Issues / 2006 / Sep 14
Letters
Letters
LOCALS THINKING GLOBALLY Eric Johnson’s editorial “The New New Thing” was sure timely [Local Spin, Sept. 7-13]. California is leading the way in addressing global warming and on a number of other compelling environmental issues ...
Program Notes For Cannery Row Suite.
Cannery Row Suite consists of a series of songs based on characters from the John Steinbeck novel about Monterey in the ’30s and ’40s. The character sketches of “Doc,” “Dora” and “Mack” are tied together ...
A Sublime Spirit
Pac Rep stages a miracle with The Woman in Black.
There’s a conspiracy afoot at the Golden Bough Theatre. A net has been devised of stagecraft, pure and simple, woven brazenly in full view during an enthralling two hours, cast with full consent over a ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
A Taste of Monterey Landscape paintings by Salinas artist Rick Deragon. 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. Carmel Valley ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
LOS LOBOS | The Town and the City | Hollywood Records Over their 33 years, Los Angeles’ Los Lobos has been many bands. They’ve been a group of Americana music aficionados that play straight blues, ...
American Icon
NAACP Chairman visits Monterey to finally get his fill of jazz.
He’s in town to fulfill a lifelong dream, even as he admits that some of biggest dreams are still far from being realized. This weekend, Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP and a lifelong civil ...
Multi Culti Sushi
Kawa rolls cultures together with imagination.
Quick cuisine quiz—Which of these things doesn’t belong?: 1) Avocado; 2) cilantro; 3) jalapeño; 4) eel. Wrong. In the evermore-creative sushi universe, they all belong. In fact, they co-habitate quite happily in the Cabo Wabo ...
Strange Days in Monterey
Sea Studios wants to know how people talk about climate change.
While news of climate change, species loss and deforestation dominate headlines and airwaves, the local producers of the critically acclaimed TV series Strange Days on Planet Earth are conducting an experiment to study how people ...
Hardcore Times Two
Mad Town Mulligan revive Clash-era punk rock.
For years, the current members of Monterey County’s Mad Town Mulligan were involved in the region’s hardcore scene. Guitarist Dustin Case played in a long list of area bands including melodic punk outfit Lengua and ...
Bard of the Barstool
Matt Dillon portrays the alter ego of Charles Bukowski in Factotum.
You can’t always tell an unrecognized genius from a deluded would-be artist. In the bleak but amusing film Factotum, Matt Dillon plays Henry Chinaski, an aspiring writer, indifferent laborer and dedicated drunk. Frequently unemployed and ...
Second String
Despite a likeable cast, Gridiron Gang is a predictable sports flick.
The desperate sentimentality in Gridiron Gang is commonplace in sports movies, but what separates this picture from its brethren of “adolescent n’er-do-wells find the meaning of life thanks to a tough-yet-caring authority figure” is an ...
Full Transcript of Steve Leonard Interview
WEEKLY: Put us in your shoes. You’ve got the federal and state government breathing down your neck to solve a 20-year-old water supply problem that you did not create. The water district hasn’t been able ...
Firing Blanks
A WWII enactment channels the confusion of war on Fort Ord.
Things started getting weird at Saturday’s World Word II reenactment when the blonde children slouched onto the scene wearing Hitler Youth Movement uniforms. Surrounded by some American GIs and a pair of tense MPs, the ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
OBSCENE BROADCAST… Sunday mornings at 8am, Squid can usually be found in a Squidatonic state under a heap of down. But early last Sunday, Squid hurled out of bed in the wee hours to head ...
Blues Energy
Nora Cruz wants to connect.
Nora Cruz is not the type of front woman who stands onstage motionless, running through her repertoire while composing a grocery list in her mind or thinking about how she needs to wash her socks. ...
Past and Future
Past and Future
A YEAR AGO… When I write this piece, it usually happens all at once. I gather the info people have sent me or I have scratched out on a napkin, then spread it in front ...
Street Talk
Asked at Mortimer’s Cocktail Lounge and Card Room.
Q: THE CROCODILE HUNTER IS DEAD. IN WHAT EXOTIC WAY WOULD YOU PREFER TO DIE? Follow-up: Describe your scariest animal encounter. Israel Matos | Service Tech | Salinas A: It’s always been one of my ...
Water Warrior
CalAm VP Steve Leonard explains why he is asking for a big rate hike this week.
Steve Leonard is sitting at a bar, in the Old Bath House, when the bartender says to a couple: “You ought to go talk to Steve.” The woman walks over and says, “Why should I ...
Brubeck on Steinbeck
With his
“Monterey was not a town to let dishonor come to a literary man.” So wrote John Steinbeck in his 1945 novel Cannery Row. And for the last five decades, Monterey has also done pretty well ...
One cigar-smoking girl’s crusade against an anti-tobacco proposition.
Heather Waibel is a girl who loves stogies. To her, it’s not a habit, it’s a lifestyle. The Monterey resident started smoking convenience store cigars in college but soon graduated to higher quality cigars when ...
Townhouse Elegance
Townhouse Elegance
To the east, at the end of Rio Road in Carmel, this home has a one-of-a-kind, telescoping view through trees to hills on the neighboring Fish Ranch, their uniquely formed undulations defining a cerulean sky. ...
The Science of Doom
Eco-hero James Lovelock brings a dire warning.
>>THELOCALSPIN James Lovelock is a serene, dignified and cheerful man of science—not, it would seem, a bomb-throwing seeker of controversy. And yet he was responsible, 40 years ago, for a revolution that changed the way ...
Local’s Guide to MJF
A grounds pass to the 49th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival is a ticket to jazz bliss.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. For sheer musical value, it’s hard to beat a grounds pass for the Monterey Jazz Festival. A $40 ticket (or $30 for Friday evening) provides access to ...
