Issues / 2003 / Apr 03
Artifacts
SHAPE THE HABITAT...Artists, and anyone else involved and/or interested in the arts, are invited to take part in facilitated focus group meetings this week to help determine the future of Arts Habitat, a multi-discipline, mixed-use ...
Hot Picks
Photo (from left to right): Hedwig's Lament THURSDAY-SATURDAY, Level 4 FRIDAY, Back To The Blues SATURDAY, Cupful of Art SUNDAY, All That Jazz FRIDAY-SATURDAY thursday 4|3 Get Hed Here HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH CSUMB ...
Foodchain
HUGE WINE FEST...The Monterey Wine Festival, at 27 years, the nation''s first and oldest, is rolling into town this weekend. Starting with the always wonderful New Release Night (prom night for winos) Thursday at the ...
Spring training brings out the kid in every baseball fan.
Photo by George Kassal: Play Ball: Signing autographs is all part of spring training. Every March, while the gray whales are swimming back north, thousands of people migrate south to Arizona and Florida. The reason ...
Yams and oxtail just like Mom used to cook 'em.
Photo: Eat at Mom''s: Laverne Hall takes hot corn muffins from the oven (left); most of the diners are regular customers. L averne Hall has seven children, 19 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, and if that ...
A handful of CSUMB students camp out against the war.
Three CSUMB students are sitting around the university''s flagpole while the sounds of a Beatles song (played on an original LP) drifts lazily from a nearby record player. Taj Rozier, dressed in a multicolored flowing ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 03, 2003
Congress's Support for the Troops Should Continue When They Return Your month-end issue on the war was excellent ["Reality vs. TV," March 27-April 2]. Best of all was the fact that Squid didn't miss the ...
Squid Fry for Apr 03, 2003
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS...Squid was shopping in Carmel the other day (it's so hard to find a cute hoodie that fits Squid's pointy head) when Squid was drawn to the smell of popcorn and the ...
Shelter Cove offers a normal life for people coping with mental illness.
Photo: Renee Farjeon, an actress and dancer who has struggled with mental illness all her life, is hoping to find a permanent home through Interim, Inc. When I was 13 and too old for regular ...
Local metalworkers create "cups" of many colors.
The heavy hammer gleaming on Valerie Ostenak''s workbench, flanked by the twin tanks of her propane torch and lying next to twisted steel and hammered rods of shimmering silver, contrasts starkly with her current work ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine speaks Thursday at MPC.
Photo: Working Man: Philip Levine developed a blue-collar sensibility in Detroit and cultivated it in Fresno, where he has lived since 1958. Philip Levine grew up in Detroit in the 1940s, back when the young ...
After a long nod, pianist Jon Mayer is back playing strong.
Photo: Keys to the Future: Jon Mayer brings his hot trio to the Jazz and Blues Company Saturday. Jon Mayer titled his 2001 album Rip Van Winkle, after a mythic figure with whom he has ...
Marina's Pastime: Asked at CSUMB baseball practice
QUESTION: What makes baseball America''s sport? FOLLOW UP: Who is your team? Collin Martin Pitcher & 2nd Base | Seaside A: It is so fan-appealing. It is not too intense and fast-moving. It''s a thinking-man''s ...
Piglet's Big Movie is a lighthearted and well-made film for the whole family.
Photo: Antidote To War: Frolic with Disney characters in Piglet''s Big Movie. Disney''s timing in releasing Piglet''s Big Movie last Friday could not have been more serendipitous had it been National Hug a Pig for ...
NPS war strategists differ on tactics, but agree on getting out fast.
Photos by Randy Tunnell: In and Out: NPS military analyst John Arquilla has long argued for a new high-tech and lower- impact form of warfare. At Donald Rumsfeld''s urging, the Department of Defense appears to ...
8 Days
thursday 4|3 Stew and Polenta Lunch 11am. Beef stew and polenta are available for take-out, eat-in or delivery from Salinas Valley Meals on Wheels. Call ahead to reserve. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1071 Pajaro, Salinas. ...
Newsbriefs
Committees: Keep Clinics Open Two satellite clinics run by the Natividad Medical Center should stay open, according to two advisory panels appointed by the Board of Supervisors. On April 1, the committees presented money-saving ideas ...
Keeley and Packard throw their weight behind planning process.
While Monterey County gears up for the next round of General Plan debates, a new group of educators, business owners and activists has asked the Board of Supervisors to complete the plan and stick to ...
Living the Good Life in Salinas.
Photo: Please Lettuce Stay: The Jackson family loves living in their beautiful Salinas Valley home, but work is calling them northward Peter Jackson has spent years working in computers in Silicon Valley, but his heart ...
Discspace
Various ArtistsGotta Serve Somebody--The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan Columbia/Legacy When Bob Dylan released his first genuinely religious disc in 1979, his hippie audience blanched in horror. Of course Bobby had been alluding to the ...
