0803| Aug 03

Claustrophobic Quarters

There’s no shortage of horror movies these days. And it makes sense. From a business perspective, they’re pretty safe bets. They cost very little to make, have a built-in demographic (thanks, teens and tweens) and ...

Letters

‘BIG AG’ DOESN’T CARE ABOUT WORKERS In your front page story “Robofarm” [July 27] I found it ironic that a large number of illegal permanent and seasonal farmworkers in the Central Coast will be displaced ...

ArtListings

Politics and Polllution

Monterey’s city beach was closed last week for two days because the water was found to be dangerous to human health. On Aug. 15, the State Water Board will visit Monterey to address stormwater and ...

Dark Horse

Part concert film and part biography, Lian Lunson’s Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man is a moving tribute to this legendary artist’s life and career. Moreover, the film salutes four decades of Cohen’s songwriting output, a ...

SquidFry

DOUBLE SPEAK AND STANDARDS… Oh, that TONY LOMBARDO. With his dashing smile and shock of white hair, he’s so good at playing the unstoppable developer’s attorney. If Squid ever decides to build, say, a 400-high-end-home ...

Ready for Liftoff

Local rockers The Suborbitals unleash their debut CD at a new regular gig.

Onstage at Monterey Live, four men dressed in black suits and Lone Ranger-style masks tell a dark story of drugs, violence and naked bodies. As a crowd dances in front of them, the original Monterey ...

DiscSpace

LISA GERMANO | In the Maybe World | Young God In the annals of indie dysfunction, few singer/songwriters have plumbed the poetics of self-loathing as rigorously as Lisa Germano has. Since 1991, when the former ...

On a Mission

An archaeology professor explores secrets behind local historic churches.

It’s a dreary winter solstice morning. Suddenly, the fog blanket splits and sunlight shoots through. It travels through the window above the front door of a dimly lit Spanish colonial church, its beam of reddish ...

War Without End

In a visit to Monterey, the Palestinian ambassador showed why the US must moderate its position.

>>LOCALSPIN Afif Safieh, who serves as ambassador to the United States for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, greeted an overwhelmingly sympathetic crowd in Monterey Sunday night with this joke: Arriving in heaven, a man asks God, ...

Marina Giveaway

Taxpayers will subsidize University Villages development costs

The consortium that is building the huge University Villages development in Marina got the land for cheap, partly because of the added costs of developing on the former Fort Ord. But documents obtained by the ...

No-Fish Zones Get Another Hearing

A comprehensive plan for Marine Protected Areas on the Central Coast of California continues to work its way up the regulatory food chain. The state Fish and Game Commission heard a full day of testimony ...

Public Citizen for Aug 03, 2006

8|5SAT CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS SALE | MARINA—Today’s sale benefits Monterey County Habitat for Humanity. For a list of like-new items, visit habitatmonterey.org. 8:30am-3pm. 231 Palm Ave., Marina. Free. 917-2685. 8|6SUN REMEMBRANCE DAY | PACIFIC GROVE—Each August, ...