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Food Chain

Live and in Person

CRASH COURSE IN CULTURE…As I write this I’m preparing to go to see The King and I. It’s at the Forest Theater in Carmel so I’ll be bringing an extensive spread of vittles. (Hold on, ...

DiscSpace

COLETTEHypnotized | Om Records In a sea of singularly talented divas, Colette is a true innovation—a DJ who sings, spins, and produces all of her own songs. With a classically trained voice to match her ...

Track Marks

A virgin race fan discovers an addiction to the action at Laguna Seca.

From a superior perspective high atop puffy garbage bags piled in a dumpster near Turn Two at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, the addictive qualities of world-class motorbikes are clear. Only views from the roof of ...

ArtListings

Roots Rock

It’s time to play Ask the Chef. So let’s ask the Chef…

Dear Chef, Every summer I choose a vegetable that I don’t really get along with, and I make a good-faith attempt to love it. Last year it was beets, and I made grand progress (thanks ...

STREET TALK: Extracting the Truth

Asked outside Ghirardelli Chocolate on Cannery Row

Q: When visiting the dentist, do you feel the need to lie about your dental hygiene habits? Follow-up: What song would you like to listen to while in the chair? Ilana Kasten |Occupational Therapist | ...

A New Brit Folk

James William Hindle furthers the tradition.

Recently, James William Hindle moved from the bustling metropolis of London to the more subdued city of Sheffield so that his whole existence would not be devoted to music. In London, Hindle worked at the ...

The Other City by the Sea

Council aims to ‘put Seaside on the map;’ moves forward with resort project.

Seaside City Councilman Don Jordan recalls flying into Monterey and seeing a map of the Peninsula during the flight. “I looked over at the map and I saw Sand City and Fort Ord,” he remembers, ...

Back to the Raunch

Wedding Crashers recalls the golden era of unapologetic crude comedy—at least for a while.

If there’s one thing we knew how to do back in the late ’70s and early ’80s, it was lowbrow movie comedy. In many ways that was the golden era of sweet crude, from slobs ...

About Face

BRAC Chair suggests merging Monterey’s military schools.

As an afterthought to the Defense Department’s list of bases recommended for closure, the commission responsible for reviewing the list recently suggested merging the Naval Postgraduate School and the Defense Language Institute, or possibly combining ...

Deep Lessons

The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Science Under Sail program is more than just nerds on the water.

To get onboard the 65-foot-long Derek M. Baylis, one has to duck beside the weathered wood pilings supporting the wharf. It’s late morning on an early-summer Friday as a small group of Monterey Bay Aquarium ...

TheaterListings

Dousing Opposition

Cal Am says it will not fight water system buyout here.

In November, Peninsula voters will decide if they want to finance a study of the cost of a public takeover of California American Water Company’s local system. Meanwhile, in Felton, a small community in the ...

Sugar Daddy

Tim Burton’s take on the classic Roald Dahl book transforms Willy Wonka into an androgynous chocolatier.

While Tim Burton has almost exclusively adapted pre-existing material rather than creating his own stories, his protagonists have generally been eccentric outcasts and/or visionaries (Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood), many of them ...