Pinnacles National Monument
Activities and Resources
5000 Highway 146, Paicines. 389-4485 or nps.gov/pinn. HIKING: The 30 miles of trails here range from easy to strenuous. Many trails intersect, and you can plan a short-loop or an all-day hike. Anticipate incredible rock ...
Peak Fitness
From its caves to its climbs, Pinnacles National Monument is a great winter hub for healthy activity.
>>HEALTH&FITNESSHundreds of bats hang three feet above my head. In some areas, they lurk within inches. They’re hibernating, yet I can only imagine the consequences should my backpack accidentally scrape one off the cave wall. ...
Mood Food
Eating can be a more emotional exercise than many realize.
>>HEATLH&FITNESSCharles Manson, one of the most damaged human beings in recent history, made a lot of bad decisions. Among them, we now know, was what he chose to eat for breakfast. According to a highly ...
Issues / 2007 / Jan 18
Making Tracks
TAMC plans for Caltrain commuter service, but has the train already left the station?
In 2010, the Transportation Agency of Monterey County (TAMC) sees 530,000 commuters from the county hopping on trains and arriving in cities like San Jose and San Francisco. The agency plans to extend a Caltrain ...
The Way We Live
The Way We Live
GO GO GO…I think we are shooting the wild rapids of deadline river, thrashing about in a heightened adrenaline frenzy, deludedly (that’s made up) presuming we are controlling our vessels. Each day, we make it ...
Asked at Plumes Coffee Shop in Monterey.
Street Talk
Q: SHOULD THE US GOVERNMENT BE SPENDING MONEY ON SPACE EXPLORATION? Follow-up: Hypothetically speaking, which destination in space would you most like to visit? MICHAEL SALAZAR | Physical Science Teacher | SeasideA: Yes, the universe ...
ArtListings for Jan 18, 2007
ArtListings for Jan 18, 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 ...
Highlands Views
Highlands Views
Heading east across Fremont Avenue toward Seaside High, directly through a large intersection, at the portal between the Sand Dollar and Edgewater Shopping Centers, is a two-lane curving road where a right turn on Coe ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
FRANK ZAPPA | Trance-Fusion | ZappaForget Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen and Buckethead. Late-model guitar shredders of all generations must bow down to Frank Zappa. The hallowed guitarist, satirist, free-speech advocate and composer of rock, ...
A New Kind of Fun
Cheeky Spanks emerges from cover.
The cover of local rock band Cheeky Spank’s debut CD is a photo of a green mailbox with the words “it’s not what you think” written across it. And in fact, with a truly eclectic, ...
The End Game
Farr’s recent move points to a better approach in Iraq.
>>THELOCALSPINSam Farr’s response last week to President George Bush’s “new way forward” in Iraq was swift and bold—and, in the short run, hopeless.Within a few hours after returning to his office Thursday morning following the ...
Shrill rhetoric has eclipsed intelligent discussion on The O’Reilly Factor.
>>FORUMOn October 5, 2006, Bill O’Reilly left his fellow Fox host Neil Cavuto nearly speechless with a rant against the liberal financier and philanthropist George Soros, whom Cavuto had just interviewed. O’Reilly called Soros “the ...
Journey on Lighthouse
The Persian Grill’s exotic tastes create a memorable experience.
As a resident of New Monterey, I’m at all times convinced that the stretch of Lighthouse between the Presidio and PG is one small step from taking off. One great bar and this neighborhood is ...
FORA will remove unexploded artillery twice as fast as feds.
Gazing from his second story office window on Fort Ord, Michael Houlemard points to a row of three silver vents protruding from the smooth, sand-colored dirt across the street. The vents, which are part of ...
A Bigger Playhouse
MY Museum launches expansion campaign with parade.
Nine plastic contact-lens cases, six inches of bubble wrap, a few feet of plastic-coated telephone wire, four cardboard tubes, a glue gun, glitter and ta-daa! Well maybe some yarn, yes, and paint, don’t forget the ...
A Grown-Up’s Fairy Tale
Pan’s Labyrinth is a daring work of startling imagination.
When fascism is the rule of the land, the only choices for its citizens are submission or covert resistance. For a child—a being who, by definition, is powerless and whose socialization requires some amount of ...
The Kid's Aren't All Right
The Kid's Aren't All Right
In August 2000, a Southern California drug dealer with the unlikely name of Jesse James Hollywood kidnapped 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz as collateral against a drug debt owed by his older brother. Hollywood’s crew kept watch ...
Harmonious Kin
Lorraine Feather brings family tradition to Jazz and Blues Co.
Lorraine Feather’s name goes a long way toward explaining an upbringing steeped in music. Not her surname, mind you, which comes courtesy of her father, the late, legendary jazz critic and songwriter Leonard Feather. No, ...
Local law students tackle actual issues in an imaginary court.
Dr. Robert Carpenter is both a citizen and an enemy of the United States. The professor was arrested after providing an electronic forum for members of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Iraqi militants. Carpenter is also fake. ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 18, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jan 18, 2007
A LESSION IN SCI-FI SUB-GENRESI didn’t care for the opening phrase of Dan Hudak’s synopsis on Eragon. Dan needs to do a little research in the sub-genres of what movie book writers call Sci-Fi/Fantasy. The ...
Monterey Bay’s oldest fishery thrives under the commercial wharf.
The post-sunrise sky throws golden beams through the network of plank walkways and concrete pilings beneath Wharf Two in Monterey. With a creak and a purr, a sea-rusted winch lifts a dripping otter-proof cage from ...
Seeds of Change
Local activists help advance a global attack on poverty $1 at a time.
They are not the most modest New Year’s resolutions: rescuing millions from poverty and helping revolutionize the way the world treats its poor. But Carlyle and Alfred Seccombe of Carmel Valley, as the Central Coast’s ...
