Issues / 2006 / Jul 27
Bargain Shopping
Developers slated to start construction on Seaside’s downtown Aug. 1.
To some it’s a clever new way of doing urban redevelopment without having the end result be another soulless shopping center. To others it’s a premature giveaway of vital downtown property with zero benefits for ...
Top Flight
Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers play Seaside’s Laguna Grande.
It’s easy to see why Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers’ latest CD, For the Chosen Who, helped secure the longtime blues outfit an award for Band of the Year at the 2006 Blues Music ...
Jamming with Pectin
Strawberry season is really here—now’s the time to get those jars boiling.
I brought home 30 pounds of strawberries the other day, having acquired them through a wonderful and sorely under-utilized system called U-pick. In a U-pick, the seeker of produce goes to the farm and picks ...
Robofarm
Technological innovation pushes agriculture toward a brave new world.
IN THE MIDST OF A MAZE of muddy dirt roads and rectangular fields, a swarm of ghostlike figures emerge from a canopy of heavy fog. They are men, mostly, collecting lettuce heads from the soil ...
A Burning Issue
Cooling off shouldn’t mean more global warming.
>>THELOCALSPIN Will we ever be able to enjoy the hot weather again? Will we ever return to the innocent days when we basked in the sun, and succumbed to the enforced laziness that 100-degree days ...
A local lyricist heads to an international rap-off.
Anticipation almost crackles in the air as a hard hip-hop beat pounds through the crowd from behind a dimly lit stage. Then, with a lightning quick wit and unforgiving tongue, Peter Morris strikes. He points ...
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 ...
Through Aug. 5—The last and best of the Fest
Th 07|27 VOCAL MASTER CLASS CARMEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | 12-2PM FREE | “Behind the Scenes” with young professional singers chosen by audition, as they are coached by David Gordon and guest teachers. COMMUNITY CONCERT OLDEMEYER ...
Middle East goes to the brink while Bush fiddles.
>>OPINION Remember when the Bush Administration was ramping up the invasion of Iraq a few years ago? We were going to remove the dictator, shut down the (nonexistent) WMDs, install a new democracy, and, soon, ...
Letters
Letters
NÚÑEZ’S BILL IS NOT GOOD FOR CONSUMERS OR COMMUNITIES In response to Assembly Speaker Núñez’s recent letter to the editor [Letters, July 13-19] I would like to clarify a few points. Yes, we all agree ...
Step Up and Out
Step Up and Out
GET AWAY… Man, I need a vacation. Not a traditional vacation where you stop your regular routine for a week or two, go somewhere to forget about everything, then step back into your usual life. ...
Rural Free
Town of Carmel Valley moves closer to vote as LAFCO softens demand for fees.
Following a barrage of criticism—including an angry letter from Rep. Sam Farr—the Local Agency Formation Commission has indicated that it won’t charge Carmel Valley incorporation proponents upwards of $660,000 in fees after all. “As a ...
Smuggler’s Blues
Miami Vice trades ‘80s glitz for 21st-century gloom.
No highlight reel of 1980s television—or even the whole decade, for that matter—would be complete without a clip from Miami Vice. Probably you’d see the scene with Don Johnson’s vengeful cop driving to Phil Collins’ ...
Yesterday’s News
Woody Allen recycles parts of his better films in the uninspired Scoop
On the spectrum of movie machismo, on one side you have Clint Eastwood with his never-give-an-inch stare. On the other side is Woody Allen, a man who does all the things male movie stars are ...
Not-So-Innocent Abroad
Rediscovering Graham Greene’s lawless roads and mapless journeys.
A new generation has become familiar with Graham Greene’s fiction because of the recent films based on his novels The End of the Affair and The Quiet American, but his nonfiction has just as much ...
Back in the Grove
Daniel Davis returns to PG politics.
It’s deja vu for Daniel Davis in Pacific Grove. Last week the City Council appointed the former councilman to complete the last five months of now-Mayor Dan Cort’s council term with a 4-1 vote. The ...
Palestinian ambassador heads to Monterey to stump for a two-state solution.
Last December Ambassador Afif Safieh, new on the job as chief Palestinian representative to the US, sent President Bush a Christmas card with a flourish that most Middle Eastern diplomats couldn’t make. He signed it: ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
ISN’T IT IRONIC… Squid’s cold blooded, so when the temperatures in Monterey start reaching new highs—82 degrees on Monday, which was the fourth day in a row that the city sizzled under record-high heat—Squid gets ...
Heals on Wheels
A mobile veterinarian wins the hearts of pets and owners.
Fluffy the cat had bad teeth. A veterinarian gave Fluffy steroid shots to decrease the pain. The steroids turned Fluffy—whose name has been changed to protect his identity—into a diabetic, so the vet put him ...
Public Citizen for Jul 27, 2006
ONGOING FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENTS | COUNTYWIDE—Help change the world’s perception of Americans while opening a young mind. Host homes for foreign exchange high school students needed for this fall. Reach Lillian at 1-800-522-4678 or stsfoundation.org. ...
Classic Examples
Young musicians master some age-old tricks.
Twenty-five teenagers were set to perform and the Sunset Center auditorium was full of supporters. Young children sprinkled throughout the audience stopped squirming the moment the lights dimmed and the performers walked on stage. Auditioned ...
Street Talk
Asked on East Sandholdt Road in Moss Landing.
Q: SHOULD FARMERS BE ABLE TO SELL THEIR LAND TO DEVELOPERS? Follow-up: What’s your favorite dish prepared with locally-grown ingredients? JOE SOLIS | Shopowner | Moss Landing A: If land is zoned as farmland for ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
VETIVER | To Find Me Gone | Di Cristina There’s a reason Vetiver gets lumped in with the freak-folk crowd, but it doesn’t have much to do with its music. Andy Cabic, the San Francisco-based ...
