Issues / 2006 / Jul 20
Artistic Taste
Pajaro Street Grill builds upon its inspired legacy in Salinas.
Creative mosaics are everywhere at Pajaro Street Grill: on the walls and on the plate, in the flavors and in the philosophy. Next to one such inventive arrangement—plaster walls alive with decorative plates, shards of ...
Playing Together
Michael Lent comes home to work with his friends.
This is the story of a couple of local players who made it in the highly competitive music industry of Los Angeles. This is the story of a man inspiring a young musician to follow ...
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 ...
Recall on City Hall
Monterey activists want voters to decide on $14 million Public Service Center.
A small group of Monterey activists want to prove that an “overwhelming majority” of the city’s residents oppose the controversial Public Service Center by putting the $14 million, 35,000-square-foot office complex to a vote. Mike ...
The Wheel World
A new film about the last year’s Grand Prix at Laguna Seca delivers thrilling footage and human drama.
I have spent many hours watching Moto GP races on video, and I can tell you they are very good entertainment. My little phase came in the early 1990s, courtesy of a boyfriend who took ...
Fantasy Castle
Fantasy Castle
Here’s a recipe with ingredients hardly ever listed together, which produce a prize-taker—and can’t be replicated anyway. It’s like this. First, swirl the mermaid. While she’s suspended, curl in one very long dragon, complete with ...
TAMC officials look to put sales tax on 2008 ballot.
Measure A is dead. But transportation officials may soon resurrect it. The Transportation Agency for Monterey County has confirmed that it is seriously considering putting another half-cent sales tax on the 2008 ballot. The talks ...
Would you eat lab-grown meat?
As I type these words, men and women of science are growing meat in a laboratory. That’s meat grown independently of any animal. It isn’t hatched or born. It doesn’t graze, walk or breathe. But ...
The Swing of Summer
The Swing of Summer
POWER OF POSITIVE DRINKING…When I was back in college—I think it was the third or fourth of the five I attended before finally accepting that I wasn’t cut out for institutional education—I remember one of ...
Letters
Letters
BAD BOYS ARE BAD NEWS I am troubled by Jessica Lyons’ article in this week’s Monterey County Weekly, not by the historical facts in the story but in the perpetuation of myths about what men ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
RISING STAR NO MORE… It’s been a rough summer for California Sen. Abel Maldonado, Squid’s local assembly member, who lives far away in a place called Santa Maria. On June 6, the former rising star ...
Attorneys say produce giant violated state and federal laws.
On Jan. 6, Roberto Acuña walked into the Employment Development Department office in Delano where he lived and spotted what appeared to be a pretty decent job opening. Produce giant Fresh Harvest was seeking lettuce ...
Still Rocking
Monterey Rock and Art Festival number 10.
Egos. Guitar solos. Booze. Hair. Art. Tattoos. With nine years of rocking under its belt, the Monterey Rock and Art Festival has it all, including its fair share of choice stories. It all started back ...
Public Citizen for Jul 20, 2006
ONGOING PUBLIC SERVANTS WANTED | COUNTYWIDE—Unhappy with elected officials? Quit whining and run for office. Several cities and districts will elect city council members and board members in November. Nomination papers for city offices are ...
Street Talk
Asked at Canyon del Rey and Highway 1 in Seaside.
Q: MOTO GP BIKERS GO STUPID FAST. WHAT’S THE STUPIDEST THING YOU’VE DONE ON THE ROAD? Follow-up: What’s the coolest thing about local roads? ROBIN TAKAHASHI | Teacher | Prunedale adjacent A: I was on ...
Salty Deal
Former Fort Ord developers take over central Marina’s water rights.
After steering their ship into unsafe bureaucratic waters, developers on the former Fort Ord in Marina desperately needed a lifeline. Last week, local water officials threw them one. On Wednesday, July 12, a divided Marina ...
The Fight Continues
Monterey’s land war goes on—and on.
>>THELOCALSPIN The longest battle in history—there is some debate about this topic, but most historians today point to the notorious Battle of Verdun. Indeed, it was a protracted, bloody slog. In 1916, two years into ...
American Dream
Can US fans catch up with their riders on the world’s wildest race circuit?
I'm being bitten by a small dog led by an annoying little boy. My wife and all the women who came before her are standing in the shadows of doorways in an overarching European alley ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THE BRONX | White Drugs | Island The Deftones were and are a terrific live band of maximum excitement, but the idea that they’d ever be influential never crossed the public’s mind (or mine). The ...
The Ride to Miss Rodeo
Salinas’ lone entry trains hard for her shot at the biggest crown a Californian cowgirl can get.
Ashley Hoffman seems like a bona fide city girl. She has roots in Boston. She’s chipping away at a philosophy-political science double major at Stanford. She counts herself as a liberal, a sorority girl, and ...
Dead in the Water
M. Night Shyamalan loses his touch with surreality in
With his box-turtle posture and forlorn expression, Paul Giamatti is the cinema’s reigning prince of abject misfortune. Lady in the Water, directed by spiritual-spook jock M. Night Shyamalan, does not fail to give Paul Giamatti ...
How one senior translated hard luck into strength.
Riley McDowell is drugged, yet awake enough to feel the pressure of the power tool-like drill grinding through his bone—and more than awake enough to feel the excruciating pain when it hits a nerve. Later, ...
Bach Fest offers many ways to hear the master.
Spend time around musicians and you will hear the most creative ways of communicating about sound. “If you can imagine a string of sausages with those little pinched places in between,” says David Gordon, Carmel ...
Global Movement
SpectorDance’s annual festival draws from a world of choreography.
>>ONSTAGE Spin a globe and point. That’s how to find the hometowns of this year’s Monterey Dance Festival choreographers. One of many source spots on the Dance Fest map is Maribor, Slovenia. Choreographer Astrid Von ...
