Weekend in the Highlands
The 40th Annual Monterey Scottish Games and Celtic Festival wraps Toro Park in plaid.
“KILTIE, KILTIE, KILTIE,” we formed a skipping parade behind the highlander who was probably in the city for the day...my brat pack: Glasgow, Scotland, mid-1950s. Urban Scots as we were, the sight of a man ...
Issues / 2007 / Jul 05
Banished from TV for his politics, the former king of daytime talk returns with an anti-war documentary.
>>FORUM In a recent Friday afternoon, Phil Donahue was sitting in a dimly lit production studio in midtown Manhattan when a reporter entered. Donahue looked up. He was wearing a checkered dress shirt over jeans ...
ArtListings for Jul 05, 2007
ArtListings for Jul 05, 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 ...
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE: The Fragile Army
TVT
The latest release from the Dallas-based choral-pop outfit called the Polyphonic Spree is like a lullaby before the storm. With a palpable tinge of the impending societal danger ahead, the album finds leaders Tim DeLaughter ...
Letters to the Editor for Jul 05, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jul 05, 2007
THROUGH THE FIRE I would like to take a moment to thank you for the cover story featuring Monterey County’s local heroes [June 28-July 4]. In particular, I was touched by the story of Pat ...
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: Era Vulgaris
Interscope
Going farther down the rabbit hole with the same spooky, Halloweeny sound heard on 2005’s Lullabies to Paralyze, Queens of the Stone Age’s latest—Era Vulgaris—is proof Josh Homme and his ever-changing merry men are keeping ...
Speaking Freely
Salinas police arrest a young man who challenged military recruiters.
He’d gone in with a free ticket, but Alberto Tovar left the Día de la Familia celebration at the Salinas Sports Complex in handcuffs. Weeks later, the recent CSUMB graduate’s run-in with police has turned ...
Beer Fest Plus
Beer Fest Plus
CAR TROUBLE… I’m experiencing an interesting foray into the Wonderland where modern (sic) bureaucracy intersects psychotic, ethically bankrupt opportunism. A few months back (reminds me of a STOOGES routine) I received one of those correctable ...
Squid Fry for Jul 05, 2007
Squid Fry for Jul 05, 2007
COPS BLOW IT UP… Squid really wishes cops would consider community impact before they go making arrests all over the place. Last week when that big multi-agency law enforcement team made its early-morning raids across ...
Hillside Pagoda
Hillside Pagoda
>>REAL ESTATE Charles and Valeska VanVliet found the house their family needed when they bought 131 Shady Lane in Monterey four years ago. They wanted open interior space, but not the massive sort of house ...
Still Funky at 40
Veteran dance band Sage releases a new CD at Sly’s.
Sage’s “Something Righteous,” from the band’s recently completed third CD, Funksway, seems to describe the way this band, which has been around for almost 40 years, feels right now. Over a tight mid-tempo groove with ...
Salinas code enforcers investigate strange and shabby dwellings.
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Beyond the End of the Road
Surfer Keala Kennelly steps off the pro tour to drop into the new HBO series, “John from Cincinnati.”
>>TV The hollow, monstrous wave on the southeast end of Tahiti was Keala Kennelly’s favorite stop on the Association of Surfing Professionals Women’s World Tour, a thick, bone-breaking wave that drove onto a shallow reef, ...
Recent gang arrests shake up narcotics trade.
When the FBI and law enforcement officials arrested two dozen alleged gang members across California last week, including five in Monterey County, they did more than shake up an organized crime unit. Cops say they ...
The Battle Begins
Three bands face off at first skirmish in Lava Lounge Rock Wars.
Paul Hastey likes to gamble—matter of fact, he is heading out to Las Vegas this August to play some blackjack. But the Lava Lounge manager is not willing to make a call on who will ...
Transformers
Michael Bay’s Transformers excels when the humans move out of the way and let the giant robots do battle.
When I was a kid, a toy was just a toy. G.I. Joe never turned into a jeep or a rifle; he just remained G.I. Joe. Although I was in college for the initial wave ...
Flawed Solution
Concerns over intake pipes could disrupt plan for Moss Landing desal plant.
California American Water Co. officials say the new pilot seawater desalination project at the Moss Landing Power Plant is “a major step forward” in developing a long-term water supply for the Monterey Peninsula. But some ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY: Memory Almost Full
Hear Music
Some have compared Memory Almost Full, McCartney’s latest album, to Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, which is tempting—both are the work of old men confronting their own mortality—but ultimately absurd. Dylan was born old; ...
The Other Garlic
Scapes, aka ‘garlic flowers,’ quietly tower over the garlic landscape.
In garlic patches across the Northern Hemisphere, green shoots are silently creeping from the tops of plants. Over the next few weeks these shoots will curl themselves around in circles like coiled snakes. If left ...
Public Citizen for Jul 05, 2007
7|5THUR PG CITY COUNCIL | PACIFIC GROVE — City Council considers, among other items, allowing the private rental of Chautauqua Hall and approving programs to support tree planting and maintenance in the city. 6pm. Council ...
Into the Woods
Mystery surrounds Pebble Beach Company’s next move.
>>THELOCALSPINThree weeks after being dealt a crushing blow by the California Coastal Commission, the Pebble Beach Company (PBC) still won’t say what it will do next. In all likelihood, the company has a Plan B. ...
License to Wed
A Reverend played by Robin Williams almost ruins a relationship in License to Wed.
To remind viewers of its gilded past, Warner Bros. Studios has taken to introducing all its movies to the tune of “As Time Goes By” from Casablanca, including its newest romantic comedy, License to Wed. ...
Mrs. Laurie plys the ancient trade of palm reading.
She sits behind the bead-stringed doorway, her dark brown hair tucked back neatly in a bun, her pretty, youthful face free of makeup. She peacefully awaits those that seek her out to uncover the mysteries ...
Asked at Hartnell College.
Six countries celebrate independence in July. What freedom do you enjoy?
Follow-up: What freedom do you think people take for granted?ADRIANA NAREZ | Student | SalinasA: The freedom to dance, to express yourself, to be who you are, to enjoy life.Shout Out: People take the freedom ...
