Issues / 2006 / Aug 17
Squid Fry
Squid Fry
BURNING MONEY… Squid doesn’t often swim far south of Salinas (swimming up the Salinas River is not easy, even in a wet year), but Squid would have made an exception to attend the “neighborhood afternoon ...
Environmental Groups Support Storm Water Plan
Carmel and Pebble Beach Company won’t sign on.
The Natural Resources Defense Council and Friends of the Sea Otters have lent their support to the Monterey Region’s Storm Water Management Plan. The plan, five years in the making, is intended to monitor and ...
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. ...
Big Box Religion
Big Box Religion
IN AN IMMENSE EVENT TENT set up in a parking lot off Highway 68, a spirited bass line quakes through the assembled crowd. Tall aluminum poles run 40 feet up to the highest points of ...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS | Classic Labor Songs | Smithsonian Folkways Classic Labor Songs is released at a time when the movement it documents is in recess. The AFL-CIO recently broke apart because of a debate over ...
Last Ditch
Union workers at Hyatt hotels say strike likely after difficult negotiations.
The last time hundreds of hotel workers held a labor strike in Monterey was in 1982. It may happen again, as soon as the end of the month, during hotels’ busy summer travel season. In ...
Pour It On
Pour It On
This would be where my journalistic credibility takes the short bus out of town. No, not that truth-obsessed, syntax-possessed kind of journalistic credibility—the credibility where I tell people that journalism is a life committed to ...
Done Fishing
State names Marine Protected Areas.
With armed Fish and Game wardens lining the Beach Resort Monterey conference room and allegations of physical threats casting a pall over the proceedings, the Fish and Game Commission slowly drew a patchwork net of ...
A Sweet Ride
A Sweet Ride
ROLL OUT… There’s a lot going on this time of year. As I’m writing this, car nuts from around the world are transporting their dreams to our tiny Oz. In the war against Henry Ford’s ...
A Partial Solution
Dying oceans get a small reprieve from a state decision.
>>THELOCALSPIN The fight over Marine Protected Areas isn’t over, but conservationists won a small victory Tuesday night. When the state Fish and Game Commission put 200 square miles of water off the Central California coast ...
Joy Ride
A cruise through a car weekend like no other.
Merriam-Webster must not be familiar with car week in Monterey County. “Car:” it reads. “1. A vehicle moving on wheels.” Poor, cloistered Webster—a car—the car!—is so much more. It is art and engineering, emotion and ...
Country rockers polish their chops with the other Elvis.
The members of country rock group Jackshit have one simple rule: no original songs. Drummer and vocalist Pet Thomas, an original member of Elvis Costello’s backing band The Attractions and a current member of the ...
Down Home
Poco and Pure Prairie League bring back the ‘70s at Sunset.
Back in the late ’60s, popular rock groups started to add elements of country music to their songs. The Byrds, previously known for folk rock hits like “Turn, Turn, Turn,” led the charge with the ...
Letters
Letters
GOOD CLEAN COPY Ryan Masters did an excellent job informing the community about the serious problem of storm-drain run-off pollution of our bay in his two part series on the issue. I was even more ...
Full-Time Job
Supes give Planning Commission a lot of work, and leave out an important tool.
The insanity starts on Thursday. At 1pm, Aug. 16, the Monterey County Planning Commission will hold its first meeting on the latest draft of the General Plan. At this workshop, they’ll discuss important sections of ...
Public Citizen for Aug 17, 2006
ONGOING DONATE OLD PHONES | SEASIDE—Get rid of that old cell phone and help domestic violence victims in one simple step: Donate old cell phones to the YWCA. The phones are then reused by those ...
Street Talk
Asked at Star Plaza in Salinas.
Q: Where do you go to tap into your spiritual side? Follow-up: What is the least spiritual place you know? MICHAEL KNOTT | Mover | Chualar A: My ranch, where there is open land and ...
Live Feed
Salinas Valley Memorial builds a breakthrough breastfeeding program.
The mom-to-be is adamant as she goes into labor. “I am not going to breastfeed—I refuse,” she said some 18 months ago at Salinas Valley Memorial. Later, once offered literature on the benefits of breastfeeding, ...
Yesterday’s People
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont sheds light on the inevitable.
As little old ladies go, Joan Plowright is a pip. With her regal manner, powerhouse pearls and an irrepressible dignity, she remains as captivating in old age as she was many decades ago when she ...
An enduring community effort keeps swim center afloat.
A toddler flails his legs at Mommy’s command as she glides him through the water. In an adjacent lane, a conditioned triathloner flip-turns and pumps three dolphin kicks before breaking the surface with a slow, ...
Snakes on the Brain
Here’s the lowdown on the most anticipated film of the year.
Let’s get one thing straight: this is not a review of Snakes on a Plane. You won’t read many reviews of Samuel L. Jackson’s new action-flick-cum-Internet-wunderkind before it opens, because it hasn’t been screened for ...
