You Don’t Know Jack
The local story behind the country’s proudest cheese is hard to slice.
{ FOOD&WINE } The story of Monterey Jack has all the trappings of a great Steinbeck novel: migrant families, a rich land baron, tensions between ranchers and workers, struggle, injury and loss, all set against ...
Driven to Bliss
Monterey’s new Wine Trolley is as fun as it sounds.
{ FOOD&WINE }The latest addition to the local swirl-and-sip scene runs on biodiesel and wouldn’t be around if it wasn’t for local ghosts and a pony-tailed man with $25,000. I found myself on its small ...
Slice of Heaven
Carmel’s Cheese Shop ferments a happy insanity.
{ FOOD&WINE } R. Kent Torrey stands molded into one of the nooks that shape the rear end of his homage to fromage, fine wine and gourmet foods, surrounded by prizes drawn from a globe-trotting ...
Star Wines
Star Market’s resident sage reveals some of his favorite inexpensive bottles.
{ FOOD&WINE }Victor Kong knows what his customers want – whether it’s a serious bottle of a “Pisoni Vineyard” Pinot Noir or a package of Nathan’s hot dogs – and he knows their names. It’s ...
Enlightened ways to bring wine and cheese into greater harmony.
{ FOOD&WINE }Wine, of course, contains alcohol – but if buzz is all you seek, there are cheaper options. We make such a fuss about wine because, properly chosen, it becomes as much a part ...
Issues / 2007 / Oct 04
ArtListings for Oct 04, 2007
ArtListings for Oct 04, 2007
OPENING THIS WEEK anton gallery Dieter Goels + Tony Sheeder: paintings and drawings. Opens 10/6 5-8pm. Anton Inn, 1095 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove. 373-4429 or antongallery.com. carl cherry center for the arts Valley Noir, Infestation ...
Live from Tel Aviv
Israeli band Rockfour channels ‘60s rock.
Earlier this year, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour started a contest on MySpace to honor the passing of Sid Barrett, the founding member of the psychedelic rock group. All contestants were asked to send in their ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 | Rhino The Summer of Love still casts its patchouli-scented shadow on the Bay Area 40 years later, a legend blessed and ...
Well-Read
Surprise – The Jane Austen Book Club isn’t as bad as it sounds.
Romantic comedies love to set lingering scenes in bookstores. Bookstores have class. Those multicolored rectangular shapes stacked in the background provide an arresting visual contrast to the actors. But few romantic comedies seem to have ...
Squid Fry for Oct 04, 2007
Squid Fry for Oct 04, 2007
AIR SPRAY… Something’s been in the air lately, and Squid can’t put a tentacle on it. Squid’s mood is shot. Oh, oh, now Squid remembers. There are pheromones in the air, courtesy of the State, ...
Designer Views
Designer Views
“A waterfront view is not a matter of life and death. It’s much more important than that.” So reads a wooden plaque that Paul Porch, Laura Vonier and Paul’s dad, Steve, have on their tremendous ...
A nostalgic series on PBS fails to focus closely on the cruelty, degradation and moral failure of combat.
>>FORUM It seems a bit strange to think of it now, but just less than a decade ago, before Everything Changed, America went through a strange, sentimental obsession with World War II and the men ...
Letters to the Editor for Oct 04, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Oct 04, 2007
Whales Need Money, Too It seems that the is not aware of educational efforts regarding the oceans going on in their neighborhood, indeed advertised in their publication. [“The Next, Local $500 Million, Sept. 27-Oct. 3] ...
Fertile Ground
Local ag operations migrate to Mexico for cheap and legal workers.
This winter, when agriculture giant Tanimura & Antle shifts to the Arizona and southern California deserts to harvest lettuce, broccoli and other veggies, it will also plant seeds south of the border. Chief Executive Officer ...
Baghdad Burning
Watching Iraq’s slow death, four years into the war.
>>NEWSFEATURE"CALL AT NIGHT,” Isam tells me. “The reception for the phones here is not very good since they built the wall.” Isam lives in Adhamiya, a Sunni enclave in Baghdad that the US military has ...
Looking Back
Monterey Symphony season opens with “Movies, Music and Memories."
The first featured instruments of the new Monterey Symphony season will be the voices of musical theater singers Susan Egan and Michael Maguire. In “Movies, Music and Memories,” they, the orchestra, and conductor Arthur Post ...
Burning Desire
The MPC Fire Academy tests just how much its students want to serve.
Sand flies as a mob of young firefighter apprentices barrel up the hill at Carmel Beach. In the muggy parking lot at the top of the hill, they line up in military-like formation. Overhead lights ...
Beyond the Label
Ethical consumerism can give a false sense of comfort.
>>THELOCALSPINWhen you buy consumer goods, do you look to buy those that proclaim “Made in the USA” and promise “sweat-free” products? The US awareness of ethical consumerism would have us believe that we can have ...
Laird To State: Show Me The Science
Assemblyman wants more studies on moth pheromone spray.
Head-patting may work in some situations. But when scores of his constituents in both Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties are contacting him with questions involving their health, Assemblyman John Laird wants the facts.In a Sept. ...
Love Songs
Wade Love Band honeys the R&B.
Back in high school, Wade Love used his velvety voice to try and seduce girls. He would call up his female classmates and sing a song he wrote titled “Time It Moves So Fast” over ...
On the Road Again
Sean Penn brings Into the Wild to the big screen.
In 1996, Outside Magazine writer Jon Krakauer released his first book titled Into the Wild. Built up from a piece he did for Outside, Krakauer’s nonfiction work detailed the life of Christopher McCandless, an idealistic ...
What is your favorite unconventional food combination?
What is your favorite unconventional food combination?
Follow-up: What one food and drink item would you take into space?JOSH REED-DOYLE | Jamba Juice Employee | SeasideA: Peanut butter and pizza, namely cheese pizza. It also has to be chunky peanut butter, because ...
Natural Actor
The Weekly sits down with Emile Hirsch, star of Into the Wild.
The 1996 non-fiction bestseller Into the Wild chronicled the final two years of Christopher McCandless, an idealistic college graduate who gave his savings to charity and then set off for America’s wildest regions. His dead ...
Enchanted Evening
PacRep delivers a magical Midsummer Night’s Dream.
A giant moon glimmered at the elbow of a towering Monterey pine above the stage of the Outdoor Forest Theater on preview night of Pac Rep’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oh, it was not a ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGNEIGHBORHOOD HELPERS | SALINAS – The city needs volunteers to distribute door hangers announcing community cleanups and meetings. Upcoming dates include: Oct. 5-6; Oct. 12-13; Oct. 19-20; Oct. 22-25. 758-7993.PARADE OF LIGHTS | SALINAS – ...
Top Flight
Top Flight
DEVELOPING NEWS...So I’m flying in a little four-seat Cirrus SR22 on my way back from the Napa Valley with a few friends one afternoon (just another typical lazy afternoon) and as would be expected, from ...
Building Shelter
Salinas leaders craft a 10-year plan to end homelessness.
Drug addicts need more recovery programs. Poor people need cheaper housing. The mentally ill need better treatment. And all three groups could use jobs. The city of Salinas will face these unyielding realities as it ...
