Issues / 2004 / May 13
American Song
Ensemble Monterey brings Aaron Copland to Salinas and Carmel.
If you’re conflicted about being an American these days due to ongoing events in the Middle East and elsewhere, a double shot of composer Aaron Copland’s music may be in order. Ensemble Monterey’s season-closing presentation, ...
Foodchain
Milestones… Just got back from my son’s graduation from the University of Florida. Had a great time hanging around with him and my daughter, who just finished her sophomore year at the University of South ...
Theater Listings
Theater Opening MPC Festival of Shorts MPC’s Portable Theater company presents two weekends of short productions: Sat-Sun at 5pm, Fractured Fairy Tales , $5/general, $1/15 and under; a 45-minute version of Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen ...
Deceptively Frothy
Lush French comedy Bon Voyage hits the spot.
Veteran French filmmaker Jean-Paul Rappeneau pulls off a nifty trick in his delicious new film Bon Voyage . It begins as a piece of stylized fluff, complete with gorgeous period costumes, broad characterizations, and the ...
Squidfry
RICH AND THE POOR… Oh, the irony. May 6 though May 14 is Cover the Uninsured Week nationally and locally. And aside from the week’s intended result of—hopefully—bringing some much-needed awareness to the problem of ...
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In The Monterey Pines
On a quiet cul-de-sac and nestled on an ivy-covered hill in old Monterey is a spacious three-bedroom house. Known as the “Tree House,” this luxury home sits on a third of an acre which extends ...
Art Listings
Art Listings
Art Openings | Events Alvarado Gallery Critters and Free Radicals. Paige Johnson and Rita Shugart present new paintings of animals (Shugart) and collages (Johnson). Reception: 5/14, 5:30-7pm. Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. 646-3991. ...
Swords and Sex
Greek mythology never looked so appealing before this epic.
For those of us whose Greek mythology knowledge was a bit fuzzy before entering the theater, Troy opens with several minutes of back-story text scrolling over a map of ancient Greece. This helps to explain ...
Letters
Squid’s Following the Wrong Lideres Squid fails to mention that the Lideres Communitarios de Salinas is a small local group organized by Landwatch Monterey County and directed by Lupe Garcia, a Landwatch employee and Community ...
11th Annual Carmel Art Festival
11th Annual Carmel Art Festival
Acclaimed artists, sculptors and photographers will present lectures, demonstrations and special exhibits during this weekend festival celebrating the artistic tradition of Carmel. A youth art show, dog sculpture auctions, live music by Heartstrings and the ...
Dance Hall Days
Chautauqua Hall’s ballroom dances bring out the old, the young, and the graceful.
It’s seven in the evening on a warm Saturday night, and all the dancers are in Chautauqua Hall in downtown Pacific Grove. People shuffle all around the room, some of them gliding along like pros, ...
Witness to War’s Horror
Peace activist who has spent years in Iraq will speak at CSUMB.
Ramzi Kysia, 34, grew up in Royal Oak, Michigan, a leafy suburb of Detroit. Kysia is a Lebanese-American who has spent about five years living and working in the Middle East, most recently in Iraq. ...
Alterna Latino
Bat Makumba make something like Brazilian originalia.
Back in 2000, the three members of the San Francisco dance band Bat Makumba decided to record a three-song demo CD. By 2003, the band’s small project had turned into a 15-song self-titled debut. Recorded ...
Feast
A Traditional Banquet: After 20 years, Chef Lee’s still offers classic Chinese cooking in an exotic, elegant setting.
A pair of white, stone Fu dogs, protectors of sacred places in Chinese lore, welcomes diners to Chef Lee’s Mandarin House, which resembles a small palace with its curved red tiled roof and white walls ...
Ska Hawaii
Go Jimmy Go brings transplanted island sounds to the mainland.
On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the seven-piece ska/reggae band Go Jimmy Go is huge. In addition to being a critical success, the band can pack people into the island’s nightclubs at places like Anna ...
A New Log From The Sea of Cortez
Science and adventure in the spirit of Steinbeck and Ricketts.
In the late afternoon, a school of jack mackerel swims past the Gus D, reflecting sunlight through the ultramarine water like so many silver medallions. The weathered boat is anchored a comfortable distance from the ...
Outside
Locals Only Ride: Sunshine Freestyle Surfabout returns for 24th year.
Brad Johnson has a very specific wish for the weather and wave conditions at Carmel Beach this weekend. Johnson, the co-founder of the annual Sunshine Freestyle Surfabout, is hoping for sunny skies overhead with three- ...
A Sick System
National Cover the Uninsured Week highlights critical local situation.
Karla Benedict says she comes to Dorothy’s Place—a Salinas outreach center that provides food, showers, clothing, laundry and other services to homeless and hungry people—for the sandwiches and also for the free medical clinic on ...
Antiheroes Live!
MPC’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern breathes anew.
Until last weekend, when I attended Monterey Peninsula College’s Rosencrantz&Guildenstern Are Dead!, it had topped my list of favorite plays I’d never seen performed. Now, thanks to Peter DeBono’s whip smart production of this Tom ...
News Briefs
Feds Want Citizens’ Input on Los Padres Forest Plan The US Forest Service has released the draft plan to guide strategic management of public lands in the Los Padres National Forest through 2025. Citizens are ...
Street Talk
You’re Fired!: Asked at Monterey Institute of International Studies
Q: Should President Bush fire Donald Rumsfeld to hold him accountable for the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners?Follow-up: What’s the worst physical pain? Geoffery Fontana Student | Monterey A: As much as I would like to ...
