Issues / 2004 / Feb 12
Peace plant gets torn out by the roots.
The way Kashta Taylor describes it, a pile of freshly dug-up pink ice plant near Lovers Point in Pacific Grove was the source of artistic, or at least gardening, inspiration. “Around January 22nd, the city ...
District 5 Supervisor candidates fight for the environmentalist vote.
Last month, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to allow E&J Gallo to more than double the size of its vineyard near Soledad. The world’s largest winemaker got a green light to plant ...
Art Listings
art openings events Lisa Coscino Gallery The Object of My Obsession, a group show where artists displays work inspired by their personal obsessions. Also New Tin Work by Seattle artist Bill Herberholtz, aka “The Tin ...
Squidfry
WILD THING, I THINK I’LL RENT YOU…Ah, love. Squid likes it for Squidself. Squid’s happy hearing about lucky saps who’ve made it work. And Squid’s even enjoyed watching some squishy public displays of affection underneath ...
Locals clear landmines in Afghanistan with the help of canis familiaris.
Two weeks ago Lakhdar Brahimi, until recently the United Nations’ top man in Afghanistan, stood before a crowd of US government functionaries and reporters at the National Press Club in Washington and gave an impromptu ...
The new king of Brazilian cinema is named Fernando Meirelles.
Director Fernando Meirelles’ Brazilian slum epic City of God is a profound and stylistically expansive depiction of three decades of child gang warfare on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro with non-actors playing their poverty-ridden ...
Three mixed-media artists showing at MPC provoke viewer engagement.
Three Women: Three Directions in Mixed Media at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery features the work of Donise English, Susan Field and Amy Newell. These artists, from California, New York and Wisconsin respectively, show ...
Foodchain
WINE AND VALENTINES…Hello all you Valentines out there. I know you’re looking good and feeling sexy. Go tell someone how much you love them, how much they mean to you, how much they add to ...
What’s in a Name?: We’re still the Weekly, after 15 years.
My adventures with this newspaper began 805 issues ago, in a cramped office in Carmel. The carpets were stained and covered with wax—a result of the archaic process of newspaper layout, from the days of ...
Judy Collins brings her ’60s idealism and golden voice to Carmel.
In a concert and recording career spanning more than 45 years, singer/songwriter Judy Collins has embodied the spirit and power of music to lift souls to a higher purpose and meaning. With her graceful beauty ...
Kurt from The Openers
Hopefully, Kurt Burgchardt can complete his solo CD by April. But since the Monterey-based singer/songwriter is also half of the local acoustic duo The Openers, the therapist in charge of Monterey’s Doctors On Duty’s physical ...
Newsbriefs
First Tee Opponents Take Mulligan They are not giving up. The trio of Seaside residents who have taken on city hall over the controversial First Tee project have decided to take the fight to the ...
Discspace
BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Long Lonesome Blues: Lemon’s Texts Revealed World Arbiter Records One of the best blues guitarists of the pre-WWII period, what made Blind Lemon Jefferson’s music truly unique was his playing combined with ...
Critics say county treasurer used ‘fuzzy math,’ and now is playing politics.
County Treasurer Lou Solton insists that the public “budget forums” he has conducted recently with supervisorial candidate Steve Collins are not political, in the partisan sense. He says they are simply designed to educate voters. ...
Tarpy’s magnificent setting highlights delicious fare.
Deep in the woodsy seclusion of the Pocono Mountains in Sterling, Pennsylvania, where black bears roam, sits the French Manor, an early 1900s cobblestone mansion turned bed and breakfast. From the driveway dotted with carriage ...
Lady Bianca and Stanley Lippitt make beautiful music together.
During a phone interview, the Oakland blues singer known as Lady Bianca tries to recall her first date with her husband and collaborator Stanley Lippitt. “When did we first go out?’ she yells to him. ...
Artifacts
POETRY FOR YOUR VALENTINE…If there’s ever a time for whispering sweet sonnets into your loved one’s ear, it’s February’s annual “love day”—which, in true American fashion, now stretches into a complete weekend, at least at ...
MPC’s production of The Waiting Room wrestles with a difficult script.
There are times when a play comes along that focuses on important themes and handles them with clever theatricality, but for some reason simply fails to gel. Lisa Loomer’s The Waiting Room is one of ...
Theater Listings
theater openings Blood Brothers Half-price previews Thurs 7pm and Fri 7:30pm, opens Sat 7:30pm, continues Sun 2pm. Sid Cato directs this rock ‘n’ roll musical about twin brothers from Liverpool, England who are separated at ...
The story of one man’s efforts to turn the building industry green.
David Gottfried isn’t the first son in history so blinded by his father’s demand for success that he followed an ambitious course that led to an early mid-life crisis. In fact, he had two by ...
Letters
Haferman’s the Man I was saddened to hear about the recent untimely death of popular Monterey City Councilmember Ruth Vreeland [“Vreeland Leaves Hopeful Legacy,” Jan. 29-Feb. 4]. During her tenure on the Council, she was ...
A Carmel High coach teaches important lessons in team spirit.
Even the happiest day can have a bittersweet taste, as John Ables discovered last November 29. It wasn’t the first time the Carmel High boys’ cross-country squad had made it to the finals, but on ...
Be My Valentine: Asked in Downtown Salinas
Q: What’s the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for you? Follow-up: What Valentine’s Day gift would you most like to receive? Mary Nakagawa Business Owner | Upland A: One year for Valentine’s Day ...
