Showdown: Movies
Showdown: Movies
CowboysSome of the best movies in history are cowboy movies, period: The Searchers, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the catalog of Spaghetti Westerns, and on and on. Cowboy movies ...
Tough-Guy Showdown
Tough-Guy Showdown
This weekend, the California Rodeo Salinas and the US Grand Prix bring hundreds of extraordinary men to town. These elite professional athletes come from two vastly different worlds – but they have some things in ...
Showdown: Danger
Showdown: Danger
CowboysThe University of Nevada’s School of Medicine takes it students to the local rodeo because the wide variety and high frequency of injury gives them lots of practice. “[Rodeo competitors] are some of the most ...
Showdown: Fashion
Showdown: Fashion
CowboysThe bronc rider is wearing Official Pro Rodeo Cowboy Cut jeans, the rigid variety, genuine indigo with contrasting stitching, zipper-flied and straight-legged, opening reluctantly over snazzy pointed boots – a great look, on a horse ...
Showdown: Bad Boyishness
Showdown: Bad Boyishness
CowboysTraveling from town to town like an old fashioned gunslinger, one would think that a modern rough and tumble bull rider would get into a little trouble from time to time and rack up some ...
Showdown: Fan Base
Showdown: Fan Base
CowboysWhen it comes to fan base, pro rodeo draws in a bigger crowd by far. It’s known as “America’s original extreme sport” and approximately 24 million spectators attend Pro Rodeo events each year to get ...
Showdown: Money
Showdown: Money
CowboysGive a cowboy his horse and the trail, and he has no real need for money – he can whip up a prairie gourmet feast of gopher, wild onions and cactus moonshine at no cost. ...
Showdown: Sex Appeal
Showdown: Sex Appeal
CowboysWillie Nelson’s song “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys” neglects just how much the world needs magnetic men in snug-fitting Wrangler jeans showcasing every leg muscle. The addition of a mysterious ...
Showdown: Athleticism
Showdown: Athleticism
CowboysIn the old days (the 1800s), the primary job of a cowboy was to look after a herd of cattle. A herd could number from 100 to 15,000 cows and the distance traveled in a ...
Issues / 2007 / Jul 19
The Big Time
The Big Time
WALL TO WALL RED CARPETING... I’m still reverberating from the power of last Wednesday’s kickoff event for the fledgling Carmel Film Fest and the Carmel Film Society, and its premier showing of the movie Talk ...
County residents send some bizarre things by post.
It’s often the first thing visible when walking into a packing and shipping store like UPS: “WE DO NOT ACCEPT” followed by this list of items – live animals, fire arms, compressed gas, flammable material, ...
His Kind of Country
Lyle Lovett continues to invent himself.
In his career, Lyle Lovett has been many things—a new kind of country singer-songwriter, a big-band revivalist, a Texas folkie, an actor in films (by Robert Altman, among others) and fodder for the celebrity gossip ...
Salinas bull rider returns to ring for California Rodeo
Josh Daries began the rodeo life before he knew it.
The last time that Salinas bull rider Josh Daries competed in the California Rodeo Salinas he was inside his mother’s belly. Back then, Josh’s mother, Tina Daries, was seven months pregnant and competing in the ...
If you could make up a commercial for marijuana what would it entail?
Asked at Safeway in Monterey.
Follow-Up: Do you know any slang words for marijuana? RAMON RIVIERA | Government | SeasideA: In my commercial I would focus on the positive benefits weed can have in communities. I would demonstrate how legalizing ...
Fort Ord Burning
Opponents demand an independent review of the Army’s latest planned burns.
The Army’s new proposal to clear a 6,500-acre munitions area of Fort Ord with prescribed burns is rekindling opposition from environmental activists.The Army recently released a plan to remove the slew of rockets, artillery projectiles, ...
ArtListings for Jul 19, 2007
ArtListings for Jul 19, 2007
alvarado gallery Monterey County Art: works by Marvin Anderson, William Lawrence; also Discovered Objects: jewelry by Charlene Doran. Opens 5:30-8pm, 7/20. Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. 646-5648. american galleries New gallery features nationally ...
Little Treasure
Little Treasure
>>REALESTATEErin Hoffman loves sunshine and light, loves the outdoors and loves the next step in her life, which starts as soon as her impressive condo finds a new owner. “I’ve got the job of my ...
Carmel Valley incorporation advocates lose another one to LAFCO.
The group that wants to incorporate Carmel Valley had an unlucky day in court on Friday, July 13. The pro-incorporation Carmel Valley Forum (CVF) had asked a Superior Court judge to dismiss a claim by ...
Drain Brains
Nonprofit routes stormwater education to local schools.
Everyone seems to have ideas about how to improve K-12 education. Some may crusade against standardized testing; others work to get healthier foods into cafeterias. For Kyrrha Sevco of Ecology Action, it’s time for schools ...
Hairspray
The new movie musical of John Waters’ classic
In a summer boasting two movies derived from children’s toys (Bratz, Transformers), and a remake of the same film (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer), originality feels like the rarest of birds.And now comes ...
Last Blast
The Monterey Rock and Art Festival goes out with a roar.
The first Monterey Rock and Art Festival at the Monterey Fairgrounds was a two-day event with 72 acts including fairly big out-of-town indie rock groups like The Mother Hips and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. In ...
Food Bank Donations Down
There’s not enough food or funds to feed the hungry in Monterey County.
July 1 marked the end of 807,135 pounds of food that made its way annually to the mouths of hungry babies and children in the county. This time last year, First 5 Monterey County, which ...
Thai-by-the-Sea
Carmel’s only Thai spot approaches two years in business.
I never thought I’d bring George W. Bush home with me. The other day, though, I did. I thought his life-size cutout, complete with cow-patty-eating grin would be a fun prop for pranks and parties. ...
Into Great Silence
Into Great Silence offers an objective look into the hushed lives of Carthusian monks.
From its earliest days, cinema has been used to suggest movement. The speed limit has been boosted significantly in the MTV and videogame epoch, but there is another tradition—a much less lucrative one, to be ...
Saying Goodbye
It’s hard to lose someone you love, and it’s hard to leave a place you love, but...
>>THELOCALSPIN My cousin, Jeff Gagnon, told this story at the beginning of a memorial service last Thursday: The paper arrived 20 minutes before the hospital called. My cousin Peter read his dad’s (my Uncle Jerry’s) ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
SOUTH VALLEY OF DENIAL… When the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) yanked King City High’s accreditation last week, Squid thought it couldn’t get any worse. It did. First there was King City Mayor ...
Totally Baroque
The Best of Bach Fest’s Week Two.
It’s about mile 12, give or take a symphony, into this musical marathon, and these highly attuned artists are showing no signs of fatigue—in fact, they’re just hitting their stride. Here are some highlights of ...
Viva la Myth
Zoot Suit revives the spirit of El Pachuco.
A giant blade sliced through from behind the printed curtain hanging center-stage, through the large headlines—Los Angeles, 1943—through the hum of a bustling audience that filled the room as the second preview performance of >>Zoot ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGSMALL BUSINESS AWARDS | COUNTYWIDE – Nominations now accepted for the second annual Salute to Small Business awards program. A gala awards luncheon on Oct. 18 will feature a keynote speech by motivational speaker Vince ...
Mike Bloomberg ’08
Why America needs a Jewish president.
>>FORUM At the rate things are going, instead of wondering if he can win, many of us may be signing petitions begging Michael Bloomberg to run for president. A choice between Hillary Clinton and the ...
Letters to the Editor for Jul 19, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jul 19, 2007
STRONG WORDS WERE INSPIRING I was so pleased to read your article about Jackie Young, the local cancer survivor who started Young Cures to raise money for cancer research [“Cussing for a Cure,” July 12-17]. ...
