Issues / 2003 / Oct 30
Protect Strong Water Board
For Directors, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Kristi MarkeyBob PacelliZan Henson All six candidates for the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District are nice people. We'd be happy to hang out with any of them. They're ...
OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 6
thursday 10|30 Internet Seminar 8-10:30am. Redshift president Karl van Lear and a panel of experts present information on giving businesses an edge on the Internet, with topics such as "determining the most cost-effective service for ...
Spooks Among Us: Local buildings harbor a heap of spirits.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Ghosts I Have Known: Local psychic Patrick McAnaney picks up impressions from "haunted" buildings. Just as you don''t generally pop into an office meeting and share the personal details of a ...
La Pieta gives the Devil his muse-ical due.
Photo: The Devil''s Music: Violin ensemble La Pieta plays homage to Devil-inspired songs through the ages, on Halloween in Carmel. If the rarified air of a chamber music recital doesn''t conjure up images of the ...
Squid Fry for Oct 30, 2003
BACK TO THE FUTURE... Until former Assemblyman Fred Keeley announced (for the 15th time, was it?) that the dam on the Carmel River was dead, and that desalination is the new dam, Squid didn't even ...
The Mermen bring their unique post-surf sound to Big Sur.
Photo: Beach Bums: San Francisco''s Mermen. The best bands are the ones that are able to transcend the limits of their genre. On 2001''s The Amazing California Health and Happiness Road Show, San Francisco''s The ...
Letters to the Editor for Oct 30, 2003
Intolerable MovieI am an avid movie-goer and enjoy all kinds, even silly ones. But, after seeing Intolerable Cruelty, I have to ask: Who wrote the movie review for it for Coast Weekly? And, more importantly, ...
Foodchain
SUDSY DAYDREAMS... The Monterey Beer Festival, "Brew With A View," was an unqualified success. Thousands of people from all across North America and the world packed the Monterey Peninsula''s hotels for the inaugural event. Local ...
With more than 50 rolls on the menu, Sushi Heaven is just that.
Photo by Jane Morba: Heavenly Bites: Chef "Sun" Huh (right) takes sushi rolls to the next level at Carmel''s newest sushi restaurant. During a relatively recent period of human evolution a sushi-eating civilization has arisen ...
Fort Ord burn will mean good news for wildflowers and critters, as Army tries to figure out how it got away.
Photo by Karen Loutzenheiser: Highway to Hell: The smoke from last week''s Fort Ord burn reminded some of Armaggedon. Baby blue eyes, fire poppies, Indian warrior, lupine, orchids, various lilies, phacelias, rush rose, sunflowers and ...
Day of the Dead traditions change with the times.
Photos by Jane Morba: Ofrende: Professor Zielina explains the meaning of the altars. El Día de los Muertos is upon us, and it''s time in Central California to reconsider what the Nov. 1 celebration means. ...
Newsbriefs
Planned Parenthood ExpandsPlanned Parenthood staffers, donors, community leaders and politicians celebrated the initial stage of construction of a new Salinas Health Center at a "Hard Hat" luncheon on Oct. 24, with speakers including state Assemblyman ...
A Private Retreat in Pacific Grove.
Photos by Brett Wilbur: Well Done: This PG retreat sits on three lots, has a private well for landscaping, and a reservoir behind it that creates a forest-like setting. Kathleen O''Brien and her husband Richard ...
Pebble Beach's private woods, a world-class resource, is still on the verge of...something.
Company Town Mark Stillwell, the Pebble Beach Company''s vice president and general counsel, glides his company car off 17 Mile Drive and onto a dirt pull-out. He has been giving me and photographer Jane Morba ...
E-40 keeps keepin' it real.
On E-40''s latest release, Breakin'' News, the Bay Area rapper shows why he is still an underground legend after almost 10 years in the game. On the album''s title track, Forty raps about sippin'' St ...
Streettalk
Q: Do you believe in ghosts or other supernatural creatures?Follow-up: What''s your favorite scary movie? Anita EnglishHorse Trainer | SalinasA: Of course I do. I''ve actually felt a presence in my home, which is a ...
How to Succeed in Business uses a dated premise but stays alive.
Photo: Lap of Luxury: J.B. Biggley, played by Bill Lindsay, gets a lapful from Hedy LaRue, played by Michele Colvin. Sure, the witty skewering of the business climate that won How to Suceed in Business ...
Artifacts
IRIS DART... Pebble Beach''s own New York Times best-selling author (for Beaches) will be signing copies of her newest novel Thursday at the Thunderbird Bookshop in The Barnyard. Some Kind of Miracle, released just last ...
Discspace
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROSStreetcoreHellcat RecordsAfter forays into an eclectic blend of world music on his last two albums, Joe Strummer's posthumous release with The Mescaleros is basically a return to rock album. Ironically, some ...
Sylvia offers little insight into a complex psyche.
Photo: Doomed Love: Poet Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) falls for poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig) on the first date. Like Frida Kahlo, American poet Sylvia Plath has become a pre-feminist icon struggling against societal constraints ...
