Issues / 2003 / Sep 25
Union wants third party for disputes.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: In Charge: Union claims Fred Meurer holds Monterey''s reins too tightly. Negotiations between the union representing the city of Monterey''s carpenters, craftsmen, custodians and clerks stalled in August. At the top ...
Global rhythms converge for Monterey World Music Festival.
Photo: Monster Mash: Davka performs its original score for The Golem, a 1920 expressionist film, at the Monterey World Music Festival. The world is once again beating a path to Monterey''s door. The 7th Annual ...
Artifacts
PHOTOGRAPHY LEGEND...San Francisco photographer Ruth Bernhard is one of the most remarkable photographers of the nude figure. Born in Berlin in 1905, she was working as a commercial photographer in New York when a 1935 ...
Photo: Duke Robillard, founder of the legendary Roomful of Blues, brings his road band to town.
Duke Robillard is getting married next month, and his bride-to-be is home in Rhode Island. Meanwhile, his first love is lying on the bed of his room at the Hyatt during our conversation before his ...
Squid Fry for Sep 25, 2003
FRIENDLY FIRE...Squid caught wind of a recent email exchange between LandWatch's Gary Patton, and attorney Christine Gianascol, who also sat on the recently-disbanded General Plan refinement committee as an alternate, representing 21st Century Solutions group. ...
Friends say teenaged fieldworker killed for wearing gang colors just wanted to look cool.
Photo by Jessica Lyons: A gunman shot Juan Antonio Arellano (inset) to death in this Salinas neighborhood. At 3:01pm on Wednesday, Sept. 10, Juan Antonio Arellano, a 17-year-old fieldworker, was standing near a tree on ...
Newsbriefs
Ocean View Plaza: Back to the Drawing Board. Again.A court ruling released Monday, Sept. 22, derailed a large development project for Cannery Row. Local environmentalists were confident and satisfied with Superior Court Judge Robert O'Farrell's ...
Kozak and crew beat their own drums.
Photo: Junk Music: Scrap Arts recycles society''s detritus to make stunning music. Most musicians perform on instruments purchased in a shop, playing music composed by someone else. Dancing around while they play is optional, but ...
Honey, sugar and fruits for Rosh Hashanah herald a sweet new year.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Happy New Year: Chabad emissaries Rabbi Dovid and Binie Holtzberg celebrate their first High Holidays in Monterey. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which this year falls Sept. 26-27, has several ...
Hay Fever is highly entertaining, despite some forced jokes.
Photo by Stephen Moorer: Really, Dahling: Summer Serafin is a zany and charming Sorrel Bliss. The effervescent comedy of manners that Noel Coward created is perhaps one of the most difficult styles of theater for ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 25, 2003
I Want My Money BackI had to take a moment to write you and discus your review of Once Upon a Time in Mexico by Marrit Ingman ["Hail of Bullets," Sept. 18-24]. Please! Four stars? ...
Discspace
Government Issue Complete History, Volume One Dr. Strange Two discs and 80 tracks and they plan a Volume 2? All fooling aside, this DC hardcore band, the third-most famous and influential (Minor Threat and Bad ...
Foodchain
NEVER GET TIRED OF IT...It was a beautiful night in Carmel. The late day''s warming sunlight peekabooed through dense Monterey Pines as ever-earlier awakening darkness muscled itself into my complacent expectations of daylight. This night ...
September 25-October 2
thursday 9|25 Business Plan Workshop 10-1pm. The Central Coast Small Business Development Center offers a workshop to perform market research and measure business opportunities. One Stop Career Center, 1760 Fremont Blvd., Seaside. 899-8250. (800) 464-6136. ...
The Monterey County Artists' Studio Tour permits a secret peek into the world of the working artist.
Photos by Randy Tunnell. Art by Andrew Scutro. Artists speak in a visual language that non-artists do not know. Even though non-artists may understand the basics of this language-in the way a non-native French speaker ...
Brave New World: Learning to read as an adult is a scary proposition.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Helping Hands: Joan Beller has helped Joe raise his reading skills to a sixth-grade level. About a year ago, the fear had reached Joe''s eyebrows. "It went all the way to ...
Traditional Elegance in Pacific Grove.
Photo: Brand-new Old Cottage: This elderly Pacific Grove cottage was ripped down to the foundation, and redesigned to look like it had always been there. When Anne Gubser used to live in Hermosa Beach, her ...
Thirteen is an unforgettable, yet wrenching, portrayal of teenage peer pressure that makes parents sweat.
Photo: Beyond The Mall: Teenage girls run wild in Thirteen. Catherine Hardwicke''s brilliant, terrifying Thirteen has been meeting a similar reaction to the one generated by Larry Clark''s film Kids when that film came out ...
Hot Picks
thursday 9|25 Hope For the World MONTEREY WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL These days, as the world becomes ever more divided, music from different cultures can tie people together better than anything. At four performances tonight through ...
Streettalk
Q: Do you believe that businesses and charities have a right to use telemarketers? Why or why not?Follow up: Have you signed up for the "Do Not Call" registry? Ryder KovachStudent | CarmelA: Yeah, telemarketers ...
