Issues / 2006 / Oct 26
Incorporation Now
Even the residents of Carmel Valley deserve democracy.
>>THELOCALSPIN It’s hard to worry much about the plight of the people of Carmel Valley. After all, they seem to live in some kind of paradise, far from the ills that plague (or at least ...
Street Talk
Asked at the Spirit Halloween Superstore in Monterey.
Q: WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST? FOLLOW-UP: IF YOU COULD DRESS ANYONE UP FOR HALLOWEEN, WHO WOULD IT BE AND IN WHAT COSTUME? CHRIS SNELL | Cashier | Pacific Grove A: I’m afraid of people ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
DIANA KRALL | From This Moment On | Verve Records The mere mention of the name Diana Krall conjures up thoughts of smoky vocals and classic melodies. Canadian born Krall stepped into the jazz scene ...
Salinas business organization looks to drive pimps and hoes out of town.
Along commercial side streets about a mile from Salinas’ downtown lies the county’s hot bed for prostitution. Women aren’t typically standing on the street corner with knee-high boots, but male drivers routinely circle streets such ...
A Subtle Charmer
A Subtle Charmer
>>REALESTATE Once upon a time Kent and Carla Zilliox were driving in the neighborhood around Buena Vista Del Rio in Carmel Valley looking for a particular open house. Carla asked Kent to stop in front ...
PG Tavern Takes Flight
Pelican has something for sports fans and families alike.
This Pelican is a rare bird. Oh wait, I can hear it now—the collective Pagrovian groan echoing out over the water: “Duh! Of course it’s uncommon, genius! The Pelican is a tavern in PG, a ...
Spirit for life
Brave Carmel artist makes art with others’ hands.
Almost everything changed for Kay Villalobos in 1997. The successful artist, designer and manufacturer whose MeeceMouse brand of children’s accessories was sold nationwide, was in an automobile accident that left her paralyzed from the head ...
Ghost Rock
The lighthouse at Point Sur may or may not be haunted—but it’s a scary place.
>>GHOSTSTORIES Some say the Point Sur Lightstation in Big Sur is teeming with trapped spirits; one recent poll called it the fourth most haunted lighthouse in America. Any number of lost souls still live there: ...
Chasing Ghosts
Communing with the dead changes a Salinas man’s life.
Keith Clark has something to tell me before we attempt to receive images from the dead. “Here it is in a nut shell,” says Clark. “[The deceased] are here all the time. Matter of fact, ...
Crash Course
A fake cop, his girlfriend and a football player collide at a Salinas high school.
It could have been just another fender-bender. But for driver Elizabeth Nelson, what happened after her vehicle collided with another car could land her and a friend in prison for years. On Sept. 28, Salinas ...
Costumes and Comestibles
Costumes and Comestibles
DRESS FOR SUBVERSION…Halloween is almost here. That’s the time when we get license to dress up in strange costumes and hide behind masks, pretending to be something we really aren’t (or really are). I think ...
PublicCitizen
10|26 THURS K-9 COPS AND VESTS | SALINAS—Active Care Dog Food presents a K-9 ballistic vest to Monterey County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Kobayashi and his K-9 partner, Yantz. A K-9 demonstration follows. 9am. Sheriff’s Public ...
Built Out
All of Marina Heights low-income homes are already occupied.
Although bulldozers are still grading dirt on the site of Marina Heights on the former Fort Ord, all of the project’s low-income housing is already built. The only catch is that it’s completely occupied. East ...
No Local Government
LAFCO move will stall Carmel Valley incorporation for three years.
Last week, the members of the Local Agency Formation Commissioners (LAFCO) seemed to borrow a page from the playbook of the County Board of Supervisors—citing the threat of a lawsuit to deny Carmel Valley residents ...
Pop Star Politics
Idealism is under siege in
“John Lennon represented life, and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Bush represent death.” So says Gore Vidal, succinctly, in one of the many testimonials by friends and ex-foes to the former Beatle in The U.S. vs. ...
Letters
Letters
THE WEEKLY LOVES ARNOLD!? I was shocked to see the Weekly endorsing Schwarzenegger’s re-election as governor. I was even more greatly shocked when I read your pathetic rationale for this endorsement. “Resistance is futile.” “Vote ...
Hell Hole
The Monterey County Jail is an overcrowded pit of violence and despair. There is no plan to fix it.
The light is a sickening green. It washes over the stainless steel tables and toilets, the smooth concrete, the flaking paint, the steel bars and expressionless faces of the inmates. Their faces give away nothing, ...
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 ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
99-BUCK CHUCK…Monterey Mayor hopeful CHUCK DELLA SALA may not hold the city’s top post—yet—but he’s got a couple of the seasoned politician’s key tricks, err, skills, down pat. Solid base of good-old-boy support? Check. Smooth ...
Running on Empty
The adaptation of the memoir Running with Scissors loses something on the big screen.
The film Running with Scissors looks almost exactly like your mind’s-eye view of Augusten Burroughs’ best-selling memoir of his bizarre childhood. The film adaptation gets the physical details exactly right, from the avocado greens of ...
Two Jazz Lives
Rene Marie and Imani Winds perform in tribute to Josephine Baker.
In many ways, jazz singer Rene Marie and Jazz Age icon Josephine Baker couldn’t be more different. Born into poverty in East St. Louis, Baker was an international sensation as a teenager, seducing Paris in ...
The Indie Everyman
Will Oldham is a man with many talents and several names.
When he speaks, the indie rock legend Will Oldham seems to choose his words gingerly, like a hiker finding a way across a stream littered with rocks. “I think the goal is always the opposite ...
