Issues / 2006 / Jun 22
Wise Fools Parade
William Saroyan is rediscovered in Salinas.
The Western Stage’s production of William Saroyan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Time of Your Life is so relaxed and intoxicating it feels like a three-beer buzz. Among the dim light and the fog of alcohol, ...
Economic growth in the underdeveloped world is not a universal good.
Whenever we hear the word “development” used by international economists, politicians and experts, we should immediately be on our guard. Development is supposed to represent what everyone in the world wants, and what the privileged ...
500 Miles from Moab
Local outdoorsman prepares for punishing eco-race.
Advisory Council Coordinator Paul Chetirkin sits at a computer in his Monterey Bay Sanctuary office with a 30-pound pack full of sand on his back. “I’ve been wearing it full-time for the past month,” he ...
Letters
PG MEETING: SPECIAL, BUT NOT SECRET I wanted to correct the information attributed to me in an article about the retirement of Mayor Jim Costello [“Mayorless in PG,” June 15-21]. First let me say we ...
Kinger’s Tees Off
Carmel sports bar fields a winning combination.
I’m staring at the one of the most famous—and most beautiful—tee shots on the planet: the par-three seventh hole at Pebble Beach. This little 106-yard legend in golf landscaping dives downhill and out onto its ...
Bringing Home the Blues
Sly McFly’s 8th Annual After Blues Festival Jam Session brings big-name talent to Cannery Row.
For the past seven years, Sly McFly’s Annual After Blues Festival Jam Session has been the place to go for folks who want just one more hearty helping of the blues after three days of ...
Lord of the Ring
Jack Black plays an orphan turned Mexican wrestler in Nacho Libre.
Infinitely more entertaining than anything the WWE has done recently, this sophomore outing from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess is full of cheesy goodness, but it’s Velveeta, compadre, and it slides around and around and ...
PublicCitizen
6|22 Thursday BUILD A BUDGET | MONTEREY—Money is the issue at the Monterey County Business Council’s Annual Economic Development Forum, which includes a demonstration of the game “California Budget Challenge,” where participants can formulate a ...
Past Perfect
Past Perfect
Carol Laughlin is as unique and faceted as her property. In 1987, she sold a massive place in Pebble Beach and bought a one-bedroom house on the Salinas River in what originally was a 1930s ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
BACK TO THE FUTURE… Squid firmly believes that there’s always a tipping point at which it’s smarter and less painful to simply cut Squid’s losses and move on. Squid also firmly believe that when it ...
Blue, Proud and Happy
The Monterey Bay Blues Festival celebrates the truest American music.
Look up “blues” in the dictionary and you’ll find a definition that says something about a 12–bar musical form using minor intervals that expresses a mood of yearning and woe. Obviously Webster didn’t hang out ...
Marina Heights settlement money will help low-income residents buy a home.
Seven months after the developers of the Marina Heights project agreed to a $1.75 million settlement with a group of citizens that had sued them to halt the massive housing project, the money will finally ...
Hope Lives On
Bill Clinton still has a lot to say.
>>THELOCALSPIN “The best thing about not being president is I can say whatever the hell I want. The worst thing is that you don’t have to care what I say anymore.” Bill Clinton was speaking ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
A Taste of Monterey Landscape paintings by Salinas artist Rick Deragon. Oldtown Salinas, 127 Main St., Salinas. 751-1980. Alison’s discoveries art gallery Photography by Stan Friedman and Derrick Brown; watercolors by Gabrielle Moroe-Gordon. 19 E. ...
Creative Nonfiction
The Vermillion Lies story continues to unfold.
Playing to a packed crowd at Monterey Live before headlining act The Ditty Bops take the stage, Vermillion Lies attempts something most bands wouldn’t even think of: a rousing solo where Zoe Boekbinder plays a ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
SUSANA BACA | Traves’as | Luaka Bop Susana Baca, an Afro-Peruvian singer and ethnomusicologist, is committed to safeguarding the musical legacy of her slave ancestors. But despite her preservationist tendencies, she’s no purist. She prefers ...
Deep Roots
Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir reach back to Africa.
on stage Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir look like a sextet, but when the group gets deep into a performance, drawing from the entire history of African-American music, the Choir sounds like multitudes. ...
Bloody Hell
The Proposition gives the Western a violent Aussie makeover.
The Western originated as an all-American genre, but the brutal new film The Proposition persuasively stakes a claim that it belongs Down Under. The pitiless, almost prehistoric Australian landscape perfectly suits the Western’s conflicting archetypes ...
Sports and Life
Sports and Life
STICKBALL RULES… I’ve always been a sports fan. Where I grew up (I know what you’re thinking), from the day we were old enough to see, we saw sports being played all around us. Many ...
Seaside Jockeying
Mayor Ralph Rubio comes under attack from Councilman Darryl Choates. Again.
Seaside Councilman Darryl Choates won’t say whether he’ll challenge Mayor Ralph Rubio for the city’s top post in the November election. Choates says he’ll announce his decision in July. But even if Choates doesn’t run, ...
Of Dogs and Dollars
PG’s two SPCA benefit stores to close shop, move to Carmel.
The merging of Monterey County SPCA benefit stores will likely earn a greater profit for the humane society. But it leaves some Pacific Grove volunteers with nothing left to give their furry friends. Currently, the ...
How people help steelhead make an impossible trip downstream.
In one small Carmel River pool, trout crowd together tightly, prevented from advancing downstream by the river’s constricted flow. Slowly and discreetly, a shiny metal pole dips into their pool, releasing an electrical current that ...
The Wide World of Blues
Eric Bibb mines a rich tradition that embraces a vast spectrum of styles and sounds.
Like the wandering troubadours who spread the blues from the Mississippi Delta through the South and Southwest in the first decades of the past century, singer/songwriter Eric Bibb is a lone man with a guitar ...
Landmark case could change the shape of Monterey County—and California.
Late last year, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that in Orange County, recall petitions must be printed in English and Spanish. At the time, no one paid much attention to the court’s ...
Street Talk
Asked on Fremont Boulevard in Seaside.
Q: The blues fest is back in town. What really gives you the blues? Follow-up: How do you cope? JAIME NEWTON | American Legion Bartender Seaside A: Sick people, non-tippers, and sick non-tippers. Just kidding. ...
