Issues / 2005 / Aug 11
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 | ...
Book of Life
Western Stage does its best to bring Cannery Row off the page.
As well preserved as a flatworm in formaldehyde, John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row turns 60 this year. Less a novel than an inter-related series of vignettes about the characters which lurk and drink and whore around ...
Santa Cruz Nation
The Expendables bring surf city sound to Monterey.
Santa Cruz is known for a large cadre of surfers, with nicknames like “Ratboy” and “Flea,” who approach wave-riding with an extremely aggressive attitude. And the beach town is also known for its mellow residents. ...
Roots Jam
Tea Leaf Green plays Monterey Live.
Instead of playing a fancy new synthesizer that can sample hip-hop beats and reproduce the sounds of barking dogs, Trevor Garrod prefers a late ‘70s Fender Rhodes electric piano. Garrod, the keyboard player and vocalist ...
Bang for the Buck
Officials defend Monterey’s military institutions.
The federal BRAC Commission heard on Monday from local and state officials who testified that Monterey’s Naval Postgraduate School and Defense Language Institute are unique academic institutions which provide a highly cost-effective service for the ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
CA-CHING… Abel’s off and running—to the bank, that is. On Aug. 11, between 6pm and 8pm, ABEL MALDONADO, the Central Coast’s recently elected state senator—and even more recently declared 2006 state controller candidate—will hold a ...
Southern Comfort
LA pianist George Kahn brings inspired jazz to Carmel this Saturday.
Los Angeles is often portrayed as a jazz wasteland, a huge, sprawling region where too many jazz musicians are looking for lucrative studio gigs rather than honing their sound. The truth is that LA boasts ...
Letters
Drug Addicts Need Help, Not Jail The Weekly’s July 21-27 cover story, “Prescription for Disaster,” covered the unfortunate physician who was caught in his addiction to narcotics. I am sure that the local district attorney ...
Americans worship at the altar of recreation, but are downright clueless about leisure.
You know what the terrorists really hate about us? They hate our fun. They may be fundamentalists, but we Americans are fun-damentalists. Blue states, red states, it doesn’t matter. Despite our regional, religious, and political ...
The Girl Who Tried to Savethe World
The heroic life and final days of Marla Ruzicka.
On the afternoon of Saturday, April 16th, Marla Ruzicka sat in her unarmored Mercedes, talking on the phone with her friend Colin McMahon, a reporter in the Baghdad bureau of the Chicago Tribune. She’d had ...
News Briefs
Salinas Homicides Down The Salinas city homicide total has dropped by more than 50 percent this year compared to last year. In 2004, there were 12 homicides between Jan. 1 and Aug. 1. Five were ...
HOMEPAGE: A Home to Dance In
HOMEPAGE: A Home to Dance In
There are plenty of tantalizing elements to greet a visitor at the Del Rey Oaks home of Fernando Filipelli, and stepping inside provides the first. Behold a living room with a red brick fireplace, simple ...
Shouting in the Wind
The County’s Weather Service Forecast Office takes its weather predicting seriously.
“Identification, please.” At the front gates of the Monterey County National Weather Service Forecast Office, I hand my driver’s license to a guard. He is dressed in full camouflage, complete with a boonie cap and ...
Strange Pilgrims
Maurizio Benazzo introduces his intriguing film,
As a fascinating, confounding portrait of “the longest running religious festival in history”—the Kumbh Mela in Prayag, India—Short Cut to Nirvana offers Westerners a tantalizing glimpse into this 70 million-strong, once-every-12-years event that by dint ...
Bites of Heaven
Dissecting the pleasures of cherries.
‘I’m a fruit snob,” admits Tom McCamant, “I got into this business because I couldn’t find a good piece of fruit.” After spending a few minutes talking to this man, I’d have to agree that ...
Raymond Napolitano
WE ♥ YOU BILL… I had already sent off this edition of this column when I received a phone call from Cheryl Warner telling me that BILL LEE had been stricken with a pretty serious ...
Policing the Seas
‘New mandate’ designs marine protected areas along the Central Coast.
The ancient Maori had a simple way of maintaining marine reserves and fish nurseries, according to The Ocean Conservancy’s Kaitlin Gaffney. They simply killed anyone who fished them. When the renewed Marine Life Protection Act ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
JOHNNY CASHThe Legend | Columbia/Legacy Johnny Cash was the original gangster. Before Ice T and The Notorious BIG were even a gleam in a shorty’s eye, Cash was singing about drugs and guns in songs ...
TheaterListings
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 | Annie Opens ...
Artists’ Revolution
West End Celebration flaunts Sand City’s unique art culture.
Like the huge dunes which loom at this industrial neighborhood’s northern border, the West End arts revolution continues to change with every passing year. For the fourth consecutive year, the artists, galleries and businesses of ...
Keepin’ It Unreal
A sibling story dissolves into clichés in the urban drama Four Brothers.
When the Mercer boys reunite in Detroit for the funeral of Evelyn (Fionnula Flanagan), the woman who adopted them all, Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), Angel (Tyrese Gibson), Jeremiah (André Benjamin) and Jack (Garrett Hedlund) interact with ...
STREET TALK: Oh, That Again…
Asked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies
Q: How have your feelings changed about the war in Iraq? Follow-up: What’s your main source for news? Joe Cunningham |Teacher | Monterey A: I’ve always been against the war. If anything, my feelings have ...
