Issues / 2003 / Sep 18
Pride of Ownership in Carmel.
Photo: Brick by Brick: Willis Shepard personally placed each 8-inch-thick brick in his 1950s'' post-adobe home. On the tiled kitchen counter in Willis and Ernestine Shepard''s sunny kitchen is a glass cookie jar always filled ...
Artifacts
FILM FEST COUP...Five students at Cypress Grove Charter High School for Arts and Sciences in Seaside have had their original short film accepted into the prestigious New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, scheduled ...
Political opponents united in opposition.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Not In Marina''s Back Yard: The plan to build a New Urban community on the site of Fort Ord''s old East Garrison hit a snag this week when Marina Mayor Ila ...
Foodchain
PASTA DREAMS...Went to the Italian Festival down at Custom House Plaza this past weekend. It's a great gathering of happy-go-lucky goombas having a good time, eating, drinking, listening to music--the way life should be all ...
Rap and movie star Christopher "Kid" Reid takes the stage at Planet Gemini.
The early ''90s were a time of intense experimentation in popular culture. Artists like Vanilla Ice, Billy Ray Cyrus and Christopher "Kid" Reid changed our notions of what artists could do--especially with regards to the ...
Bill Clinton delivers an optimistic message in Monterey.
You have to figure that despite everything that happened to him while he was the president of the United States, Bill Clinton feels like a lucky man. All said and done, here''s a guy who ...
Environmentalists charge posh development with draining creek and hurting critters.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Dry Creek: Garzas Creek is bereft of water in late summer, but conservationists say its water level fluctuates weirdly all year long because Rancho San Carlos is stealing water. About six ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 18, 2003
Harbor Gets DisconnectedNext time Squid is swimming into Moss Landing's north harbor, don't bother bringing pay phone change. The harbor district management (AKA Linsda McIntyre) is considering letting the phone be removed by SBC because ...
Back in the Saddle: Pebble Beach trail ride heals deep psychic wounds.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Whoa Nelly: The Pebble Beach horses were ''quiet,'' unlike Scutro''s previous mount. The last time I rode a horse, she tried to croak me. For years afterward there were the horrible ...
Tradition+Innovation.
Tim Jackson, the guy who runs the Monterey Jazz Festival, took on a challenge when he took his gig 12 years ago. Apparently, he was not intimidated. He was tasked with keeping alive a venerable ...
Newsbriefs
Coastal Cleanup Slated for SaturdayCalifornia's 19th annual Coastal Cleanup Day comes to town Saturday, Sept. 20, when hundreds of local volunteers are expected to take part in the world's largest beach cleanup event. Eben Schwartz ...
Squid Fry for Sep 18, 2003
CIRQUE DU CALIFORNIA...Squid's starting to think the rest of the US is right. California politics is a three-ring circus. There's the Muscle Man, the Bearded Lady--oops, Squid's bad, that's Cruz Bustamante--and a Clown Car packed ...
Hotpicks
thursday 9|18 Video Killed The Radio Star THE MESSIAH COMPLEX Last time Ruben C. Gonzalez was in town, he was morphing into 11 different characters in Diary of a Mad Mexican. A similar conceit is ...
A well-acted psychological thriller has its West Coast premiere in Carmel.
Who''s Leading Whom? Carol Daly snares James Brady in Dead Certain. Dead Certain, the MPC Players production currently running at Carmel''s Carl Cherry Center, is a psychological thriller along the lines of the highly popular ...
Juried show at the MMA, and a Pop Fest in PG.By Rick Deragon
Photo: Famous Faces: Warhol''s paintings of jockey Willie Shoemaker, basketball star Kareem Abdul Jabbar, tennis champ Chris Everett and soccer great Pele are four of the 10 Warhol "athletes" owned by Richard Weisman. The Monterey ...
Western Stage's Cabaret has the goods, but needs more oomph.
Photo by: Richard Green. Wilkommen: Lauren Creager (Sally Bowles) and Joe Niesen (Emcee) deliver standout performances. When Cabaret first opened on Broadway in 1966, it broke new theatrical ground. The plot dealt with anti-Semitism, Nazism, ...
8 Days
thursday 9|18 Latin Jazz Piano 10-11:50am. In a "preview" of his Monterey Jazz Festival appearance, Omar Sosa performs a demonstration/lecture. Free. CSU Monterey Bay Music Hall, Sixth Avenue, Bldg. 30, Seaside. 582-3009. Art Therapy 10:30am-1pm. ...
Antonio Banderas' gun-toting mariachi returns with big stunts and creative visual effects.
Not Really Guitars In Those Cases: Antonio Banderas (center) leads his dos amigos on a dangerous mission. Like an armor-piercing bullet, this third "flick" (as the titles call it) in Robert Rodriguez''s south-of-the-border action trilogy ...
Streettalk
Q: Former President Bill Clinton spoke this week at the Panetta Institute. What question would you have asked him?Follow up: Who would you like to see as our next president? Hector DoxDoctor | SalinasA: I ...
Discspace
Muddy WatersMuddy "Mississippi" Waters LiveEpic/Legacy Muddy Waters is a legend at work on disc one, and a legend at play on disc two on this doubleton. Recorded late in his life and career, after an ...
Edgar's at Quail Lodge is more than an apr& %s;s-golf bar.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: After The Game: Drown your sorrows in a bacon-blue cheese burger. The name of a new dining establishment in the recently renovated Quail Lodge golf club--Edgar''s Restaurant--provokes the question, "Who is ...
San Diego Afro-Cuban band rolls into Sly's.
While conducting a phone interview with Paul Lopez about his band, Agua Dulce, it sounds like a party is starting in the background. It turns out that the noise is just members of his group ...
