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OLD GUYS DON’T NEED TIES Love your publication! A minor correction to The Best Retirement Community of Canterbury Woods [“Best Of Monterey County,” March 16-22]. It used to be coats and ties for dinner but ...

Staying Centered

City offers rare sanctuary for Marina teens.

Skaters in full gear swoop up and down polished concrete slabs. They’re within earshot of Jackie Gonzales, who stands in front of Marina’s Teen Center. Next to her feet, recently planted wooden pots carry buds ...

Built on Lies

Marina officials refuse to challenge Wal-Mart developer over broken promises.

The developer who’s bringing Wal-Mart to Marina attained a crucial permit by making a long list of hollow promises to the Planning Commission on Oct. 13. One unfulfilled pledge made by Terrence Tallen, CEO of ...

A Humbling Lesson

Panetta Lecture delivers a sobering truth.

>>THELOCALSPIN A half-hour into the conversation Monday night, the air of collegial civility that prevails during every Panetta Lecture Series event threatened to give way to an old-fashioned political dust-up. The topic of the evening ...

Guitar Mistress

The inspiring Mimi Fox arrives at Monterey Live.

The surest sign that a guitarist has achieved a singular, identifiable sound is when their ax-wielding colleagues start paying close attention. Mimi Fox, a mainstay on the Bay Area jazz scene for the past two ...

Local Global Act

New MIIS program provides practical tools for international do-gooders.

Revered MIIS professor Beryl Levinger believes most people are prepared to do something about making their world better. She has responded by creating a way for them to develop the tools to do that. Levinger ...

Fishy Solution

Salmon season may be cut short. Again.

The 2006 salmon season is tangled up in a mess of bureaucratic fishing line. When the recreational season opens Saturday, April 1, temporary regulations will limit anglers to inside the Monterey Bay or three miles ...

Survival of the Silliest

A supporting character is the only thing supporting Ice Age: The Meltdown.

In Ice Age: The Meltdown—as in its hit 2002 predecessor—the opening and closing sequences are devoted to the misadventures of the twitchy, acorn-obsessed rodent known as Scrat. He appears in interstitial segments throughout the feature ...

Still Got Soul

Special Request brings funk with a message.

Most of the songs by the Fairfield-based dance band Special Request are guaranteed to get people dancing and having a good time. The band, which describes itself as performing “sultry funk,” plays covers of the ...

Million Dollar View

No oracle need foretell Marina’s future, since the house at 3184 De Forest Rd. already articulates beautifully what the city could be. Ed and Susie McConnell say they had been renting an apartment too long ...

Pretty Deadly

Rogue ‘beauty treatments’ claim victims from Salinas to Miami.

Maria Olivia Aguirre-Castillo was in search of beauty. The Castroville woman could have opted for a nip here, a tuck there, perhaps a little Botox to get rid of the expression lines in her brow. ...

Pour It On

FoodChain

THE FUN BEGINS… Wow, it’s been a rough couple of weeks. My body was taken over by a radical group from the spirit world that is fed up with what’s going on in our civilization. ...

Shore Enough

Café Beach is the pearl of the Beach Resort Monterey oyster.

Here is a Peninsula treasure that may be more familiar to out-of-towners than to locals. Café Beach is located in the Beach Resort Monterey. Apparently, visitors have been enjoying the creativity and expertise of Chef ...

PublicCitizen

Ongoing COMMISSION VACANCY >> FIFTH DISTRICT—Supervisor Dave Potter is seeking a volunteer to serve as the low-income representative of the county’s Community Action Commission, an advisory panel to the anti-poverty program Community Action Partnership. Commission ...