0420| Apr 20

PublicCitizen

Thursday 4|20 Humanitarian Warrior | MONTEREY—Simon Schorno has seen the horrors of war up close. He’s a regular visitor of Guantanamo internees, and tonight, he details humanitarian efforts aimed at victims of war. 7pm. Monterey ...

Power Pop

Quetzal brings message of unity to CSUMB.

A lot of bands that are talented enough to sell records end up selling out. They sign away their name and image to some major record company in exchange for widespread promotion and a distribution ...

SquidFry

ONE SQUID’S INK… Squid is a little bit anxious and a little bit excited—but not all that surprised—to see that the hipsters at the Salinas Californian are getting set to launch a cool weekly newspaper. ...

The Rappers

Inside of CSUMB’s blandly named Building 2002, behind the door to room 202, which is adorned with a picture of Spongebob Squarepants and his friend Patrick, Jerome “S.K.” Johnson, Tre “Yung T” Burford and Javier ...

The Eskanol Band

Anthony “The Kid” Chavez figures that he has played music around the CSUMB campus more than anyone except maybe the once ubiquitous Erhman Hall of The Nancy Boys. As a member of the extremely popular ...

Letters

A CHURCH FOR EVERYONE Thank you to Mark C. Anderson, and for sharing the ideas of Jay Bartow, a pastor of Monterey’s First Presbyterian Church for over 30 years [“God and War,” April 13-19]. Fifteen ...

Friendly Fire

Venezuelan official brings revolution to the streets of Monterey.

After talking for more than two hours in Monterey, Fernando Vegas needed to jump in a car and ride to San Francisco, where an early morning radio show awaited his appearance. But Vegas, a Venezuelan ...

Oldtown Rocks

La Perla hosts rockabilly show this weekend.

In recent months, Salinas’ La Perla Restaurant has been serving up live punk and rockabilly bands along with gigantic burritos and all-you-can-eat breakfast specials. Starting in late January, local promoter Meana Sanchez and her Mean ...

Back for More

Developer announces “new” plans for 14-story Salinas hotel, rents space to Assembly hopeful, Mayor Anna Caballero.

Gerry Kehoe isn’t back. The Florida-based developer who was stripped of his exclusive right to develop property in the 100 block of Main Street last August hasn’t crept back into Salinas, quietly closed escrow on ...

A New Friend

Jennifer Aniston plays a poor housemaid with rich friends in director Nicole Holofcener’s

Four close friends form the cornerstone of the brilliantly observed Friends With Money, three who have it, one who doesn’t. Even by LA’s pricey Westside standards, the characters played by Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack, and ...

Sea, Rock, Sky

The Carmel Highlands was once considered too out-of-the-way. Property was not especially coveted, land costs not especially high. Houses only began to sprout here like sunflowers on steroids after the dot-com boom was well into ...

Not So Fast

Marina Planning Commission could derail Wal-Mart.

On April 27, the Marina Planning Commission will accept public testimony on whether a developer misled the panel last fall about its plans for the old K-Mart site in downtown Marina. The developer, Tallen and ...

The Progressive Rockers

At first glance, Slices of Home’s Mason Rothschild and Joseph McCarthy seem like an odd pair. Rothschild, a Music and Performing Arts major with a curly halo of brown hair, gets almost manic when speaking ...

Plan for Iran

Is the Bush administration planning another war?

>>OPNION I have argued for quite some time that the talk of a US military attack on Iran was essentially bluster, and that it could not occur because it would be totally irrational from the ...

Sound Education

CSUMB produces a diverse musical collection.

It’s 11pm on a school night, and coeds from nearby CSU Monterey Bay are packed into the Lava Lounge, a small rock club located inside downtown Monterey’s sprawling Club Octane, to see the alternative rock ...

The Real Work

FoodChain

FOOD PLANET… “Motherhood, all love begins and ends there.” I once gave my mother a little plaque with that quote on it. The most important mother of all, Mother Earth, is the subject of GABRIELA ...

Life’s a Trip

Go inside the carnie psyche.

At the corner of Fremont Street and Broadway last Thursday afternoon, employees of the American Traveling Shows set up candy colored rides and booths for their four-night stint in Seaside. They’ll be gone by Monday, ...

Learn Mandarin

Full Moon is good preparation for a new era.

Maybe China taking over the world isn’t so bad, as long as our new Mandarin landlords are as nice as Nobe Shirchan and we get to eat sizzling rice soup every day. Shirchan is part ...

Lost Souls

Director Wim Wenders explores the inhabitants and the landscapes of the West with

Cameras are rolling on the set of Phantom of the West, a mawkish Western shooting in the Moab desert, but leading man Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) is nowhere to be found. A washed-up alcoholic loser, ...

The Singer/Songwriter

Though Ryan Bisio came to CSUMB as a basketball player, the self-described “prolonged senior” will leave the school next fall as an accomplished singer/songwriter. Bisio, looking the part in a frayed corduroy jacket and a ...

ArtListings

Voice of a Generation

Kurt Elling brings heart and soul to MJF’s Next Generation Festival.

Kurt Elling never participated in jazz competitions when he was an aspiring musician, but he fully appreciates the emotional stakes involved when young players lay it on the line in front of respected pros. The ...

Smell of Progress

Respecting the Earth doesn’t require disrespecting noses.

831>>TALES FROM THE AREA CODE There are lots of ways to celebrate the Earth on April 22. But the truth is, most of them will make you stink. For example, you could take that old, ...

Chartering Survival

With local districts moving away from charter schools will the County pick up the slack?

With the future of Monterey Bay Charter School hanging in the balance, its director David Hill turned to Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) for help. Late last year, Hill asked MPUSD, the county’s largest ...

Prairie Fire

Garrison Keillor brings some heat to his humor.

Weekly: What are you doing on this speaking tour? Keillor: I get up in front of people and I talk. I walk out and sing a song—I might sing “The Frozen Logger,” or “Woop a ...

Street Talk

Asked in downtown Albertson’s in Carmel

Q: Why do sex-related issues take up so much time and energy in politics? Follow-up: Free association — “same-sex marriage.” EVELYN EAGLE | Retired | Carmel A: I wish I knew; it’s getting overwhelming. I’d ...

Politics for the Planet

Remembering the first Earth Day—again.

>>THELOCALSPIN I have been writing about the environment for exactly 20 years. I can still remember the first time I wrote a piece to coincide with Earth Day, in April, 1986, probably because it had ...

Bright Future

The Next Generation Cometh.

The Next Generation Festival kicks off on Friday at 7pm with a free concert by some of the top jazz musicians here to adjudicate the student competitions. Held in the Portola Plaza’s DeAnza Ballroom, the ...

The Political Pop Artist

Freshman Andrea Blunt’s “Revolution” is one of the most striking contributions on Out of Order. With an almost angelic voice, Blunt sings about societal concerns like Medicare, the FCC and the unrealistic expectations created by ...

The Pop Rockers

Meeting with the band Brea at a table set up in CSUMB’s North Quad, it seems like the band has already made it in the music business. As I ask questions about their three-year career, ...