La Union del Pueblo Entero
ΞLOCALHEROSΞ About two years ago, Xochitl Pasaye was sent to Gonzales with a formidable task: organize a committee of farmworkers to address their countless social needs. Pasaye, a half-Mexican, half-Argentinean immigrant, had picked strawberries in ...
Local Heros: Pat Dowd
Carmel Valley Fire Protection District
ΞLOCALHEROSΞ For the past 18 years, Pat Dowd has come home from one of his two paying jobs— working as a counselor at Seaside High School and as a marriage and family counselor in private ...
Local Heros: Lady
Search and Rescue Volunteers of Monterey County
ΞLOCALHEROSΞ Lady has not become a hero by the power of her profound selflessness. She is not into search and rescue for the glory. And no, she doesn’t track down people like the Salinas man ...
Local Heros: Atlas Ayers
Bikers Against Child Abuse
ΞLOCALHEROSΞBilly "Atlas Ayers" and his band of biker brothers are called to court quite a bit. And they don’t mind at all. In fact, they love it.“We’re there to empower victims of child abuse,” says ...
Local Heros: Kim Birdsong
Monterey Rape Crisis Center
ΞLOCALHEROSΞ Kim Birdsong had seen the fliers. The Monterey Rape Crisis Center needed volunteer advocates. It seemed straightforward enough: Become a certified sexual assault counselor through the center’s intensive 40-plus-hour course, commit to a weekly ...
Issues / 2007 / Jun 28
ArtListings for Jun 28, 2007
ArtListings for Jun 28, 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
JENNIFER GENTLE | The Midnight Room | Sub PopThe Midnight Room is an aptly named place to find the latest batch of fun-house mirror songs from Jennifer Gentle, an Italian group whose mission statement goes ...
Serious Fun
Baktun 12 leads a lineup of diverse polit-performances at Monterey Live.
Underground culture is a trip. It rails against the mainstream, but is partly defined by it. It is insular, but prides itself on being diverse. It abounds with conflict. It also sees, explores, and speaks ...
Letters to the Editor for Jun 28, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jun 28, 2007
SQUID MUST’VE BEEN DREAMINGAfraid we have a case of mistaken identity [“Small Town Romance,” SquidFry, June 7-13]. I missed the mayor’s Town Hall Meeting because I was vacationing in the Southeast with the family. Sounds ...
The Complete Package
Carmel’s da Giovanni dazzles on multiple fronts.
It’s hard to find the right words to describe da Giovanni restaurant in Carmel. To say it’s charming doesn’t differentiate it from 90 percent of restaurants in the area. To mention it’s family-run evokes a ...
Badgers Among Us
Fort Ord redevelopment largely ignores the declining species.
The funniest thing about badgers, says UC Davis doctoral student Jessie Quinn, is their body shape. The neckless animals are shaped like pillows, their skin draped over a muscle core, making it tricky for researchers ...
Attorney says Salinas' planned ban is illegal.
The issue has made it into the New York Times and upset food bloggers on Chowhound. And now a nearly two-year battle over the future of Salinas’ taco trucks may end up in court.City officials ...
Freedom Takes a Hit
The Supreme Court batters the First Amendment.
THELOCALSPINHere’s the scene: The Olympic torch is being carried through town on its way to the winter games. The city has arranged an event to celebrate the occasion— a parade, which happens to pass in ...
Strong Medicine
Michael Moore’s Sicko takes aim at America’s ailing health care system.
Irreverent and often sophomoric, Michael Moore’s documentaries are like a Mad Magazine for grown-ups, dedicated to revealing the delusions and hypocrisies under which we live. His latest, Sicko, takes on his biggest target yet. And ...
While the rest of the world relaxes, Americans are working more than ever.
>>FORUMLast year Mary Lou Eckart took her first vacation in five years, a trip from her home in Decatur, Ill., to see her grandchildren in Florida. But the Illinois state government, which pays her to ...
Ask the Chef
The Weekly’s kitchen correspondent speaks to the people.
Q: Dear Chef Boy Ari,I have a dilemma. I want pineapple, and I’m already sweating the fact that the fruit I want needs to be shipped from far away, releasing greenhouse gases into the environment ...
Squid Fry for Jun 28, 2007
Squid Fry for Jun 28, 2007
CURSE OF MEASURE A… Squid knew the minute activists began collecting signatures to place MEASURE A, the GENERAL PLAN INITIATIVE, on the ballot, that the vote wouldn’t end the battle over growth. How did Squid ...
Summer Lovin’
Summer Lovin’
POPPIN’ OFF...I am awash in Monterey Pop Festival history after last week’s great night at Golden State Theatre with DA PENNEBAKER and his epic documentary, Monterey Pop. Our local music man, MAC MCDONALD, editor of ...
Love In It
Tuck and Patti anchor the Esalen International Arts Festival.
A Tuck and Patti concert isn’t so much a musical experience as a new age revival meeting celebrating the infinite power of love. Which is to say that the scintillating husband and wife team of ...
What would your superhero name be?
What’s the most heroic thing you have ever done?
MARIANO DUARTE | Student | CastrovilleA: I saved a man from falling and hurting himself. He was watering plants outside of my house and tripped over the pavement. I stopped him from hitting the ground ...
Taken for a Loop
Inside a stirring stunt-plane ride with Monterey Bay Aviation.
The world has never looked like this. It rushes up toward me, spinning like a spectacularly green-and-blue record. Meanwhile, the needle in front of me spins around the altimeter— three thousand feet, two thousand. The ...
Natural Charmer
Natural Charmer
>>REAL ESTATE Barbara Higuera has lived in her house over 16 years. It’s a house that was great when built in 1953 and, instead of being resistant to time, has been complicit with it, today ...
Young Americans
The novelists to watch are ambitious—and irresistible.
\|/ LITERATUREThe British literary journal Granta has been prescient in picking the finest writers of a generation, beginning in 1983 when the editors fingered Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Martin Amis in their ...
Back to the Future
Live Free or Die Harder injects a popular action franchise with more rip-roaring special effects.
Reluctant hero John McClane is back for a fourth time in Live Free or Die Hard, and once again he’s escaping from impossible situations with the help of jaw-dropping visual effects. This time, though, there’s ...
Money for Gang Prevention
Will billions of dollars combat street violence?
Salinas could score some much-needed gang prevention and intervention cash from a myriad of new state and federal initiatives.When legislators finalize the state’s budget this week, it will likely include $9.5 million designed to keep ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGCOMMITTEE VACANCIES | MARINA — District 4 Supervisor Jerry Smith seeks applicants to fill various Monterey County Commissions and Committees including: Community Action Commission, Housing Advisory Committee, In-Home Support Services Advisory Committee and Integrated Waste ...
Citizens question city’s administrative raises.
As the city of Seaside negotiates its next contract with unionized employees, administrators scramble to rectify top-heavy spending that has thrown the biannual budget out of whack. Non-union managers have gotten hefty raises this year, ...
