0609| Jun 09

Making a Scene

Monterey Live launches ambitious performing arts calendar.

With the smell of fresh paint in the air, Vince La Rocca climbed onstage last Thursday to introduce a crowd to Monterey’s newest music venue. While waitresses served mixed drinks in hand grenade-shaped cocktail glasses ...

HOMEPAGE: A Sacred Space

This is a very rare house, this house at 7067 Valley Greens Circle in Carmel Valley. According to its owner, Ann LaCroix, it is based on the profound, invisible equanimity of a Zen temple. The ...

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Letters

WILBUR DOESN’T KNOW THE FACTS In regard to “Peter Smith’s Paradox” [“Peter Smith’s Paradox,” June 2-8], there seems to be a disconnect between’ the writer’s conclusion and the facts. Brett Wilbur concludes, “Maybe there isn’t ...

Theater Listings

FORUM: From Jail Cells to Solar Cells

Environmental justice takes the world stage.

Breast cancer rates are skyrocketing in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunter’s Point neighborhood. Asthma inhalers are more common than schoolbooks in West Oakland’s schools. Toxic factories are poisoning the skies of Oakland’s Chinatown. In the Bay Area ...

FOODCHAIN: Birth of a Legend

Raymond Napolitano

MEMEMEMEME… I sit here three days before our beer festival. I have taken to awakening after about three hours, regardless of when I go to sleep—I rarely sleep more than five hours a night anyway. ...

Pounding Pavement

Oldtown business owners push for private security patrols.

Sometime between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on June 5, a burglar broke into Rollick’s Specialty Coffee House and Internet Café in Oldtown Salinas. The perpetrator first tried to get in the back way. After damaging the ...

Movie Man’s Music

Steve Tyrell brings a lifetime in the arts to the standards.

It may sound strange, but the 1991 film Father of the Bride was the mother of Steve Tyrell’s singing career. With a voice as gravelly as Dr. John’s and a laid-back approach that mines Ray ...

Going Big

Dennis Murphy channels Sinatra for CD release party.

In his role as regional director for JazzMasters, a nonprofit that brings music education to underprivileged youth, Dennis Murphy, local musician and showman extraordinaire, occasionally encounters timid young players. He says he has a way ...

STREET TALK: Secret Message

Asked in downtown Pacific Grove

Q: What would be your message in a bottle? Follow-up: Where would you send the bottle? Sally Aberg (and Ginger) Writer | Studio Manager |Pacific Grove A: Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. Cry from Above: Empire State ...

The World in a Wineglass

Biodynamics helps vintners find the spirit of their land.

At 4:30am on May 6, Bonny Doon Vineyard Manager Nadine Lew crawled out of bed, got in her Nissan pickup and drove to the winery’s Ca’ del Solo vineyard northeast of Soledad. Working by headlights ...

Paddling Preachers

TeamOCEAN volunteers act as Sanctuary missionaries in kayaks.

TeamOCEAN (Ocean Conservation Education Action Network), a grassroots, seasonal field program that puts knowledgeable naturalists out on the water in kayaks to greet and interact with fellow day kayakers, turns five years old this summer. ...

Boundary to Progress

Why won’t Del Rey Oaks officials open South Boundary Road?

Del Rey Oaks’ population is just under 2,000. Its land area measures about a half square mile. But in the upcoming months, Del Rey Oaks’ political power may be big. With construction on Highway 68 ...

Euro Horror

Director Alexandre Aja’s High Tension recalls the classic slasher films from the ‘70s.

Gory European gothic horror doesn’t come any grittier and weirder than it does when a couple of would-be lesbian college girlfriends retreat to a weekend at the secluded farmhouse of one of their parents to ...

831: Big Man on Campus

Powerlifter and college football player Rob Carbo isn’t slowing down.

Perhaps it’s his massive 19-inch arms or his collection of California State Championships. Maybe it’s his recent college football career or his ambitious, high-energy attitude. Or just maybe it’s the fact that he could bench ...

Newsbriefs

Fire Road to Stay Open Swayed by a vocal Big Sur community, California State Parks officials have decided to develop a plan to keep the Tin House Creek Fire Road open to emergency vehicles. Located ...

A Museum Moves

Neo Mod shows Monterey Museum of Art heading in a new direction.

On the evening of Friday, May 27, nattily attired ladies and gentleman of a certain age, along with a smattering of artsy young hipsters, showed up for a member reception at the Monterey Museum of ...

SquidFry

HOT TOWN… Apparently Pacific Grove is experiencing a full-blown sexual revolution and, for the record, Squid is 100 percent behind it. Speaking of behinds, Brazilian thong dancers got freaky at last Friday’s Mardi Gras Asilomar ...

Global Cities Unite

Mayors from around the world meet in San Francisco for UN World Environment Day.

Last Saturday afternoon in a second-floor auditorium at San Francisco’s Metreon, the feel-good moments just kept on coming. The audience burst into spontaneous applause when the formidable Bianca Jagger declared that the Bush administration is ...

DISCSPACE: Save the Dinosaur

Merge Records reissues Dinosaur Jr.’s early catalogue—Dinosaur, You’re Living All Over Me and Bug.

At my high school—this was before hip-hop and rap exploded in popularity—people listened to one of two types of music: classic rock and college rock. The classic rock crowd, which was most of the school, ...

Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Early summer goat cheese is divine.

I’m fascinated by cheese. How can the secretions of bovine and ungulate mammary glands transform into so many textures, flavors, and colors? Standing in the cheese section of the grocery store can be an overwhelming ...

Trading Places

The Danish film Brothers shows the effects of war on one member of a family.

Like her previous film, Open Hearts, Brothers is a psychological drama minus the psychology, and is based on a story idea by Danish director Susanne Bier and a screenplay by Anders Thomas Jensen. Both films ...