Issues / 2006 / Jan 26
Farms to Slugs
Local organic farmers land contract with UC-Santa Cruz.
At first glance, the goals of the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) sound idealistic. They include, for example, teaching farmworkers with limited means, fresh off the big ag fields, how to build an organic ...
Fighting Words
Jim Hightower pulls no punches while defending America’s progressive values.
Jim Hightower is sharp, combative, witty and unabashedly liberal. Yet what makes the prolific author and pundit vital to today’s national progressive movements is his contagious optimism. After the Democrats’ crushing defeat of 2004, Hightower, ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
SQUID’S ETHICS COMMITTEE…It’s happened. Election season has finally kicked into high gear. Dennis Donohue, president of European Vegetable Specialties Farms in Salinas, announced late last week his candidacy for Salinas mayor, following Salinas City Councilwoman ...
Squeezed at the Pump
Shell sues Marina gas station operator over anti-gouging signs.
It’s been two months since Shell Oil installed brand-new pumps at the Marina Shell gas station on Reservation Road, which Mehdi Shahbazi has leased and operated since 1982. But to date, the pumps are locked ...
Generosity and Good Taste
Generosity and Good Taste
STILL A GRATEFUL NEW YEAR… I don’t think most folks realize just how much wear and tear a restaurant endures, especially a busy one. Age of the building and equipment, and natural deterioration add hidden ...
Final Act
The White Countess, the last film made by famed filmmaking team Merchant Ivory, sputters to life during its last minutes.
Politics shackle the characters in The White Countess. The movie, which will be forever famous as the final Merchant Ivory collaboration, opens in 1936 Shanghai, where a family of Russian royals has settled after escaping ...
All Over the Map
Houston Jones gets its Americana from a variety of sources.
|A&E| » MUSIC Somewhere there’s a crossroads where country and rock, gospel and bluegrass, and blues and pop all converge. Loitering around that dusty intersection you’ll find Houston Jones. The high-energy Americana band has been ...
Pretty Possibilities
The lovely Ling Chow flirts, teases and occasionally delivers fine, inventive pan-Asian cuisine.
Ling Chow inhabits a beautiful space, a spare confluence of cool tones, urbane black and horizontal lines. A sleek bar at the entrance marks the curve into a large room overlooking Carmel’s Barnyard shopping center ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
BABYSHAMBLES | Down In Albion |Rough Trade If all you know about Peter Doherty is that you have seen him in tabloids as the drugged-up boyfriend of model Kate Moss, then you are only getting ...
Language Explosion
The 10,000 Poems Project calls on the poet inside everyone.
|A&E| » LIT Celebrated poet Lawson Inada has a fittingly poetic vision of the 10,000 Poems Project. “Whenever I’m in the Salinas Valley, I’ve always noticed the lettuce-harvesting machines,” Inada says. “We’re kind of the ...
Letters
Grand Jury Report: Shame on the Messenger Shame on you for the cheap shot at Alana Knaster [“County Planning Blasted—Grand Jury calls Planning Department ‘dysfunctional,’ ‘ineffective’ and ‘inefficient.’” Jan. 12-18]. Fill your space with facts ...
Killer Movie
Killer Movie
If we took our cues about the world strictly from movies, we’d be forced to believe that no line of work produced more conflicted souls than that of a hit man. From Jean Reno in ...
Not Lost
PG Native Josh Randall finds another prime time home.
Knowing local viewers lept to the edge of their seats when Monterey High-product Josh Randall made an appearance on the award-winning drama Lost late last year—Randall had made it big. But when his character was ...
::Street Talk::
Asked at Acme Coffee in Seaside
Q: IF YOU COULD REDESIGN ANYTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Follow-up: WHAT IS PERFECT JUST THE WAY IT IS? DAVID SANTANA | Architectural Draftsman | Seaside A: Our railroad system. It’s ironic that Japan and ...
Gambling With the Past
Mortimer’s Card Room’s barely-hidden history tells of rowdier days in Marina.
Walking into Mortimer’s Lounge is like wandering into a movie theater after a day in the sun: it takes a while for one’s eyes to adjust to the dark. But as the darkness slowly melts ...
US Coast Guard may off-load some of its local property to city of Monterey.
The US Coast Guard may sell some of its valuable real estate to the city of Monterey. According to City and Coast Guard officials, one option on the table is an unprecedented transaction that would ...
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 ...
Our New Look: The Weekly has changed. Change is good.
Last week at the video store, a woman in line behind me said something that caught my attention. “Change is inevitable,” she said, “but progress is optional.” She may have been talking about some new ...
Global Spin
DJ Christopher Lawrence makes dance music with a West Coast flavor.
Christopher Lawrence lives two lives. During the week, he lives in an area of Los Angeles called the Miracle Mile with his wife and two children. But on weekends, the world-famous trance DJ is playing ...
Blues and Then Some
The Colin John Band takes classic sounds in new directions.
The only ingredients needed for a blues album are some great guitar licks and emotional vocals about some songwriter’s woes. Akron, Ohio bluesman Colin John takes this formula one step further by adding creative elements ...
Public Citizen for Jan 26, 2006
Thursday 1|26 NIP Sidewalk Cracks in the Bud MONTEREY—Funding for sidewalk and curb repair, as well as new traffic signals and parks, may not sound glamorous. But it’s the stuff of good neighborhoods, and is ...
Romantic Getaway
Wife of a convicted child molester investigated for helping husband evade arrest.
Local prosecutors have been investigating Renee Daly, wife of convicted child molester James Daly, in an effort to uncover the extent of her role in aiding her fugitive husband since his sudden flight last April. ...
