Issues / 2003 / Feb 06
At 14, Lauren Shera has an enviable singer/songwriter career.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Have Guitar, Will Travel: Lauren and Titania, at home Lauren Shera''s bedroom in her family''s Corral de Tierra home could belong to any 14-year-old girl. The posters, photographs and poetry that ...
LoveBox
Groove Armada | Jive Records Groove Armada, once again, move into unpredictable musical territories. After selling over 1.2 million albums and suffering a spell of disillusion, the buoyant duo have regained their surging confidence with ...
Best Of The Rest Listings
Photo: Contra Dancing: Shake it up with Stump Tail Dog on Saturday. thursday 2|6 Rabble Rouser 6:30pm. Professor Daniel Klein presents a lecture on the programmed complacence of American citizens, with emphasis on psychology, sociology ...
Artifacts
MEMORIES OF KOREA...Carmel Valley resident BEVERLY PAIK, wife of former Superior Court Judge HARKJOON PAIK, has recently published LAST HILL OF ARIRANG, a novel of Korea that closely mirrors the life and adventures of her ...
At La Dolce Vita, it's all about the sauce.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Flames of Passion: Chef Sadot Diaz fires up a fabulous creation at La Dolce Vita''s new Pacific Grove location. You can grill a steak, you can fillet a flounder, you can ...
Raw Foodists won't let a cooked veggie past their lips.
Photo by: Randy Tunnell Even in the rarefied world of dietary trends, where being a vegetarian is now almost passe, and where others eat bacon and chicken-fried steak to lose weight, raw foodists have been ...
Huntington Witherill's digital images transport viewers to a surreal world.
If Vermeer made pictures of flowers like Georgia O''Keeffe the results would be Huntington Witherill''s new digital photographs at the Ansel Adams Gallery on Cannery Row. Witherill has eschewed the glossy surfaces and breathless pale ...
A proposal to build a flood wall around the Carmel River Lagoon has some area homeowners poised to sue.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Million Dollar View: Howard Skidmore says the view of the Carmel River Lagoon and beach behind his home is integral to the value of his property Howard and Zaza Skidmore''s 1950''s-era ...
Where the plus-fours crowd goes to unwind.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Mission Ranch is a popular place to chill out and enjoy the view. There are drawbacks to living in a place constantly overrun by visitors, but it also means we don''t ...
New and noteworthy on the county wine scene
Photo by: Randy Tunnell Mention the term wine country to folks across this fair land, even the ones who live around here, and they''ll speak of trips to Napa or Sonoma with adventures up and ...
In the hands of Holly Hofmann, the flute is a powerful instrument.
Photo: The Wind and the Keys: Holly Hoffman and Bill Cunliffe play the Jazz and Blues Company Saturday. A short list of jazz''s iconic instruments would include the tenor saxophone, stand-up bass and trumpet. The ...
The Recruit is a fun, if flawed, film starring two great leading men.
Photo: Company Men: Al Pacino and Colin Farrel play a couple of hot CIAguys in The Recruit. The pleasure of watching two alpha males--Al Pacino and Colin Farrell--circling each other mano a mano substantially beefs ...
This year's Pebble Beach Pro-Am will feature clambake plus golf drama.
Photo: Rock and Swing: Neil Young will join a cast of celebrities at this year''s Crosby Clambake. It''s always a fun event, even without the golf. Many of the luminaries from the television and movie ...
Asked at McDonalds in Marina By Betti Ahrens
Q: If fast food and artificial ingredients were made illegal and everyone had to eat healthy gourmet food, what would you do? FOLLOW UP: What did you have for lunch? Quinton Roland Grants Manager/Marina A: ...
Court-Ordered Money Disbursed
The Robles del Rio Lodge in Carmel Valley recently awarded four Monterey County environmental groups $35,400 for conservation projects. The cash-$10,000 each to the Sierra Club, LandWatch, and the Big Sur Land Trust, and $4,500 ...
Treasures of the Wilds By Sabrina Speidel
Photo: Little and Sweet: This 1890''s Spreckels cottage is tiny and traditional. Beet House Susan and James James'' 1898 Victorian cottage in Spreckels has seen its share of remodeling, but has remained true to its ...
Squid Fry for Feb 06, 2003
Squid's been in the doghouse with Squidette recently, and has tried all sorts of tricks: love notes delivered thrice-daily, love songs strummed awkwardly on Squid's tiny guitar and flowers gathered from the wharf. With Squidette ...
Letters to the Editor for Feb 06, 2003
Has David B. Goldenson spoken to Susan Diallo or any other peace protesters [Letters, Jan. 30-Feb. 5]? If so, he would not say that we oppose removing Saddam Hussein, because most of us agree that ...
Monterey City Manager Fred Meurer is preparing to do some serious budget-slashing.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Sport cuts: Fred Meurer says city facilities like the Monterey Sports Center may soon have to charge more for their services. With a weakened economy, threats of war and the likelihood ...
Hotpicks
thursday 2|6 Foreplay AT&T PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM Forget, for just a minute, about the dew evaporating off the immaculate expanse of greens, forget about the February sun gently pushing its rays through the branches ...
The bad boy of the early '80s San Francisco music scene still provokes.
Photo: Rude Boy: Jello Biafra speaks Wednesday at CSUMB JELLO BIAFRA. From the start, the guy''s name, elicited rueful laughter. It was a joke-a wicked joke and a good one. At the time, 1979, gruesome ...
By Raymond Napolitano
BUT DOES HE GOLF?...So me and Sweet Thing are just back from Paris and I''m not even in the door more than a few minutes when the phone starts ringing with those lonely PGA pros ...
