Issues / 2004 / Dec 09
Letters
Squid: Give the Guy a Break I would like to follow up on the Squid’s jabs about Danny Bakewell, Jr. [Squid, Dec. 2-8]. I am one citizen who would like to thank Danny Bakewell, Jr. ...
Local parents protest voter-approved law that can turn kids into grown-up felons.
Sandra Welsh of Marina was just 23 years old when she was shot point-blank in the stomach in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Salinas with a 9mm handgun. Several boys had approached Welsh and demanded ...
NewsBriefs
Just Don’t Call It A City Carmel Valley would generate enough money to support itself, should its residents decide to incorporate the county-governed community into a self-governed “town.” Presenting a preview of the draft fiscal ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
POLITICS AS USUAL…December means one thing to Squid: time to update the leaders and honcho-esque folks address book. This year, the process has been trickier than usual. Squid got stumped on the letter “B.” It ...
Sad Saks
Customers mourn the loss of the Peninsula shopping mecca.
Go ahead and laugh. Mock our pain. But Jan. 15, 2005, will be a sad and tragic day for couture on the Monterey Peninsula—and beyond. Next month, Saks Fifth Avenue in Carmel will shut its ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
ERASURENightbird | Mute “Retro pre-techno” is what this collection smacks of, proudly breaking no new ground, other than time and wear and tear and having worn the beats down into elegant ambience. Because there is ...
Flower Power
Biodiesel, easily made from soybeans or anything else organic, could save the world.
In 1900, at the World Exhibition in Paris, a refrigerator engineer unveiled an invention. It was an internal combustion engine that he ran on peanut oil. The man was neither a scam artist looking to ...
Homepage
At Home in the Neighborhood
Lee and Georgina Duggs exhibit the modus operandi of bright young go-getters making major decisions at rocket speed, aiming to live happily ever after with no time to look back and worry about it anyway, ...
Under Cover Talent
The Groove Kings breathe fresh life into a range of standards.
To support this rather bold statement, Siacotos uses a good example to back up his point. He says that his San Jose-based band chooses to perform a vocally complex version of “I Heard It Through ...
Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek pretend to be in a crime caper movie while lying on a Caribbean beach, After The Sunset.
The man behind the Rush Hour franchise proves that dropping sly nods in Alfred Hitchcock’s direction does not necessarily a fine caper make. While a couple of references to the master’s 1955 classic To Catch ...
Living History
The incomparable Jessica Williams brings a musical lifetime to her compositions and her playing.
When Jessica Williams takes the stage for a solo recital, she’s not alone. It’s not just that Williams, among the most lyrical and expressive pianists in jazz, draws inspiration from the music’s giants. It’s the ...
Seasoned Greetings
Seasoned Greetings
FA LA LA LA LA… It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere I go…keep singing everyone. It is upon us. In today’s warp-speed world the faint sensation of impending Yule tickles our nerve ...
Streettalk
Here In My Car
Asked in Downtown MontereyQ: How does your car reflect your personality?Follow-up: What’s the most important quality in a car?Peter StebbingStudent | MontereyA: I have a Jeep Cherokee. It’s very utilitarian and practical. I like to ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: | Coast Gallery | Carmel Art Association | Chapman Gallery | Hawthorne Gallery | Karthia Studios | Lewis Gallery | Monterey Senior Centery | Natl Steinbeck Ctr | Pacific ...
Forum: The New Southern Democrats
Fed up with the neoliberal policies advocated by Washington and the IMF, Latin America is turning to the left.
In The Motorcycle Diaries, director Walter Salles’ tribute to Che Guevara, the hero speeds up the spine of the Andes, clinging to his buddy on the back of a wheezing Norton. The year is 1952 ...
Pungent Dinner Theater
Comedy hit from the ‘30s is still sharp.
The Man Who Came to Dinner may be 65 years old, but its cruel wit makes it thoroughly modern theater. Playing now on the Morgan Stock Stage at Monterey Peninsula College, this classic 1939 drawing ...
Theater Listings
| theater opening | A Christmas Carol Fri 6pm. Sat 4pm and 6pm. Six actors play 35 parts. $12/adults; $9/students and children. Studio Theater, Monterey Peninsula College, 980 Fremont, Monterey. 646-4213 or www.ticketguys.com. Ends 12/18. ...
The Real Esselen
A new book delivers the overlooked story of Big Sur’s early inhabitants.
Four different expedition logs from the late 18th century recount an Esselen “hunting technique” involving the hunters’ custom of donning deer hides, heads and antlers to sneak up on their prey. Only the fourth log, ...
Relationships of the Damned
The four leads of Closer ace their roles of tortured love.
War is hell, but it’s nothing compared to what we do to others and ourselves in the name of love. That’s the premise of Closer, a relentlessly nasty film adapted from Patrick Marber’s play that ...
Local Dems on Move
Laird named to head Budget Committee; Keeley files for State Senate.
Fred Keeley, former Assemblyman for the 27th District, which includes the western part of Monterey County, has filed to run for the 12th District seat in the State Senate, according to the California Secretary of ...
Rancho This, Rancho That
Two big development hearings; two more threatened lawsuits.
Whoever invented the three-martini lunch must have been a regular at County Supes meetings. If not for the martinis, she would have gone mad. It’s another Tuesday morning at the County Courthouse. She recalls that ...
Industrial Mystery
Director Wes Anderson excels at haunted atmosphere with The Machinist.
Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) looks like hell. His gaunt frame, sunken eyes, and deathly pallor make him look like a survivor just released from a concentration camp. With his skeletal bones and vertebrae jutting out ...
Monterey, Americana
Local heroes The Darktown Rounders are back, for a minute.
Back in 2001, local roots music group The Darktown Rounders played a handful of farewell shows around Monterey before the band moved to Austin, Texas. At the time, guitarist/singer Jason Smiley was excited about the ...
Sunchoke Soup
True love grows amongst the weeds.
Last spring, my friend Matt gave me three Jerusalem artichokes from his garden in Minnesota. Also known as sunchokes, these edible tubers come from a plant that’s a close relative of sunflowers. They taste something ...
