Issues / 2006 / Jan 05
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
PETE GONG AND SARAH MAIN | Pure Pacha 2005 | Om Records Here’s a nice souvenir brought back from Om Record’s summer foray into the Ibiza club circuit: a two-disc set endorsed by Pacha, Ibiza’s ...
News Briefs
The Race Is On Election season has begun. Late last week, five Monterey County elected officials took out papers needed to run for re-election this year. On Dec. 30, Supervisors Lou Calcagno and Butch Lindley, ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
TheaterListings
Links to theater/stage organizations within this section: | CET & Indoor Forest Theater | MPC Drama Dept. | MoCo Theatre Alliance | Pacfic Rep | Unicorn Theatre | theater ongoing | The Roots of Rock ...
Letters
Top 10 Things You Will Not Miss About Monterey 10. Trails. Believe it or not, the rest of the country has many more miles of excellent, unused trails. Mostly miles and miles away from any ...
Young Talent
Only 19, Holly Brook is already a veteran singer-songwriter.
When Linkin Park decided to sign their first act to their new label, Machine Shop Recordings, the commercial rap-rock group known for megahits like “One Step Closer” went in an unexpected direction. Instead of offering ...
Street Talk
Story Time: Asked at the Seaside Library
Q: What is the story of your life in 40 words or less?Follow-up: What would the title be?Kerry Hartjen Entertainer | Pacific GroveA: I set out to explore the world in a creative and artistic ...
Looking Forward
Looking Forward
Happy New Year again, everybody. How many of you are still on your new year’s resolutions bandwagon? Come on, it’s OK, mostly everyone has fallen off already…especially the one about losing weight, starting the exercise ...
The Seeds of Fat
Warm thoughts to begin a cold new year.
Short cold days, long colder nights…it’s easy to understand why so many cultures choose this time of year to stage major celebrations—many of which involve light, food, and camaraderie. To rage against the dying of ...
Hometown Hangout
East Salinas teen center will be run by high school and college students.
The after-school program room at the Firehouse Community Center, run by La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), looks like, well, a classroom for an after-school program. A row of computer monitors lines one wall. A ...
Upside Downside specializes in original-sounding covers.
Upside Downside plays everything from CCR to B.B. King. But John Mueller, lead singer and guitarist of the local blues-rock trio, says his outfit excels at covering the band Cream. “There’s a lot of feeling ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
HAT’S OFF…No reporter likes to “get beat.” (That’s what a news nerd calls it when a local rival publishes an important story before he gets around to it.) And no reporter likes to “walk in ...
Urbane Renewal
Urbane Renewal
Near the Del Monte Shopping Center in Monterey, a quick turn off Munras onto Soledad Avenue leads the way to a lightly forested neighborhood of gently sloping streets, many with ocean views and names appropriately ...
Fast Reads
Hearts and souls, tears and laughter, in 101 words (or less).
Apparently, this thing is unique. It’s its own art form. And it’s our very own thing. We believe the Weekly’s annual 101 Word Short Story Contest results in the best, shortest fiction being written anywhere. ...
Salt of the Sea
Planned desal plant allows Cannery Row hotel project to inch forward.
Desalination is complicated, but the actual process of creating drinking water from the sea may be child’s play compared to the bureaucratic machinations required for a private developer to get permission to do it. In ...
Kids Catch a Break
A public-private partnership drives Silver Star program for at-risk youth.
831[TALES FROM THE AREA CODE] Rancho Cielo is a 100-acre spread with a wooden entrance sign on the its perimeter—just like you might see in a Western movie. In 2004, the Silver Star Youth Program ...
Breakfast Buffet
Director Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto serves up bits and pieces of his other films.
Although based on the Patrick McCabe novel (he also co-wrote the screenplay), Breakfast on Pluto serves up ingredients from almost every other Neil Jordan film. Start with the theme of hopeless love common to them ...
The Year on Stage
Theater companies countywide roll out big seasons.
Monterey County’s theater companies hit the boards in 2006 with a varied slate of fresh new productions and old favorites. From Annie and Buddy! to Urinetown and A Clockwork Orange, this year’s fare has something ...
