Issues / 2004 / May 27
Newsbriefs
Disabled Housing May Stand The senior and disabled residents of the embattled Rippling River housing project may stay at their existing housing facility after all. According to County Supervisor Dave Potter—who’s been a staunch supporter ...
Storyteller’s Son
James McMurtry sets real life to music.
Those who turn the dial on the FM radio all the way over to the right to KPIG at 107.5, have surely heard James McMurtry singing with his Texan’s drawl. KPIG’s program director, Laura Ellen ...
Unchained Melodies
The unscripted, unrehearsed Big Sur Experimental Music Festival continues to play against the grain in its fifth year.
On a videotape of last year’s Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, a trombone player, a slide guitarist and a stand-up bassist play music that sounds like a perfect horror movie score—complete with what sounds like ...
Medicated Childhood
Doctors, parents and teachers are drugging more kids to help them succeed.
Ritalin always works. The “meth” in its real name—methylphenidate hydrochloride—indicates that it is a stimulant, a type of speed, so of course it provides an uplift to kids suffering from depression. But it also works ...
Art Listings
Art Listings
Art Openings | Events Carl Cherry Center for the Arts Carmel artist Tory Raggett presents “African American Painting,” the last in her three-part series of lectures on movements and themes in contemporary art: 6/2, 7pm. ...
Watching Blood and Gore: However repugnant the images from Iraq, we have a duty to look—and learn.
The moment Donald Rumsfeld had been warning about—the worse-to-come moment—arrived on Wednesday, May 12, when new images of atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison were released. The Pentagon brought this closely guarded evidence to safe rooms ...
Discspace
Discspace
MADVILLAINMadvillainyStones Throw Records Madvillainy is a whirlwind tour of producer Madlib’s beautiful, bizarre samples peppered by MF Doom’s equally bizarre, off-the-cuff freestyles. There are no hooks, hardly any choruses, and if you’re lucky, a beat ...
Squidfry
GOP-AFL-CIO… Next thing Squid knows, the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council AFL-CIO will announce it’s working on President George W. Bush’s reelection campaign. What’s that, you say? The union of all unions supporting a Head ...
Anaïs Nin film fest screens indie docu-diaries.
Bay Area filmmaker Marjorie Sturm is the brains behind the film/video festival that has been added to the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival for the first time this year. Named after the early feminist cult ...
Theater Listings
Theater Listings
Theater Opening Evita Thurs-Sun 7:30pm. More than 100 high school students from the tri-county area put on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about Argentinean icon Eva Peron. $15/adults, $8/students. Forest Theater Guild at the Outdoor ...
Chart Topper
Nine Days after tomorrow.
With singer/songwriter/guitarist John Hampson, Brian Desveaux is the driving force behind the Long Island band Nine Days. After releasing two CDs on their own, Nine Days had an impressive major label debut with The Madding ...
Simple, beautiful Korean film celebrates stages of life in a monastery.
Proof that movies don’t always have to be busy to entertain and enrich, this tale of life at a bucolic Korean monastery is at once profound and simple. The most action-packed it gets is when ...
Schoolyard Chemical Drift
Salinas grade school sits in a field where Diazinon and other pesticides are sprayed.
It’s a beautiful sight, really, the expansive land that stretches from Boronda Road, between Natividad Road and San Juan Grade, northeast toward the mountain range. The rows and rows of budding strawberries and lettuce pushing ...
Feast
No Mere Market: Scrumptious pizza and spicy soup headline a meal at Santa Lucia’s.
I’d driven by Santa Lucia Market countless times. The bright red brick building has a significant amount of appeal from the street. But I thought it was just that, a market. I couldn’t have been ...
Artifacts
BAY AREA BUDDY… Pacific Repertory Theater’s production of Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story opens June 9 at the Post Street Theatre in San Francisco, and key PRT staffers have been running back and forth to the ...
Foodchain
NOT GRUMPY… Before I get started, let me clear up a misunderstanding from last week’s column. In it I referred to Chris Delaney of Hula’s as the brother who is not grumpy, implying that his ...
Homepage
Among the Roses in Salinas.
Bunches and bunches of roses in brilliant hues and subdued pastels decorate the front garden of this immaculate South Salinas home. The silence of the older established neighborhood probably gives them the peace to bloom ...
Letters
Praise Squid! Squid is the Greatest!Squid Fry: Do you hear a really loud…AMEN! AMEN!! Keep sizzling and squiggling! Hugs from Seaside’s shake, rattle and roll.Margaret Osborne | Seaside Rush and Terrorists are SubhumanI completely agree ...
Local Coach Makes Good
Mike Kelly skippers baseballers in his Carmel High alma mater.
Baseball is a game of numbers, and by anyone’s reckoning Mike Kelly’s numbers as a coach are exceptional. His Carmel High varsity baseball teams have chalked up 257 wins against only 71 losses. His 11-year ...
Hell, No
Israeli officers say soldiers have the right to refuse orders.
Ron Gerlitz and Amir Shahal are both reserve captains in the Israeli military—Gerlitz in the army, Shahal in the navy. They both love their country, and consider themselves Zionists. They both also have refused orders ...
Sex And The County
Death in Salinas: Supes cave to big-money interests; kill GPU3.
There won’t be a happy ending to this show. It won’t be like that other love story with “Sex &” in its name. Nope, the General Plan Update process will end badly. The girl reporter ...
Knowing My Father
Architect Louis Kahn’s son delves into the mysterious man’s life and works.
Compelling, luminous, and poignant, this documentary about legendary American architect Louis Kahn is surprisingly revelatory, not only about the work of its subject, but also because it has been made by one of the great ...
Street Talk
A Noble Sacrifice: Asked at the Monterey Post Office
Q: Is America still worth dying for?Follow-up: What’s your favorite barbecue food? Judy WestGeologist | San FranciscoA: Yes. I’ve traveled enough to know what a special situation we have here. I think some people put ...
