Issues / 2005 / Jan 20
Letters
Note to Parker: Guns Shoot People The reasons that former Monterey County sheriff’s deputy and SWAT team member Louis Parker should not get his job back are that his carelessness hurt innocent people, and cost ...
Streettalk
...And I Feel Fine: Asked in Oldtown Salinas
Q: Tsunamis. Mudslides. Genocide. Bush’s re-election. Is it the end of the world as we know it? F: What’s a sign of the apocalypse you’ve noticed?Robert BalianSelf-Employed | SalinasA: It’s the end of the world ...
Think of England
Carmel’s Sherlock Holmes Pub mixes British and American Classics.
Cold, damp weather always makes me want to eat hearty British food. This thought propelled me, my husband Laurent and our daughter Florence, to the doors of the Sherlock Holmes Pub in the Barnyard during ...
Jon Stewart slays Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala.
Last week, CNN’s new chief, Jonathan Klein, axed Crossfire—the weekly “debate” show in which politics is reduced to shouted soundbites. In spiking the program, Klein made reference to Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The ...
HomePage
A Place for Kinship
Bob O’Neil’s and Anita Nasuto’s house contains more stories than can possibly be recounted on any one day. Some tales are of multiple synchronicities that brought the home to where it is; others are about ...
Newsbriefs
Monterey Institute Gets Terror Money The Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies has been brought into a program funded by the Department of Homeland Security to study how terrorist groups ...
Health & Fitness: We Are Not Barbie
Talking about positive body image is good…really believing it is hard.
When I was nine years old, and recuperating from a concussion after being thrown off a horse, I lay in bed and dreamed of Barbie. Pretty in Pink Barbie—I’d seen the commercials for weeks during ...
Health & Fitness: Born to Run
Human evolution made us into a species of runners. But it’s up to each of us to get up and do it.
I used to work with a guy who was a real serious runner. He was one of those former nerds who found a sport where he could dominate, where he could get revenge over the ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| openings | events | Carl Cherry Center for the Arts Tim Rice: Selected Works. Reception: 1/21, 5-7pm. Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel. 624-7491. Ends 2/18. Harrison Memorial Library Hannah Is My Name. Carmel resident, Belle ...
Satanic Majesty
Murnau’s Faust meets Italian quartet in gothic masterpiece.
There’s no older story than the one about the person who makes a deal with the devil, and no better version outside the Book of Genesis than Faust. So when legendary German filmmaker F.W. Murnau ...
Carla Blackwell goes all the way off the hook.
Since she was 14 years old, San Jose native Carla Blackwell has been performing music in public. The vocalist sang R&B and pop numbers with the early ‘90s group Attraction, and currently, Blackwell sings for ...
Squidfry
DOWNHILL, FAST…Squid spent the long Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday up in the Sierras. Squid’s got the whole lodge scene down pat: Smile, and the hot toddies just keep on comin’. What Squid doesn’t have ...
"He’s Not Our President"
Protesters here and nationwide will try to overcome media blackout on Inauguration Day.
On Thursday, Jan. 20—the day President Bush’s supporters will rally at the Capitol to celebrate his inauguration for a second term as president—protestors from Salinas to Santa Fe will participate in rallies and marches, and ...
Health & Fitness: All In Her Head
Anorexia—the most deadly mental illness—is definitely not just about looking thin.
She didn’t choose anorexia. I know that now, but that doesn’t make it any easier to watch her starve herself, and fade away into nothing. It’s like a nightmare where you see the boogeyman and ...
Shape Shifter
Tracey Adams’ canvases morph naturally.
Two exhibitions of encaustic paintings by Tracey Adams, one at the Monterey Museum of Art, the other at the Chris Winfield Gallery in Carmel, feature the newest developments in the artist’s work. In the past, ...
Health&Fitness: All In Her Head
Anorexia—the most deadly mental illness—is definitely not just about looking thin.
She didn’t choose anorexia. I know that now, but that doesn’t make it any easier to watch her starve herself, and fade away into nothing. It’s like a nightmare where you see the boogeyman and ...
TheatreListings
TheatreListings
| theater openings | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Sat 8pm; Sun 3pm. Johnny’s a hopeless romantic. Frankie’s no optimist about love. With the radio as their soundtrack, the short-order cook and ...
Start Making Sense
Poets convene to celebrate the power of the word.
Ryan Masters says he hopes to create an event that will allow for such spontaneous occurrences as a ninety-year-old woman reading a poem about pigs. Masters, arts writer for the Weekly and the former poet-in-residence ...
Feel Good Now
Feel Good Now
WINE VS. WINE… It’s a good time of year…sure, the coast road washed out again after the recent explosions of water from the sky…sure, business is pretty slow…sure, the world situation seems crazier than ever…sure, ...
Health&Fitness: Born to Run
Human evolution made us into a species of runners. But it’s up to each of us to get up and do it.
I used to work with a guy who was a real serious runner. He was one of those former nerds who found a sport where he could dominate, where he could get revenge over the ...
Health&Fitness: We Are Not Barbie
Talking about positive body image is good…really believing it is hard.
When I was nine years old, and recuperating from a concussion after being thrown off a horse, I lay in bed and dreamed of Barbie. Pretty in Pink Barbie—I’d seen the commercials for weeks during ...
Deep Royal Blood
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, aka Will Oldham, brings his strange folk genius to Fernwood.
Since releasing the single “Ohio River Boat Song” in 1992, Will Oldham has been one of the most interesting and enigmatic artists in contemporary music. For the past 13 years, Oldham has been releasing beautiful ...
The Singer’s Studio
Opera singer’s singer brings friends together for a public chat.
If you think of opera singers as an elite group who dress up and sing arcane songs in Italian and German, you’re not alone. Carmel singing coach extraordinaire David Gordon is doing everything in his ...
Looking Ahead
PastForward salutes Aperture’s local roots with edgy revelations.
Just three weeks into January, it is hard to imagine seeing a better or more interesting photography show this year than PastForward, Aperture at 50, opening Saturday at the Monterey Museum of Art. The traveling ...
Painting the Town Absurd
Cartoonist Snick Farkas parodies Pacific Grove to a mixed response.
Snick Farkas is a town fool. In this day and age, that’s not an easy task. There’s more to being an effective town fool than a harlequin cap and well-timed tumbling. It takes creativity. In ...
Shelter From the Storm
Actor Don Cheadle hits a career high with his portrayal of a sympathetic hotel manager during Rwanda’s ethnic conflict a decade ago.
One of the most amazing things about Hotel Rwanda, a film with no shortage of revelations, is that it’s actually playing in theatres, as opposed to the pay cable channels that too often play host ...
Recall Proceeds in Marina
Bad feelings following a close election spur effort.
As far as local politics go, Marina has been one of the most openly contentious venues in recent years. Fueled by big, crucial land use decisions stemming from the redevelopment of neighboring Fort Ord, the ...
