Issues / 2003 / Aug 14
Letters to the Editor for Aug 14, 2003
We Love HowardI'd rather risk going down swinging with a real Democrat like Howard Dean than support the watered-down George W. Bush wannabes that the party centrists prefer ["Howard Dean's Youth Movement," July 31-Aug. 6]. ...
Pasta Mia branches out with wood-fired pizzas.
Photos by Randy Tunnel: Dough-See-Dough: Pasta Mia serves up the pies in its new pizza grotto.Downtown Butterfly Town just started to feel a little more bright lights and big city. Pasta Mia recently installed eight ...
Despite too-fast pacing and overlong script, Western Stage's adaptation works.
Photo: Madre Mia: Emily Molinar plays young Lupe, Yolanda Cotteral is her mother Guadalupe Gomez. The first thing that needs to be said about the Western Stage''s adaptation of Victor Villaseñor''s autobiographical novel, Rain of ...
Thirty years after the transvestite from Transylvania's debut, MPC revitalizes the thrill.
Photo: Time Warp: A great cast brings Rocky Horror to life Blessed with an abundance of strong voices, an excellent band, and enough enthusiasm to make a dead man laugh, Monterey Peninsula College''s production of ...
Experts say lax attitudes contribute to diver deaths.
Photos by Randy Tunnell (left) and Brett Wilbur (right): Chamber of Life: At left, Jeff Field of the PG Ocean Rescue Team puts rescued divers in the team''s hyperbaric chamber. At right, Field and team ...
John Doe keeps the punk attitude, even with an acoustic guitar.
Photo: John Doe: Punk-Rock god, TV actor and singer-songwriter, plays Big Sur Saturday.John Doe has had an amazing career for over 20 years. Doe burst onto the punk scene in 1980, when his band, X, ...
Artifacts
HUMBOLDT TALES... A couple of years back, Kimberly White, a reporter and copy editor, found herself out of work and bored. So she started writing a story. "I didn't mean to write a book," she ...
Hotpicks
**thursday 8|14 How Much Is That Piggy In the Window? COUNTY FAIR AND CONCERTS Today through Sunday, the county fair continues at the Monterey Fairgrounds, with musical and theater performances, a circus, a petting zoo, ...
Atmosphere plays a big role in Northfork.
Photo: High Water: Walter O'Brien (James Woods) conspires to save the townfolk from floods in Northfork, Montana.Northfork, Mont.: 1955. This sleepy hamlet in Big Sky Country is about to be flooded over to become a ...
August 14-21
thursday 8|14 Marketing 101 8-9:30am. The Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce presents a workshop to learn the importance of a marketing plan and a marketing budget. Reservations required. Free/members, $15/non-members. 119 E. Alisal St., Salinas. ...
To Err Is Human To Truly Correct Is Divine.
For America''s newspapers, the New York Times is a pacesetter. And this summer, with the Times expanding its daily "Corrections" slot on page two, some other papers seem open to more rigor in setting the ...
Discspace
Jeff BeckJeffEpicAs part of the famous triumvirate of Yardbirds guitar players, Jeff Beck may have been the most lethal, but has also been the most short-changed. Unable to sustain long solos (like Clapton) or fashion ...
Judge halts Seaside Highlands subdivision; considers claim that sale was a "giveaway of public property."
Attorneys arguing that the Seaside Highlands project on Fort Ord was not a fair deal for the taxpayers of Seaside prevailed in a court hearing in Monterey on Aug. 7, effectively stalling the development. Superior ...
Carmel Classic
Photo: Point Well Taken: This large Carmel Point home offers a near-perfect location and an elegant lifestyle.You don''t find a 2300-square-foot, four-bedroom home like this in Carmel often," says Realtor Pat Berry. Berry is standing ...
Local union leaders explain why rampant labor unrest is rocking the county.
A Perfect Storm On Wednesday night of last week, the leaders of every union in Monterey County met in the offices of the AFL-CIO''s Central Labor Council. The meeting was not all that unusual: the ...
Three series by Barry Masteller explore the heart of seeing.
Photo: "Earth and Sky 444", by Barry Masteller An artist works in a series to explore a set of related ideas. Like a miner picking at a vein of ore, the painter establishes a point ...
Escovedo plays Fair on Thursday.
Last month at Yoshi''s on Jack London Square in Oakland, Pete Escovedo played three sold-out nights for enthusiastic hometown fans. Even though the Grammy-winning Latin drummer moved to LA after more than 40 years in ...
Newsbriefs
Pot Raids BeginIt's pot harvesting season and that means pot growers aren't the only ones intent on sneaking into those remote backcountry patches. According to the state Attorney General's office, the annual Campaign Against Marijuana ...
Squid Fry for Aug 14, 2003
NICE BUNNS... Like father, like Bunn, err, son. Squid's talking about Chris Bunn, Jr., son of the ex-Farm Bureau prez and local Salinas-area grower of the same name. Oops, and (Squid almost forgot to throw ...
Foodchain
SERVICE WITH LOVE... Man, this is a great time of year. The weather has been absolutely perfect, the streets are once again filled with visitors from around the world (although not as far around the ...
Despite Samuel L. Jackson's and Colin Farrell's efforts, S.W.A.T. runs out of bullets.
The original ABC television show S.W.A.T., which ran for little over a year back in 1975-76, wasn''t what you would call one of Aaron Spelling''s greatest hits, unless of course you were a Robert Urich ...
Streettalk
Question: Should same-sex marriages be legalized?Follow Up: Where is your favorite honeymoon destination? Justin MiyamotoBusiness Owner | Carmel ValleyA: Why not? There''s no good reason for same-sex marriages to be illegal. It''s unfair to homosexuals.Konichiwa: ...
Percussion master Pete Escovedo makes a trip back up north.
Photo by Andrea Lotz: Pete Escovedo and family onstage on New Year's Eve, 2003.Blame it on the nightclub. Pittsburg-born Bay Area music icon Pete Escovedo was at the center of the region''s Latin music scene ...
Highway Prophet:Can't see to drive, so this ex-actor uses his thumb to get around.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Going My Way: Jeremy Slate takes off his hat while hitching, so drivers can see he's elderly. Most likely, sometime today, a bearded, gray-haired hitchhiker will be standing alongside Highway 1 ...
