Issues / 2006 / Aug 31
Study Break
Study Break
College students in Monterey County are obviously extremely intelligent: they picked a world-class vacation spot to go to school. In the following pages, an opinionated guide to enjoying the time away from studies. Compiled and ...
Home Cooking
Dinners Ready lets you get your gourmet on.
Tonight, I could cook freshly prepared Roquefort-Crusted Flank Steak with Provence Potatoes in the comfort of my own kitchen. For that matter, I could pull a Rosemary Pork Tenderloin with Apple Demi and Mediterranean Vegetables ...
Family Style
Dustin and Jill Bell had lived in their house for two-and-a-half years when they learned they were pregnant with triplets, and realized an addition had to be built. They decided a 13-by-27-foot room plus second ...
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PARA LA GENTE | Hurricane America EP When forming three years ago, Para La Gente headed down the same path as Rage Against the Machine with political lyrics rapped over metal/punk riffs. Their new release, ...
Don’t believe the hype that the Shiite militia won anything.
Hezbollah beat Israel in the latest war in Lebanon, and if you have any doubts, listen to what a certified expert on defeat, Syria’s President Bashar Assad, had to say: “We tell [Israel] that after ...
Bold Licks
Sam Bush takes his mandolin in a newer direction.
On New Year’s Eve of 1989, the groundbreaking acoustic music band New Grass Revival ended with a bang its influential 18-year history of mixing traditional music with rock, jazz and reggae. That evening, the band, ...
Manager says multiplex killed ticket sales in the Pacific Grove landmark.
Lighthouse Cinemas will show its final movie on Sept. 7. And then, after nearly two decades in Pacific Grove, the curtains at the old theater will close for good. “Business has deteriorated to the point ...
Street Talk
Asked at Monterey Sports Center.
Q: What’s the best-kept local secret college students should know? Follow-up: What college 101 course would you teach? Anna Napoli | Sports Center Clerk | Monterey A: I’d tell them to escape stress from school ...
Salad Days
Local students try out a wellness blueprint for the county.
The Tater Tot is in trouble. In the ongoing battle against the obesity epidemic in Monterey County, a local partnership of nonprofits is taking a step forward in fostering healthier lifestyle habits for local students—and ...
Expiring Hunger
One woman helps fuel college students with throwaway food.
One by one, half-asleep college students, some still wearing their pink pajamas and cow-licked hair, walk like drones towards a street corner on an early Sunday morning. Their hands carry brown grocery bags. The empty ...
Sleight of Hand
The Illusionist is magical mainly due to a strong script.
The Illusionist is the kind of film M. Night Shyamalan wishes he could still make. Written and directed by Neil Burger (based on a short story by Steven Millhauser), the movie is a period piece ...
The Fun Continues
The Fun Continues
TOO MUCH FUN…I’m sitting here with a mildly annoying hangover after a week’s worth of parties, events, after-parties and after-events connected to or inspired by CAR WEEK. Unlike the majestic, cooling fog that rolls over ...
Letters to Editor
Letters to Editor
READ THE BOOK Thank you for your article on “Big Box Religion” [Aug. 17-23]. I was interested to see someone dealing with the issues relating to modern worship trends. I understand that megachurches do attract ...
The Insider’s Crash Course
Tips from four experienced students on negotiating the turf around local campuses.
Cal State University Monterey Bay As a member of the popular rock band Slices of Home, and as the public relations director for the Associated Students organization, Mason Rothschild maintains a high profile on the ...
Bad Cooperation
Salinas and the County are finally moving together—in the wrong direction.
Forget about the legalistic details: Yes—the agreement struck this week between the Monterey County Board of Supervisors and the city of Salinas was made behind closed doors and in secret, as critics are saying. Yes, ...
Blues Chanteuse
Teresa James at Live.
Los Angeles vocalist Teresa James can count female blues woman Bonnie Raitt and Levon Helm of The Band among her fans. When listening to her latest CD, The Bottom Line, it becomes apparent why such ...
Communication Breakdown
Hartnell president refutes faculty data
Hartnell College faculty members complain that the school’s average professor salary ranks last in California, and demand more money. College administrators respond that the statistic is simply wrong, and say there isn’t any money to ...
Squid Fry
Squid Fry
OUTTA MY WAY…Ah, politics. The power. The parties. The fluff money. Oh, wait. That last one, fluff money, only applies to the District 5 Salinas City Council race. It’s a sordid political tale, almost unbelievable, ...
public citizen
8|31 THURSDAY Hotel Workers Rising MONTEREY—Join the 1,200 hotel workers on the Monterey Peninsula who face an uncertain future over expiring labor contracts. Marchers get a free t-shirt. 4:30pm/rally; 5pm/march. Corner of Fairgrounds and Garden ...
Boys Behaving Badly
Sometimes it’s hard to trust Trust the Man.
Men these days don’t seem to want to be men. Or at least not the kind of men their fathers or grandfathers were. The lad culture of NASCAR, fart jokes, video games, Jackass and Maxim ...
Movie Times
Century Cinemas Del Monte Center 373-8080 1700 Del Monte Center, Monterey Crank 11:40am, 1:45, 3:50, 5:55, 8:05, 10:10 Crossover 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 The Quiet 11:50am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 The Wicker Man 12:45, ...
County ordered to hand over September Ranch Documents.
September Ranch opponents won a court victory late last week when a judge ruled that Monterey County must turn over about 2,000 pages of documents by Thursday, Aug. 31. “We have served notice on the ...
Health care benefits take center stage in Monterey hospitality labor impasse.
Hospitality workers threatening to strike at two Hyatt hotels on the Monterey Peninsula explain their dispute in terms of the current high cost of living and the level of their pay compared to hospitality workers ...
How a people tracks the travel of one man.
Since March 15, 2002, George has been spotted in a Kentucky fast food restaurant, a Tennessee country store, a Texas strip joint known as the Penthouse Key Club and the Flying M Restaurant, a Utah ...
