After the fall… is Monterey jazz only a memory?
FALL'07ARTS FOR PENINSULA JAZZ FANS, fall is the cruelest season. There’s the delicious, months-long build up to the Monterey Jazz Festival, which takes place this year on Sept. 21-23. But after the festival’s cornucopian bounty, ...
Big Upheaval in Arts Landscape
Indeed, in the visual arts the bite of change is in the air.
FALL'07ARTS THE EXHIBITION OPENING THIS FRIDAY announces that a new day has dawned at the Monterey Museum of Art (MMA). Christel Dillbohner, a German-born, Berkeley-based artist, has taken on the giant gallery at MMA’s La ...
Classical Music Rocks
Commissions, competitions, premieres enliven classical music scene
FALL'07ARTS THE MUSIC GENERALLY CALLED CLASSICAL might in fact spring from any era within the last four centuries. This inexact genre is well represented on the Peninsula by the grande dame Carmel Music Society entering ...
Fall Arts Calendar
FALL'07ARTS SEPTEMBER6 Richard Thompson brings his skill and artistry on the guitar to Sunset Center. The Carmel Art Association presents an exhibition of painters Melissa Lofton, Shirley Holt, William F. Stone Jr. and Susan Giacometti, ...
Literary Legacy Bankrupt?
Bookshops, libraries, authors and ideas struggle to survive.
FALL'07ARTS STEINBECK, MILLER, STEVENSON, JEFFERS and others have deep roots in the soil of Monterey County. But they flourished many seasons ago. Is this soil still fertile enough to grow a new era of writers? ...
No Exit for Theater Arts
No Exit for Theater Arts
FALL'07ARTS THERE IS NEVER A SAFETY ZONE for the theater arts. No matter if its a young thespian playing a zebra in front of an admiring audience of friends and relatives in a stage production ...
New Blood Swells the Music Scene
Folk Yeah turns Fernwood into a major venue.
FALL'07ARTS RECENTLY, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS in Monterey County’s music scene, including CSUMB acts infiltrating the Peninsula’s clubs and the Golden State Theatre ensnaring a fair share of music legends. But one local ...
Endangered: Local Artists
Can artists and new ideas survive in this county?
FALL'07ARTS WE ARE KNOWN WORLDWIDE for the artists, writers and visionaries who worked here more than a half century ago. And for the inconceivable wealth of both the Monterey Jazz Festival (now 50) and the ...
Dancing Around the Issues
Professionals struggle, but everyone participates.
FALL'07ARTS NOBODY QUITE DOES DANCE like Fran Spector Atkins. From rock ballet to political pieces about agriculture and immigration, her performances typically begin with a socially-conscious theme – say, nature and the environment, censorship, violence ...
Issues / 2007 / Sep 06
Panetta in ’10
Leon Panetta would bring much-needed passion for public service to Sacramento.
It’s been clear for some time to anyone paying attention to California politics that our system of state government is broken. At this point, the critical question is: Is it broken beyond repair? The latest ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGSEEKING JAZZ FEST VOLUNTEERS | COUNTYWIDE – Help produce the 50th annual Monterey Jazz Fest, Sept. 21-23. All types of volunteer positions available, beginning Sept. 17. montereyjazzfestival.org/info/volunteers.htm.9|7FRIPEST SEEKERS UNITE | MOSS LANDING – Learn about ...
3:10 to Yuma
Two of the finest actors working today face off in the Western 3:10 to Yuma.
Every once in a while, two great actors face off on screen—and it feels like time is stopping around them. DeNiro and Pacino in Heat, Hopkins and Foster in The Silence of the Lambs, Hoffman ...
State Moves Ahead with Spray
Moth pheromone application will begin Sept. 9.
Under pressure from three mayors, an Assemblyman, local nonprofits and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS), the State has postponed plans to aerially spray the Peninsula with a synthetic pheromone designed to disrupt the ...
Election Redirection
County switches to paper ballots.
In early August, after concluding a $1.8 million “top-to-bottom review,” Secretary of State Debra Bowen withdrew state approval for four major touch-screen voting machines, including the Sequoia systems used in Monterey County. Three of the ...
Ready to Bolt
How to maximize a dying garden’s greens.
There are many reasons to dump your garden right now. It’s dried up, stunted, lost in weeds, or forgotten. I know about all of these conditions myself, thanks to my own garden. This garden was, ...
Raw and Ready
Raw and Ready
CATCH UP...The Carmel TomatoFest is right around the corner. It arrives on Sept. 16, at Quail Lodge, a yearly wonderland of those magical orbs we call heirloom tomatoes, thanks to the vision of Gary Ibsen, ...
Could the current financial crisis become the type of economic unraveling that makes history?
>>FORUM Wall Street did not get to the beach this August, and the guys in good suits are looking rather pale. I don’t expect this financial crisis to turn into “the big one,” a total ...
Will a tax incentive zone bring new business – and dollars – to the county?
As part of his plan to usher in the Salinas Valley’s second “green gold rush,” Mayor Dennis Donohue is leading an effort to establish a tax incentive zone that would stretch from Salinas to King ...
Goat Patrol
Flammable weeds stand no chance versus the eco-eaters.
Linda Banks lives in an uneventful neighborhood in Pebble Beach. When the sun enters her backyard, she goes out onto the porch to breathe in the nature. When she sees a neighbor, she waves. Things ...
No End in Sight
No End in Sight recites a laundry list of errors since the US invaded Iraq.
The truly horrible thing about Charles Ferguson’s absolutely depressing documentary No End in Sight is that nothing it says is really new. Yes, the war in Iraq has become a financial, ethical, and international quagmire. ...
Squid Fry for Sep 06, 2007
Squid Fry for Sep 06, 2007
ANYBODY SEEN THE POPO… Squid needs a little face time with Salinas Police Chief DAN ORTEGA. Squid wants to know more about his hiring practices.Squid’s first question: “So, Chief, is it cool with you that ...
What Show Would You Love To See Locally?
Asked at Bagel Corner in Salinas.
Follow-up: What’s the best concert you have seen on the Central Coast?Asked at Bagel Corner in Salinas.FRANK PREMUTATI | Grocery Clerk | MontereyA: I would like to see the Rolling Stones, because they have been ...
Rarified Air
Local public radio stations KAZU and KUSP plan to merge by the end of the year.
Despite what their general managers may say, even nonprofit public radio stations compete fiercely with one another. So when a proposal late last year to consolidate Monterey County-based KAZU and Santa Cruz County-based KUSP hit ...
Taken Notes
Matmos find great music in hard-to-believe spots.
The experimental electronic duo Matmos’ latest CD The Rose Has Teeth In the Mouth of a Beast is a piece of conceptual art that would feel more at home in an art gallery than on ...
ArtListings for Sep 06, 2007
ArtListings for Sep 06, 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 | ...
The Other Legendary Golf Tournament
At the Splusso, spirits and scores soar.
The Golf Capital of the World, also known as the Monterey Peninsula, is home once a decade to the prestigious US Open. Once a year it is the site of the celebrity-laden AT&T Pebble Beach ...
Cutting to the Quick
Richard Thompson’s never taken the easy way.
After almost 40 years on the road playing some of the most trenchant, emotionally scorching folk rock ever produced, singer, songwriter and guitar maestro Richard Thompson has little to show for it but a passionate ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 06, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Sep 06, 2007
THINK OF IT AS MOTH COLOGNEEverything is aflutter regarding the light brown apple moth, a new pest that can defoliate up to 250 kinds of plants. The idea of blanket spraying of anything has lots ...
