show mounted in the tri-county area ...
Marina's English Ales Brewery does local beer-drinkers proud.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Heads Up: Serving up a cold one at the English Ales Brewpub. Around 230 years ago, the American colonists decided that they had had enough of the British. King George was ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 09, 2003
Ghandi: Not a Vegan Propagandist Annie Griffin in her Letter to the Editor [Letters, January 2-8] begins by misquoting Gandhi, to wit "you can judge the character of a nation by the way it treats ...
With a pricey expansion underway, CHOMP battles a nurses union.
Rubbing her temples to soothe a splitting migraine, an off-duty nurse sits alone in the lobby of the Oldemeyer Center in Seaside on a September afternoon as dozens of her co-workers file into a nearby ...
Can I Be Your Hero?: Asked on Ocean Ave in Carmel
Q: Have you ever been a hero? FOLLOW UP: Who is your hero? Kasey Ventimiglia Retail Store Manager/Monterey A: I''m a hero for going into labor for 26 hours, then having a C-section. TRUE LOVE: ...
Artifacts
PALESTINIAN POET SPEAKS... Palestinian-American poet NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, who specializes in helping young poets find their voices, will read from her works FRIDAY AT 8PM at the SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL Performing Arts Center in Monterey. ...
Squid Fry for Jan 09, 2003
Why, it was just last weekend that Squid parked on a bench near Cannery Row with a pound of chocolate from the Candy Factory to watch joggers and cyclists meander down the rec trail. Squid ...
Cruise Turncoat to Speak
As if we haven''t spilled enough ink about cruise ships lately, here comes more. At 7pm Jan. 14 in the Irvine Auditorium at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, author Ross Klein will discuss his ...
