Issues / 2004 / Mar 18
Arts & Nightlife
Readers’Picks Best Wine by the Glass Passionfish 701 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove 655-3311 Ted Walter, chef and owner of Passionfish, is a world-class foodie. His devotion to great flavors has led him on all-night romps ...
Elegance by the Beach in Carmel
Elegance by the Beach in Carmel Sabrina Speidel Photos by Brett Wilbur: In A Better Light: The natural lighting and pale finishes in this Carmel home keep it bright and sunny. Chuck and Connie Journey’s ...
Restaurants
Readers’Picks Best New Restaurant (Tie) Max’s Grill 209 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove 375-7997 Matteo’s 1180 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove 333-1035 Coincidentally (are there really any coincidences?) two restaurants, umbilically linked by PG’s Forest Avenue, ended ...
Don Wobber brings jade from the sea, and reveals its inner beauty
Every morning Don Wobber, Pacific Grove’s Jade Man, wakes at the crack of dawn and heads out into the yard of his Grove Acre house where, surrounded by a garden of jade glistening with fog ...
Globe Sipping: Around the World in 80 Wines presents food and wine from all over the map.
Ray Napolitano, the Weekly’s food columnist and veteran of many kitchens, knows food and wine. Jeff Moses, who has worked in television in LA and New York for ten years, including stints as a producer ...
Shopping & Services
Readers’Picks Best Surf Shop On the Beach Surf Shop 711 Cannery Row, Monterey 646-9283 Despite a move that took On the Beach from its original digs in New Monterey down to Cannery Row a year ...
News Briefs
Coastal Commission in Town The state Coastal Commission will review local coastal programs for Monterey County and Sand City when it meets in Monterey this week. The Commission will look at local issues on March ...
Around Town
Readers’Picks Best Surf Spot Asilomar Beach Sunset Drive, Pacific Grove Back in 1973, Allan “Bank” Wright published Surfing California, a book that described all of California’s popular surf breaks from Tijuana Sloughs to Crescent City. ...
Ahmad Jamal, a piano innovator that even Miles could respect, brings his ‘small ensemble’ to the Sunset Center.
It’s hard to believe, but in the dozen years Tim Jackson has been running the Monterey Jazz Festival and the almost three decades that he’s directed Santa Cruz’s Kuumbwa Jazz Center, he has never worked ...
Artifacts
AG ART…The National Steinbeck Center opened its first juried exhibition last Friday evening with a reception and awards ceremony for Images of California Agriculture. Oakland Museum senior art curator Karen Tsujimoto pored over more than ...
Theaterlistings
theater openings Pirates of Penzance Opens Fri 8:30pm, continues Sat 8:30pm, Sum 3:30pm. Gilbert and Sullivan’s light-hearted, frothy operetta with plenty of singing and dancing. $20/adults, $10/children. Bruce Ariss Wharf Theater, Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey. 649-2332 ...
Jim Carrey rises above unfunny look at needy relationships.
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation) takes us down a rabbit hole of his personal neurosis in this distressed story about a confused guy (Jim Carrey) who falls for a mean-spirited girl (Kate Winslet) before each attempt ...
Letters
Letters Honduras is a Dangerous Place I read with a great deal of interest the article about Mr. Birk’s sojourn to Honduras and to the tobacco-growing area of that country [“Smoke, Guns and Monkeys,” March ...
Squidfry
CAMPAIGN SEASON…Lou Calcagno’s still got two years left on the Board of Supervisors, but Squid knows that isn’t stopping Louie from planning his retirement—or, more importantly, his replacement. For a while, there was some talk ...
Specialty Foods
Readers’Picks Best Burger RG Burgers 201 Crossroads Blvd, Carmel 626-8054 Although readers voted RG Burgers the best for burgers, there’s a strong case to be made for their fries as well. True, the burger comes ...
The Fog of Post-War: Looking at Operation Iraqi Freedom, one year later.
Let’s remember: One year ago this week, President George W. Bush led the nation into war under false pretenses. We need to remember that the president was very clear about his reasons for attacking Iraq. ...
The Duck Club is something to quack about.
Certain restaurants drum up perceptions in one’s mind. The Duck Club Restaurant in the Monterey Plaza Hotel was one that always had “special occasion” written all over it for me. After living here for many ...
Arms and the Man needs legs to stand on.
George Bernard Shaw, who wrote Arms and the Man, now playing at the Indoor Forest Theater, penned some strong attacks on the Victorian-influenced London theater of his day, dominated as it was by artificial and ...
The Gin Blossoms reunite for nightclub tour.
In 1993, the future of the Gin Blossoms was in question. While the Arizona pop-rock band was dominating the airwaves with singles like “Hey Jealousy” and “Found Out About You,” Doug Hopkins, the songwriter behind ...
This French-Canadian film received the award for Best Foreign Film at the recent Oscars ceremony.
Denys Arcand, the director of 1986’s comedy The Decline of the American Empire, has made a reunion movie of sorts. He gathered all the characters from Decline and the actors who played them for this ...
The winners of the Best of Monterey County 2004 survey were chosen by the readers of Monterey County Weekly. Readers’ Picks and Editors’ Picks were written by Matthew Baldwin, Aaron Birk, Michelle
It’s love. What else to call that thing we feel when, the storm having broken while we slept, we wake to glimpse the crystal blue above the Gabilan, and head out biking on the Rec ...
Best of the Best: Asked at Monterey Peninsula College
Q: What was the best life decision you’ve ever made? Follow-up: What do you like best about yourself? Kathy Dale Retired | Monterey A: Moving to Monterey from the Bay Area. It’s such a beautiful ...
The General Plan roadshow is on again, and the same characters are saying the same things.
For some Monterey County residents, quality of life means the waves crashing along the Big Sur coastline, or the green, rolling Gabilan mountains. For others, it means fields of lettuce or rows of grapevines. And ...
Hiking Devil’s Peak is a springtime project.
During the summer, the 7.6-mile roundtrip hike up to Devil’s Peak can feel like a trip through the bowels of hell. In July and August, the ridgelines in the backcountry of the Ventana Wilderness are ...
Shopping&Services
Readers’Picks Best Surf Shop On the Beach Surf Shop 711 Cannery Row, Monterey 646-9283 Despite a move that took On the Beach from its original digs in New Monterey down to Cannery Row a year ...
Arts&Nightlife
Readers’Picks Best Wine by the Glass Passionfish 701 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove 655-3311 Ted Walter, chef and owner of Passionfish, is a world-class foodie. His devotion to great flavors has led him on all-night romps ...
Effort to repair historic California missions called unconstitutional.
A request for $10 million in federal money to repair and restore California’s 600-mile string of historic missions built by local Indian labor for Spanish colonizers in the 18th and 19th centuries met two-pronged resistance ...
Foodchain
HAPPY DAYS AGAIN…Spring is definitely here. People are wearing shorts, jackets are getting lighter, a renewed spirit is in the air (not withstanding a mild stench from the beginnings of what may prove to be ...
At Cesar Chavez School, as elsewhere, federal guidelines are keeping kids inside.
Scientists say kids who plant a garden grow better brains. On Saturday, March 20, CSU Monterey Bay hosts a conference on science- and garden-based learning, “Bring Science Back to Life!” Sponsored by the Life Lab ...
Michael Caine’s Statement
In his latest film The Statement, Michael Caine plays a pardoned member of Petain’s Vichy regime responsible for killing seven Jews in 1944, who has since remained in hiding around the south of France with ...
Artlistings
art openings | events Galeria Tonantzin Flower Portraits, mixed-media works by Margaret Stanton Murray. Also Envisioning with Hafiz, collage exhibit by Seena B. Frost. Fourth Street in San Juan Bautista. 726-3358 or www.galeriatonantzin.com. Ends 3/29. ...
PhotoAlliance founders explore collective creativity in Carmel show.
Frames of Reference, now showing at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, marks the debut exhibition by a select group of accomplished San Francisco Bay area photographers collectively known as the PhotoAlliance. As part ...
William Giles and Patrick Jablonski go beyond the ordinary in their landscape photography.
There is no greater challenge for photographers working within the parameters of fine art black-and-white landscape photography than finding an integrity of vision that lifts them above the legion of derivative practitioners of the genre. ...
