Issues / 2006 / Nov 30
Capturing the Moment IV
Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, Pacific Grove Art Center, National Steinbeck Center, Highlands Inn Gallery
Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery MPC Gallery consistently shows photography. “Our mission in exhibiting photography is to broaden the awareness of our students. They are the ones who will inherit the legacy of photography on ...
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 ...
Lump of Coal
Deck the Halls is a holiday movie with no real Christmas spirit.
What’s interesting about typical Hollywood Christmas movies is that regardless of how crass, vulgar, or mean-spirited they may be, by the last scene they will inevitably try to wrap viewers in a blanket of warm ...
A Story With Heart
Campsite reflections on a culinary coming-of-age ritual.
We crouched around the fire, roasting chunks of meat on sticks as if they were marshmallows. Some say this is how language began, our ancestors gathered around the safe warmth and chewing the fat, gnawing ...
Street Talk
Asked at the Barnyard in Carmel.
Q: LARRY KING IS AFRAID TO SURF CYBERSPACE. WHAT IS THE SCARIEST THING ABOUT THE INTERNET? Follow-up: What’s your favorite Web site? WILLIAM BROOKE | Retail Associate |Pacific Grove A: How easy it is to ...
Capturing the Moment III
Monterey Museum of Art, Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, PK Fine Artifacts
Monterey Museum of Art A fortuitous premium that can be yours for no extra charge at the current photography exhibition at Monterey Museum of Art, Through the Lens…Portraiture and Photography, is the satisfaction of seeing ...
Letters
Letters
SQUID: BLOW UP YOUR TV Please pass this comment on to Squid: The only thing more boring than watching local TV news is reading about it in the Weekly [“Squid on Local TV News,” Nov. ...
Lots To Do
Lots To Do
DO GOOD, HAVE FUN… Old friends, they mean much more to me than new friends, because they know where I’ve been… Those words came from a song done by Harry Chapin (I think) a pretty ...
Capturing the Moment II
Center for Photographic Art, Weston Gallery, Photography West Gallery
Center for Photographic Art The 16th Annual Center for Photographic Art worldwide exhibition ends Friday, Dec. 1. Ansel Adams, Brett and Cole Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke and others began Friends of Photography here ...
The Christmas Story
A new film details the birth of Jesus.
For a movie 2,006 years in the making, The Nativity Story is unforgivably dull. Granted, the birth of Jesus Christ isn’t a very glitzy story to begin with, but it doesn’t help that director Catherine ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
HYPOCRISY AT WORK… Here’s a little history lesson, courtesy of Squid. The CITY OF SEASIDE incorporated in 1899. MARINA was incorporated in 1975. Neither was required to do a full Environmental Impact Report. Nor did ...
The sanctuary’s draft management plan is finally ready.
In 2001, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary set out to update its nine-year-old management plan. Five years and untold headaches later, a draft of the plan is ready. One more round of public comments, ...
Under Siege
Local Oaxacans reflect on their state’s six-month struggle.
A social movement has taken root in the tourist-friendly southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. What started as a teachers’ strike at the end of May has morphed into a violent struggle between federal police and ...
Custom House Rhymes
Born-in-Monterey collective Ostrich Head opens for Digital Underground Friday.
This past Wednesday, Ostrich Head’s music video for their super-catchy song “Freak Show Carnival” beat out thousands of other vids from across the country to become one of four Grand Prize winners in the YouTube ...
Wage Crusade
Unions fight for prevailing wages in University Village.
Marina’s University Village has become a battleground for the payment of fair wages on Fort Ord construction projects. The developers of the 1,200-home mixed-use project are trying to bypass prevailing wage requirements by arguing that ...
Fit For An Artist
Fit For An Artist
It might be assumed that Richard MacDonald, a world-famous local artist, would build his house by the ocean, swaddled in natural beauty, incorporating proud and poetic architecture. One might also expect to see MacDonald’s signature ...
Judge orders new hearing for General Plan Initiative.
General Plan Initiative supporters won a victory last week when the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a federal judge to rehear a lawsuit challenging the anti-sprawl ballot measure. Chris Fitz of LandWatch—a group ...
A Carmel kid helps mint a board game about the stock market.
Carmel’s Katie Ryan is a full-blown entrepreneur seeking to boost free-market capitalist thinking. She’s also a middle schooler. Two years ago, at the ripe old age of 11, Ryan co-designed and illustrated her own board ...
PublicCitizen
11|30THURS SAVE OUR SANCTUARY | MONTEREY—Weigh in on the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary’s management plan. 6:30pm. Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. 713-0404. 12/1FRI PARK DREAMS | SALINAS—The Carr Lake Project is a ...
Better Than Receiving
Studying the holiday phenomenon of re-gifting.
The season of giving has returned, and the recycled giving with it. The process most often dubbed “re-gifting” starts when a person receives a gift that they have no use for—or simply loathe—and ends with ...
Picking Winners
The voter-driven Rock Wars breathe life into the local rock scene.
When Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar onstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Fest, many guessed that rock music in Monterey might catch fire along with it. It did not—in the decades since, Monterey has remained ...
The Long War
We can have a say about the future of Monterey County.
>>THELOCALSPIN Has it turned into a civil war? This is the question of the week. It’s in every newspaper and on every news-talk program on TV and radio. It’s everywhere. My sweetheart even asked for ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
BEN FOLDS | Supersunnyspeedgraphic—The LP | Epic This literate (and proud of it) semi-indie icon cleans out the barrel with this (mercifully) short collection of experiments with his pals Ben Kweller and Ben Lee, oddball ...
Capturing the Moment
Photography became an art form 80 years ago on the Monterey Peninsula. Ten current shows keep the tradition alive.
Photography at the turn of the last century was already in the hands of the people. A little more than a half-century had seen a new technology arrive and flourish. The daguerrotype was invented in ...
