The Clown Prince of Golf
George Lopez shows Pebble Beach how to have fun.
The gallery surrounding the 15th tee is quiet—too quiet for George Lopez. So instead of addressing his ball, Lopez motions the silent gallery to life. With his encouragement, the fans that make up the famously-social ...
The Ultimate 18
The best six spots to watch, six pros to track and six amateurs to follow in all the forest.
THE PLACES THE WHALING STATION The green at the third-hardest hole at the hardest course in the tournament, the 595-yard first, is raised—as if Spyglass Hill needed a proper platform for its bogey sacrifices to ...
Issues / 2007 / Feb 08
Too Much Info
Hannibal Rising provides the backstory for one of modern film’s most notorious villains.
The Hannibal horror movie franchise (Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon) gets an extraneous third installment from best-selling novelist and scriptwriter Thomas Harris. With over 150 films to his credit, iconic film producer Dino ...
Far Out School
Pacific Valley School is as unique as its Southern Big Sur surroundings.
At first glance, Raeanna Thomasson’s classroom at Big Sur’s Pacific Valley School looks no different than other elementary school classroom. There are fluorescent lights overhead and ABCs on the wall. There is a mischievous boy ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGCITIZEN STEWARDS | COUNTYWIDE—Bureau of Land Management seeks nominations to fill an unexpired term on the 12-person Central California Resource Advisory Council, a citizen’s panel that advises the BLM on the stewardship of Federal public ...
ArtListings for Feb 08, 2007
ArtListings for Feb 08, 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 ...
Cold Fashioned
The Good German is an interesting idea executed without any passion.
Can we still call Steven Soderbergh an experimental filmmaker? He’s about as mainstream as Hollywood allows, fully sanctioned by a major studio to cherry pick an A-list cast—or not—and play around with whatever new distribution ...
New Directions
Two bands with local connections bring new projects to town.
Fans of the local band Dura-Delinquent might be perplexed by Sugar and Gold, the latest endeavor from Dura-Delinquent’s guitarists Nicolas Dobbratz and Philipp Minnig. While Dura-Delinquent was known for playing feral garage rock, Sugar and ...
The View from Carmel
The View from Carmel
Carmel Views homes often have cultivated frontages within the neighborhood’s miles of native flora. Scrub sage and Monterey pines, despite their noble lineage, lightheartedly follow the hills wherever they go. The only indicators of civilization ...
Littlest Victim
An 8-year-old girl is among the recent casualties of gang violence in Salinas.
Maria Garcia looks at her youngest child’s face peeking out of a bundle of white hospital blankets. The 8-year-old girl sleeps quietly with her dazed eyes open. Three card-size images of the Virgin Mary rest ...
Mini local cheer teams head to nationals.
The Pee-Wees dance first. Fifteen girls between 9 and 12 wearing green, yellow and white polyester tops and skirts stand in formation, backs to the audience, clutching green and yellow poms. The music opens with ...
Another Big Weekend
Another Big Weekend
DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME… So here I am, at the time of this writing just one lousy week away from the opening salvo of the AT&T International Pro Golfers Commune with Amateur Celebrities, Corporate Honchos ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
WILLIAM PARKER & THE LITTLE HUEYCREATIVE MUSIC ORCHESTRA | For Percy Heath | VictoMust an extended work dedicated to Percy Heath—the late bassist mostly associated with the Modern Jazz Quartet—draw on his precise, unflappable swing? ...
Drop in violent crimes means no federal dollars to fight gangs.
The county’s Joint Gang Task Force (GTF) may become a victim of its own success. There were 2,097 violent crimes and 33 homicides in Monterey County in 2004, the year the GTF received a $3.1 ...
We Should Not Kill
A national conference considers legalistic details of the death penalty. The larger debate remains unheard.
>>THELOCALSPINWillie Williams spent 22 years, half of his life, on Death Row in a Georgia prison. Three weeks ago, on Jan. 23, he was released after DNA evidence proved beyond a doubt that he did ...
Words and Music
Sony Holland breathes life into the work of great songwriters.
It’s a stretch to think of any paying gig, much less one in a world-class setting, as a dress rehearsal. But witnessing Sony Holland on the bandstand in Oakland a couple of Monday nights ago, ...
Singer of Songs
Erin McKeown makes classic material her own.
At 28, guitarist Erin McKeown is part of a vanguard of new singer/songwriters who blissfully rummage through America’s musical closet, borrowing from jazz, folk, rock, blues and Tin Pan Alley. Raised in Fredericksburg, Va., she ...
Pin-Pups
Dog calendar shows off Carmel’s canine charm—and its vacation potential.
As a new reporter for the Weekly, I recently sat down with Carmel Mayor Sue McCloud for a briefing on the most pivotal issues facing the city. She emphasized the importance of tourism to the ...
Diplomatic Mission
UN official says multilateralism is key to restoring US’s standing in the world.
Ambassador William Luers knows firsthand the United States’ history of a good reputation abroad, having served as ambassador to Venezuela (1978-82) and Czechoslovakia (1983-86) and as one of the State Department’s top European affairs officials. ...
Squid Fry for Feb 08, 2007
Squid Fry for Feb 08, 2007
SPINNING FEELING… Squid’s commute time always depends on the tides. Some days Squid commutes towards shore, some days the tide takes Squid out to sea. Squid has learned how to go with the flow.But lately ...
Asked at Bayonet Black Horse Golf Club in Seaside.
Street Talk
Q: WHAT LOCAL KNOWLEDGE DO YOU HAVE FOR AT&T PRO-AM VISITORS?Follow-up: What is your favorite golf hole on the Peninsula?BILL DODSON |Retired Golf Teacher | MontereyA: Park on Fort Ord, don’t park down there. The ...
Fifteen families and the volunteer fire brigade run their engines on alternative fuel.
Until this past September, Adam Kirchner would have to go on a road trip every time he needed to fill his Ford pickup with fuel. Kirchner, who lives in Big Sur’s South Coast, would drive ...
Home Wreckers
>>FORUMLast year, more than a million families lost their homes to bank foreclosures, a 42 percent jump over 2005, according to RealtyTrac. That’s a small percentage of homeowners, but it marks a huge increase in ...
Little Monster
Jake Shimabukuro turns the tiny four-string ukelele into a powerful instrument.
Jake Shimabukuro may be the first jazz musician to gain a pop following via the Internet sensation Youtube.com. A widely seen video captures the Hawaiian-born ukulele master sitting on a rocky outcropping in Central Park’s ...
A Sweet Spot
Diva Dulce is a very welcome newcomer to Wharf area.
The next time I go to Diva Dulce’s new café and bakery near Fisherman’s Wharf, I’m thinking about bringing my toothbrush, some extra socks and maybe a few knickknacks. Nothing crazy. I just want to ...
Letters to the Editor for Feb 08, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Feb 08, 2007
ORGANIC FOOD IS FOODThis is my new favorite saying: “That’s nice. Prove it!” Seriously, now, am I going to have to write to you every week? It seems that your paper has more and more ...
