Issues / 2006 / Nov 22
Funny Business
For Your Consideration and Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny make fun of the entertainment industry.
A perennial quirk of the humor business is that talented people so often seek laughs by masquerading as untalented people. Popular comedic actors seem addicted to the squirm-inducing antics of either blundering celebrities or deluded ...
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
LUDACRIS | Release Therapy | Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam Pretty much the only reason to sit through Jaime Foxx’s Unpredictable is to hear Ludacris’ eight bars. He’s dropped lots of consistently clever raps over the ...
An American Holiday
The Wampanoag spirit of Thanksgiving lives on.
>>THELOCALSPIN I love Thanksgiving. This Thursday, we will go up to the city, to Cousin Jeff’s, as we have done since he moved here from Providence six (or is it seven?) years ago. We will ...
Letters
Letters
DEMOCRACY NEEDS ELECTIONS OFFICE TO TAKE ITS JOB SERIOUSLY The article “Without a Trace” [Nov. 16-22] included a quote from acting Registrar of Voters Claudio Valenzuela: “If you walked out because you were tired and ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOING GOT TURKEYS? | SALINAS—As of last week, the Food Bank for Monterey County was turkey-less. The Food Bank needs fresh or frozen turkeys to help families in need throughout the holiday season. Donate turkeys ...
TYT shows off fresh young lineup.
Over the last year, Bay Area party band TYT (which stands for Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow) has radically changed its lineup. The only members of the band that have been around since the group formed ...
Staying Afloat
Valuable research time on the Point Sur is reduced.
On a bright Thursday morning in November, two dozen crew, students and faculty board the R/V Point Sur at Moss Landing Harbor for a day cruise. The sun is shining, the harbor is still, and ...
Count Your Blessings
Count Your Blessings
THANKS…This issue is slated to come out the day before Thanksgiving Day. If it were etched on slate, and if it came out at a certain time, which it does, it would be slated to ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
MAYBE SQUID’S CRAZY…Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. That’s SQUIDADDY’s favorite saying, and an important lesson he taught Squid early on in life. It’s also the top quote on ...
A New Alisal
East Salinas business district’s plan to reinvent itself.
At City Hall, a group of East Salinas business owners begins to plot the course of a 10-year initiative to revamp their district. Members of the Salinas United Business Association (SUBA) sit at a U-shaped ...
Little Criminals
Ferrets make great pets for hundreds of Californians—on the sly.
A thump comes from deep in the kitchen cabinet. Minutes later, there’s a crash from the bathroom. In a mostly empty corner cabinet, a stash of oddities has been accumulated: a plastic bag, an empty ...
Salinas ‘village’ will build 106 affordable apartments.
A village-style development soon to break ground near downtown Salinas will have significantly more affordable housing than expected. Tynan Village, a 171-unit apartment and mixed-use complex, will be 62 percent affordable instead of 40 percent ...
Disc Golf Drive
The Stinging Jellies see their proposal for a course in Monterey approved.
Don Dahvee Park is deserted most days. The park’s occasional occupants include a jogger making her way along the path, or a homeless man taking a grass-cushioned nap. Local residents drive by the park more ...
Talent Scouts
The young team at Fog Box Records premieres its lineup Wednesday.
On April 7 of this year, CSUMB’s Music Hall felt like the set of American Idol. For five hours that day, Sara Bailey, the president of Fog Box Records and a CSUMB senior, along with ...
Squid on TV News
The Weekly's ruthless cephalopod takes a beady-eyed look at local nightly newscasts.
•••Monday••• 6pm>>KSBW Damn. Squid’s out $1,000. It was a joke. Pacific Grove Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck, who recently lost her bid for mayor, leads Action News tonight. At a recent City Council meeting, she said, “I ...
Outside In
Outside In
>>REALESTATE Imagine looking across miles of open fields, curbed by mountains, rendered just so high by the distance that the word “oceanic” comes to mind. Imagine such a view from a house high on a ...
Sweet Thanksgiving
Sweet Elena shares some of her biggest holiday hits.
Pumpkin pies have always had a presence on the Thanksgiving dessert tables I’ve known. For that, I was not thankful. Give me pecan pie, give me apple pie, give me most anything, and I’d prefer ...
New York Jazz From Carmel
Favorite son Ryan Scott returns from the big city with sharpened chops and a bunch of his own songs.
When Ryan Scott left Carmel to take on New York City in 2001, he was a bebop-loving guitarist looking to break into the competitive Gotham jazz scene. He returns to town this week for the ...
Selling Out
Internet sales impact California and Monterey County.
For shoppers, the day after Thanksgiving is the official kickoff to a four-week shopping blitz that officially ends the day after Christmas. For retailers, it’s long been known as Black Friday, the day that can ...
Cannery Row accesses something timeless.
Battered buildings look like flotsam and jetsam washed ashore. Numerous power lines stitch across an electric blue sky. Inside a cannery, squid tentacles poke out of the top of metal cans like a bouquet of ...
Carmel Valley development headed for approval, and then court.
Another Carmel Valley development project appears to be headed for approval by County Board of Supervisors without any environmental review. On Dec. 5, the Board will hold a hearing about a plan to subdivide 218 ...
