Issues / 2005 / Jan 27
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: | Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Galeria Tonantzin | Hawthorne Gallery | JKLM Studios | ...
Gypsy Junior
The John Jorgenson Quintet rekindles the spirit of Django Reinhardt’s Hot Club.
John Jorgenson has lived the rock and roll life, touring as Elton John’s lead guitarist for six years, leading the Desert Rose Band, and sharing front line duties in the Hellecasters. But when it comes ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
ROY ORBISONLove Songs | Monument/Legacy Roy Orbison, the iconic early ‘60s crooner, wasn’t merely the great enunciator of heartbreak; his voice was heartbreak. The arching, unbelievable range, the unstoppable octave swoops, Orbison was a miracle ...
NewsBriefs
Experts Confront Obesity at CSUMB Reacting to the growing crisis of obesity in America, Monterey County business leaders and concerned organizations launched HELP (Healthy Eating Lifestyle Principals) in 2004. This Thursday, HELP, which is devoted ...
Supes to Feds: Bring It On
Rancho San Carlos expansion approved despite threat of Endangered Species Act lawsuit.
Despite at least one potential lawsuits from a federal wildlife agency, county supervisors on Tuesday gave Rancho San Carlos officials the okay to sell the final 29 lots in the luxury Carmel Valley subdivision. “The ...
Big City Greens
Why New York is the most eco-friendly city in the US.
My wife and I got married right out of college, in 1978. We were young and naïve and unashamedly idealistic, and we decided to make our first home in a utopian environmentalist community in New ...
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Former Fixer-Upper
Roger and Lynn Short’s house in Toro Park is their third remodel in six months, two having already sold. These were the Shorts’ first such projects, and they’re aiming for many more. Lynn says she ...
Howard Dean makes a play for his party’s leadership.
Can Howard Dean be stopped in his bid to become the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee? That’s the question the party’s establishment has been asking since Dean—who’d said he’d run only if he ...
Middle-Aged Splendor
Annette Bening plays a diva of the stage in Being Julia.
There are so few really great film roles written for middle-aged women that when one comes along and it’s delivered forth in such spectacular fashion by the near-perfect Annette Bening, it’s disappointing to have to ...
Diamond in the Rough
Eddie’s bar is an unexpected pleasure.
From the outside, the building at 2200 North Fremont in Monterey doesn’t look like much. There’s an old blue-and-white sign informing motorists that this is Eddie’s. Behind the sign and a large parking lot is ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
SEND IN THE CLOWNS… No popcorn. No cotton candy. No clown cars. Squid’s been eagerly anticipating the circus coming to town. Wait—Squid’s bad. What Squid intended to say, errr, ink, was the Local Agency Formation ...
Winds of Faith
Imani bring a fresh mix of cultures and sounds.
In the classical music world, a group not made up entirely of old white guys is no longer a news flash. Combine that thrust with the long-forgotten concept of a woodwind quintet, however, and you’ll ...
Letters
The Kennedys and the Clintons Are Full of It I am 74, and I can’t tell you how I view all this environmental stuff. Some of it is pure crap, and if you don’t believe ...
Full-Flavored Vietnamese
Seaside’s Pho King delivers fresh, inexpensive entrees.
Diners at Tam Nguyen’s Pho King will immediately notice that the use of fresh herbs and dipping sauces distinguishes this Vietnamese cuisine. Both characteristics appeared in the appetizers that my husband Laurent and I ordered: ...
What Winter Doldrums?
GOOD PEOPLE DOING STUFF… As I’ve mentioned here before (actually, written, although the techies at the Weekly are working on an audio version of my column), I really don’t get out much, and you all ...
StreetTalk: (Mis)Fortune Tellers?
Asked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey
Q: Civil war? Peace and prosperity? What do you think will come out of the Iraqi elections? Follow-up: What words come to mind when you hear “Iraq War?” Wael Makki | Student | Monterey A: ...
History’s Voice
Taelen Thomas brings artists of the past to life.
From time to time Taelen Thomas does this thing, “the hoot.” It’s part-animal call, part-song, and all joy. When he did it in Chautauqua Hall during the Monterey Bay Poetry Festival last year, it lasted ...
Character Assassination
Sean Penn is compelling as a misfit madman in the otherwise unspectacular
Over the past couple of years, Sean Penn has been acing the roles of anguished men—from a college professor dying of heart failure in 21 Grams, to an angry, grieving father who has just lost ...
Dems Fight Back
Budget bosses Laird and Perata go public with battle against governor’s axe.
Shortly after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled out his spending plan for the state, Democratic leaders have launched an all-out assault on the governor’s proposal to cut billions of dollars from seniors, students and the poor. ...
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 | John Steinbeck Fri-Sat 8pm; Sun 2:30pm. The Staff ...
Cover Boys
The Lovedogs have been putting their spin on the hits for 20 years.
‘We started out of high school,” says Tom Mullin about his band The Lovedogs, which formed in Santa Cruz in 1982. “It was purely out of boredom and circumstance.” The event that caused the young ...
Truth To Power
Dr. Lani Guinier, scourge to right-wing ideologues in the 1990s, says universities need to open their doors to the poor.
Lani Guinier is not one to shy away from controversy. A Harvard professor and expert in the area of voting rights, Guinier became a household name in 1993 when then-President Bill Clinton nominated her to ...
