Issues / 2004 / Jul 22
Latinos Face Health Risks
Methyl bromide is just one threat that the Bush administration is ignoring, Sierra Club reports.
A Bad Week for Fieldworkers Two news events last week—one in Washington, DC, and one in Geneva, Switzerland—point to a serious local problem. On Tuesday, the Sierra Club released news of a study that showed ...
Forty-eight Nobel laureates condemn Bush administration in Report on Scientific Integrity in Policymaking.
From The Executive Summary The US government runs on information—vast amounts of it. Researchers at the National Weather Service gather and analyze meteorological data to know when to issue severe-weather advisories. Specialists at the Federal ...
Letters
A Liberal Defense Joe Vargo defines a liberal as “Someone who will not fight back when attacked” [Letters, July 15-21]. Funny—I couldn’t find any such definition of “liberal” in the dictionary. A person who will ...
Democrat John Laird and Republican Bruce McPherson, and most of their peers, still oppose governor’s budget.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally hit the wall. Nobody in the legislature is happy about it, but they’re not surprised either. Schwarzenegger went to Sacramento vowing to do what governors before him could not do: ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| art openings | events | Pacific Grove Art Center Three Shows. Boyer Gallery: Tiny Treasures, a Summer Miniatures Show Fundraiser. This year’s benefit includes work from over 80 local artists in acrylics, collage, oil, ...
Trail Blaser
Kirsten Blase brings early music to the big world.
Make no mistake about it, the church music of the 18th century is inspiring stuff—even if the lyrics are indecipherable. At the ongoing Carmel Bach Festival, many performances provide English subtitles but, in some cases, ...
CAMP Ramps Up
Big King City pot bust could be the beginning of another banner year.
Somewhere deep in the substructure of the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, crammed in a warehouse evidence locker, sits a half million dollars worth of quality marijuana plants. Acting on a tip from a hunter, the ...
Newsbriefs
Arquilla to Speak at 9/11 Forum Radio listeners can catch Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) professor and author John Arquilla live on KAZU 90.3FM at a Monterey County Weekly-sponsored forum on Iraq following a screening of ...
May-December Love
May-December Love
Sirk and Fassbinder, most famously, tackled the social stigma of a middle-aged woman reigniting her sex life with a younger man, but director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and writer Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette) raise ...
Another Kind of Duo
Guitar looper Yuji and his two-man big band play Viva Monterey.
Two musicians are playing in Viva’s on a Wednesday night. You might imagine a couple of folkies sitting in chairs, strumming acoustic guitars and harmonizing before a crowd of seated patrons sipping beer and whispering ...
SLO Jam
Shambhala brings jazz-funk-rock groove north to Fernwood.
Because Fernwood happens to be located on Highway 1 between Monterey and San Luis Obispo, it is able to draw on the best acts from the two small cities. One case in point is San ...
Big Little Restaurant
There’s nothing small about the plates at Taquitos.
Located in the strip mall across from Sherwood Hall in Salinas, Taquitos reigns as my family’s “let’s eat one meal today” restaurant. Affixing “-ito” to the end of a Spanish word usually makes the word ...
Streettalk
Easily Distracted: Asked at Starbucks in Del Rey Oaks
Q: Where is Osama Bin Laden right now?Follow-up: Where’s Waldo?Ewa PruskaStudent | MontereyA: With such a messed up media it’s very hard to tell. I think he is just one guy whose mentality conflicts with ...
Homepage
Hand-Built Comfort in Prunedale
When Tim and Christy Reece say they built a house, they mean it literally. By their own labors they have built a unique, practical and brilliantly livable home within the gated Country Meadows community in ...
Hooked on Methyl
The good news is US farmers are using less methyl bromide than ever before. The bad news is they just can’t quite kick the habit.
Last week, a US delegation traveled to Geneva, Switzerland for routine talks on an international environment treaty bearing an audacious request from the Bush administration. They asked that American farmers, who had vowed in the ...
Truck Farming
A local family of organic growers finds ways to bring their fruit to market.
The sun had just set last Saturday when Rosario Rodriguez pulled into the driveway of his Castroville home. With heavy lids and a warm smile, he climbed down from his pickup truck. “I’m sorry I’m ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
BAD RELIGIONEmpire Strikes First | Epitaph Like the mini-malls that dot their Los Angeles-area homebase, Bad Religion can be incredibly unvarying on every release. Each CD, like each mall, is composed of the identical components—in ...
Anything Goes
The big screen life of Jazz Age songwriter Cole Porter dances along, with little drama.
Irwin Winkler’s kid-gloves adaptation of the lives of Cole Porter and his wife Linda, De-Lovely, begins with Porter (Kevin Kline) at the piano, dying or possibly already dead, interrupted by a ghost/Broadway producer (Jonathan Pryce), ...
Beatle’s Lines
Artwork of John Lennon on display at Portola Plaza.
Older, losing his hair, and still indicating precisely what he meant to say, John Lennon would have been sixty-four this year. This weekend, to celebrate this milestone, Yoko Ono once again brings an exhibit of ...
Wandering Diva
Mezzo soprano Elise Rotchford follows her musical muse to some wild places.
Elise Rotchford’s neighbors on 18th Street in Pacific Grove have come to relish the sound of her haunting voice as it soars and plummets over their rooftops like something with wings. But her neighbors haven’t ...
FoodChain
MATCHLESS PAIR… Just got the latest newsletter from George Edwards. He’s the local wine guru who owns and operates WineMarket (formerly WineStyles) in the Country Club Gate Center on David and Forest in PG. By ...
Bush’s Wacky World of Science
I write today as a physician. The Bush administration has declared war on science. In the Orwellian world of 21st century America, two plus two no longer equals four where public policy is concerned, and ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
RAP THE VOTE…Squid’s always been a fan of the underdog, the little guy, the long shot, the dark horse or the (insert your cliché of choice here). And in the race for the 17th Congressional ...
TheaterList
TheaterList
| theater opening | Corpse! Opens Thurs at 8pm, continues Thurs-Sat 8pm and Sun 2pm. Take an out-of-work actor in 1930s London, add a filthy rich twin brother. Throw in a kooky landlady, a bewildered ...
