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Strings In the Forest

California Summer Music brings young students to play the strings.

Eleven-year-old Kevin Chen listens intently to a bespectacled instructor, while clutching his violin and trying to grasp the concept of an “intentional slide.” Chen stands while his teacher, Zaven Melikian, sits nearby, describing the bowing ...

Letters

Airwave Defense Needed Thank you for the excellent feature “The Big Picture,” by Andrew Scutro [July 22-28] and a belated “Hats Off” to this same writer for the outstanding pieces some months ago chronicling his ...

DiscSpace

JACK ROSERaag Manifestos | VHF Records The title of Jack Rose’s new album, Raag Manifestos, is a hybrid scramble of “rag”—as in “ragtime”—and the Indian word, “raga.” Where ragtime music is a distinct idiom of ...

Outlaw County

Board of Supervisors paves the way for a different kind of Monterey County.

The Monterey County Board of Supervisors has approved every major development project to come before it since January. These decisions will mean the county will look a little different in the near future. Two reservoirs ...

FoodChain

HOMEBOY TOURIST… There are so many great benefits to living around here. When Sweet Thing and I are hanging around, not sure of what to do, many times we’ll get in the car and drive ...

Twin Solos on Stage

Susannah York’s Shakespeare’s Women and Gregg Stebben’s Richard Feynman both come to Carmel.

These are dark days for regional theater in Monterey County. Unprecedented budget cuts have forced local drama companies to either creatively fundraise or offer abbreviated seasons. Since staging a full-scale theatrical production is a tremendously ...

The New Guy

R&B veteran brings vocal stylings to Red Beans & Rice.

“This guy has held the band together for 10 years,” Bishop Mayfield says while looking at his new bandmate Gil Rubio. “I wasn’t married that long.” Sitting in the lobby of the Monterey Beach Hotel, ...

Art Listings

| art openings | events | Mantis Metalworks The unveiling of “Big Red,” the newest sculpture by Jonathan Christopher Roberts of Giant Pacific Octopus in copper (five years in the making). Reception: 8/1, 7-9pm. Lighthouse ...

Immigrant Songs

The Greencards bring bluegrass from across two seas.

Carol Young and Kym Warner, of the Austin-based bluegrass band The Greencards, grew up in the South. More specifically, the two hail from the southeast. Southeastern Australia, that is. During a phone interview on a ...

NewsBriefs

Theater Group Hopeful With Sale News that the historic State Theater on Alvarado Street in Monterey has been sold left some wondering what will become of the neglected gem. Warren Dewey, who runs a post-production ...

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| theater opening | The Loves of Shakespeare’s Women Opens Fri 7:30pm, continues Fri-Sat 7:30pm and Sun 2pm. Susannah York brings her acclaimed one-woman show to Carmel where she examines love and the female characters ...

Streettalk

Let it Grow: Asked at Edgewater Center

Q: Should we allow Monterey County to become San Jose south, or LA North? Follow-up: What does this county really need in the way of development? Edmund BralyHotel Desk Clerk | Sand CityA: You can’t ...

Roaring at the Toothless Tiger

Public vents frustration with FCC at public hearing in Monterey.

Scant minutes into the FCC hearing on broadcast media service to local communities, held in Monterey on Wednesday, July 21, someone from the raucous, capacity crowd in the Steinbeck Forum calls out the question on ...

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Pacific Star

Richard and Shelley Risko are the kind of people who appear to be gifted in ways that assure anything they do can surpass anything they’ve done before. Their accomplishments include starting several successful Carmel stores, ...

Your Inner Head-Banger

The rock stars of Metallica go through intense music and therapy in this documentary.

Do head-banging heavy metal and personal growth therapy mix? Can the world’s angriest metal band produce a comeback CD while in the middle of group therapy to iron out their aggressions? These are the questions ...

Hitting the High Notes

Carmel Bach Festival features young opera stars this week.

The sound of a man singing falsetto fills seats—just ask the multitudes who fork over serious cash to ogle Prince in concert. No question about it—today’s androgynous pop stars are revered for their vocal gymnastics ...

Man of Mystery

Former assassin Jason Bourne is still on the run from the Russians and the CIA.

If amnesia victim/former CIA killing machine Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) were a demonstrative man, then some Corleone-style grandstanding—“just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in”—would have been well within his rights. ...

Forum

The King Of Vox Pop: Monday night in Boston, Bill Clinton showed that he’s still the best communicator in politics.

For all of Bill Clinton’s prancing and preening Monday night about his own eight years in the White House, what really made his speech extraordinary were the touches of self-deprecation. Listening to him talk of ...

The Outlaws (and the Lone Green Ranger)

Over the past six months or so, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors has (mostly) ignored state and federal law to allow some mighty big developments.

Big Ag’s New Friend District 1 Supervisor | Fernando Armenta In 1980, Fernando Armenta was a United Farm Workers union organizer, volunteering at car washes to raise money to elect East Salinas Latinos to the ...