Issues / 2004 / Jan 22
Art Listings
Art Listings
art openings | events Carl Cherry Center Sparks Fly Upward: Big Sur Artists 1950-1990. Thirty paintings, prints and sculptures by 11 artists who lived and worked in Big Sur over 40 years, including Henry Miller, ...
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Monterey Whimsy
In a neighborhood located just a few blocks from Lake El Estero, the Naval Postgraduate School, and downtown Monterey, sits Gary and Bebe Cottons’ two-bedroom bungalow. It’s so cute, that people walking by often slow ...
Theater Listings
theater | now playing Adam & Eve: The Diaries Fri-Sat 8pm, closes Sun 2:30pm. Staff Players Repertory reprises its two-person show featuring Marcia Gambrell and Ron Cohen. $16/general, $12/students and seniors, $6/children. Indoor Forest Theater, ...
Hip-Hop and Apple Pie
The Black Box Cabaret is a hang-out, a concert hall and a coffee house.
“Check, check one, check two.” The words echo within the empty café as sound technicians test the PA system at the Black Box Cabaret, the student-run pub at CSU Monterey Bay. Its black walls, black ...
A Lucky Roll
Fine acting heats up tantalizing Las Vegas noir Cooler.
We all have bad days when nothing goes right. But Bernie Lootz, the protagonist of the wily noir drama The Cooler, is a professional loser, a man whose bad luck is so perpetual and unvarying ...
Karate Kids
Kindergartners find the warrior within.
A bunch of four- and five-year-old boys are lined up in front of the mirror at American Karate in Monterey, stretching, doing mini pushups, bragging about their punches as they throw them at their reflection, ...
Newsfeature
Women at War: Women in Iraq—Iraqis and Americans—confront a troubling landscape.
President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq put Donna Hinton in a strange position. A 43-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, a self-employed real estate broker and a practicing Buddhist from Long Beach, California, she ...
Streettalk
Out of This World: Asked at Monterey Peninsula College
Q: What do you think of President Bush’s new plan for space exploration? Follow-up: What single comfort item would you bring with you if you were to travel to Mars? John McCleave Retired | Seaside ...
California Dinin’
City Diner Serves Up Neighborliness and Vittles.
I always head out to Seaside’s City Diner (formerly Emy’s) whenever I get a hankering for chicken fried steak with biscuits and gravy. City Diner’s combo comes with two eggs and your choice of hash ...
Squidfry
FIELDS OF GOLD…Now the million-dollar “affordable” homes are finally starting to make sense. According to the latest campaign disclosure statements filed by the Monterey County supervisorial hopefuls, Jerry Smith (the Democrat-turned-Seaside-Mayor-turned-Republican-turned-candidate for County Supe) was ...
Under Cover
Monterey Museum’s quilt show illustrates the evolution of a folk-art form.
The notion of evolution has become part of the modern and post-modern canon. The modernist story has artists striving toward some philosophical goal or truth, developing innovative techniques or forms toward that end, advancing. Subsequent ...
Second Helping
Santa Cruz Rocker Goes Punk
After years of playing in the Santa Cruz funk rock band Soba, guitarist/singer Mike McGuire discovered punk rock, and it changed his life. Now, McGuire is the driving force behind Santa Cruz’s newest punk rock ...
CHOMP wellness program teaches patients to fight risk with vigor.
It was 5am on Dec. 22, 1986, and Ron Pasquinelli was sound asleep. That’s when it hit. “I woke up, and it felt like someone put my shoulders into a vice and squeezed,” he recalls. ...
Letters
Governator Attacks Workers While everyone agrees that workers’ compensation costs have risen, no one asks why. Schwarzenegger simply blames lawyers, fraud, and injured workers, arguing benefits are too high. In reality, workers’ comp benefits in ...
Golf? or Spa?
A guy’s guide to the smarter gender’s recreation.
My wife Landry and I are different. On vacation, we both enjoy golf, but she’d much rather play a quick seven holes and then beat a quick retreat into an orange-scented spa somewhere for a ...
Two Local Voices
Another Option brings together a rapper-poet and a singer-poet, both from Salinas.
After seeing singer Yvette Brooks perform at a Salinas open mic night, producer/MC Roy Waxx knew he had to work with the young woman. So after Brooks’ performance of “Brown Eyes,” an original song, Waxx ...
Artifacts
FOR POSTERITY’S SAKE… Photographer and author John Livingstone is launching a two-year project to digitally record images of businesses of the Monterey Peninsula. He plans to spend 2004 and ’05 on the project, which will, ...
Newsbriefs
Supes To Vote On Gallo Expansion The county Board of Supervisors will vote on Jan. 27 on a proposal by E&J Gallo to more than double its Soledad-area vineyard. The project, which was approved by ...
King Cotton
The King of California is a true story that reads like a pirate adventure.
Jim Boswell is a cantankerous old bastard with pale blue eyes, thin lips and a couple fingers missing on one hand, and he keeps to himself with almost pathological ferocity. He also controls more agricultural ...
Foodchain
OPERA MAN…Interestingly, even though it’s winter and hibernatory (another one from the dictionary of Ray) fantasies lull us into the chrysalis comfort of our beds (kind of like my writing) there is quite a bit ...
Health and Fitness
Strong To The Core: Martial artists work out on a deeper level.
From the outside, the Body Worx martial arts dojo looks like any one of the businesses lining Broadway in Seaside—the laundromats, Mexican restaurants and thrift stores. But inside, certificates of young black belts and photos ...
Green Card Blues
Pres. Bush’s immigration reform proposal receives mixed reviews from growers and workers’ advocates.
The guest worker program President Bush announced two weeks ago and touted during his State of the Union address Tuesday, has been called a step forward in immigration policy. But it could also be two ...
Discspace
Discspace
ROSCOE HOLCOMB An Untamed Sense of Control Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Responsible for a revived public interest in bluegrass music, the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack is mostly the work of studio musicians, who have ...
