Family of Wines
Cima Collina’s winemaker and cellarmasterpay attention to the details.
~FOOD&WINE The 5-year-old scion of Monterey County’s new up-and-coming artisanal wine operation wants to run the forklift. “He loves the forklift—but Luke also loves to work in the lab with me,” says Annette Hoff, the ...
Organic Evolution
In its remarkable new cookbook, Earthbound Farm takes heathy cooking one step further.
~FOOD&WINE Myra Goodman’s organic raspberry corn muffins contain a story. It’s the tale of the Carmel Valley-backyard beginnings of the now-global Earthbound Farm enterprise, of a time long before 74 percent of supermarkets nationwide carried ...
Issues / 2007 / Feb 01
Seize the Giggle
Paula Poundstone lives in the comedic moment.
>>ONSTAGEPaula Poundstone wants to make you laugh. And with almost three decades of comedy under her belt, she is well-qualified to do so.“As a comedian, I think I’m the best I’ve ever been now, for ...
Eyes on the Horizon
Eyes on the Horizon
BLESSED COAST... It is late in the Todos Santos afternoon. The Bajamon horizon—a metaphorically brackish intermingling of Pacific’s grand ocean and Señor Cortez’s noble sea—pulls El Sol lovingly into its awaiting bosom. Like La SEÑORA ...
Venus Envy
Peter O’Toole’s lion-in-winter portrayal comes to the rescue in
For a vivid lesson in the toll that time exacts from us all, consider two images of Peter O’Toole. First, imagine his debut performance as the title character of 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia, striding across ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
DEERHOOF | Friend Opportunity | Kill Rock StarsWho would have thunk it’d take a clutch of San Francisco noiseniks to rewrite stale indie rock rules—and simultaneously snatch that thorny crown of popularity from the cool ...
Beefy Security
Will buffer zones between cows and veggies prevent another E. coli outbreak?
Last week Charles Benbrook, chief scientist at the Organic Center in Oregon, told farmers gathered at Asilomar that the key to preventing another deadly E. coli outbreak is not more self-imposed regulation, but collaboration with ...
Asked at Bruno’s Market in Carmel.
Street Talk
Q: WHAT’S THE MOST EXOTIC FOOD YOU’VE EVER EATEN?Follow-up: What’s your favorite recipe to cook at home?CASEY JONES | Customer Service | MontereyA: I ate turkey heart one time at Thanksgiving. It tasted just like ...
Big Sur Deluxe
Big Sur Deluxe
>>REALESTATEKen and Stephanie Lee and their family live on seven-plus acres near Big Sur, where the steeply undulating hills, deeply folded canyons and perfidious cliffs with sheer drops to the surf below are famous. Because ...
End of an Era
‘Queen’ Kalisa Moore without a throne on Cannery Row following sale of La Ida Café.
Kalisa Moore, the piquant La Ida Café owner made famous by her friendship with John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts, didn’t want the last chapter of her own Cannery Row story to be written like this. ...
Political Cures
President Bush wants to shift health care burden from government to private market.
President George W. Bush’s hazy plan to strip away federal funding for safety-net hospitals could bleed dry the funds of Natividad Medical Center, say Monterey County hospital officials.As vaguely outlined in his State of the ...
Pacific Grove grapples with tough budgetary choices.
Something’s gotta give. That’s the message from Pacific Grove City Manager Jim Colangelo, who’s pushing residents to learn about the city’s budget crunch and help decide how to fix it. On the evenings of Jan. ...
The Roots of Change
To make a better world, we have to be able to imagine it.
I came across this quote the other day: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for ...
Happy Rage
Salinas’ Wasted Noise whips crowds into a feel-good frenzy.
Wasted Noise gives new meaning to the term “garage band.” Each Thursday, they practice in the backroom of California Collision in Salinas, which is owned and operated by bassist Hank Macias. The room is cluttered ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGSCHOOL BOARD | MONTEREY PENINSULA—MPUSD seeks to fill a vacancy for Trustee Area 1. Applications due Feb. 14; get one at 700 Pacific St., Monterey, call 645-1203, or e-mail jfernandez@mpusd.k12.ca.us. 2|1THURSSUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES | MONTEREY—The second ...
Smokin’ Hot
Monterey’s first family of restaurants adds a gorgeous new member in Willy’s Smokehouse.
Is it possible for Tony Tollner and Bill Cox to miss the mark when it comes to creating dining venues? I doubt it. Rio Grill, Tarpy’s Roadhouse, and Montrio Restaurant are the products of their ...
At Watercity, roller hockey defines a community.
The smell of sweat is rampant; caged faces and armored bodies collide. Here the travels of a small black puck are all that matters—12 players scramble after it before the deafening buzzer screams their game ...
Strokes of Inspiration
The Alisal Center for the Fine Arts prepares to expand its outreach.
Using a Styrofoam plate for a palette, artist José Ortiz helps an elementary student form clouds for a portrait of a pink Salinas sunset. George Cervantes, a rosy-cheeked sixth grader, watches as Ortiz helps rescue ...
Sons of Jazz
Veteran players Carl Saunders and Pete Christlieb continue their families’ traditions.
If ever a man were born to the horn, it was trumpeter Carl Saunders. The Los Angeles-based jazz great was raised amidst music, and he decided to follow the family vocation. Saunders performs on Saturday ...
Letters to the Editor for Feb 01, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Feb 01, 2007
BIG-BOX BOOKSTORES ARE NO HELPI was a loyal Thunderbird customer with May Waldroup at her wonderful independent bookstore and mourned that shop’s demise; consequently, I take umbrage with last week’s column in this newspaper when ...
We have never been so exposed.
>>FORUMPeople’s vulnerabilities change throughout history. With Achilles it was his heel. For us, it’s the laptop. And not even the laptop, but the tiny memory chip inside. Our weak spot is no longer in our ...
Buyers Vs. Renters
Condo conversions means more affordable homes for sale and fewer cheap apartments.
Casanova Avenue is one of the most densely populated streets in Monterey. The only street in the Casanova-Oak Knoll Neighborhood zoned to allow multi-family housing, it has 740 apartments. Only 35 percent of that neighborhood’s ...
ArtListings for Feb 01, 2007
ArtListings for Feb 01, 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 ...
Squid Fry for Feb 01, 2007
Squid Fry for Feb 01, 2007
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD… Sitting among the admirably civic-minded codgers at the PG BUDGET MEETING last week, Squid noticed a peculiar pattern: A series of PowerPoint graphs repeatedly showed Carmel ranking above Monterey, Monterey outranking ...
