The $500 Million Local Dream
By redirecting federal funds appropriated to Monterey County, we could affect lasting change.
Two billion dollars. According to the Consolidated Federal Funds Report for Fiscal Year 2004, that’s the coin that comes into Monterey County from Washington, DC every year. Where it should end up is a subject ...
The Next Trillion
If we can spend $1 trillion on the Iraq war, then we can afford $1 trillion for a new American Dream.
Guest edited by Jim Finefrock Because I am complicit, along with each and every one of my fellow US citizens, in spending what may be the worst trillion dollars in history on a petro-fundamentalism-driven military ...
Issues / 2007 / Sep 27
New Land
Becoming American at the Steinbeck shares new faces of immigration.
>>LITThe story of immigration in America is a long, complex, unwieldy tale that involves so many people that the story is often illustrated by images of “huddling masses.” It’s hard to feel a human connection ...
Herbivore’s Dilemma
Bagged salad recall renews calls for the government-regulated greens.
Standing next to a truckload of iceberg lettuce, Taylor Farms’ Mark Borman points to a green sticker on one of the crates. The label is the Salinas company’s administrative line of defense from a deadly ...
Missing Misanthrope
Pseudo-historical comedy solves mystery of Molière’s gap year.
In 1644, 22-year-old French playwright/actor Molière up and vanished from the historical record. One minute he was wasting away in debtor’s prison, the next he was gone, only to turn up a few months later ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 27, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Sep 27, 2007
When Words Fail Us Composer-trumpeter Terrence Blanchard mesmerized the Monterey Jazz Festival with hauntingly beautiful songs of compassion from New Orleans. It was art that matters. More than a century ago, W.E.B. DuBois incorporated “sorrow ...
Environmental review process begins on the land-use plan.
Raising concerns about lack of water and traffic congestion, the Board of Supervisors initiated the environmental review process for the fifth version of the county’s General Plan on Tuesday, Sept. 25. Water seems to be ...
SORAC Otter Advocates Survive a Gauntlet Just to Volunteer.
SORAC otter advocates survive a gauntlet just to volunteer.
Cheryl McCormick’s calves harden and her triceps tighten as she trudges up three long flights of steps, clutching buckets filled with dense rocks. When the 39-year-old prospective Sea Otter Rescue and Conservation (SORAC) volunteer reaches ...
ArtListings for Sep 27, 2007
ArtListings for Sep 27, 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 | ...
Healing Souls
Physician responsible for 27,000 Darfur refugees visits Monterey.
Bombs fell, blood ran, babies died. For the genocide survivors and aid workers at the Oure Cassoni refugee camp in Chad, just three miles from the border of a still-burning Darfur, Sudan, this was the ...
Ballin’ in Fall
Ballin’ in Fall
STRAIGHT SHOOTIN’… Well, it’s officially autumn. That was always a special time for me growing up (no wisecracks). As a true sports nut it was just about the best time of year. We’d still be ...
Pump Up the Volume
Feast of Love mutes a tale of irrational passions.
In 1967, Feast of Love director Robert Benton got his first screen credit as co-writer of Bonnie and Clyde. He appears to have calmed down quite a bit since then. Make no mistake, Benton has ...
Great Courses
At Culinary Center of Monterey, the education is supremely edible.
Learning never tasted so good—that tender pancetta-wrapped halibut is some delicious curriculum. The strange, cold scallop-and-shrimp soufflé, however, isn’t really worth studying. But whether inspired or haywired, every dish along the odyssey that is a ...
The racial inequalities exposed in Louisiana exist throughout the country.
>>FORUMIn the alleyway between de jure and de facto, Jim Crow conceived a son. Even though the deed took place in broad daylight, everybody tried not to notice, and in time some would even try ...
Primary Disasters
The rush to jump the presidential primary queue.
>>THELOCALSPINWith less than five months to go before California’s presidential primaries, the final calendar for primaries across the country is still being contested, and Republican legislatures in Florida and Michigan are in revolt. Both states ...
Raise the Woof
Professional dog parties elevate canine celebration to surprising heights.
It is Sammy’s special day. Decked out in a gossamer mother-of-pearl scarf, Sammy is ready to greet eight of his best friends, who have come to a particularly scenic corner of the beautiful Quail Lodge ...
Sitar Country
Bob Livingston forges a new sound by merging Indian and country.
On his 2004 solo CD Mahatma Gandhi & Sitting Bull, longtime Texas musician Bob Livingston merges classic country rock sounds – like the slow streak of steel guitar and the strum of an acoustic guitar ...
Squid Fry for Sep 27, 2007
Squid Fry for Sep 27, 2007
THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME… One of Squid’s most favorite times of year is just around the corner: election season. Squid could miss it, of course, with all the campaign signs littering up the county. Salinas ...
Balkan Cabaret
Vagabond Opera spins tales with an operatic voice and Eastern European flavor.
Between the ages of 18 and 26, Eric Stern lived the disciplined life of an opera singer. A disciple of the Bel Canto school, Stern would spend an hour of each day doing vocal exercises. ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGSALINAS READS WEEK | SALINAS – With the 12th Annual Salinas Reads Week approaching (it’s Oct.15-19), business leaders, community members, parents and students are needed to volunteer one hour in a classroom reading a favorite ...
Sex Smells
Illness, money and a lawsuit complicate the moth scent-spraying controversy.
The pheromone products that critics are calling “weapons of moth destruction” appear to be drumming up more local resistance than the Iraq War.The feds and state Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) aim to eradicate ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
DEVENDRA BANHART | Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon | XL Recordings When a new strange folk music started to seep out of the music underground, it seemed the genre’s title, “freak folk,” was pretty much ...
If voters approve the taxes, complainant will likely sue for a refund.
Pacific Grove resident Carl Mounteer, a Monterey lawyer, recently challenged PG’s tax Measure P on the grounds that the proposed parcel tax violates 1978’s Proposition 13, which limits property taxes. Meanwhile, the county registrar printed ...
Enchanted Cottage
Enchanted Cottage
>>REALESTATEThe elegant little Victorian cottage built for Belle Duncan in 1894 is surrounded by huge, gorgeously restored multimillion-dollar Victorians, each of which could pass for an exclusive, discreet hotel. Belle Duncan’s house, though, tops out ...
What Religion Do You Admire Besides Your Own?
Asked at the DMV in Seaside.
Follow up: What are some problems associated with religion?JUDEA WASHINGTON | Catholic | SeasideA: I like the Baptist religion. I like their soulful songs, good cooking, and their ministry. Religion is all about peace, love, ...
