The Top Ten of 2006, Pt. IV
Dangers, Dilemnas, Distractions and Advantages, Inspiration, Oceans and Venues
TOP 10 2006 DANGERS, DILEMMAS AND DISTRACTIONS OF BEING A BELLY DANCERBy Jamaica Sinclair | Leader of Troupe Diva 10. People think you are scantily clad, but it takes you over an hour to get ...
The Top Ten of 2006, Pt. I
Music, Movies, Incidents, and Reminders
TOP 10 MUSICAL MOMENTSBy Dennis Murphy | Bass player, bandleader, year-after-year winner of the Best of Monterey County “Best Local Musician” award10. Watching JazzMasters founder Bruce Forman do his magic (voluntarily) every Monday night at ...
The Top Ten of 2006, Pt. III
Eating Out, Culture Events, Championship Moments, Art Works
TOP 10 REASONS TO EAT OUT IN SALINASBy Lauren Cercone | Marketing consultant; executive board member, Friends of the Salinas Public Library10. Portobello’s broccoli salad turns up regularly on buffet tables around town and is ...
The Top Ten of 2006, Pt. II
Highs and Lows, Kids, New York, Books Lust
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UNRULY—TOP 10 HIGHS AND LOWS OF 2006 By Erhman Hall | Rocker (Nancy Boys, Pillow Fighters) and bartender 10. The BBC. The Black Box Cabaret at CSUMB has the ...
Issues / 2007 / Jan 04
PublicCitizen
12|8MONSCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT | SALINAS—Join the Oath of Office ceremony for Dr. Nancy Kotowski, Monterey County Superintendent of Schools. A brief reception follows. 9am. Monterey County Office of Education, 901 Blanco Circle, Salinas. Free. 755-0301.POWER OF ...
ArtListings for Jan 04, 2007
ArtListings for Jan 04, 2007
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 ...
His Father’s Son
Steve March Tormé makes a mid-career move toward his dad’s music.
Steve March Tormé has spent most of his career avoiding the standard route, a road that his father helped pave. The son of the brilliant jazz singer Mel Tormé, March Tormé was also a child ...
Good, Bad and Ugly
The top ten local stories of a (mostly) weird year.
>>THELOCALSPIN10. GOOD: GLOBAL WARMING DISCOVERED—BIODIESEL COMES TO SOUTH COUNTY. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth premieres in Monterey at a Weekly-sponsored event, featuring a panel of local scientists who are even smarter on this topic than ...
Let’s Get Started
Let’s Get Started
NEW YEAR’S REVOLUTIONS… Happy New Year’s everyone. It still blows my mind when I look at the date and see the year two thousand seven. I know the calendar is only an arbitrary form of ...
Hard Sell
Newly elected Salinas Mayor Dennis Donohue aims to change city’s fortune.
Mayor Dennis Donohue observes about a dozen middle-school age kids as they paint Christmas tree ornaments and snack on tortilla chips in the East Salinas Family Center. It’s an ordinary scene of after-school activity at ...
No Kids on the Block
The effective futuristic film Children of Men depicts a world without youth.
This year’s early Oscar favorites for Best Director include names like Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Babel’s Alejandro González Iñárritu and Dreamgirls’ Bill Condon, but of all the pictures I saw in 2006, it’s difficult for ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 04, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jan 04, 2007
A selection of letters from 2006, continued.Aug. 3PIRATES: COOLER THAN PRIESTS AND SOLDIERSYour article [“The Pirates of Monterey,” July 13] by Jessica Lyons inspired me to go out and get the book, The Burning of ...
Local channels, seers and psychics peer into ’07.
“It is going to be the most intense year,” says Lilyana Bethanee of Toro Park, “that any of us alive have ever lived.”This trance channel and Reiki master-teacher bases her prediction on a deep study ...
SF exhibit offers glimpse of rare beauty.
It’s not often that we have the chance to experience the best that the world has to offer. I strongly recommend that everyone within range of these words make a pilgrimage to the Palace of ...
Classical Contemporary
Classical Contemporary
It was nighttime in New York City during a busy season when I spoke with Kazuhide Isomura by phone. In his 38 years as founder-member and violist of the Tokyo String Quartet—an ensemble considered by ...
Beyond Big
Benching 800 is just the beginning with Garden Fitness owner Matt Lamarque.
Matt Lamarque’s physical strength is undeniable. In 2005, the Monterey native bench-pressed 801.2 pounds, roughly the weight of two silverback gorillas. The lift set a world record in the 242-pound weight class that still stands. ...
Highway 1 Heaven
Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn does it rustic and oh-so-right.
For something to be truly luxurious, it has to be more than just pleasurable. It must also be rare. Which explains why Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn—which brilliantly combines the pleasures of great food and feather ...
Planning By Ballot
Nobody guessed it would come to this. And nobody is very happy about it.
Monterey County Supervisors shocked just about everyone three weeks ago, when they unanimously voted to put the future of the county in the hands of voters. Ever since county planners and consultants began writing the ...
Asked at Park Row in Salinas.
Street Talk
Q: WHAT NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS HAVE YOU BROKEN?Follow-up: WHAT'S ONE THAT YOU ACTUALLY KEPT?PETE SANTISTEVAN | Palette driver| SalinasA: All of them. Everybody makes and breaks the same ones, to lose weight, do right by ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
SCOTT WALKER | The Drift | 4ADOn his first proper album in 11 years, the 63-year-old onetime teen idol continues to challenge both listeners and musical conventions with bleak, existential, romantic and fright-inducing cabaret music ...
