Issues / 2005 / May 05
Turf Wars
Monterey neighborhoods wheel and deal for project funding.
In an era when the American democratic machine seems to sputter and clank and drop bolts into the street like some kind of poorly engineered Rube Goldberg contraption, the Monterey Neighborhood Improvement Program (NIP) purrs ...
Outside
Outside
Ten. It’s the last heat of the day in the Wildflower Triathlon. Nine. It’s the Olympic Distance Relay Race. Eight. We have been standing around here on Lynch Ramp on the south shore of Lake ...
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A Move-In Not Too Far Out
When Paul and Lori DiMauro decided to move their family of six from the suburbs to the country, they were advised by friends already living in Carmel Valley to think seriously before buying a house ...
Rootless Variety
The homeless Troupers of the Gold Coast keep performing.
Have olio, will travel. Orphaned by circumstance, the Troupers of the Gold Coast, the world’s oldest continuously performing theatrical company, are struggling to stay alive. The group performs hodge-podge olios, or variety shows, wherever and ...
Make Mom’s Day
Let her sleep in. Heck—sleep in yourself. Then it’s out to brunch.
I don’t like getting up early in the morning, and I can’t think about ingesting anything but coffee with a splash of milk until about 11am. I know that makes me sound spoiled, but it’s ...
Poor People Power
The Franciscan Workers plan to revitalize a Salinas neighborhood around a successful soup kitchen.
No one wants to end up on Soledad Street. Located literally on the wrong side of the railroad tracks, in Salinas’ old Chinatown neighborhood, it’s desolate and dirty. Forgotten buildings line the narrow street: an ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
JUST BREATHE…Here’s a little word association game Squid likes to play. Work: bad. Clean air: good. Free cash: even better. Squid’s talking about a new Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments’ (AMBAG) campaign to cut ...
The Political Church
Catholic social work is rooted in a religious tradition that venerates justice.
Martina O’Sullivan, director of Catholic Charities for the Central Coast, says her work is not just about providing help to people in trouble. She begins to explain the agency’s mission: “It’s about taking care,” but ...
Feast
Second Chances: Brussels sprouts, it turns out, are not inherently disgusting.
When I was in the third grade, I switched to a new school. It took less than a day to identify the class scratching post. I never understood why he was designated as the one ...
Bitter Beauties
Dandelion greens are worth getting to know.
Even as Martha Stewart digested the last bit of bitter pill the justice system had prescribed her, the symbol of her resilience was her act of plucking and pickling the wild, spring dandelions growing on ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: | Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Gallery at Blackstone | Gallery Elite | Galeria Tonantzin ...
A Folk Crusader
Utah Phillips brings his stories and songs to Monterey.
When asked if he considers himself more of a storyteller, musician or political activist, Utah Phillips responds with a “none of the above.” “None of them define me,” he says from his home in the ...
The Wines of Spring
When the sky brightens, our wines should whiten.
During winter, cold weather and too little sunlight make us want to eat heavy. Good hearty comfort food fills our bellies and warms our fearful little beings, providing an imaginary layer of protection against the ...
Foodchain
See Ya ‘Round
POWER CHECK…Well, it’s May and that means it’s almost summer. (Actually, it’s still April while I’m writing this, you know I can’t try to fool you—although many of you probably think that’s what I’ve been ...
Discspace
Discspace
PREFUSE 73 Surrounded by Silence Warp Records Prefuse 73 (aka Scott Herren) has been quietly positioning himself to become the next DJ savior—while his music is more noise-driven than Shadow or RJD2, his samples are ...
Letters
Thanks for the Memories When I was growing up in Salinas, Marsh’s was a familiar part of the entrance to Monterey. I appreciate your recent article [“Back on the Market,” March 31-April 6]. I sent ...
Theater Listings
| theater opening | A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opens Fri 8pm; continues Sat 8pm; Sun 2pm. Two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romances are complicated by their entrance into ...
Playing Politics
Staff Players squeeze Havel’s sprawling anti-totalitarian allegory onto a tiny stage.
Vaclav Havel was not in a good mood when he started writing Temptation, his verbose, depressing denunciation of man’s inherent weakness in the face of oppression. It was the mid-80s and he was serving yet ...
Mom’s the Word
The secret to discovering what your mother wants for Mother’s Day: Ask her.
Some historians will tell you that Mother’s Day has deep roots in the traditions of our earth-worshiping pagan foremothers. Others look to the springtime celebrations of ancient Greece, which honored Rhea, the mother of all ...
Forum
Forum
The Hammer was in a steely mood this weekend. Moments before brandishing a rifle over his head, embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told a crowd of gun lovers at the National Rifle Association's annual ...
Street Talk
Hopeful Ambition: Asked at the post office in Marina
Q: What’s your wacky idea to save the world? Follow-up: Where’s the wackiest place you’ve ever been? Baker (“Just Baker.”) Day Care Center Director | Marina A: Live more like the French. We need workdays ...
A Crash Course in Modern Humanity
The screenwriter behind Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby gets behind the camera for Crash.
With Crash, screenwriter Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby) makes an impressive directorial debut with a telescoping deliberation on American race prejudices as viewed through a lens of day-to-day life in the melting pot of Los ...
Ariez brings a woman’s touch to heavy metal.
The Stockton-based heavy metal quartet Morbius has something most other hard rock acts don’t have: a female lead singer. On an original titled “Whore,” vocalist Ariez sings beautiful, ethereal feminine vocals on the verses but ...
International conflict mediators hone their skills at a local conference.
The Lord’s Resistance Army has terrorized the residents of northern Uganda for 20 years, kidnapping children to serve as soldiers and concubines, looting and burning villages and mutilating survivors before melting back into the bush ...
Meet the Parent
Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, examines a strange family dynamic in The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
Director Rebecca Miller’s evocative drama about an insular father-daughter relationship raids mightily from the closets of Freud and narrative symbolism to tell this story in which not very much happens in terms of outward events ...
Angry Women Speak Up
Female leaders point toward success.
Of the 535 members of the US Congress, 79 are women. The other 456 members are men. Some people, women included, point to this as progress. Frankly, I’m disgusted. Maybe I’m just a glass-half-empty kinda ...
Newsbriefs
Major Tom to Ground Control The electronic tag that had been hitching a ride on the back of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s famous white shark popped free over the weekend and began transmitting data via ...
