Issues / 2006 / Sep 21
LA Inconsequential
LA Inconsequential
If there’s a defining metaphor in the works of novelist James Ellroy, it’s the specialized prostitutes that populate his LA Confidential. Recruited because of their resemblance to 1940s screen goddesses, the women were an attempt ...
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 ...
Playing With Pain
The Renaissance Faire experience parallels the best and worst of Old England.
For most, life in 16th-century England was pretty grim. It was short and dirty and full of humiliation, suffering and the menace of unexpected death. At the time, England was poor, relatively powerless and under ...
Public Citizen for Sep 21, 2006
ONGOING NEW ENTREPRENEUR TRAINING | MARINA—Sign up for four Wednesday workshops in October for entrepreneurs planning to start a new business. Free for those who meet income qualifications. Advance registration required. Marina Technology Cluster, 3180 ...
Spotlighting the World
Son de Madera opens an international lineup for the 2006-07 World Theater season.
>>ONSTAGE Son de Madera has found their own way in the traditional Son Jarocho music movement. Their avenue: giving the traditional a healthy helping of international spice. Son Jarocho is an old Latin-based sound from ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY… Squid’s a hard worker, but Squid does not believe wasting time in doing unnecessary work. Do it once; do it right; go to the beach—that’s Squid’s motto. And by the ...
UN event examines kids’ health worldwide.
Children are the ultimate victims of circumstance. Born in the West African nation of Burkina Faso? Too bad. Before your fifth birthday there’s a 37 percent chance you’ll be underweight and a 20 percent chance ...
Hot or Not
One annual event keeps getting better, and another disappears.
>>HOTORNOT MJF Reaches New Heights (Again) It was, in retrospect, a brilliant move on the part of Tim Jackson, the artistic director of the Monterey Jazz Festival, to commission Dave Brubeck to write a jazz ...
The county’s most famous greeter loves what she does.
Anyone who’s been to Sand City’s Costco knows Thelma Howard. The glowing and expressive greeter with the generous bosom can be found at the doorway, hugging and kissing more people than a grandmother at a ...
HealthCare Emergency
Local medical professionals and public health officials worry that a bad situation is about to get much worse.
The physician stares at the floor a few moments and says nothing. Then slowly, deliberately, James Lew, a doctor at Clinica de Salud in East Salinas, recounts a heart-wrenching experience. About two years ago, a ...
Fallout Begins
Local growers brace for huge losses following E. coli outbreak.
When Grower-Shipper Association president Jim Bogart answered his phone earlier this week, he sounded like he was spinning in a vortex of information overload. For the preceding days, the local ag industry had been dealt ...
Governator: a Green Giant?
As Schwarzenegger signs high-profile eco-protection bills, key measures sit on his desk.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger again showed his green leanings earlier this week when he, along with governors in Oregon and Washington, announced an agreement to improve Pacific Ocean health. Schwarzenegger joined Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and ...
Growth initiatives could go to voters after all.
A new ruling by a federal court could revive two slow-growth ballot measures in a special election. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, the 9th Circuit Court decided that recall petitions do not need to be translated ...
Street Talk
Asked at Whole Foods Market in Monterey.
Q: healthcare in California is ailing. What’s the best way to avoid care altogether? Follow-up: What’s your best home remedy? TODD OLSON |Whole Foods Receiver | Seaside A: Ride your bike every day. That’s what ...
Art Surreal
The Crooked Jades mix a weird brew.
It says something that many of the strangest songs on the Crooked Jades’ album World’s On Fire are traditional numbers. Between the old-time-sounding original “Can’t Stare Down a Mountaineer” and the Hawaiian-meets-bluegrass hybrid of “Fork ...
Carmel Valley Air
Carmel Valley Air
Lynn Covach is a private land surveyor, owner of a business called Polaris Consultants, and she has a nifty hobby aided by her expertise. Every few years, Covach buys a house and redesigns it to ...
Waves of Flavor
Hula Hut is at the vanguard of a growing food phenomenon.
I’ll not be coy: I love Hula’s Island Grill. Chris and Craig Delaney’s Monterey restaurant, with its kitschy Polynesian décor, cheerful ambiance and consistently good Pacific Rim fare, is a perfect getaway. I won’t be ...
S#!t Happens
Spinach is still good for you, and so is the stuff it grows in.
>>THELOCALSPIN I have never eaten canned spinach. I knew kids who were forced to eat canned spinach, but not me. My mother loved me too much to feed me that vile stuff. It’s not that ...
Soul Entourage
Bo Diddley and Friends bring real roots rock to the Sunset.
The Internet was already God’s gift to procrastinators, but the rise of the Web site YouTube.com, which allows anyone to post video, is probably responsible for setting back the nation’s productivity rate by itself. If ...
Hot Air
Flyboys looks great but crashes due to a cliché-ridden script.
It has been quite some time since Hollywood released a bonafide pro-war movie. But that’s exactly what Flyboys is, hearkening back to a more innocent time, all the way back to World War I, when ...
Letters
Letters
COUNTY NEEDS MORE THAN CARS Having the need to travel to Nevada City, Calif., and not wanting to drive a car, I attempted a bike/bus/train combo trip recently. I am happy to report that the ...
Ray’s Greatest Hits
Ray’s Greatest Hits
EDITOR’S NOTE… After filing copy with this newspaper for 333 weeks straight, RAY NAPOLITANO is taking a week off to hang out with his honey, SWEET THING. Mostly, he brings news of upcoming food-and-wine-related fun, ...
