Strange Abodes
Three of the many local homes that reveal their owners’ unique personalities.
home&gardenLike the clothes we wear or the kind of pet we choose, a building can be a reflection of our personality. Local architectural historians and Monterey Peninsula College professors Kent L. Seavey and Richard Janick—who ...
Time-Tested Tricks
The volunteers who staff Monterey’s historic gardens know a few things about plants.
home&gardenThe ladies are up to something in the garden. Their hands move with the grace of experience through the midmorning shadows. Their giggles shoot through the Casa de Oro courtyards like shards of sunlight.“We’re propagating,” ...
Issues / 2007 / Feb 22
The Last Best Weekend
The Last Best Weekend
NOSTALGIA AND NOW… Today I am a butterfly (no wisecracks). Today I flutter around in my little butterfly home, preening my beautiful butterfly wings, polishing my cute little butterfly shoes, freshening my delicate butterfly senses. ...
The New Jerry
One vote marks a new direction for Supervisor Smith.
Supervisor Jerry Smith seems to be thinking strategically these days. After spending his term earning a reputation as a big developer’s best friend, Smith has adopted a kinder, gentler, more democratic facade in the last ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE | COUNTYWIDE—The Friends of the California State Fair Scholarship Program is accepting scholarship applications for 2007-08. California college students and graduating high schoolers must apply by March 23. As many as 32 will ...
Happy Trails
CHISPA transforms former party spot into senior village.
he sound of pounding hammers mixes with the buzz of morning traffic on North Main Street in Salinas. The motel rooms are hollow and only the white, wooden shells of the former Rodeo Inn and ...
The Sacred Earth
Clergy and scientists join forces to protect the world’s oceans.
>>THELOCALSPIN"Fans of Jesus and Darwin have been glaring at each other from across a wide chasm, and yet, they tested the waters, found it shallow enough to wade through, and are now building a bridge.” ...
Asked at Orchard Supply Hardware in Salinas.
Street Talk
Q: IF YOU HAD A MAGICAL GARDEN, WHAT WOULD YOU GROW?Follow-up: What’s your green-thumb trick?KAREN JONES | Retired | Salinas A: I would grow good food, like beef stew, steaks and ice cream—preferably butter pecan—so ...
Fuzzy Math
Fuzzy Math
The thriller The Number 23 and other movies seem naturally drawn to conspiracies, perhaps because, in a way, movies are conspiracies. Persons unknown to you gather in unusual places—often away from US soil—to assemble films, ...
ArtListings for Feb 22, 2007
ArtListings for Feb 22, 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 ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH | Some Loud Thunder | Self-ReleasedSome bands never learn. After being nearly universally criticized for the wheezy opening track (“Clap Your Hands”) from its eponymous debut, you would think Clap ...
Jonah and the Whalewatchers
Earlier this month, Daniel Vasquez, a co-founder of the popular local reggae band Jonah and the Whalewatchers, was killed by an alleged drunk driver while riding his bicycle on Highway 1 by Point Lobos. A ...
Voices of Experience
Doc Severinsen and Cleo Laine bring decades of polish to their shows.
In a culture obsessed with youth, let’s take a minute to appreciate the virtues of experience and maturity. This week brings three veteran jazz performers on the verge of turning 80 to the Sunset Center, ...
Butterfly Grove
Butterfly Grove
>>REALESTATEOn Ridge Road in Pacific Grove, the only path to the legendary Butterfly Sanctuary runs alongside the home of Mike and Vicki Stilwell (owners of the Wooden Nickel). Visitors from all over the world come ...
A Great Bore
A Great Bore
Decked out in the powdered wigs and knee-high stockings that were all the rage in 18th-century England, the right honorable gentlemen of the House of Commons debate—with all the detachment and ironic eloquence directors love ...
High school girls stop through Sacto on their way up.
It’s a long way from 1939’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. This Wednesday, 100 Monterey County Ms.’s will travel to the state capital to meet their lawmakers and, hopefully, get inspired to someday become one ...
Grab The Grapes of Wrath off the shelf and get reading.
In perhaps the biggest Monterey County reading effort on record, the National Steinbeck Center will turn the first page this weekend on a month-long read of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.Over the next month, ...
All Melty Inside
Untamed Foods gets a great start in Oldtown Salinas.
I recently visited a New York pizza place in San Jose on a friend’s recommendation. It was tiny, there was no place to sit and they were out of canoli, but on a Sunday afternoon ...
Church And State Of The Oceans
Aquarium hosts confab on religion and science.
They numbered 150 in all—Catholics and Protestants, Muslims and Jews, Buddhists and yogis—spiritual leaders from the Central Coast gathered at the Monterey Bay Aquarium to discuss marine conservation with area scientists. They represented 15,000 people ...
Parish Pariah
Member of St. John’s Episcopal says pastor defamed her.
Rev. William Martin left the dinner party and stepped out on the balcony to sneak a cigarette. According to a deposition given by Kim Rennick, a parishioner at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Martin had downed ...
Local Girl in NYC
Lauren Shera plays Monterey Live following Lincoln Center success.
Following interpretations of Bob Dylan songs performed by artists including Bob Mould, Joan Osborne and Natalie Merchant, a local 18-year-old singer/songwriter named Lauren Shera took the stage. Getting ready to launch into a cover of ...
Letters to the Editor for Feb 22, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Feb 22, 2007
LAND WAR WINNERS LOSELandWatch Monterey County continues their abuse of the people of Monterey County, even whilst claiming to be the protector of those very same people! I read in your paper that LandWatch had ...
Artifacts and powerful assistance draw people to Salinas’ Aguila.
Rain drizzles onto anti-war posters. They flank the entrance to the rock lawn of Aguila, a Salinas organization that assists Latinos with paperwork and semi-legal matters. A large, black speaker on the stairs of the ...
