1108| Nov 08

All in the Family

Sidney Lumet’s Devil is in the details.

Family isn’t all sunshine and roses. We all have issues with our immediate kin, but happily, most of us don’t face the sort of family turmoil found in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, the ...

Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt

The U.S. super-rich get richer and richer. The rest sink deeper into debt.

It was almost 100 years ago that Henry Ford startled the world by giving his workers a raise without being asked. He explained that if they didn’t have money they could not buy Ford automobiles. ...

Hot Spotting

RAY OF LOVE… I am so proud of Joe and Lynn Cingari. I first met Joe about eight years ago while I was running Terranova Fine Wines in downtown Monterey (although he thinks he ran ...

Letters to the Editor for Nov 08, 2007

TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW I’m not involved in law enforcement, and I find it very unusual to be on their side, but “Walking the Color Line” [Nov. 1-7] begs further consideration. As admitted ...

Figures of Speech

Lions for Lambs’ didacticism comes with surprising moral force.

Let’s be frank about this right at the outset: Lions for Lambs is one hell of a preachy movie. From start to finish – interrupted occasionally by bursts of military gunfire – the movie lectures ...

PublicCitizen

ONGOING THANKSGIVING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED | COUNTYWIDE – The Kiwanis Club of Monterey needs volunteers to work its Thanksgiving dinner, and donations of turkey, ham, bread, desserts, decorations, clothing and money. Contact coordinator Mike Fields, 659-2493. ...

Cold as ICE

Salinas considers a resolution reaffirming policy of not arresting people solely because they are here illegally.

City Councilman Sergio Sanchez wants to send a message to Salinas residents: the City will not help federal authorities round up undocumented immigrants. To this end, Sanchez has asked the council to adopt a “sanctuary ...

Treasure Hunters

Philharmonia Baroque brings lost and rare works of the era to Sunset Center.

Getting Nicholas McGegan excited is easy. Just ask him about his next program. In Monterey County, that would be this Saturday at Sunset Center when McGegan conducts the orchestra he founded, Philharmonia Baroque, in the ...

Not So Fast

FCC chairman’s rush to change media ownership rules irks lawmakers, public.

Federal Communications Commission chair Kevin Martin is doing everything he can to prevent public input that would challenge his rush to have the commission radically rewrite media ownership rules before Christmas. His latest tactic was ...

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock And Jack Dejohnette

KEITH JARRETT, GARY PEACOCK AND JACK DEJOHNETTE |

The “standards” trio of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette have been constructing top-quality inventive jazz for almost 25 years. Their artistry, virtuosity, interplay and musicality are virtually without peer. Taken ...

14 Ways Of Christmas

Making the holidays green is easier than you think.

One of the core principles of the green movement is celebration, to enjoy the bounty of the Earth and give thanks for friends, family and a rich harvest. With this in mind, it is easy ...

A World of Film

United Nations Association Film Festival tackles big issues in short films.

Bolivian female wrestlers, the war against the “war on drugs,” Darfur’s perpetual genocide, and the catastrophic earthquake of 2003 that destroyed an entire Iranian city. These are a few of many topics of the documentaries ...

ArtListings for Nov 08, 2007

OPENING THIS WEEK Carmel Art association November Shows: works by Reed Farrington and Keith Lindberg, Peggy Jelmini, Miguel A. Dominguez and Gerard Martin. Opens 6-8pm, 11/10. Dolores between Fifth and Sixth, Carmel. 624-6176 or carmelart.org. ...

United Nations Association Film Festival Schedule

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7PM Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey(54 minutes) By Connie Littlefield, Canada Abstaining From Reality (9 minutes) Daniele Anastasion, Uganda/USA Daniele Anastasion, a documentary filmmaker with National Geographic Television, explores the devastating ...

After the Attack

The post-shark bite experience has been almost as hectic as the day Todd Endris got chomped.

Oprah hadn’t called Todd Endris before it happened. Good Morning America had never sent flowers. Rip Curl never offered any free neoprene. Getting bit by a white shark, it turns out, has changed the 24-year-old ...

Cat’s Out Of The Bag

Mettee-McCutchon ready to run for supervisor, insiders say.

Although she continues to play coy with the media, Marina Mayor Ila Mettee-McCutchon will run for a seat on the Board of Supervisors, political insiders tell the >>Weekly.Mettee-McCutchon reportedly told local elected officials and business ...

Squid Fry for Nov 08, 2007

SAFE AND SECURE… Squid doesn’t think a building full of civilian data crunchers makes much of a terrorist target. But in the age of post-911 paranoia, even the Department of Defense’s Manpower Data Center needs ...

PG Voters Reject Tax Package

Cuts to city-funded services will follow.

The mayor and city manager of Pacific Grove sit calmly at the Natural History Museum, as if the future of the city weren’t at stake – not, at least, as it relates to the tax ...

Soul Team

Texas guitarman Lloyd Maines tours with Terri Hendrix, the real thing.

Lloyd Maines has heard and played enough music in his life to know when something special is going down. In the decades since his lithe steel guitar work graced country western maverick Joe Ely’s 1977 ...

Youth Arts in the News

Final two days to visit CSUMB exhibitionsThere’s just time to catch Guardians and Walking Through, two exhibitions of works by students at CSUMB. These exhibits provide a propitious glimpse of what is being created by ...

Brophy's Tavern

Come for Brophy’s cheesesteak, stay for the sports (and scampi).

Life is good when you’re wit it. And it only gets better when you’re wit-wiz it. “Wit wiz” is the best way to roll when it comes to Philly cheesesteaks in Monterey County, as in ...

Old Boys Club

Incumbents win seats on the Monterey Peninsula College board.

Tradition and natural tendency dictate that the first one from trustee candidate Diane Cordero de Noriega’s home to inspect the local voting precinct is the redhead named Lucy. The tabby cat strolls across the street ...

Hartnell Teachers Celebrate in Salinas

Semi-official election results show a more faculty-friendly board.

This Hartnell College election night party looks more like a knitting circle. Professor Kelly Locke knits in her living room, which has shelves of yarn and a few looms stowed in its corners. Trustee candidate ...

Bowed Light

Scallops of windows enhance this sturdy 1949 structure.

One might surmise that the all-encompassing well-being this house emanates is due to the good spirit of Jim and Charleen Beard, the couple who has lived here since 1979. Charleen immediately denies such billing, saying, ...

Hope Floats

Enviros win one seat on the Monterey Peninsula water board.

Lance Monosoff doesn’t like election-night parties. “Dead food and dead people,” he says. So Monosoff, a candidate for the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, is spending Tuesday, Nov. 6, at his home near the Carmel ...

Ween

WEEN | La Cucaracha | Rounder

While artists like Neil Young and Beck are known for devoting whole albums to exploring a genre, the Pennsylvania-based act Ween go one step further by diving deep into pop music styles in the course ...

What is Your Most Opposite-Gender Tendency?

Asked at Safeway in Del Rey Oaks.

Follow-up: What public figure hasn’t come out of the closet?ALEX ROMO | Sales Associate | MontereyA: Hydrating. It opens my pores. I do the Biore strip, apricot scrub, the face-mask thing. Can we do guilty ...

Funny Fluff

Gabriel Iglesias gets away with a lot by being fat and wearing Hawaiian.

Comedian Gabriel Iglesias is known primarily as the “Fluffy Man.” On his Hot and Fluffy DVD, Iglesias explains. “For the record, I’m not fat,” he says. “I’m fluffy. There are five levels of fatness. There’s ...

Hillstomp

HILLSTOMP | After Two But Before Five | Fuzzmonster

After two well-received studio albums, Hillstomp is back with a righteous-sounding live set plumbing the depths of swamp-stomp blues and old-timey Appalachian roots music translated into the dialect of ferocious rock ‘n’ roll. The stripped-down ...