Issues / 2004 / Mar 11
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Public Arts Projects for Marina The Marina Arts Council will unveil its ambitious plans to develop public art and architecture projects throughout the city this Sunday, March 14, at the UC-MBEST Atrium Gallery. The nonprofit ...
David Mamet spins weak circles in the new suspense drama, Spartan.
This over-plotted and under-developed political thriller by writer/director David Mamet (Heist) painfully divulges the aging writer’s waning talents. Val Kilmer (Wonderland) plays Robert Scott, a secret ops military officer recruited to rescue the US President’s ...
Squidfry
DON’T BREATHE THE AIR…On March 9, County Supes voted to approve the Handley Ranch Quarry project, a huge granite quarry, asphalt and cement plants, and recycling facilities on 330 acres in the Gabilan foothills to ...
Foodchain
OSCARS FOR AIDS…Went to MCAP’s (that’s Monterey County AIDS Project) annual Academy Awards Oscar Party at Embassy Suites last week. This is a wonderful affair in the big ballroom on the left as you walk ...
Discspace
VARIOUS ARTISTS No Depression: What It Sound Like (Vol. 1) Dualtone Records Since 1995, No Depression magazine has been in the unenviable position of trying to define what alternative country music is. This 13-track compilation ...
Room Service is fast, frothy and hilarious good fun.
Room Service, which opened last Friday on MPC’s Morgan Stock stage, is a frothy, farcical comedy that aspires to nothing more than big laughs and syncopated pandemonium, which it achieves in spades. The mechanics of ...
Operation Falcon tracks migrating Peregrines over the Internet.
At the core of Dr. Curt Erickson’s conservation philosophy lies the idea of bringing wild animals up close and personal to help change people’s attitudes. Having monitored two Peregrine Falcons on top of Embassy Suites ...
Cali Nation ranges from reggae-rockers to punky ska.
When police officers halted a Cali Nation band practice in downtown Salinas, they inadvertently helped guitarist/vocalist Andrew Nack write his band’s most popular song. The song, “Salinas,” is a Sublime-inspired ode to Nack’s hometown that ...
Theaterlistings
theater openings Arms and the Man Half-price preview Thurs 8pm, opens Fri 8pm, continues Sat 8pm, Sun 2:30pm. The Staff Players Repertory Company presents George Bernard Shaw’s comic (and prescient) depiction of political trouble in ...
Artifacts
ART HOUSE FACELIFT…Art House, Barbara Edell Poole’s showcase for local and regional artists, will be closing March 15 for renovations, including a new roof. The gallery will be holding a special inventory reduction sale this ...
An unusual road trip-turned-romance stirs the cultures Down Under.
This cross-cultural love story is appropriately named. Though its setting is the desert of western Australia, whose roseate sands are sumptuously filmed by Ian Baker, it is modest and deliberate and very formally composed, like ...
In a day’s work, our Congressman collides with Howard Dean and Michael Moore.
WASHINGTON, DC—“Zoe! Zoe!” Rep. Sam Farr hails loudly to a three-person procession striding through an anteroom just off the floor of the US House of Representatives. The three stop in place. The congressman from Carmel ...
A Steinbeck Center juried exhibition celebrates the land and workers John loved.
With Images of California Agriculture, a juried exhibition opening this Friday, the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas pays homage to the land and labor that provided so much material for the city’s most famous native ...
Artlistings
art openings | events Center for Photographic Art Frames of Reference, a group show of new works by the 13 Bay Area photographers of PhotoAlliance. Reception: 3/12, 6-8pm. Sunset Center, San Carlos at 9th, Carmel. ...
Neighbors like their Happy Dragon.
For six years Happy Dragon’s owner Bong Huynh operated out of a much smaller building nearby. All the neighborhood families who kept coming back convinced him to move to more spacious quarters on Fremont Avenue. ...
JazzMasters Workshop brings two masters of the vibraphone to the Sunset Center.
Vibraphone virtuosos are one of jazz’s rarest breeds—they’re practically non-existent outside of America’s great indigenous art form—so the opportunity to catch two mallet masters at once is an occasion akin to a full lunar eclipse: ...
Dogsledding in a Minnesota winter takes all you’ve got.
I am a native Californian, born and raised near the Pacific coastline. Winter for me means extended weekend frolics to the Sierras. Taking my California blood and injecting it straight into a Minnesota February was ...
What birdwatchers see when they look at eagles.
We had gone back to The Rez to see the eagle. Somebody’d read about it in the Bergen Record—it was the first bald eagle to be sighted in that part of the world in years; ...
Farm Bureau and Salinas Chamber reverse position; withdraw support for Natividad bail-out.
Last year, the county Farm Bureau and the Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce vowed to make nice with Natividad Medical Center doctors and trustees, as well as union organizers and others who supported Measure Q, ...
Letters
Squid Is Not Fair Once again you have shown your lack of journalistic balance by printing yet another one-sided story about Salinas High’s principal, Dr. Joseph Pawlick [SquidFry, March 4-10]. By choosing to highlight only ...
Propaganda of the Regime: Asked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies
Q: What do you think of President Bush using September 11 to demonstrate his leadership in recent television ads? Follow-up: What do you consider the “best” war? Lindsey Babcock Student | Monterey A: I think ...
Homespun Comfort in Monterey
Roy Voris’ Skyline Forest home sits on a quarter of an acre above a cul-de-sac at the end of a quiet, forested street. Although the home is easily accessed from both Highway 68 and downtown ...
Peregrine falcons’ rapid recovery is aided from a ‘clifftop’ perch at Embassy Suites Hotel.
The custodial staff at Embassy Suites in Seaside has a rather unusual job. In addition to cleaning rooms, vacuuming halls and washing windows, they also walk around the outside of the building looking for dead ...
Terry Riversong’s singular versions of obscure gems cut through the bar noise.
It is a cold, windy night on Bullwacker’s outside patio, and despite a crowd of less than a dozen people, Terry Riversong does his very best to please the audience. Sitting onstage in casual attire, ...
