Dream Team
Battling through their third season, the Monterey Bay Sox still have hope.
Last month Yuta Sekigushi traveled across the world to a land where he doesn’t speak the language to play a game in a stadium that doesn’t have a permanent bathroom. Baseball, it seems, has a ...
Issues / 2007 / Jul 12
Free Thinking
CELEBRATED OPINION...It is Wednesday, eight days prior to the release date of the Weekly. My normal routine has me sitting at the computer in the early morning quietly pattering across the keyboard as words find ...
Perilous Passage
Conservationists and public agencies work toward reopening blocked wildlife corridors.
Why did the mountain lion, tule elk, kit fox and tiger salamander cross the road? For the same reason the chicken did: to get to the other side. Even if they make it across intact, ...
Keeping It Real
In its 70th season, Bach Fest still taps early roots to find true sounds.
Seventy-three years ago in the bohemian hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea, the industrious and freespirited matersfamilias of high arts and culture, Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous, noticed a need, and created something exquisite to fill it. Quickly, ...
You Kill Me
You Kill Me
The bare outline of You Kill Me sounds like one of those insensitive Polish jokes of long ago: Did you hear the one about the alcoholic Polish hit man who went to San Francisco to ...
Pesticides Get Green Light
California Legal Rural Assistance attorneys appeal the decision to the state.
Marilyn Lynds-Dismukes and her neighbors in Moss Landing thought they had it bad last year when a farmer planned to pump methyl bromide into the soil outside their homes. Methyl bromide, a fumigant used to ...
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
As Harry Potter gets older, the successful film series based on J.K. Rowling’s books get darker.
After having read the first four Harry Potter novels in their entirety, I never made it through J. K. Rowling’s fifth installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There was nothing particularly wrong ...
Cussing for a Cure
A cancer survivor finds a voice to help rally her cause.
Jackie Young bears a big koi fish tattoo on her right shoulder. In Japanese mythology the koi symbolizes strength, vivacity and determination. For Young, the tattoo is appropriate.In February of 2004, two years after experiencing ...
Royal Soul
Mary J. Blige, the queen of post-hip-hop R&B, comes to Salinas.
Shortly before his death, Otis Redding famously remarked, “I just lost my song. That girl took it away from me.” He was speaking, of course, of Aretha Franklin’s scorched-earth retooling of “Respect.” Don’t hold your ...
Finding Shelter on Fort Ord
Non-profit converts old Army units into transitional housing.
Neglected since Fort Ord closed, Lexington Court is dominated by hollow, brown and tan apartments. Squatters have set up camp in many of the buildings. Some of the units smell of urine. Parked outside one ...
ArtListings for Jul 12, 2007
ArtListings for Jul 12, 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 ...
A Different Place
TusCA’s beautiful setting and excellent tastes deserve attention.
For too long, the Hyatt Regency Monterey languished like an aging hipster with a ‘70s wardrobe. Recent renovations, though, are redeeming and have resulted in the April opening of TusCA, a Tuscan-Californian fusion restaurant. When ...
Inside the first week of the Bach Festival.
This year’s 23-day, 100-event journey includes concerts ranging from the booming and boisterous to the intimate and candlelit—plus recitals, lectures, discussions, rehearsals and more. Here’s a look at some first week highlights.SATURDAY, JULY 14The Brilliant ...
Barrel Role
A California girl’s first surf lesson.
The nine-foot foam surfboard balances atop my head, working my biceps, triceps and wrists to the limit. The unfamiliar feel of my wetsuit against my skin distracts much-needed concentration – my first step into the ...
Nobody’s Perfect
Barry Bonds is a baseball hero, even if he did cheat.
>>THELOCALSPIN The crowd erupted in cheers when Barry Bonds walked onto the field for batting practice at AT&T Park prior to the All-Star Game on Tuesday night. In every other ballpark in America, Bonds is ...
Letters to the Editor for Jul 12, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jul 12, 2007
WAR AGAINST WORDS I am a recently retired educator and local resident. A few months ago, I attended a Hartnell College Career Day to hand out information to students who were visiting the military recruitment ...
Supervisors vow to reconcile dueling land use visions.
County Counsel Charles McKee suggested Groundhog Day as a metaphor. “It may seem like…we can never move past this one day and the General Plan,” he said. Another speaker said he found Titanic a better ...
Productivity and expertise are the goal of today’s summer getaways.
>>FORUMFor more than 100 years, parents horrified at the prospect of having to care for their restless, sullen teens have been dumping their progeny on summer camps. In the old days, as ‘80s period pieces ...
squid
squid
MURDOCH’S POT FARM… Looks like media mogul RUPERT MURDOCH is inching closer to buying Dow Jones. Squid guesses it’ll soon be added to Murdoch’s media monopoly, which includes the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, National ...
Public Citizen for Jul 12, 2007
7|12Thu PARKS COMMISSION | SALINAS—Monterey County Parks Commission holds a public hearing. Noon-1pm. Parks Administrative Office, 855 E. Laurel Dr., Salinas. Free. 755-4907.>> FRANKENFOODS | MONTEREY—Scott Dick, host of Tasty Planet on KRXA, discusses genetically ...
If baseball is no longer the “national pastime,” what is?
Asked at Carmel Valley Roasting Co. in Carmel.
Follow-up: What is your most unique pastime?LAUREN BIRNBAUM | Student | MontereyA: Internet shopping. Especially around this area where there is nothing to do. I used to do it but not any more; all my ...
Save iRadio
A bill in Congress could stop a federal agency from killing off a great musical resource.
>>FORUMWhenever a friend of mine goes online, I invariably ask one question: “Have you been to Pandora.com?”Launched in 2000 by Oakland musician Tim Westergren, Pandora is unlike other terrestrial and Internet radio stations. Visitors to ...
