Issues / 2004 / Aug 12
Letters
Rejection of Anti-Abortion Ad Reveals Weekly’s Bias I was recently disappointed by your rejection of a pro-life advertisement that I supported. The ad consisted of a picture of a baby of around thirty weeks in ...
In Sore Winners, LA Weekly writer John Powers looks at the Bush-led culture of entitlement.
Americans began a long, strange journey on the fateful day when George Bush scrambled his way into the White House and ushered in four years of color-coded hysteria, untrammeled corporate abuse, and a power-worshipping media. ...
Art Listings
Art Listings
| art openings | events | Alvarado Gallery Atmospheric Abstracts and Plein Air. Ann Walbert and Robert Lewis combine to show how the Central Coast offers different perspectives to each individual. Reception: 8/13, 5:30-7pm. Monterey ...
Cartoons For Science
Blend of animation and hard science spins your head.
Have you ever wanted to see your brain cells animated onscreen like the blobby ghosts from Ghostbusters? In What the #$*! Do We Know?!, a quirky independent film combining quantum physics experts with cartoon brain ...
Street Talk
Give Us More: Asked Outside the Monterey Sports Center
Q: Should the major networks run all the Olympic events?Follow-up: What’s your favorite Olympic sport? Jonelle White Self-employed | MontclairA: Yes, absolutely. Networks shouldn’t choose which sports are more important than others. It’s unfair to ...
Disabled residents of Rippling River fight Housing Authority to preserve their homes.
Chris Sauer, a tiny blond woman whose friends call her Chrissy, sits in a wheelchair and begs Housing Authority staff to let her stay in her home at Rippling River. She’s severely disabled and she ...
Auto Exotic
Time for the vroom-vroom.
Environmentalists dread it. Many women ignore it. And most men, local or visitor, grin like schoolboys when they realize it is time for what has affectionately become known as “Car Week.” This mid-August extravaganza of ...
The Big Sound
TYT brings back the funk.
Keith Hames knows how to get a crowd fired up. During the last song at a recent Sly McFly’s gig, Hames whipped the crowd into a frenzy during TYT’s jammed-out version of the James Brown ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
BRINGING THE HENS HOME TO ROOST…Let Squid be the first to admit: Monterey can be a lonely town for the single cephalopod. Especially for the single, male cephalopod. While Squidette has her pick of the ...
FoodChain
GET ROLLING… Ohhh baby—I do love this week so. Unless you are duct-taped inside someone’s closet, I assume you are well aware of this special week in our humble little cluster of villages. Car Week. ...
Homepage
Mediterranean Grace in PG
I have never met Mr. and Mrs. G. (having contacted them by phone and promised not to use their name), but they live in a home so acknowledged in Pacific Grove that it has a ...
Theater Listings
| theater opening | Henry VI, Part 3 Opens Sat 7:30pm. Continues Fri-Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2pm. The Assassination of Henry VI by William Shakespeare, directed by Stephen Moorer, finds England embroiled in civil war. The ...
Long Winding Road
Father-and-son pair take on John Muir Trail.
To travel 222 miles by plane, it would take exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds; by car averaging 60 miles per hour, three hours and 42 minutes; and running at a constant five miles per ...
A report on Prop. 36—the citizens referendum designed to unclog jails—is due in a few weeks.
More than seven million adults in the United States are either behind bars, on probation or parole. That’s almost three percent of Americans in some slot of the court system, according to a recent report ...
Royal Pain
Shakespeare returns to Carmel this weekend with
‘Why, I can smile, and murder whilst I smile,” confesses the crookbacked Richard, Shakespeare’s deliciously black-hearted aspirant to the throne. And murder he does. Beginning this weekend at the Circle Theatre, Richard plots and butchers ...
Escape From Hell
Gritty look at Colombian drug exporting shows human edge.
As experienced by the title character, the flip side of the drug trade—specifically the illegal transport of heroin from Colombia to New York City—is a harrowing journey undertaken by those for whom all other avenues ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
REIGNING SOUND Too Much Guitar | In The Red Garage/punk was a bastard movement when it first appeared in the middle ‘60s, when a Stones-besotted cadre of psyched-out zitheads in America revved up Jagger/Richards’ take ...
Crack War Veterans
Even as the bad old days fade away, addictions die hard.
At the end of the block, a white-haired, barrel-chested man in a baseball hat and dark glasses strides out of the corner liquor store with a 12-pack of Heineken under one arm and a 12-pack ...
Newsbriefs
Monterey College of Law Makes A Move The Monterey College of Law (MCL) has waited ten years to go ten miles away. This past Tuesday at Fort Ord, MCL held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark ...
Into a Sea of Green
After a minor early-morning shoot-out, a huge clandestine pot farm is destroyed.
Off River Road southwest of Salinas, past a barn and through a gate, up a dirt track beyond lazy cows and into the woods along a ravine, tucked under the oak trees and scattered in ...
Hearth-side Sushi
Robata Grill and Sake Bar combines a cozy setting with all-around great Japanese food.
‘Honored guests are here,” says Robata’s owner Tomoko Yotsumoto, in Japanese that is loud enough for her staff to hear, as she seats patrons at their tables. The effect is to make the Japanese surroundings ...
Style Counsel
LA’s DJ Doc Martin headlines opening of Mint.
Growing up in North Hollywood, Peter Bauman was accustomed to attending dance parties with titillating titles like Nocturnal Wonderland and the Purple Panda Parade at places like deserted warehouses, old airstrips and deserts outside of ...
