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Pacific Grove Wonderland
Robin and Corky Johnson live in a house on a hill above Monterey Bay, encompassed by an old stone wall, its thick spill of rosemary fulminating overhead. Looking up through the high wrought-iron gate, up ...
Movie Rewind
Top 10 Movies of 2004 and a Handful of Other Awards.
1. THE AVIATORAll right, already: Give Scorsese every award he’s due. In Howard Hughes he has found his great Kane, and who knows when he’ll strike oil again. 2. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND ...
Fighting For a Legacy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. brings passion to the battle against George Bush’s environmental policies.
At first glance, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s cluttered office at the Pace University Law School in White Plains, NY, seems an odd place for a member of one of the worlds most distinguished political families. ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
EMINEMEncore | Aftermath Records It’s no surprise that Encore is already sitting at number one on the charts—whatever Eminem has to say, it seems that a lot of people are always willing to listen. It’s ...
Streettalk
Let’s Try This Again: Asked at Del Monte Center in Monterey
Q: What is your idealistic, probably unrealistic hope for 2005?Follow-up: What’s your more realistic hope? Barbara RothFull-Time Mom | Carmel ValleyA: Having children that obey every command. I also hope that I’ll be the ideal ...
TheaterListings
TheaterListings
| call for submissions | Artists! Order your cat now and begin painting it for the April 1 showing at the Del Monte Center. Download agreement at gerrica.com today. For more info call Gerrica Connolly ...
Locals Funnel Disaster Relief via Red Cross, Others
With the death toll reaching 150,000 in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia, locals are digging deep to aid the relief effort. Tina Del Piero, financial development director for the Monterey ...
Terrorism and Tourism
Local numbers show recovery.
The local hospitality industry, already sagging from the collapse of profligate spending during the dot-com boom, was hit as if by a sledgehammer on Sept. 11, 2001. In Monterey County, where the economy depends on ...
Dressing the Part
Carmel resident James Jauregui shows his love for Celtic culture in colorful ways.
When I meet James Jauregui at Piatti’s Restaurant in Carmel on a winter afternoon, it is easy to tell that Jauregui, who has lived in Carmel for 31 of his 47 years, is really pumped ...
FoodChain
Out With the Bad, In With the Good
GOOD PEOPLE RULE… I am beginning this column with a notice of an upcoming event being put on by what I consider to be a wonderful company: Robert Talbott Vineyards. When I was a wine ...
Music in the Valley
Veteran ‘Phantoms’ headline big blues show.
When Dan Ackroyd and Jim Belushi tour the country doing corporate gigs as the reincarnated Blues Brothers, it isn’t all about the porkpie hats, mutton chops and tight black suits, because backing up the bro’s ...
Letters
Letters
Editor’s Note: An odd request, but Starr gets creativity points with his letter. Multiple Sclerosis Patients Can Hope In last week’s article on multiple sclerosis [“Home-aid,” Dec 30-Jan 5], the Weekly stated that the woman ...
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 ...
Parisian Pockets
Crêpes A-Go-Go in Monterey makes simple, tasty, affordable meals.
‘You get to eat warm crêpes,” my daughter Florence told my husband Laurent on the way to Crêpes A-Go-Go on Cannery Row. Laurent grew up in Brittany, the birthplace of the French crêpe, and is ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
FUNNY MONEY…Squid’s been known to be a little frivolous. Not that there’s anything wrong with buying a mink handbag—it’s practically a pet and a purse. Functional! Utilitarian, even! Or buying Uggs, in every color, for ...
Meet the New Bosses
Supervisors mingle at swearing-in ceremony.
SEX and the COUNTY For political wonks and electeds, it’s the social event of the year—thus far, anyway. Winners and losers packed the standing-room-only Supervisors’ Chambers Tuesday morning, Jan. 4, to attend the swearing-in ceremony ...
