Issues / 2005 / Jun 30
Our Readers’ Heroes
Our Readers’ Heroes
Three weeks ago, we invited readers to nominate “Local Heroes”—people who are making a difference in their communities—to be recognized in this issue of the Weekly. There were too many to fit in these pages. ...
Chinese Box
A first-generation surgeon tries to find her way out of the closet.
You’re a talented young resident at a New York hospital, first-generation Chinese, and you happen to be gay. In fact, you’re dating a new and exciting woman, and she wants you to share the relationship ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
WHERE IS THE LOVE… Squid thought you loved us Central Coat cephalopods, Abel. Until earlier this month, that is, when our “local” SEN. ABEL MALDONADO, a Republican from Santa Maria, announced that he will run ...
TheaterListings
Links to theater and stage organizations within this section: | CET & Indoor Forest Theater | MPC Drama Dept. | MoCo Theatre Alliance | Pacfic Rep | Unicorn Theatre | theater opening | Cabaret Opens ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| openings | events | Gallery North Figure and Form by Mary-Liz Houseman. Reception: 7/1, 5-8pm. Dolores between 5th and 6th, Carmel. 620-1987 or www.gallerynorthcarmel.org. Ends 7/15. The Lisa Coscino Gallery Frond Memories in the ...
HOMEPAGE: Death of a Seller
HOMEPAGE: Death of a Seller
Dear Lucille Fisher: Most likely, few reading this column will have had the pleasure of knowing you, though after they learn a little more about you, will surely feel they missed something. When one arrives ...
ONSTAGE:Living the Music
Pascal and Remy LeBeouf visit home from NYC.
Like countless seekers, strivers and ambitious young artists before them, Pascal and Remy LeBeouf arrived in New York City last August with big dreams and few connections. The Santa Cruz-raised identical twins are two of ...
Letters
PRISONERS LISTENING TO GREAT MUSIC ARE PRISONERS, NONETHELESS As a lifetime resident of the County, I gotta say I miss the “ol’ days.” I can remember when I bought a ticket for an ALL DAY ...
NewsBriefs
Dead Sea Otters Defenders of Wildlife is offering a total of $2,500 as a reward for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the person or people responsible for shooting two sea otters ...
STREET TALK: Hard Times
Asked at Starbucks in Del Rey Oaks
Q: What’s been a major challenge in your life? Follow-up: Would you go through it again? ANNETTE McCRAY | Homemaker | Del Rey Oaks A: Dealing with the open-heart surgery of my child. It’s a ...
Nice Scary Fellas
Salinas’ own Retribution brings angry visage to Lava Lounge.
The Salinas metal band Retribution took the stage at the Lava Lounge one night recently without its second guitarist, the 15-year-old prodigy Chris Thompson. While warming up for the gig, guitarist/singer Aaron Rauber and drummer ...
The Real Work
The
::Quiet Crusader::Morley Brown Gracious Goodness: Morley Brown, in front of her Carmel home, is as genuine as she is generous with her good deeds. Photo by Jane Morba By Brett Wilbur She’s on the board ...
Mood Music
The old pipe organ at the Golden State Theatre is the real deal.
Before a screening of The Maltese Falcon at the Golden State Theatre, a pipe organ slowly rises in front of the large stage. Seated with his back to the crowd, organist Warren Lubich starts playing ...
Emo Duo Plus One
The Achievement (of Flight), post-breakdown.
The Achievement’s show last month at the Cherry Bean Coffeehouse was an emotional experience. “I started crying like a goon onstage,” The Achievement’s singer and guitarist John Brandow says. “It sort of all came crashing ...
Raymond Napolitano
SAD BUT TRUE… As I gain a truer understanding of what my real feelings are, I realize that what I feel about many things is actually deep sadness. I guess, like most men in our ...
Mediterranean Meatless Bliss
Who needs beef when there’s chocolate?
The 18 countries that touch the Mediterranean Sea belong to three different continents: Europe, Africa and Asia. What they have in common, aside from the Mediterranean’s turquoise water, are hot, dry summers and warm, wet ...
Monterey will host annual fireworks show this July 4; Salinas skies will be dark.
It will be rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air like usual in Monterey this Fourth of July holiday, while over in Salinas the annual fireworks show has fizzled out. The difference between pyrotechnics ...
Child, Left Behind
Local social workers and business people work to educate fieldworkers about Safely Surrendered Baby Law.
Any parent or guardian of an infant younger than three days old can hand the newborn over to staff of any hospital in Monterey County, anonymously or not, without fear of prosecution. Within 14 days ...
Militarizing the border won’t work, so we’ll have to think harder about immigration solutions
You know those things people say over and over? Stuff that makes your teeth hurt every time you hear it? Here are some personal favorites: “Why doesn’t the government send down the National Guard and ...
Space Invaders
Post-9/11 allegory wrestles with blockbuster action in War of the Worlds.
‘Is it terrorists?” terrified teenager Robbie (Justin Chatwin) asks his dad Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) at the outset of the alien invasion that drives Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds—and you can understand his confusion. ...
DiscSpace
MEDPush Comes to Shove | Stones Throw Records Previously known to the world as Medaphoar in various Madlib projects dating back to 1999 (Lootpack’s Soundpieces; The Unseen; Shades of Blue; more recently on Madvillainy), this ...
The Write Art
Steinbeck Center’s The Art of the Graceful Envelope celebrates simpler forms of communication.
With the emergence of e-mail, fax, overnight express, and other methods of immediate written communication, does the art of the stamped and mailed envelope still exist? This is the question posed by The Graceful Envelope, ...
One Fish, Two Fish
Great Annual Fish Count surveys species in the Sanctuary.
The midmorning sun burns off the last of the clouds left in the once overcast sky. A group of divers stands on a small strip of sand—Pacific Grove’s Coral Street Beach. Soon they will enter ...
