Issues / 2005 / Aug 04
Inside Eden
Suspending time in the Ventana Wilderness.
The Bear Basin trail seems moments from vanishing, as if it—and we—are on the verge of being lost to civilization and reclaimed by the wilderness for all time. We perform the brushstroke. We swim downhill ...
HOMEPAGE: Soul Searching
HOMEPAGE: Soul Searching
Perhaps it’s a good time to ponder the Carmel housing market, to reflect a bit on opinions expressed about the remodeled and newly built homes there. Many people herald these temples of granite and iron ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
SON VOLTOkemah and the Melody of Riot | Sony Following the demise of legendary alternative country band Uncle Tupelo, the smart money was on Jay Farrar to go on and become a major force in ...
San Quentin inmates raise $1,000 for Salinas libraries.
Olish Tunstall is serving a life sentence at San Quentin for murder. He’s 39 years old, and doesn’t have much chance of ever getting out. For some, that would be akin to a death sentence. ...
TheatherListings
TheatherListings
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 | Cannery Row ...
AlrtListings
AlrtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel | Gallery at Blackstone | ...
New Directions
With
Filmmaker Gregg Araki, heretofore best known for his numerous ragged and nihilistic coming-of-age, gay melodramas, here crosses over from the fringes to make his most mature and penetrating drama to date. Although he’s still transgressive ...
The Stinking Rose
A peek at winning recipes from last weekend’s Great Garlic Cook-Off.
‘Dude, I can’t believe this. I can’t believe this.” Alice Hagopian of Montclair, Calif., is backstage at the Gilroy Garlic Festival Great Garlic Cook-off, amazed at the second place finish of her Garlic Appetizer De-Lites ...
Ghost Ship
More than a half a century ago, the US’s largest dirigible sunk off the Big Sur coast. In the fall, researchers will attempt to photograph the wreck.
“SOS—falling,” the radioman coolly typed. Without a sound, the great airship fell slowly out of the clouds and towards the cold green sea and jagged cliffs of Big Sur. “Let go all ballast and ship ...
Fledgling’s Song
Young Josh Armstrong celebrates his first release.
A year ago, Joshua Armstrong performed his music in front of a crowd for the first time at an open mic night in Salinas’ now defunct Coffee Espresso. Now, the 19-year-old Salinas native is releasing ...
Letters
DC: Where Rove Gets to Hide The timing of the nomination of John Roberts to the US Supreme Court was designed to take the heat off of Karl Rove. We must not let the media ...
Newsbriefs
Los Padres Forest Says Yes To Oil Drilling Last week, Los Padres National Forest officials announced they will allow oil companies to drill for an estimated 17 million barrels of crude oil or natural gas ...
FOODCHAIN: Keep It Clean
BRING ON THE CLOROX… I recently moved so I’ve been living out of boxes lately (as opposed to living in them) and have struggled with misplacing things, not being able to find others that might ...
Dangerous Beauty
A tale of three spas.
There are some three-letter words that hold so much promise and power that to just think of them conjures up bold thoughts of joy and transformation. Among them: God, sex and spa. The latter also ...
The Land Itself
25th Steinbeck Festival celebrates the places Steinbeck made famous.
It’s been 60 years since John Steinbeck published his classic novel Cannery Row and 25 years since the first Steinbeck Festival in Salinas. To celebrate, this year’s festival—themed “Folk, Film and Fish”—is a silver anniversary ...
STREET TALK: Heated Discussion
Asked in downtown Pacific Grove
Q: Last week saw 200 cities across the country breaking temperature records. What’s the hottest situation you’ve ever been in?Follow-up: Fill in the blank, “Hot as ______.”Dave FordMathematician | Carmel A: Last week I was ...
A Brilliant Stew
Jazz singer Jenna Mammina succeeds with old classics and writes her own striking material.
Before Jenna Mammina started writing her own songs, she was turning the work of other artist’s into her personal property. Steeped in jazz, the self-invented song stylist has built a dedicated following in the Bay ...
Daring Diction
The experimental film Yes attempts to resurrect iambic pentameter.
A post-9/11 cross-cultural love story spoken entirely in iambic pentameter? For the less adventurous moviegoer, that might sound like the cinematic equivalent of a root canal without anesthesia. But while the unconventionally-filmed Yes doesn’t fully ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
SQUID’S GOT BUNS…Is it just Squid, or is there a smell of rotting weenies in the air? Sniff. Sniff. Yep, definitely rotting weenies. Wait, now Squid remembers—it’s because the MONTEREY COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT recently banned ...
