Issues / 2006 / Aug 24
Magical Unrealism
Shakespeare overshoots Hollywood and lands at the Western Stage.
The schtick is thick in Salinas this weekend, as the Western Stage Company continues its production of a rollicking Shakespeare in Hollywood in the Studio Theater at Hartnell College. The company commits itself deeply to ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
M. WARD | Post-War | Merge M. Ward’s songs may sound like transmissions from bygone eras, but they’re far too spirited to resemble musty Smithsonian artifacts. Like his highly acclaimed 2004 release, Transistor Radio, Ward’s ...
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 ...
A lifetime Republican on the need for a Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives.
>>OPINION I have found it difficult in the past several weeks to reach a conclusion as to what a citizen should do with respect to this fall’s forthcoming congressional elections. I am a Republican, intend ...
Who wins when citizens quit playing?
Lately, only a handful of hardcore land-use enthusiasts (or paid attorneys and consultants) attend Monterey County General Plan meetings. Less than 10 people attended the Aug. 16 Planning Commission hearing to give public comment about ...
Street Talk
Asked near Carmel Plaza in Carmel.
Q: school’s in. what’s one thing you wish you were taught in school that was never covered? Follow-up: What’s the stupidest subject kids are being taught? RON GRAY | Santa Clarita | Farmer A: More ...
Photographing Phantasms
Show at Carmel’s Center for Photographic Art explores creatures real and imagined.
All manner of glossy postcards and thick press packets flow through the Weekly every day. For the most part, this river of artwork and reception announcements just rushes through our in-boxes, pours across our desks ...
The Flood Again
Hurricane Katrina was a harbinger of things to come.
Katrina’s winds shredded through the Gulf South like a giant scythe, but it was the flood in New Orleans that jolted the national psyche, leaving the deepest memory. The flood turned the Big Easy into ...
New Location Celebration
New Location Celebration
Crowds of chatting, laughing people pack the house, spilling onto the front porch, streaming up and down the stairs from the street, motioning greetings and calling out to one another. No directions needed since the ...
Twin Tone
In
From its earliest days, cinema has attempted to show viewers things that aren’t really there. Often, though, movies that withhold visual information are more powerful than those that reveal it all. And as Brothers of ...
A local Mensa man gets a presidential nod.
Earlier this summer, Francis Cartier of Pacific Grove received this year’s President’s Call to Service Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to individuals who have given a minimum of 4,000 volunteer service hours. He was one of ...
Script Tease
Idlewild’s stunning set pieces often clash with its clichéd story.
Old-time photographs, Hong Kong action, moonshine running and Bankhead booty-shaking make Idlewild a visual pureé of history and hep to match the postmodern mash-ups of Baz Luhrmann. A film whose ATL roots include a Clark ...
PublicCitizen
8|24 THURS AERIAL PHOTO WORKSHOP | MONTEREY—Learn how to obtain and use aerial photography of the Central Coast for free. The Central Coast Joint Data Committee and the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments host ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
SUBCONSCIOUS POLITICS… Squid knows slips of the tongue are a common thing, especially among those who have a hard time shutting up. But slips of the keyboard? Those gems aren’t nearly as common. That’s why ...
Letters
Letters
TELL SOME GOOD NEWS It is obvious that Barbara Evans and Nancy Peden do not have all the facts associated with Monterey’s stormwater efforts [Letters, August 10-16]. Here are the facts that were overlooked in ...
Development Done Right
Among former Fort Ord developments, East Garrison stands alone.
Exactly a dozen years after Fort Ord shut down amidst a sea of hand-wringing and uncertainty, long-promised housing projects are now starting to displace the decrepit ghost town left in the wake of the military ...
Making the Best of It
Making the Best of It
BAD STUFF HAPPENS… Nature is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. You look at a pretty little bird chirping away, dipping its wings in a small puddle, seemingly just a frolicking bit of background ...
Stories in Ink
Gold Coast Tattoo celebrates 30 years in Monterey.
Tattoos tell stories. Steve Hendricks, owner of Gold Coast Tattoos in Monterey, has a lot of tattoos—so many interwoven on his arms and back, in fact, that he can’t be bothered to count them. He’s ...
Fresh on Fremont
Former Aquarium chef team brings sustainable taste to Point Joe’s.
Now this is my kinda tuna sandwich: Two picture-perfect-pink slices of spice-rubbed ahi with panzu sauce, drizzly wasabi mayo and cabbage coleslaw. The nicely seared ahi is the tender melt-in-the-mouth type of just right; the ...
Chapalatics
Salinas mayoral candidate Dennis Donohue inherits the political center.
At Chapala Restaurant in Oldtown Salinas, the campaign party looked like many others that have been held there. The place is the Salinas Mecca for Mayor Anna Caballero and other electeds and community leaders. The ...
A Band of Ninjas mixes it up.
For an acoustic rock group, A Band of Ninjas is known to bust out some unexpected songs onstage. In addition to Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” and the Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash,” the act, ...
Class of ’95 Clown
Seaside’s Jason Downs brings the laughs home.
Jason Downs drinks a Budweiser and downs a shot of Jameson. Then, he says a quick prayer and steps onstage at San Francisco’s The Punch Line, where he is opening for probably the biggest comic ...
The Wake of the Storm
One year later, the nation has forgotten Katrina.
>>LOCALSPIN Of the 180,000 or so Lebanese refugees displaced by last month’s war, at least 130,000 have returned to their homes, perhaps thousands more. With help from their government, the Hezbollah party, and some international ...
