Issues / 2005 / Mar 03
Big Ag checks absent from campaign to save Salinas libraries.
The sun shone in spurts Sunday at the John Steinbeck Library in Salinas, where locals were holding a party to mark the author’s 103rd birthday. The celebration—complete with a sheet cake smothered in purple and ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: | Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Galeria Tonantzin | Gallery North | Hawthorne Gallery | ...
Pac Rep’s Big Year
For its 23rd season, the company turns to Disney and Sinatra—but doesn’t ignore the edgy stuff.
This year PacRep dreams big, staging not only the biggest production of its 23-season existence, but new live musicals, more renowned Shakespeare, and a handful of the edgy, intimate ensemble pieces that have earned the ...
Supes Pass on Mini-City
Rancho San Juan decision will go to the voters.
Voters will make the final decision on the controversial Rancho San Juan subdivision in November. The Board of Supervisors could have repealed its approval of the 4,000-home development at its March 1 meeting. It was ...
StreetTalk
StreetTalk
Q: Ever walked into a situation thinking it was going to be a piece of cake, but it ended up turning into something much more difficult? Follow-up: Do you regret that experience? Christine HandelReal Estate ...
Coastal waters task force postpones big decisions until April.
Last Oct. 18, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stood on a cliff at Point Lobos and pledged to protect coastal waters. His decision to restart the California Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process, which had been put ...
FoodChain
Too Much Fun
SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT… I’m one tired puppy. I’m reminded—as I often am—of the conversation I had with Martin Meursault, former long-time restaurant reviewer for The Herald, when he spoke to me of having to ...
Rocking Out in Big Hats
Country karaoke kicks in Monterey.
There are all types of ways that bars and clubs try to lure people inside their doors, from scantily clad alcohol peddlers giving away free trinkets—the Coors Light Girls—to an opportunity to sing your favorite ...
Bollywood Blast
Director Gurinder Chadha’s take on Jane Austen’s
Stateside viewers hesitating to dip a toe into the mighty waters of Bollywood cinema take note: Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) has a film for you. It’s got practically everything you could stuff in ...
Thai Style Feasting
Marina’s My Thai stays true to the cuisine’s unique flavors.
‘Thai food is totally individual, befitting a country which has never been conquered, yet it has similarities to both Indian and Chinese food,” notes Charmaine Soloman in The Thai Cookbook: A Complete Guide to the ...
State water officials tell Peninsula cities to stop stormwater runoff.
Peninsula cities should know better, says the Ocean Conservancy’s Sarah Newkirk. The waters off Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel and the Pebble Beach Co. were dubbed “areas of special biological significance” by the state and put ...
NewsBriefs
How To Be A Chicana Role Model Adelante Mujer Hispana, which loosely translates to, “Go forward, Hispanic women,” is a little known local chapter of the larger California nonprofit organization. To mark its 17th anniversary ...
N’wahlins Nawth
Monterey Dixieland Festival brings top players for 25th season.
After polka, there’s probably no type of music that’s easier to stereotype as hopelessly unhip than Dixieland jazz. The rap on the style holds that it’s a refuge for amateur players with a truncated repertoire ...
Letters
Exercise: Not Just for the Rich and Thin Thank you, Monterey County Weekly and Ryan Masters for spreading the word on the plight of the small, grassroots fitness and dance classes that meet at Pacific ...
American Survivors
Los Lobos brings its eclectic sound to Carmel Thursday
Rock ‘n’ roll is a mutt. Far from being a purebred musical form, this American invention is a bastard mix of blues, soul, country and R&B—with new forms like hip-hop, reggae and funk being constantly ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
GOLDEN TOUCH…Finally! It seems Squid’s back inside Clint Eastwood’s circle of friends. You like Squid! You really, really like Squid, don’t you, Clint? Ahhhh. Squid’s going to take a brief moment, and bask in the ...
How Helen Got Her Groove Back
How Helen Got Her Groove Back
Like Stella a few years ago, this new movie tells the story of how yet another black woman, Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise), jumps back in the game and gets her groove back. The characters’ journeys ...
Home At Last
Following an extended stint in Iraq, a soldier adjusts to real life.
Sgt. José Guadalupe Fausto always knew he wanted to be a soldier. Even before he came to the US, back when he lived with his parents and seven siblings in Ameza, a small town in ...
TheaterListings
TheaterListings
| theater openings | Emily Dickinson Opens Fri 8pm; continues Sat 8pm; Sun 2:30pm. Over the past 15 years, Emily Dickinson has been “a driving force” in local actress Marie Avant’s life. “There is no ...
Film fest features old surrealist movies and live Gypsy jazz.
‘It’s an excellent opportunity for time travel and mind expansion,” says Paul Mehling, guitarist for the gypsy jazz quintet Hot Club of San Francisco. “Viewing silent film is like peering through a keyhole into the ...
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A Brand New 16-Year-Old
In the house on Mission called “Treescape” designed by Brain Congleton and built in 1989, a series of good intentions, results and luck—since the first purchase of its land in the early ’20s until now—are ...
