Issues / 2003 / Mar 06
News Briefs
Expanding Costs Hit Sports Center Expansion The Monterey Sports Center expansion project has created cost overruns large enough to require a transfer of funds from four waterfront projects amounting to $375,000. According to city documents, ...
Letters to the Editor for Mar 06, 2003
Save Natividad Extended Care The proposed downsizing of the Extended Care Unit at Natividad causes great concern for many, particularly those of us who work daily in long-term care. At OMBUDSMAN we see daily the ...
Students and faculty want more say in how budget axe is wielded.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: One Student Voice: Abe Magana, CSUMB student senator and activist, says students and faculty are bearing the brunt of budget cuts. As Peter Smith, president of CSUMB, took the stage on ...
Two couples review their long-standing relationships in Dinner With Friends.
Photo: When Friendship Hurts: John Affinito and Maggie Grant star in Dinner With Friends. The 18th-century English author Horace Walpole wrote, "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those ...
Marina's tiny Shin Ra Restaurant showcases the best of Korean cooking.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Kimchee And Kelp: A patron digs into her noodles at Chin Ra. Maybe it''s because North Korea''s nuclear arsenal is so much in the news lately, but I''ve been feeling a ...
Michael Duffy's retrospective reveals a fascination with mythologies and alternate realities.
Photos: Michael Duffy, "Soul Gate", (left), and "In-Spiral -Rational." In Robles del Rio artist Michael Duffy''s retrospective at the Pacific Grove Art Center, Only the Beginning, the hits and misses of 25 plus years are ...
Discspace
The ClashThe Essential ClashEpic | Legacy Make no mistake--with very few exceptions, all of the Clash's music is essential. No other rock band in history, not even the founding fathers like the Beatles or the ...
Leaving Home
Photo by Allen Lyons: Bye Uncle Nate: Two-year-old Elizabeth watches through the window while Lindsey shaves Uncle Nate''s hair off on the porch, before he is deployed for active duty. My little brother Nathan was ...
Foodchain
MEA CULPA...You know me. I'd really like to be spitting some vinegar about this mixed up world right now-and chances are that before we're through I might-but there are a lot of interesting things to ...
8 Days A Week
Photo: David Trasoff plays the sarode with a coconut shell Thursday at CSUMB. thursday 3|6 Sarode Performance 10am. David Trasoff has studied sarode performance and North Indian Classical music, and will play and lecture on ...
Squid Fry for Mar 06, 2003
DINGOS ATE MY BABY..."What do chefs do when they get together?" a reader asked Chef, restaurauteur, television personality and Herald columnist John Pisto last week. Pisto's answer: They eat Squid's siblings. Yup, Squid's whole fam ...
Carmel High grad Rushad Eggleston chats about his cello and his Grammy nomination.
Photo: Just Plain Folk: The Fiddlers 4, with Carmel grad Rushad Eggleston on the far right. Rushad Eggleston is not a serious guy. Sure, he picked up the violin at three, mastered it, then moved ...
North County is left out of talks about Moss Landing desalination plant.
At a town hall meeting last week, North County Supervisor Lou Calcagno listened to state officials and a water company vice president talk about plans to build a $176 million seawater desalination plant in Moss ...
Artifacts
REPRESENTING RACE...The INSTITUTE OF VISUAL AND PUBLIC ART (VPA) at CSUMB, which states as its mission "to prepare students to be arts practitioners [and] active and responsible participants in society," has scheduled two public lectures ...
The Turtle Island String Quartet celebrates the music of Miles Davis.
Photo: Out Of Their Shell: Turtle Island brings its classical training to the world of jazz-rock. Putting on dancing shoes for a string quartet performance may seem a little unusual-unless it''s the Turtle Island String ...
A Piece of Monterey's Victorian Past.
Photo: Picket Fence Pretty: Wood floors and a clawfoot tub would make the Cleavers happy. Cute is the operative word at the white Victorian cottage at 1701 Hoffman Street in New Monterey--a fact that owner ...
Scott Amendola: Charged with diversity in the first degree.
Photo: Scott Amendola, shown here with his original trio (with Lee Alexander and Adam Levy) has expanded in more directions than can be named. It''s December, and Scott Amendola, a do-anything drummer who lives in ...
Hotpicks
This week's Hot Picks were plucked forth by Sue Fishkoff, Kate Folsom, Eric Johnson, Jessica Lyons, Andrew Scutro and Brett Wilbur. thursday 3|6 Sweet Feet DIXIELAND MONTEREY FESTIVAL With this year's theme of "...the music ...
John Cusack takes a provocative turn as a Jewish art dealer who befriends the young Adolf Hitler in post-WWI Germany.
Photo: Evil Twin: John Cusack befriends Noah Taylor''s young Adolf Hitler in Max. Controversy surrounds certain films like a gray and cloying fog. It can be beneficial, a contrived marketing tool that might add a ...
Why stop at the French? To hell with whoever doesn't agree with us.
To: W. From: One of your many seasoned focus group coordinators/pollsters. Subject: Why stop at France? Sir, before getting to the subject of this memo, I must congratulate you for your stand against antiwar protestors ...
Asked at Starbucks in Downtown Monterey.
Question: Do you agree with what President Bush''s war plans? Follow Up: Do you know anyone who is in the Gulf? Rose FreidinStudent|Seaside A: I''m for the war because I''ve never experienced war in my ...
Seaside program bridges digital divide.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Screen Saviour: Towana Caldwell hopes her newfound computer literacy will help her work for her community. Towana Caldwell was once afraid of computers. It wasn''t because she''d had a bad Apple ...
