Issues / 2004 / Oct 28
Metroing to The White House
A bold strategy outlined in a new book could help the Kerry campaign, if only they would listen.
John Kerry vs. George W. Bush. Michael Moore vs. Mel Gibson. Hillary Clinton vs. Newt Gingrich. Smarter kids vs. smarter bombs. According to an advertising blitz that saturated the New York Times and the Washington ...
Life Mirrors Film
Tarnation, a shocking and delightful autobiography, evolves from pain to hope.
Sometimes people grow up sane despite the best efforts of society to drive them mad. This is the case for filmmaker Jonathan Caouette, whose Tarnation tells the jarring story of his young life, a life ...
Too Close to Call
Polling in an election this close is statistically worthless.
Four years ago, on Oct. 27, 2000, CNN reported that polls from Time, Gallup, ABC News, USA Today, and the Washington Post found that Bush was ahead in the popular vote. Some said Bush had ...
FoodChain
$%#** THE YANKEES… I’m trying to write this #%&^**@ column as the #@%$# Red Sox are being congratulated for coming from three games down to beat the worthless $%#** Yankees. You see, when you grow ...
The Battle of the Band
Pearl Jam joins two-week all-rockstar tour of swing states.
The sellout crowd at the Sovereign Center erupted Friday night when Pearl Jam ripped into “Animal,” the second song of their concert to kick off the Vote for Change tour in Reading, Pennsylvania. After rocking ...
The ‘Reformer’
This time, voters can compare Bush’s promises to his record.
So far the Republican convention has been all about courage, compassion and lauding our War President for possessing ample quantities of both, including the theater-in-the-round stage designed to highlight the president’s strength and authority, and ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
OPEN MEETINGS AND POCKETBOOKS… A couple weeks ago, Squid inked four of the five County Supervisors for attending a Jerry Smith fundraiser. Smith and Jane Parker are the two candidates vying for Edith Johnson’s 4th ...
Letters
Where’s the Money? While reading “Locked In,” [Weekly, Oct. 21-27] I noticed what I thought was a startling fact. Why does it cost us $31,000 per year per prisoner in California? This might not startle ...
As the FBI goes knocking prior to the Republican National Convention, the ACLU fights back.
Sarah Bardwell did not get the names of the four FBI agents and two police officers who questioned her and her roommates late on the afternoon of July 22 on the front porch of their ...
TheaterListings
| theater now playing | Meadow Muffin Mafia Fri-Sat 8pm. Western vaudeville hijinks from the Barbary Players. A villain, Osama Bendover, rolls into the town of Meadow Muffin and disrupts life for the colorful community, ...
National&State Offices
~ NATIONAL ~ PRESIDENT >> John Kerry It’s difficult to imagine anyone reading these pages who has not yet made up his or her mind in this year’s presidential contest. This is either the most ...
Circus City
Fourteen candidates swarm in crowded Monterey races.
On a rainy Tuesday afternoon in Monterey, the five members of the city council gathered in their chambers to do the unthinkable but inevitable, in a city that has changed from a fishing community and ...
Wild At Heart
Jeff Norman’s Big Sur depicts the men and women who pioneered the mythic coast. By Stuart Thornton
Biologist, historian and author Jeff Norman lives on a strikingly beautiful 20-acre plot of land in Big Sur, halfway up the steep coastal mountains that climb from Highway 1 to Coast Ridge Road. On his ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| art openings | events | Hartnell College Gallery Bailando con la Muerte. Day of the Dead exhibit and celebration. Colorful paintings and escenas, the oversize papier maché sculptures depicting skeletal people garbed for a ...
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 ...
Long Distance Runaround
The race for the redrawn State Senate seat pits an accessible county supervisor against a hard-to-reach sitting assemblyman.
The last round of gerrymandering by the state legislature wiped the Monterey Bay area off the political map. The re-drawing of the state Senate District map, which occurred in 2000, ensured that on Nov. 2, ...
El Pioneer
Latin jazz artist Michel Camilo visits Carmel.
Critics often claim that jazz has lacked a galvanizing movement or trailblazer since the death of John Coltrane in 1967. But when the history of the music’s past quarter century is written, there will be ...
Street Talk
Things That Go Bump In America -- Asked in Oldtown Salinas
Q: What is most frightening about the upcoming election? Follow-up: What movie monster does John Kerry or George Bush resemble? Christover Roper Mortgage Banking | Monterey A: That Bush will win. He’s against the issues ...
Undead History
Gary Munsinger’s Ghost Walk Tours of Monterey can be electrifying.
Last year, my girlfriend and I took one of Gary Munsinger’s Ghost Walk tours of Old Monterey, and we experienced something strange. The air felt like a decaying, clammy hand trying to reach under our ...
Salinas’ Favorite Son
The race for the 28th Assembly District pits a centrist incumbent against a vigorous property-rights advocate.
‘Silicon Valley to the Salad Bowl”—that’s how Democratic incumbent Simón Salinas refers to the 28th Assembly District, which stretches from the southern end of Santa Clara County, through all of San Benito County, and down ...
Monterey County: Red or Blue?
An election year quiz
Having trouble deciding who to vote for on Nov. 2? Confused about who is a Republican and who is a Democrat? Do you listen to the candidates and get confused by their triangulations? You are ...
New York Minutes
Fake moderates dominate the Republican National Convention.
McCain to America: Fight Something! John McCain is absolutely sure that we’re in the midst of fighting a great war. “It’s a big thing, this war,” he said Monday night in his address to the ...
Down to the Wire With the Liars
George Bush and his cohorts continue to spin misinformation—and it’s working.
Oh, you sweet, innocent, carefree citizens in non-swing states. You have no idea how much fun and slime you aare missing. In the swingers, wolves stalk us mercilessly (as the pro-wolf lobby points out indignantly, ...
Bush team is used to winning ugly.
In response to the intensifying controversy over the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attack on John Kerry, spokespeople for the Bush campaign and the White House have denied any connection between the Bush campaign ...
Behind the Supes’ Door
A big campaign contributor with a lawsuit against the County shares some private words with his…er, our supervisors.
What is happening behind those closed doors, wonders the girl reporter? First there was Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent comment about wife Maria Shriver’s Lysistrata-esque punishment following his speech at the Republican National Convention. Then, the ...
Working Class Heroine
Vera Drake is well-acted but ruined by simplistic plot.
Vera Drake, the eponymous heroine of Mike Leigh’s new movie, is nobody’s idea of an arresting physical presence. As played by Imelda Staunton, a powerful actress mutated into a mousy housewife, she’s someone you’d barely ...
Answers to first article
1 • If you know MST is the local bus service because it’s your ride to work, give yourself 10 Blue points, because it means you’re probably car-less for some reason, which means you might ...
Fresh Taste of Lebanon
Tabouli’s Middle Eastern fare bursts with health and flavor.
I can feel the vitamins course through my veins every time I eat the vegetable-rich Lebanese cuisine at Tabouli. Chef and owner Christophe Hamadé offers a tempting array of vegetarian and vegan dishes that matches ...
Military Records Of Prominent Figures
DEMOCRATS Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71. David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72. Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72. Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army ...
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 ...
Life Style Differences
A devoted New Urbanist presents a challenge to an unabashed developers’ friend.
The sun is rising and Bruce Delgado sits in his living room on Vaughn Avenue in Marina, a few blocks up from city hall, with a cup of tea and a plate of scones on ...
State Propositions
~ STATE PROPOSITIONS ~ PROP. 1AProtection of Local Government Revenues >> Yes Cities are broke. So’s the state. The state likes to hit up the cities to pay for its shortcomings. We live in cities. ...
A Developing Agenda
Mixed cast vies for Seaside reins.
It’s at an Oct. 7 meeting of the Seaside City Council, nearing the height of an election year, when the councilmembers/candidates must figure out whether to extend a moratorium on new escort services. Adult services ...
Reed Warrior
Clarinet wunderkind joins St. Petersburg String Quartet in Carmel Saturday.
Picture this: a nine-year-old boy attends an orchestra concert, his first ever. He’s so taken with the experience that he writes a long, heartfelt letter to the conductor about how he’d like to follow in ...
Strange Officemates
Left and right unite to fight Farr from a new five-party headquarters.
Mark Risley calls the grand opening of his new campaign headquarters “historic.” On Aug. 21, the Pacific Grove Republican businessman joined forces with Libertarian investment advisor Joel Smolen, Peace & Freedom bookseller Joe Williams, and ...
HomePage
Family Style in Carmel Valley
Jerry and Marlene Harner’s house has raised a combined family of five children and has given forty-two years of comfort and beauty, yet looks like it was born yesterday. “I love this house so much ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
TOM WAITSReal Gone | Anti On most of his recent albums, singer/songwriter Tom Waits sounds like a beautiful anachronism. With songs about sailors in strange ports and carnies playing on antique sounding instruments like cigar ...
Mr. Popularity
Assemblyman John Laird makes friends and kicks ass in Sacramento.
The race for the 27th District Assembly seat is a little like a competition between a cheetah and a house cat, and incumbent Assemblyman John Laird is the cheetah. In November 2002, Laird crushed his ...
Anxiety and Hope
Salinas city races will be a slam-dunk; governing through persistent crises will not be so easy.
Salinas is a city at a crossroads, and a city of contradictions. The county’s most populous city, Salinas holds on to an image of itself as a small town. Wide, tree-lined streets lined with turn-of-the-century ...
My Plan for Iraq
In a landmark speech delivered in New York City on Monday, Sept. 20, and excerpted here, the Democratic candidate lays out a deep critique and a detailed plan.
National security is a central issue in this campaign. We owe it to the American people to have a real debate about the choices President Bush has made, and the choices I would make, to ...
The British Are Coming
And we’re either with ’em or against ’em
The front-page news in London last Wednesday was a story that the NY Times and LA Times both missed. President Bush’s special envoy to Iraq, James Baker (you may remember him most recently as W’s ...
Bullettooth lead singer recovers for show.
Despite his band being an obvious crowd favorite at the Monterey Battle of the Bands Finals, Eric Gilmore, lead singer of Bullettooth, had a rough evening on the night of the competition finals against other ...
County and City Offices & Measures
~ COUNTY OF MONTEREY ~ COUNTY SUPERVISOR, DISTRICT 4 >> Jane Parker The race for District 4 Supervisor is hugely important, and the choice, as this week’s cover story shows, is clear: The Weekly heartily ...
The Weekly's Endorsements At a Glance
~ NATIONAL ~ President: John Kerry US Senate: Barbara Boxer US House of Reps: Sam Farr ~ CALIFORNIA ~ CA Senate Dist. 15: Peg Pinard Assembly Dist. 27: John Laird Assembly Dist. 28: Simón Salinas ...
Hot For Alien Trannies
Frank N. Further et al. wow ‘em in Salinas.
I believe The Rocky Horror Show has evolved beyond theater and into the realm of pageantry. In fact, Rocky Horror has probably overtaken the Birth of Christ as the world’s most frequently produced pageant. After ...
NewsBriefs
Local Studio Takes Global Award There’s a well-concealed studio on Cannery Row that sits hidden behind a shop. Nondescript as it is, Sea Studios produces documentary films on topics that are anything but hidden or ...
