Issues / 2006 / Feb 23
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Horse Heaven
A north turn off Laureles Grade onto Rinconada Drive presents a gently serpentine route above rising and dipping acreage of Woodside Estate, with valley to sky views in three directions. So few homes are seen ...
Fables of the Deconstruction
British director Michael Winterbottom attempts to adapt an unfilmable novel.
As soon as word of Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story began circulating, a directive from the Movie Writers’ Guild decreed that the film’s source, 18th-century writer Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of ...
The constitutional reform movement of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently compared Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler. The same week, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) awarded President Chavez the Jose Marti Award recognizing the elimination ...
Two people make a dream come true in Oldtown.
When was the last time you had a sandwich on focaccia that had just come out of the oven? Not the sandwich, the focaccia. Or steamed up your car windows on the way to the ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THE AVETT BROTHERS | Four Thieves Gone | Ramseur Records The Avett Brothers are known for their incendiary live shows. There has not been a group that has set fire to so many Southeastern cities ...
ONSTAGE: Political Movement
Fran Spector Atkins translates local tension into words and dance.
Voices of farmers and fieldworkers blend with guitar and percussion as three male dancers perform a series of lifts and turns. One dancer rises into the air before slowly collapsing onto the ground and rolling ...
OUTSIDE: Wild Olympian
A tribute to Bill Johnson, the greatest American ski racer of them all.
In 1984, I was a foul-mouthed 12-year-old California exile living in the snow-white, Mormon enclave of Sandy, Utah. My father’s transfer to this Salt Lake City suburb a year earlier had marooned my mother and ...
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 ...
ONSTAGE: Bringing the Heat
ODC/San Francisco takes on global warming.
When ODC Artistic Director Brenda Way initially envisioned a dance piece that would invoke global warming, she saw dancers moving about a stage blissfully unaware of a melting, 800-pound ice block suspended above their heads. ...
Where to find or find out about green building supplies.
As the demand for healthy buildings grows, resources on how to do it are quickly becoming more accessible. In fact, according to Sharon Sarris, Monterey Bay co-chair of the US Green Building Council, a database ...
Ex-Foreign Legion
Monterey’s seminal metal band returns and reunites.
Sitting outside of Morgan’s on a sunny winter afternoon, Mica Maniac and Gator Collier can recall the night when Monterey’s viral heavy metal music scene emerged from the underground. Maniac tugs at one of two ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
MAN EATER… Squid loves to rip other squids to shreds in public—and then eat them—but Squid had no idea you humans have the same vicious streak. Squid thought the whole evolution deal, or even just ...
Desal Project Stalled In Court
Save Our Waterfront lawsuit says Cannery Row plant will put the city at risk.
Community activist Barbara Evans worried that the city of Monterey didn’t do its homework before it approved a desalination plant project on Cannery Row. The desal plant, if built, will provide drinking water for Ocean ...
Frontier Justice
With The Three Burials of Melaquiades Estrada, Tommy Lee Jones explores stark contrasts at the US southern boundary.
After a long and occasionally impressive career as an actor, stone-faced Texan Tommy Lee Jones makes his directorial debut with The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. It’s a story about living on an international border ...
Letters
VERY INTERESTING, BUT STUPID The cover story about autism by Raul Vasquez was interesting, and almost well done. I was even beginning to think that the writer had done a proper job of researching the ...
Reorganizing Labor Priorities
Following hotel chains’ lead, unions start thinking nationally and globally.
After decades on the decline, state labor unions are making a comeback. Strong evidence of a resurgence came last November, when labor groups joined forces to successfully trounce anti-union ballot propositions backed by Gov. Arnold ...
Aquarium works to change state and federal policy.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has begun thinking outside the tank. The advocacy arm of the aquarium, the Center for the Future of the Oceans, is taking its first swing at influencing major policy change by ...
Our Own Masters
Our Own Masters
EXCELLENCE IS NOT PERFECT… Opening night of The Masters of Food and Wine remains a thrill, although each year I chuckle at the occasional detractors that spring up like bad mushrooms along a damp ridge. ...
Rooftops Come Alive
Living roofs could turn office buildings into elevated meadows.
>>HOME&GARDEN Early American pioneers traditionally cut their places out of nature rather than finding their place in it. Western Puritanical thought demanded sharp, delineated lines and borders between man and nature. Today, we’ve cut out ...
OUTSIDE: A Higher Gear
Tour of California sends world-class bikers through world-class sights.
Think you’re a badass because you biked from Sand City to Asilomar? Think again. This Thursday, Feb. 23, 16 pro cycling teams ride from Cannery Row to, oh, San Luis Obispo. For those counting at ...
School of the Future
Chartwell’s new campus aims for top honors in green building.
>>HOME&GARDEN Between the piles of lumber and the Porta Potty, the whine of the drill and the bump of the boom-box, this looks and sounds like a normal commercial construction site. It’s not. Here, in ...
Marina-based group launches signature-gathering effort to put initiative on the November ballot.
The room at the Shoreline Conference Center in Marina is bursting with chairs, but only a small handful of people have shown up for the meeting. A row of water bottles and coke cans sit ...
StreetTalk
Asked at Grigg’s Nursery in Pacific Grove
Q: WHAT’S THE BEST GARDENING TIP YOU KNOW? Follow-up: If you could be any plant, what would you be? LORRAINE LARSON | Professional Gardener | Carmel Valley A: Pay attention to the weather when you’re ...
Constructive Materials
The green genius is in the details. And, according to Doug Atkins, Chartwell executive director, and James Moore, Ausionio Inc. project manager, those details are everywhere with Chartwell’s new campus: 1. Studly Reincarnation Conduits for ...
Future Fight
Big guns come out against ‘smart growth’ general plan initiative.
Supporters of the initiative that rewrites the county’s general plan took a beating last week when opponents launched their campaign to kill the anti-sprawl plan. The opposition group Plan for the People announced on Feb. ...
Above the Fold
Seaside High students reclaim the power of the pen.
The deadline is nigh. Bodies rush through the room. Computer keyboards quiver as hurried fingers punch in last-minute corrections to stories. And then, with only a few precious minutes left, a logjam of people gather ...
Metal Antichrist
Ex-P.O.D. guitarist’s new secular band at Lava Lounge
Back in February, 2003, the big news in the national metal scene was that hard rockers P.O.D., known for their 2001 hit single “Youth of the Nation,” were parting ways with guitarist Marcos Curiel. At ...
Local Spin
Sea Minus: Efforts to heal decimated oceans will be painful—especially for fishermen.
The first-ever National Oceans Summit took place in Monterey in June of 1998. Billed as a meeting of the nation’s top ocean scientists, who gathered to address a looming catastrophe, it also brought together the ...
Treasures bloom at the historic Casa de Oro.
The past tastes like sarsaparilla. It also tastes like rum butter and bubble gum. Best of all, no matter the flavor, it only costs a dime. Volunteer Martha Mosher says the stick candy, a best ...
Public Citizen for Feb 23, 2006
Thursday 2|23 Marina on Tap for 2006 MARINA—In a city where big projects are going up fast, the Marina Planning Commission is at the center of things. Tonight, the commission lays out its goals for ...
