Issues / 2005 / Jan 13
Chinese director creates fast-paced love story/swashbuckler.
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s second martial arts epic in two years, House of Flying Daggers, doesn’t have the grave import, the awesome stoicism of Hero, but I think that makes for a more entertaining picture. ...
Glad Tea Party
Carmel’s Cypress Inn continues an elegant tradition
I loved to play tea party with my daughter Florence when she was a toddler. Now that she is a teen, we can really dress up and visit one of Carmel’s coziest places for tea—the ...
Monterey adopts 20-year growth document with little trouble.
Unlike Monterey County, whose general plan update has been a tragicomic soap opera without finale, the city of Monterey adopted its own general plan with little fanfare at a regular meeting on January 4. The ...
Letters
Housing Authority Ignores Citizens In case you haven’t noticed, without regard for the community, the churches, businesses, civic groups, HUD, the army corps of engineers, local contractors, doctors, lawyers, and citizens, Sam Farr and Jim ...
Streettalk
Streettalk
Q: What factors have caused California to rank 47th in the nation in quality of education? Follow-up: What is one luxury every school should have?Mike PippyNon-Profit Administrator | Carmel ValleyA: Funding cuts. The government has ...
Newsbriefs
MLK Day Event Planned Seaside will host its annual celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Jan. 17. The day begins with a parade at 11am, starting in front of ...
Ugly Numbers
Local lawmakers criticize Schwarzenegger’s budget plan.
The $111.7 billion budget plan Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled out on Monday would close the estimated $9 billion shortfall next year without raising taxes, while it cuts money from all kinds of state services—including healthcare ...
The Public Eye
Group seeks to organize an army of citizen-watchdogs.
Terry Francke wants you to pay attention to your government. The former general counsel of the California First Amendment Coalition, Francke splintered from that group more than a year ago to form Californians Aware (CalAware), ...
TheatreListings
TheatreListings
Links to theater and stage organizations within this section: | Children's Experimental Theatre & Indoor Forest Theater | Pacfic Rep Theatre | Unicorn Theatre | theater openings | Bus Stop Fri 8pm; continues Sat 8pm; ...
Squidfry
CITY OF THE PAST…Monterey gets all the love. Squid’s been hanging out in the waters near Marina lately, but Squid’s about to swim south to Monterey, just for the bragging rights alone. And to laugh ...
Making the Best of It
Making the Best of It
OUR LITTLE WORLD… Don’t forget the new release party for Talbott Vineyards’ 2001 Sleepy Hollow Chardonnay at its tasting room on Carmel Valley Road. It’s tomorrow, Friday the 14th, from 6pm to 8pm, and features ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
ARCHITECTSKeys To The Building | Anodyne Don’t let the 4AD-ish cover art fool you. This Kansas City group is about as removed from the Pixies, Throwing Muses or Cocteau Twins as humanly possible. The three ...
Head West, Young Women
The adventurous artistic path of a forgotten Monterey artist will be recreated this year.
On a foggy day in March 1926, two intrepid women set out by freighter from San Francisco bound for the South Pacific. Their objective—to paint portraits of the indigenous peoples of the Solomon Islands and ...
Once and Future King
In his 24th film since Play Misty for Me, Clint Eastwood is still working on Hollywood’s longest second act.
There are things on the Warner Bros. lot older than Clint Eastwood. The earliest sound stages, for example, date back to 1926, when First National Pictures broke ground on some former alfalfa fields the studio ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: | Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Galeria Tonantzin | Hawthorne Gallery | JKLM Studios | Karthia Studios | The Lewis ...
Electronic Texans
Former Dallas DJs JT Donaldson and Lance DeSardi at Mint.
When JT Donaldson worked at Bill’s Records & Tapes in Dallas during the mid 1990s, he had a specific nickname for Lance DeSardi and his group of friends. Donaldson called the high schoolers “the homework ...
The Present Tense
Is is its own brand of jam band
While listening to the 15 minute, 25-second jam “If You’re Having Trouble” by the Santa Cruz-based band, Is, you get the feeling that something Phishy is happening. It’s probably because the quartet’s keyboard-driven jam tune ...
Rancho San Juan’s opponents submit petitions to County.
Opponents of the Rancho San Juan development say they’ve collected some 13,000 signatures—more than enough necessary to put the massive plan before Monterey County voters. On Jan. 12, a group that braved rain, wind and ...
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Peace in The Valley
Mike and Elaine Marfleet bought their retirement home in a splendid setting in Carmel Valley’s hills, but for the next five years lived in Venezuela and Houston. They returned to the Valley so the house ...
Dialed In
Monterey area gets its own Craig’s List.
Craig Newmark, 52, wears pajamas when he works. No joke. There are pictures. A native of Morristown, New Jersey, he now lives in Cole Valley, a pleasant, somewhat leafy San Francisco neighborhood tucked below a ...
Eastwood’s Million-Dollar Movie
In his latest film, director Clint Eastwood delivers a knockout in the final round.
Among American directors working today, Clint Eastwood is one of the few who create worlds as definite, abstract, and self-contained as those limned (often on hundred-thousand-dollar budgets) by such million-dollar directors as Raoul Walsh and ...
