0511| May 11

Soapy Water

Deepa Mehta’s Water is irresistible melodrama.

The Indian-Canadian writer-director Deepa Mehta, whose last film was the misfired cross-cultural parody Bollywood/Hollywood, displays a far richer understanding of the cinema of her native land in Water, which hitches some of the most irresistible ...

New Horizons

Persephone’s Bees, featuring longtime local guitar master Tom Ayres, prepares to take off.

Most local music fans know about Tom Ayres. The Monterey native and Monterey High School graduate has played in gobs of local bands, starting with a high school dance cover band titled Jasmine T. Since ...

Letters

NO SYMPATHY FOR MARCHING LAWBREAKERS I am appalled by your article “Street Politics” [May 4-10]. What part of illegal do you not understand? These illegal immigrants march, they yell, they demand, they block streets, they ...

Me and My iPod

An idiot’s guide to online music enjoyment.

You gotta be freaking kidding me, I thought, as my armpits started to perspire. My editor stood in front of me in the Weekly’s kitchen while I tried to find a way to weasel out ...

Politics ‘n’ Beer

New group gathers at Peter B’s.

The first meeting of the newest Drinking Liberally chapter in the country is underway at Peter B’s Brew Pub in Monterey. Before long, the aroma of Drinking Liberally-style democracy—fried onion rings and beer—is in the ...

Calcagno’s Conflict?

Group says veteran supervisor should quit committee.

The Salinas-based group Citizens for Responsible Growth alleged this week that Supervisor Lou Calcagno has violated state conflict of interest laws. The group says it plans to file a complaint with the California Fair Political ...

Street Talk

Asked at Seacrest Plaza in Marina

Q: WHAT’S A CREATIVE WAY TO ENCOURAGE IRAN TO GIVE UP NUKES? Follow-up: What do nuclear physicists do for fun?What do nuclear physicists do for fun? JERRY HIEB | Retired Truck Driver | Marina A: ...

A Poet in the Wilderness

‘Jeffers at Point Sur’ celebrates the man in his milieu.

If the best way to learn a language is immersion, then the same must hold true for experiencing poetry. This Friday the public is invited to become immersed in the work of Robinson Jeffers on ...

Indecent Exposure

California appeals ruling to protect workers from poisonous pesticide.

In 1994, a team of scientists locked dozens of dogs in airtight plastic boxes and then pumped the pesticide methyl bromide into these containers for seven hours each day for a month. The devastating effects ...

Love is in the Air

MY GIRL… I’m sitting here, it’s night, I’ve got a jazz station from Vancouver playing on Windows Media (forgive me GARY HAMADA and GEORGE FULLER at KRML Jazz and Blues Radio in Carmel, home to ...

True Romance

If there’s a time and place for everything, then Alan and Sue Duemey feel certain their house on Beach Street in PG is the place, and any time is the time for whatever you may ...

Conventional Wisdom

Hanging out with the Democratic hacks in Sacramento.

I spent this past weekend in Sacramento, walking among the Living Dead—the 1,800 or so delegates to the convention of the California Democratic Party. Most reporters feel similarly about these events, though they are too ...

Home of Unique Quality

Casa Moreno brings its own recipes to Seaside.

The spicy homemade salsa told me a lot. It told me Casa Moreno Taquería was a homemade kinda place and, not coincidentally, a true taquería. It told me the place was probably as unique as ...

The Hardcore Word

Henry Rollins brings punk-rock poetry to Henry Miller Library.

Speaking from his office in Los Angeles, Henry Rollins explains the difference between getting on stage in front of a roaring rock group and standing in front of a crowd with just a microphone. “The ...

Big Steps

Folkloric dance transcends movement in Seaside.

831>>TALES FROM THE AREA CODE A line of about a dozen girls, some dressed in long, elegant dresses, spin and twirl their furls to classic folkloric songs from Mexico, leaning their bodies one way, then ...

SquidFry

SQUID LOVES SLACKERS… Squid knows some readers will find this hard to believe, but before Squid became the most wildly successful newspaper columnist ever born without a spine, Squid was a complete slacker. It’s true. ...

Cost of Luxury

Hospitality contract negotiations loom large on Monterey Peninsula.

In the game of high-stakes negotiations, the subtlest of gestures may portend a sea of significance. So when officials at the Hyatt Regency in Monterey recently informed union leaders that they wouldn’t be available to ...

Noir School Confidential

Brick uses film noir elements in a southern California high school setting.

Americans may not live in an empire, or even an axis, of evil—or so we’ve been told—but we sure do have a taste for the stuff. Ruthlessly unpredictable gangsters, deranged child rapists, and cannibalistic serial ...

ArtListings

The Costs of Housing

Salinas shocks the nation and the New York Times.

"The Least Affordable Place to Live? Try Salinas.” That was a headline this past Sunday on the front page of The New York Times real estate section. Usually, it’s fun to see the place where ...

Public Citizen for May 11, 2006

Thursday 5|11 Get a Job MONTEREY—Looking for a second job? Are the parents sick of their 30-year-old son sponging off of them? There’ll be jobs galore at today’s fair. Bathe, dress neatly and bring an ...

DiscSpace

JOLIE HOLLAND | Springtime Can Kill You | Anti At a recent show in Santa Cruz, singer/songwriter Jolie Holland seemed like an artifact from a long gone time. Wearing bloomers and a hat that was ...

New Latina Power

LULAC gets a new leader following fight over Rancho San Juan.

Late last month, Berna Maya, a teacher, nurse, Hartnell College trustee and longtime Salinas activist, was elected district director of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). District XII of LULAC represents all of ...