Salinas’ Last Bookstores
City leaders watch their final remaining bookstores leave with anger and angst.
A little girl with long dark hair and a baseball cap runs to the end of the B. Dalton bookstore in Salinas. She is looking for Harry Potter. Her father trails behind and slowly walks ...
Issues / 2007 / Jan 25
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGSANCTUARY SEATS OPEN | COUNTYWIDE—Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary seeks applicants for advisory council representing agriculture, business and industry, commercial fishing, recreational fishing, recreation, research and conservation, and two at-large positions. A primary and alternate ...
Good Weather Report
PLAYING THROUGH…Rather a quiet winter. Even the El Niño rains have not yet materialized. I hope Mother Nature doesn’t wait until the AT&T to water these gardens. A little touch of weather here and there ...
Ban Buzzwords
People, please! Limit terms such as…well, ‘term limits.’
>>FORUMEvery year, the media tends to beat certain words, phrases and concepts to death. Remember the Axis of Evil? Hanging chads? Soccer moms? Shock and awe?Forget overexposure. These things quickly clock past cliché and head ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 25, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jan 25, 2007
SCHWARZENEGGER’S UNHEALTHY PLANI never thought I’d say it, but I, too, applaud Gov. Schwarzenegger’s apparently genuine commitment to bipartisanship [“Local Spin,” Jan. 11]. I’m sick of the shrill rhetoric from the right and the left, ...
Dark Beauty
Trentalange sings pretty songs about violence and death.
Trentalange’s 2006 album, Photo Albums of Complex Relationships, is a beautiful bummer. On the Portishead-inspired “In the Ground,” lead singer Barbara Trentalange sings about a dead lover, over dreamy pop girded by a programmed drumbeat. ...
ArtListings for Jan 25, 2007
ArtListings for Jan 25, 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 ...
Bad Ride
The Hitcher is another ill-conceived attempt to revive a horror classic.
Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company continues strip-mining the horror films of my youth with this pointless remake of Robert Harmon’s 1986 genre semi-classic. First came Bay’s The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ...
Real Men Respect Women
New PG High program teaches boys about their role in preventing rape.
Organizers set the social for Dec. 20 at Pacific Grove High School. Principal Stan Dodd was there. So was varsity football coach Buck Roggeman and staff from the Monterey Rape Crisis Center. They wondered if ...
Unlikely Local Legend
The NFL’s Jeff Garcia started accomplishing the improbable at an early age in Gilroy.
The role of underdog is not new to Jeff Garcia. He knew it as early as 9, when he was a quarterback for the Gilroy Colts.Garcia’s undersized Colts faced the top-seeded Santa Teresa Bulldogs in ...
Spaghetti Hill Story
Monterey considers historic value of Lower Old Town.
Craftsman, Spanish Colonial and Queen Ann style homes line the streets in Monterey’s Lower Old Town. The neighborhood—which sits above downtown, west of Van Buren Street between Pacific Street and Van Buren Circle, with Clay ...
Asked at Pacific Grove Post Office.
Street Talk
Q: WHAT DID YOU ENJOY AS A KID THAT YOU WISH YOU COULD STILL DO?Follow-up: What was your favorite childhood story?TRISHA | Shaman | Pacific Grove A: I lived on a farm in Minnesota and ...
Empower Outage
Former YWCA employees say they were persecuted for being white and non-religious.
Three former employees of the YWCA of Monterey County are suing the Seaside organization for race and religious intolerance and demanding payment of lost earnings and benefits.The lawsuit, which includes one current employee as a ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THE SHINS | Wincing the Night Away | Sub PopWincing the Night Away is yet another crucible on which the future of rock—and especially indie rock—allegedly hinges. Even before its release, Wincing was whacked around ...
Here Comes the Son
Neal Pollack tries to be the ultimate indie dad.
In his new memoir Neal Pollack tackles a question of great consequence for his generation: Can I be a father and still retain my indie cred?At once witty, charming and tedious, Alternadad takes a familiar ...
Love and Rock and Roll
Beezle breaks down barriers.
We had nothing in common. He had a cap slung low over his eyes as though he was trying to hide his identity. He wore a hooded sweatshirt with the word “Revenge” on the front ...
Rural Rules
The Windmill keeps South County running.
The satisfaction derived from our lunch represents a role-reversal: Normally we at the Weekly are honored to send readers to good locally-owned eateries well worth the visit; in this case, by virtue of its repeat ...
Steve Jobs Attempts World Domination
With the arrival of the iPhone in June, Apple may become the company of the future.
>>TECHYou’ve got to feel sorry for the richest man in the world. After all, here’s Bill Gates a couple of weeks ago, giving the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show, one of the largest ...
Throw It Back
Catch and Release is way too predictable to be effective.
In Hollywood’s romantic comedies, the first slap always precedes the first smooch. Catch and Release offers a how-to lesson in the movie maneuver.You need an attractive but initially bickering couple, here played by Jennifer Garner ...
