Issues / 2005 / Mar 24
FoodChiain: Something To Do Here
NOT-SO-SILENT-MOVIES… I’ve got to tell you, I experienced one of the coolest things of my life last week in downtown Monterey at the newly refurbished Golden State Theater. Sarita Mein Sweeta, my lovely daughter, had ...
Home Alone
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film sets him further apart.
Some critics have united the disparate directors of the “New Japanese New Wave”—Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure), and Takeshi Kitano (Zatoichi)—according to their irreverence: their pervasive interest in genre-busting, their indulgent attitude ...
HomePage: Old Golf Course Way
HomePage: Old Golf Course Way
Facing the seventh fairway of the Old Del Monte Golf Course, a gently secluded house is privately bursting with life. It surrenders to the protection of mature hedges and depths of tiered shrubbery so that ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
TELL THE TRUTH… There isn’t a cynical bone in Squid’s body (although there is cynical cartilage). Squid likes to take people—even politicians—at their word. But last week, Supervisor Jerry Smith strained Squid’s credulity when he ...
Just Like Family
Old Monterey Café keeps a regular crowd going with great food and home-style customer service.
For almost two decades, the Old Monterey Café has been pleasing regulars and tourists alike in its well-positioned locale on Alvarado Street in Monterey. Ray Rodriguez, who bought the restaurant three years ago, has presided ...
Geared Up for a Fight
Gubenatorial candidate Phil Angelides says he’s prepared to follow through on his tough talk.
State Treasurer Phil Angelides says a “Dump Nixon” poster on a Harvard bulletin board first inspired him to work on a political campaign. It’s no coincidence that at last summer’s Republican National Convention, Gov. Arnold ...
NewsBriefs
PG Library Expansion Creeps On For now, this one’s by the book. Thanks to a 6-1 vote against forming a library expansion council subcommittee at the March 16 City Council meeting, the beleaguered Pacific Grove ...
Oldtown ‘Pipe Dream’ Going Up In Smoke?
The prospects look grim for Salinas hotel-condo project.
Developer Gerry Kehoe, speaking from his home in Florida, sounds far removed from the jovial, upbeat visionary of last year. He sounds tired, and speaks with a shaky voice. In previous interviews, Kehoe promised that ...
StreetTalk: A Little Too Pumped Up
Asked at Monterey Peninsula College
Q: Has the issue of steroids in professional sports been too hyped up by the government and the media? Follow-up: What’s your “steroid”? Ervin Douglas Student | Seaside A: If the government does nothing it’s ...
Letters
We’re All Happy Here There seems to be an effort afoot in Pacific Grove to characterize the new Council in a very fractious, negative light. I say this is mostly a case of the political ...
Master Picker, Etc.
Leo Kottke brings his original voice and style to the Sunset.
Listening to a couple of Leo Kottke’s albums, 1997’s Standing In My Shoes and 2004’s Try and Stop Me, makes it extremely difficult to classify the immensely talented acoustic guitarist. Standing In My Shoes features ...
OUTSIDE: Ghost Tree Lives
One day on Pebble Beach’s legendary wave.
Picture a tiny-looking human being, his feet strapped to a surfboard barely any longer than he is. A jet ski tows him in a wide arc out in open ocean then guns the throttle in ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: | Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Gallery Elite | Galeria Tonantzin | Gallery North | ...
Fighting to Die
In the Oscar winning
Among the obvious list of things that make moviegoers feel good— bunnies, puppies, and children with slight lisps all spring to mind—euthanasia typically would not make the cut. But that is indeed the sleight of ...
TheatreListings
Links to theater and stage organizations within this section: | Children's Experimental Theatre & Indoor Forest Theater | Pacfic Rep Theatre | Unicorn Theatre | theater ongoing | The Maiden and the Tar: A Gilbert ...
Failure and Obsession
Pac Rep’s M. Butterfly captures a hopeless love.
Sexual fantasy can be a powerful opiate. It can weave a silken cocoon around a man, completely snuffing the light of reality. And it can change him. If the delusion of wings is powerful enough, ...
Calling Cards
Career coach uses simple learning tools to help job-seekers find a true vocation.
Mary Jeanne Vincent seems like a cheerleader, in the best sense of the word. She doesn’t possess an overly chipper persona, but an attitude that says: “I’ve got your back and I’m going to see ...
Players in the Masters of Old School cover their own former hits.
In 1973, Sly and the Family Stone released the funk masterpiece Fresh. Now, the bassist who played on that landmark album, Rusty Allen, is in a unique position where he plays with the Bay Area’s ...
World Revolution
Kofi Annan’s radical plan to reform the UN comes under attack from the US.
In the history books of the future, the entry on the United Nations in 2005 won’t be about the oil-for-food scandal or lecherous UN peacekeepers. If recent events are any indication, the story will be ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THIEVERY CORPORATIONThe Cosmic Game | ESL Music Apparently not banking on the star power of their own names, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation have brought in some bigger guns for their fourth ...
