Take 50
After a half century of excellence, Monterey Jazz Festival continues to evolve.
The Monterey Jazz Festival is the first jazz festival in the world to live to be 50 – and we are all invited to the party. It’s a time to pause and admire the awe-inspiring ...
Monterey Jazz Festival Schedule
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Moments of Silence
The jazz world lost three greats in 2007.
Max Roach Drummer Max Roach, who passed away on Aug. 16 at the age of 83, played the first MJF with a blazing quintet featuring 20-year-old trumpeter Booker Little, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, Ray Draper ...
Roots And Shoots
Gerald Wilson shines at 89.
[ MJF50 ] No jazz festival has tended its legacy with as much care and intelligence as Monterey. By cultivating relationships with revered veterans while holding open the door to new developments in the art ...
Embracing Dj Logic
A new kind of jazz musician debuts.
[ MJF50 ] DJ Logic represents the festival’s abiding curiosity about what’s coming next. A virtuoso of the turntable, Logic is one of the few DJs who thrives in live musical settings, performing alongside musicians ...
Playing with Scissors
Henri Matisse: Jazz plays beautifully.
[ MJF50 ] He cuts to the quick, cuts away the ordinary, cuts out the cliché, cuts until he finds the essence. His curves aren’t mad, he says, he knows they bend around the vertical ...
Issues / 2007 / Sep 20
How Do You Feel About Downtown Marina?
How do you feel about downtown Marina?
Follow-up: What would you like local leaders to do about it?ROBIN WAY | Contractor | Pacific GroveA: It’s too spread out. It’s too much like LA. You drive miles and miles with just boulevards and ...
Growing Room
Growing Room
Nora Valleau was born on the Peninsula and lived her whole life here. Tracy Valleau, her husband, was raised in San Diego and after his military service, which included a stint at Fort Ord, he ...
ArtListings for Sep 20, 2007
ArtListings for Sep 20, 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 | ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 20, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Sep 20, 2007
Literary Legacy Alive And Kicking Where was the good news here? Were the positive remarks edited? It seems that a long list of local accomplished writers and poets were overlooked [“Literary Legacy Bankrupt?” Sept.6-12]. I’d ...
Deeper Into It
Deeper Into It
LOSS OF A GREAT… Seems to be plenty of tragedy to write about in life – guess there always has been. Today’s no different. Last week saw a tragic end to one of the local ...
Board gears up for another fight at upcoming meeting.
Things might get ugly at the next Marina Coast Water District meeting. Sept. 26 promises to be a contentious showdown between two boardmembers who want to renegotiate the contract of the water district’s recently-hired, highly-paid ...
Downtown Redo
Marina plan envisions a walkable, mixed-use city center.
Marina’s Reservation Road is more thoroughfare than main drag. Drivers whisking by the series of downtown strip malls see parking stalls in the foreground and businesses in the background. But all of this could change. ...
PublicCitizen
9|20THURSSEASIDE POLITICS | SEASIDE – City Council meets. 7pm. Council Chambers, City Hall, 440 Harcourt Ave., Seaside. Free. 899-6737.MARINE RESERVE PRESENTATION | CARMEL – State Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman talks about what California’s new ...
New Orleans Is Us
The city has become a canary in a coal mine, signifying government neglect.
>>OPINIONIn a recent cover of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a headline announced a massive and visionary government plan to replace thousands of dilapidated housing units with newly-constructed apartments boasting modern amenities and services such as ...
Out There
Paprika is a mind-bending collision of reality and the dream world rendered in anime.
While manically upbeat music plays, a Sgt. Peppers-like parade of brightly colored household appliances moves down a city street. A refrigerator opens and shuts its door like a waving dignitary as a microwave rides on ...
Making Waves
Coastal states watch California launch its marine reserve network.
Think of it as the ocean counterpart to the string of state parks that runs down Highway 1. On Sept. 21, the state will unveil a corridor of 29 protected marine reserves stretching from Pigeon ...
Danny Bakewell Jr. pledges to build affordable housing in Seaside – again.
In November 2006, homebuilding company KB Bakewell signed an exclusive negotiating agreement (ENA) with the city of Seaside to redevelop a 5-acre parcel at Monterey Road and Coe Avenue. The developers propose to replace the ...
Squid Fry for Sep 20, 2007
Squid Fry for Sep 20, 2007
COP SHOP OPEN HOUSE… First thing Saturday morning, Squid’s heading on down to the Monterey County Sheriff’s Department for its annual Dog and Pony Show. Sept. 22 is the day the cash-strapped department will pay ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
BRUCE HORNSBY | Camp Meeting | Sony Legacy Bruce Hornsby’s music has always had more musical elements buried within it than pop mindsets can usually handle. Bringing them to the fore, Hornsby teams with veteran ...
Historic Undertones
The Dimes’ new CD is inspired by stories from beneath the floorboards.
Johnny Clay, the songwriter for the indie rock band The Dimes, was inspired to write six of the songs for The Dimes’ upcoming album The Silent Generation from something their guitarist Pierre Kaiser found hidden ...
Believing in Bruno’s
More major reasons to rediscover the Carmel institution.
It’s hard not to like a butcher named Flintstone. And it only gets harder from there. Note: The amiable Tom Flintstone, like each of his fellow meat-cutters at Bruno’s, mixes a simple signature seasoning rub ...
New Wave
Wave Street Studios launches recording powerhouse from granny’s house.
Invention is about 40 feet wide and very, very deep at 777 Wave St., where a stolid and respectable little 1919-vintage granny cottage sits primly on the slope overlooking Cannery Row. It sits atop three ...
Local angel-woman Linda Jardine softens death and illness with harp.
Lynda Jardine’s music softens illness and death.
On July 16, after the morning fog had dissipated, a magnificent blue sky hovered above Pacific Grove. Fifty-five-year-old Jill Murray didn’t see the blue sky or the fog on that summer day; her four-year battle ...
Lemon Returns
From Seattle gray to Monterey bluez, Dave Lemon sings his truth.
On his 2004 CD Stumble In, Monterey native Dave Lemon crafted songs that recalled the punky blasts of alt rock music popularized in the early ‘90s. Though recorded in Seattle, where Lemon was living at ...
A Model Education
Bilingual programs improve academic growth.
>>THELOCALSPIN Do you want to do something unique and innovative to prepare your child in an exciting educational setting that promotes learning for the ever-changing world of work and the global economy? If so, learn ...
Professor Philip Zimbardo visits CSUMB to explain.
Famed Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo has ventured into the darkest corners of the human mind, studying history’s most audacious evildoers (Adolf Hitler, the Ku Klux Klan) and arranging arguably the most infamous psychology experiment ...
