Issues / 2005 / Sep 01
Asked on Alvarado Street, Monterey
Q: If you were a work of art, what would you name yourself?Follow-up: What’s the last art object you’ve held?CYNTHIA LAIT | Artist (Painter) | San RamonA: “Unpredictable.” I don’t always know what I’m going ...
fall arts | NOV.
fall arts | NOV.
| 2 | PEBBLE BEACH EQUESTRIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS at Pebble Beach Equestrian Center—Horses: cool. Horses jumping over obstacles: cooler. Horses jumping over obstacles for big money while party rages all around: coolest. (Through the 6th.) | ...
Digging Up the Dirt
Despite noble intentions, The Constant Gardener eventually starts running in circles.
In the opening scene of The Constant Gardener, British diplomat Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) sees off his wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz) as she leaves on a trip from which we know she’ll never return. At ...
fall arts 2005 | SEPT.
fall arts 2005 | SEPT.
| 2 |GREEK FESTIVAL at Custom House Plaza (424-4434) Don’t have to feel weird about the whole olive and feta fetish.THE BARD OF AVON—Did the Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Queen Elizabeth really ...
fall arts 2005 | OCT.
fall arts 2005 | OCT.
| 1 |Butterfly Parade in Pacific Grove (646-6540). Ask a Pagrovian.| 5 |Chamber Music Monterey Bay’s 39th season leaves the station aboard the “ORIENT EXPRESS” with the ever-popular Quartetto Gelato at Sunset Center.| 7 |12TH ...
News Briefs
Supersized Kids Almost 33 percent of Monterey County teens—ages 12 to 19—are overweight or obese, according to the California Health Interview Survey. On Sept. 7, a luncheon at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas will ...
Disc Space
BRONSON ARROYO | Covering the Bases | Asylum There are ridiculous vanity projects, like Keanu Reeves as grunge bassist or Kevin Bacon and siblings, but this one eclipses all of them. Arroyo—a pitcher and member ...
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Beach House
The Rags to Riches story has been rewritten as Rags to Couture—not with pen on paper but with stucco and stone. The original house at 91 Corona Rd. in Carmel was a bit tattered and ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
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 | ...
Two competing desalination plants faced off at a public hearing last week.
At a town hall meeting on the Peninsula’s water problems last week, there were the usual tables with fancy charts and colorful pictures detailing various competing projects. But not for the desalination project proposed by ...
Off-Road Obstacle
New Land Rover school at Quail Lodge could be shut down until permitting process is completed.
Paul Cooper is driving down a rutted, dusty trail in the hills above Quail Lodge, at the dignified speed of 1.6 mph. He’s not using any brakes or gas. “No pedals,” he says, drumming his ...
This Precious Life
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY…Life is so tenuous. We are constantly force-fed absurd images of wunderkind human types across all media, yet reality regularly reminds us about the truly fragile nature of life. Sometimes the ...
Le Deux Machina
Segways are dangerously fun.
Remember the hype in 2001 about some secret invention a brilliant and eccentric inventor had been working on for over a decade? They said this revolutionary technology would change the very face of society. They ...
Pub Grub That’s Brilliant
The Mucky Duck creates a California version of the British “gastropub.”
Upon entering a pub, even the most pessimistic, arrogant or timid individuals typically become infected by a glass-half-full state of mind, adopt a humble yet lively demeanor, and interject friendly comments into nearby conversations. Though ...
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 | Bat Boy: ...
Roots Return
Twinkle Brothers, Alpha Blondy and Culture headline massive two-day Monterey Bay Reggaefest.
Years before reggae music became a global phenomenon with the release of the 1972 movie The Harder They Come, starring Jimmy Cliff, and Bob Marley’s 1973 album Catch a Fire, brothers Norman and Ralston Grant ...
Squidfry
IMAGINE…Some might say Squid’s a dreamer. (Now it’s true, some might say Squid’s delusional, but Squid’s a glass-half-full kinda cephalopod, so Squid’s gonna go with dreamer.) And Squid’s not the only one. Take Gerry Kehoe, ...
Submerged
Saying goodbye to New Orleans
New Orleans is gone. I left it behind me on Saturday, with my two kids in the backseat, the soundtrack to Shrek on the CD player. My wife, a pediatrician, was on call for the ...
Here’s how to find the fun all season long.
All Saints Episcopal Church 9th Avenue and Dolores, Carmel 625-3637www.mozart-society.comCarl Cherry Center for the Arts 4th and Guadalupe, Carmel 626-6796www.ticketguys.comCircle Theater Monte Verde and 8th, Carmel 622-0100www.pacrep.org/Club Octane 321 Alvarado St., Monterey 646-9244www.cluboctane.comFernwood 24 miles ...
UnConnected
In solo performances, Nick Handley features acoustic versions of his band’s songs.
It’s a Thursday night on the deck at Bullwacker’s Pub, and despite the chilly Monterey evening air, Nick Handley is doing his best to give the night a balmy tropical feel. After playing an acoustic ...
Hawaii ’05
Jesse Colin Young brings some old-time California spirit back from the islands.
Putting together a career retrospective is no easy task for Jesse Colin Young. The guitarist, singer and songwriter is in the midst of a musical odyssey that stretches back more than 40 years, to the ...
Letters
Local Does Not Mean National In “KAZU GM Signs Off,” [Weekly, August 25-31], KAZU Board President Diane Cordero de Noriega says of John McNally, “He took this faltering little station and made it successful.” What? ...
Undressing the Window
Monterey City Council will decide whether to renew two business leases or further open waterfront.
On Sept. 6, the Monterey City Council may take some of the final steps to fulfill a vision created by their 1939 counterparts: an open waterfront along the city’s coastline. But to do this—to create ...
A Monstrous Musical
Pac Rep’s Beauty and the Beast is a ringing tour de force.
Back in 1995, a theater in Seattle called the Velvet Elvis Arts Lounge was producing a play I’d written—a musical about David Koresh and the events at Waco, Texas. As you might imagine, I wasn’t ...
Fall Arts at a Glance
Autumn is the season for arts and entertainment in Monterey County.
Summer gets all the glory. Kids out of school, skimpy clothes and loud music pouring out of convertibles. But fall brings pleasures of its own. In addition to clean waves and offshore wind come more ...
