Issues / 2004 / Sep 30
ArtListings
| art openings | events | The 16th Annual Monterey County Artists’ Studio Tour Encore weekend. Self-guided studio tour of 35 selected local artists. Sat-Sun, 10am-6pm. 375-2208. Artist Loft Co-op October Show. Central Coast Art ...
Timeline 1989-2004
Timeline 1989-2004
1989 This is the year that “Love Shack” by the B-52’s, “Funky Cold Medina” by Tone Loc, and “Patience” by Guns N Roses rule the pop charts, The Simpsons and Seinfeld debut on television, Batman ...
Shaky Grounds
The County’s plans to delete routine e-mails might be fine—except for the obvious problem.
The girl reporter suddenly feels the earth move. No, it isn’t because of anything Mr. Big had done—nor is it a particularly pleasurable experience. In fact, it’s a little scary. A 6.0 earthquake hits, south ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
WATCHING PAINT DRY…Yowza! Squid hasn’t had this much fun in, well, at least in the last 30 minutes or so. Gather up the kiddies, pop the corn, pour the root beer floats, and huddle around ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
VARIOUS ARTISTSCan’t You Hear Me Callin’ Bluegrass | Columbia/Legacy Four CDs and more than a hundred tracks of “white folks blues” may be overkill to those only marginally acquainted with this archaic genre, but it’s ...
America Votes, a coalition of 32 progressive organizations, fields a coordinated grass-roots nationwide canvassing campaign.
Mindy, a ruddy-faced mother in her early 40s, opened the door just after Johanna knocked on it. Something in the way Mindy occupied the doorway indicated that she would tolerate no BS. After a brief ...
The Passion
Jack Zajac’s paintings at the Chris Winfield Gallery evoke the power of the suffering Christ.
A small survey of big paintings by Santa Cruz artist Jack Zajac at the Chris Winfield Gallery in Carmel is a stark reminder of the power inherent when body and soul work in concert during ...
Street Talk
They Ain’t Talking -- Asked at Morgan’s in Monterey
Q: What issues should presidential candidates talk about that they aren’t? Follow-up: What two people would make the most interesting debate? Mike Provence Pet Bather | Pacific Grove A: Marijuana. The issue is 200 years ...
Change Happens
As this community has evolved, so has the
Sixteen years ago I stepped into an ink-stained office in Carmel and took ownership of a tourist rag about to cease publication. I hoped to take that publication and turn it into something. The idea ...
FoodChain
KORPORATE KITCHEN KUTIES… I know a lot of you out there are worried about the direction our world is headed, and probably with good reason. There doesn’t seem to be any reduction in the usual ...
Late-Night Sushi for The Soul
While the rest of New Monterey sleeps, Sakura serves up good cheer and generous helpings of the freshest sushi in town.
Even though the wiseguys have been mining the American diner for irony for the last decade, it remains a worthy populist icon in theory and an indispensable part of life in practice. The best diners ...
The Meaning of Etc.
The
Being the editor of Monterey County Weekly is exactly like being the ringleader of a three-ring circus. Here at 668 Williams Ave., as under the Big Top, there is more activity going on than a ...
Keeping It Real
Monterey County’s arts scene branches out from its bohemian Carmel roots.
Arts communities don’t appear overnight. They take persistent, driven visionaries with the ability to realize abstraction. But they also take money and bureaucracy and volunteers. They take a shared belief in the power of art. ...
Blue Light Blackout
Seaside Kmart closes and everything must go.
In all the chaos and doomsday fervor, some hooligan carved a swastika on Hillary Clinton’s forehead, gave her devil horns, and blacked out her eyeballs. Her book, Living History, and its disgraced cover, is mixed ...
TheaterListings
TheaterListings
| theater opening | Twelfth Night Opens Sat 7:30pm, continues Sun 7pm. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night tells the story of Viola and Sebastian, identical twins who are separated in a horrible shipwreck. Each, believing the other ...
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Traditional Elegance in Salinas
The Cominos house in Salinas is a manifestly important house, and must be visited to appreciate why. It’s a phenomenon of its era, built in 1932 by the brilliantly insightful George Cominos, and is the ...
Whale of a Tale
Dreamworks’
When each new 3-D animation feature from Dreamworks or Pixar defines the latest state-of-the-art CG, it’s enough to watch just to see these CG wizards at their technological and creative best. When good scripting and ...
Soul Power
Sista Monica Parker brings it back to Sly’s.
Stuart Thornton Since 1992, when Sista Monica Parker started singing professionally, the Central Coast-based blues, soul and gospel singer has received a tremendous amount of accolades, including an “Artist of the Year Award” at the ...
Making Local News
Celebrating a decade and a half of knockout journalism—and then some.
These pages have told thousands of stories. The stories cover a lot of miles and a lot of people’s lives. Our neighbors have celebrated milestones in these pages. There have been land-use battles won and ...
Political Gold Dust
Rich vein in Silver City falls short of the big nugget.
With Silver City, John Sayles becomes the latest filmmaker to contribute his cinematic two cents to this election year’s plethora of politically minded movies. Sayles’ contributions, however, have much greater value than the metaphorical two ...
NewsBriefs
Homeland Security Pays for Boat Millions of dollars in federal grant money from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was spread out last week among fire departments around the country. Although the DHS was organized ...
Getting Your Bang On
San Jose Taiko brings drum power to CSUMB.
To awaken the tribal warrior that lurks down deep—even if it’s just to do battle with the dandelions disrupting an otherwise pristine lawn—sometimes a little more encouragement than a double latte can provide is needed. ...
Letters
We Sing Like the Eight Angels We Are (Not Like the Developers We Cruise With) Squid got it wrong, again! When reporting on the recent relaxing cruise my husband, Marina City Council candidate Gary Wilmot, ...
The Uncivil Wars
Financial shell games, golden parachutes, dirty little secrets—it’s election year again in Pacific Grove.
To hear the challengers to Pacific Grove’s four available council seats tell it, PG is ruled by a special-interest cabal that has nothing but contempt for anyone who disagrees with its members. To hear incumbents ...
International School Relocated
Larkin School location may be leased, midway through the school year, to DLI, which would help MPUSD’s money worries.
The timing could barely be worse, but the thriving International School of Monterey (ISM) must vacate its current location at the Larkin School in Monterey and move to Manzanita School in Seaside at the end ...
Road-Wize Stylee
Uprite Dub Orchestra with Ras Gabriel at Viva.
Since May of this year, the six-member Portland, Oregon-based Uprite Dub Orchestra has been on the road performing all over the western United States. Traveling in a blue seven-person passenger van dubbed the Dubwagon, the ...
Newspaper Business 101
The Weekly does business the old-fashioned way—locally.
My good friend Fran, who toiled for years as publisher at a weekly newspaper in New England, told me recently that before making any senior-level hiring decision, he would get the candidate to talk about ...
