Issues / 2005 / Feb 03
ArtListings
ArtListings
| openings | events | Artist Loft Co-op February exhibit of co-op members. 700 Cannery Row, Suite RR, Monterey. 655-2222. Ends 2/28. Avery Gallery Celebration of Black History Month. Exhibit features Sandra Gray, Justin Hamers, ...
Speed Writer
Local talent Graham Yost shares his screenwriting tips with the public.
Acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter and Monterey resident Graham Yost figured out his American dream as a young Canadian. He was sitting on the couch of the rec room set of the TV show his father hosted, ...
The Voice of a Poet
Robert Pinsky brings the work off the page.
A master of improvisation, Robert Pinsky moves among ideas or images the way Charlie Parker moves in melody. His poems seamlessly telescope between cosmos and computers, God and green pianos, Hermes and a vintage Oldsmobile. ...
Letters
Dolls and Fat People Are the Real Problem In the “All In Her Head” article on anorexia [Weekly, Jan. 20-26], Jessica Lyons stated, “7 million women and one million men are sick with an eating ...
Western Winner
The Wagon Wheel dishes out big platefuls of great American food.
Leather saddles, weathered cowboy boots, iron horseshoes, tin coffee pots, rodeo posters, metal lanterns, and deer and oxen trophies are among the many western-themed ornaments that decorate the snug interior of the Wagon Wheel Coffee ...
HomePage
European Powerhouse
Beginning with the Dutch gentleman who built it in the ’70s, the house at 157 Mar Vista in Monterey has an exclusively northern European lineage. He sold it to the current owner, German born Hans ...
Love Rolls On
Bus Stop approaches romance from eight directions.
A young woman ducks into a rural bus stop in Kansas during a raging snowstorm and announces that there’s a madman asleep on the bus who has abducted her—some burly cowboy dead set on dragging ...
Streettalk
Civil Disobedience: Asked at the Steinbeck Library in Salinas
Q: What crazy act would you do to stop the libraries in Salinas from closing?Follow-up: What is your favorite book? Tina JimenezReceptionist | SalinasA: Be crazy and link arms and surround the libraries. The truth ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
GREENSKEEPERSPleetch | Om Records Self-described as “fusing the rock eclectic with the electronic electric like p-funk and e-funk,” the Greenskeepers strive for a dance music that fits a new generation, and it’s clear from the ...
The way the media fawned over the first lady’s dress, it’ll be hard for them to resume their role as government watchdogs.
I’ve always thought that one of America’s best selling points was that it never had a king. If there is one thing that defines us as a people it is this fact. Every other nation ...
Theater Listings
| theater openings | Robert Louis Stevenson Fri-Sat 8pm; Sun 2:30pm. The Staff Players continue their American Authors Series with Keith Decker’s one-man show about the life and times of one-time Monterey resident Robert Louis ...
NewsBriefs
Whiskey Is For Drinking Water is for fighting over. But don’t take our word for it. (Or Mark Twain’s.) Come see for yourself at the League of Women Voter’s forum on Feb. 9, where public ...
Scary Stares
Child actor Dakota Fanning’s eyes almost save the misguided Hide and Seek.
You might have thought it impossible that nine-year-old trouper Dakota Fanning could, at such a tender young age, appear in a more horrific nightmare vision than the misguided Bo Welch/Mike Myers missile of sorrow The ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
DIRTY INK…Sometimes not even Squid can believe the stuff humans spurt. Admittedly, Squid’s the sort of mollusk who often ends up in random conversations with complete strangers. But really now. Take Brian the Telemarketer, for ...
Frustration Grows in Salinas
Library cuts inspire some citizens’ wrath, and some new ideas.
The candlelight vigil in front of a Salinas library a few weeks ago wasn’t the solemn gathering most participants expected. The participants were there to show their dissatisfaction, and to condemn, by their presence, the ...
West Nile Virus provokes effort to minimize threat from mosquitos.
The mosquito population of Monterey County and California will begin to rise in the following months. As the region heats up, sitting water will start to swim with mosquito larva, and by summer the insects ...
Super Party Sunday
The competition is stiff for Super Bowl XXXIX fans.
You don’t need to be a devout football aficionado to get pumped about this year’s Super Bowl. It really doesn’t matter if you know that the New England Patriots are gunning for their third Super ...
Murder and Masks
Almodóvar takes a plunge into film noir.
If you’ve only seen Gael García Bernal as Che in The Motorcycle Diaries, you’ll be stunned by his transmogrification in Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education. What Bernal offers in Bad Education is an acting lesson. Not ...
FoodChain
There’s Nothing Better Than This
RICK BAYLESS, MARK MILLER, MICHAEL MINA, BRADLEY OGDEN, CHARLIE PALMER, ALICE WATERS… those are the names of six American chefs who have risen to superstar status in our suddenly culinarily-conscious society. Let’s say you decided ...
Locals share some favorite poems.
Weekly reporter Nick Patella, armed with camera and recorder, asked some of our neighbors to recite poems they had memorized. Note: Sadly, due to technical difficulties of a past era, the tape got terribly tangled, ...
A Cinderella Story?
Will the shoe fit on the new new GPU?
SEX and the COUNTY Our story thus far: Once—way back in 2001—there was a voluminous blueprint for future growth in Monterey County. It was intended to be a constitution of sorts, governing how and where ...
Off The Wall
Petroglyphs in PG.
‘Rock art is like a waking dream,” says Daniel Bianchetta, the photographer responsible for Ancient Echoes: A Presentation of Native American Rock Art showing now at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. “It reminds ...
