Issues / 2004 / Dec 23
Dark Days
Jim Carrey is the best and worst part of the film adaptation of Daniel Handler’s Lemony Snicket books.
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off watching some other movie,” warns our narrator, Lemony Snicket. “In this movie,” he continues gravely, “not only is there no happy ...
The real world will not follow the precepts of the Bush administration.
“The aide (a senior advisor to President Bush) said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study ...
Fast Reads 101
Fast Reads 101
Love and Death in Brief Blame it on the passions inspired by a trying moment in history. It was a difficult year marked by more war and bad politics—the Weekly’s reader-writers, participating in our annual ...
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Hollywood Romance in PG
Michael and Elizabeth Lynberg have a home in Pacific Grove that looks to have been lifted directly from background scenes in James McElroy’s, L.A. Confidential. It’s evocative of black-and-white crime novels set in southern California ...
Forum: The P.U.-litzer Prizes For 2004
When critics say the corporate media have become lapdogs, not watchdogs, this is what they are talking about.
The P.U.-litzer Prizes were established a dozen years ago to provide special recognition for truly smelly media performances. As usual, I’ve conferred with Jeff Cohen, founder of the media watch group FAIR, to sift through ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
IT AIN’T OVER… If this writer thing doesn’t work out for Squid, Squid is going to consider pursuing a career in the fortune telling field. It’s got that air of mystery to it that Squid ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: | Coast Gallery | Carmel Art Association | Chapman Gallery | Galeria Tonantzin | Hawthorne Gallery | JKLM Studios | Karthia Studios | The Lewis Gallery | Local Color ...
Bright Christmas
Chanticleer returns to the Carmel Mission for its traditional Christmas show.
Words can sound prettier in French. Perhaps it was because of this that Geoffrey Chaucer chose to name his singing rooster of Canterbury Tales “Chanticleer,” uniting the French words “chanter” (pronounced shawn-tay, “to sing”) and ...
The Best Records of 2004
The Best Records of 2004
Sure, 2004 was a breakthrough year for featherweight pop artists like Josh Groban and Ashlee Simpson. And, it is true that horrible rock songs like Nickelback’s “Figured You Out” were in heavy rotation on “alternative” ...
Home for Christmas
The embattled residents of the Rippling River subsidized housing community celebrate a victorious year.
Yellow caution tape covers wooden beams outside, but inside Rippling River’s community room, a handful of residents breathe deeply and listen to soothing flute music. It’s been a stressful year for the seniors and disabled ...
Flight or Fright
Scorsese and DiCaprio capture the conflicted prime of Howard Hughes.
It’s been seven years since Leonardo DiCaprio woo-hoo’d his way into catchphrase immortality from the prow of a certain doomed ocean liner. After approximately 10 million rotations of “My Heart Will Go On”—not to mention ...
Christmas Spirit on Tape
The best holiday movies of all time.
It feels a little strange to put on a costume and ask your neighbors for candy in the middle of August. It’s a bit rowdy to drink lots of domestic beer and shoot off loads ...
Two-Wheeling Spirit
Christmas Eve bike ride is all about silly fun.
For the most part, Christmas spirit is a wildly fraudulent concept in America. In the name of good will towards men, we browse catalogs like hymnals while listening to frantic product descriptions sung to the ...
NewsBriefs
Bush Forms Ocean Committee Right around ninety days ago, the US Commission on Ocean Policy submitted to Congress and President Bush a massive study on ocean health and management—a report full of suggested changes to ...
Comfort and Joy
Comfort and Joy
FIX YOUR VERNACULAR… Ho Ho Ho. Merry Christmas. Ho Ho Ho. It’s amazing how words change meanings almost as quickly as fashions change meanings. Take that word “ho,” for instance. For years, a jingly upbeat ...
TheaterListings
TheaterListings
| theater now playing | Buddy: The Tribute Concert Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2pm and 7pm. PacRep’s hit returns in concert form. Held over into January due to overwhelming response. $35/adults; $25/seniors; $20/students, teachers, military, children. ...
StreetTalk
I’ll Be Home For Christmas - Asked on Cannery Row
Q: What message would you like to send to all the soldiers who will be in Iraq and elsewhere during Christmas? Follow-up: Who should take over for Bob Hope, travelling abroad to entertain the troops? ...
Down By The River
Big Sur’s River Inn serves up yummy food in a natural setting.
Rustic, cozy ambience and good food sum up why I like to eat at the Big Sur River Inn. I especially like to eat here during the winter months when the restaurant is less crowded ...
