Beach Boy Forever
Brian Wilson came back from oblivion to keep the innocent spirit of ‘60s California alive.
Interviewing Brian Wilson, I felt like I was talking to a very simple man. He answered my questions with a directness that was not exactly blunt— he was friendly, just not very talkative. It was ...
Issues / 2007 / Jun 07
The Art of Summer
A look at the creative options for area kids this summer.
The research is clear: Consistent participation in any form of the creative arts helps children succeed both academically and socially. What a tragedy that class time for substantive arts programs in K-12 public education has ...
We’ll Always Have Paris
With Paris, Je T’Aime, an international team of directors takes turns embracing the city of love.
Outside of maybe the Spahn Movie Ranch, Paris is probably the most popular movie location of all time. Everything from Louis Lumière’s Le Tsar Nicolas II à Paris (1896) to The Devil Wears Prada has ...
Simply Beautiful
Simply Beautiful
>>REALESTATEThe last block of Judson Street’s north end concludes at a grass-green, car-prohibited park punctuating a neighborly block where people of all ages walk a lot. Susan Bein (pronounced “bean”) lives at number 1754, a ...
A Trip to the Past
Western Stage’s
I had a little conversation with myself on my way to see the Western Stage production of William Inge’s Bus Stop on its opening night at Hartnell College on Friday. I’d already formed an opinion ...
Student analogies further celebrate the power of the creative comparison.
Poets and presidents use them to move hearts and armies. SAT administrators use them to evaluate student intelligence. Functional interaction often can’t seem to advance without one of their more-tired examples—“I feel like crap”; “She ...
Squid Fry for Jun 07, 2007
Squid Fry for Jun 07, 2007
SMALL TOWN ROMANCE… With World’s Sexiest Predators well into summer reruns, Squid was a little bored last Wednesday night. So Squid slithered over to Salinas Mayor DENNIS DONOHUE’s Town Hall Meeting. Squid arrived just before ...
Music and Lyrics
Bobbe Norris and Larry Dunlap bring a long history to Carmel.
Bobbe Norris knows exactly which songs fit her voice like a velvet glove. Her latest album Out of Nowhere features 14 tunes that lean heavily toward torchy ballads. With her husky contralto, Norris interprets the ...
Water district says attorney is stalling Alco transfer to pad his pockets.
Joe Rosa, who manages the Pajaro/Sunny Mesa Community Service District, wants ownership of five small water systems in North Monterey County so that the public district can fix them up. The system in Prunedale has ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
MAROON 5 | It Won’t Be Soon Before Long | A&M/Sony BMGNo matter what anyone says, Maroon 5’s second record, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, will be a chart-destroyer. It’s packed with even more ...
ArtListings for Jun 07, 2007
ArtListings for Jun 07, 2007
alvarado gallery Monterey Golden Blues and Monterey County Scenes. Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. 646-5648. anton gallery Breaking Form: works by Rob Barnard, Mary Annella Frank and Reid McIntyre. Hawthorne Mansion, 701 Hawthorne ...
Al Gore’s Anger
The Assault on Reason delivers a long-awaited counter-attack.
>>FORUMOf anyone has the right to fulminate on the irrationality of American political debate, it’s Al Gore. During the 2000 Presidential campaign, the national media turned him into a hapless unofficial extra from Revenge of ...
Rock y Politics
Bolivar Vive! headlines socially conscious post-punk show.
In Monterey Live on a packed Friday night, the stage is crowded with the eight members of the local Latin ska punk band Bolivar Vive!. The music begins with a thick, plodding bass line and ...
The Party’s Over
Both sides of the land use battle agree that the special election didn’t resolve anything.
When the initial results came across the projector screen on election night at the National Steinbeck Center, the No on Measure A camp didn’t cheer. They stared at the screen, let the results sink in, ...
No. No. No. No.
Voters to leaders: Give us something better.
>>THELOCALSPINI got a phone call last month from a reader who wanted to talk to me about the general plan vote and a piece I’d written about it in this space. The column that inspired ...
Asked at Vinyl Revolution
Street Talk
Q: WHAT SONG BRINGS BACK THE MOST NOSTALGIC MEMORIES FOR YOU? Follow-up: What element in today’s music scene is overrated?SAL VATORE Bar Owner | Sand CityA: “When the Lights Go Down,” by Journey is a ...
The Party Never Ends
The Party Never Ends
DAY TRIPPIN’… I’m off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz. I hear he is a wiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there was. I wish I was Dorothy standing there, ...
Watershed Decision
State and Cal Am hatch an innovative scheme to remove the San Clemente Dam.
The water company and government agencies appear close to solving a problem that has stumped officials—and stranded fish—for more than a decade. Cal Am executives, along with state and federal agencies, confirmed this week that ...
One Surfer’s Big Break
Sunshine Surfabout contender Ron Triplett chose good waves over pro circuit.
Back in 1990, local surfer Ron Triplett considered going pro. He had the funding: Pearson Arrow Surfboards’ Bob Pearson offered to pay his way on the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour. And he had ...
Letters to the Editor for Jun 07, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jun 07, 2007
GRASS-FED MEAT IS MURDERI read with sadness the article about grass-fed beef. I can’t imagine picking out my own future dinners. Having been raised on a farm, I too looked the animals in the eye ...
Al Pastor Paradise
Mi Tierra opens a tasty taqueria in the back of its supermarket.
Apparently I was a Mexican shepherd in my past life. I know this because of my obsession with tacos, tortas and burritos al pastor (literally, “of the sheepherder”)—and my tendency to wake up sweating in ...
Road to Damascus
Learning to love America while traveling in Syria.
>>OURWORLD A MONTH AGO I had only impressions of Syria. In my media-influenced mind, I saw Syrians angry with the United States— for supporting Israel as it occupies the Golan Heights, for positioning military bases ...
A Simple Song
Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Once beautifully tells the tale of a musical collaboration.
We fall in love with certain movies at different times, and in different ways. Maybe you’re not sure until the credits roll, and a collective impact washes over you. Or maybe there’s a single, indelible ...
PublicCitizen
PublicCitizen
6|7THUFINANCIAL FORECAST | PACIFIC GROVE —Share your thoughts on PG’s finances. City staff present an update on the newly-balanced budget, the financial forecast and the future of city services. 6:30pm. Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave., ...
